Surviving The Next Mass Extinction: Are we too late?

Of all species that have ever existed on. Earth, 99% of them are gone. Most of. those were wiped out during what are. known as mass extinction events. Since. life emerged on our planet, there have. been five mass extinctions. Sometimes. these events last many years, [music]. but sometimes a mass extinction can. happen very, very suddenly. Some. scientists think we're on the verge of a. sixth mass extinction. [music]. Others think it's already begun. But the. question everybody asks is, is there.

anything we can do to stop it? The Earth is always changing. There's. the climate, there's. Excuse me? I've been hearing this for years. No, no, no, that's not what I. Hey, if the climate gets colder, you'll. be fine. Why is that? Because you're covered in wool. Oh, because I'm a. First Al Gore told me that in 5 years. the polar bears will be sunburned and. everything will be underwater. That was.

30 years ago. You're missing my. drive an SUV, but oh, sure, those big. shots can take their private JETS TO. DAVOS SO THEY CAN WAG THEIR FINGER in my. face. I'm not saying. drive an electric car. It's green. Okay, fine. Where do you think the electric. comes from? The electric fairy? It comes. from coal. YOU WANT MORE CLEAN ENERGY? Build nuclear plants, you. You're not. It's a scam. I can't believe you're. STILL FALLING FOR THIS. MY point is, man-made or not, the. climate is always changing. Oh. Okay?

Uh yes, sorry. I got to stay off Twitter. for a while. That's always a good idea. It's not just. the climate of the Earth that's. changing, but also the core within the. Earth, as well as the ground beneath our. feet. The science of earthquakes is. called seismology, but seismology is not. an exact science. Seismologists and. geologists think they know how. earthquakes work and what causes them, but they're not able to predict them. with any consistency. If they could, they would. Let's add up the deaths from. three large, fairly recent earthquakes.

The 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and. tsunami, the 2010 Haiti earthquake. On. the low end, those three events killed. 700,000 people, but that number is. probably closer to 1.2 million. Let that sink in for a minute. It's. important. [music]. Those aren't numbers, those are people. They're infants, the elderly, entire. families. In one day, a million people. are just gone. You would think that.

mainstream science would be open to new. ideas that could help predict these. disasters. You would think they would. entertain alternative theories that. could save millions of lives. You would. think so, but you would be wrong. The. history of science is filled with. alternative theories that were once. ridiculed, but are now accepted. The. idea of continental drift was called. nonsense. An asteroid impact killing the. dinosaurs was called science fiction. At. one time, if you said the Earth orbits. the Sun, the church might seize your. property and throw you in prison. Things.

haven't changed all that much. A mass. extinction is defined as an event where. at least 75% of species on Earth are. wiped [music] out. There's evidence of. five major mass extinctions that have. occurred throughout Earth's history. The. first was 450 million years ago. Another. was 375 million years ago. The most. catastrophic extinction, known as the. Great Dying, took place 252 million. years ago. During the Great Dying, a. staggering 96% of all life on Earth was.

wiped out. Another event was 201 million years ago, and 66 million years ago was the. infamous KT asteroid impact, which. killed off the dinosaurs. [music]. On average, these mass extinctions. happen about every 75 million years. While some causes of these events have. been identified, some remain a mystery. In addition to the major extinctions, many smaller events have also occurred. For centuries, scientists have been. debating what causes these events and. changes to the Earth. There are two.

camps. There are the gradualists or. uniformitarians. They argue that Earth. changes occur slowly over an extended. period, like mountains being formed. slowly as rock is pushed up from the. Earth's mantle. Then those mountains are. slowly weathered away by erosion. In the. other camp are catastrophists. They claim that Earth changes happen. quickly and through dramatic events. Events like asteroid impacts, widespread. volcanic eruptions, pole shifts, and. massive solar flares. In other words,

the scary stuff. Throughout history, catastrophists have been ridiculed by. the gradualists, but there's mounting. evidence to suggest that catastrophists. may be onto something. Researchers like. Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, Robert. Schoch, John Anthony West, and many. others have presented compelling. arguments that Earth changes happen. suddenly rather than over eons. Here what you have to visualize is a. tsunami sweeping over the land that's. over a thousand feet deep. Wow.

