Strange Realm - Ep. 060 - April 21st, 2024
On tonight's show we bring you a wide-ranging and ground-covering hay fever dream of an episode as we look at how extraterrestrial life might likely be purple, how the new supersonic spy drone from China is stylishly designed like the American one that crashed there in the 70s, the supercomputers that will help us land men on Mars, and then we examine the news of a nanogenerator that turns CO2 into electricity has proven to work in recent laboratory tests. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.
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Notes:
-Purple life in outer space?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sorry-little-green-men-alien-life-might-actually-be-purple/
- Supercomputers will help us land on Mars
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/supporting-the-future-of-mars-exploration-with-supercomputers/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exascale_computing
- China's new supersonic spy drone has a retro look
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-s-latest-supersonic-spy-drone-looks-a-lot-like-the-lockheed-d-21-that-crashed-there-in-1971/
- Nanogenerator turns CO2 into electricity
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-04-proof-concept-nanogenerator-sustainable-power.html
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet
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Strange Realm - Ep. 059 - April 14th, 2024
On tonight's show we bring you a high-spirirted and highly-elliptical look into some of the weirdest and strangest science stories of the week, including China's new communications satellite orbiting the Moon, the UK laser weapon named DragonFire possibly soon to debut on the Ukrainian front lines, a 50 year old kind of battery that just might be the answer to scaling up energy storage, and a new study suggests Bonobos, the supposed hippies of the ape world, are more aggressive than previously thought! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.
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Notes:
- China launches moon satellite
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/china-launch-relay-satellite-queqiao-2-lunar-probe-mission-successful-2024-04-12/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/BetriebsorbitPolrelais.jpg
- UK laser superweapon may be used in Ukraine
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68795603
- 50-year old battery tech now highly sought after
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/researchers-make-new-breakthrough-with-50-year-old-battery-technology-i-didn-t-know-they-were-still-around/
- Bonobos are more violent and aggerssive than we thought
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bonobos-aggressive-previously-thought.html
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet
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Strange Realm - Ep. 058 - April 7th, 2024
Tonight, we bring you a clear-headed and contextualized show as we retrace our steps and make corrections and clarifications over a few previous discussion topics, including the Egyptian snake-devil Apep. Then we move on to NASA's plans for a time zone on the Moon, breakthrough fusion records happening in South Korea, and a disgusting report about zombified sex-crazed cicadas infected with a bizarre fungus. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.
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Notes:
- CORRECTION ROUNDUP
- Mercury's orbit
https://planetfacts.org/orbit-and-rotation-of-mercury/
- Cities before the Moon existed
https://www.michaeltellinger.com/a-time-before-the-moon-was-in-the-sky/
- Apep review
https://pasteboard.co/LPwJwyJsVw3S.png
- NASA will make a timezone for the Moon
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-moon-will-get-its-own-time-zone-called-coordinated-lunar-time-under-nasas-lead-180984076/
- Korean Fusion Reactor breaks temperature record
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/south-korean-fusion-reactor-achieves-milestone-in-sustaining-extremely-high-temperature-plasma/
- Zombie cicada are coming!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-zombies-hyper-sexual-sexually-transmitted-fungus-expected-to-emerge-this-year-massospora-cicadina/
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet
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Strange Realm - Ep. 057 - March 31st, 2024
Tonight we bring you a vernal and verdant episode as we celebrate a blustery Easter Sunday and take a look at a real-life encounter with the Easter Bunny, as well as news that NASA plans to fire three rockets at the Moon's shadow during the upcoming eclipse, a report that the James Webb Telescope has confirmed that our understanding of cosmology is broken, and we dive once more into a discussion of the Runes, this time focusing on the Fehu rune. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more from "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.
