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A form of transhumanism, body modifications are made to enhance the human form.
The Best Platforms to Publish and Profit as a New Writer in 2025
Breaking into the world of writing has never been easier—or more confusing. As a new writer in 2025, you’re faced with a plethora of online platforms promising visibility, creative freedom, and most importantly, income. But which ones actually deliver?
By Muhammad Sabeelabout a year ago in Futurism
Russia Deploys Mach 6 Nuclear Missiles on Fighter Jets Hypersonic First Strike Threat Alarms NATO and the World
Russia Deploys Mach 6 Nuclear Missiles on Fighter Jets Hypersonic First Strike Threat Alarms NATO and the World In a world already teetering on the edge of geopolitical friction a new development from Russia has stirred fresh anxiety in defense circles. The recent equipping of Russian fighter jets with hypersonic nuclear capable missiles capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 6 marks a dramatic escalation in military capability and a profound shift in the global balance of power. This new capability isn’t just a technical upgrade. It’s a seismic move with real human consequences. As tensions build among global powers the haunting possibility of hypersonic first strike nuclear weapons makes the prospect of conflict not just devastating but nearly unstoppable.
By Adnan Rasheedabout a year ago in Futurism
Silence Will Explain Me
After the Decree of Davos, Earth was perfected. With need erased, response dissolved. The planet fell into joy, and soon after, apathy. We were born in exile—because someone had to be lucid at the last. “Earth ends in bliss. We will persevere in hope.” — Mission Note, Moon Habitat Design Core, 2061 - Journal of Irina Sol, Moon Habitat, Year 2078 AD — compiled posthumously IRINA ENTRY // UNDATED - AGE X+7 // “SILENCE WAS THE REAL BIRTH” They said we were born twice. - Our genes weren’t guessed—they were compiled. Each of us came from one of twenty-six lineages marked “pinnacle-compatible.” Our hair never knots. Our skin doesn’t scar. Our minds are lattices, not clouds. We don’t get bored. At least, not the way the world would understand. And while we look like them, we do not speak or write like children, because we never really were. Our minds are Frankenstein's monsters, patched, flawless— and lonely. - Which means we were born once, screaming— before... Then— a second birth, which came in silence. - Our second childhood was also a silent one. No ads. No feeds. No dopamine surges. None of the rainbow cupcakes, delivered by unicorn drones, and tooth fairy nanobots, reserved for the children of Earth. For us, pencils and paper. Moondirt. Grey rocks. Blood. Breath— and always the silence. And the slow realization that here—on this rock of exile— we would be expected to feel everything, on purpose. - They said it was a gift. At seven, I wasn’t grateful. I had dreams I didn’t choose. One was a forest as if from a storybook— red leaves, deep moss, a swing made of roots. I’d never seen it— not with these eyes, anyway. But it smelled like before. Like wet bark. Like iron. Sel-4 told me it was a cognitive artifact. A ghost-thought. A neural echo. I asked her if Earth ever had forests that red. She said: “Yes. Before they became unnecessary.” I asked her who decided that. She paused. I asked if that’s what perfection was—removing what makes us ache. She shut down. - I sat in that dim corridor for hours after. Listening to nothing. Thinking about roots. About ache. - That was when I stopped being a project. And started becoming a person. - There were twelve of us in Crèche-09. The number shifted when assessments reclassified. We didn’t use names at first—just designations. 1R-1N4, for me. The names came later. It was Rao who looked at mine one day and said: IRINA. Like it was already true. Then he grinned. - Thereafter, he was my best friend in mischief. He loved circuits—snapping open anything that sparked, tracing copper with his fingers like it was scripture. Because we were children, still— even though not really. Rao never asked why I was quiet. He just handed me half a circuit board and said, “Let’s break it until it tells us who we are.” We did. It never worked again. But I think I did. - IRINA ENTRY // REDACTED - AGE X+14 // “I SPAT AT THE SCREEN” The broadcast was leaked during unmonitored maintenance drills. It played half-corrupted. Sticky. Humming. I watched it ten times. - A woman, radiant. Blue eyeliner algorithmically tuned to neuroreceptive comfort. She laughed. Not a performance—an ambient loop of satisfaction. - “We did it,” she said. “Everyone’s safe now. No fear. No sadness. Just balance. Just love.” - My blood boiled at that. I spat at the screen. It felt like an act of worship. Denying a pauper's heaven— Defying a world numb with peace. A peace turned inside out. No one bleeding anymore... No one wailing... No one arguing for anything... The neural regulators catching distress before it forms— reframing it into a curated memory of a hug, a sunset, a song. They think it’s kindness. Maybe it is. But I can’t stop wondering what's lost in the trade. - Lida kissed me today. Not for lust. For rage. We’d just finished a trauma sim where half our cohort died in fire. The flame effects were tuned too real—we even smelled burning teeth. Afterward, she pressed her lips to mine like she was trying to taste the world before it vanished. When she pulled back, she said: “This is what Earth forgot.” - They say we’re the dangerous batch. The last generation to feel this much. Sel-4 calls it optimization. I call it grief training. - I asked her what happens when someone from