1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies. History is 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: riddled with unexplained events. You can turn back now or 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: learn the stuff they don't want you to know. Welcome 4 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,560 Speaker 1: back to the show. My name is Matt, my name 5 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: is they call me Ben. We are joined with our 6 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 1: guest super producer, Casey the Quake Pegrum. So everybody say 7 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,599 Speaker 1: hello to him. And most importantly, you are you. You 8 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: are here that makes this stuff they don't want you 9 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: to know. A groundbreaking episode in a number of ways, 10 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: earth chattering perhaps. Yeah, it's our first it's our first 11 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 1: time getting back together after the UH in the new year, 12 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: after the relatively arbitrary end of December. I mean, just 13 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: as me going out of my way to be disrespectful 14 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 1: to the Gregorian calendar system. You can, yeah, which is 15 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: a man made thing. It is that we've discussed on 16 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: the show. Say it's it's the anniversary of our obsession 17 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: with arbitrary time. Yeah, I think Hallmark is going to 18 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: put some cards out to just say that, right. But yeah, 19 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: you can almost breathe now, by the way, I went 20 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: out outside like last night, the night before and you 21 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: just can not breathe because of all the leftover smoke 22 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: and stuff that's in the air, and it's weird because 23 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 1: overnight everything outside looks like Blade Runner. Now it's crazy, 24 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: just switched really like that meme that was making the 25 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: rounds in December reminding everyone to dress and Blade Runner 26 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: appropriate clothing. So unlike Blade Runner and unlike the Gregorian calendar, 27 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: earthquakes like that segue are a natural phenomenon. We didn't 28 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: make those up. They've just been around. It's kind of 29 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: like I don't know if we talked about on the 30 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: show before, but do you ever no, I know you 31 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: hate birds, but I walk around sometimes in these our 32 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 1: modern days and think, you know, have we as humans 33 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: really figured out things of significance. I mean, sure, we 34 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: can put stuff into space, but birds can still fly 35 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: around and on anyone whenever they want to, because you 36 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: only have an umbrella if it's raining, and we also 37 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: can't do much about that. Earthquakes are kind of like that. 38 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 1: They're kind of like, uh, Mother Nature's way of reminding 39 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: you that you can get you upon at any given point, 40 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: you know, unless you're on the moon or something. But 41 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: earthquakes have been around. They've been terrorizing humanity since before 42 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: the Dawn of recorded history. Right, And it comes about 43 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: because the planet appears to be a stable surface. We 44 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: even have cliches about it, figures of speech, like a 45 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: raw right, the old Chevy campaign. Yes, And and the 46 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: thing is that this is misleading because the planet, as 47 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: I'm sure many of us know, is not a stable surface, 48 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: not remotely. It may look like it's a stable surface, 49 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: kind of the way that everyone looks like they might 50 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: be cool and chill on the first date, But then 51 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: once you get into the layers, you see this is 52 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: a complex network of interacting catastrophic traumatic forces. Am I 53 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: saying that? Am I comparing dates to earthquakes? Maybe? I 54 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: don't know twenty nineteen. We're all figuring it out today. 55 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: Certainly both have the potential for some bumping and grinding. 56 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 1: Hey there we go. Good save. And it's weird when 57 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: you think about how strange and upsetting these things have been. Um, 58 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: have you guys ever been in an earthquake? Do we 59 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: talk about this on the air before? There was apparently 60 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: one that everyone felt here in Atlanta. The other a 61 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, but I slept right through it. 62 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: It was in the night. My kid woke up and 63 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: told me she had a dream about an earthquake, which 64 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: is kind of weird. Oh so maybe she made it 65 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: happen with her dreammind super EmPATH over there. I've never 66 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: been in one, but I was in San Francisco recently 67 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: and we went over the Bay Bridge and on the radio, 68 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: as we're going over this huge bridge, they're discussing how 69 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: it was the anniversary it was in October of this 70 