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"point of no return" Definitions
  1. Aviation
  2. the point in a flight at which an aircraft will lack sufficient fuel to return to its starting point.
  3. the critical point in an undertaking, decision-making process, etc., where one has committed oneself irrevocably to a course of action or policy.

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"Point of no return?" is obvious on the surface, but in this puzzle, the point of no return is when you cannot return something you've bought, and that would be a FINAL SALE.
It was supposed to be a point of no return.
This is essentially a point of no return for them.
But, has it really reached a point of no return?
His public pronouncements have passed the point of no return.
"We're reaching the point of no return," says one diplomat.
"There might be a point of no return," Vassar said.
Twitter has long since passed this point of no return.
Humans were polluting the atmosphere to a point of no return.
Make no mistake: The point of no return is fast approaching.
"We have passed the point of no return," a banker added.
Glaciers in Antarctica are heading toward a point of no return.
Luckily this thing didn't escalate to the point of no return.
And we're very, very close to the point of no return.
Is this what divides our country to the point of no return?
We've arrived at a point of no return, a position of checkmate.
In the end it all snowballed to the point of no return.
In that respect tin is already past the point of no return.
Black America is beyond the breaking point, a point of no return.
Once you're near one, you're really past the point of no return.
"We appear to have reached a point of no return," he wrote.
Once you pass that point of no return, nothing will stop you.
The Papadopoulos plea will likely be seen as the point of no return.
"This seems to have escalated to a point of no-return," he said.
The estimated point of no return only gets closer with each passing year.
CNN's Stephen Collinson said Trump's walkout marks a point of no return. 3.
With that in mind, I think I'm past the point of no return.
"Ford passed the point of no return in terms of investment," he said.
"We've always realized there might be a point of no return," she said.
"For most people, they are beyond the point of no return," Pilgrim said.
Would the test show his tumor had reached the point of no return?
Whatever happens next, we appear to have reached a point of no return.
His opponents howl and then predict, with certainty, a point of no return.
Now's he's getting close to the point of no return with his replacement.
Yes, there is a point of no return for companies and big institutions.
Time slows down as you reach the event horizon — the point of no return.
We're finally past the point of no return as The Act episode 6 opens.
Brothers Chuck and Jimmy McGill, at loggerheads, finally reach a point of no return.
But by 2011, it seemed like dubstep had passed the point of no return.
And they should also say whether there would be a point of no return.
How do we avoid the point of no return if we haven't reached there?
It is during those hours that many victims pass the point of no return.
"We have reached a point of no return," De Lille said in a statement.
The risk is that "we're already past the point of no return," Wraith said.
Or are we past the point of no return on that kind of approach?
He and I were nearing a point of no return, and I was petrified.
There is room for a rebirth, but 2020 is the point of no return.
But time is running out for Ethiopia and the point of no return nears.
Ultimately, he pulled the plug on military strikes, minutes before the point of no return.
"I don't think I'm at a point of no return," Judge said at the reunion.
In my opinion, the point of no return was the advent of overnight television ratings.
"By 2030 we will have passed the point of no return on climate," Buttigieg said.
There is a point of no return and diminishing returns in super luxury real estate.
Yet the Democrats controlling the House of Representatives have passed the point of no return.
"I will get it past the point of no return," she vowed early this year.
Hong Kong has reached a point of "no return," one strategist told CNBC on Thursday.
"The North Korean regime has not yet passed the point of no return," she said.
The edge of a black hole, its event horizon, is the point of no return.
A funny absurdist idea that kept building on itself, soon reaching the point of no return.
The International Crisis Group said the battle for Hodeidah was reaching "the point of no return".
You could get another one as long as you haven't reached the point of no return?
And we wonder whether personal and substantive differences may have reached a point of no return.
They also represent a point of no return — an event that forever scarred generations of Americans.
"I don't think we're at the point of no return, but it's coming up," Sloan said.
To the point of no return in the case of many traditional bricks and mortar sellers.
There's the famous point of no return, and for me these historic orders have reached it.
Impeachment This may mark the point of no return in the push to impeach President Trump.
So, have we arrived at the point of no return in these recurring cycles of harm?
The point of no return came over their differing ideas of marriage, rooted in their cultural upbringings.
"Yemen [is] in danger of fracturing beyond the point of no return," said a recent UN report.
"The longer this lasts, the more economic damage is done, and there's a point of no return."
A storm flipped it over and has brought the scow closer to the point of no return.
The sooner you speak up the better, because there is a point of no return with hair.
All outward signs indicate he's getting closer and closer to that sort of point of no return.
And when I scooched slowly toward the point of no return, I thought strongly about turning around.
This has led to a point of no return in the drive to pursue more clean energy.
But with help, sufferers can get past the point of no return and once again see daylight.
" "In deciding to once again use chemical weapons … The regime has reached a point of no return.
When we spoke, Price seemed optimistic that this won't get to a point of no return, however.
Each round of escalation gets them closer to a recession — and to a point of no return.
Neither marks a threshold beyond which the world becomes uninhabitable, or a tipping point of no return.
Failure to do that soon risks pushing the Puerto Rican economy beyond the point of no return.
The crisis between the United States and Iran has not yet reached a point of no return.
"America — and the world — cannot afford to have tensions escalate to the point of no return."Sen.
Do you think there is a PR "point of no return" for companies as big as Uber?
"The point of no return was June 23," he said, referring to the date of the referendum.
Mariah Carey's relationship exploded this week for sure, and Scottie Pippen's also at the point of no return.
"North Korea has not yet passed the point of no return," she said after the sanctions were passed.
They're narratives for a reality in which we may have already gone past the point of no return.
The discovery of his wife's mansion, bought from a favored government contractor, marked a point of no return.
"We've passed the point of no return; we're in the landing process," Doron said when the landing began.
For a while, everything is reconciled, until Jamie's odd behavior angers Nina to the point of no return.
Indeed, if Mousasi comes up short in London, he may find himself at the point of no return.
Teenagers, on the other hand, seemed to skew a little lower, deeming 26 the point of no return.
The crises in Venezuela — humanitarian, political, security and financial — seem to be reaching a point of no return.
And it just might be what finally pushes North Korea to go beyond the point of no return.
Here's what he said: Is the tech industry past the point of no return on matters of privacy?
To answer that question, some historical framing could help: I think we're at the point of no return.
I have to believe that we, as a nation, have not quite reached that point of no return.
He is, however, running out of time, which makes this a point of no return for his career.
I'm not exactly optimistic about the probability of that occurring before things reach the point of no return.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the summit marks the "point of no return" on climate.
"One is the path of surrender, where we have sleepwalked past the point of no return," he said.
That means the Pentagon is still trying to head the Turks off before the point of no return.
Just like all those tech millionaires who invested in it, I've spoiled myself to the point of no return.
When I hit fifty consecutive games in a row, I knew I was at the point of no return.
Watch a man sell his soul, and look for the moment when he passes the point of no return.
After performing well there, he signed with an agent, a point of no return in leaving college ball behind.
