Science fiction writer and historian HG Wells spoke of heat ray in war of the worldâs.
The US-China rivalry has brought the future into today and weapons that were impossible to build before have become a reality â all in a bid to destroy each other. Laser weapons and hypersonic missiles â weapons only seen in sci-fi movies, are now fitting up to be the weapons of choice in a future conflict that could destroy the world as we know it. Which weapon will come out on top? In this video, weâll find out â as it could be the single greatest indicator of which country would win in the race for world dominance between the US and China.
In the Patagonia region of southern Chile, there are âliving rocks.â
While thatâs what the locals say, Veronica Godoy-Carter, associate professor of biology and biochemistry at Northeastern University, says itâs a little more complicated than that.
âTheyâre actually little mountains,â she says, of âgiant biofilms that are billions of years old. Literally billions.â
If civilizations can endure for eons and people can live indefinitely, what drives progress, ambition, and purpose in a world where time has no limit? Would an ageless society be a utopia of infinite wisdom, or a stagnating empire struggling to keep ambition alive across the centuries?
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