The real question, Jungers says, is why we abandoned that strategy or chose an alternative strategy — the alternative being full-time living on terra firma.
What a relief to step out on terra firma again!
Endowed with terra firma grandeur, China is reputed as the single oldest uninterrupted civilization in the world.
After the spacecraft landed on terra firma, Shuttleworth and his two partners will be first given a physical exam before boarding a helicopter to fly to Astana in Kazakhstan where they will be transferred to the Russian capital Moscow on the same day.
Now, drawing on new insights, theories, measurements and technologies— and perhaps a bit of scientific bravado— they are forecasting the shape of terra firma in the distant future.
glad to be on terra firma again,eg after a trip by boat or aeroplane
After the rough sea voyage we were glad to reach terra firma.
However, over the years reptiles, birds and mammals lost their electrosense as it wasn’t needed for life on terra firma.
For not only do fabulous rumors naturally grow out of the very body of all surprising terrible events, but in maritime life, far more than in that of terra firma, wild rumors abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to.
As for his suspicions, once on terra firma, once that he had seen the indifferent, if not friendly, appearance of his hosts, his anxiety had quite disappeared, or rather, at sight of the goat, had turned to appetite.
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