Get dazzled as West Texas police recall a spectacular night when a 200-foot-long flying object was spotted in 13 separate locations. Then get to the bottom of a strange assault against a Scottish man that has no earthly explanation.
Credits: Alien Mathematics
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images
Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic & Stellardrone
Chapters
0:00 Intro
2:02 Why We Expect Mathematics to Be Universal
6:32 Math Is Not the Same Even for Humans
10:47 How Alien Biology Could Reshape Their Mathematics
16:44 Alien Logic: When the Rules Themselves Don’t Match
20:37 Oldest & Newest
21:41 Can We Ever Bridge the Mathematical Gap?
SECOND COMING: DECEMBER 29, 1980: Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and her grandson Colby are driving home after visiting a bingo hall in Dayton, Texas. On a country road, they encounter a large, diamond-shaped craft shooting fire out of its base. The heat is so intense it melts the vinyl of their vehicle’s dashboard. They report seeing at least a dozen military helicopters in pursuit of the object. All three suffer physical symptoms similar to radiation poisoning and spend a decade pressing the U.S. government for answers.
SPACE ROCK: MAY 20, 1967: Stephen Michalak is an amateur geologist in search of quartz in Falcon Lake, Manitoba. When he arrives at his prospecting site, Michalak encounters a disc-shaped metallic object, which lands only metres away. He thinks he hears voices inside the craft, so he moves closer, assuming it is a secret military test vehicle. As Michalak touches the craft, it suddenly blasts off, burning his shirt and leaving permanent marks on his chest. Despite investigations by the U.S. and Canadian governments, no one could ever explain Stefan Michalak’s extraordinary encounter.
How are winters getting worse when the earth is getting warmer? The warming planet is heating more rapidly in the north, heating up the mass of arctic air called the Polar Vortex. A warmer Polar Vortex is in turn is weakening the jet stream which normally serves to contain the arctic air. But now, the wobbly jet stream is allowing frigid arctic temperatures to travel south bringing with it things like nor’easters, epic blizzards, bomb cyclones and frost quakes. This episode follows the stories of storm chasers caught in blizzards, farmers livelihoods compromised by extreme cold and snow, as well as the consequences of cold on our infrastructure.
What if aliens aren’t peaceful explorers — but rational survivors?
In this short, we explore three chilling assumptions from The Killing Star: survival comes first, wimps don’t become top dogs, and advanced civilizations assume others think the same way. Put together, the logic can turn cold fast.
If warfare favors the attacker, first contact might not start with diplomacy — but preemption.
Is this the real answer to the Fermi Paradox?
For deeper dives, see our episodes on Berserker Aliens and Xenocide.
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There is no safe place. Every day, all around the world, in the most ordinary places, regular people are spotting UFOs. A day trip to the beach…a walk in the woods…an after work drink on the back porch…these very common moments become the point of entry for the most inexplicable, otherworldly and terrifying phenomena. Whether they are lights in the sky, multiple objects flying in tandem or craft that travel and maneuver in ways that defy our understanding of physics, lives are changed forever in these moments. These witnesses will never see the night sky the same way, ever again – and neither will viewers.
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