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: massive earthquake in I think that actually flattened part of 71 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: that bridge, like while people were driving underneath it. It 72 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: was really really horrifuny to think about. Yeah, I've never 73 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 1: been in a major earthquake, which I guess, I guess, 74 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: go me, but it's a U But I have been. 75 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 1: When I was living abroad, earthquakes were more common than 76 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: they are here in Atlanta, Georgia, and I was I 77 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: was freaked out. It was just eating breakfast with a 78 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: host family and then everything just sort of jiggles that 79 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: I'm shaking the table. Everyone everything jiggles just just for 80 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: a little bit. Nobody else loses a skips a b right, 81 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: it loses a step. Yeah, And what was the was 82 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 1: the structure really sound that you were in? It was 83 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: just a small one. It was just a little little shiver, 84 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: little Central American shiver in the soil. And then they 85 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: explained to me that that wasn't anything to get excited about. 86 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: That probably wouldn't even make a decent landslide, and the 87 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: idea that was read it as a decent landslide. It's 88 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: also strange, but these things have been around, and we'll 89 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 1: talk about how people win the dark lottery that is 90 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: an earthquake. But this might surprise some of us to 91 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: learn that although these things have been around forever, were 92 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: much longer than people, we as a species didn't really 93 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,919 Speaker 1: start understanding what causes them until maybe like maybe a 94 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: century ago we started. And it's true, way back in 95 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: the thirteen hundreds and other periods of time, uh, there 96 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: were inventors who had figured out ways to detect earthquakes right, 97 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: detect seismic disturbance, but we didn't really understand why it happened, 98 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 1: much less were we capable of developing technology to measure 99 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 1: the magnitude in a significant way. And today's episode is 100 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 1: about the latest unexplained seismic events because spoiler alert, we 101 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: still don't know near as much as we thought we 102 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,919 Speaker 1: knew about earthquakes, and Matt, this is something that you 103 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: hipped us to off the air. Recently, there was a 104 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 1: global wave of earthquakes that somehow rang the Earth like 105 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: a bell? Right, what was it? What was that? Even? Mean? 106 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:34,840 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, first things first, if we want 107 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: to figure out what happened recently, we have to understand 108 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: what an earthquake is. And luckily we are affiliated with 109 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: a website called how Stuff Works yea, and that writes 110 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: articles about these kinds of things. We also remembering a 111 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: lot of this from our physical science classes. That's right, 112 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: That's right, Noel is going off solely physical science from 113 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: what is that Hotton Mifflin. Is that the they put 114 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 1: out the text book. I'm pretty sure it may have 115 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: been a different company, but I know they did a 116 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: lot of them. Rings true, just like the Earth was 117 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 1: uh not long ago. So technically, an earthquake is just 118 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: that it's a vibration that travels through the Earth's Earth's crust, 119 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: that that thing that we walk around on every day 120 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: and pretend like it's completely stable and everything's okay. And 121 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: and like we've kind of discussed, earthquakes can be caused 122 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 1: by all kinds of different things everything from if a 123 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: meteor happens to travel, you know, into the Earth's atmosphere 124 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: and then impact with the Earth's Earth's crust, you will 125 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: get a nice earthquake that will also end a lot 126 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: of lives, probably if not in the entire human species. 127 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: They can also be caused by volcanic eruptions that are 128 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: occurring beneath the crust and sometimes as a part of 129 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 1: the crust. And it can also sometimes be made by 130 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: man made things, you know, mind collapses, underground nuclear tests, 131 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: which is a topic that we've discussed before. There's a 132 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 1: lot of technology trying to get the fracking, and fracking 133 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: that's the big one. Even saying it sounds like it's 134 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: a bad thing, it really does. Oh but here's the thing. 