wandering planets. The atomists of ancient Greece were convinced that the Universe was infinite and must therefore have an infinity of infinite worlds. In 1277 Bishop Tempier of Paris claimed that God could have created other worlds. Many scholars were unconvinced and argued that even if He could, He would choose not too. In 1600 Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake for various heresies and it is likely that his advocacy of a plurality of inhabited worlds did not win friends with the Inqusition. In 1686 Bernard Fontanelle's "Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds" explored the possibility of extraterrestrial life, turning it into something of an intellectual seduction with the philosopher making his arguments in a late night garden stroll under the stars with a beautiful andAhmed Shehata, a 25-year-old Egyptian man about to get married, didn’t want his wedding to be “formulaic,” so he and his friends planned a surprise for their guests: his groomsmen, pretending to be knife-wielding members of ISIS, would kidnap his new wife.

The video of the fake kidnapping — complete with a remix of the ISIS anthem and a dance party inside a makeshift cage — quickly went viral, with many Egyptians condemning the stunt as being in poor taste in light of ISIS’s recent mass execution of 21 Egyptian Christians.

It was a surprise to the bride, Shaimaa Deif, as well as her father, who momentarily thought that ISIS was actually kidnapping his daughter. But she’s taking it in stride, as she explained to the Guardian:

“I knew there would