2024 Expectations - Space - Science - AI - UFOs UAP

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As 2023 winds down, I am joined by Jimmy Church of Faded Black Radio for a discussion of what 2024 may hold in regards to developments in AI, space, science, and of course, UFOs. Welcome to this episode of Mysteries with a History, where you'll be taken on a wild ride into the unknown, the strange, and the mysterious. (00:33) Like you, I have questions. And like you, I want answers. And with each episode together, we will peel away the layers to look for the truth. Let's bring in my co-host, Jimmy Church of Fade to Black Radio. You just love doing that, don't you? I prep you before you come in. You're like, okay, right now, let's bring him in. (00:57) Right now. To be fair, from the beginning of 2023 until today, the interest has gotten a lot shorter. I was doing my hair and stuff. Anyway, Happy New Year, Christina. How are you? What's going on? Things are good. Happy New Year to you too. You look bright and cheery. Are you looking forward to 2024? Heck yeah. (01:28) Can't look at the past, you know, except in this case you can. But 2024 seems rather promising when it comes to a handful of advancements. And I think we should start off with something that we talk a lot about on this channel. And that's AI. Should we get into that aspect first, Jimmy? There is so much. (01:49) Coffee went down the wrong pipe. There is so much going on in 2024. Starting with AI is cool. We can go there first. There is so much to look forward to. And let me say this. Christina, take it away. I've got to take a sip. Absolutely. So one of the biggest things that took place in 2024 has to do with significant AI advancements. (02:21) Now, while ChatGPT came out in November of 2022, it was in 2023 when people really started getting on the bandwagon, started using it. And then a lot of other companies and organizations, I almost want to say, also jumped on it when they saw how, I would say, Not just the word progressive, but in the sense of how much it will be used throughout the planet. (02:48) Why? Let me add one thing to that, if I may. There was a huge amount of financial investment across the board. And so just like anything else, when something significant kicks off, like with America Online back in 1995, 1994, 95, when that launched and suddenly the internet was in front of us, all you had to have was a website, you know, a dot com. (03:26) And you had everybody was and it's the same type of phenomenon that is going on right now with AI. If you're an AI company, you've got investment. The jumps that have been made across the board with, of course, you have Google and you have Facebook and Amazon and Microsoft and those applications going across the board, across every single platform, and that includes Twitter. (03:59) These huge amounts of money have gone into this, and that is part of the incentive for for getting ahead of our skis, right? We're just jumping into this without any consideration of the future or any problems that may result from these very, very, very, very fast advancements seemingly without any regulation. (04:26) And so I think that's a big motivation a big motivation factor for the way that AI has entered our lives. It's the financial side that includes everything else that you just mentioned. You bring up something that needs to be addressed and it's kind of referring to the law. How is AI going to be regulated? The United States and places in Europe are already looking at that, placing laws, placing amendments as well, because in a sense, it's almost getting a little out of hand. (04:57) Now, before I get into that, because I do have an article for you. I do wanna mention the ones that came out this year. So you have Microsoft Copilot and Bing Chat. You have the Google Bard and Gemini, which between you and me, Bart is not that good. Okay. Then you have Twitter Grok. And then you have a new one that just launched last month with Amazon. (05:20) And that's Amazon Q and Q Business. And this one, I was like, hold up. How did I not know about this? Yes, it just came out a few weeks ago. But I imagined news outlets would be spilling it everywhere, spewing it all over the place. And it wasn't until I was doing research for today's show that I come across it. (05:38) Jimmy, have you heard of Amazon Q before? Yeah, it's a new type. Here's the thing. It's a new type of generative artificial intelligence, and it's an assistant that's specifically for work and can be tailored to customers, businesses, but it's targeted at AWS, Amazon Web Services. (06:05) And Amazon, of course, Amazon Prime and getting boxes delivered. That's what comes to mind first with Amazon. And that's not where Amazon makes its money. Amazon makes its money for... from web services and server farms and data and storage. AWS runs just about everything with the internet these days. (06:34) And so Amazon needed to obviously jump on the artificial intelligence bandwagon like everybody else. But how do you profit from it? How do you increase these already enormous profits for AWS, Amazon Web Services? They answered that with Amazon Q. And now the changes and what this means for everybody else, you have to understand that AWS, it doesn't matter if you're on the Internet. (07:10) your banking, the stuff that you do on your phone, everything funnels through just about an Amazon web server farm, AWS. That is how big AWS is. The more you know, because I didn't know that little tidbit about AWS, something that I do know when it comes to Europe and then making an AI act, which was just released in early December of this year, where European lawmakers wrap up a busy policy year as it is every year all over the world. (07:45) And they agreed on the AI Act, which will introduce binding rules and standards on how to develop the riskiest AI more responsibly. And it will also ban, quote, certain unacceptable applications of AI, such as, listen to this, this is really important, such as police use of facial recognition in public spaces. (08:11) Now, with first of all, that little aspect is really interesting, but we have to kind of bring into this is in twenty twenty four. Are we going to see more censorship because AI and censorship, they play hand in hand with this? And I I have to share this with you. I want to hear it from you, Jimmy. I want to hear it from those watching this, from all of my subscribers. (08:36) Because I spoke to Google support this morning, actually. And I did. And I had a few questions. And here's a screenshot of that conversation, because I have the receipts here. And I said, is this channel shadow banned? And why did I ask that? because I have had people comment to me, DM me, email me saying they have unsubscribed without their own knowledge. (09:01) They're not getting notifications even when they hit the notification bell and they don't know why I was getting so many of those responses. I wrote to Google support and I said, look, we're coming to twenty twenty four. Is something going on here? Can I have information on that? Because this channel, similar to yours, Jimmy, It covers topics that are kind of deemed as a cult, such as UFOs, UAP, the paranormal, unexplained mysteries, et cetera. (09:27) And I said, can you confirm or deny that this channel is shadow banned? And they gave the answer right here to answer your question directly, says Google. We are unable to confirm nor deny this matter. Jimmy. Jimmy, Jimmy. Okay. First of all, why is that statement right there significant? Why is it worth mentioning in your opinion? Because you're shadow banned, right? If you weren't, the answer is simple. (09:58) No, there's no issues with your channel. We love you. Everything is fine. We are unable to confirm nor deny this matter. And I find that extremely interesting. Okay. This is – let's back up for a second. Microsoft Copilot, which it's a Microsoft world, at least from where I sit – I use Microsoft 365. (10:30) That is incorporated with other network platforms that I use. And 365 interconnects everything. So I get this notification. I was working on some stuff. Would you like to use Microsoft Copilot and our AI information systems in Bing? Now, I don't use Bing. Okay, I use Chrome. Who does? Okay, serious question. (10:57) It's a great question. Well, anyway, and I said, no, no, no. And I went, what? wait a minute here, this stuff was already activated? And would I like to use it? I had to go back and turn it off. Google BARD and Gemini are both conversational AI tools by Google, and