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The conspiracies surrounding “super soldiers” are just as far-fetched as those involving secret space programs, at least to many people. In fact, these two theories are often closely linked for fairly obvious reasons. Running such programs without significant leaks would be nearly impossible. But what if these programs involved time travel, memory wiping, or even age reversal? Or if these missions occurred on another planet, perhaps even in another galaxy, in a different time? Source link
Word has gotten around through social media that Nick Pope passed away yesterday in his home of Tucson, Arizona, in the company of his wife. He was just sixty years old, and had only recently revealed in February the news that he had been diagnosed with terminal esophageal cancer, which he was taking with great aplomb. After working for the British government as a civil servant for 21 years, Pope irrupted into the public UFO scene in the 1990s with the publication of his book ‘Open Skies, Closed Minds’, where he related his experience after being in charge of the…
Ben and Aaron—the Mysterious Universe founders—are back! Inescapable is live. Episode One is streaming now. Already an MU Plus+ subscriber? Your membership now includes full access to Inescapable and exclusive Plus+ content at no extra cost. New to Plus+? Subscribe to MU Plus+ before April 14th to unlock permanent dual access to both Mysterious Universe Plus+ and Inescapable. Your bonus membership remains active for the lifetime of your subscription. Q: I’m an MU Plus+ subscriber. How do I access Inescapable? Log in and open your Dashboard (click the menu icon in the top-right). Scroll to the Inescapable Feed section. Copy…
So, we’ve all exhaled now, until the next time we have to hold our breath again? Vale British UFO personality Nick Pope (1965-2026). The brain might not create consciousness after all: What if consciousness isn’t created by the brain — but is actually built into the universe? Medieval ‘giant’ with trepanned skull discovered in mass grave in England. Nearly a century of wondering: The American UFO saga, in reality and in fiction. How a giant squid attack became an urban legend. Review: In an age of disinformation, “Saucers, Spooks and Kooks” is the real disclosure film. Reminder: We published the…
With Communist China targeting a crewed lunar landing by 2030, Artemis II shows why the Moon race is a contest for strategic power and national leadership. Source link
“A brain biased toward seeing meaning rather than randomness is one of our greatest assets. The price we pay is occasionally connecting dots that don’t really belong together.”1 –Rob Brotherton For nearly a decade, a mysterious ailment known as “Havana Syndrome” has been portrayed as proof that American diplomats and intelligence officers have been attacked by a foreign adversary using a secret energy weapon. Few outlets have promoted this narrative more forcefully than the CBS television News Magazine 60 Minutes, which has presented the saga as a chilling geopolitical mystery. Yet after years of investigation, the U.S. intelligence community has concluded that…
There’s a kind of storytelling tariff that sci-fi thrillers pay: the alien has to be visually—and physiologically—“other.” The more it resembles us, the less it feels like an invasion, and the less it sells popcorn. So, filmmakers crank the dials. Alien is the perfect example: a creature engineered for maximum dread—extra jaws, parasitic reproduction, and even acid for blood, a brilliant idea because it turns injury into a terrifying weapon. Great cinema. Bad biology. The alien as a monsterConstraints, Not MonstersBut biology isn’t a special-effects studio. Evolution doesn’t get to pick any chemistry, any anatomy, any habitat, and call it…
Welcome aboard, friends! On this occasion, we aren’t going anywhere. We’re using the fiftieth anniversary of Skeptical Inquirer to reflect on the adventures we’ve had so far. Imagine what we’d learn about skepticism if we could time travel to 2076. Skeptics, and their critics, could suddenly access the next fifty years of evidence. How warm is the planet? Is creationism still a thing? Did anybody find Bigfoot? Obviously, there’s no known mechanism for traveling to the future, other than waiting, but we can use fifty years of Skeptical Inquirer to play the future observer to skepticism of the past. This…
Many people might find this to be an easy question and simple concept – what is your favorite color? In fact it was used as the quintessential easy question by the bridge guardian in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. But it is a good rule of thumb that everything is much more complicated than you think or than it may at first appear, and this is no exception. We recently had a casual discussion about this topic on the SGU, and it left me unsatisfied, so I thought I would do a deeper dive. Perhaps there is a neuroscientific…
It’s been said that “He who controls the media controls the mind.” (Variously attributed to Jim Morrison of the rock band The Doors, along with Noam Chomsky.) Whoever said it, billionaires seem to have taken it to heart. Elon Musk has made 𝕏 his “de facto public town square.” Jeff Bezos has The Washington Post. Rupert Murdoch continues to consolidate conservative media outfits via Fox and News Corp (which owns The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and HarperCollins). Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has expanded from merely friending people on Facebook to Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. Brian Roberts’s Comcast is in charge of…