Speaker 1: So usually when we think about science, we tend to
picture this very specific, very comforting shape. It's like a
straight line. You know, you have a question, you formulate
a hypothesis, you gather your data, you test it, and
then boom, you have a conclusion exactly. You classify it,
you file it away in a nice little folder, and
the case is closed. We absolutely love the closed case.
Speaker 2: Oh, human nature craze it.
Speaker 1: We do. It makes us feel like the universe is
this tidy place where everything fits perfectly into a labeled box.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It's essentially the architectural framework of our entire reality.
I mean, we build these massive models, right physics, biology, geology,
and we have this fundamental expectation that the data we
go out and gather out there in the real world
is going to slide neatly right into those models. And
to be fair, I mean ninety nine point nine percent
of the time, it actually does. I've drop a pin
right now, Gravity's going to pull it down at nine
point eight meters per second squared. The model works, the
motto works beautifully. And you know, if the data doesn't
fit immediately, our first instinct is usually just to assume
it's a measurement error.
Speaker 1: Oh, totally, like the machine was broken exactly.
Speaker 2: Or you know, we tweak the model slightly until the
math finally works.
Speaker 1: Out right, it's a completely self correcting system. But here's
the question that honestly keeps me up at night. Okay,
what happens when the data just refuses?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the terrifying cart.
Speaker 1: Now, I want to be clear to everyone listening. I
am not talking about a blurry photo of Bigfoot here, no,
or some ghost story your buddy told you at a
bar after three beers. I'm talking about hard, cold data.
Speaker 2: The undeniable stuff.
Speaker 1: Logs, spectral readouts, physical samples, measurements taken by highly calibrated
instruments that absolutely positively contradict the rules of reality as
we know that.
Speaker 2: That is the uncomfortable edge of science right there. That's
the place where the models don't just bend, they snap,
entirely shatter, And that is exactly where we're going to
be living for this entire discussion.
Speaker 1: Well, then, welcome to thrilling threads. I am so excited
and honestly a little bit unsettled by what we have
on the table for you today.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a wild ride.
Speaker 1: We are doing a deep dive into our source material
regarding the concept of documented anomalies. I really want to
double underline that word for you all documented.
Speaker 2: That is the vital distinction here. We aren't discussing folklore today.
We aren't looking at conspiracy theories scribbled on diner napkins.
We are looking at what they call unresolved transient events
and out of place artifacts that actually exist in the
official record. These are events where the sensors worked perfectly,
the scientists were completely sober, the data was logged, and
yet the result was impossible.
Speaker 1: The open files, the ones that never ever got that
satisfying case closed, stamp on them. We have ten specific
cases from our sources to get through today, ten glitches
in the matrix, if you want to look at it that.
Speaker 2: Way, and I think we should set the ground rules.
Early mission today is not to solve.
Speaker 1: Them, definitely not.
Speaker 2: I mean, if the best scientific minds at the time
couldn't solve them with the raw data right in front
of them, we certainly aren't going to solve them sitting
here chatting today, right.
Speaker 1: We need a lot more than a microphone for that exactly.
Speaker 2: Our goal for you is just to walk that fine
line between what we know for a fact and what
we absolutely cannot explain, to really look at the spookiness
of raw data.
Speaker 1: I really love that phrase you use that in our
pre show notes. The spookiness of.
Speaker 2: Raw data fits, doesn't it?
Speaker 1: It does because usually raw data is super boring, Right,
It's just a giant spreadsheet. But when a spreadsheet tells
you something that straight up violates the laws of physics,
that is a special kind of horror.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: It's not a monster under the bed. It's a contradiction
in the math itself.
Speaker 2: Precisely because subjective experiences like saying you saw a ghost,
those are so easy to dismiss.
Speaker 1: Sure, you were tired, the lighting was weird.
Speaker 2: You're stressed out. An objective contradiction when a multimillion dollar
machine records a physical value that shouldn't exist.
Speaker 1: You can't psychology your way out of that one.
Speaker 2: You cannot. The number is just sitting there scaring at you.
Speaker 1: So let's get right into the deep dive. We've organized
these ten cases into a few different categories just to
keep our heads from spinning.
Speaker 2: Good idea.
Speaker 1: We're going to start with the invisible world Signals frequencies,
things that literally pass right through us every day. Let's
talk about the silence and the signal.
Speaker 2: Auditory anomalies are incredibly fascinating because they are usually so ephemeral.
Radio waves move at the speed of light, so you
either catch them right in that exact moment or they
are gone forever.
Speaker 1: But in this very first case, we actually caught it.
This is case number one in our stack, but let's
just call it by its event date. October twelfth, nineteen
eighty four. Okay, set the scene for us here.
Speaker 2: So we are at a major radio observatory. It's nineteen
eighty four. So the technology is this interesting analog digital hybrid.
Speaker 1: Right, big clunky machines, but.
Speaker 2: Very reliable, very robust, and this specific equipment is tuned
to listen to the cosmos. Now, normally space is an
absolute cacophony. It's a mess of noise exactly. You have
the roar of the Sun, you've got the background radiation
left over from the Big Bang, the electromagnetic hum of
planets like Jupiter. It is extremely noisy.
Speaker 1: But the astronomers aren't just listening to the random static, right,
They're monitoring specific channels.
Speaker 2: Right in this instance, they were specifically monitoring fourteen twenty megaherds.
Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, stop right there, let's unpack that for
a second. Why fourteen twenty megahurds? Right? I know from
the sources it's important, but break down the actual science
for the listener. Sure, why is that the magic number?
Speaker 2: It's known as the hydrogen line. Here's the basic physics
behind it. A neutral hydrogen atom consists of one proton
and one electron. Okay, Occasionally that single electron flips its
spin state, and when it does that, it releases a
photon with a wavelength of exactly twenty one centimeters.
Speaker 1: Which corresponds to the frequency of fourteen twenty megahertz exactly.
Speaker 2: Now, because hydrogen is by far the most abundant element
in the entire universe, yeah, I mean, it's the fundamental
building block of everything, this specific frequency is considered the
universal water cooler.
Speaker 1: The universal water cooler. I love that.
Speaker 2: Think about it. If you were an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization
and you were trying to just say hello to another
civilization out there in the dark, you wouldn't just pick
a random radio channel.
Speaker 1: No, you'd want to be heard, right, You.
Speaker 2: Would pick the one channel. You know for a fact
that absolutely everyone else is going to be watching.
