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  • Terrestrial is now BBC 1, 2, the ITV network, Channel 4, and Five.

    My God, It's Full Of Tweets! 2009

  • Steven Spielberg's ET: The Extra Terrestrial is still the most alive film I know about childhood solidarity.

    How to decide on the best kids' films of all time Mark Cousins 2010

  • It also called for an interferometer called the Terrestrial Planet Finder, to examine nearby stars for planets like our own Earth.

    John C. Mather - Autobiography 2007

  • The aim of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code hereafter referred to as the Terrestrial Code is to assure the sanitary safety of international trade in terrestrial animals and their products.

    Top 10 List of Data Disasters « ResourceShelf 2004

  • He stepped over to his ultra-projector and called the Terrestrial headquarters of the T.S. S. S.mms 'face soon appeared upon his screen.

    Triplanetary 1927

  • The telescope is the gorilla in the living room whose very existence has forced NASA to postpone or cancel other important projects - among them, a telescope called the Terrestrial Planet Finder, which would have searched for signs of life on earthlike worlds.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • They're called Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, or TGFs, and very little is known about them.

    Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com 2010

  • They're called Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, or TGFs, and very little is known about them.

    YubaNet.com 2010

  • A new nano satellite mission, called 'Firefly,' sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and led by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. will explore the relationship between lightning and these sudden bursts, called Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (TGFs).

    SpaceRef Top Stories 2008

  • It costs a lot of money, and NASA originally was planning to spend the money on something called the Terrestrial Planet Finder, but in the 2006 budget, the project was put an indefinite hold.

    Astronomy Cast 2008

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