This article is about a fictional weapon from the Cosmic Era of the anime Gundam metaseries. In late CE 73, ZAFT creates a new series of advanced mobile suits to succeed their previous generation of Gundams, which were all lost in the previous war. Since the Treaty of Junius bans the military use of the Neutron Jammer Canceller, these new Gundams use conventional battery power instead. However, technological improvements over the last two years mean that battery efficiency is improved, and Phase Shift armor is less power intensive tha ...

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• ZGMF-X88S Gaia Gundam - Specifications
• ZGMF-X88S Gaia Gundam - ZGMF-X88S RGX-03 Gaia
• ZGMF-X88S Gaia Gundam - GAT-X399/Q Wild Dagger

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The noosphere can be seen as the "sphere of human thought" being derived from the Greek νους ("nous") meaning "mind" in the style of "atmosphere" and "biosphere". Just as the biosphere is composed of all the organisms on Earth and their interactions, the noosphere is composed of all the interacting minds on Earth. The word is also sometimes used to refer to a transhuman consciousness emerging from these interactions. This is the view proposed by the theologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who added that the noosphere is evolving towards an ever greater integration, culminating in the Omega Point ...

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Daisyworld, a computer simulation, is a hypothetical world orbiting a sun whose temperature is slowly increasing in the simulation. Daisyworld was introduced by James Lovelock and Andrew Watson to illustrate the plausibility of the Gaia hypothesis in a paper published in 1983. The simulated planet is seeded with two different species of daisy as its only life form: black daisies and white daisies. White daisies have white flowers which reflect light, and the other species has black flowers that absorb light. Both species have the same ...

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James Ephraim Lovelock (born July 26, 1919), FRS, is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the south west of Great Britain. He is most famous for proposing and popularizing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism (a term coined by Lynn Margulis). James Lovelock - Life history. Lovelock was born in Letchworth Garden City. He studied chemistry at the University of Manchester before taking up a Medical ...

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Mother Earth may refer to: Mother Earth is a common metaphorical expression for the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life. Mother Earth was also one of Slavic deities. In many Neo-Pagan and Wiccan traditions, Mother Earth is seen as the Goddess, with the Horned God as her consort (and sometimes son). The idea of the Earth as a deity was and is also prominent in many pagan religions. Mother Earth is also the title of a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov ...

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In Greek mythology, Crius was one of the Titans, a son of Uranus and Gaia. He was overthrown in the Titanomachy. With Eurybia, he was the father of Pallas. Other related archivesEurybia, Gaia, Greek mythology, Pallas, Titanomachy, Titans, Uranus

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Caelus was the Latin name that the Romans used for the Greek sky god Uranus. Caelus (sometimes spelt Coelus), was, by marriage to Tellus (Greek: Gaia), the father of Saturn (Cronus), Ops (Rhea), Oceanus and the other Titans, as well as the Gigantes. Alone, Caelus was the father of Venus (Aphrodite). Other related archivesAphrodite, Cronus, Gaia, Gigantes, Latin, Oceanus, Rhea, Tellus, Uranus, Venus

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In Greek mythology, Python was the oracular serpent of Delphi. It was the offspring of Gaia and the mud that was left over after the flood of Deucalion, or in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo Python was the offspring of Hera, the Olympian Lady, who bore him, to spite Zeus, out of her own being, parthegenetically, in the manner of Gaia. Apollo killed it and remade its former home his own ...

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Poseidon Oceanus Ceto Nereus Glaucus Thetis Amphitrite Tethys Triton Ophion Proteus Phorcys Pontus Oceanids Nereids Naiads Nereus: in Greek Mythology, eldest son of Pontus and Gaia, the Sea and t ...

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This article is about the mythological figure. For the 19th-century English writers, see Brontë. Brontes ("thunderer"), in Greek mythology, one of the first generation of Cyclopes, was a giant with one eye, child of Gaia and Uranus. ...

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Atmospheric sciences is an umbrella term for the study of the atmosphere, its processes, the effects other systems have on the atmosphere, and the effects of the atmosphere on these other systems. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather forecasting. Climatology is the study of atmospheric changes (both long and short-term) that define average climates and their change over time, due to both natural climate variabili ...

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Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that deals with the positions of stars and other celestial bodies, their distances and movements. It is one of the oldest subfields of the science, the successor to the more qualitative study of positional astronomy. Astrometry dates back at least to Hipparchus, who compiled the first catalogue of stars visible to him and in doing so invented the brightness scale basically still in use today. Modern astrometry was founded by Friedrich Bessel with his Fundamenta astronomiae, which gave the mean position of 3222 stars ...