Speaker 1: Because everyone studies hydrogen precisely. So on October twelfth, nineteen
eighty four, this observatory is just listening to the water
cooler and normally you just hear the natural hum of
massive hydrogen clouds out.
Speaker 2: In deep space, right, But then at twenty one forty
three UTC, the background noise just drops away, just gone,
and they pick up signal. But the weird thing is
it wasn't just a random spike in the noise. It
was unbelievably clean.
Speaker 1: Okay, define clean in an astrophysical context for us.
Speaker 2: What I mean is that it was narrowband. Okay, natural
radio emissions from things like quasars or pulsars, they are broadband.
They smear all across a wide range of frequencies because
they are fundamentally messy, violent natural.
Speaker 1: Explosions, right, they splatter every exactly.
Speaker 2: But this signal was razor sharp on the dial. And
even more disturbingly, it had absolutely no Doppler smear.
Speaker 1: Let's really unpack that Doppler aspect, because reading through the
source material, I think that is the smoking gun here.
Speaker 2: Oh, it absolutely is.
Speaker 1: Doppler is essentially the ambulance siren effect right, where the
pitch of the sound changes as the thing moves toward
you or away from you.
Speaker 2: That's exactly it. But now apply that concept to a
telescope looking at space. All right, The Earth is currently
rotating it about one thousand miles per hour at the
equator yep, and it's also actively orbiting the Sun at
roughly sixty seven thousand.
Speaker 1: Miles per hour, So we are moving very fast.
Speaker 2: Very fast. Therefore, any radio signal coming from outside of
the Earth should inevitably show a drift in its frequency
as our massive receiver moves either towards or away from
the source of the.
Speaker 1: Signal because of the Earth's movement.
Speaker 2: It's unavoidable geometry. It has to happen unless unless the
source is moving with us or.
Speaker 1: It's actively correcting for us.
Speaker 2: Think about that. If a signal arrives with zero Doppler drift,
it means the source is either sitting physically on the antenna,
which obviously they checked and it wasn't, or the source
is altering its own transmission frequency in real time to
perfectly cancel out the Earth's orbital and rotational motion.
Speaker 1: That is, insane because that implies an active intelligence.
Speaker 2: It implies a staggering level of technological sophistication that heavily
suggests intent. Nature doesn't just naturally correct for the rotation
of a random planet.
Speaker 1: No, so we have this razor sharp signal on the
universe frequency that is actively correcting for our movement through space.
And it wasn't just a hum either, right, It had
a beat.
Speaker 2: It had a very specific pulse structure. It pulsed exactly
every one point three to three seven seconds, one point
three to three seven precisely. And the amplitude, the sheer
loudness of it was entirely constant.
Speaker 1: Which is weird for space stuff.
Speaker 2: Extremely natural pulsar's drift, They fade, they glitched constantly. This
thing was metronomic.
Speaker 1: The technicians working that night must have been absolutely freaking out.
I bet they probably thought it was a spy satellite
or even a microwave oven in the break room, like
that famous Paraitons incident from a few years ago.
Speaker 2: That is always the very first protocol and astronomy, you
assume it's terrestrial interference. If they ask, is someone running
a vacuum cleaner down the hall? Is there a military
jet flying overhead right.
Speaker 1: Now, did somebody open the microwave too early?
Speaker 2: Exactly? So they immediately ran all their diagnostics. The receiver
was perfectly calibrated, the antennae alignment was spot on. So
then they did the gold standard test to prove it
wasn't local triangular. They called up other observatories. They got
Western Australia on the line, and they got Chili on
the line.
Speaker 1: And what did those other observatories?
Speaker 2: See, Western Australia saw it perfectly? Chili saw it perfectly.
Oh wow, And that completely rules out a truck driving
by the first observatory. It rules out a localized equipment
glitch in the hardware. This signal was undeniably coming from
the sky, fixed solidly in the constellations.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we have a fully verified, triangulated, highly artificial
looking signal. How long did this go on for?
Speaker 2: Exactly? Seventeen minutes?
Speaker 1: Seventeen minutes. See, that is such a bizarrely specific amount
of time. It's maddening because if it was just a millisecond,
well then it's a fast radio burst. And if it
lasts for hours, it's an orbit of some kind.
Speaker 2: That's exactly why transient event eighty four dash one zero
two is so incredibly frustrating to astrophysicists. Seventeen minutes isn't
a burst, It's a session.
Speaker 1: A session like someone logging on.
Speaker 2: Yes, it started instantly at full power. There was absolutely
no warm up period, and then at twenty three hundred
hours UTC it stopped.
Speaker 1: Just faded out, No instantly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was no decay in the signal, no fade
out whatsoever. It was exactly like someone just flipped a
giant switch or hung up the phone. And it has
never been heard since. Telescopes have stared at that exact
spot in the sky for forty years now, just waiting
and there is nothing, just empty static.
Speaker 1: It really behaves exactly like a machine, a machine that
turned on, performed a very specific task for seventeen minutes,
and then just turned itself off.
Speaker 2: That is definitely the most parsimonious explanation we have. Yes,
but the terrifying questions are whose machine is it? And
where did it go?
Speaker 1: Oh man, that sets the stage beautifully for the flip
side of this coin, because that was a signal that
arrived perfectly out of nowhere. Now, let's look at a
signal that vanished perfectly right. This is case two from
our deep dive today, the Ardent Horizon transmission the Ardent Horizon.
This takes place in nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2: August twenty first, nineteen ninety seven. So the Artent Horizon
is a marine research vessel operating out in the middle
of the South Pacific.
Speaker 1: And we should note they were not hunting for aliens
or anomalies, not at all.
Speaker 2: They were doing extremely routine atmospheric sampling, very boring climate
science exactly. The captain of the vessel is on a
comms link actively uploading a stream of data to an
overhead satellite while talking. The audio is going, the data
stream is flowing normally, and then cut, just.
Speaker 1: Cut now when we say cut, Usually satellite phones back
in the nineties were pretty garbage.
Speaker 2: Oh they were terrible.
Speaker 1: Usually get tons of static, or you get that weird
digital garble sound when you lose a signal correct, or.
Speaker 2: You get a gradual fade as the satellite physically moves
out of range over the horizon.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: But in this specific case, the audio and the data
stream ceased misword midward, and the recording device on the ship,
which was still running, recorded absolute silence.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by apps silence?
Speaker 2: Not the ambient room tone silence you usually hear on
a blank tape, I mean digital.