If you have a penis, it's likely that you already know what the point of no return feels like.
"We are at the point of no return," said Arni Bragason, director of the Soil Conservation Service of Iceland.
Comparing himself and the doctor to World War II paratroopers, Chuck says they've reached the point of no return.
The collapse of Lehman Brothers 23.5 years ago marked the point of no return in the global financial crisis.
So January 31 at 11 pm was essentially the point of no return — but it won't seem like it.
But with the point of no return to scheduling new elections only two weeks away, that doesn't appear likely.
Jon knew that was an incredibly pivotal scene — that's the point of no return, once he makes that decision.
"There is a point of no return in terms of visibility," said Scott Spradling, a New Hampshire media analyst.
The executive exodus shows that even employees think Tesla "may be past the point of no return," says Welch.
So I really had to have them done so it is kind of past the point of no return.
With each passing day, these communities become smaller, more in danger of reaching a tipping point of no return.
But for those who believe the point of no return is close, it appears to be getting even closer.
A network of telescopes performing VLBI are trying to resolve the point-of-no-return around Sagittarius A*, for example.
"We're at the point of no return," Maddury "Zulu" Somayazulu, associate research professor now at George Washington University, told Gizmodo.
Coal is past the point of no return Coal has long had one advantage over other energy sources: it's cheap.
Hard as you try to douse it with ketchup to mask it, you're really at a point of no return.
Our sources say June's family members fear she's reaching a point of no return ... and Geno's only making things worse.
"I think that we both made such major missteps that we got to the point of no return," he said.
It was co-opted long ago, with Miley Cyrus ensuring that it reached a point of no return in 2013.
If dos Santos loses this one, the one-time heavyweight great might well be past the point of no return.
"Point of No Return," an exhibition marking the anniversary, shows that not all artists celebrated the historic events of 260.
More than 70 percent of works on show in "Point of No Return" are loans, many from the artists themselves.
Avoiding the "point of no return" would mean curbing emission 7.6% every year of the next decade, according to CNN.
They knew it would be a point of no return and they did not want to be responsible for that.
The point of no return for climate change "is no longer over the horizon," the UN secretary-general recently warned.
Only a totally separate, unrelated scandal could ignite the impeachment fervor to the point of no return, I told myself.
Conference leaders have issued a dire message, saying the meeting represents the "point of no return" in the climate emergency.
"We think we are at a point of no return with electric vehicles," said Trent Mell, the company's chief executive.
I feel a heavy heart knowing that, year after year, the country is changing to the point of no return.
That point of no return is called the event horizon, and it's also our key to actually visualizing a black hole.
Climate change It's gettin' hot in here, and we're beginning to wonder if we've reached a boiling point of no return.
It all sounds very butt-kicking and bad-ass, with shades of Alias, Point of No Return, and, yes, James Bond.
Or is the point of no return when there are more violations than there are chefs with tattoos in the world?
Chinese consumption has gone "beyond the point of no return", says Takeshi Niinami, the boss of Suntory, a giant Japanese distiller.
As North Korea continues on its path toward the development of ballistic missile capability, a point of no return may come.
That's because the original signal is already on its way to the muscles by then -- past the point of no return.
But doesn't quiet dread work best for the planet's oncoming heat death, especially since we've passed the point of no return?
" David Davis, the minister in charge of negotiating the British exit, told lawmakers that "a point of no return already passed.
The decline in clients paying the full prices we based our business model around is reaching a point of no return.
"The point of no return is no longer over the horizon," United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said earlier this month.
Within the photon ring is the shadow of the black hole, the point of no return known as the event horizon.
The Obama administration staunchly opposed any development in E1 as a possible point of no return for a viable Palestinian state.
The sexual abuse scandal and the complicity of church leadership in covering it up is beyond the point of no return.
High-profile military defections to their side could mark a point of no return in their bid to oust Mr. Maduro.
And any matter that crosses their event horizons, also known as the point of no return, spirals helplessly toward an unknown fate.
But whereas the bulldog may have reached a genetic point-of-no-return, the same may not be true for German Shepherds.
We are reaching a point of no return, when it comes to information collection, if we have not already gone beyond it.
The accelerating destruction of the Amazon forest, which researchers fear may be approaching a point of no return, is of particular concern.
As it appears midway between the new moon and the full moon, the first quarter moon represents the point of no return.
From Leslie Gore to Lana Del Rey, the trope has been sourced, dissected, and written about to the point of no return.
Before Conor McGregor was winding his opponents up to the point of no return during press conferences, Ortiz had the art mastered.
"It's the point of no return," says Feryal Özel of the University of Arizona, who is a member of the EHT collaboration.
The Dolphins offense is in disarray and with a 13-21 start, the team's season is nearing the point of no return.
Once your level of commitment reaches a "point of no return," do what most successful people do next: Act on your commitments.
If, starved of sales, the black market shrinks beyond a point of no return, taxes could later go up, restoring the deterrent.
With evidence that miles of ice are collapsing into the seas, we may have passed the point of no return in Antarctica.
That benchmark or "point of no return" for Uber is ultimately much higher than a local mom-and-pop or small business.
We're not going to stand idly by while the world that's given us so much goes beyond a point of no return.
Contradictory messages by the White House on Russia could ignite the fuse that pushes this grinding conflict beyond the point of no return.
Arriving at "fuck you, pay me" with a company is typically a point of no return and one to be avoided whenever possible.
Some surely gave themselves over to thoughts of high-status job titles and future paydays, and are past the point of no return.
It's not a struggle to change public opinion; he acknowledges in his Twitter bio that that's already past the point of no return.
But I hope that this is the point of no return where change will occur, not only in our industry but also others.
Enter the Event Horizon Telescope, named for a black hole's point of no return; whatever crosses the event horizon falls into blackness everlasting.
This is an outcome with global consequences, and if we cross this threshold of deforestation, it could be a point of no return.
The conference kicked off on Monday with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres warning that the planet had reached a "point of no return".
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the summit marks the "point of no return" in humanity's fight against climate change.
Because the story of Rome shows that once you reach that breaking point, that point of no return, you cannot unwind the clock.
"I hope North Korea will not cross the point of no return," Moon said during a meeting with former British Prime Minister David Cameron.
The process that leads to Brexit has now been set in motion and the government insists that this is the point of no return.
Black holes have extremely strong gravity, meaning anything that enters its event horizon, or point of no-return is swallowed up, according to NASA.
But unleashing the kind of barrage that his regime had threatened in the past would take him rapidly past the point of no return.
"Such signals, which even an experienced cryptologist would struggle to decode, can only bring the situation to a point of no return," Nebenzia said.
Others have echoed that doom: that the Arctic's warming is now inevitable, and that our carbon levels have reached a point of no return.
The data — from consumer spending to the employment situation — show that while risks are rising, they haven't yet crossed the point of no return.
But a dangerous thing happens when the temperatures creep up: I start drinking cold brew, and I quickly hit a point of no return.