There are recent events that support. these claims. In January 2023, seismic. data published by Chinese scientists. hinted at a recent slowdown or even a. halt in the rotation of the Earth's. core. The Earth's core is huge, about. the size of Mars. It's made of an inner. core which is mostly solid iron and the. outer core which is molten iron and. nickel. The interaction between the. inner and outer core produces a. geodynamo which generates the Earth's. magnetic field. If the core slows down. or stops, the consequences would be.

severe. In another episode, I described exactly. what would happen. There's a link below, but I have to warn you, it's terrifying. But after the initial disaster resulting. from a pole shift, animals and even. technology could adapt. But there is a. theory that the speed and direction of. the Earth's core affect more than the. magnetic field. The theory says core. changes are linked to more devastating. events like earthquakes. And if this. theory is right, life on Earth is about. to become very different.

Jim Berkland was a professional. geologist who worked for the United. States Geological Survey or USGS. He. became prominent in the 1980s when he. started making specific predictions. about upcoming earthquakes. He first. came to the public's attention on. October 13th, 1989. That day he gave an. interview where he predicted a major. earthquake would hit Northern California. [music]. between October 14th and October 21st of. that year.

While the Bay Area is rumbling with. excitement over the first-ever Bay. Bridge World Series, the Earth may be. putting on a show. A county geologist is predicting an. earthquake to hit the Bay Area anytime. from tomorrow to the 21st of October. It. will be the World Series Quake, according to Santa Clara County. geologist Jim Berkland. The trembler he. predicts could be anywhere from 3.5 to. 6.0 on the Richter scale. Berkland is. basing his prediction on the unusual. gravitational pull of the moon and.

Earth. Berkland was right. The 6.9 magnitude. earthquake occurred on October 17th, just 4 days later and right in the. middle of Berkland's window, and right. in the middle of the World Series. Candy Maldonado with the hesitation. allowing Jose Canseco to score, and he. fails to get Dave Parker at second base. So, the Oakland A's take. take.

After that, Berkland was told by. government officials to stop making. predictions cuz he might create a mass. panic. At the time, he was working as a. for Santa Clara County, but 2 weeks. after his prediction, he was suspended. from his job. But, he didn't stop making. predictions. He successfully called the. Northridge earthquake that hit San. Francisco in 1994, and he predicted a. large earthquake in Seattle. After that, he was asked to leave his job, but. people were still interested in how he.

was making his predictions. Berkland. believed that gravitational forces and. tidal stresses from the moon played a. role in triggering earthquakes. His. predictions factored in high tides, new. and full moons. He also noticed a. correlation between seismic activity and. animal behavior. His theory was magnetic. fields fluctuate just before a quake, which causes these behavioral changes, especially in fish, birds, dogs, and. cats. Mainstream geologists reject all. of this and say that Berkland's. predictions are not scientific. [music].

They say earthquakes are caused by. pressure within the Earth's crust. When. that pressure is released as energy, we. get an earthquake. But, that's like. saying an earthquake is when the ground. shakes. It's a description, not an. explanation. What's causing the release. of the pressure? Meteorologist Kevin. Martin of the Southern California. Weather Authority also wanted to know. this answer. He thought there could be a. connection between earthquakes, weather, and solar activity. He made a prediction. in 2009. In fact, during the Northridge quake of.

1994, a large ridge of high pressure was. carved in the exact same spot one will. be during our next Santa Ana wind event. The window for that is January 9th to. the 14th. This is exactly in geologist. Jim Berkland's window. So, any bets on. the table for a larger quake would be. during that window. Now, I'm not saying. to my viewers to run because a. Northridge style quake is coming, but I. must say the pattern is nearly identical. to it. And if weather patterns are any. indication of a quake delivery, then.

always be prepared. In light of Mr. Berkland's window falling in this. weather pattern, I have taken the. measure to prepare in case a quake hits. You always have to be prepared. Kevin Martin and Jim Berkland were both. right. On January 9th, 2009, there were. two earthquakes in almost exactly the. place where they predicted. Berkland's. model gained further support as the 2004. Indian Ocean tsunami earthquake and the. 2023 Turkey earthquake occurred during. full moons. Mainstream geologists like.