Speaker 1: Zero, a complete void of audio data. Yes, but the
ship itself didn't lose power, right, Like the generator didn't fail.
Speaker 2: And that is where the anomaly lies. Yes, the ship's
main electrical bus did register a microfluctuation, a microfluctuation, a
voltage dip that lasted for exactly one point eight seconds. Okay,
but absolutely no breakers tripped on the ship. The lights
didn't even flicker. The onboard computers didn't crash or reboot, So.
Speaker 1: One point eight seconds of what exactly nobody knows.
Speaker 2: Engineers actually spent months later trying to replicate this exact failure.
Speaker 1: Mode because it seems like an engineering problem at first glance.
Speaker 2: Right. They tried their hardest to create a power fold
that would instantly cut the transmission output to absolute zero
without simultaneously crashing the computer system or blowing a single fuse.
Speaker 1: And could they do it?
Speaker 2: They absolutely could not. Every single simulation and they ran
resulted in either loud static, a total system crash, or
digital noise.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: To get that perfectly clean cut in the transmission. You
essentially have to momentarily remove the physical laws that allow
the transmission to exist in the first place, while magically
leaving the rest of the ship entirely untouched.
Speaker 1: It's almost like the nineteen eighty four signal in this
event are perfect inverses of each other, how so well,
one is the sudden imposition of perfect order, the metronomic pulse,
onto the chaos of deep space, and the other is
the imposition of perfect void onto an organized signal.
Speaker 2: That is a very poetic way to put it, honestly, thanks,
but physically speaking, it really holds up to scrutiny. Both
of these events completely defy the messiness of natural energy transfer.
Speaker 1: Because nature drags its feet always.
Speaker 2: Nature fades in, Nature fades out, things degrade. But these
two events are entirely binary on or off, exist or
don't exist.
Speaker 1: That is genuinely spooky. Very Okay, let's transition here. We've
talked about the invisible stuff. Let's move from the invisible
to the visible. Let's talk about things we can actually
see but really shouldn't be seeing.
Speaker 2: Structural anomalies.
Speaker 1: This is a segment two impossible geometries. Now we are
officially leaving the airwaves, and we are going down, deep down.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Case three takes us right back to the South Pacific,
but this time we are underwater. The year is two
thousand and one, right, and we are at a staggering
depth of thirty eight hundred.
Speaker 2: Meters, which is nearly four kilometers straight down.
Speaker 1: To give everyone context, that is crushing depth.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. The pressure down there is roughly fifty five
hundred pounds per square chin.
Speaker 1: You would be crushed instantly.
Speaker 2: Into a pancake. And it is completely pitch black. No
sunlight reaches that far down.
Speaker 1: So what's happening down there?
Speaker 2: A geological survey team is towing a side scan sonar
sled behind a ship and they are mapping the tectonic plates.
Speaker 1: Okay, take a second to explain the side scan sonar
for us, because it's not just an underwater.
Speaker 2: Camera, right, No, not at all. It uses sound ways.
It pings the bottom of the ocean, and it measures
the return echo like a bat exactly. It creates a
highly detailed topographical map based on acoustic shadows. So hard
objects reflect sound strongly and appear bright white on the monitor,
while shadows appear very dark.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: It basically gives you a high resolution texture map of
the seafloor.
Speaker 1: And usually when you're four kilometers down, you just see mud, right,
mud rocks, maybe a jagged volcanic.
Speaker 2: Vent, random fractal noises, chaotic shades. That's nature. But on
this specific scan they saw a rectangle. A rectangle, a perfect,
hard edged, massive rectangle, sixty meters long and forty meters wide.
Speaker 1: Now playing Devil's advocate here, because we have to be rigorous.
Nature absolutely can make straight lines, sure it can. You
look at crystals, there were perfectly straight the salt fractures
and straight lines. Why is this specific rectangle so different?
Speaker 2: You're right, Nature does do geometry sometimes, but nature rarely,
if ever, does isolated geometry on this scale. Explain that,
for instance, basalt columns usually appear in massive, clustered groups.
Think of the Giant's.
Speaker 1: Causeway right, tons of them together.
Speaker 2: But this was a solitary, massive block, just sitting completely
alone on a flat sedimentary.
Speaker 1: Plane out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: And the corners were exactly ninety degrees.
Speaker 1: Okay, So they saw this impossible shape. What did they do?
Did they send a robot down?
Speaker 2: They did? They deployed an rov a remotely operated vehicle
to go take a look good. And this is exactly
where the whole natural geology argument completely falls apart. Why
when the ROV got down there, the structure was heavily
covered in silt.
Speaker 1: Okay, which means it had been sitting there.
Speaker 2: For a long time, a very long time. But the
ROV actually used its robotic manipulator arm to gently brush
off one of the ninety degree.
Speaker 1: Corners, and what was underneath the mud.
Speaker 2: Underneath the silt, the surface of the object was incredibly smooth,
and it was a dark metallic color.
Speaker 1: Dark metallic? Was it hard?
Speaker 2: The ROV operator actually tried to use the manipulator arm
to scrape a small sample off to bring to the surface.
Makes sense, but the material was somehow harder than the
tool steel of the scraper itself. You're cadd It didn't chip,
it didn't even scratch.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And when they look closely at the high risk sonar again,
they noticed parallel linear features extending from the base of.
Speaker 1: The structure, linear features like ribs, ribs like supports for
a building, or maybe pipes or.
Speaker 2: A massive antenna array a deep sea foundation. Regardless of
what it was, it looked distinctly.
Speaker 1: Architectural, so let me get this straight. We have a
sixty meter long metallic building of some kind sitting at
a depth that human beings literally couldn't even reach until
very recently in our history, correct, and the sediment accumulation
on top of it suggests it has been sitting down.
Speaker 2: There for how long? For decades? Very conservatively potentially centuries.
You have to understand, the sedimentation rate in the deep
Pacific basin is agonizingly slow. For an object to be
bury that deeply in silt, it takes an immense amount
of time.
Speaker 1: This predates our physical ability to even.
Speaker 2: Build something like that exactly. We absolutely did not have
the submersible technology required to construct a highly refined metallic
facility at four thousand meters deep in the early nineteen hundred.
Speaker 1: No way, we can barely do it right now, let
alone one hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: So it's just sitting there.
Speaker 1: What's the official classification?
Speaker 2: It's officially logged as anomalous subsea structure zero one?
Speaker 1: And what happened? Did they go back?
