fact or fiction

Is it science fact or science fiction? Futurism presents both sides to determine the truth.

Did the Third Reich establish a colony inside our world?
The more research I do into the theory of a “hollow” Earth, the more plausible the notion becomes. Not so much because of the literature that exists on the subject, written during the last two centuries, but based on depictions in the ancient texts of most world religions and the architectural anomalies that appear on our planet that cannot be explained by conventional archaeology.
By Steve Harrison5 years ago in Futurism
Eco-farms
Los Angeles, January 4, 2021: I cant believe we did it. The first privately owned renewable energy startup to land a $600 million dollar initial investment from the Koch brothers. Our pitch deck must have really impressed them, we threw that shit together the night before..eating pizza and taking shots of Jäger, Zuckerberg shit. We open for a second round of investments this spring, by then we should have a lot more leverage. Me and my bros were joking over sushi last night that Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk would have to pool their combined net earning for the year to even come close to a number worth selling for. Our new office in Pasadena is fucking nuts. The other day I got drunk and pre-ordered four Cybertrucks, Chase called me in the morning asking about fraudulent charges to my platinum amex lol. I just told them I drank too much sake with the bros. The lady on the phone wasn’t having that shit lmao. Anyway, tomorrow I’m flying over to the eco farms just outside of Juárez Mexico.
By Struggling Writer5 years ago in Futurism
Expedition the obvious way to answer 'hollow Earth' question
In a little over five years it will be the 100th anniversary of Admiral Richard Byrd’s flight over the North Pole on 9 May 1926 and the dawn of the mystery about what the American explorer discovered there and on later missions to Antartica.
By Steve Harrison5 years ago in Futurism
Crucible of Modern Consciousness
Even in my darkest days when hope was dim and distant, I maintained a willingness to believe in an eternal light of consciousness. In the profound mystery of Life itself I found shadowy truth within and behind the impetus of thought. I know not the nature of ideas or where they come from but I am aware that they happen. I to them and they to me, we are independent benefactors of a mutually shared experience, both of us at home in our antithetical realms, separated by a thin physical margin defined by light and dark. I believe that even in death we are bound to the laws of physics, we just experience a separate side of them, the causes of which we feel here, the sources of which are shrouded by the nature of our incarnate existence. The fact is then - made evident by the fact of Life itself - that the laws of physics are capable of more than we can perceive. For lack of a better word we are talking about magic, or colloquially speaking, events or properties that evade understanding. Beliefs aside, reductionist ideology aside, we bare witness to the shackles of free will and self-aware volition, the movements of our bodies and our thoughts. Can they be explained in any other way but magic?
By Ross Wyss5 years ago in Futurism
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
Our Evolution
What do you think the future of Evolution in humanity will be like? Do you see it acting out as it has in the past where we evolve from lesser species such as monkeys and beings such as Neanderthals? It's all conjecture from what we know from our history and our current ways of life. Every day we know more and more about our past and how we have evolved into what we are today. I am no science buff whatsoever but I do love to think about the future and how we will go forth and thrive as human beings. Will we reach out into the stars and find Alien life? Will we stay here on Earth and survive the cataclysm of overpopulation that is to come? Will some diseases like coronavirus bring upon our doom? All of these thoughts that I have surmount on the biggest question of all, is whether we can survive further and evolve ourselves prematurely using methods such as genetics.
By C5 years ago in Futurism