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Notes:
- real Easter Bunny sighting report
https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2022/5/5/illinois-woman-reports-childhood-sighting-of-six-foot-tall-bipedal-rabbit-on-easter
- NASA firing 3 rockets during the eclipse
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2024/03/26/why-nasa-will-fire-three-rockets-at-the-solar-eclipse/
- JWT confirms scientists don't understand the universe
https://www.livescience.com/space/cosmology/james-webb-telescope-confirms-there-is-something-seriously-wrong-with-our-understanding-of-the-universe
- Rune Discussion: Fehu
https://vikingr.org/magic-symbols/fehu
https://norsevikingrunes.com/rune-meanings/fehu-rune-meaning/
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet
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Strange Realm - Ep. 056 - March 24th, 2024
Tonight we bring you a torrent of twisted news as we celebrate the Worm Moon and it's subtle ecplise characteristics, we look at new 3D maps of the magnetic field of the Earth's lithosphere, a report on a study that suggests Dark Matter simply does not exist, then we investigate the news that mad scientists have made a "quantum tornado" that replicates a black hole, and finally we look at an ancient Babylonian tablet about triangles which seems to show the Pythagorean theorem over 1,000 years before Pythagoras. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more of "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.
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Notes:
- Worm Moon
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/tonight-s-worm-moon-coincides-with-a-subtle-lunar-eclipse/
- The magnetic lithosphere
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/see-earth-s-lithospheric-magnetic-field/vi-BB1kpJ8y
- No dark matter?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-research-suggests-that-our-universe-has-no-dark-matter/
- Quantum tornado
https://www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its-kind-quantum-tornado-achieves-record-breaking-black-hole-mimicry
- Pythagorean theorem in Babylonia
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/pythagorean-theorem-found-on-ancient-babylonian-clay-tablets-predating-pythagoras-by-1-000-years/
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet
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Strange Realm - Ep. 055 - March 17th, 2024
Tonight we bring you a loose and lunar show as we investigate the many obelisks if Kentucky, we look into the news of confirmation of MITs superconducting magnet breakthrough which is crucial for fusion reactors, as well as news that a new world record has been set for world's largest blueberry, and then we take a look at using the Moon as a communication satellite via the "Moonbounce," also known as Earth-Moon-Earth communication. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher reads more of "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.
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Notes:
- correction: Obelisk in Paducah is NOT the Jefferson Davis Memorial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Monument_in_Paducah
https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/KY-01-219-0037
https://assets.simpleviewinc.com/simpleview/image/upload/c_fit,w_800,h_600/crm/kentucky/28af31ced514e722f68bf95278db81e9_sliderjeffdavismonument_e361c426-b973-5170-4ed7b32d28ed0dc4.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fqm0k5j3l8sd11.jpg
- MIT breakthrough in superconductors for fusion energy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mit-researchers-achieve-fusion-energy-breakthrough
- biggest blueberry ever has been grown
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68572278
- The Moon as a communications satellite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Earth_communication
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Diana
https://stationhypo.com/2020/10/11/earth-moon-earth-communication/
https://www.arrl.org/weak-signal-vhf-dx-meteor-scatter-eme-moonbounce
https://www.qsl.net/sterling/Activities/20151007_Paul_K4MSG_Small_Station_EME/EME%20Presentation_07-2015-h+.pdf
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet
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Strange Realm - Ep. 054 - March 10th, 2024
Tonight we bring you a ripe, spicy helping of weird news and discussion as we look at the possibilities of genetically engineering a spicy tomato, a look into eclipses and the beliefs of the ancient Babylonians, 3D printing homes on the moon, and we investigate the shocking truth about MSG! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher begins reading "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.
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Notes:
- The Spicy Tomato of the Future
https://www.insidehook.com/culture/scientists-explore-genetically-engineering-spicy-tomatoes
- The Dark History of Eclipses
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/how-eclipses-were-regarded-as-omens-in-the-ancient-world/
- 3D printing housers on the Moon?
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/construction-tech-startup-partners-nasa-120000909.html
- MSG - good or great?
https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/20220526164418/StructureofMonosodiumGlutamate.JPG
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6952072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6365374/
https://dengarden.com/gardening/Is-MSG-Ajinomoto-Good-for-Plants
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31105/1/31105.pdf
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet
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Strange Realm - Ep. 053 - March 3rd, 2024
Tonight we bring you a light but strong show as we delve into the enigmatic and poorly-lit moon lander photo, the news of a new 3D printed titanium alloy super-material, a study that shows the human brain pulses like a wash cycle during sleep to clean itself of waste, and finally we dip back into our journey through the Futhark alphabet and talk about the Ehwaz rune and it's symbolic and esoteric meanings. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher begins reading "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.