Speaker 2: Officially? The investigation was permanently halted due to a lack
of funding. Oh my god, which honestly the most common
depressing ending to all of these stories.
Speaker 1: That drives me totally crazy. It is like, hey, guys,
we literally found Atlantis, but unfortunate gas is a little
expensive right now, so we're going to head home.
Speaker 2: It's the sad reality of grant based scientific research, no funding,
no answers, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Well, let's jump from the dark bottom of the ocean
street to the bright surface of the desert.
Speaker 2: Contrast.
Speaker 1: This is case four in the Deep Dive, the disappearing
desert circle. The year is twenty thirteen, and we are
looking at North Africa.
Speaker 2: This specific case really bothers me simply because of the
sheer physical scale involved.
Speaker 1: Walk us through it.
Speaker 2: We are looking at standard satellite imagery. It's just a
routine earth observation sweep by an environmental satellite.
Speaker 1: Okay, so a camera in orbit taking pictures of the.
Speaker 2: Sand basically, yes, And they spot a circle in the desert.
Speaker 1: And when we say circle, we don't mean a rough patch, no.
Speaker 2: We mean a mathematically perfect circle. And it is one
point eight kilometers in diameter.
Speaker 1: One point eight kilometers, Yeah, that is over a mile wide.
That is absolutely.
Speaker 2: Huge, massively huge.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The satellite image clearly showed a dark outer ring and
a distinctly lighter interior that contrasted heavily with the surrounding
sand dunes.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you see a giant circle in the desert,
My first thought is some weird geography. Maybe an underground
aquifer collapsed and made a sinkhole.
Speaker 2: That was the immediate first thought of the gaologists too.
But then they went back and checked the satellite archives. Okay,
that same exact satellite had passed over that precise set
of coordinates just forty eight hours earlier. The circle wasn't there,
It was just normal desert dunes.
Speaker 1: So this massive mile wide structure literally appeared within a
two day window.
Speaker 2: Yes, but here is the real kicker. Okay, three days later,
the satellite made another orbital pass over the area.
Speaker 1: Let me guess it was gone. It was completely gone, gone,
like a sandstorm covered it.
Speaker 2: Up, erased. The natural wind ripples in the sand were
completely continuous across the entire area where the massive circle
had just been.
Speaker 1: Wait, hold on a second. If you make a one
mile wide circle out in the sand, I don't care
if you dig it, if you paint it, or if
you burn it into the ground. You need serious heavy
machinery to do that. In two days.
Speaker 2: You need a lot of machinery, you need.
Speaker 1: Huge trucks, you need an entire army of people.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Human logistics always leave physical footprints. You'd absolutely see
deep tire tracks leading from a highway to the site.
You would see massive spoil piles where all that sand
was violently moved around. You would see the thermal signature
of a campsite for the hundreds of workers.
Speaker 1: And there was none of that.
Speaker 2: Zero, absolutely no tracks leading in or out, no seismic
data indicating a subterranean collapse, no construction evidence of any kind.
Speaker 1: Could it have just been a sensor glitch, like a
bad pixel or a digital artifact in the satellites camera.
Speaker 2: They thought of that. They went back and checked the
thermal channel on the satellite the heat vision right, and
the circle had a massive heat signature. It was physically
much hotter than the surrounding sand.
Speaker 1: Which proves it was real, exactly right.
Speaker 2: A digital software glitch doesn't hold physical heat, A visual
mirage doesn't hold heat. Something physically tangibly altered the thermal
properties of roughly two point five square kilometers.
Speaker 1: Of desert and then just hit undue.
Speaker 2: And then reset it to the default dunes seventy two
hours later.
Speaker 1: Reset to default. That is such a computer term. It
really feels like transient geography, like that specific tile on
the map just failed to load properly for a few
days or.
Speaker 2: What, Or like something very very large and very flat
came down, landed on the sand, sat there for three days,
heating the ground, and then left by going straight up
without disturbing the sand physically.
Speaker 1: But one point eight kilometers wide. That's that is Independence
Day sized the mothership.
Speaker 2: It is a profoundly uncomfortable scale to think about.
Speaker 1: That is terrifying. Okay, well, let's keep with this geometry theme.
We've got going case five from our sources, the North
Atlantic hexagons. Ah, yes, twenty fifteen. This takes us back underwater,
but this time we aren't just looking at the seafloor.
Speaker 2: We are looking underground subseabit.
Speaker 1: Explain what that means.
Speaker 2: We are looking at data from two point three kilometers
inside the Earth's crust, beneath the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 1: Okay, deep deep down, and.
Speaker 2: Energy consortion was out there doing a massive seismic serf
because they were looking for untapped oil or natural gas reserves.
Makes sense, So what they do is they send incredibly
powerful sound waves down into the rock and they listen
to the reflections that bounce back up to map the
different geological layers.
Speaker 1: And what did the map show?
Speaker 2: They found a honeycomb.
Speaker 1: A honeycomb inside the.
Speaker 2: Rock, a vast, interconnected lattice of perfectly hexagonal cells.
Speaker 1: How big were these cells?
Speaker 2: Each individual hexagon was forty five meters wide. The walls
separating them were five meters thick. Wow, and this contiguous
structure extended for over eight kilometers.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, we just talked about straight lines in nature,
and nature actually really loves hexagons. Right, does you look
at beehives or the Giant's Causeway in Ireland. We have
to be really skeptical here. Why isn't this giant honeycomb
just natural column or basalt?
Speaker 2: That is an excellent question, and it's the first thing
the geologists asked, right, columnar basalt forms what a thick
layer of lava cools down and physically contracts, It cracks
into vertical.
Speaker 1: Columns like tall pillars.
Speaker 2: Think of them like a bunch of pencils, all standing upright,
tightly packed in a cup. Okay, but what they found
in the North Atlantic crust was entirely horizontal, horizontal. It
was a massive flat sheet of exagons, like looking down
at a giant bathroom tile floor, not a vertical bundle
of columns.
Speaker 1: And the regularity of the shapes it was far too perfect.
Speaker 2: Natural basalt fractures tend to wander a bit, they get messy,
they curve, they vary in size, But these lines were
geometrically rigid across the entire eight kilometer spread.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it looks super artificial on the scan.
Speaker 2: But here is where it gets genuinely maddening. Tell me,
because they were looking for oil, they actually had the
equipment to drill down into it.
Speaker 1: They drilled a core sample.