they collaborate together. BARD is, this is Google's statement about BARD. (11:29) Collaborate with BARD to brainstorm ideas, spark creativity, and accelerate productivity. That's how they are advertising it out there. It's like reckless abandon, right? Oh, that seems okay. I'm going to go ahead and use this. I think it is a massive data collection tool. And we need to be very, very, very careful about how we jump into this. (11:57) Twitter Gork, Gork, Gork, the Twitter Gork is an AI modeled after Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And I love Douglas Adams. I love the movie, love the books. And it's intended to answer almost everything. If you go back to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and dealing with Grok, you understand this appeal there. (12:26) To answer almost anything, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask. Grok is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and has a rebellious streak. So please don't use it if you hate humor. That is direct. That kind of reminds you of Elon Musk, like he wrote that himself. Well, not just that. (12:47) Not just that, Jimmy. But what's really funny for those that use Grok is they even have a little one that you can choose that says roast me. So it will go over all of your posts that you posted on Twitter, and it will just rip you apart. And it's hilarious. It's so funny. But it will humble you. (13:05) If you don't want to know. Twitter's humbled me many times. And so when I look at all of this, Microsoft Copilot and, of course, Google Bard and Gemini, Twitter Grok, Amazon Q, everybody is on board with this. Earlier today on the news, I did this press release. Now, this came out over the weekend, and I had read it. (13:35) just thinking to myself this this has arrived it's like our biggest fear uh pakistan's uh prime minister is currently in prison and uh ex-prime minister but he's also running for office again from prison and he's in prison because he was selling gifts state gifts that were given to him by whoever, you know, from around the world, different countries. (14:03) He was selling them. Okay. All right. So he went to prison for that. But for a new political ad, his political party is called PTI. He wrote out a message that was sent to his political party. They turned around and used artificial intelligence, a couple of robots, generative software platforms out there to convert his voice into this message. (14:41) And they put it out there and they streamed it on Twitter. and it's his voice now that that that fear that right there the ability to do that well in this case it was sanctioned by khan himself okay but this same system whatever it is that you type out can be applied to anybody's voice and it can be as realistic as as you want it to be now is it Is it something that could be misleading or confusing, or could it be used to inflame a segment of the world? Think about that for a second. (15:25) Seems cool at first, but in the wrong hands, you don't know what's real and what's not, Christina. That's where the difficulty lies in this. And there have been a handful of articles written about chat GPT when it came out up until today on understanding its level of bias. Then you have Grok, which is run by Twitter, now known as the X, and it has that level of comedy that we don't see often in AI. (15:54) And then you have Bing, which is similar to chat GPT, but I think it's I'm not sure because I don't use it that much, their version. But it's very similar to ChatGBT. It also has that level of bias in some cases. And then you have the other one that I mentioned. Let me just make sure. Just to make sure I'm on the same page. (16:14) And then you have BARD. Okay. Highly do not recommend. I've tried using it. And it gets... all of the information wrong. Well, almost all of it. But the thing is that if you don't know, but Jimmy, you bring up a good point. If you don't know what information is correct and incorrect, you are spreading misinformation all over the place, thinking that the internet has it right, that this AI that's meant to be a super genius has it right. (16:39) And it doesn't. And the thing is that if you do not backtracked, you're in trouble. Yeah, that's right. That's right. And it seems like the fact checking now is also artificial intelligence. And now speaking about ChatGPT, a couple of months ago, before we move on, its CEO and founder, was fired by their board, which the employees rebelled. (17:08) A day later, Microsoft announces that they have hired him to come over to Microsoft and offered any of the 500 employees that had signed a letter and threatened to quit offered all of them jobs. Now, at a time, so you read this and you go, well, Microsoft is jumping on board. It turned out Microsoft was in a win-win situation. (17:37) The 500 employees who threatened to quit unless they rehired the CEO, right? That's pretty bizarre. Would the board turn around and respond? This is what ended up happening. It was then revealed that Microsoft was the biggest shareholder and the biggest investor into ChatGPT. So they bring over and they hire the CEO, and they hire all of the employees. (18:06) They already own the company. The CEO was fired by their own board, but Microsoft hired, and they win either way. So the 500 employees that either hire him back, what happened a day later? Three days, he gets fired, he gets hired by Microsoft, and on day three, The board gets fired and... And they rehire the CEO and Microsoft increases its investment back into chat GPT. (18:38) These are the things that are going on behind the scenes, everybody, that we don't really understand. That's where AI is. It is the big money thing right now for not only major corporations, but investment on Wall Street and the move forward as we go into 2024. Yes. Now, I do have one amazing update about ChatGPT. (19:02) So they're getting a ChatGPT 5 next year in 2024. And let me tell you the number one biggest highlight that I am stoked for. This is wild. So according to a speech that was held by one of the frontier researchers at OpenAI, his name is Mark Chen. He gave a speech November of 2023, and he said, that the multi-model capabilities in OpenAI's ChatGPT4 model enable the software to respond to visual and audio input. (19:35) And then he mentions in his talk that Chen gave the example of taking a photo of the inside of your fridge and asking the AI model to suggest a recipe based off of the photos of the inside of the fridge and then creating with all the ingredients that are inside. You know how badly I want to use that right now? I've been looking for it and I can't find a good one. (20:01) When that news release came out and I was talking about it and I was also thinking about that, So the ability to scan your refrigerator, right, like that, and know your ingredients expiration dates. You know what? You better use that jar of mayonnaise. Right. it is and it was uh it was pretty interesting and i think i'm gonna check that out too as well just as a test if anything else right you know it would be amazing but then i just found out today okay i have a sick story for you jimmy because i just found out today (20:45) I was looking on Amazon, and I wanted to buy a table. And it gave you this brand-new option that I've never seen before. It will scan your room, and it will show you how the piece of furniture looks in your room. Uh-huh. