Thinking about the long run II

One of the current states of the world is that it just ended (we hope) millions of years of raw evolution and thousands of years of difficul...

Years of worry about nuclear war (practically a job description for a physicist) brought the conviction that many problems faced by human be...

The Moon and Earth orbit each other around a common center of gravity. Because the Moon is so small, and thus light in weight, it does not...

There is possibly to be no economic recovery, not of the vast ambitious wars or projects. Yet there is to be peace. There is to be distrib...

With luck, Man has not become a geologically slow evil genius manipulating mineral resources in the Earth to make the planet shine like a st...

In the past the actual truth about the Moon was faint among dreams that ranged through perhaps a thousand different possibilities of vaguely...

Cyclic phenomena include an electron orbiting a nucleus, a light wave undulating along at the speed of light, a bee orbiting a hive or flowe...

The entirety of human communications can be viewed as the communications of one entity, planet Earth, Terra, etc. as it finds itself in a un...

Judging the condition of the United States, or even the entire North American continent, on the basis of the past three hundred years alone ...

Around 650 million years, three entire orbits of the solar system around the Milky Way Galaxy, passed as natural evolution distinguished bet...

Another war is dangerously possible. Now that the Moon has footprints on it, it needn't happen. It seems the problem is that the Apollo...

Consider terrestrial weather in the time periods of the major planets. There are four, with periods of 10, 30, 85 and 165 years. For such ...

Think about this carefully. Your civilization, if it ever existed, may depend on you. Eight thousand years ago more or less, the first ston...

It is suspected that the present worldwide economic recession is destined to continue implacably, relentlessly, as the evolution of life cau...

The issue with Islam, that they are fighting unbelievers, has to do with confrontation with the Catholic Church which sanctions forcible adh...