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Notes:
- Moon lander sends photos
https://news.yahoo.com/private-lunar-lander-sends-back-163159611.html
- 3D Titanium printed lattice is super strong
https://scitechdaily.com/supernatural-strength-3d-printed-titanium-structure-is-50-stronger-than-aerospace-alloy/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tugrul-Oezel/publication/337445319/figure/fig1/AS:828042062602241@1574432020767/A-typical-laser-powder-bed-fusion-for-layers-built-on-the-XY-surface-with-Z-build.png
- Neurons help clean the brain during sleep
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/scientists-discover-neurons-help-flush-waste-out-of-brain-during-sleep/
- Rune Discussion: EHWAZ
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/63/27/e6/6327e695b73b905178c1a1c13525067a--rune-alphabet-celtic-alphabet.jpg
https://www.mythologymerchant.com/ehwaz-norse-runes-examined-in-depth/
https://www.runesworld.com/ehwaz-rune-meaning/
https://runesecrets.com/rune-meanings/ehwaz
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet
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Strange Realm - Ep. 052 - Feb. 25th, 2024
Tonight we bring you the start of an all new season of strangeness! On this first episode of Season 2 we discuss the recent Neuralink implantee and his ability to control a computer mouse with his mind, the amazing new Super Disk technology that's like having 100 harddrives on one DVD, and then we go lower-tech to discuss the benefits of electroculture in beekeeping, and a rousing rundown of just how the Ancient Egyptians cut and moved all tha granite! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series as Frobisher finishes "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt and starts into our next book, "Our Haunted Planet," by John A. Keel.
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Notes:
- Neuralink guy can move mouse with his brain
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/first-person-receive-elon-musk-130601587.html
https://news.yahoo.com/starlink-now-connecting-remote-antarctic-165500962.html
- Super Disk is here -- the Big Boy of Optical Memory storage
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/meet-the-super-dvd-scientists-develop-massive-1-petabit-optical-disk/
- Electroculture and Bees!
https://www.science.org/content/article/swarming-bees-stir-their-own-electric-fields
https://www.electrocultureandmagnetoculture.com/bee-hive-saving.html
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RHsEFDoyeLk
https://blog.electricfertilizer.com/a-little-science-behind-the-lakhovsky-resonator.html#/
- Water drilling in Ancient Egypt?
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/ancient-egyptian-stone-drilling/
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/how-did-the-ancient-egyptians-cut-granite-insights-from-the-unfinished-sarcophagus-in-the-cairo-museum
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/133ny72/did_the_ancient_egyptians_use_water_jet_cutters/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pemgwRrCs78
https://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-lost-tributary-of-river-nile-clue-mystery-giza-pyramids-2022-9
https://www.techniwaterjet.com/uk/water-jet-stone-cutting/#Benefits-of-Cutting-Stone-With-a-Water-Jet-Machine
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
- Our Haunted Planet
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Haunted-Planet-John-Keel/dp/1517343119
https://archive.org/details/Our_Haunted_Planet
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Strange Realm - Ep. 051 - Feb. 18th, 2024
On this episode we bring you a lucky and long show as we discuss the secrets of super-heated gold, urine-based metal recycling technology, liquid metal RAM, and we touch on the discovery of an ancient Paleolithic stone wall at the bottom of the Baltic sea. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- The Secrets of Gold
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/secrets-of-gold-discovered-in-a-series-of-ground-breaking-experiments/
- Liquid Metal RAM
https://www.techradar.com/pro/liquid-metal-ram-is-first-step-towards-shapeless-computing-as-well-as-spinless-robots-with-octopus-like-features-and-robots-from-a-popular-90s-sci-fi-movie
- Ancient Megastructure Found in Baltic Sea
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mysterious-ancient-megastructure-discovered-lurking-beneath-the-baltic-sea/
- Scientists make Urine-related breakthrough
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-make-breakthrough-discovery-while-experimenting-with-urine-we-can-reuse-a-very-significant-portion-of-the-cobalt/
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
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Strange Realm - Ep. 050 - Feb. 11th, 2024
Tonight we bring you a jam packed jamboree of strange stuff beginning with the somber news that the NASA Mars helicopter has flown its last flight and is a copter no more, along with a look towards the probe of Saturn's moon Triton in about 10 years, then we report on news of Obelisks living in your body, mutant wolves from Chernobyl are apparently cancer resistant, and radiocarbon dating on wooden tablets from Easter Island suggests it's language is pre-European contact. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- NASA's Ingenuity Copter finally goes kaputt
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/96068/nasa-zooms-in-on-the-final-resting-place-for-its-dead-mars-helicopter/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/03/world/nasa-search-for-life-scn/index.html
https://astronomynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/PIA20016.jpg
- Obelisks - the new protein parasite inside you!