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. See, and that's the teaser, though, Christina. (21:08) That's the teaser. This is what AI can do for you. This is what machine learning can do for you. right? And everything else, it's that side of it where, yeah, if used correctly, it is absolutely very cool. So, Did you take a picture? Did you upload it? Did you look at the table? You don't have to upload it. (21:32) It just reads your camera, which is already kind of sketched, to be real. And it scans your room, and then it gives you the dimensions of the table, and it'll match it in the room. So let's say you want to buy a couch but don't know what kind of rug you want. Not all of the products give you that feature, but a lot of them do. (21:50) And then you can kind of feel out if you're an interior designer, for instance, right? It's a wacky game changer. It's insane. All those interior designers are going to be out of work. Right? See? It kind of goes both ways. What was that? Christina's fridge will look like ketchup and ramen tonight. (22:16) I found the ultimate ramen edition. Okay. Are you ready? Shameless plug. Trader Joe's. has a jar it's about this big of olive oil and red pepper flakes and it's orange because the red pepper flakes soak into the olive oil and man you just take add it to anything but let me tell you something ramen and that Boom. (22:52) Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So just go to Trader Joe's and go, olive oil, red pepper flakes. They'll take you straight to it. It's amazing. You can add it to anything. I think there's onions in it, too, as well. So good. Can't go wrong with onions. So before we move on to our next topic, let me ask you this. (23:11) What do you what can we expect in 2024 when it comes to AI advancements? What do you think will take place and maybe how will it change our current understanding of reality? Yeah, I think it's going to apply across the board in media. So AI being used to create not only books, articles that you read, the news, your feeds, all of that, because right now somebody's got to type, somebody's got to write, somebody's got to think. (23:47) We're going to see that. But then there's the other part where we are going to see generative AI being used in imaging, used in commercials, used in film, used in television, constantly. So I'll give you a quick example. And you may never notice this. You're shooting a TV show, you're shooting a movie, and you do a take, and it's not perfect, but the director is thinking to himself, we can fix that with AI. (24:20) Let's move on. So now you're watching the film. So now, instead of doing 20 takes of something, you do two. Maybe you do one. And then later in post, you go in and fix it with AI. It's going to save the production companies a ton of money. But the people that are working on the film, now let's say you do 20 takes. (24:48) That's a union shop that is now in overtime. And instead of doing those 20 takes and you're doing one, people are going to make less money. That's the first part. The second part is, say, the film budget. is $100 million or $200 million, or it's $100,000, right? It's an independent feature. (25:13) All of that can now shrink. So your budgets are less and you are more productive, but less people are being paid, including the actors. So we're going to see a ton of that moving, I mean, so fast going into 2024. That's what that actor's strike was all about, no? It was about AI writing scripts. (25:39) And correct me if I'm wrong, because I didn't really care for it between you and me, but I'm pretty sure that's what the strike was about. There were two strikes. Actor's strike, writer's guild strike. Both were overlapping with this AI situation. And the actor's part of it, which is what I'm referring to here when it comes to AI, Let's say, just pull out a name, Kiefer Sutherland, right? Okay, so Kiefer has got a new TV series out, and then there are scenes in the TV series where Kiefer didn't shoot. (26:19) They used his face, right? And AI, you would never know. Now, does Kiefer get paid for those AI scenes? No. Or not. And that's what the actors feel like. Yeah, yeah. So it's a very, very big deal. And the point before we move on, we've got so much to cover today. But the point about all of that, I was reading about that. (26:45) I live in Hollywood. I'm reading about this. And then I see I'm on Reddit. And I'd see this thread on Reddit about this particular series that I was in the middle of watching. And a specific actor in one of these scenes didn't shoot the scene. And I was like, wait a minute, I just saw that episode. (27:10) What are they talking about? So I go back and I watch the episode. Watch the specific scene. And I said, no. That was really him. And I think Reddit got it wrong. And then I stopped and went, oh, it fooled me. Oh, crap. That's where we are. And then I understood the whole Writers Guild and Actors Guild position on this, where I thought everybody got it wrong. (27:50) I was all ready to pose like, no, man, that was really him. that's, that's the crazy part. I went back, Christina, I watched that scene like five times. There is no way that you would know that it wasn't the actor. I don't want to say the specific part. It was the writer's guild strike and everything. (28:13) I don't want to get specific here, but it's here. It's arrived and it's going to be everywhere as we move forward. That's insane. See, I was not even aware of that little detail just because I wasn't keeping up with that strike by any means. But when you put it in that context, it's very relevant to what we're talking about today. (28:32) And, of course, if that were to take place as it is now, it's going to cause a lot of issues in the near future as it is in this point in time. Here's the point, though. Would you care? Do you care? It's entertainment. One of the best things or one of the things that I enjoy the most is a really good CGI fight. (28:59) Oh, yeah. Right? Transformers. Well, you know it's not real, but do you care? No. No, it's entertainment. So I'm asking you, if one of your favorite actors, and you find out later that they didn't even act in that scene, but you enjoyed the scene, Right? Do you care? Does it matter? For the majority of people, it would only matter if it affects you. (29:33) Right? Now, if you're watching it merely for entertainment, as you gave that as an example, for the majority of people, no, it wouldn't bother them. But when you begin to see the consequences of it, that's when it can turn into an issue. But if you're not familiar with the topic as a whole, you're watching a movie, you're watching a TV show merely for the entertainment, just like cartoons, okay? That's an example. (29:57) I get that. I get that. But okay, so now let's do a complete flip here, okay? Production studio goes to Tom Cruise and says, Tom, we want you for this next film for $50 million. Tom's like, cool, man. Great script. When do we start shooting? We're not. We're going to use an AI version of you, but we're going to pay you $50 million. (30:30) And Tom says, cool. So he gets his 50 million. The world gets a movie starring Tom Cruise, right? Right. But he doesn't shoot a single scene. Does that matter? Does that matter? Is that really Tom Cruise? Or do we care? I'm telling you, that is the future. There's no way we can stop it. So we need to think about these pop culture considerations, this discernment consideration, right? Do I care that that's Tom Cruise? This is a really good scene. (31:16) That movie was really good, but he wasn't even in it. But I went to go see it because it said starring Tom Cruise. That's the world. That's the future. I know. Crazy, isn't it? Crazy. Crazy. Good points that that aren't always addressed. So I liked how we're having these kinds of, I want to say like a crock pot of brain juices going all over the place is trying to comprehend what's going on and what the future will hold. (31:46) I do want to say Cassidy. Thank you so much, Laurie. Thank you. And D no P dubs at dyslexia there. Thank you as well. Thank you so much. That is, is so, so kind because I, you know they are supers are so appreciated they do help so much for this channel and now that we have proof that google and youtube is shadow banning this channel so please make sure that you are subscribed notifications are on because they can either confirm nor deny and that is all the information that i need Oh, man. (32:19) You know... Okay, let's move on. We could... AI is so important. We can absolutely spend the entire show today or any other day talking about AI. I've given my warnings. I've thought about this quite a bit. I love technology. I love where the future is, and I dig it. I'm in a technical world. (32:44) I just... I'm a Harley. This is how much of a geek I am. This is called a quad lock. It also is the magnetic, right? The mag charger. Quad lock. This goes on my handlebars. Got a little quad lock. And you just go twist, boom, right there. Cell phone on my motorcycle. Now, is that too much? Is that taking things too far? Isn't that expression of freedom that a motorcycle gives you anti-that? Right? Right? You're not supposed to have that. (33:31) And I've watched other motorcycles drive by, and I see the cell phone mounted. I'm like, man, no, no. And what do I do? I jump in. And that's where we are. We're in this connected world. So now I've got AI following me around on my two wheels. Yeah, it's the future. I'm not a Luddite. (33:57) I'm trying to embrace it as much as I can. But I just don't want us to get ahead of our skis. We learned a lot of lessons about what the Internet and social media can do to society, to social circles, to