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Scientists, philosophers, and dreamers have always contemplated variants in other time zones. They have shown us aspects from other points in time; historians and futurists have discussed and [...]

What sparked the idea of forming a society to support asteroid research? The first decent rains at the end of summer are often associated with electrical power cuts on Hydra Island, Greece, [...]

Predicted Crashes Don’t Make the News . . . Accidents Do! For most of the last century it was common knowledge that hundreds of thousands of lives were lost in motor accidents. Yet even [...]

The next giant leap for mankind may not be in the form of a footprint on Mars but a technological baby step here on Earth. A comparatively small, innocuous machine has already begun creeping into [...]

The FAIR Society concept and its subsequent website were inspired by an article in Time Magazine. On March 23, 1998, [Time] headlined its magazine with the title [ASTEROID SCARE: DOOMSDAY [...]

Imagine the pilgrims landing on the East Coast of America five centuries ago and, instead of encountering bead-swapping natives, meeting their descendants of today. What would Columbus’s crew [...]

At 2.40 am on June 3, 2004, over western Washington State, residents were awoken by a sudden pyrotechnic display more enthusiastic than the “shock and awe” missiles used on Baghdad. A [...]

Barely time to change a light bulb—the difference between life and death for millions on July 13, 2029 The closing velocity of an incoming asteroid is about 12.6 km per second, and if it were to [...]

As a kid, I got hooked on C. S. Forrester’s Horatio Hornblower series based on the life and times of England’s most famous admiral, Horatio Nelson. Despite documented facts and scientific data to [...]

Then, think of this as a project to save the donkeys! In fact, one could choose one’s favourite cause and still think of this as a project to save it because, ultimately, that’s what [...]