31.   Spacey has a jolly good time as the self-proclaimed Prot, benign visitor from the distant planet K-PAX.

32.   That kind of information is essential if humans are ever to venture for months, or even years, to distant planets.

33.   The controllers would no longer be forced to make split-second decisions because of the lengthy travel time for radio signals to make between home and distant planets.

34.   The same force that pulls an apple to the ground holds distant planets in their paths.

35.   The three kingdoms might represent the survivors of an assortment of microbes sent to colonize distant planets.

36.   Then, gliding into view like space aliens from a distant planet, came the stingrays and their larger cousins, manta rays, moving effortlessly.

37.   Then, we could find Venus shining in the sky and feel a kinship, a sisterhood, with that distant planet.

38.   They have proposed that life might have reached the earth in the form of spores sent out from some distant planet.

39.   Thus one of the most satisfying finds revealed this month was a distant planet that could actually be observed by its light -- and even the visible kind.

40.   Those guys were from a distant planet.