families, to friends. And it seems like we should have learned a lesson. And we haven't. And AI started many, many years ago. (34:24) This latest revolution that is going on and evolution that is going on, this rapidly hit the streets about a year ago. And right now, the responses of regulation are happening. They're happening today. This didn't go on five years ago. It's after ChatGPT and OpenAI and BARD and Gemini and Q and Grok are all apart office assistants. (34:55) The chatbot that you were interacting with on Google, that's AI. That's a machine learning. You're not talking to Google. You're talking to software. Right? Think about it. That's crazy. And nobody is complaining about it. Nobody is stopping it. It's here, and now we've got to figure out a way to mold and be malleable and adapt because there's nothing we can do about it. (35:30) There's not much we can do. It's evolving so rapidly that it's something that is going to be very hard to avoid. Right now, you can kind of avoid it, but in the near future, that won't be the case. People are asking about Puck. Puck is home for the holidays. He went back to the Bridgewater Triangle to visit some family. (35:50) So he is not here, but he will be here for the new year. And Cindy, thank you for that. It says, I confirm that I am a real person. My AI version is at work. Honestly goals, Cindy, are you still making that money though? Are you keeping the funds? And by the way, this is the real me. And that is the real Christina. (36:10) We haven't quite, Hey, maybe one day we should try that. We should have AI versions of us and we can do a show and have them talk to each other. For the future, for 2024. And Sean, thank you for that as well. We'll just do it once. Just do it once. So I do want to bring in space into this, space advancements, things that have happened this year, and also things that will happen in 2024. (36:44) There's some really cool missions that are going to be happening. First thing I would like to mention is that NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is made history in 2023 by becoming the first American to spend a full year in space on board the International Space Station, the ISS. And he spent a total of 371 days in space, and he beat the record... (37:08) of 337 days by a Russian astronaut in 1994 to 1995. And then there was another one for 340 days by an American astronaut from 2015 and 2016. why is this relevant why is this important well first of all those that succumb to any length of time and space your body it just degrades your your your muscle your muscles your bones your eyesight as well there's a lot of health factors that take place when you're in zero gravity So for Frank Rubio to spend 371 days in space, yes, he did make an amazing record. (37:51) But we have to ask about what health effects and what consequences he has received since then. Okay, now let's take it a step further. Let's do it. What would happen... If a woman got pregnant in space and the baby develops in zero gravity, what happens? Because we've got millions of years of evolution based on one thing, the ground, right? The ground and gravity. (38:39) And what would happen? So, and it's going to happen eventually, and it will be a laboratory experiment at first, right? The testing and what changes in the genetics and is DNA altered? How is blood pumped through the circulatory system? How does the brain work if it is gestated in zero gravity? Think about that for a second. (39:12) So what pops out? what pops out. So when we talk about the effects of microgravity and zero gravity on humans, right, you get taller by a little bit and this happens and your muscles degrade and your bones aren't as strong and that's why they're constantly working out so they can mimic, you know, those efforts that happen on the surface of the earth. (39:40) But what would happen to a newborn baby if it goes to term nine months in space and then is born, right? And it's going to happen. It's going to happen. And there are medical professionals at NASA sitting around discussing this. Asking the real questions. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is going to happen. Now, there's a TV show called For All Mankind. (40:17) Everybody should go and watch it. It's on Apple TV. It's amazing. Watch every season. And I'm in the middle of the newest season now. But it's about the colonization of Mars. Eventually, that's this season. The first few seasons deal with the 60s and the 50s and the 60s and the 70s. But anyway, if you're living on Mars... (40:42) And cohabitating, you've got men, you've got women, you've got relationships, you've got things going on. So what would happen in that gravity environment, right? And the other things that are involved with the atmosphere and radiation, if you have a baby on Mars, how does DNA change? And are you a Martian? Right? Right. (41:11) Now think about what I, these are heavy. And we are planning on being on Mars like in five years. Five years. If Elon Musk has his way, we would have been there, you know, had his way, we would have been there last week. But that's where we are at. And these are fundamental, non-trivial questions that need to be answered. (41:38) They are non-trivial. It's something that needs to be addressed, honestly, as soon as possible. There have been some articles written, I believe it was by Science Alert or Science Daily, which are both really great online websites. But with those, they bring up that question because at some point it is going to happen and it will happen in the near future. (42:01) Because we are aware that the Artemis 2 mission will take place in 2024, where there will be four astronauts touching the surface of the moon yet again after, since what, like 1970-something? 72, 72. Jimmy, you drank your coffee today. You are on the flipping ball, all right? Okay, just bam, bam, bam. well okay so let's let's let's do i'm looking at the clock let's get let's go through some of these emissions that are planned for 2024 first up and one of the big ones and i keep going back to arthur c clark on this uh this is a big deal what i want to know which one you're going to talk about i'm excited europa clipper (42:50) I'm so excited for that one. Big, big deal. NASA's Europa Clipper will conduct a detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa and investigate whether the icy moon could have conditions suitable for life. Its launch date—everything is happening, by the way, it seems like, in the fourth quarter of 2024— Launch date of October 2024. (43:14) This goes right back to Arthur C. Clarke, 2001, A Space Odyssey, Jupiter, 2010, the year we make contact, also by Arthur C. Clarke, all dealing with Europa. And so we get a message back from E.T. that says, all of the universe is yours to explore. Europa is ours. Leave Europa alone. And how far back that goes and the prediction of Europa. (43:50) And that's it. This is finally happening in October of 2024. This is a big deal. Oh, it is. And it's so exciting. And for those that aren't familiar with Europa, don't worry. It's okay. But the reason to why this is so incredibly significant is that not only are they looking for potential life, but Europa likely harbors a saltwater ocean, which scientists expect contain twice as much water as all the oceans here on Earth combined. (44:21) And Earth, water equals life, right? So could you imagine alien jellyfish, alien whales, super awesome alien dolphins, right? I mean, the expectations and the possibilities are endless. So even though it's going to hopefully launch in late 2024 it will not arrive to europa until the year 2030 so it's going to be out in space doing its long travel for about six years and i'm hoping here i don't think we have the information just yet but i really do hope that on this rocket there will be cameras as it's traversing through space instead of just having it on the on the satellite that's going to (45:06) around Europa, but I'm not sure about that information just yet. Yeah, and what they're planning on, they're called cryobots. And so part of this mission is looking at the icy surface, but cryobots, which are used here on Earth to melt through glaciers and Right? And they melt the ice. Before the ice can freeze, it melts the ice in front of it. (45:42) So they want to take that, it's called a cryobot probe, and they want to take those to Enceladus and Europa. Because the ice there, yes, deep below the ice, there is what we think is saltwater and oceans, but we got to get to it. Conventional drilling take forever. Drilling