https://www.sciencealert.com/obelisks-entirely-new-class-of-life-has-been-found-in-the-human-digestive-system
- Chernobyl wolves have an anti-cancer mutation
https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/08/chernobyls-mutant-wolves-now-anti-cancer-genes-20245492/
- Undeciphered language from Easter Island is older than previously thought
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/undeciphered-script-from-easter-island-may-predate-european-colonization
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
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Strange Realm - Ep. 049 - Feb. 4th, 2024
Tonight we bring you a homespun and hopeful episode as we anticipate an early spring and discuss the strangest things of the week, including blood-powered batteries, glass transformed into semiconducting materials via laser light like out of some alchemical fable, a report that AI is busy decoding the language of the chickens, as well as news of a miraculous accidental discovery that turned regular seedlings into super-plants! All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- Approaching the dream of the alchemists
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/approaching-the-dream-of-the-alchemist-scientists-have-been-able-to-transform-transparent-glass-into-a-photovoltaic-surface-using-a-laser-similar-to-that-used-in-eye-surgeries/
- Batteries that are powered by blood
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/other/batteries-that-run-on-blood-are-now-a-thing/
- AI decodes the language of the chickens
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-fowl-language-ai-chicken-communications.html
https://theconversation.com/fowl-language-ai-is-learning-to-analyze-chicken-communications-to-help-us-understand-what-all-the-cluckings-about-220804
- Amazing accidental discovery in growing plants
https://scitechdaily.com/accidental-discovery-how-a-whiff-of-an-unusual-chemical-transforms-seedlings-into-super-plants/
https://www.theproducenerd.com/2018/02/what-is-ethylene-how-is-it-used/
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
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Strange Realm - Ep. 048 - Jan. 28th, 2024
Tonight we bring you a exciting and growth-minded episode as we look at the Japanese moon lander which landed upside down, experiments which show lichen can grow in space and chickpeas can grow on the Moon, and finally we check out news that T Cells can be reprogrammed to attack cells that cause aging in the body. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- Japanese moon probe lands upside down
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/a-japanese-spacecraft-faceplanted-on-the-moon-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale/
- Lichen grows outisde of the ISS
https://explorersweb.com/lichen-survives-space/
- Chickpeas succesfully grown in moon dust
https://cybernews.com/tech/chickpeas-on-moon-soil-fungi/
- T Cells can be reprogrammed to fight aging
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/t-cells-could-be-used-to-slow-down-or-even-reverse-aging/
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 047 - Jan. 21st, 2024
Tonight we bring you an exoplanetary exploration into the weirdest and most exotic things to happen recently as Frobisher and Raven look into the Jellyfish UAP leak, the possible coverup over the James Webb Space Telescope finding extraterrestrial life, the fully-cloned and all-growed-up rhesus monkey ReTro (aka the Damien Thorn of monkeys), and perhaps there is proof that evolution occurs along pre-planned lines and not simply by random chance. All of this and then after the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- Jellyfish UAP startles the net
https://futurism.com/the-byte/internet-puzzled-jellyfish-ufo-video
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/047/910/Jellyfish_UFO_UAP_banner_image.jpg
- James Webb Space Telescope finds life??
