Author name: Chris Rapley

Sol-3 Report: An External Perspective on Humanity’s Polycrisis August 29, 2025 In The Sol-3 Report, ESSC Chair Professor Chris Rapley presents Earth’s predicament through the eyes of an extraterrestrial observer. He warns of three converging threats: ecological destabilisation, weapons of mass elimination, and ideologies that undermine cooperation, all of which leave humanity at risk of […]

Sir Harrie Massey The First ESSC Chair: Vision and Action Personified By PROF CHRIS RAPLEY April 06, 2022 Many people have contributed to the fifty-year history of the European Space Sciences Committee.  None more so than the ESSC’s founding Chair, Sir Harrie Massey. Harrie Massey was born in Melbourne in 1908. A child prodigy with

So the Mexican extra-terrestrials may have turned out to be cake. And the NASA report on UFOs was inconclusive. But we are surely being watched? The Universe reverberates with physical action, but biological action appears rare. This could be because the lifetimes of technological species are short, or because those that endure choose to hide their