Speaker 2: They drilled a core sample straight into one of the
hexagon walls, and what came up metal. No, the physical
rock that came up in the core sample was just
totally normal solid basalts.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, let me understand this. The physical drill
brings up a solid, uncracked piece of rock. Yes, but
the massive acoustic scanner says it's a honeycomb lattice.
Speaker 2: That is the core. Contradiction of the anomaly. The seismic
data and the magnetic data they pulled clearly showed a
lattice structure. There were massive density variations in the exact shape.
Speaker 1: Of hexagons, but the rock itself.
Speaker 2: The rock itself appeared completely continuous and solid to the
naked eye.
Speaker 1: So the rock is formatted formatted.
Speaker 2: That is the exact word I keep coming back to
when reviewing this data. Think about a magnetic computer hard drive.
Speaker 1: Okay, the physical metal platter of the hard drive is
completely solid and smooth. Yeah, you can't see the files.
Speaker 2: On it exactly, but the data itself is written deeply
into the magnetic domains of the metal. This specific layer
of rock essentially had a massive hexagonal grid written into
its varying density and magnetic properties.
Speaker 1: A deep sea storage array.
Speaker 2: Eight kilometers wide buried beneath my aisles of ocean and crust, or.
Speaker 1: Maybe a structural reinforcement matrix for the tectonic plate itself,
I don't even know.
Speaker 2: Regardless of its purpose, it implies that the fundamental geological
formation of that specific area somehow followed a strict mathematical
grid that simply shouldn't exist in chaotic natural geology.
Speaker 1: It really makes you wonder what else is hiding down there.
We walk around and just assume the ground is just
dirt and dumb rocks all the way down.
Speaker 2: We treat the earth like it's just a solid, boring marble.
But these deep scans suggest there might be massive internal structures.
We are only just now getting the technology to actually see.
Speaker 1: All right, I need a breather from the giant stuff.
Let's move to segment three. We've done signals, We've done giant,
impossible shapes.
Speaker 2: Oh, you want something tangible exactly?
Speaker 1: I want to hold something out of place artifacts. This
is where we get into the weird world of material science.
Speaker 2: This is where the rubber finally meets the road, or rather,
where the shovel meets the anomaly K.
Speaker 1: Six, the nineteen nine twenty six metal fragment. Take us there.
Speaker 2: We are in the American Southwest. A standard environmental soil
remediation team is out there digging up contaminated dirt from
an old, abandoned industrial site, and they are digging deep.
They are about four meters down in the soil.
Speaker 1: Now, four meters down. That depth matters a lot for
dating objects.
Speaker 2: Right, They matters entirely based on the unbroken soil strata
above it. The geologists confirmed that anything found at that
specific depth had to have been buried there in the
early nineteen seventies.
Speaker 1: Okay, so seventies era, they hit.
Speaker 2: An object with the excavator. It's a heavy tounk of metal,
roughly the size and shape of a thick paperback book.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they found some buried industrial tratch at an
industrial site. Why on Earth are we talking about it?
Speaker 2: Because standard protocol meant they had to send it to
the lab to check for heavy metal contamination. And at
the lab they ran it through a mass spectrometer.
Speaker 1: Okay, for the folks listening who aren't chemists, walk us
through exactly what that machine does.
Speaker 2: Simply put, mass spectrometry allows a scientist to basically count
the specific atoms inside a physical sample. Okay, specifically, it
looks closely at isotopes.
Speaker 1: Isotopes.
Speaker 2: Every single element on the periodic table comes in a
few different natural flavors, which we call isotopes. They're based
on the number of neutrons in the atoms nucleus. Got
it now? On our planet Earth, the natural ratio of
these isotopes is incredibly specific and uniform. For example, if
you hold any natural piece of magnesium found on Earth,
it will always be roughly seventy nine percent magnesium twenty four,
ten percent magnesium twenty five, and eleven percent magnesium twenty six.
Speaker 1: It's always that exact mix.
Speaker 2: Always, that is the terrestrial recipe. It is incredibly consistent
because the entire Earth was completely mixed together from a
single cloud of cosmic dust billions of years ago.
Speaker 1: So if you pick up a piece of metal anywhere
on Earth, it absolutely should match the Earth recipe precisely,
and this metal fragment it did not at all.
Speaker 2: It was an ol composed of titanium, bismuth, and magnesium, Okay,
but the isotopic ratios of those elements were entirely wrong, wrong,
how significantly wildly wrong. They completely failed to match the
known terrestrial fingerprint for those elements.
Speaker 1: What does that actually imply in chemistry terms?
Speaker 2: It implies one of two completely reality breaking things. Either
the raw materials used to make this object did not
physically originate from the solar nebula that formed the Earth,
so it's alien, or the metals were intentionally processed in
a highly advanced nuclear reaction that fundamentally altered their atomic
weight before they were cast.
Speaker 1: Both of those options are insane For a piece of
trash from the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2: And it gets weirder when you look at the physical
structure of the metal itself. Tell me it exhibited what
material scientists call engineered grain alignment.
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 2: When we normally cast metal, Like if you melt steel
and pour it into a mold, the microscopic crystals form
very randomly as the liquid.
Speaker 1: Down right, it's just a jumbled mess.
Speaker 2: It looks like total chaos under an electron microscope. But
this specific metal fragment had microscopic crystals that were perfectly
uniformly aligned. Grown, yes, grown exactly like how we grow
a highly pure silicon semiconductor crystal in a modern clean
room today.
Speaker 1: So let me just summarize this, please. Do we have
a chunk of metal definitively buried in the early nineteen seventies,
made of atoms that chemically aren't from around here, and
it's built using a highly advanced manufacturing method growing bulk
metal that we are honestly only just now beginning to
experiment with in modern labs.
Speaker 2: You nailed it. And to top it off, it had
obvious machining marks.
Speaker 1: On the outside, like it was cut by a tool.
Speaker 2: Tool marks right on the edge. But they were way
too clean. They completely lacked the microscopic tearing and stress
fractures you get from any cutting tools that existed in
the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 1: Okay, could it possibly be a black project, some ultra
secret cold technology that got buried and forgotten.
Speaker 2: It's a tempting theory. But even ultra secret military projects
have to buy their raw titanium from terrestrial mines, right.
Speaker 1: They can't invent new atoms, they have.
Speaker 2: To use earth physics. This object entirely defies the known
industrial supply chain of the entire twentieth century.
Speaker 1: It is quite literally a manufactured object with no earthly.
Speaker 2: Manufacturer and absolutely no paper trail, which leads us perfectly
into K seven.