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/no-the-james-webb-space-telescope-hasnt-found-life-out-there-at-least-not-yet/
- Meet ReTro, whether you want to or not!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-retro-the-first-cloned-rhesus-monkey-to-reach-adulthood/
- Paradign Shift! Evolution is Not Random!
https://www.earth.com/news/evolution-is-not-as-random-as-we-thought/
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 046 - Jan. 14th, 2024
Tonight's episode is a big snowy look into this week's news of the weird. No NASA Moon missions for 2024! A UAP hearing with legislators leaves them wanting more, smartphones of the future might be equipped with a nuclear battery with a charge that lasts 50 years, and scientists have gone MAD and are growing and experimenting on mini-brains! It's a yikes from us, dawgs! After the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- Ghost captured on Google street view?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ghost-spotted-haunting-historic-cemetery-on-google-street-view-see-the-spooky-images/
- No Moon landings from NASA in 2024
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/welp-so-much-for-sending-humans-back-to-the-moon-in-2024/
- Lawmakers meet with Intelligence Investigator in closed session about UAPs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lawmakers-frustrated-after-classified-ufo-briefing-with-government-watchdog/
- Nuclear battery being developed in China
https://www.androidheadlines.com/2024/01/nuclear-battery-smartphone-charging-obsolete.html
- 'Mini-Brain' Is Made From Real Tissue – And It Has Huge Potential
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-mini-brain-is-made-from-real-tissue-and-it-has-huge-potential
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Would You Open the Door to the Zapotec Underworld?
In 1674, a priest published his account of visiting the ruins of the Zapotec city of Mitla, and in it he described a vast underground temple with four interconnected chambers, the last of which featured a stone door leading into a deep cavern. The Zapotec believed this to be the entrance to the underworld, known by them as Lyobaa ("place of rest"). Recently, an international team of archaeologists announced that they found this fabled underground labyrinth — right where the legends said it should be. Frobisher and Raven take a look at this archaeological expedition and discuss the Zapotec temple in connection to other similar underworld temples found elsewhere in classical antiquity. Would you unseal the entrance to Hades?
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Links:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/archaeologists-may-have-found-ruins-of-fabled-entrance-to-zapotec-underworld/
https://classicalgreece.omeka.net/items/show/34
Clip originally aired on Strange Realm episode #19:
https://rumble.com/v2z8gcm-strange-world-ep.-019-july-9th-2023.html
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Strange Realm - Ep. 045 - Jan. 7th, 2024
Tonight we bring you a gigantic episode as we look into the origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant, the mysterious chalk geoglyph outside of Dorset in England. We also discuss a study that says you might heal faster if you think time is moving faster, if Doctor Pepper can help you live to 101, and we take a look at what some say is the best and most real photo of Mars ever produced! After the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- New Photo of Mars
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-mars-photo-shows-planet-in-true-color-like-you-ve-never-seen-it-before/
- 101 Years Old thanks to Doctor Pepper
https://dnyuz.com/2024/01/02/101-year-old-veteran-attributes-longevity-to-this-soda/
- Perception of Time Affects Healing?
