During the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, the sky began to fall. Near Normandy, several locals saw rocks smash into the ground on 26 April 1803. At the time, the concept of asteroids was viewed by the French intelligentsia as superstitious …
Elon Musk just wants to go to space
In 414 BC, Aristophanes’ The Birds was first performed in Athens. In this comedy, two disgruntled middle-aged men, fed up with life on Earth, convince a giant bird to create a great city in the sky. Free from the cruel …
Where do aliens come from?
I want to tell you where aliens come from — not which galaxy or dimension, but rather how humans, over the past few centuries, have come to conceive of extraterrestrial life. But before we start, we must briefly note that …
The Harvard professor who thinks aliens exist
A year of spy balloons and UFOs in North America has sparked renewed interest in the possibility of extraterrestrial life — and not just among conspiracy theorists. Some of the world’s leading cosmologists are convinced that alien technology has already …
Interview 1766 – The Underpopulation Bomb – #NewWorldNextWeek
This week on the New World Next Week: Poland gets hit by a missile and Ukraine asks for WWIII; the underpopulation bomb as the anti-human death cult comes for your babies; and the X-37B returns from doing whatever it does.…
Overpopulation isn’t a threat
In the enduring thought game “Who would you host at a dinner party?”, three men sit at my table: the 21st-century’s Elon Musk and the 20th-century Huxley brothers, scientist Julian and writer Aldous. They would talk about Mars and whether …
How we gave up on the future
Once upon a time, a teenager called Sarah was looking for a Father’s Day present for her dad, Jim. For hours she scoured the bazaars of St Albans, but none had quite what she wanted. The sunshine began to fade, …