A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.
Friends grow up and away from each other, like little moons joining somebody else’s orbit.
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
Women were gravitating towards him from all directions like a planetary orbit. (Zoe on meeting Justus)
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.
Ah, youth! It was a beautiful night... The moon was out of orbit. The stars were awry. But everything else was exactly as it should have been.
So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.
We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
His ghost comes back to be remembered. If he can’t be in this life, he procures a way to stay in orbit, and in that way, is never forgotten.
Fortunately, most things around the supermassive black hole are just going to go around it. They're going to orbit it. They don't actually get sucked in.
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
I need you to love me the same way the moon orbits around the earth, without intention to stop. "Confessing the heart
Family, can’t live with them, can’t orbitally bombard them back to the foul, oozing proto-plasma they crawled out of, I thought grimly.