https://www.sciencealert.com/our-perception-of-time-can-actually-speed-up-wound-healing
- The Cerne Abbas Giant
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/jan/01/cerne-abbas-giant-is-hercules-and-was-army-meeting-point-say-historians
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27110114
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 044 - New Year's Eve, 2023
Well we're bopping and popping on this New Year's Eve special! John Frobisher Smith and Dr. Raven Black celebrate the new year with an astoundingly auspicious report that El Jefe, once the USA's only living jaguar, has been spotted in central Sonora, Mexico. Quantum Computing is due for a reality check, say the experts, we take a look at the future of quantum computers and then we look at what will be entering the public domain in 2024! Then it is time to give our predictions for 2024. Finally, after the break we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- El Jefe has been spotted
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/return-of-the-boss-el-jefe-a-jaguar-that-roamed-arizona-has-turned-up-alive-in-mexico/
- Quantum Computing's Wake-Up Call
https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics
- Now entering the Public Domain
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 043 - Christmas Eve, 2023
It's a bustling and festive Christmas episode tonight! We have live updates with NORAD Santa Tracking, keeping you aware of when the jolly man might be heading your way! We also look at stories about telomere lengthening via time spent at the bottom of the sea, and some seeds that are well over 100 years old which still germinated when they were planted. After the break we pause our current reading series to read real reports of sightings of Santa Claus from around the world. Merry Christmas to you, one and all!
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Notes:
- NORAD Santa Tracker
https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map
- NASA Spots ‘Christmas Tree’ in Space
https://explorersweb.com/christmas-tree-in-space/
- 144-year old experiment grows surprisingly long lasting seeds
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/144-year-old-experiment-reveals-surprisingly-long-lasting-seeds
- Man spends 93 days at the bottom of the sea & is now 10 years younger
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-spends-93-days-bottom-30137421
- Real Santa encounters
https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanormalEncounters/comments/zf9odt/santa_clause_encounters/
https://www.liveabout.com/santa-claus-sightings-2594781
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 042 - Dec. 17th, 2023
Yule be loving tonight's episode as we delve into strange science topics like the zap of an electric eels mutating the animals around it under certain conditions, the field of wood nanotechnology just might have the answer for biodegradable screens soon as they rapidly develop the technology of transparent wood, and a new medication may lengthen the lives of large dog breeds. We then take a look at the holiday of Yule, the Winter Solstice, and discuss the traditions and lore of the pagan midwinter feast. After the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- Zap from an Electric Eel changes sea critters genes?
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-zap-from-an-electric-eel-could-give-nearby-organisms-new-genes
- Scientists are developing transperant wood
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-are-developing-transparent-wood/
- A drug to extend the lives of large dogs might be coming soon https://www.axios.com/2023/11/29/dogs-drug-extend-longevity
- Yule lore and traditions
https://www.sacredearthjourneys.ca/blog/traditions-and-symbols-of-yule/
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/scottish-christmas-2023-here-are-12-old-traditions-and-customs-from-christmas-in-scotland-aka-yule-3926011
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 041 - Dec. 10th, 2023
Tonight we bring you a cat-aclysmic cacophony of speculation and reporting about our wide and weird world! Does owning a cat trigger schizophrenia? Will China use humanoid robots to build its Moonbase? What can a 1000-qubit quantum computer really do? What are thousands of UFOs doing in our orbit every month? These questions and more will be discussed and deliberated. After the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- China takes the lead in Moon Politics
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-china-scores-big-moon.html
- Space Force sees thousands of UFOs in a month
https://www.wionews.com/trending/us-space-agency-has-seen-thousands-of-ufos-in-one-month-report-664809
- IBM releases first ever 1000-quibit supercomputer
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03854-1
- Link Between Owning Cats and Schizophrenia Is Real
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-link-between-owning-cats-and-schizophrenia-is-real-study-says
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 040 - Dec. 3rd, 2023
Tonight we bring you all the news that can fit in a 6-story Japanese donut-shaped fusion furnace, currently the world's largest! The UAP Disclosure Amendment is facing a battle on Capitol Hill, and CRISPR is going primetime as a CRISPR-created gene therapy for Sickle-Cell blood disease is getting approved in the UK and the US. After the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- Disclosure Ammendment Faces Battle on Capitol Hill