Black holes have extremely strong gravity, meaning anything that enters its event horizon, or point of no return, is swallowed up, according to NASA.
In the wake of the collusion scandals of the 1980s, Vincent saw tensions between owners and players rise to a point of no return.
The point of no return: Unless drastic change happens, it's only a matter of time before the impending climate apocalypse wipes us all out.
He has crossed the line between professional footballer and 'that guy with his ballsack out', and has gone beyond the point of no return.
"Credit markets are signaling that we're getting close to the point of no return, where a recession is more or less inevitable," he said.
When the conflict between the mill workers and owners escalated to a point of no return, it was Gandhi who mediated an equitable settlement.
But to claim that there are 12 or just 10 years until the point of no return goes beyond what the report itself says.
This could be a point of no return, after which retirements will accelerate faster than historical averages as utilities realize economic gains from clean energy.
For the President, though, the answer was far from obvious -- ultimately he pulled the plug on military strikes, minutes before the point of no return.
But even if you don't buy that kind of thinking, the government reaching some kind of fiscal point-of-no-return is far from inevitable.
"We are already at a point of no return if we don't do anything," Levermann, who co-authored the study in Science Advances, told Reuters.
The bottom line: It is time for Congress to act before the humanitarian crisis facing 3.4 million American citizens reaches a point of no return.
We like to ruin things by being greedy and excessive to the point of no return—it's just how we are, all flawed and dumb.
The show's hosts, married couple Chip and Joanna Gaines, continue to win over viewers' hearts with their adorable-to-the-point-of-no-return relationship.
We didn't want to push it, redline it for so long that we woke up and realized we are at a point of no return.
The lawmakers characterized 2050 as a point of no return, after which the country will be unable to avoid the catastrophic consequences of climate change.
The entire flamethrower episode is a joke taken too far, way past the point of no return and probably past the solar system as well.
"Climate change is already having a disastrous impact on people right around the world and we are nearing the point of no return," said Ban.
The point of no return happens not because of their opposing viewpoints on the law but because Stark finds out that Barnes killed Stark's mom.
Already you are hearing more about 'resiliency' than you are 'prevention' or 'reversal,' and I fear that we are witnessing the point of no return.
Ant-Man A temporary moment of comic relief starring Michael Peña and Paul Rudd precedes the point of no return in the Marvel movie timeline... 15.
"Every day we wait is a day our planet gets closer to the point of no return," de Blasio said in a report released April 22.
We didn't want to push it, to redline it for so long that we woke up and realized we are at a point of no return.
"We are already at a point of no return if we don't do anything," Levermann, who co-authored the study published in Science Advances, told Reuters.
For Dostoyevsky, this means Stavrogin goes past the point of no return as evil has as its object and target the absolute innocence of the victim.
Something in the wake of these police killings could have severely strained racial anxieties to a point of no return by the time we reach Nov.
Signing a pledge to support the party's nominee, whoever it was, amounted to a kind of psychological point of no return, the people close to him said.
"Too many of us in positions of power have reached a point of no return and aren't going back to those terrible days of yore," he said.
Sandberg envisions a world where love potions are treated, alongside relationship counseling, as a way to strengthen failing relationships before they reach the point of no return.
Mama June continues to push her family away -- at times going totally off the radar -- and they feel things are getting to the point of no return.
"We hope that there will be no point of no return, that the US and the allies will refrain from military action against sovereign states," he said.
It means building up to what's called "ejaculatory inevitability"—the orgasmic point of no return—then standing down for a minute or so before restarting the action.
And by the season finale, Jimmy's choices had begun to drag him past the point of no return — and his girlfriend, Kim (Rhea Seehorn), along with him.
It's easy to think the race has reached the point of no return and that the two sides will be unable to get together in the fall.
"It is hard to pinpoint the point of no return (for Turkey and the lira)" said Tilmann Kolb in the Chief Investment Office at UBS Wealth Management.
The sight of PLA troops patrolling Hong Kong's streets, let alone using force, has long been feared as a symbolic point of no return for the city.
Point of no return Rorisang Moseli, president of the student council at Cape Town University, said the students know that free education for all is unrealistic right now.
That means there's some sort of event horizon approaching—a point of no return beyond which there will be no hope for people of color to catch up.
Every winter, there comes a "point of no return" moment when the weather is expected to feel subzero and miserable for the foreseeable future (well, okay, until spring).
At a point of no return known as the "event horizon," the space-time curvature becomes so steep that signals can no longer climb to the outside world.
Behind the scenes, Elizabeth Holmes has been telling employees a sunnier, more factually-challenged version of the Theranos situation, which is perhaps past the point of no return.
Greenland's glaciers have reached a point of no return, he emphasized, because the colossal ice sheets are getting hit from both above (the air) and below (the oceans).
London (CNN Business)Continued uncertainty over Brexit has pushed companies in the United Kingdom to the "point of no return" and forced many to trigger expensive contingency plans.
A black hole's event horizon is the point of no return beyond which anything - stars, planets, gas, dust and all forms of electromagnetic radiation - gets swallowed into oblivion.
The Earth's average global surface temperature has increased about 20093 percent since 1880, and Lynas wrote that a 2 degree rise would constitute a point of no return.
In the year it takes for the treatment to become effective, the brains of children who are already showing symptoms can deteriorate to the point of no return.
As recently as January, people were declaring that we had finally reached the point of no return, with Trump blundering his way into a disastrous war with Iran.
The worry during the Trump administration has been that policy changes made by Congress or the White House would deteriorate the market to a point of no return.
" Another employee who helped organize the walkouts, Amr Gaber, who still works at Google, told Recode that activism in tech has "gotten past the point of no return.
Approaching the point of no return — the deadline for filing their candidacies — the news from Pennsylvania is more likely to sway them to the sweet comforts of retirement.
It's been, what, four years like that…' and then when it got to 10 years, I was like, 'Oh… I'm probably getting to the point of no return here.
If you ask me, everyone in this story is way past the point of no return, so far as chipping away at their own humanity with violence and hatred.
The systems we have in place are flawed, and while no voting system is perfect, the stakes are too high to let things reach the point of no return.
Coppola patiently registers every fleeting glance and half-formed gesture, every subtle spike in mood or shift in allegiance, until we find ourselves at the point of no return.
Johnny Manziel's agent has just officially cut ties with the embattled QB -- with Erik Burkhardt telling Adam Schefter he feels the relationship has reached the point of no return.
Separate research suggests that large swaths have retreated to "the point of no return," and the whole West Antarctic ice sheet could raise global sea levels by 10 feet.
"It's finally time for Theresa May to admit her deal is past the point of no return," said Lee Hardman, currency analyst at global bank MUFG based in London.
Losing weeks' worth of wages in order to care for an ill loved one would push many families over the financial edge, some past the point of no return.
Wednesday marks the point of no return for May as the critical step to notify the European Council that the U.K. will officially terminate its 44-year old membership.
The point of no return: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a gigantic refrigerator of precious seeds meant to potentially ensure the food supply of the human race forever.
