From the oldest manuscript ever found in the Americas to a document wrapping an Egyptian mummy – and printed in the wrong language – here are some of the most mind-blowing and unexplainable ancient manuscripts ever found. These cursed books probably should never have been opened. Here’s more from Joe Scott.
This is an ideology gaining in popularity amongst tech billionaires that the world is inevitably heading toward a collapse, and that instead of trying to prevent that collapse, we should rip off the band aid as fast as possible so we can get to the better world on the other side.
While there’s a cold logic to it, it’s a dangerous philosophy that ignores the incalculable human suffering that such a collapse would create. Here’s more from Joe Scott.
Technology is changing the way we live at a faster pace than ever before. It’s hard to even imagine what people’s lives will be like at the end of this century. But hey, what the heck, let’s give it a try.
Join me as I play Joestradamus and try to predict how the long-term trends in communication, transportation, economics and space travel will continue to guide the future and how they will shape what the world looks like in the year 2100. Here’s more from Joe Scott.
It sounds like science fiction, but a couple of groups of genetic researchers are actively working on bringing back extinct species like the wooly mammoth and the Dodo bird.
It’s a complicated issue, filled with all kinds of ethical questions and scientific advancements. When all is said and done, it could be a boon to genetic research and serve as a springboard for technologies that could make our lives better.
So what do you say? Wanna ride a wooly mammoth? Here’s more from Joe Scott.
More than 150 million people live in coastal cities around the Mediterranean Sea, and many of them are under threat from rising sea levels due to climate change. Cities are pouring billions of dollars into dams and mitigation projects to prevent flooding, but there is an idea – an old idea – that could save all of the cities at once.
But here’s why damming the Mediterranean is harder than it sounds. Joe Scott dishes out the scoop on Atlantropa and the insane plan to dam the Mediterranean.
Joe Scott explores 10 places around the world where you are forbidden to go. Some are homes to deadly tribes or poisonous snakes. Others house dilapidated buildings or rare historical relics. These spots that are off-limits to humans how that while most of the world has been explored, there might always remain some places that are out of bounds.
Time devours everything. We can see through time, but we can never be sure that we got it right. That being said, our anthropologists did Herculean work in determining that it took humans 10,000 years to go from hunter-gatherers to world domination. Considering the vastness of time that humans and life have been on Earth, could this have happened once before? Might there have been an even more advanced, non-human species, say lizard people. It’s possible. There was enough “time.” These questions were put forth by Adam Frank and Gavin Schmidt in their paper titled, “The Silurian Hypothesis,” where they tried to figure out what in the geologic record would be a sign of a previous industrial civilization. In the following video, host Joe Scott offers his take, which he sometimes calls “wild speculation.”
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a natural battery? One that you didn’t have to build, one that you didn’t have to burn, one that lasts forever and is plentiful and never loses energy. Well, it seems we’re in luck. We do have exactly that–it’s called the ocean. And the process of extracting that energy is called Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, or OTEC. Video blogger Joe Scott fills in the details.
Between 1987 and 1991, NASA constructed Biosphere 2, a self-sustaining ecosystem designed for eight people to test technologies that we could use to colonize Mars. The project was used twice and the results were less than impressive. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars and years of planning by some of the brightest minds in the world, the project failed miserably. So the question is, if we can’t make that work here on Earth, how are we going to colonize Mars. Video blogger Joe Scott says that plans to go to Mars is rife with all sorts of problems and it’s really a bad idea. In the following episode, Scott lists five major reasons why Americans should scrap the Mars mission.
