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digging up the past

Syria:French Archaeologists have found an 11 thousand year old building near Ja’de on the banks of the Euphrates river. The large size of the building suggests it was some kind of community building....

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the new space race has begun

The website spacefuture predicts that Space tourism will go through three phases: 1) a pioneering phase, where space travel will be expensive and available to a handful of people, 2) a mature phase as...

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the meek shall inherit the universe

Humans, at first glance, do not appear to be well-designed for survival. Our lack of fur, lack of claws or other natural means of attack and defense, slow breeding times, and our lengthy, costly...

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Visiting the Deep Future might not be as fun as you think

New Scientist magazine is currently running a series of articles on the deep future, around 100,000 years from now. The article “What will we be like?” suggests that it’s likely that there will be no...

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Philip K Dick’s prescience

J.R. Dunn on Philip K Dick’s vision of the future… Philip K Dick and our Predicament. The consensus SF world is long gone. The gleaming spacecraft, the extraterrestrial colonies, the world-transforming...

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little green men… and women

In Brian Aldiss’ 1962 masterpiece Hothouse the Sun is in its final phase before going nova. On earth, increased heat means that plants have taken over the earth (hence the title). New, deadly plants...

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dreaming of an apocalypse

There are certain ideas that tap into the deep primal currents of the human mind, ideas that simultaneously fascinate and appall. The end of the world is such an idea. Humanity lives and relives its...

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