Today on Far Future Horizons we present the fourth episode of Carl Sagan’s landmark television series Cosmos: “Heaven and Hell”. In fact, of all the thirteen episodes this has to rank as one of my most favourite . It was from this episode that I first learned about the eyewitness account of a lunar impact seen … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present the two hour docudrama ‘Super Comet: After the Impact’. This documentary essentially transfers the events of the Cretaceous Extinction Level Event (E.L.E), that occurred sixty-five million years ago and lead to the demise of the dinosaurs, to the twenty first century. ‘Super Comet’ recreates the fatal disaster that … Read more
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