Gas becomes hotter the closer it gets to the black hole's event horizon (the so-called "point of no return"), producing the bright X-ray emissions observed by Chandra.
But the main theme of this episode — "Treason," which is the perfect name for it, by the way — is that Rachel has gone past the point of no return.
They could also cause the left-behind cities to hit a point of no return that undermines the long-term economic potential of huge swaths of the United States.
Like the polar-bear-on-ice-floe trope, the CGI rhino implies that a particular animal species has reached a point of no return, a state of irrevocable loss.
The project is named after the event horizon, the proposed boundary around a black hole that represents the point of no return where no light or radiation can escape.
The project is named for the event horizon, the proposed boundary around a black hole that represents the point of no return where no light or radiation can escape.
Then, there might still be a chance that something serious is done to fix the island's economy on a permanent basis before it reaches a point of no return.
"There can be a point of no return," Michael McNulty said, referring to when couples are displaying too much contempt toward each other or if they feel too hurt.
While "Daydreaming" has a beautiful piano riff and intensely thrilling build, Yorke's words are downright mopey and a little lazy — the cliche "past the point of no return" is used.
Larger solutions are needed, lest the multiplying red bubbles on our devices pass the point of no return and truly become the new spam: something to be eradicated, not fixed.
Black holes got their name because their gravitational force is so strong, not even light can escape once it passes beyond the event horizon—a theoretical point of no return.
"I believe that the point of no return has been successfully completed, today the banking system of Moldova itself will not want to return to the old times," he said.
This was the point of no return, according to executives, when the company made the final electric investment decisions and committed to staying the course it had plotted after dieselgate.
The delicate balance of alliances and competing interests now risks tipping past the point of no return, according to Helima Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets.
I worry that he might be bottling up and burying so much that he'll approach a point of no return, just like so many other military veterans in his position.
The network is named after the edge of a black hole, the point of no return; beyond the event horizon, not even light can escape the black hole's gravitational pull.
Do you think Americans are capable of following orders in the way other countries have done to stem the tide, or have we already crossed the point of no return?
The point of no return came with his bid for re-election in 1971, a debacle that stands in stark contrast to the measured optimism inspired by the 1967 campaign.
Brad hasn't hidden his feeling about the children -- they're at the top of his priority list, so it seems they're at the point of no return in terms of reconciling.
The Ruins of Civilization asks us to consider how much to value small gestures of care for living things, especially as we are likely nearing an ecological point of no return.
The "point of no return" is sooner the larger and more complex the institution, while customer and staff transfers are also key, Rachel Kent, partner at law firm Hogan Lovells, said.
While black holes themselves emit no light, interstellar gases heat up as they approach the singularity's point of no return (called the event horizon), yielding bursts of high-energy x-rays.
"It was time -- we felt it was moving in the right direction, but we also knew we'd hit a point of no return," one person directly involved in the process said.
"What you want to say: "Did you know: 97% of scientists now agree that we're hurtling towards the point of no return on climate change and humans are the main cause?
Instead, the researchers built a black hole analog using a strange quantum material called a Bose-Einstein condensate, in which the point of no return is for sound rather than light.
His book is a point of no return that, depending on how his primary goes, could either be blamed for costing him his job or praised as an act of bravery.
Washington (CNN)The case of a pregnant migrant teen held in Texas and blocked by the Trump administration from obtaining an abortion may be heading toward a point of no return.
"Lebanese must all know these risks and work to fix matters before they reach the point of no return," he said, although he did not specify what Saudi Arabia could do.
Eventually, they will reach the point of no return as firms and financial advisors are forced to begin the process of obtaining client signatures on the contracts during the transition period.
In another report published six months ago, the U.N. also warned that the world had about 12 years left to address catastrophic global warming or face a point of no return.
"We are now at a point of no return on the question of international criminal justice," said Alex Whiting, a Harvard law professor and a former lawyer at the international court.
But the exact level of forest loss that would precipitate a tipping point - when damage done to the rainforest reaches the point of no return - is not yet known, Laurance said.
Maybe it was the unending drumbeat of warning from scientists that climate change is accelerating at a rate faster than they expected and we are nearing a point of no return.
What is the two-word term for the theoretical boundary that surrounds a black hole, a "point of no return" that appeared as an orange glow in a recent scientific picture?
The scientists warn that more study is needed, but say changes observed in parts of Antarctica could be the first signs the ice sheet has reached a point of no return.
The only justification for waiting until after the point of no return, and not informing the attorneys now charged with future enforcement, appears to be that Sessions wants to create chaos.
Paradoxically, the rim of a black hole is actually extremely bright, as soon-to-be black hole food heats up while sliding toward the event horizon, nearing the point of no return.
Organizers with the World Wildlife Fund have said that if the Amazon reaches "a point of no return," it could begin emitting carbon, which is "the major driver for global climate change."
This falls in line with the treatment of male characters that are driven to the point of no return and start killing everyone in sight — their murderous mission becomes an epic saga.
" Organizers with the World Wildlife Fund have said that if the Amazon reaches "a point of no return," it could begin emitting carbon, which is "the major driver for global climate change.
Over the past year alone, record rainfall throughout the central U.S. has saturated farmers' fields to the point of no return, leaving large portions of land useless and resulting in stunted harvests.
Mimenza says that if there is one thing to thank Peña Nieto's government for, it's fomenting and condoning record-breaking corruption practices which have enraged citizens to a point of no return.
His last work, "Crossing the Rubicon: Passing the Point of No Return," addressed the plight of immigrants and was performed last year by the Etude Ensemble at the University of California, Irvine.
With the market rapidly reaching a point of no return, the political fight in Washington could shift from the future of health care to which party is to blame for its present.
Maybe this is the source of his enduring grip over our collective imagination—maybe everyone is fascinated with the danger of going too far, of crossing beyond the point of no return.
Tommy Lee's reached the point of no return -- even if he changes his mind about wanting his son, Brandon Lee, prosecuted for battery ... the case is headed to the D.A.'s office.
The tech could be used to pinpoint problem areas and hairline cracks as they form beneath the surface, warning users that they're one drop away from reaching the point of no return.
LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's banks and brokers could be facing a Brexit "point-of no-return" with key financial contracts as soon as March, one of Germany's top central bankers said on Tuesday.
A coalition of five business groups warned on Wednesday that the "point of no return" was about to be reached before it would become impossible to cope with a no-deal Brexit.
The sometimes-glorious, sometimes-lackluster revival that John Doyle has staged in Classic Stage's 200-seat Off Broadway home takes that less-is-more proposition nearly to a point of no return.
After Jaclyn Hill launched her own beauty brand, Jaclyn Cosmetics, with a disastrous line of lipsticks, the reputation of her and the brand tumbled – to some, past the point of no return.
Cohen told CNBC's "Power Lunch " on Monday that the change in department stores' last bulwark against cost-cutting promotions is a point of no return, and it still won't help the stores.
Different bacteria are evolving resistance at different speeds, but the worst are approaching the point of no return, where no amount or combination of known antibiotics can work on them any longer.