https://thedebrief.org/the-battle-for-uap-disclosure-in-washington/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-lawmakers-demand-transparency-from-leaders-on-uap-amendment-s-inclusion-in-defense-bill/
- Japan Unveils World's Largest Fusion Reactor
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/worlds-biggest-experimental-nuclear-fusion-reactor-launched-in-japan
- The CRISPR Era is Here
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/the-crispr-era-is-here/
- Rune Discussion: DAGAZ
https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.3d40df5610c36517778e9aef256a22f4
https://vikingr.org/magic-symbols/dagaz
https://www.runesworld.com/dagaz-rune-meaning/
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 039 - Nov. 26th, 2023
Tonight we bring you a madcap meandering down the avenue of the uncanny as we take a look at the plans for cloning the Dodo, the particle responsible for the most energetic cosmic ray every received dubbed the "Goddess particle," as well as a report that Neanderthals could talk just the same as Humans! After the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- Home for the future Dodos secured
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-colossal-biosciences-home-extinct-species.html
- "Goddess particle" detected in cosmic rays
https://www.space.com/mysterious-sun-goddess-particle-new-physics
- Neanderthals could talk like people
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/momentous-discovery-shows-neanderthals-could-produce-human-like-speech/
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 038 - Nov. 19th, 2023
Tonight we bring you -- an astounding array of entertaining and also sometimes troubling topics from all over the world, beginning with breaking news that Javier Milei will be the new president of Argentina. We then move on to a mini-discussion of Mount Chimera and the Chimera beast of ancient legend, followed by more biotechnology news about bioprinted synthetic skin and pills that can monitor your entire body and transmit that data after ingesting them, finally we mention that wasabi, the traditional Japanese spice, has shown to have memory regenerating properties in older people. After the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- Javier Milei is the new president of Argentina
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2023-11-19/javier-milei-a-radical-libertarian-populist-elected-president-of-argentina
- The Chimera and Mount Chimera
https://i.postimg.cc/T3McS7QQ/Chimera.png
https://www.bing.com/maps?q=Yanarta%C5%9F+TUrkey+Mount+Chimera&FORM=HDRSC6&cp=37.888227%7E29.957436&lvl=6.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Chimaera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanarta%C5%9F
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/84/3b/4b/843b4b9a63c4575c351e53315e42d092.jpg
- Bioprinted skin is here
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/bioprinted-skin-is-real-here-s-how-it-can-change-the-future/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adf7547
- The pill that can monitor your body & transmit data
https://www.engadget.com/mit-tests-new-ingestible-sensor-that-record-your-breathing-through-your-intestines-224823353.html
- Wasabi can improve the brains of the elderly
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/this-traditional-japanese-spice-can-improve-brain-function-in-people-older-than-60/
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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Strange Realm - Ep. 037 - Nov. 12th, 2023
Tonight we bring you what could be called the prelude to "crimes of the future," as we tackle glowing green Monkey-chimeras, the glowing green night sky of Mars, neochromosomes and the possibilities of "super-yeast," and an ominous report that Mount St. Helens is recharging! After the break, we continue our reading series and Frobisher reads more of the paranormal classic, "Darkness Walks: The Shadow People Among Us," by Jason Offutt.
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Notes:
- First Chimeric monkey glows in the dark!
https://themessenger.com/tech/chimeric-monkey-created-with-embryonic-stem-cells-born-in-chinese-lab
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/china-grows-first-ever-fluorescent-green-chimera-monkey-using-stem-cells/ar-AA1jGfzr
- Scientists create first neochromosome
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-create-first-neochromosome-in-major-breakthrough/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14941#rightslink
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)01130-3
- The Martian sky glows green sometimes
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-observe-never-before-seen-green-glow-mars-night-sky-1842768
- Mount St. Helens is recharging!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/mount-st-helens-volcano-in-washingtonghas-been-recharging/
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mt.+st.+helens+map
- Darkness Walks:
https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Walks-Shadow-People-Among/dp/1933665378/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnusualArt/comments/fxxamz/shadow_people_by_me/
Intro music: "Banned from Living" by Gloomcvlt
Outro music: "The Outlands, Pt. 2" by The Abyss
Background art: "The Time Machine" by Interesni Kazki (AEC)
Catch the livestream every Sunday night ~7-9pm Mountain Time on https://dlive.tv/frobishersmith
For a convenient audio-only experience, check out the podcast version at
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/strange-realm
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