through ice is a big, big, big, big job. (46:11) But to have a probe that would be nuclear powered, nuclear powered because that would generate the heat that is needed. and it could melt the ice fast enough, the probe drops down because of gravity, drops down, and then it obviously is ice behind it. It refreezes. But that's the plan, and that's the exciting part of the Clipper mission. (46:39) Now, what is down there? Let me just theorize on something. One of the reasons why you and I are talking right now is because of fire. We were able to control fire. Once that happened and we could control fire, everything else kicks off in human evolution. Can you evolve as a species? underwater because fire is an issue. (47:23) Fire is an issue. So what kind of intelligent species? Dolphins are great. Octopi are great, but they lack, they're smart enough to do whatever, but they lack those fundamental tools that start at fire. Now, what's the species, what's the intelligent species that could live under the ice on Europa? That's the big question. (47:56) When you bring the aspect of fire, it might brush by a lot of people and think, well, why is fire significant? It plays a very significant role in the evolution of a species, just like how you had mentioned. And so when you're dealing with intelligent life, yes, a lot of them, at least as we think thus far, would need to have some form form some way to create fire in a way and then we can we can honestly bring up the aspect of mermaids i don't want to get too deep into that but mermaids intelligent because i mean they can go on land and on water therefore they can make fire if they want to and they have thumbs as well but something else i wanted to bring up because no one wants to smell mermaids uh you have the artemis 2 mission that's going to launch later this year next year (48:46) But then you have the VIPER, which stands for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover. I am so happy they made an acronym because my goodness, is that a mouthful? Yeah, it is. So this is a robot the size of a golf cart that NASA will use to explore the moon's south pole in late 2024 and mainly to look for water. (49:08) That is the purpose for this particular rover mission. called the Viper, which I think is, you know what? NASA sometimes can come up with some really cool names. This was one of them. Artemis is a cool name, too. Artemis is a pretty cool name. Artemis 2 is the second scheduled launch mission of NASA's new moon program. (49:35) It's the first scheduled cruise crewed mission with a crew. And it, you know, it's the Orion spacecraft currently planned to be launched by the Space Launch System no earlier than November of 2024. Again, right? It's that fourth quarter. It's that fourth quarter of 2024. We've got action coming all the time, including the Viper mission, which Now, we just mentioned the Europa Clipper. (50:07) We mentioned Artemis II. You've just brought up Viper. Water is the key, just like Europa. Water is the key. And if we are going to have a colonization, extended colonization, build cities on the moon, which may already exist, we don't know. That's another show. But we can't fire rockets full of water to the moon. (50:41) Can't do that. It's too expensive. So that's what VIPER's mission is. It's going to search for ice and other potential resources. And it is currently planned to be delivered to the surface of the moon in November of 2024. Ba-ba. Super exciting. And then also in 2024 is the Space Entertainment Enterprise will launch a film production studio 250 miles from Earth, very close to the International Space Station. (51:15) And I believe, talking about Tom Cruise, he was the first actor to sign and say, hey, I want to be the first actor to film in space. Will it be the real Tom Cruise? Oh. It will be the real Tom Cruise. Space Entertainment Enterprise, that's right, 250 miles above Earth. Axiom, the leader in human spaceflight services and human-related and rated space infrastructure, has been contracted by UK-based Space Entertainment Enterprises, S-E-E-C, to manufacture C-1. (51:53) This is an inflatable space station module targeted for launch to the Axiom segment of the International Space Station at the end of 2024. An inflatable movie studio. That's awesome. Yeah. Totally cool. Do you think... Okay, so Tom Cruise signed on. That was a big deal, right? It was. So does Tom Cruise... (52:23) Fly on SpaceX to the International Space Station into the new sea studios to film Mission Impossible six. I'm just saying. Yeah, right. It's a film in itself. Just just that journey getting there. That's right. Oh, absolutely. 100%. What kind of insurance is applied to that? I'm talking about an insurance policy, right? All actors are insured. (53:01) All movies are insured, right? So can you imagine the underwriter? Now, wait a minute. What do you guys want to do? Tom Cruise, right? We're going to launch him to the ISS, right? We've got a 130-page script. It's already done. Mission Impossible 8. You have to have assurances that this is actually going to happen. (53:29) Now, there's that part. But if you're Tom Cruise, do you do it? it's a once in a lifetime opportunity and to be the first you're making history now also with the space entertainment enterprise at some point they do also want to launch influencers youtubers and people that do like vlogs and stuff to also go up there and to share their experience so while they're starting off with one of the most famous actors of all time they're going to start kind of making it a little bit more accessible to I wouldn't say your everyday people but to your more (54:03) mundane kind of people. Do you do it? Right? I'm up there floating around. River Moon Coffee. Right? That's where this is going. Right? YouTube, Instagram, right from space. Oh, man. These are the best jackets ever. For when you're in microgravity, check this out. Right? That's where this is going. (54:36) And one of the, I guess you would call it travel influencers, right? People that travel around the world from different beaches and driving their Ferrari in Monaco. Well, what kind of subscriber base would you get? From the ISS. Think about that. You would get the traveler people that are interested, and you'll get the space nerds. (55:11) It's pretty good. It's the future. It's the future. Can't go wrong with space nerds. It's the future. Which is without a doubt. That is something that we know will definitely happen. If not in 2024, then by 2025. But there's also some really interesting other things that are going to be coming up, which is one of them being telescopes. (55:33) Telescopes are amazing. This one stands for the ELT. Can you guess what the ELT stands for, Jimmy? Just take a guess. Extraterrestrial Light Being Telescope. Okay, no. That was pretty close. No. This telescope right... Oh, I'm not even sharing my screen. Like a dummy. Okay, let me put up my screen. I thought I was sharing it. (56:02) So this telescope right here, referred to as the ELT, literally stands for, and I love this, the Extremely Large Telescope. Yep. No thought went into that. The Extremely Large Telescope is... This is... This is, for me, and I talk about this so much, about the James Webb and all of the telescopes that are in and around Chile and Hawaii and the Palomar and so forth, that we have the ability to look through a microscope at cells, right, at tiny things, right, to the exact opposite of To the farthest of the far. (56:55) It's amazing that technology has brought us here today with not only the ELT and the James Webb. And the giant Magellan telescope as well. Yep. And TESS is coming online too as well. These are, yeah, there you go. So right here, and I love the name of these telescopes. You have the very large telescope. (57:17) You have the extremely large telescope. I'm sorry. You have the Keck telescope, 30-meter telescope. You can guess how big that one is. The I can't read that. So we're just going to skip that one. Then you have the Subaru telescope, the South African large telescope, the new technology telescope. (57:41) Then you have the giant Magellan telescope. Okay. This is why I want to bring this up. Not only are some of these names absolutely hilarious to me, but this telescope, the ELT and the giant Magellan telescope are both launching wholeheartedly. hopefully in 2024 they're in the exact same location in chile in the anacama desert um and the reason to why the atacama desert is so prevalent with telescopes is because it is the darkest place in the world at night to