Despite the dire prognosis, John Wiens, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, said most scientists agree that the planet has not passed the point of no return.
In somewhat related news, a new paper in Science broke down what it would take to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, which some scientists see as the point of no return.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is concerned a stalemate in the peace process between Israel and Palestinians is reaching the point of no return for a two-state solution.
Absent the necessary sweep, everything Trump will have done to degrade our system for his own enrichment and protection will have been ratified, and a point of no return will have been crossed.
Whatever the truth behind Kem Ley's death, the event already seems to mark a point of no return in public opinion: The fracture between the people and the government may now be irrevocable.
Martinez is not alone; everyone I spoke to who's been subjected to a WoodRocket costume treatment or roped into Myers' madness said they have that moment she described—the point of no return.
The biggest slumlord in the city continues to be the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) who has neglected the housing projects of this city deliberately almost to the point of no return.
It is this pattern of bent light that the astronomers running the Event Horizon Telescope have been trying to detect — a slightly lopsided glowing ring that would limn the point of no return.
Vanity Fair in a report published Monday said Trump's relationship with Kelly "may have finally gone past the point of no return" and that a search for a replacement was in the works.
It's tough these days to figure out what the purpose of gentrification art is when displayed in the midst of neighborhoods like this, that have moved well past the point of no return.
Trump would need to tone down his rhetoric and send a high-level envoy to China to make clear to Beijing that the North Korean crisis was rapidly approaching a point of no return.
It is high time for members of Congress to pay attention and act before the bill becomes too expensive, and before the crisis facing 3.5 million American citizens reaches a point of no return.
"The fact they are raiding the Guptas' residence is a sign the genie is out of the bottle and it's the point of no return, it's a matter of time," said Danske Bank's Christensen.
Mr. Erdogan's attempts at a rapprochement are unlikely to substantially improve European ties, since he has passed the point of no return with many European leaders, said Mr. Pierini, the former European Union ambassador.
The feeling of being at a point of no return and of reviewing one's life were clearly tied to near-death experiences, while feelings of entering an "unearthly-realm" were far more associated with DMT.
According to them, the clock is designed to warn people "how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making," with midnight standing in for the point of no return.
PENCE: Well, what the president has made clear is that we need complete and verifiable and irreversible denuclearization, and there&aposs opportunities and benefits for North Korea once we reach that point of no return.
"Our planet is sending a powerful message to world leaders to sign and implement the Paris Agreement on climate change and cut greenhouse gases now before we pass the point of no return," Taalas said.
That leaves a telltale pattern on the horizon, the invisible boundary that is the point of no return of a black hole — a halo of "soft hair," as Dr. Strominger and his colleagues put it.
According to Trusel, the current thought in the scientific community is that there is a temperature threshold that could trigger a point of no return for the eventual melting of Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets.
The boundary of that shadow is known as the "event horizon" or "point of no return," since beyond that, a black hole's gravitational force is strong enough to suck anything that approaches into the abyss.
Environmental activists and organizations like the World Wildlife Fund warn that if the Amazon reaches a point of no return, the rainforest could become a dry savannah, no longer habitable for much of its wildlife.
Scientists claim the forest is reaching a point of no return because of deforestation, fueled by illegal logging, and because of land grabbing, agricultural expansion, state- and private-sector-led development and resource extraction projects.
"Americans see the damage the Trump administration is doing to our environment and know that we are nearing a point of no return on climate," said Sam Sankar, senior vice president of programs at Earthjustice.
Before stars and other matter cross a black hole's point of no return—a boundary known as the "event horizon"—and get consumed by the black hole, they get swept up in the black hole's rotation.
Unless we start making some major changes -- and soon -- we face the very real potential of crossing the point of no return when it comes to the planet's warming, and the consequences that result from it.
Meanwhile, scientists are warning that the Amazon rainforest, one of the world's largest ecosystems, could reach a point of no return and become a grassy savannah within 50 years if damage to the forest isn't reversed.
He had told California lawmakers that he would drop his campaign if they could pass a reasonable privacy bill by June 28, the legal point of no return for formally withdrawing his initiative from the ballot.
Point of no return Some Syrians have returned home, but many, like Abu Musa, a man in his forties who lives in the same settlement as Farhan, insist that returning would be nothing short of suicidal.
And then finally, when you think about all these things, it seems as if we're past a point of no return, but that's probably not the case because we're right in the middle of it. Right?
For the first time since former president Hugo Chávez rose to power in 1999, revolutionary strongholds — mostly working-class neighborhoods — joined the protests, marking what many analysts have called a point of no return for Maduro's government.
And despite my pleading, and numerous warnings from the controller itself, he sent the drone past the point of no return — convinced that it would override his control and return automatically if there was any real risk.
But it went nowhere, and South Korean officials have warned for a long time that the North's program has hit what one called a "point of no return": a phrase the Israelis once used, wrongly, about Iran.
"  And, as will be true for the Justice Department should it make the tough (but just) decision to abandon Roof's federal prosecution, before it passes the point of no return: "[t]here will still be business enough.
Now that Britain has finally reached this point of no return — one that millions of Britons had long either dreaded or dreamed of, marched against or eagerly prepared for — the prevailing emotion is neither sadness nor excitement.
Except a black hole has a singularity where all of its mass sits at a point in its center, as well as an event horizon, or point-of-no-return where not even light can escape its gravity.
A black hole's event horizon, one of the most violent places in the universe, is the point of no return beyond which anything - stars, planets, gas, dust, all forms of electromagnetic radiation including light - gets sucked in irretrievably.
The approval vote in France's National Assembly appeared to push one of President Emmanuel Macron's flagship reforms beyond the point of no return, hours before yet another two-day train strike, the fourth since the start of April.
Privacy has eroded to the point of no return, at least on the current Internet, and I suspect that tools that give us back some of that privacy will be the in-demand apps of the next decade.
The long view: Books were the first category to reach an e-commerce tipping point — a 20% market share, the point of no return at which, as industry after industry has discovered, Amazon's encroachment wipes out almost everyone.
Although nothing (not even light) can escape a black hole once it passes the event horizon — a point of no return —black holes do shoot out powerful jets of energetic particles as a result of their rotational energy.
Scientific observations over the last 60 years have increasingly demonstrated that objects exist in the Universe whose gravitational fields are so intense that they can warp spacetime such that light cannot escape beyond a point of no return.
Scientists think these black holes are dense masses of the smallest possible length, surrounded by a far-out point-of-no-return of warped space from which light can't escape, based on Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
This episode finds them passing, ever so subtly, beyond the point of no return, as an update designed to add complexity and depth to the hosts introduces the possibility that the androids are evolving past their creators' control.
Patrick Cronin, an Asia expert with the Center for a New American Security, said Trump was probably "coming to the point of no return" with North Korea, adding that the upshot could be diplomatic overtures or military action.
"Businesses of all sizes are reaching the point of no return, with many now putting in place contingency plans that are a significant drain of time and money," the heads of Britain's five biggest business lobby groups said.
