Catastrophe – Episode 5 – Survival Earth

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the fifth and final episode of Catastrophe. This spectacular five-part series, presented by Tony Robinson, investigates the history of natural disasters, from the planet’s beginnings to the present, putting a new perspective on our existence and suggesting that we are the product of catastrophe. Ninety-nine percent of all the creatures … Read more

From Olduvai Gorge to the Sea of Tranquility

  This is an essay I wrote five years ago to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing and was originally posted on the National Space Society’s blog site on  August 10, 2009. By far the two most remarkable photographs of the twentieth century are the ones shown above. For they encapsulate the whole … Read more