Special Guest Blogger: John Wilkins

I pushed forward many theories in my time, a universal language to replace Latin, a system of weights and measures that was very similar to the Metric system which was later picked up and promoted by French but the one which i am most remembered for was my idea of spaceflight although 17th Century science was a bit less sophisticated and more religion based.
As a scientist and Bishop of the Church of England, i had a foot in both camps and tried to integrate the two especially as i was married to Oliver Cromwell's sister and that family made everything about religion so my stance was why have we got to be so many different religions? Why can't we just be one cool religion?  
It was her brother that made me the head of Trinity College but my first aim was to bring everyone together in a religious and political love-in which worked well and i was attracting the cream of British scientists to Oxford and we created the Royal Society to study science with the knowledge of the time and that started well until Oliver died and his son was replaced and then the Royalists took over and i was out of favour and my role was reduced to preacher but it was during my time at the college that i published 'The Discovery of a World in the Moone' and followed that up with 'A Discourse Concerning a New Planet'.
I had read The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin which highlights the similarities between the Earth and the Moon and i looked up and thought why not and proposed the idea that the Moon could be housing living beings which i called the Selenites a term derived from Selene, the Greek Moon Goddess.
Whereas Godwin thought that we could use birds to drag us up to the Moon in a chariot, i suggested what better way to make it up there but to let the pure breath of angels do it which had the double advantage of allowing us to breath in space.
I then went on to explain that it was gravity pulling on our stomachs which made us feel hunger and so naturally, food wouldn’t be an issue for the humans flying towards the moon and once there maybe the Selenites would want to engage in trading with us because...who wouldn't?
Unfortunately, my Angel led chariot literally never took off as one of the science guys discovered that space was a vacuum, and no human would survive in it regardless of the amount of Angel breath they were inhaling so i decided that a Angel led chariot may not be the way to go and Space travel was simply not ready for us in the 17th century, with or without the help of angels.
What did happen though was a short time later Isaac Newton witnessed that apple dropping and scientists did begin to discuss ways to consider what flying to the moon might be like and how to do it and space travel is a thing now i notice although i died from the medicine i took to treat my kidney stones and thankfully medicine has improved as well but we may find evidence of alien life someday. That would be amazing right?
It'd be great and exciting and maybe terrifying because they may decide that the bunch of Earthling carbon based bipeds were the cause of all the problems and evaporate us immediately to stop us expanding out into the universe but we may finally get an answer to why they come all this way just to mutilate our livestock and anally probe drunk American rednecks?