What if dinosaurs were intelligent? 65 million years ago, the impact of a large asteroid ended the era of the dinosaurs. For about 170 million years, dinosaurs had dominated life on earth. What if there had been intelligent representatives of the dinosaurs? Would we be able to find out and what would the evidence look like? The findings have an impact on the search for extraterrestrial intelligent species.
Space Tourism - a new Playground for the Super-Rich? The year 2021 opened a new area of space travel: space tourism. Three companies transported private persons into space, two on suborbital and one on orbital flights.What is the idea behind these projects and is it immoral to spend so much money for a short trip into space?
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Atlantis and the Moon-Hoax In my work on the editorial board of a German aerospace magazine, I occasionally come into contact with supporters of conspiracy theories. For example, during my lectures about the Apollo program, there are often question from the audience aimed at the moon conspiracy. I try to take every questioner seriously. Anyone who asks a serious question deserves a serious answer. During my last vacation on the Spanish island of Lanzarote, I was reminded of such conspiracy theories.
Books and articles on the internet are full of theories that Nazi Germany possessed atomic bombs during world war II or that they were almost ready for use. As one of the proofs, photos of a converted Heinkel He 177 found in Prague in 1945 are shown. The modified bomb bay could only have been planned for an atomic bomb - so the claim goes.Let's examine the facts behind this mysterious aircraft…