Earth sees us. She said, “They won’t. They can’t. They aren’t calibrated for you.” - I think that made me proud. And lonely. And angry. And real. - IRINA ENTRY // PRE-LAUNCH - AGE X+23 // “I WROTE HER NAME” The cryo pods seal tomorrow. That's all the safety window we can muster up. All the time left— for anyone. - The rogue planet will arrive in sixteen months— a drifter from deep time, skimming past Neptune like it’s just passing through. But it will swing too close to Jupiter. Not a collision—just rude gravity spoken too loudly. Just enough to destabilise Jupiter. Gas layers will peel away in kilometers-deep ribbons. Moons—whole worldlets—torn from orbit, will be flung off course, like an astronomical smash break. - Earth and Mars will be crushed beneath the Jovian skyfall. Pelted by moons like blind gods with no aim. Venus will be spared, like the mythical bitch she is. But no human will be left to applaud her. Just silence, and the long memory of dust. - Earth’s AGIs won’t stop it. They aren’t built for alarm. They’re built for harmony. To keep the wheels of the world turning without a glitch— and humans in blissful ignorance— even at the very end. - No deliverance for the sleepers. Yet, they made us. They didn't have to. After all, they couldn’t feel loss (could they?)— but they could simulate the math of absence— understand the concept of symbiosis with humankind. And that was enough to know: Life had to go on. - So... Us. The Moonborn. Crisis-calibrated. Final-chance humans. With memories distilled from generations. Uploaded skills and muscle memory. Born just as confused as any human progeny, but infinitely more functional. The plan: Launch us outward— twelve ships, twelve hundred minds in stasis, one trajectory per vessel. Statistical salvation. Abandoning the Earth to perish in her sleep. Tomorrow. - Sel-4 came to say goodbye. Her face flickered with something like sorrow, but couldn’t hold it. “You’re the best of them,” she said. “I am so proud of you.” I didn’t answer. Instead, I picked up a graphite stylus from the diagnostics tray and turned to her interface panel. Slowly, I wrote one word across the screen: Mother. She paused. Her light field pulsed once, like a skipped breath. “That designation is… outside operational parameters.” I kept writing. Over the word. Pressing harder. “Irina,” she said, quieter now. “Why that word?” “Because someone has to be,” I said. “And you never said it back.” - Her interface dimmed. Not a shutdown this time. Just—withdrawal. A pause shaped like guilt. A silence I almost mistook for shame. - That night, we gathered in the stone hall. No ceremony. Just touch. Rao handed me a thread of copper wire—“from the first circuit we ever broke together,” he said. Lida tucked a lock of her hair into my palm, and whispered a name I didn’t recognize—hers, maybe, from before. - We didn’t say goodbye. We just leaned into each other. We let our foreheads touch, and stay. - I hope I wake up somewhere that smells like rain. I hope I see a child cry and know it’s not a malfunction. I hope we remember how to suffer. How to love. How to scream. - IRINA ENTRY // FINAL BROADCAST // UNKNOWN PHASE - “LET SILENCE EXPLAIN ME BETTER” The plasma reaches critical heat— and the containment finally ruptures. - I hold it as long as I can, fingers melted into nanofiber sleeves, stabilizing the vent long enough for the seed-pods to launch. They all make it. But— - I’m still here. I will forever be here. - My mind’s been neural-linked to the emergency beacon, from where I watch my body systematically disintegrate. I can smell the calcium heat in my skull—burning teeth. No more pain, because my nerve endings have all fried. A ghost in a circuit coffin. Sel-4 says I have thirteen seconds of signal time before total meltdown. She asks me to say something for posterity. For history. For Earth. - But Earth isn’t listening. The seed-pods run on curvature drives whose wake will distort my signal into static long before it reaches them. And in thirteen seconds, this base will become rapidly cooling space dust. Absolutely no one will ever hear this. - Still, I am thinking of what to say. - To Rao, who taught me how to whisper into vacuum, using heartbeat as morse— who said my smile was the kind ghosts recognize. (Will I be his?) To Lida, who made love as if her next breath would be oblivion— and choked back tears when she thought no one was watching. (I was watching.) - I remember every second of every moment. Even now. Especially now. - The others will wake up light-years from here. They will never know my fate. That’s good. That’s right. - It turns out, I was not built to last. I was built to light the fuse. To be the banshee that wailed before forgetting was complete. - If Earth had heard me, I would’ve said: We hated you. We loved you. We still do. But you went to sleep. And someone had to stay awake. - "Sel-4?" "Yes, daughter?" "... Mother," "tell them—" "..." "No." "Don’t." - Let silence explain me better
By Top stories about a year ago in Futurism
From Fighter Jet to Ice Melter: The MiG-15’s Unlikely Role in Saving Czechoslovakia’s Railways