Speaker 1: Oh Man The Underground Chamber twenty eighteen. This one feels
exactly like a Cold War spy novel to me.
Speaker 2: It really does. So we are in Eastern Europe. A
heavy demolition crew is tearing down a massive old Soviet
era industrial plant.
Speaker 1: Okay, so a big gray, depressing concrete.
Speaker 2: Box, nothing special at all on the surface. Yeah, But
before they can dig up the foundation, they run a
ground penetrating radar.
Speaker 1: Scan just to check for pipes and stuff.
Speaker 2: Right, and the scan finds a massive void beneath the
factory floor, a hidden room eight down in the dirt.
So they bring in the excavators and dig it up.
Speaker 1: And what is it.
Speaker 2: It's a heavily reinforced concrete chamber. No stairs leading to it,
no door, just a single heavy steel hatch on the
very top.
Speaker 1: Okay, that is incredibly ominous. They open the hatch. What's
inside the room?
Speaker 2: The entire room is totally empty, except for a small
concrete pedestal in the dead center. Oh boy, and sitting
right on that pedestal is a cylinder. A cylinder, a
completely sealed composite cylinder, roughly the size and shape of
a standard fire extinguisher. It weighed exactly forty six kilograms.
Speaker 1: And the plant records, I mean, they must have had
blueprints for this place.
Speaker 2: That is the ultimate bureaucratic horror of this case. The
original Soviet plant blueprints absolutely do not show this room.
Speaker 1: Nothing.
Speaker 2: The massive inventory logs don't show the object. It officially
does not exist.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me someone, some group of human beings
secretly built a reinforced concrete room deep under a working factory. Yes,
they carefully place this incredibly heavy, mist furious object inside.
They poured concrete over the whole thing to seal it forever,
and then they completely wiped all the official records.
Speaker 2: And then eventually the Soviet Union collapsed, the plant was abandoned,
and the human memory of that room simply died.
Speaker 1: Wow. What was the object itself made of?
Speaker 2: It was composed of these tightly interlocking bands of matt
gray metal and a highly advanced ceramic.
Speaker 1: Didn't have any buttons, a scream.
Speaker 2: No interface whatsoever. No buttons, no scream, no seams, no
visible opening. It was just a profoundly solid, impossibly dense object.
Speaker 1: Did they try to crack it open?
Speaker 2: They were too scared to physically cut it in case
it was a weapon, So they tried to X ray
it first.
Speaker 1: Smart What did the extray show?
Speaker 2: The casing was entirely opaque to standard X rays. It
just showed up as a solid black block. Okay, So
then they tried to use high power industrial ultrasound on
it to map the inside. The material completely absorbed the
sound waves, no echo returned.
Speaker 1: It is literally a black box in every conceivable sense
of the word.
Speaker 2: It genuinely is it currently sits locked away in a
secure government warehouse somewhere. The file just says recovered composite device,
origin unknown, purpose unknown.
Speaker 1: See. To me, the really scary part isn't necessarily just
the weird alien cylinder.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Then? It's the human element. It's the terrifying fact that
human beings possess the capability to hide things so thoroughly
that we completely forget they even exist.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, It strongly implies this whole concept of a shadow history,
a completely separate, undocumented layer of profound activity happening right
beneath the official timeline of humanity.
Speaker 2: We all tend to think of human history as this comprehensive,
unbroken record. We do, but it's not. It's really just
a highlight reel of the things we happen to write
down and remember, the vast majority of what actually happens
in the world is permanently lost. This concrete chamber was
just a tiny fragment of that lost shadow history that
accidentally bubbled back to the surface.
Speaker 1: Man, okay, deep breath segment four.
Speaker 2: Segment four shisk years entirely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've spent a lot of time looking at dead things.
Metal concrete, deep sea rocks, radio signals cool things. Now,
I want to look at life, and I want to
look at the stars. Let's get into glitches in life
and the cosmos.
Speaker 2: This is exactly where we start seriously challenging our core
models of biological evolution and astrophysics.
Speaker 1: Let's start with biology case eight, the hypersaline microbe two
thousand and nine. Right, we are way out in a remote,
high altitude desert plateau.
Speaker 2: Extremely remote, high salt content in the soil, intense ultraviolet
radiation from the sun.
Speaker 1: Basically an environment that aggressively wants you to be dead.
Speaker 2: It's toxic. But biologists were out there intentionally hunting for extremophile.
Speaker 1: Extremophiles bacteria that love living in hell.
Speaker 2: Essentially yes, and they found one in the soil. They
took a physical sample back to their clean lab, put
it in a petri dish, and started studying it. The
organism had unusually thick cellular membranes to survive the salt,
which was interesting.
Speaker 1: But then they looked at the DNA right.
Speaker 2: Standard procedure, they ran what's called a sixteen sr RNA sequence.
Speaker 1: Translate that for us, it's.
Speaker 2: Basically scanning the fundamental barcode of life. Every living thing
has it. Usually, when you scan a new bacteria, the
computer gives you a match.
Speaker 1: It says, ah, this is a weird cousin of E.
Speaker 2: Colif exactly, Or this shares ninety nine percent of its
DNA with a known halobacterium.
Speaker 1: And what did the computer say for this one?
Speaker 2: The database returned a partial match. Marshall said, sixty eight
percent of the microbe's genome perfectly matched a known domain
of single celled organisms called Archaea.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's sixty eight percent normal Earth bacteria. Yes,
but what about the other thirty two percent?
Speaker 2: It was completely blank?
Speaker 1: What do you mean blank? Like the DNA was damaged.
Speaker 2: No, the DNA was perfectly healthy, but the code was unprecedented.
There was absolutely zero genetic history for that thirty two
percent anywhere in the global database, no evolutionary ancestors.
Speaker 1: Hold on, let's back up. Evolution fundamentally works by inheritance, right, correct.
You get your genes from your parents. They got them
from their parents, all the way back to the primordial soup.
Speaker 2: Yes, you can.
Speaker 1: Theoretically trace the genetic tree back for everything on Earth exactly.
Speaker 2: Every single gene in your body usually has a cousin
somewhere else in nature.
Speaker 1: But that's thirty two percent.
Speaker 2: It was totally unique, isolated code. Wow, it didn't look
like it slowly evolved through mutations from terrestrial ancestors.
Speaker 1: It looked inserted, inserted, like a software patch update.
