Orbiting Quotes

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the spirit world, from orbiting the earth like Lucifer and the angels, that it took nothing less than touching the thread off the misty interstates and eating Christ himself to make me mortal man again and let me inhabit my own flesh and love her in the morning. - Walker Percy

This requires a data system with capacities similar to many low-Earth-orbiting satellites ... but exercised over a far greater distance with less power and weight than typically allotted. In almost all aspects, this is a challenging mission. - Jim Watzin

This discovery is particularly exciting because the habitable zone for these stars - the region where a planet would be the right temperature for liquid water - is close to the star. Planets that are close to their stars are easier to find. The first truly Earth-like planet we discover might be a world orbiting a red dwarf. - Dimitar Sasselov

The solar system that likely will be formed around this star will include planets orbiting in different directions, unlike our own solar system. - Jan Hollis

The disk of dust orbiting a star, similar to the dust we feel formed our solar system. - Michael Werner

The announcement from Northrop Grumman Corporation is the latest in a growing series of successes for 1394 in some very exciting and valuable applications. Their testing program for the polar orbiting satellite system demonstrates the benefits of 1394. These include very high speed data transport, peer-to-peer connectivity which eliminates the need for a central controlling host, flexible topology which makes it easy to add devices on an as needed basis, and efficient allocation of bandwidth which benefits configurations which include a variety of devices with varying throughput needs. These are the attributes of 1394 that continue to move it into new product groups, and we are very pleased to hear of their application in the fault-tolerant chipset for the satellite program. - James Snider

More often than not, we see cars orbiting the parking lot. - Bill Phillips

It used to take seven Earth days to model one Jupiter day, MIRACLE should allow us to run models in 'real time,' ... It will also let us model the giant planets that have been discovered orbiting nearby stars, which leads us into whole new areas of research. - Steve Miller