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Gaia Preservation Coalition: The Gaia Preservation Coalition is a gathering place for people who consciously acknowledge the human predicament and who seek with others its resolution through the creation and exploration of ideas and actions that move Humanity toward a more harmonious relationship within Gaia. GAIA International: GAIA International (Global Awareness Interdisciplinary Alliance) is a scholarly and educational organization whose mission is to sponsor projects, events, and publications that promote ecological awareness, understanding, and responsibility in every academic di ...

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Gaia Movement, Gaia Movement - International, Gaia Movement - Country organizations, Gaia Movement - Australia, Gaia Movement - Brazil, Gaia Movement - Canada, Gaia Movement - Denmark, Gaia Movement - Hungary, Gaia Movement - Malta, Gaia Movement - Norway, Gaia Movement - Poland, Gaia Movement - United Kingdom, Gaia Movement - United States of America

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Some sources, such as authors Marijas Gimbutas and Barbara Walker, claim that Gaia as the Mother Earth is a later form of a pre-Indo-European Great Mother who had been venerated in Neolithic times, but this point is controversial in the academic community. Belief in a nurturing Earth Mother is a feature of modern Neopagan "Goddess" worship, which is typically linked by practitioners of this religion to the Neolithic goddess theo ...

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See the main article Gaia theory (science) for more. Buckminster Fuller has been credited as the first to incorporate scientific ideas into a Gaia theory, which he did with his Dymaxion map of the Earth. The first scientifically rigorous theory was the Gaia Hypothesis by James Lovelock, a UK chemist. While controversial at first, various forms of this idea became accepted to some degree by many scientists. A variant of this hypothesis was developed by Lynn Margulis, a microbiologist, in 1979. Her version is sometimes called the "Gaia Theory" (note uppercase-T). Her mode ...

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There are some mystical, scientific and religious predecessors to the theory, which had a Gaia-like conceptual basis. Many religious mythologies had a view of Earth as being a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts (e.g. some Native American religions). Lewis Thomas held that Earth should be viewed as a single cell; he derived this view from Johannes Kepler's view of Earth as a single round organism. Teilhard de Chardin, a paleontologist and geologist, believes that evolution unfolded from cell to organism to planet to solar ...

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Because of the size of the consciousness involved, Gaia's mental powers are significantly greater than those of any other mentalics encountered before in previous books. Where Second Foundationers generally required eye contact to alter emotions, Gaia could detect and alter minds anywhere in the Galaxy. This way, it could guarantee the perfect execution of the Seldon plan, even more perfect than what the Second Foundation could manage. It is apparent, though, that Gaia cannot use its powers far enough to influence ...

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Some radical political environmentalists who accept some form of the Gaia theory call themselves Gaians. They actively seek to restore the Earth's homeostasis - whenever they see it out of balance, e.g. to prevent manmade climate change, primate extinction, or rainforest loss. In effect, they seek to cooperate to 'become' the "system consciously manipulating to make conditions more conducive to life". Such activity 'defines' the homeostasis, but for leverage it relies on deep investigation of the homeorhetic balances, if only to find places to interven ...

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Events Cindy Donovinh - Gaia's No. 1 (and only) news reporter, working for GAIA 9 Action News. Jack - The Halloween Spirit. Chick - Appearing in the Gaia Olympics 2k4. The Sniper - The person who shot Gambino on April 1, 2005. Easter Rab-bot - The cyborg rabbit who gives out Easter Baskets, at Easter. Santa Claus - The old man who gives us Gifts, at Christmas. Mrs. Claus - Owner of the S CORP Guild whom g ...

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Gaia theory science - Early modern parallels. In Lives of a Cell (1974), the biologist, Lewis Thomas, makes an observation very similar to Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis: I have been trying to think of the earth as a kind of organism, but it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex, with too many working parts lacking visible connections. The other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it like, what is it most like? Then, satisfactorily for that moment, it ...

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Gaia theory science - Basis. This theory is based on the simple idea that the biomass self-regulates the conditions on the planet to make its physical environment (in particular temperature and chemistry of the atmosphere) on the planet more hospitable to the species which constitute its "life". The Gaia Hypothesis proper defined this "hospitality" as a full homeostasis. A simple model that is often used to illustrate the origina ...

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