Speaker 2: That's the perfect analogy, or a massive lateral gene transfer
from a completely unknown, uncataloged source.
Speaker 1: And it made the bug tough. Oh.
Speaker 2: The organism was an absolute biological tank. Sure in the lab,
it easily survived eight full months of total desiccation zero water,
and it casually shrugged off ionizing radiation levels that would
instantly sterilize standard medical equipment.
Speaker 1: So the obvious question is where on Earth did that
thirty two percent of alien code come from.
Speaker 2: There is a very controversial hypothesis in astrobiology right now
called the shadow biosphere.
Speaker 1: Oh, I've heard of this.
Speaker 2: The core idea is that as scientists, we really only
ever find the specific types of life that we already
know how to look.
Speaker 1: For, because our tests are fundamentally calibrated for standard normal DNA.
Speaker 2: Right The theory posits that there might actually be a
completely second, separate tree of life right here on Earth.
Speaker 1: Aliens that have just been living here the whole time.
Speaker 2: Deep down in the rocks or high in the atmosphere,
and this specific desert microbe somehow bumped into one of
them and picked up some incredibly useful survival genes from them.
Speaker 1: That is a wild thought to just sit with for
a second, the idea that we actively share our planet
with invisible, radically different roommates.
Speaker 2: And we only ever notice them when our standard normal
life decides to borrow a cup of genetic sugar from them.
Speaker 1: That gives me chills. Okay, let's swing the pendulum from
the microscopic world all the way to the gigantic cosmic scale.
Speaker 2: The clockwork star.
Speaker 1: Case nine, the Clockwork Star. This anomaly has been actively
happening since nineteen seventy two. Yes, we are looking out
into the Sickness Constellation.
Speaker 2: Which is roughly fourteen hundred light years away from Earth, and.
Speaker 1: There is a specific star out there that blinks.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: I know a little bit about astronomy. Stars blink all
the time. Planets pass in front of them and block
the light. That is literally how we find exoplanets.
Speaker 2: That is entirely true when a planet physically passes in
front of its host star, which we call it transit.
It briefly blocks a tiny, tiny fraction of the star's
light from reaching our telescopes. Okay, we are talking maybe
a one percent drop in brightness for an absolutely massive
gas giant planet like Jupiter. One percent, right, And importantly,
because planets are giant spheres. The light curve of the
graph showing the dimming effect is a very smooth, gentle
U shape.
Speaker 1: Because the round edge of the planet slowly covers the
star and then slowly uncovers it exactly.
Speaker 2: It starts, bottoms out smoothly, and comes gracefully back up.
Speaker 1: So what exactly is happening with this star in sickness?
Speaker 2: When it transits? The star dims by fourteen percent?
Speaker 1: Fourteen percent? Yes, wait, if Jupiter is only one percent
of fourteen percent drop, that's not a planet. No, that
is something unfathomably enormous.
Speaker 2: It is genuinely colossal. But the sheer size isn't even
the weirdest part. What is the shape of the dimming
curve is entirely wrong? Not a U shape, No, it's
shaped like a bucket. The starlight drops incredibly sharply, stays
completely flat at the very bottom for days on end
and then shoots straight back up.
Speaker 1: No. Wait, a perfectly flat bottom on a light curve
that implies a straight edge.
Speaker 2: It absolutely implies a massive, solid, opaque object with a
strictly defined hard leading edge and a hard trailing edge.
Speaker 1: Not a fuzzy round cloud of gas.
Speaker 2: No, a solid wall, a.
Speaker 1: Wall in space. And the timing of these transits is
it random?
Speaker 2: It happens exactly every nine years years nineteen seventy two,
nineteen eighty one, nineteen ninety, nineteen ninety nine, two thousand
and eight, twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: It is literally on a cosmic train.
Speaker 2: Schedule, precisely. Now, if this anomaly, we're just a random
debris field, you know, a giant cloud of pulverized asteroids.
Its shape would radically change over the course of forty
years because of gravity, right, gravity and orbital mechanics would
inevitably spread the rocks out. The dimming curve would get
fuzzy and unpredictable.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't.
Speaker 2: No, this specific object has rigidly maintained its physical cohesion
and its sharp geometric shape for half a century.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let me just paint this picture for the listener.
Speaker 2: Go for it.
Speaker 1: We have a solid object significantly larger than the planet Jupiter. Yes,
it has impossibly hard straight edges, It does not glow
or emit its own light, and it is orbiting a
star on a strict, mathematically perfect timetable.
Speaker 2: Yes. And as a scientist, I really really try to
avoid using the M word in public. M word megas structure, megastructure.
You said it, I did, because honestly, it is exceedingly
hard to model this event using natural astrophysics.
Speaker 1: I can imagine.
Speaker 2: Conceptually a component of a dice and swarm or some
kind of massive artificial solar shield actually fits the raw
data significantly better than a natural dust cloud does.
Speaker 1: It's the sheer sharpness of it that really gets me.
Nature is almost always fuzzy and soft at the edges.
Only artificial things are sharp.
Speaker 2: And the terrifying part is it's still doing it. The
next schedule transit for the clockwork Star is coming up.
Speaker 1: Soon, and every telescope on Earth is going to be watched.
Speaker 2: You bet they will.
Speaker 1: Okay, we have reached our final segment, segment five. There
we go, the anomaly of time, the bureaucratic glitch. Yes, now,
out of all ten cases in our deep dive today.
This one, this one is oddly my favorite. Why is
that because it is just so incredibly mundane. It's not
deep space, it's not the bottom of the ocean, and
yet it completely breaks reality.
Speaker 2: It really does. Case ten fall seven a dash for
four one nine. Right.
Speaker 1: This file was discovered relatively recently in two thousand and sixteen.
Speaker 2: Yes, they found it at the National Records Administration.
Speaker 1: Building the government archives.
Speaker 2: Right. The agency was undergoing a massive multi year project
to digitally scan all their old paper files to save space.
Speaker 1: Just millions and millions of boring pages.
Speaker 2: Mine, numbing stuff, standard investigations into imported steel tariffs, archaic
tax codes, old zoning laws.
Speaker 1: The definition of bureaucracy exactly.
Speaker 2: So, an archivist pulls this specific folder. At first glance,
it just looks like a completely standard internal investigation into
some industrial material supply chains from the late nineteen seventies.
Speaker 1: Boring, But then they noticed something is very wrong with
the dates.