MADRID (Reuters) - The world must choose hope over surrender in the fight against climate change, U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Monday, warning a summit in Madrid that governments risked sleepwalking past a point of no return.
The consensus among scientists and policy-makers is that we'll pass this point of no return if the global mean temperature rises by more than two degrees Celsius (maybe a little more, but also maybe a little less).
We were in the moment he found "the asset," but the point of no return was in episode 2, when the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and Kuiil (Nick Nolte) discuss what to do while Bebé catches a lil' frog.
Marine Le Pen's relationship with Florian Philippot, for years her closest aide, has become so strained since she lost the presidential election to centrist Emmanuel Macron that far-right experts say it has reached the point of no-return.
Broad participation is essential to keeping warming below a point of no return; as a practical matter, it is also essential to keep companies from moving their operations to nations that do not impose a cost on carbon emissions.
And since player solidarity probably passed a point of no return last weekend and NFL franchises can't unilaterally change the rules, there's no clear exit from this dynamic unless Trump decides to simply move on to the next thing.
Lennox cites a 2003 trip to South Africa – where she spent time with Nelson Mandela, performed in the launch concert for his HIV/AIDS foundation and visited families and orphanages devastated by AIDS – as the point of no return.
The site marks the week of Halloween as the "point of no return" for both Thanksgiving and Christmas flights, when prices increase rapidly, topping out at an average of $476 and $504 a seat for Thanksgiving and Christmas, respectively.
Gates is one of several big-name backers to be drawn to renewable energy technologies in the face of a steadily warming planet that's rapidly approaching a tipping point of no return when it comes to global climate change.
Other solutions will be needed to ensure we do not breach the warming point of no return, but a robust price on carbon is the first step we must take to keep climate change from spiraling out of control.
Michael Bevis, a professor of geodynamics at The Ohio State University and the lead author of the study, says the research found that humanity may have passed the point of no return when it comes to combating climate change.
"I pushed really hard for us to go to couples therapy, because it is important to catch problems early instead of when they have been getting worse for years and are beyond the point of no return," Miller explains.
An abrupt sprint away from the Iran deal — a deal negotiated by all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Germany and the European Union — without evidence of serious violations could represent a point of no return.
It costs about $10,000 per person to be smuggled from Central America and Ma Ingraham, you may not know this, but by the time they get to the border, it&aposs the point of no return, they&aposre not going back.
We may already be past the point of no return: internet functionality is a necessary component for the operation of many devices in our home, and it increasingly gets added on as a feature even when it's not strictly necessary.
Black holes are regions of space so small and massive that they carry a point-of-no-return, an "event horizon" beyond which space is so warped that every path that anything could travel leads to the black hole's middle.
Sony's PSP and Vita devices were noble experiments that only proved how hard it was to emulate Nintendo's success, and the hybrid Switch, where you can bring a full-fledged console anywhere and everywhere, seems like a point of no return.
Arthur Schlesinger argued in "The Imperial Presidency" that America had already passed the point of no return in the 1970s: the accretion of presidential power could not be undone, nor the office returned to something resembling what the founders intended.
The big picture: The photo shows that the black hole at the center of M87 "does indeed appear to have the definition feature of a black hole — the event horizon, the point of no return," EHT scientist Avery Broderick said.
"He has dug in to a point of no return in terms of normal relations between Venezuela and the rest of the world," said Roger Noriega, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs under President George W. Bush.
" On our current trajectory, the report warns, "planetary and human systems [are] reaching a 'point of no return' by mid-century, in which the prospect of a largely uninhabitable Earth leads to the breakdown of nations and the international order.
In 1974, Stephen Hawking proposed that at the event horizon of a black hole—the rim that marks the point of no return—the strange effects of quantum mechanics mean that particles can pop into existence and be radiated away.
Fortunately, a handful of easy strategies can help to mitigate your risk: Working from home doesn't have to be lonely or miserable, but you need to know what you're walking into before you commit to the point of no return.
It is clear that we are rapidly approaching a point of no return, when Pyongyang will have a capable and proven delivery system for a nuclear warhead to be able to reach and potentially cause great harm to the United States.
But just when you think Cyrus is about to attempt suicide and only a last-minute Gladiator save will bring him back from the point of no return, Cyrus flips the script with the help of his new cannibal friend.
"We're not at the point of no return, but we are in very dangerous waters," said Bruce Riedel, a fellow at the Brookings Institution who served in the Central Intelligence Agency, where he advised several American presidents on South Asia.
But for the first time in climate talks stretching back to 1992, it set forth specific, numerical pledges from each country to reduce emissions so that together they could keep atmospheric temperatures from barreling past a point of no return.
Reuters TV: Point of no return Myo Nyunt, a spokesman for the ruling National League for Democracy, said the Rohingya were to blame for delays in their return because of their demand for citizenship as a prerequisite for their repatriation.
The cutters were placed near what was referred to as the point of no return, the area where a plane would have burned so much fuel that it would not have enough to turn back in case of an emergency.
Sometime around then, Jimmy Buffett entered a point of no return where the lifestyle of the erstwhile Jimmy Buffett became so distant and unrecognizable to the new Jimmy Buffett that he understood there could be a problem in the making.
After Catherine Deneuve wrote an open letter raising concerns about the effect #MeToo might have on flirting, Asia Argento, also an actress, denounced her and "other French women" for their "interiorised misogyny [which] has lobotomised them to the point of no return".
But we're rapidly approaching the point of no return: Without an immediate and sustained effort to end the violence ravaging South Sudan and the other three nations, the world will for the first time in living memory be faced with four simultaneous famines.
And when people from the Trump regime like Kellyanne Conway go on TV to say that there was no active investigation of members of the Trump administration by the FBI—something that's patently false—we may have hit the point of no return.
"We now believe Mr Zuma has reached his own point of no return and will now push his agenda to get rid of Mr Gordhan without regard for the cost or consequences," said political analyst Gary van Staden of NKC African Economics.
What isn't debatable is the fact that Fyre was the Altamont of our time; a loss of innocence, a point of no return, and a coming to terms with the decadence and false promises of an entire generation, beautifully embodied in a sandwich.
Each of the four pigmented shades — which include a coral, pinky blush, raspberry red, and deep plum — goes on almost clear and can be layered (and layered, and layered) to a more dramatic finish without ever reaching that point of no return.
But astronomical observations in the past 60 years have increasingly demonstrated that there are objects in the Universe whose gravitational field is so intense that it warps spacetime such that light cannot escape beyond a point of no return, called the event horizon.
One high-ranking government financial official who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue said that when it came to those already spending large sums in debt servicing, "the point of no return has been passed already".
I wish we could also find a way to shorten these presidential campaigns significantly, so that they're not such a soul-draining, throat-ravaging turnoff to almost anyone who's not an epic narcissist or mired in politics to the point of no return.
He has gone years without lying to his charges, or at least admitting to himself that he's lying to them — he knows they are more volatile with other minders, and he seems to know they've already crossed some point of no return.