135 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: Most naturally occurring earthquakes are caused by this, uh, the 136 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: Earth's crust itself, when there are these moving pieces of 137 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: the Earth's crust called tectonic plates. Now there's really getting 138 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: back to that physical science class. I confirmed that Toton 139 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: Mifflin didn't make physical science books so good. They're still 140 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: in print new editions every year. It's a racket. It's beautiful, 141 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: it's not. It's it's awful. McMillan's used. That's true. McMillan's also, 142 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: But don't you remember like the whole idea like this, 143 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: the textbook racket. How it's like, you know, you have 144 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: to buy it from this exactly. Come of they got 145 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: a monopoly on them. Oh no, that's a whole episode 146 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: probably that we should do. I think you're right late, 147 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: so plates, yeah, uh, let's let's just keep going. Scientists 148 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: didn't come up with any real solid theory that explained 149 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: exactly what an earthquake was or what caused it until 150 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: the mid nineteen sixties, and they call this theory plate 151 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 1: tech tonics. There you go. So here's the gist. Earth 152 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: has a crust, which you mentioned earlier, Matt, and people 153 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: who want to sound authoritative or accurate will call it 154 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:21,160 Speaker 1: the lithosphere. You hear it, smart people, usually because they're seismologist, 155 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, And they probably think crust 156 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: is for cake. I don't know if you're a seismologist, 157 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 1: right in, Uh, this crust is not a single seamless shell. Instead, 158 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: it is composed of layers of plates and these things. 159 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: Every day they're sort of bumping into each other while 160 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: they float on this lubricant layer called the esthenosphere, and 161 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: all the hi jinks seismically speaking, in the world on 162 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: the planet happens at the boundaries of these plates, sort 163 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: of the way, since I'm just doing terrible comparisons for apparently, 164 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: sort of the way that i'll lot of the really 165 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: crazy stuff that happens in many countries happens at the 166 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: border towns, you know what I mean. That's and these 167 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: hijinks take a number of forms, so we don't want 168 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: to get too into the weeds here, but just so 169 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 1: you have the gist. First, there's something called the divergent 170 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: plate boundary. Plates might move apart, allowing magma and cave 171 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: molten rock to reach the surface as lava, and this stuff, 172 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: once it reaches the surface, cools and adds to the crust, 173 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: essentially functioning the way that cult functions, filling in the 174 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: space between tiles. If you've ever you know, if you've 175 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 1: ever laid tiles somewhere, yes, And then there are convergent 176 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: plate boundaries, which is pretty much the exact opposite of that, 177 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: where at the boundary of two plates they are kind 178 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: of squishing together, and that's when you can get mountains 179 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 1: formed where a lot of volcanic activity occur as that 180 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: kind of thing. Um, it's literally pushing up volcanoes too, right, yeah, 181 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 1: and and also sometimes pushing down like it's kind of weird. 182 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: They just they've you can imagine all the different things 183 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: it that to a very strong and heavy things do 184 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: when they push against each other, the very system forces. Yeah, 185 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: they can subduct, right, and that creates mountains for our 186 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 1: purposes today. The next category is the most important. It's 187 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: where two plates sort of slide by one another, like 188 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: two ships in the night order, two trucks on an interstate, 189 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: just side swiping each other. They very slowly, and that 190 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: is what is known as a transform boundary, where energy 191 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: builds up in the region between the two plates, and 192 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: that forms a fault line um or a break in 193 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: the earth crust where blocks of crust are moving in 194 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:45,679 Speaker 1: different directions. And I'm already picturing the beautifully color coded 195 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: image from that physical science book where it has big 196 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: fat arrows going in either direction and the plate pieces 197 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: one in purple and one and like red, kind of 198 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: overlapping each other and like grinding against each other in 199 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 1: different directions, and that's what creates that fault in a 200 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,959 Speaker 1: weird way. This one is the scariest to me for 201 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: some reason, and I don't know why. I think it 202 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: should be the one where the plates are actually moving 203 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,560 Speaker 1: away from each other, because that's in my head, when 204 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: you get the lava coming out, when you get the 205 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 1: whole opening up with a fissure or something. But this 206 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: these two, if you've ever seen the images in I 207 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: believe it was in Japan during the the last major 208 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: tsunami that occurred there where you can actually see parts 209 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: of the street that are doing this movement, like moving 210 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: in parallel next to each other, that for some reason 211 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 1: terrifies me. Yeah, we're talking about fault lines, right, and 212 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: the majority of earthquakes, not all, but the majority happen 213 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: along these transform boundary fault lines. And there are some 214 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 1: there are different types of fault lines, there are different 215 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: types of seismic waves. But again, this is just the gist. 216 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: This is just what we need to know. That's that's 217 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: how an earthquake works. So how many quakes are we 218 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: talking is where it starts to get pretty interesting, because 219 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: the U S Geological Survey estimates that there are as 220 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: many as one point three million quakes with a magnitude 221 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: greater than two point o on the Richter scale. That's 222 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: the threshold at which humans can feel the vibrations. Stuff 223 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: less than that might really freak out your household pet, 224 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But this two point oh 225 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: is where you get to the legit people's spider sense 226 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: goes off for it. And there are one three million 227 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: of them, which is pretty nuts, right I did. I 228 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: guess because we only hear about the real, the real 229 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: terrible ones on the news that we we have a 230 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: lot of these pass without ever you know, registering on 231 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:48,360 Speaker 1: our radar, so to speak. So in general, the majority 232 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: of earthquakes are not going to be particularly powerful. They're 233 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: also not going to last for very long at all, 234 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,560 Speaker 1: even the catastrophic ones. Strong ground shaking during a moderate 235 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: or large earthquake last maybe thirty seconds, ten to thirty seconds. 236 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: And then after that, after you you know, you shake 237 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: up one part of the of the earth, other parts 238 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: around it start to shake as well. So then you 239 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 1: can have timblers, and you can have aftershocks and things 240 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: like that, and most of these things, these aftershocks can 241 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 1: happen for like weeks or months later, but you probably 242 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: still won't notice them. Because again, most earthquakes are not 243 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: very powerful, and many, many, many of them occur in 244 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere. I always stop the word timbler. 245 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 1: Sounded like a cute like diminutive earthquake, but apparently they 246 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: can be quite catastrophic as well. What is it that 247 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 1: is true? Timbler? Timbler? You know, it sounds like an 248 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: app just sounds cute, but no, it's a big deal. 249 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: And like you said, Ben, it's gets a chain reaction 250 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: and it all depends on the magnitude of the first one. 251 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 1: I guess as to how bad the aftershock and the 252 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,920 Speaker 1: other things that it causes later will be. Yeah, and 253 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: we are enormously fortunate too that as earthquakes are so 254 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: very small, and it's this brutal lottery. You know, in 255 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 1: case of the rare quake capable of touching a population center, 256 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: it can destroy the city in minutes, just like you 257 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: were talking about Matt with the with the um road 258 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: moving in different directions, things that should be solid appearing 259 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 1: fluid for even a moment's time. You know, these things 260 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,119 Speaker 1: can rereak enormous amounts of property damage and more importantly, 261 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: they can claim thousands of lives and we have some 262 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: statistics about that as well. I think, oh yeah, over 263 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: the last decade alone, earthquakes and then the tsunami's avalanches, 264 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: landslides that follow because of these earthquakes, they've killed over 265 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: six hundred and eighty eight thousand people around the world. 