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Newt Gingrich described himself as a visionary when he unveiled plans Wednesday to create a mammoth new space program, including a permanent colony on the moon within the next nine years.

NASA announced Monday that their researchers have found the strongest evidence yet that the components of DNA can be made in space.

Perhaps it is the perverse appeal of mass destruction and the idea of a return to “simpler”, depopulated, tribal living that compels the recurring popularity of End of The World theories.

2012 is the latest apocalypse du jour, rooted in the fact that the old Mayan calendar ends somewhere in December of that year.  But, according to some, not even the Maya believed the world would actually end at that time.  The Telegraph consulted Guillermo Bernal, “an archaeologist at Mexico’s National Autonomous University” who notes that Mayan inscriptions refer to dates well beyond 2012 “including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.”

The next generation of astronauts may hurtle through the cosmos for years or decades on a mission to explore distant planets and stars – and never return.