Today on Far Future Horizons we take a close look at five possible ways to totally obliterating the Earth. Earth is a 4.5-billion-year-old, 6-trillion-trillion-ton ball of rock. So what would it take to destroy it? NGC challenged some of the world’s greatest scientists to devise their own doomsday situations. Now, follow along as we delve … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we explore the forces which shaped our planet with the highly acclaimed History Channel documentary series “How the Earth Was Made”. In the third episode of this series examine the unique geological conditions that make Krakatoa and it’s successor, Anak Krakatau, extraordinarily explosive and dangerous. A tsunami following the eruption … Read more
This is an updated version of a short essay I wrote back in 2007 for the Discovery-Enterprise blog site. Any discussion concerning humanity’s future in the Cosmos must be founded on assessing the risks we face as a species. Many of us see space colonization as a form of long-term insurance policy that would safeguard … Read more
Destruction Rains Down on New York City Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved. In this installment of The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved we will examine Visions of the Apocalypse. Our World’s Cataclysmic End How will our planet and universe meet its ultimate end? Hell fires, endless winters, … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of The Universe: Ancient Mysteries Solved. This series of documentaries is a spinoff of the acclaimed History Channel documentary series The Universe. Each episode will be taking us on another exciting foray into the exciting field of Archaeoastronomy. In this installment of The Universe: Ancient … Read more
Earth 2049 – The End by taenaron Today on Far Future Horizons another exciting episode of the History Channel’s acclaimed documentary series The Universe. In this instalment various scenarios concerning the existential threats that face our planet and the human species are explored . Earth Being Hit With a Gamma-ray Burst These threats more than ever provide … Read more
SPACEGUARD Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. On June 30, 1908, Moscow escaped destruction by three hours and four thousand kilometers—a margin invisibly small by the standards of the universe. On February 12, 1947, another Russian city had a still narrower escape, when the second great meteorite of the twentieth century detonated less than … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we take a close look at five possible ways of totally obliterating the Earth. Earth is a 4.5-billion-year-old, 6-trillion-trillion-ton ball of rock. So what would it take to destroy it? NGC challenged some of the world’s greatest scientists to devise their own doomsday situations. Now, follow along as we delve … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we present a tale of two Biblical cities, Sodom and Gomorrah, and how they met their apocalyptic end. In this installment of The Universe Ancient Mysteries Solved we will be investigating possible astronomical explanations for the Biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Can recent discoveries in geology, … Read more
Today on Far Future Horizons we explore the most violent cosmic collisions that have shaped the evolution of the known universe and our planet. Known Universe/Extreme Universe heads to the front line of asteroid defense to study what is being done to prevent a catastrophic collision. Could an asteroid impact with Earth wipe out the … Read more