266 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: That that's insane over the course of ten years. And 267 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: um arguably the most lethal quake in history had a 268 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:00,200 Speaker 1: magnitude of eight point zero And this one occurred quite 269 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: a long time ago in in China and the Shanxi 270 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: province in fifteen fifty six. And you can imagine the 271 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: structural engineering has come a long way since fifteen fifty six. UM. 272 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: And just the devastation that occurred when that eight point 273 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 1: oh struck that that city, it was close to a 274 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: million people. Yeah, we're killed. Yeah, that's that's I mean, 275 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: I just can't can't imagine and one fell swoop and 276 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: they didn't expect it to, you know what I mean. 277 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: And it was the earth itself attacking in a way. 278 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: That's a poetic way to put it. And it's interesting, Matt, 279 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 1: like you mentioned San Francisco, and especially in places that 280 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:40,080 Speaker 1: are more prone to earthquakes, they build out their infrastructure 281 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: with that in mind, like houses on stilts and things 282 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: of that nature, and that's probably not something they would 283 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,680 Speaker 1: have even considered it this time, right, this, this is 284 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: about several hundred years after they built maybe the first 285 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: early earthquake detector, which looks really cool. It's un It's 286 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: the way that it works is if certain parts of 287 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 1: the world shake, then these balls rolled down into this 288 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: dragon's mouth and it points in whatever cardinal direction that 289 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:10,919 Speaker 1: the catastrophe occurred. But they didn't know how to build 290 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: something that would would stand at act of the heavens, right, 291 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: and the survivors adapted as best they could. There was 292 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: one scholar who survived the quake and later provided us 293 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,880 Speaker 1: what may very well be the first earthquake preparedness advice 294 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,880 Speaker 1: in history. He said, at the very beginning of the earthquake, 295 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: people indoors should not go out immediately, just crouched down 296 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 1: and wait for chances. Even if the nest is collapsed, 297 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 1: some eggs in it may still be kept intact. Yikes. 298 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: I means it's eloquent, but it's also frightening, you know. Yeah, 299 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,719 Speaker 1: and its counterintuitive as well. And again I've never experienced 300 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 1: it personally, but my first instinct would be get out 301 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 1: into like open land where there's nothing fall on you. 302 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: But then you have to imagine trees and all the 303 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: other buildings, and especially if you're in a city, just 304 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: all the things that could be falling on you and 305 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: debris and the ground opening up beneath you, yea or landslides, mudslides, right, 306 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 1: So that's that's the science and those are the stakes. 307 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 1: So let's fast forward to the morning of November eleven. 308 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 1: Universal time quick note for everyone. Universal time or UT 309 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: is the modern version of Greenwich meantime. So Universal time 310 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,159 Speaker 1: AM would be four thirty am here on the east 311 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 1: coast of the North American continent. So these seismic waves 312 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 1: begin roughly fifteen miles off the shore of Mayote. This 313 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: is a French island that's kind of sandwiched between Africa 314 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 1: and the northern tip of Madagascar. You can look it up. 315 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: It's cool looking little place. The waves just started buzzing 316 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: across Africa and there it started ringing sensors all across 317 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: the earth. In Zambia, at least in this area, Kenya, Ethiopia. 318 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: They traversed across the oceans. They were humming all the 319 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: way over to Chile, all the way to New Zealand, 320 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: to Canada, even Hawaii nearly eleven thousand miles away. So 321 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 1: just this one tiny place on Earth just starts. Well, 322 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: that's a really good sound effect of a gurgle. But 323 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: here's the thing. Unlike the earthquakes that we've talked about, 324 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 1: with these waves you can feel. And again the waves 325 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 1: versus what you can feel can be slightly different depending 326 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,199 Speaker 1: on the frequency. But they didn't just you know, ding 327 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,280 Speaker 1: or and go by. It lasted for over twenty minutes. 328 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: Twenty minutes of this And here's the thing. Not only 329 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 1: was no one hurt by this event, or no one 330 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: hurt during this event, no one knew it happened, at 331 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: least that is until the Loan Twitter user noticed the 332 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: ODDS signal on the u S Geological Surveys real time 333 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 1: seis mcgrandm displays and this set off another chain of events. 