to point out that Berkland was. occasionally wrong, both in the. intensity and timing of his predictions, but he was also frequently right. And. how many earthquake predictions have. mainstream geologists made that have. been right? Zero. Zero. Berkland's success and mainstream. science's lack of success indicates that. our thinking about what causes. earthquakes is incomplete. If there are. other factors, why aren't they being. explored? Is it because mainstream. scientists are afraid of being wrong? Or. maybe scientists are afraid of something.

else. On September 3rd, 2017, the United. States Geological Survey reported an. earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 not. far from a North Korean nuclear test. site. South Korean authorities said the. earthquake seemed to be artificial, consistent with an underground nuclear. test. North Korea confirmed that it had. detonated a 15-kiloton hydrogen bomb, and this came as a terrifying surprise. to the diplomatic, intelligence, and.

defense communities. Uh, would you say it sent shockwaves. through the world? I would, but. Did this test was a seismic shift in the. region that rocked the foundations of. diplomacy? Puns, great. [clears throat]. Oh, so this test shook the world to its. core and had other countries quaking in. their boots? You're done? Uh, uh, [laughter]. I got a few more, actually. I swear I will ring your. Okay, okay, okay. I'll stop. I'll stop. You know I only do that to see the look. in your stupid face, right? Real nice. Hey, hey, let me ask you. Is it irony.

that that I'm the fish, but you're the. one that keeps taking a bait? That's it. No one had suspected that North Korea. had reached that level of advancement. with its nuclear weapons program. Then, just a few weeks later, in October 2017, the entire underground Korean nuclear. facility collapsed after a massive. earthquake. More than 200 people were. killed, including most of North Korea's. nuclear scientists. Within a few months, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said his.

country was open to discussing peace. with South Korea and the United States, and the possibility of giving up its. nuclear weapons program. In June, a new. peace treaty was signed. After his. nuclear lab and top scientists were. killed in that earthquake, Kim Jong-un. had no choice but to negotiate. That. worked out nicely for the United States. But, what if the earthquake and. destruction of the nuclear facility. wasn't a natural event? What if the. earthquake was caused by a new type of. weapon? For years, rumors swirled that the.

United States had developed a highly. advanced sonic weapon. Using sound. waves, it could superheat the Earth's. upper atmosphere and communicate with. military units and submarines at sea. It. could alter the weather, and yes, believe it or not, induce earthquakes. The weapon is known as HAARP. HAARP? Yes, H A A R P. Oh, the AARP, the club for old people. No, that's something else. Ah. HAARP stands for a High Amplitude Active. Auroral Research Program. It's a program. that researches the ionosphere, the.

upper layer of the atmosphere, which. ranges from about 30 miles to 600 miles. above the Earth's surface. According to. the original HAARP website, there is an. emphasis on being able to enhance. communications and surveillance systems. for both civilian and defense purposes. [music]. Surveillance using the ionosphere? That doesn't sound good. Well, that's why there are a lot of. rumors about HAARP. The HAARP website. acknowledged that experiments were. conducted to fire directed beams of. energy in order to temporarily excite a.

limited area of the ionosphere. Now, disturbing the ionosphere [music] could. have major and even disastrous. consequences for the environment. HARP. was very active in the days and hours. leading up to Hurricane Katrina making. landfall in 2005. Hurricanes are. energized by heat. The specific function. of HARP is to heat or energize the upper. atmosphere. Now, did HARP affect the. hurricane? Well, we don't know. Could it. have? Sure. Later that same year, HARP was intensely. active when Hurricane Ophelia started.

behaving in strange ways. It changed. directions multiple times against all. normal meteorological predictions. It. was almost as [music] if something was. playing around with Ophelia to see if. they could manipulate its intensity and. direction. [music]. In 2008, a rare July hurricane named. Bertha suddenly formed off the coast of. Africa. It was a very low-level storm, but then the HARP transmitters fired up. Within 8 hours, Bertha went from a weak. Category 1 to an intense Category 4.

storm. Almost as soon as HARP was shut. down, Bertha calmed down and weakened. Kevin Martin had already made the. connection between electrical storms, high pressure systems, and weather in. earthquake events. Jim Berkland showed. that tidal forces and gravitational. effects were connected to earthquakes, but could a device like HARP be capable. of doing both? Well, that had yet to be. tested until 2008. Cyclone Nargis began just a few days. after HARP resumed activity at 5:45 in.

