The End of the World As We Knew It
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The End of the World As We Knew It

Reginald Patterson, copyright 2001 The recent transition into the third millennium AD was the subject of numerous predictions. Some forecasts were centuries old, while others were more recent. Many of the predictions were quite fanciful and benign, and included such visions as cities in the sky, wrist watch radios and a flying car in every…

The Frogmen of Aquaria: An Allegory for the Trajectory of Man

The Frogmen of Aquaria: An Allegory for the Trajectory of Man

Once upon a time there was a group of people who lived in an underwater paradise called Aquaria. The people of Aquaria were quite different from the people known to you or me. They had large bulbous eyes, greenish skin, long tongues, and webbed feet. In short, they were frogmen – the Frogmen of Aquaria. …

The Making of Monsters: Whose Will is Being Done?

The Making of Monsters: Whose Will is Being Done?

The 1964 motion picture, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, is a story about a misinformed U.S. B-52 bomber crew’s attempt to make it through Soviet air defenses to drop their atomic payload. To prevent a global nuclear holocaust, the United States is forced to cooperate with the…