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Now, our discovery points us towards better ways to sustainably manage coral reefs, but it also shows us, we humans are not just affected by the actions of other humans, but we could be affected by the actions of individual fish on a distant coral reef through their simple copying behavior.
You know, so you can take comfort in the fact that this guy up here is a really really distant, but albeit evolutionary, relative.
We can see the calcium from the world's deserts, soot from distant wildfires, methane as an indicator of the strength of a Pacific monsoon, all wafted on winds from warmer latitudes to this remote and very cold place.
This is not the very distant future.
Coke's been in Africa since 1928, but most of the time they couldn't reach the distant markets, because they had a system that was a lot like in the developed world, which was a large truck rolling down the street.
It's very difficult to tell a student struggling with mathematics today to work hard for a payoff in the distant future.
Miscellaneous on-set noises dominate the soundtrack to a huge degree, with dialog taking a distant back seat.
This movie is about a depressed and emotionally constricted man has a distant relative move in with him in his apartment in Istanbul.
There may be a distant similarity to the films of Kusturica, but he's really in a different league, so you should rather go see his films than waste your time on Tuvalu.
This movie was bad but it was so bad that it may reach cult status in the distant future.
People interviewed by the police are hardy, and often as bitter as the weather, the lead investigator has huge family problems, investigations invariably lead to cruelties of the distant past, and the plotting is labyrinthine with strange occurrences and subplots making sense only at the end.
It has the captivating essence of a hand-held camera recording of a distant nephew's seventh birthday.
Here is how the movie starts, Women are the only humans on this planet due to the fact that in the not to distant future chemical warfare is A OK as long as it only targets soldiers (In case your wondering, Men) However the virus back fires (Big shock)and all the men on earth slowly die.
Some nameless aliens off on a distant ship from a distant planet have sent the giant robot Kronos to rob the world of its energy.
Suffice to say that I have rarely been so insulted by such a dreadful piece of drivel and as for the real problem of sexual slavery, girls go voluntarily to new 'jobs' in distant lands and are abused, raped, and often killed by the gang master who meets them off the boat/plane and takes their passports and freedom.
Apretentious load of rubbish, but the sort of film that certain Italianpseudo-intellectuals whom it was my misfortune to have known in the dim and distant past would have loved it, and unfortunately Italy has no monopoly on these, they can be found everywhere and probably acclaim this as a great masterpiece.
Leave the recent past and return to the lessons of the distant past, and then take off on a favorite flight to your better future.
Prot (Kevin Spacey) is a mental hospital patient who claims to be native to a distant planet called K-PAX.
In this episode, Kirk and his crew have to confront a monster that is killing miners on a distant planet.
Isabelle Huppert portrays a talented female piano teacher who is staid, unfriendly and distant in public, and bitter towards her students.
For those who are like me and are used to watch and enjoy high budget Hollywood films, on huge screens with a surround audio, this film seems to be so distant.
(It should be noted that this episode also functions as a distant but pointedly critical remark on the rise of Fascism in Italy.)
Three distinct and distant individuals' lives intersect with the brutal killing of one by another.
"Distant" is a slice-of-Turkish-life flick which follows the mundane activities of two adult male cousins; one a photographer and the other an unemployed underachiever.
"Distant" is a very nicely done bit of esoterica.
This is the program that famously introduces the war-hungry Romulans, who are distant relatives of the Vulcans.
Neil's snare sounds distant and Geddy's bass has good harmonic content, but no bottom end at all!!
An unapologetically left leaning anti authoritarian abuse fest, the escapades at first appear to be so over the top militaristic and sickening that it could come off as some distant fantastical dystopian alternate history, one Harry Turtledove would even enjoy.
Then, throw in some bad guys getting revenge for a long distant act against them, working under these rules and attempting to circumvent them, and you have this book and movie.
Apocalypse, however, takes the boundaries of what we can endure to a global level - Coppola's sweeping footage of the humid, murky jungles of Cambodia and an opening sequence of helicopters amid exploding forests and an orange sky - set to an oddly fitting Doors soundtrack - as well as chilling scenes on the river and of an air raid on a village with Wagner blasting from speakers (a scene which has gone down as one of the most chilling, darkly humorous, and strikingly pointless war scenes ever) - this all contributes to the sense of Apocalypse - the end of the world - and not at some distant point in the future, but Apocalypse Now and forever.
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