NEWS 6: Appears a lost essay by Churchill about science and space exploration

He wrote it in 1939, but the 11-page document hasn't appeared until 2016 in a United States museum.


Churchill hoped to publish it in the News of the World Sunday, but the war interrupted this plan.
The first sketch of the article is dated around 1939, but according to the astrophysicist, "reviewed it slightly in the late 50's while staying in a villa in the south of France, with its publisher, Emery Reves. Finally, Churchill changed the title of

Are We Alone In Space? Are We Alone In The Universe?

SOME EXTRACTS OF CHURCHILL

"One day, possibly not in the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to travel to the moon, or to Venus or Mars," Churchill wrote in this 1939 essay.

However, he distrusts travel or even interstellar communication, pointing out very accurately that it would take five light years to go and return to the nearest star.

"I am not so impressed by the successes we are achieving in our civilization as to think that we are the only point in this immense universe that contains creatures that live and think or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development that has appeared Once in the enormous compass of time and space. "

Despite its moral conservatism, the discovery of this piece of history reaffirms the condition of Sir Winston Churchill as a man of progress and enthusiast of science,