As in Ms. Ronen's first outing here, "Point of No Return," a harrowing look at how people react to terrorist attacks, inspired by a shooting spree at a Munich shopping mall in 2016, much of her new show is built around autobiographical monologues.
The relationship between President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense James Mattis may have "soured" to the point of no return, The New York Times reported on Saturday — but the White House denied the former general is on the outs with his boss.
" Ambassador François Delattre of France, which has asserted it has proof of chemical weapons use by Syrian military forces, said Mr. Assad's government had "reached a point of no return" and that the world must provide a "robust, united and steadfast response.
Among those things I wrote down were both BERMUDA TRIANGLE (because who doesn't love geometry?) and POINT OF NO RETURN, which can pair nicely, and are both 15s, and hey, there exist other types of POINTs that could be mined for more material!
Generation Z, which the Pew Research Center defines as those who are currently ages 14 to 18, are inheriting a world nearing its "point of no return" from generations who failed to address sweeping -- even "existential" -- problems like climate change and gun violence.
Sarah CaudillPostdoctoral Researcher at Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeA black hole has gravity so strong that not even light can escape once it has passed the event horizon, an invisible boundary marking the point of no return.
Duterte said the Philippines was at the "point of no return" in relations with former colonial ruler the United States, so he wanted to strengthen ties with others, and picked two global powers that have been sparring with Washington on the international political stage.
S&P said that while it expects an orderly departure in March followed by a transition period to the end of 2020, some financial institutions have reached a point of no return and are setting up new hubs in the EU to avoid disruption.
Cage-as-Kaufman bristles at the lessons, worried that McKee is ushering in a homogenization of screenwriting, a kind of formulaic "chicken in every pot, point of no return at every midpoint"–style of writing that will turn all movies into paint-by-numbers.
But, more importantly, so that we're doing more than just talking, we need to elect representatives that don't merely give lip service to it all but who actually believe it is a necessary thing to do before we pass the point of no return.
Even warm beer can eventually be cooled, but once it has reached the perma-skunked point of no return, there's not a whole lot you can do about it; other than shut up and drink it and squint your eyes every time you take a sip.
Instead, the EHT effectively revealed the shadow of a black hole illuminated by the matter on the edge of the object's event horizon — the area near the black hole known as the "point of no return," where the gravity is so great that nothing can escape.
"We're close now to the point of no return, when the system is doomed to sag from here on out," says John Waldron, a public-school teacher in Tulsa, as he knocks on doors on a sunny afternoon, campaigning for a seat in the state House.
For the countless women who have swallowed their pride or suffered incredible abuse at the hands of casually destructive men, there's something incredibly cathartic in watching Thelma's enthusiastic rebellion, Louise's constantly simmering anger, and the spark that sets them both off to the point of no return.
Duterte said the Philippines was at the "point of no return" in its relations with former colonial ruler the United States, so he wanted to strengthen ties with others, and picked two global powers with which Washington has been sparring with on the international political stage.
"For the banks, once they start re-papering it is the point-of-no-return and that will happen in the first half of next year maybe even in the first quarter of next year," Dombret said at conference organised by banking trade association, UK Finance.
The coming prospect of the Republican Party crossing the point of no return by nominating Trump at the convention may — or may not — be enough to lead the Never Trump movement to stage a true, authentic move to draft Romney even without his authorization in advance.
"We can no longer be content with symbolic strikes; these have to be efficient strikes that show not only our resolve but that the point of no return has been established," former French Air Force chief of staff Jean-Paul Paloméros said in a radio interview on Tuesday.
People reacted by saying West had finally hit the point of no return, sharing memes of the rapper in the "sunken place," and laughing at the hypocrisy of West championing free speech and free thought while showing admiration for the man who spent a fortune to shutter Gawker.
One of my favorites is from Dennis Sciama, Dr. Hawking's mentor, who said that due to quantum uncertainty, the exact location of the event horizon — the spherical shell in space that delineates the point of no return — would be uncertain and would fluctuate or wiggle as a result.
Before we approach the point of no return -- a constitutional crisis triggered by presidential abuse of power -- it is time for Congress to act decisively to fortify our system of checks and balances by passing a law to protect Mueller and any future special counsel from political interference.
A lot of it comes down to two performances: Cooper and Lady Gaga have remarkable chemistry as Jackson and Ally, and he brings a world-weariness to his portrayal that makes it seem like Jackson is years past the point of no return, even though he hasn't quite realized it.
She's melted down enough, probably to the point of no return It's notable that Twitter seems more vulnerable to brigading from the internet's alt-right corners — Reddit, 4chan and 8chan, various men's rights forums, and other niche right-wing, libertarian-leaning, heavily male-dominated communities — than other social media platforms.
A new report in the New York Times revealed that President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell haven't spoken in weeks — and McConnell has been telling people behind the scenes that Trump is "unwilling to learn the basics of governing" as his administration approaches the point of no return.
Despite the apparent resiliency of the region's ecosystem, Fawzi and her colleagues fear that the marshes may be approaching a point of no return, a problem which will only be exacerbated because the younger Ma'dan generations lack the skills that allowed the older generations to thrive in this singular ecosystem.
Though North Korea is past the point of no return for having nuclear weapons, he said, the U.S. could prevent "next generation" capabilities, such as a three-stage rocket that could strike any North American target or a hydrogen bomb that is much more powerful than the atomic weapons Pyongyang possesses.
"To see it in a formal letter that was given to Congress and to specifically accuse someone else of lying when in reality that person was being truthful and when Administrator Wheeler was the one doing the lying, it just put me beyond the point of no return," he said.
While wishful thinkers still hold out hope that U.S.-Turkish relations are strained by short-term concerns and eventually will rebound, a growing chorus of voices led by Daniel Pipes believes that "Erdoğan's hostile dictatorship" has passed the point of no return and cannot be reconciled with American interests and values.
Gibraltar, with its comparatively stable climate, would have been one of their last refuges, he explained, and he likened the population there to critically endangered species today, like snow leopards or imperiled butterflies: living relics carrying on in small, fragmented populations long after they've passed a genetic point of no return.
Yet as my colleague Vlad Savov wrote last month, the HomePod is "the point of no return for Apple fans," because it not only requires you own an iOS device, but because it goes one step further by limiting some of its most useful features to an Apple-made piece of software.
The tribute featured three guest troupes dancing McKayle's work: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" (1959), first presented by Taylor in 2016; students of the Juilliard School in "Crossing the Rubicon: Passing the Point of No Return" (2017); and Ronald K. Brown/Evidence in "Songs of the Disinherited" (1972).
The women in The Handmaid's Tale don't lose their freedom overnight — their liberties are gradually chipped away, law by law — but perhaps of the point of no return is the day they are removed from the workforce, their money and property confiscated, and they are forced to rely on men for financial support.
If Brazil does not retreat from the course it is on, scientists warn there will come a time in the near future when Amazonian fires burn without control and push the forest to a point of no return, what some have called a "tipping point" that will permanently change the underlying ecosystem.