the morning on April 27th, 2008. On. April 28th, the storm was basically. stationary. By April 29th, Nargis had. sustained winds of 100 mph and began. moving. It turned rapidly eastward, intensified, and reached peak winds of. 135 mph. On May 2nd, it made landfall at. maximum strength. It maintained winds of. at least 80 miles an hour for hours. before dissipating. The HAARP energy. activity continued for days. It finally.

stopped late in the day on May 11th. About 8 hours later in Chengdu, China, there were reports of strange animal. behavior. Iridescent glowing clouds. suddenly appeared. Now, if you drew a. straight line from Nargis's path as it. made landfall, you'd hit Chengdu. Suddenly, a massive earthquake hit. Chengdu with a magnitude of 8.0 and. caused a chain reaction of explosions in. the Sichuan Mountains. These explosions. destroyed the Chinese Army's largest. armory and their newest weapons test.

bases. Nuclear facilities that. reportedly included several nuclear. warheads were also severely damaged. After carefully analyzing the seismic. data, experts said the energy released. was equivalent to that of an underground. nuclear explosion. They claimed that. non-geological shock had occurred at the. earthquake epicenter. Non-geological? Unnatural. Uh-oh. Over those 2 weeks, the Nargis cyclone. and Chengdu earthquake claimed the lives. of more than 160,000. people and severely damaged China's.

military infrastructure. Today, HAARP is. still in use and is run by the. University of Alaska Fairbanks. But. that's relatively new. Prior to 2014, it. was under the direct control of the. United States Department of Defense. Now, all of this is speculation and. rumor and of course, the US military and. government say that HAARP is nothing. more than a radio tower to monitor the. ionosphere. But it cost $300 million to. build in 1993. That's almost $700. million in today's dollars.

Yeah, it's an awful lot of scratch for a. radio tower. It sure is. There's so much more to talk. about regarding the HAARP project and it. needs its own video. So, if you'd like. to see that, let me know in the. comments. Now, whether by controlling. the weather or deploying nuclear. weapons, the human race certainly has. the ability to destroy all civilization. on Earth, but even with all that. technology and firepower, it's not. enough to kill off 75% of all life on. Earth. A true extinction level event of. that magnitude is not going to come from. here. It's going to come from.

out there. There are a lot of interesting numerical. coincidences in astronomy. For instance, the moon's diameter is 2,160 mi. That's. just the right diameter, and the moon is. just far enough away to create nearly. perfect solar eclipses. 2,160 years also. happens to be the exact length of each. astronomical age in the precession of. equinoxes. Earth's cycle of precession, the arc around which the North Pole.

wobbles, moves about 1° every 72 years. This completes a full cycle called the. Great Year or the Cycle of Precession in. 25,920. years or about 26,000 years. According. to best estimates, the sun resides. 26,000 light-years from the center of. the galaxy. One orbit of the solar. system around the center of the galaxy. takes about 260 million years. What we. see are called decimal harmonics of the. number 26 over and over again. Now, most.

scientists would agree that these. numbers are meaningless. They're just a. coincidence. But what if they're not? What if they're. trying to tell us something very. important about our future? There are a collection of experiments. that may show that these numbers have. some kind of special meaning. When. physicists can't explain things seen. through telescopes, theories have to be. created. Some of these theories are. based on math and can explain quite a. bit. But sometimes the math doesn't. work, and the theories get more. creative. One example of this is the.

phenomenon of dark matter. The idea of. dark matter comes from scientists who. agreed that they found a connection. between mass, the physical stuff, and. gravity. But a problem began when they. started looking at other stars and. galaxies and got clearer and clearer. images. There just isn't enough stuff to. create enough gravity to hold everything. together. Galaxies and solar systems. should be flying apart based on all the. energy and momentum they're generating. So instead of simply abandoning the idea. that there was a direct connection.

between mass and gravity, they came up. with a new idea, dark matter. The. gravity is obviously out there, so all. this missing matter must also be out. there. It's just [music] invisible. We. can't see it or detect it with any type. of instrument. So what you're saying is there's no. proof of dark matter? None. And there are plenty of. experiments that show there are other. forces at work in the universe that. mainstream physicists aren't accounting. for. In the days before communication. satellites, shortwave radio was crucial. for long-distance communication. Shortwave transmissions are.

