fact or fiction
Is it science fact or science fiction? Futurism presents both sides to determine the truth.
The Great Flood
Episode 2 flood mythology Make sure to check out the episode! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1685008/episodes/8130952 Hello everybody and welcome to this, the second episode of the We’re all stories podcast! Today we’re taking a look at the great flood and flood mythology. Now I know what you may be thinking, “I’ve heard this one before” but stick around, it may just surprise you.
By Ravenswing5 years ago in Futurism
Fog Lights
Generally fog would arise and dissipate as it usually does, but a few patches of it began settling in. This didn't always seem such a bad thing at first. Some of the buildings or partial streets it obscured were eyesores, and the fog that hid them picturesque. Certainly the coronas of light that crackled round the not-quite-definable edges of the fog, moving through all the colours of the rainbow and possibly beyond. (Yes, looking at it people would swear they could see colours outside the spectrum ordinarily visible to humans. Tests of this have so far proved anecdotally rich yet scientifically inconclusive.)
By Martin Heavisides5 years ago in Futurism
Burning Bright/Come Away, Human Child
(i) Burning Bright I dreamed about the tiger tonight--approach of handlers and veterinary physicians to the great cat into whom, across species, the invisible worldwide celebrity had perilously entered. Some of those managing the beast were young enough to have partied at close range on sun-spackled beaches with mammals, on the whole, more lethal than this cat they observed at a respectful distance, or tranquilized first before nearer approach. Some were old enough to fear far more the infinitesimal creature within, that may make it under sedation a greater threat than it would be awake, charging, thoroughly pissed as perhaps it has every right to be: you nearly eliminate my kind in their natural state but save specimens of us for show; granted, you care for us in these sheltered unnatural places until suddenly we come in contact with a danger unknown in the wild (where with all due modesty, we were for long ages the principal danger, a crown we’ve ceded a good few of your generations now); you lift us for our safety out of a habitat you’ve made inhospitable for us and our prey, and what happens? an invisible enemy, bred by the same genius that makes civilization, war, prisons, discotheques, casinos, air conditioning, jet exhaust, books and films and music and such, bunker style luxury condos and zoos, slips without being seen through these sheltering bars as easily as it leaps across borders from nation to nation, and lays me low. Your safety is another name for danger.
By Martin Heavisides5 years ago in Futurism
Why Has Astrology Been Supressed?
I worked for many years as a professional astrologer and yes, I can already hear some of you scoffing! We’re taught from a young age that astrology is a pseudoscience, a form of fortune telling, something for bored housewives to gossip over. The stars couldn’t possibly have any effect on us, could they?
By Christina Martine5 years ago in Futurism
The Legend of Mouth Boulder
What if the park kept going? What if it spread out to the rivers and up to the horse caves? What if it disguised itself as a swamp and kept wild things hidden? What if creatures there were so old, they couldn’t remember being born? What if they were watching, keeping an eye out for troublemakers?
By Jordan J Hall5 years ago in Futurism
A Byrd's eye view of the Antarctic continent
If you browsed through a copy of America’s Social Register you’d find it hard to discover a figure more entwined with the establishment than Richard Evelyn Byrd, a naval officer born in Winchester, Virginia, on 25 October 1888.
By Steve Harrison5 years ago in Futurism
Beyond Spirituality
Quick Fact -There is a state of being that feels like it’s beyond the current definition of spirituality we see today! This state of being can be reached through meditation and a kind of dream called a “wisdom dream,” the most powerful kind of dream!
By Gabriel Mohr5 years ago in Futurism
Gemini
I don't put much stock in astrology. As tweens, my friends and I would read our horoscopes and check our signs for insights into our, and each others', personalities. Just for fun. Some were right on, some were way off. I don't think any of the prognostications ever came true. Really, that the same attributes apply to every single person born within a particular 30-day period seems to be nonsense. Add to that the daily predictions of what is going to happen to each and every one of the people under a certain sign, whether they are 7 or 87, and you have a system that is impossible to believe in. That being said, I thought it would be intriguing to revisit my astrological sign and see how closely it fits my actual adult life. I had to look up my sign on the great font of all things true - the internet.
By Lori Stremble5 years ago in Futurism
