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How to use the word timescales in a Sentence?

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These are the only planetary bodies, other than Earth, where liquid water is stable at geological timescales, which is crucial for the emergence and development of life, they are, in my opinion, the best place in our solar system to discover extraterrestrial life, so we need to study their exotic oceans and interiors to better understand how they formed, evolved and can retain liquid water in cold regions of the solar system, so far away from the sun.

– Baptiste Journaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I know these fossils better than anyone. They are anatomically very puzzling, even if they are modern humans, as the DNA suggests, how do we reconcile that ? Perhaps people's anatomical form in the past -- over long timescales -- was very' plastic' and responded to the environment and lifestyle of these early people. This could be something we have lost since we took up farming.

– Darren Curnoe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Besides the fact that material mostly comes from the surface, the age-related bioaccumulation also increases these pollutant concentrations, bringing more threat to these most remote ecosystems. what is really novel here is not just that carbon from the surface ocean can reach the deep ocean on relatively short timescales, but that the young carbon produced in the surface ocean is fueling, or sustaining, life in the deepest trenches.

– Rose Cory

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

What is really novel here is not just that carbon from the surface ocean can reach the deep ocean on relatively short timescales, but that the young carbon produced in the surface ocean is fueling, or sustaining, life in the deepest trenches.

– Rose Cory

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In order to see something that happens on timescales of minutes, like a shock breakout, you want to have a camera continuously monitoring the sky, you don’t know when a supernova is going to go off, and Kepler's vigilance allowed us to be a witness as the explosion began.

– Peter Garnavich

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

... many folks take them seriously because they just ‘know’ that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades.”

– Stephen Jay Gould

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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