high-frequency radio signals that can be. bounced off the Earth's ionosphere. Those signals can bounce over and over. again covering large distances. This is. called signal propagation, and this. allows operators to talk to each other. all over the world. [music] The Radio. Corporation of America, or RCA, noticed. that the quality of shortwave. transmissions changed quite a bit. depending on sunspot cycles. The more. sunspots, the more the magnetic field of. the sun seemed to interfere with. shortwave transmissions. When the sun. was quiet, shortwave radio was and is.

much more reliable. Now during World War. II, the potential communications. blackout that sunspots and solar storms. might cause was of great concern for the. armed forces. a major offensive assault against the. enemy. [music]. if there's a chance your comms might go. down. So a radio engineer at RCA named. John Nelson was asked to come up with a. method of predicting when the [music]. storms would occur. What Nelson. discovered was a surprise. He found that. radio interference rose and fell not.

just with the sunspot cycles, but also. with the motions of the major planets in. the solar system. This was a. revolutionary idea. His study found that. the relative positions of the gas giants. like Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune seem. to have the most dramatic effects. [music] on the signals. Hey, you forgot one. What? A gas giant, you forgot one. Uranus. Uranus has got a lot of gas. Right, it's a gas ice giant like. Neptune. Well, you don't want to forget Uranus. Please don't. What? Don't be shy about Uranus. Be.

proud of Uranus. Stop it. Hey, did you know that you can fit 63. Earths inside Uranus? 64 if you relax. That's enough. [laughter]. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'll stop. I'll. stop. Thank you. Consider all the jokes about Uranus. BEHIND YOU. [laughter]. IT IS WORTHY OF NOTE THAT IN 1948, when. Jupiter and Saturn were spaced by 120°, and solar activity was at a maximum,

radio signals averaged a far higher. quality for the year than in 1951, when. Jupiter and Saturn at 180°, and a considerable decline in solar. activity. In other words, [music] the. average quality curve of radio signals. followed the cycle curve between Jupiter. and Saturn, rather than the sunspot. curve. Nelson concluded that while sunspot. activity did have an effect on the. quality of shortwave radio signals, the. locations of the planets had a far.

greater effect. Now, this shouldn't. happen. There's nothing in mainstream. physics that [music] can explain this. Not gravity, not magnetism, nothing. Nelson's research gets [music] even. stranger. Not only do planets have a. major influence on the energetic output. of the sun, that influence changes. depending on the planet's position. relative to the sun and each other, and. at what precise angle. Wait, what? Well, a 1951 Time magazine article. described it like this. Nelson studied the records of RCA's. receiving station at Riverhead, New.

York, looking for some correlation. between the magnetic storms and the. positions of the planets. He found that. most of the storms took place when two. or more planets were in what he calls a. configuration, that is with angles of. 0°, 90°, or 180°. [music]. between the lines connecting them with. the Sun. The more planets involved in a. configuration, the more serious the. storm is likely to be. During the great magnetic storm of July. 1946, for instance, three planets, the.

Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, were in a. configuration, and three others, Mercury, Venus, and Mars, were also in a. critical relationship. [music]. But what the article did not talk about. was the fact that these configurations, as Nelson called them, worked out. exactly with what are known as specific. aspects in astrology. What, you mean like horoscopes and. stuff? Yep. Nelson showed that when two planets.

are lined up with the Sun, but separated. by 180°, this is called an opposition in. astrology. If they're at a 90° angle to. each other, it's called a square. When. the big gas giant planets were either in. opposition or in a square, there would. be major disturbances and storms coming. from the Sun. When the planets were at. 120° to each other or 60° to each other, the Sun was much less active. This is. not what RCA, the US government, or. anyone in the science community wanted. to hear. Despite the validity of Nelson's work,

he was attacked. People claimed he got. the math wrong. However, these arguments. have not held up well over time, and no. one has ever repeated the study to try. to disprove it. But since the 1950s, Nelson's theories about solar activity. being linked to planetary alignment have. been 95% accurate. Mainstream. astronomers who study the Sun can't even. come close to this number. The. resistance to Nelson, just as to. Birkeland and to Martin is probably. because of the implications of his work.