334 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,920 Speaker 1: All right, Seismologists around the world tried to figure out 335 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: why this quake was so unusual and how it happened. 336 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,120 Speaker 1: So what did they find? We will tell you after 337 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:24,760 Speaker 1: a word from our sponsor. Years where it gets crazy, 338 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 1: No one knows. Yeah, still right now, nobody, no nobody 339 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,200 Speaker 1: knows what happened. So this this occurred on November eleven, 340 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:38,560 Speaker 1: again November eleven, and as of right now, we're in 341 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: I guess that's not that far off a runway, but 342 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,880 Speaker 1: we don't. We still don't know what happened. And we've 343 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: been studying these earthquakes for a while. We have very 344 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: sensitive equipment across the globe. Like we said, it was 345 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: noticed in all these different places, but we're still in 346 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,280 Speaker 1: the dark. So yeah, one of the reasons we're in 347 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: the dark is that this quake is unusual, as several 348 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 1: strange attribeuse. Not only did it last for a cartoonishly 349 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,639 Speaker 1: long amount of time, it also did not behave like 350 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 1: any other known quake. In a normal earthquake, these built 351 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: up tensions again along that transform boundary, right, these built 352 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 1: up tensions in the lithosphere release with a jolt in 353 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: seconds just and this sends out a series of other 354 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: smaller pops, a series of waves known as a wave train, 355 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: which it sounds like something way more cool, doesn't it. 356 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: Um A wave train is not this awesome car and 357 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,439 Speaker 1: an Amtrak line. It's it's the series of seismic waves 358 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,959 Speaker 1: that radiate out from the point of wherever this rupture 359 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 1: occurs like ripples in water, like ripples of water. That's excellent. Yeah, 360 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: And we have descriptions from seismologists like Stephen Hicks at 361 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: the University of Southampton who he breaks down the order 362 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 1: in which these waves occur. So, the fastest traveling signals 363 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 1: are the ones called they're called the primary waves, and uh, 364 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 1: the the seismologists call them the P waves, I know. 365 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: But they move in bunches like what happens to an 366 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: extended slinky when you suddenly push it at one end. Yes, 367 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 1: you can see that wave occur and then there you know, 368 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: the wave chain continues. Yet then you get secondary waves 369 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,959 Speaker 1: or S waves, and these have more of a side 370 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: to side motion. Um. And both these two, the primary 371 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 1: and the S waves, have relatively high frequencies, and Hicks 372 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: describes them as a sort of ping rather than a rumbling. 373 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: And after that then you have these slow, kind of 374 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: longer period surface waves that show up. And these are 375 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 1: the ones that most closely resemble the signals from Mayott. Yeah, 376 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,160 Speaker 1: which is weird because there's no big earthquake, right, They're 377 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,199 Speaker 1: supposed to come third in line. Yeah, here they are 378 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,880 Speaker 1: again just sort of happening a little irritating to science us. Right, well, yeah, 379 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: because you can just get these service ways all of 380 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,760 Speaker 1: a sudden, and what the hell is happening here? Guys? 381 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: Anyone go on Twitter, Hey, what's this? And then just 382 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,560 Speaker 1: a Twitter storm occurred? Right, exactly what the hell is 383 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 1: going on? Is there no order to this chaotic and uncaring, 384 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:25,600 Speaker 1: inexplicable universe? Right, Seismologists weren't grappling with um philosophical countries 385 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,840 Speaker 1: of that nature they were. They were more focused on 386 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 1: figuring out why this thing is happening? Right, and now 387 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: we're at the point where there are several theories, some 388 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: that are more plausible than others, and we can we 389 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: can walk through some of these. They get increasingly exciting. 390 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,959 Speaker 1: One what about a meteor What if it? What if 391 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: a meteorite somehow caused earthquakes? Initially, scientists searched the region 392 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: around this this island to see whether there was any 393 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: evidence that a non terrestrial object could be the culprit 394 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 1: behind the quake. So far, no one has found any 395 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: compelling proof. So this theory, while it has some sand 396 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: to it, can be safely dismissed. And I guess in 397 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 1: a way this could make sense. I guess to someone 398 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 1: theorizing about it, because you don't have those the those 399 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: P and S waves that are associated with that quick jolt, right, 400 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 1: that's why this one was thought to be possible. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, 401 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: good point, just because I guess if you had the 402 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: surface waves of or the surface and literally the surface 403 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: of the water being impacted without that deep cracking, I 404 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 1: I guess that makes sense. That makes sense to me. 405 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: Not that, yes, not that they said, what if it 406 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: were not an act of nature and it's random, you know, 407 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: infinite monkeys type on infinite typewriter's sort of scenario. What 408 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,240 Speaker 1: if somehow human beings are responsible? Yeah? Um, but here's 409 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,919 Speaker 1: the thing. Scientists tend to want to take care to 410 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: not accidentally veer into bananas conspiracy theory territory. But um, 411 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:14,119 Speaker 1: the way these waves behaved, the regularity of them was 412 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 1: quite extraordinary, quite remarkable. So you see that long low 413 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: frequency grumble is kind of punctuated by a series of 414 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: high frequency blips signals. It turns out that have very 415 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: regular intervals like this often tend to be artificially generated. 416 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,800 Speaker 1: That's just how it is. And yeah, as you're reading 417 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: about this event, because you can find it in places 418 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:44,119 Speaker 1: from Gizmoto to Big Think. They are they discuss how 419 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: these tiny little pings occurred, and as as an Alma 420 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: was saying, like clockwork, they's just if you're looking at 421 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: the wave form, it's it would literally be as though 422 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: someone is playing an instrument or hitting something, or a 423 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: mechanical to vice is triggering at an exact time. It's 424 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:08,359 Speaker 1: so weird and it's spooky. This is kind of a 425 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: matter of interpretation, but it is. It feels way more 426 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: plausible or way more probable, rather that this is somehow 427 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: man made. When you hear it, yes, you know what 428 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: I mean. It sounds similar to machinery in terms of 429 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: the intervals. But but our species has been fooled before, right, 430 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 1: we have we First we have to admit we have 431 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: found no evidence of heavy industry in the area, at 432 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: least nothing that people know of so far. Right, and 433 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 1: to be fair, we have encountered other natural processes and 434 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: phenomenon objects that have the appearance of regularity. When pulsars 435 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: came out in the we're discovered. I guess it's a 436 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: better way to say. When pulsars were discovered in the 437 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, people were convinced they were generated by intelligent 438 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: life hands down, and even look at in a pulsar. 439 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 1: Now it's like, okay, really, you're gonna you're gonna make 440 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: that light exactly that many times at that rate. Okay, cool, 441 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,679 Speaker 1: because pulsars, you know, rapidly rotate and they have this 442 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: kind of lighthouse appearance and the flashes seem to be 443 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 1: on a regular calculated um frequency right or interval. So 444 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: the original source of pulsars, when it's discovered, they were 445 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: called l g m s, which stood for little Green Men. 446 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,679 Speaker 1: So we've been full before. This still could be some 447 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: This still could be a natural phenomenon rather than you know, 448 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 1: a large scale fracking or something. So there's no evidence 449 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,840 Speaker 1: of something man made that's large enough to produce this 450 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,959 Speaker 1: kind of global event that we know about that we 451 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: know about, that's correct. So what if we look more 452 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 1: closely under the water and for that we go to 453 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: the French Geological survey or the b r g M 454 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: and UH it's closely monitoring the recent shaking and it 455 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: suggests that there's a new center of volcanic activity that 456 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: may be developing off the coast of Mayot. Because Mayote 457 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: was formed from from volcanism or volcanoes volcanic activity, but 458 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,680 Speaker 1: the volcanoes in this area have had just they haven't 459 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:29,520 Speaker 1: erupted in over four thousand years. So basically the thinking was, well, 460 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: perhaps that's not the first go to just because it's 461 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 1: been dormant for so long. But the b r g M, 462 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: again the French Geological Surveys analysis, it suggests that this 463 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: new activity may point to uh magmatic movement off shore. 