where you're able to see space a lot better than other parts of the world (58:12) So both of these are launching, but with the ELT, it is being launched by European agencies, while the Giant Magellan Telescope is being launched by American agencies, which I think is worth mentioning. And then the last one right here, you have this one. The name is not as fun as the Extremely Large Telescope and the Large Telescope right here. (58:34) But it also kind of gives you an understanding of how big it is. And with the ELT, it's almost the same size as the Big Bend or the London Tower. Yeah, and this is, and I was just speaking about this, so let's circle back. When you walk around, and many documentaries, okay, and so go and watch a documentary on some of these telescope and radio telescope complexes in Chile, and look at the technology that is involved. (59:09) The engineering and the design to put something like this together is beyond measure. It's incredible. You look at the little things like the amount of cabling, but every single little part, everything is custom designed. This isn't a car on a production line where you're making multiples. This is a one-off design. (59:33) And the thousands and thousands of engineers and technical experts that are involved with this, this is where human evolution has arrived. And the ELT is extraordinary. And each one of these telescopes, by the way, is linked to the others. So they are able to now combine images. And you have telescopes around the world locking in. (59:59) The first photograph that we took of a black hole, it was nine different telescopes that had to all photograph the same area of deep, deep, deep space at the exact time. Same moment. And then those images are combined, and that's how we got the first image of our first black hole image. That's what's exciting about this. (1:00:24) The technology that is involved here, it's extraordinary that humans have arrived to this point. It is. It is. Honestly, it's so cool. And so with this particular telescope, referring to the ELT, the Extremely Large Telescope, it's planning to, or it's enabled for like detailed studies of planets around other stars, the first galaxies in the universe, and super massive black holes, which we all got to love, and the nature of the universe's dark sector, and also to detect water in organic molecules and (1:01:02) in protoplanetary disks around other stars so this telescope seems very promising compared to a few others but even with the giant magellan telescope it's going to also have some similar features as well but when we're looking at 2024 what the future holds this is a really big deal i do hope that Their data collection will be made public. (1:01:26) I think it'll be an absolute game changer, kind of like with the James Webb Space Telescope. While not all the information has been made public, at the very least, we can guess that the information that has been made public, it's changed. the idea of our evolution of the universe and cosmology as well. (1:01:46) It scratched a lot of heads. It made people re-question and revise how the Big Bang started and getting more information on that. I do hope that the Giant Magellan Telescope and the ELT will also make some groundbreaking discoveries. And I almost want to say it shatters our current understanding of space so that it can evolve and be better. (1:02:09) Because when you have such a strong foundation, but maybe that information isn't necessarily all true, it's amazing to... find and create new technology that makes you re-question what you first believed were fundamental pieces of information that created your foundation when in reality, it was all wrong. (1:02:31) Well, that's exactly the point that we now, in 25 short years, that's it, 25 years of We went from no exoplanets, none, we hadn't detected any yet, to now the ability to look into the atmosphere of planets that are light years away, hundreds of light years away, dozens of light years away. (1:03:03) Do you know how many miles are in a light year? Do you know how far that is? It's a long ways. And people, they throw light years around like it's nothing. You can't see the ability to look into the atmosphere of a distant planet anywhere is unbelievable. And we do it now like it's nothing. (1:03:33) And a light year, it is, it is. And a light year is six trillion miles. Six trillion. Six trillion miles. Think about that. Think about that kind of distance. And we are actually able to look into the atmosphere and look for those key things called technosignatures. We want to look at carbon emissions. We want to be able to detect that. (1:04:03) If there is an intelligent species, right, and they've got a factory that is doing what we're doing, smoke billowing into the air, we want to be able to detect that and see that. Now, here's the caveat. Here's the strange twist, and then we'll move on. We got to talk about disclosure. (1:04:27) Here's the strange twist. When we are looking with the ELT or the James Webb Space Telescope at a distant exoplanet, we are looking at that exoplanet back in time. We're not looking at them in real time. So let's flip it around. Here we are, right, doing this show live from two different cities and the technology that is involved with that. (1:04:57) But if an ET civilization is looking at us with their own ELT, right, their own James Webb Space Telescope, and they're looking at us from 10 light years away, what are they seeing? 100 light years away, what are they seeing? How about 1,000 light years away or 2,000? These are very short distances in space, in the universe. (1:05:27) Well, if they're 2,000 light years away, they're looking at Earth 2,000 years ago. They're not seeing you and I. They're not seeing Teslas driving on the freeways. That's not what they're observing. And so if it goes back 50,000, they're looking at Stone Age man. They're looking at the previous Ice Age. (1:05:50) And if you push it back even further than that, they're looking at dinosaurs. So the closer you are, the more accurate and to the now-now that you would be seeing us. So that's why looking out at a technosignature for another planet that is a thousand light years away, yeah, it's incredible. (1:06:13) But are they still there? Are they still there? We fly a mission to the planet that's got the techno signature and we arrive and we see that they blew themselves up in a nuclear war or the planet got hit by an asteroid, right? It could be anything, but that's the whole twist to all of this is that, yeah, we are looking into deep space, but we're also looking back in time. (1:06:42) Yeah, we're looking at the past. So then would you say that you're a time traveler? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. 100%. yeah never go wrong with time traveling stories and tv shows they're they're the best okay number one number two next to father ted okay now we're getting into our next aspect here and that is obviously ufo disclosure what is going to take place in 2024 we've been given i i want to say promises we've heard rumors but what's going to happen my expectations when i'm comparing it to 2023 they are in some respects high are they incredibly high no (1:07:21) But here are some things that we at the very least should be getting in 2024. One of them is we should be getting the new name of the chief of Arrow since Sean Kirkpatrick has resigned. We should also be getting future UAP reports from Arrow unless here's where it gets a little tricky. Because right before Arrow was the UAPTF, also known as like AIMSOG or whatever, the A-O-I-M-S-G, they gave a preliminary report. (1:07:51) Then Arrow came along with Sean Kirkpatrick, and then they gave a preliminary report. Could we get a new office all together with a new chief and then get another preliminary report? That's where it gets a little dodgy. That's where I think they can jump a lot of hoops in one go. But will that actually happen? Don't know. (1:08:10) We'll find out hopefully in 2024. But then also we should be getting more UAP witness hearings. At least that's what Tim Burchett said earlier this year. When I'm saying earlier, I mean like a month or two ago when they said, oh, we should be getting another one by December. December's out the door already. (1:08:29) We're not going to be getting one this year, but it would be nice to get one next year. But on top of that, I think it'll be really interesting to see what other countries are going to say about their UAP findings, their reports, their offices and their groups, because we are aware that