If Nelson is correct, then that means. that astrology is real or at least has a. basis in fact for describing the. behavior of electromagnetic waves. And. given that every thought in our minds is. nothing more than an electromagnetic. signal, the position of the planets. might actually have an effect on our. thoughts and emotions. So, does the. position of the planets explain [music]. the mass extinctions that happen on. Earth at regular intervals? No. To kill off most of the life on. Earth, we have to think bigger.

Since Neptune was discovered in 1884, astronomers noticed the outer planets. have strange orbits. It's as if there's. a large object that we can't see that's. tugging on them. It was thought that. maybe there was a large Jupiter-sized. planet in the far reaches of the solar. system or even beyond. Recent papers. have used the term Planet X or Planet. Nine to describe this theoretical. object. It's become associated with. everything from the sun's dead twin to a. massive brown dwarf star. A brown dwarf.

is kind of like a cross between a star. and a planet. It's much bigger than a. planet, but it doesn't get hot enough to. ignite nuclear fusion. In fact, a brown. dwarf has been linked to Zecharia. Sitchin's Planet Nibiru. How many Anunnaki? Exactly. Another theory about a far. distant object in the solar system is. the Nemesis theory. In 1984, two. geologists released a scientific paper. titled Periodicity of Extinctions in the. Geologic Past. In it, they looked at. geologic [music] fossil evidence of. extinctions taking place over 250.

million year period or one galactic. year. What they found was evidence that. during that period, large-scale. extinctions took place on our planet. [music] on a regular repeating basis and. that the interval between the extinction. events was. 26 million years. Bingo. Astrophysicists began to wonder. [music] what could cause such a cycle. They eventually settled on the idea that. our solar system is actually a binary or. two-star system. The sun, they. speculated, orbits a dead companion star.

or a brown dwarf that is way out in the. Kuiper Belt. Now, the Kuiper Belt is. similar to the asteroid belt, but it's. way, way bigger. And there are hundreds. of millions of objects in the Kuiper. Belt. They range in size from small. asteroids all the way up to small. planets. Pluto, for example, is a Kuiper. Belt object. Beyond the Kuiper Belt is. another region called the Oort Cloud. And the Oort Cloud contains trillions of. objects. And the thinking was that as. this dead star orbits the sun, it. disturbed the objects in the Kuiper Belt.

and the Oort Cloud. And these objects. are then flung to the inner solar system. and [music] to Earth on a periodic. basis, once every 26 million years. The. name that they gave this dark star was. Nemesis. Now, all this was pure. speculation with very little evidence to. back it up until 1982. [music]. Apparently, NASA has known about and. been searching for this object for a. long time. In a 1982 Science Digest. article, Dr. J. Allen Hynek wrote about.

the search for Planet X. He included a. diagram that suggested the planet was. probably a brown dwarf star that was 50. light-years away. That would give it a. 13,000-year orbital period, meaning. every 13,000 years it would come into. alignment with the sun, the Earth, and. the galactic center. In January 2015, Caltech astronomers provided evidence of. a giant planet in the outer solar. system. According to astronomers, Planet Nine is. expected to be many times the size of.

Earth and orbit the sun far beyond. Neptune. The astronomer claims that. there's only a 0.4% [music] chance that. Planet Nine does not exist, despite it. never being seen. So, if these large objects are out there. and if Nelson's theories about planetary. alignment are correct, then when all. these objects come into alignment, [music] the ripples through space-time. could make Earth literally tip out of. balance. Pole shift. Well, that's one possibility. But. throwing asteroids at us would be much.

worse. But now we have something even. bigger to worry about, the Radcliffe. Wave. Uh this doesn't have anything to do with. Harry Potter casting a spell, does. [music] it? It does not. Ah. The Radcliffe Wave was discovered in. 2020. It's a massive structure of gas, dust, and stars that stretches almost. 9,000 light-years across. [music]. The wave rides up and down through the. galactic plane, meaning that sometimes. it's above the plane of the Milky Way. galaxy, and sometimes its objects are. below. Now, no one understands how it.

