Quotes About Orbit

They had left the demigod they now called the Voice in a government creche in orbit. The Archipelago had facilities for newly born artificial sentients—a revelation that still astonished and unsettled Marya when she thought about it. The Voice had gone willingly into the maw of the jewellike orbiting structure; as the doors closed she had looked back, but Marya could read nothing in her gaze—neither hope nor fear.

What he and I had made together was honest and important. But his orbit, like mine, lay elsewhere. We had been given a gift from the universe, a momentary precious conjunction. It was not meant to last, only to be valued and its lesson taken to heart.

More extraordinarily, scientists suggest that, if undisturbed, the Holocene's benevolent conditions would be likely to continue for another 50,000 years due to the unusually circular orbit that Earth is currently making of the sun

Newton's law of gravitation. That's all you need (with a spot of calculus to crunch the numbers) to work out how the Earth will orbit the Sun or how an apple will fall if you let it go at a certain height. The only trouble is that Newton had no idea how this gravity thing worked. His model was simply: 'There is an attraction between bits of stuff, and let's not bother about why.

So, for instance, even though the Earth is travelling in a straight line through space, space itself is curved, so the planet orbits the bowling ball of the Sun. It is a simple, but astonishing observation. Planets move in straight lines. There really is no force pulling them into an orbit. It's just that the space their straight line path runs through gets twisted.

we now suspect that Mercury, the innermost planet, began life much further out and was deflected inwards to its present-day seared orbit.

They watched the sun make its orbit around him. They watched the shadows growing shorter, then longer. The first day passed as though no one saw what he saw. On the second day, they began whispering among themselves. On the third day, they came rushing toward him from all directions. On the fourth day, he said to them, "All you can do is take Hamama out of this blazing heat." He was determined to maintain his vigil in the same place until the end.

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.

Si les planètes savaient aimer, elles quitteraient leur orbite et ce serait le chaos. La permanence de l'univers est assurée parce que l'amour est impossible. Même l'homme qui aime pressent que l'amour est le frère de la mort. Mais cela ne l'empêche pas, lui qui est prisonnier de son orbite, de se frayer avec jubilation un chemin jusqu'à la cellule de son voisin en criant : je suis libre.

Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.

The gas-giant planets in our solar system all have large moons.

The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you can predict a hundred years ahead of time whether there is a likelihood of an impact with Earth.

To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

In the astronomy of high school life, Sarah would never have entered his orbit.

Penny is thankful of nature, of the generous and non-judgemental way it orbits and replenishes itself, regardless of humanity and the stupid shit mankind tries.

If you look from the side at a planet swinging around in its orbit, split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string, it all looks like a yo-yo. The point furthest from the sun is called aphelion. The point furthest from the yo-yo hand is called, by analogy, apocheir.

Glenn's 1962 Mercury flight was fraught with dramatics, from his 'Zero G and I feel fine!' exultation upon entering orbit to his reentry with what was feared was a faulty heat shield. After he safely splashed down, the nation erupted with applause and gratitude not seen since Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic.

If you put Earth out beyond Neptune, you wouldn't be able to call it a planet because it couldn't clear its zone.

The masculinity crisis would return with each backlash. The fledgling Boy Scouts of America claimed one-fifth of all American boys by 1920; its founder's explicit aim was to staunch the feminization of the American male by removing young men from the too powerful female orbit. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

I believe you'll see a low Earth orbit space travel business begin.

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

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They've pushed it far, this little toy space station; but who's to say if it is God's intention for humans to live here, in orbit around this swollen alien giant of a planet?