Canada did create theirs earlier this year. (1:08:49) And Japan had some conversations about it. Obviously, we have Mexico, the United States. And so it would be nice to see what other countries will follow suit in 2024. Yeah. And so we have the House, but it's the Senate and the Senate Intelligence Committee, Marco Rubio and others. And Chuck Schumer and what is happening there, that's a big deal. (1:09:17) That's elevating things up quite a bit. There are enough chatter. There is enough chatter going on right now in Washington, D.C., about these hearings hopefully happening as soon as January. And there is conversation that this could be two, three, four, five days in a row. Not a 45-minute hearing, but a five-day hearing. (1:09:43) So we'll see if that actually happens. I'm hoping that it will. I think that the Senate Intelligence Committee has heard enough. You've had David Grush's sworn testimony in front of the House, and they have to respond to that. And so we will see. The other part of this, if we flip this over, going back to your arrow point, If I'm Sean Kirkpatrick and I take over the Arrow office, the Arrow office, I'm talking about when he first got the gig, the Arrow office is based at Wright-Patterson. (1:10:22) If you've done any research at all into this subject, you know the significance of Wright-Patt. And you also know that the Army and the military released a press statement that went public in july of 1947 announcing the crash retrieval of a craft in in roswell new mexico and that the crash debris was flown to wright patterson so if i'm sean kirkpatrick and i take over that gig it's the first thing that i do if my office is at right pat and i'm investigating ufos I want to see what they brought from Roswell. (1:11:09) But would you have the clearance for it? Take me to Hangar 18. Let's go. Right? That's the first priority. Special delivery. Santa just came. Santa, late in the year already? Stargazer, thank you for that. 96 likes away from 400. If you're enjoying the show thus far and what the future holds for 2024, hit that like button down below. (1:11:37) Subscribe and hit the notification bell as we are now aware that this channel is shadow banned. So do make sure that you are subscribed even when you think that you are and then you turn out that you're not. Just check it one more time. We do three shows right here on this channel every single week. (1:11:52) Jimmy, are you going to get that package? Are you going to stay with me for another? Oh man, I'm cool. All right. Fantastic. So, okay. So with this, do you think we're going to get, and we ask this question every single year. Do you think, do you think next year will be the year for UFO disclosure? Do you think we're going to get the goods? Yeah. (1:12:13) Yeah. I, I think that the short answer is yes. But it's what, for those that need that type of disclosure, I think it's going to happen. I think it's going to happen. You're right. Every year, every year, rolling to December. Okay, man, is this the year? Is this the year? Is this the year? Yeah, man, we're close to them. (1:12:41) Well, it's never been like this. Here's the situation, Christina. There are people that need, I'm talking about experiencers and abductees who need for their family and their friends to hear it from an official source. That's what they need for them. Nothing else matters. A show like this, you and I talking, the stuff that I've seen, okay, all right. (1:13:17) But we don't count for their friends and family. Ancient aliens doesn't count for their friends and family. All of the movies and documentaries and TV and Fox News and News Nation, that doesn't matter. No, what is disclosure to everybody else? What do they need? They need an official state announcement to say that we are not alone. (1:13:47) So they can turn to their family and their friends and everybody in their circle and say, see, that's what we need. So are we going to get to that point? I think that we will in 2024. I really do. I think that's a pretty big statement in the sense that we will get disclosure in 2024. There have been rumors that something big is going to happen in 2024, referring to the UFO phenomenon, referring to disclosure. (1:14:15) But something that you stated, and I'm going to emphasize it because I think it's so important. You're right. Some people need to have that disclosure from government officials. Sometimes an experience isn't enough. Sometimes just knowing it, feeling it in your gut isn't enough. You need it from government officials. (1:14:35) But that in itself is a catch-22. And you might ask yourself, why? Well, because there have been so many thoughts, so many ideas, and there's a People do not trust the government. Why should they trust them now for a topic that is so big? Because let's say, and I mentioned this on Tuesday, let's just say for a moment, they do disclose extraterrestrials. (1:14:59) They do expose that there is intelligent life, maybe even visiting Earth. There is, there is, and I'm emphasizing the word is, a connection between UFOs, the paranormal, cryptids, and so many other mysterious aspects. If that little detail is made to the public in the sense of UFO disclosure, they will have to give answers for everything else. (1:15:21) And that's a whole can of worms. That is a whole Pandora's box that will never disappear. ever be closed again. But is that the step that we need for humanity to evolve and start asking bigger and better questions? And as Ronald Reagan had mentioned in his UN speech, will that threat bring us together as a species? Let me get that information. (1:15:47) I ask you, I ask you, will it bring us together? Yeah, well, of course. But we need to bridge the gap between the physics world, the hard sciences and And everything else. Because there's a huge gap between the paranormal, the supernatural, and consciousness, and the unknown, and where we are in the hard sciences. (1:16:19) And those physicists and those quantum theorists and all those researchers out there, they don't want to step outside of the box. They want to stay inside of the box. They just want to study the known. If that announcement happens, then all of those physicists out there and all of those researchers out there, the astrophysicists, the theoretical physicists, all of them now have permission to go outside, to think outside, to go outside and put all of this together. (1:16:56) Because if you look at the universe... Here's the universe. Here is the observable universe. Our amount of knowledge of that is nothing. It's nothing. We don't understand anything. Even the Big Bang Theory now is actually being seriously considered to not have happened. Which is a huge deal. That's a huge deal. (1:17:26) So the one concrete thing that we had was that the universe was 13.8 billion years old. And Einstein backed it up and backed it up and backed it up and took it as far back as he could. And the answer is 13.8 billion. And that was the start of time. That was the one thing that we had. And it seems that that has gone poof. (1:17:55) Because the James Webb Space Telescope says that the universe might be twice as old, being 26.8. Or infinitely old. Maybe we've just always been here. Yeah, that's a crazy. And so it's these things when it comes to ET and disclosure where we need to start thinking freer. We need to open up the sciences. (1:18:24) Consciousness. Consciousness is like the craziest thing. Well, let me explain why. I think that other countries, other cultures out there look at things a bit differently than we do here in the good old U.S. of A. All right? Consciousness. Every physicist, and we could just sit here and name names, right? Every skeptic, every debunker thinks differently. (1:18:55) Every skeptic, every physicist, every debunker hopefully tastes and hears and thinks and has happiness and sadness and anger. They all experience these things. It's called consciousness. But they won't study it. That's the one they all can argue. The reason why you can argue with somebody like me or somebody like yourself is because of consciousness. (1:19:33) So don't tell me that it doesn't exist because it does. It's really that simple. And that's what ET can bring to the table. We can hopefully understand what drives the universe and what makes things connected. Entanglement, Christina, entanglement is the one thing in quantum physics that is so science fiction, it's beyond science fiction. (1:20:02) And that is two particles on the opposite sides of the universe can affect the other in real time. Not at the