was formed, why it's shaped like a wave, or how it's even held together. Once. again, gravity is insufficient to. explain it. From our perspective, it's. in the direction of Orion and about 400. light-years away. Now, that's an. incredible distance, but it is close. enough to speculate how it could affect. us in the future. We do know for a fact. that our solar system does interact with. this massive Radcliffe Wave structure. In fact, we can go back and see that we. passed through the Radcliffe Wave about. 13 million years ago, and we'll pass.

back through it 13 million years from. now. Again, this is evidence that we are. on a 26-million-year cycle, the exact. cycle linked to mass extinction events. Okay, Dad, the number 26 is starting to. freak me out a little. Well, fortunately, the next event isn't. due for 11, 12, 13 million years or so, so we don't have much to fear with the. big event. But what about the smaller. events that happen in between the big. ones? You would think that all this. would get scientists interested in. looking at all these coincidences. Whether it's an extinction event or just.

an earthquake, you'd think they'd be. interested in knowing when the next one. is coming, but they're not. Why is that? Yeah. Why is that? Something seems to be going on with the. Earth. It may be natural cycles, problems with the Earth's core, or it. may be something external linked to a. part of space we're flying through. Or. it could be a new science that we aren't. seriously studying. The question is, why. not? The answer to that question is the. answer to lots of questions, ego, money,

and power. There's a reluctance in the. mainstream scientific community to put. out new ideas that challenge the. accepted belief systems of the community. that pays for their grants. Remember, we. did an episode not long ago that proved. that most scientific grants come from. large corporations. And those. corporations are essentially [music]. buying science. They want scientific. results to support their businesses and. their products. For government-funded. grants, same thing. The government wants. studies done that support the current. agenda. That's the money concern. Now,

the ego problem. Nobody really wants to. take a chance on a new idea. Look at the. scientists who go against the. mainstream. They're often ostracized and. ridiculed. Sometimes they lose their. jobs, like Jim Berkland. Scientific. breakthroughs don't come from the. establishment. They come from mavericks. They come from scientists who don't care. what people think of them. And there are. very few of those. In 1958, when NASA. was formed, one of the first things the. agency did was commission a study from a. major think [music] tank, the Brookings.

Institute. NASA asked them to do a study. on the cultural impact of exploring. space. The report concluded that while. it was unlikely that astronauts would. run into ET out there, it was [music]. very possible they might come across. ancient ruins or artifacts from an. advanced civilization that had. previously visited our solar system. While face-to-face meetings with it will. not occur within the next 20 years, that. is the 1960s and 1970s, unless its. technology is more advanced than ours,

qualifying it to visit Earth, artifacts. left at some point in time by these life. forms might possibly be discovered. through our space activities on the. moon, Mars, or Venus. It then goes on to suggest that the. revelation of higher, more. technologically advanced life in the. universe might actually result in the. disintegration of human society. It. actually used that word. Anthropological files contain many. examples of societies sure of their.

place in the universe which have. disintegrated when they have had to. associate with previously unfamiliar. societies espousing different ideas and. different life ways. Others that survived such an experience. usually did so by paying the price of. changes in values and attitudes and. behavior. And who, according to the report, would. have the most difficult time adapting to. this new reality? Scientists. The study. suggested that a paradigm shift in. humanity's view of itself and science's.

view of their mastery of nature could. have devastating psychological effects. on the scientists. Stanley Kubrick's. film 2001: A Space Odyssey was built. around the Brookings report. HAL, the. computer, was meant to represent the. scientific community. When it was. discovered that man was not alone, HAL. went crazy. Open the pod bay doors, HAL. I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. What's the problem?

I think you know what the problem is. just as well as I do. Science changes very slowly because of. ego, money, and power. Scientists' egos. make them afraid of being wrong. Going. against the mainstream will cost the. scientists money, like lack of funding. or being out of a job. As for power, whenever science and technology. advances, old science and technology. becomes obsolete and less powerful. If. life is discovered on Mars, the. scientists who predicted that will gain. power. The scientists who said life on.

Mars is impossible will lose power, but. predicting life on Mars is a risky bet, not one most scientists would take. But. if the Earth truly is changing, we're. going to need new science to [music]. understand how dangerous the changes. are. We'll have to explore new and. uncomfortable ideas, and we have to give. those maverick scientists presenting. those new ideas a chance to be heard. What do we have to lose? Well, every.

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