Are We Alone In The Universe? Not According To Former British PM Winston Churchill, Who Believed In Aliens
In a recent unearthing, an essay titled 'Are We Alone In The Universe,' written by Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister reveals his thoughts on alien life and inter-galactic travel. He was clearly a man ahead of time, having penned this essay 30 years before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.
After first being written in 1939, the essay only recently breathed its first, albeit digitally, when it got published on nature.com.
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For the sake of a little background, and something not many know, it should be noted that Churchill was quite the advocate of science. And it's only after knowing this will the former Brit PM's radical ideas on space travel and life in the skies beyond, begin to make sense.
He wasn't only the first Prime Minister to hire a science adviser, he funded various labs across the field of science and was known to have met many a scientist in person.
In this essay, Churchill wrote:
"We know there are millions of double stars, and if they could be formed, why not planetary systems? I am not sufficiently conceited to think that my sun is the only one with a family of planets."
He strove to remind, rather bring to the attention of people the fact that not so tiny fact about 'habitable zones' - narrow zones surrounding a star capable of bearing just the kind of right conditions that could help life thrive on any planet occupying this space.
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"I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time," Churchill went on to write.
Apparently, this one wasn't the only essay from the desk of this prolific writer. He wrote two others — "Mysteries of the Body" and "River of Life" — that were also recently discovered and are presently being researched.
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