speed of light. Instantly. Instantly. Right? Now, wait a minute here. Einstein said, and nothing travels faster than the speed of light, but how can entanglement be a real thing? Well, if it is, then consciousness needs to be discussed. (1:20:39) Because apparently the atoms in my brain, the particles in my brain can interact and connect with the particles in the brain of an ET species that's a thousand light years away. What? It's the same thing, isn't it? Particles are particles. What's the difference? And what if ET arrives and it starts to have this discussion? Yeah, this is how we get it done. (1:21:09) Okay, let's talk about this. And that's where we are. And that's why ET and disclosure means so much to humanity. We understand so little. We know a lot, but we actually know nothing. And that's what disclosure brings to the table. And that is the best quote from one of the best philosophers, being Aristotle, to know all is to know nothing. (1:21:36) But while we think we understand so much, we do not. And we might ask ourselves, why is that the case? Why, if you walk up to somebody and you attempt to get an answer from them of something that's kind of difficult to explain, they'll say, I know the answer, but I don't know how to explain it. (1:21:53) And the reason to that is, is that when you were once a child, You were going through that why stage. Mommy, why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why, why, why, why, why? It drove your parents mad. So they said, just stop asking me questions. Shut up, read a book, pick your nose, look at your iPad, whatever, right? You do the same thing in school. (1:22:15) Your teachers say, you will not ask me questions. You will learn this curriculum and your answers are there. But there's still so many gaps. And at this point, when you reach adulthood, You have learned to not ask questions, but instead to just pretend that you know what is going on in order to properly, in your mind, go through the world and telling yourself, I already know everything because if I ask, it will humiliate me. (1:22:42) It will shame me. I will get rejected and all of these little things. And it all goes back, it all trails back to our childhood when in many ways we were not given the proper opportunity to ask those bigger and better questions. Because during that timeframe, you want to understand your environment, the world, the universe, and many people, not everyone, they lose it in their adulthood. (1:23:08) They lose that passion. They lose that curiosity, that inspiration. But when we have these kinds of conversations, bringing up points that maybe others didn't consider, like today you brought up some really fantastic things. And I'm like, I'm so glad he brought that up because not only does it spark questions in me, but I know it sparks curiosity and interest and maybe regaining that passion in others. (1:23:30) And hopefully for the new year, forget about having a new year's resolution to, work out more, maybe to eat healthier, to eat more carrots, whatever. It should be a resolution of being more curious, asking more questions, maybe doing projects that you've never thought about doing or felt too scared to do because you didn't know what was going on. (1:23:54) Go into the project knowing nothing. Don't worry. You will figure it out as you go along. It's like reading IKEA instructions. You have no idea what you're building. But once you get at least the very basics, you're like, I got this. After a few stubbed thumbs and a few tears and maybe an argument with your friend or your partner, you're going to get through it. (1:24:13) You will. And you know what? You're going to feel very, very satisfied at the end of the day building that TV stand or that couch or even building that relationship just a little bit more. Well, that's exactly why, right there. That's exactly why the James Webb Space Telescope or the ELT or Artemis, these are the Europa Clipper, that these are people that are trying to get to those answers. (1:24:45) And if we listen to those that don't care, that are living in an existence of not wondering about or pondering about what may be out there, then life would just be going to work. Your mission in life is to just earn a paycheck, pay your taxes, and die. That there isn't anything else out there to think about. (1:25:15) And if we didn't do that, we wouldn't have discovered these exoplanets. These things wouldn't happen. To rationalize and to constantly, if you see something strange in the sky and you're listening to somebody's rational explanation of it, it's a play on light. It's a reflection in your iris. (1:25:41) It's a bird. Right? But somebody else When they see something, in my own situation, in my own experience, the beer can, and I'm seeing it with 20 or 30 friends, we all see it together. But if you had some skeptic, somebody there, they may not even see it. And if they do, because they don't believe in it, they don't want to see it. (1:26:14) They don't care about it. So maybe they won't see it. Oh, they saw it, but I didn't, I was looking, I didn't see anything. That's number one. Number two, they would explain it away. Oh, it's this. You're seeing that. You're seeing that instead of considering an alternative. And that's what the James Webb Space Telescope gives us. (1:26:36) That's what the ELT gives us. You know, to go to Europa and somehow get beneath the ice to see if there is life on a moon in our solar system is a very, very big deal. What's the alternative? The alternative is not to do it. And if you don't do it, you don't progress. You don't evolve and you don't go anywhere. (1:27:03) And that's why 2024 to me is so exciting. What a fantastic way to end today's show. Jimmy, thank you, as always, for spending yet another year on this channel, sharing your wisdom and your opinions and your insights. And you simply know that this would not be Mysteries with a History without you being right here and sharing all that valuable information with us. (1:27:27) Thank you so much, Christina. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, everybody. Go and tear it up this weekend. I like to say every New Year's, do everything that I would do. Just don't get arrested. All right. I'll talk to you. Christina, behave and be well. Have fun this weekend. And I'll see you in 2024. (1:27:46) Rock on. Thank you. Another great show. If you enjoyed the show, hit that like button. Subscribe as we do three shows right here on this channel every single week. Tomorrow will be Weekly Strange News, and it's going to be our last one of the year, so you know what that means. We'll be collecting all of the strangest news from the year that has been covered on this channel since January of 2023. (1:28:09) And we'll cover maybe 10 or so of just the strangest, wackiest, weirdest things that took place in 2023. You do not want to miss that show. It will be live. So subscribe, hit the notification bell so that you do not miss it. Follow me on Twitter at eyes underscore on the skies for all of my updates and news. (1:28:31) I got to find it. There it is. And also on Instagram at Strange Paradigms, where I share pictures and short videos. If you want to continue this conversation, bring it over to the Discord server with 2,900 other like-minded members. Thank you, Zanzibar, for that update. But let's get to 3K by the end of the year, please. (1:28:50) 2,900 is still a mouthful. Let's get to 3K, all right, by January 1st. And I will not take no for an answer. But for all those that stuck around, I do want to say this. If you need help falling asleep, relaxing, meditating, or using your imagination to wander the universe, take a look at my free music channel called cosmic portals it is ambient space music that i make and it's it's so much fun to do i make it originally to tailor for myself in order to sleep as i do have insomnia but it's been receiving a lot of really great feedback from those that have been listening to it as well if you are interested in space ambient music that channel is called cosmic portals and you can find it right on youtube and the tracks are long they kind of vary in length but most of them are about (1:29:36) an hour or so long. So do take a look at that. And I do hope that you also enjoy it. I want to say thank you to all the super chat super stickers, YouTube members, Patreon supporters, and of course, all of my amazing moderators, you know, I cannot do this show without you. That is it for today. I will see you tomorrow. (1:29:54) Be safe. And remember, keep your eyes on the skies.