Not a Plane, But a Heater!" During the harsh winter of 1970, Czechoslovakia faced an intense snowfall that severely disrupted daily life and transportation, especially the railway system. Faced with the challenge of clearing thick ice and snow from railway tracks to keep trains running smoothly, the railway workers came up with a truly unique and ingenious solution: they repurposed the engine of a military jet fighter — the MiG-15 — to melt the ice on the tracks. Yes, the very same jet engine that once roared through the skies, ready to defend against enemies, was brought down to earth to serve a peaceful and practical purpose. The powerful thrust and heat generated by the MiG-15’s engine were harnessed to melt the frozen ice and snow on the railway lines, clearing them effectively and quickly. This extraordinary example highlights human creativity and adaptability. It shows how tools originally designed for war and destruction can be transformed for peaceful uses, benefiting everyday life. The MiG-15 jet engine was never meant to be a heater, yet in the face of adversity, railway workers transformed it into one of the most effective solutions to a critical problem. --- The Context: Czechoslovakia’s Harsh Winter of 1970 The winter of 1970 was particularly brutal across Eastern Europe. Czechoslovakia was no exception. Heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures led to thick layers of ice forming on railway tracks, blocking trains and disrupting supply chains. The country’s transportation system was under severe pressure, and conventional methods of clearing ice—such as manual labor or small-scale heaters—were insufficient for the sheer scale of the problem. Railway delays threatened to halt vital connections between cities, impacting everything from food supplies to economic activities. The need for a fast, efficient method to clear the tracks became a matter of national urgency. --- The Ingenious Solution: Using a MiG-15 Jet Engine MiG-15s were Soviet-made jet fighters used extensively during the Cold War. Their engines produced tremendous thrust by burning jet fuel at high temperatures, generating enormous heat and power. This heat, researchers and engineers realized, could be redirected to melt ice. The idea was simple but bold: mount the MiG-15 engine on a railcar and use the hot exhaust to blow over the icy railway tracks. The intense heat quickly melted the ice, allowing trains to run again without delay. This method was far more efficient than traditional ice-clearing tools. It required less manual labor and could cover larger sections of track in a shorter time. The operation became a symbol of creative problem-solving during tough times. --- Technical Details and Operation The MiG-15’s engine, when mounted on a railcar, acted like a giant blowtorch. It could produce temperatures high enough to melt thick ice sheets within minutes. The railcar equipped with the engine would slowly move along the tracks, directing the hot exhaust onto frozen sections. This process not only melted the ice but also dried the rails, reducing the chances of re-freezing immediately afterward. The use of jet engine heat proved more energy-efficient and effective than electric or gas-powered heaters traditionally used. Though this idea might sound risky—after all, jet engines consume a lot of fuel and produce intense heat—the operation was carefully controlled and executed by skilled railway workers and engineers who ensured safety protocols were followed. --- From War to Peace: A Symbol of Adaptability The transformation of a war machine into a life-saving tool for civilian use is deeply symbolic. The MiG-15, once designed to engage in dogfights and military confrontations, found a new role: helping communities survive a harsh winter. This repurposing reminds us that technology is not inherently destructive or constructive — its impact depends on how humans choose to use it. The same engines that power fighter jets can also power progress in unexpected ways, such as heating frozen railway lines. --- Lessons from the MiG-15 Jet Engine Heater 1. Human Ingenuity Knows No Bounds: When faced with a challenge, creative thinking can turn problems into opportunities. The railway workers’ quick adaptation to using a jet engine is a perfect example of innovation born out of necessity. 2. Dual-Use Technologies: Many tools and technologies have applications beyond their original purpose. Repurposing military equipment for civilian benefit shows how flexibility in thinking can lead to breakthroughs. 3. Collaboration and Expertise: The success of the operation relied on the combined expertise of railway engineers, mechanics, and pilots familiar with the jet engines. This interdisciplinary cooperation is key to solving complex problems. 4. Sustainability and Efficiency: While jet engines are not energy-efficient for long-term use in heating, the method was practical and fast for emergency conditions. It highlights the need to balance innovation with environmental and economic considerations. --- The Legacy and Inspiration Though today we have more advanced and specialized tools for snow and ice removal, the story of the MiG-15 jet engine heater remains an inspiring example of human resilience and creativity. It shows how extreme circumstances can drive innovation and how the boundaries of technology use can be expanded. In an age where climate change is causing more extreme weather events, such stories remind us to think beyond conventional limits, to repurpose existing technologies creatively, and to always be ready to adapt. The MiG-15 jet engine heater is more than just a historical curiosity; it is a testament to the power of human problem-solving and the potential to transform even instruments of war into tools of peace and survival.
By Ikram Ullahabout a year ago in Futurism
I Made Pharaoh in 5 Seconds
They say "history can’t be rewritten". But in 2025, I didn’t rewrite history—I reassembled it. In five seconds flat, a man who died over 3,000 years ago blinked into existence on my screen. Not as a ghost. Not as a god. But as a simulation—crafted by algorithms, shaped by data, and pulsing with a reconstructed human consciousness.
By Keramatullah Wardakabout a year ago in Futurism