"What is particularly frustrating about the term 'functional extinction' is it indicates a population that is basically past the point of no return, so it means that nothing really can be done," said Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor at the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute and School of Biology and Ecology.
According to the documentary Best of Enemies (airing on October 3 as part of PBS's election coverage, and streaming online October 4 through November 2), that was the point of no return for TV election coverage — even though things were on such a shoestring that the ABC set literally collapsed during the RNC.
Read more: A 'super telescope' captured an astounding image of the massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy That point of no return is called the event horizon, and apart from being a terrifying location you never want to find yourself in, it's also our key to actually visualizing a black hole.
And just as the mighty giant, Goliath, fell, despite his size and power and brazen self-confidence, Silicon Valley has arguably passed the point of no return, and may soon be taken down despite its own self-aggrandizing over-confidence and swagger, by one of the smooth, innocent-looking stones from a foreign stream.
Along the 2,500 kilometer, 10-hour flight, the single plane faced a point of no return: With only enough fuel for a one-way trip, the pilot had to make a decision around the five hour mark to either continue on and land the plane, or turn back — leaving the patients waiting longer for help.
The first black hole photo appeared to match predictions made by general relativity, showing the shadow of a black hole illuminated by superheated gases on the edge of the object's event horizon — the area near the black hole known as the "point of no return," where gravity is so great that nothing can escape.
A dark room labeled "enfants"; an ominous concrete doorway opening out onto the Atlantic, the so-called "Point of No Return"; the tiny recesses in the wall used as solitary confinement cells: If it's not the historical site some claim it to be, it's still a gut-wrenching memorial to that chapter in history.
If black holes weren't single points, but uniform spheres the same radius or larger than the event horizon (the point of no return in space), they should have a surface that stars will occasionally slam into at nearly the speed of light, the study's first author and University of Texas astrophysics grad student Wenbin Lu told Gizmodo.
While it is often said that the play's emotionally upended couple will live to see another day — the three acts do, after all, conclude with the arrival of dawn — one can't help but feel on this occasion that George and Martha have passed a point of no return; any retreat into a shared solace, however warped, looks unlikely.
It's still a little jarring to see this hardened warrior flinch away from violence, but trauma affects everyone differently, and it's deeply humanizing to see someone hesitate to destroy another person at this stage in the series, especially when Rick's group has arguably passed the point of no return when it comes to killing other humans as a means to an end.
Washington (CNN)Last Friday, the Trump administration -- 13 federal agencies working in coordination -- released the Fourth National Climate Assessment, a detailed document featuring the conclusions of more than 300 scientists that the planet is getting warmer, human activity is contributing to that warming and we are approaching a point of no return in terms of the damage to the climate.
In any case, the scene brings into focus all the ways that Jimmy's arc this season has been about Chuck – about the extent to which Jimmy's life had been shaped by his need for Chuck's approval, about the moral and spiritual decay left over from their vicious feud, about the way Chuck's death has now pushed Jimmy across some point of no return.
The calculations he, Dr Hawking and Malcolm Perry, also at Cambridge, have made suggest that when matter falls into black holes it leaves ghostly traces in the form of two sorts of soft particle—photons (the particles of light) and gravitons (the particles, still hypothetical, that theory suggests transmit gravity)—which then hang around the event horizon, the hole's point of no return.
"Too many American workers are not paid enough to make ends meet, and losing weeks worth of wages in order to care for and deal with the challenge of this magnitude when a loved one is ill would push families over the edge and some passed the point of no return," said Representative Rosa DeLauro, one of the lawmakers who introduced the bill.
"It is time for the US to realize that irresponsible words and actions are backing the DPRK into a corner with no way out, and it would be a tragedy if Trump's risky game of chicken with the DPRK crosses the point of no return," read an editorial published Thursday in the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.
" Ms. Ajayi is judgmental on subjects like our impossible beauty standards ("The day I saw an ad for anal bleach, I knew we had passed the point of no return, done a double back flip to the beginning and run three more victory laps"), covert homophobia, and the click-bait culture that encourages us, she says, to go on "garbage news benders.
Cedric Diggory's death at the end of The Goblet of Fire is often spoken about as a key turning point in Rowling's series; it's the first time we witness a good character dying in front of us; it's that coming-of-age, point-of-no-return moment when we suddenly realise, for want of a better term, that sh*t has definitely gotten real.
Maybe that's why they voted for a man who promises to fling H-bombs about and is a global warming denier even though some scientists say that we are approaching the point of no return for doing something about climate change.. For the rest of us, White, Black, Yellow, Brown and Native American, living under a White supremacist government is like being tethered to a suicide bomber.
Unfortunately, the particle outside the event horizon — the invisible boundary that is a black hole's point of no return — also has to be entangled with another particle that has already emerged from the black hole, and the laws of quantum mechanics prohibit such promiscuous arrangements, which leads to a paradox and the possibility that there is a firewall at the edge of a black hole.
The report says that if the "threshold" -- a theoretical point-of-no-return -- is crossed, this "would lead to a much higher global average temperature than any interglacial in the past 1.2 million years and to sea levels significantly higher than at any time in the Holocene," referring to the geological age which began at the end of the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago.
"The credit market is moving quickly towards the point of no return, where the turn in the credit cycle becomes inevitable and irreversible, as funding sources dry up, issuers face liquidity crunch, credit losses rise, investors rush for the exit, and face extremely thin liquidity on the way out," Oleg Melentyev, head of high-yield credit strategy at Bank of America, told clients Friday.
Climate change is apocalyptic and impossible --> no point cutting emissionsSeems like society's move from denial #1 to denial #2 has happened in barely the blink of an eye Franzen repeatedly returns to the notion that our damage to the climate is sure to pass a "point of no return" and so we might as well admit that we're just not going to be able to "solve" the climate crisis.
"The Lebanese government will be dealt with as a government declaring war on Saudi Arabia, and all Lebanese must realize these dangers and work to resolve the issues before we reach the point of no return," he said in an interview with Al-Arabiya TV. Crown Prince Mohammed told Reuters last month the war in Yemen would continue to prevent the Iran-allied Houthi movement from becoming another Hezbollah at Saudi's border.
When the final history of the Trump campaign is written—if, that is, we avoid nuclear war with North Korea and there's anyone left alive to write it—the Papadopoulos plea will likely be seen as the point of no return, the moment when a political story that had been kept alive for months with rumors and speculation, a story that the president himself had dismissed as a nothingburger as late as Monday morning, achieved an inescapable momentum.
Not because the catastrophe she sees coming is news: The warnings of impending climatic catastrophe are already deafening — in the 2018 report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which warns that we are less than 12 years away from the point of no return; in the findings of 13 United States federal agencies that describe the grave threats posed by climate change to the nation; in the extremes of weather reported daily; in the vanishing Arctic ice, raging wildfires, violent tornadoes and other consequences of an overheating planet that appear with ever increasing frequency.

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