Speaker 2: Actually, the problem was that there were absolutely no dates,
literally blank. There were no timestamps on the official memos,
no dates written next to the authorization signatures, just blank,
empty lines where the date should legally be.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's weird, but human error happens. Someone was just
being a really lazy clerk, right. We can easily date
a file by looking at the context clues inside it.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what the archivists tried to do. They looked
closely at the complex administrative routing codes, those little reference
numbers typed at the very top margins of the pages.
Speaker 1: The tracking numbers.
Speaker 2: Yes, those specific routing codes strongly correspond to a brand
new filing system that was officially introduced to the department
in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1: Okay, problem solved. The file is officially from nineteen eighty one.
The clerk just forgot to stamp the date on it.
Speaker 2: Not so fast, because it's a government archive. They decided
to analyze the physical paper itself and the specific typewriter
font used to type.
Speaker 1: The words forensic analysis, I love it.
Speaker 2: They quickly discovered that the entire file was typed on
a very specific machine, an IBM Selectric Model typewriter A classic. Yes,
but that specific model of IBM's Electric was officially discontinued
and physically removed from all government offices in nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Okay, wait a second, and.
Speaker 2: The chemical formulation of the black ink on the ribbon.
The lab dated the inks manufacturing run to nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1: Maybe wrap my head around this, take your time. The
physical tangible object, the paper and the ink, absolutely has
to be from nineteen seventy eight or nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2: The forensics prove it.
Speaker 1: But the conceptual information written on that paper, the administrative
routing codes, physically did not exist until nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2: Correct. It is a literal anachronism, a physical paradox, sitting
in a Manila folder.
Speaker 1: That shouldn't be possible. And where exactly was it found
in the archive boxes?
Speaker 2: That's the cherry on top. It was physically filed alphabetically,
sitting right between a verified folder from nineteen seventy eight
and another verified folder from nineteen seventy nine, but.
Speaker 1: It was never officially logged into the main system.
Speaker 2: Never. It's the ghost file that.
Speaker 1: Is just It's the most unsettling one on list.
Speaker 2: To me, I agree completely because it.
Speaker 1: Quietly suggests that even the linear flow of time itself
is a little glitchy.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Imagine digging through your attic and finding a handwritten letter
from your grandfather, undeniably written in postmarked in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Okay, but halfway.
Speaker 1: Through the letter he casually uses the.
Speaker 2: Word internet exactly. It breaks causality.
Speaker 1: It exists physically in the real world. You can pick
it up and touch it, but it violently violates the
laws of cause and effect.
Speaker 2: It's terrifying because it quietly suggests that all of our
meticulous human record keeping is really just a polite suggestion
to the universe, not a rigid rule.
Speaker 1: Wow, all right, let's just take a collective breath here.
We have covered a lot of ground in the step
dive ten distinct cases.
Speaker 2: It is a massive amount of data to process.
Speaker 1: Let's recap. We have mysterious radio signals from deep space
that behave exactly like engineered machine.
Speaker 2: We have perfect rectangles in massive honeycombs hidden deep on
the ocean floor.
Speaker 1: We have an impossibly grow our own piece of metal
from the seventies that entirely defies terrestrial chemistry, a.
Speaker 2: Desert microbrunning on thirty two percent totally alien software code.
Speaker 1: A distant star eclipsed by a wall of incomprehensible size.
Speaker 2: And a boring administrative file that somehow slipped backward through time.
Speaker 1: When you look at all of these sources together, what
is the core common thread here? What's the takeaway?
Speaker 2: I think the fundamental common thread is the profound failure
of repetition. Explain that modern science completely relies on the
idea of repeatability. The core premise is that if you
do a sophific experiment once, you can do it again
and get the exact same results.
Speaker 1: Right, That's how we build the models.
Speaker 2: But these ten cases, they are singularities.
Speaker 1: They only happen once.
Speaker 2: Exactly, they violently happen. They shatter the established rules of
reality for a brief moment, and then they completely vanish
before we can study them properly.
Speaker 1: They are the exceptions that prove well, honestly, they prove
that we really don't know everything.
Speaker 2: Far from it. Yeah, these anomalies are basically cosmic pressure
points thressure points. This show is exactly where our current
scientific models are weak and prone to breaking, and historically
that is exactly where the real discoveries happen.
Speaker 1: If we just ignored the anomalies, we get to stay
safe and comfortable in our little boxes.
Speaker 2: But if we bravely poke at them, we might actually
learn how the universe truly functions.
Speaker 1: It really suggests that our current everyday model of reality
is just a good enough approximation for now.
Speaker 2: Precisely. Think about it. Classic Newtonian physics was considered perfectly
good enough for centuries until scientists started noticing tiny, weird
anomalies in the data that eventually force them to invent
quantum mechanics. Right these weird glitches we discussed today, they
are the breadcrumbs leading us to the next massive leap
in physics.
Speaker 1: I love the thought you put in the notes earlier. Somewhere,
right now, at this exact moment, another impossible anomaly has
been perfectly recorded. It just hasn't been recognized yet.
Speaker 2: It is almost certainly sitting on a forgotten hard drive
in a dark basement lab right now, waiting for a
grad student to notice it.
Speaker 1: I guarantee it is.
Speaker 2: We just have to keep looking.
Speaker 1: So here's the big question for you listening to us
right now. We have given you ten incredibly well documented
glitches in.
Speaker 2: Reality, ten mysteries.
Speaker 1: If you could magically pick just one of these cases
to be fully solved tomorrow, meaning fully explained to the public,
no more secrets, completely transparent, Which one would you pick?
Speaker 2: That is a tough choice.
Speaker 1: Would you want the nineteen eighty four signal to finally
get undeniable proof of intelligent aliens? Would you pick the
Alien Metal to unlock entirely new physical laws and technologies.
Speaker 2: Or would you pick the Ghost file to finally understand
how time travel actually works?
Speaker 1: What about you? Which one are you picking?
Speaker 2: Personally? I want the microbe I desperately want to know
exactly where that thirty two percent of alien DNA came from,
and what else is living down here with us.
Speaker 1: That's a good one for me. Honestly, I think I
want the file. It just bothers me on such a
deep existential level.
Speaker 2: Anomalies will do that to you.
Speaker 1: Let us know what you think. Drop a comment, tell
us your wildest theory on which anomaly breaks reality the hardest.
Speaker 2: And whatever you do, always check your raw data. You
never know what's hiding in the noise.
Speaker 1: So true. Thanks for joining us on this deep dive.
Thanks for listening to thrilling threads. We will see you
all next time.