464 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: And we're talking We're not talking like take a few steps. 465 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: We're talking miles from the coast under thousands of feet 466 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: of water. Yeah. I have to interject because this is 467 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: one of them. I proposed this be the word of 468 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: the day episode that was Some people may have thought 469 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,960 Speaker 1: that you were mispronouncing magnetic, but you're not. Oh you're 470 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 1: saying magmatic. Magnetic. What a great word, Yeah, buddy, magmatic. 471 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 1: And I like vulcanism too, volcanism magmatic. Yeah. I think 472 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: that the reason a lot of people get into the 473 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: science of this stuff is because the names are so cool. 474 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: It's fun to say. Yeah. Man, So if this is 475 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: the case, then here's my question. First of all, um, 476 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: if they have interrupted four thousand years, doesn't that mean 477 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: they're due for an eruption, guys. I mean, and you 478 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: think they could predict it, they could see if there 479 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: was something. Where's all the lava? Right, yeah, exactly where's 480 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 1: the lava? And if you think about some of the 481 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 1: things we've discussed in a slightly different capacity, but with um, 482 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: what the hell am I thinking here? The the supervolcano 483 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: in the middle of the United Yes, and you think 484 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: about that when you're talking about the interval of time 485 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,600 Speaker 1: to all where it's been so long we're just waiting 486 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: for it to occur. But also it's the margin of 487 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: error here is in terms of geologic geological time. So 488 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: we're a we are but a blip, we are a 489 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: we are an awkward thought in the very fleeting ephemera 490 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: of Earth's mind. So this is when we see another proposal. 491 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: And so folks at the E. N. S University in 492 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: Paris say, hey, maybe it's not a meteor. Maybe there's 493 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: magma draining from a site somewhere and it's caused and 494 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 1: it's magma draining from a subterranean reservoir and when the 495 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: magma is moving, the reservoirs collapsing, and this is causing quakes, 496 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: and they looked at the GPS data and from that 497 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: they said, Okay, we think this kind of thing might 498 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: happen if point three cubic miles of magma all moved 499 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: at once, or they said, possibly monsters the Eldridge dead 500 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: and dreaming beast from the darkness between the stars, slumbering 501 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: until the constellations reach a predetermined position. Not getting scientists 502 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: did propose that multiple people. Actually they did some kind 503 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: of Eldrich beast. I'm pretty sure they were joking, But 504 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: you know, what would the show be if we don't 505 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: include that part? Yeah, yep. And speaking of the weird 506 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: out there stuff, we did save the best theory. I'm sorry, 507 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 1: I can't speak for everyone in my opinion the best theory. 508 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I'm right there with you, Benny. We 509 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: saved the best one? Then? Were you're unanimous on this? 510 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: Who saved the best one? For last? Learn all about 511 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: the vortex after a word from our sponsors. Wait the Vortex, 512 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: Huge dramatic music, the World, World War Tech tech tech tex. 513 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: Back in two thousand thirteen, Wiki Leaks released an article 514 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,640 Speaker 1: alleging that a mysterious vortex opened over the Gulf of Aiden, 515 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 1: just off the Horn of Africa which created catastrophic weather 516 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 1: in the early two thousands. So like like a portal, 517 00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: just like a portal, but a vortex. Yeah, but this 518 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: is what we're talking WikiLeaks, right, Yeah, WikiLeaks did release this. 519 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,400 Speaker 1: It was according to a report allegedly prepared by an 520 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:32,560 Speaker 1: Admiral Maximov of Russia's Northern Fleet for Vladimir Putin. What 521 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: they said was in late two thousands, the specific year 522 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: two thousand, there was a magnetic vortex that was discovered 523 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 1: in this area that you just described, that in the 524 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: Gulf of Aden. And according to the story, Russia, the 525 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: People's Republic of China, and the USA joined together, cast 526 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: aside their paltry human differences to study what was what 527 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,560 Speaker 1: this vortex was, and they discovered that it defied logic 528 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: and the laws of physics. This sent the world the 529 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,959 Speaker 1: conspiracy sphere, uh, kind of like the lithosphere, I guess 530 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 1: on fire. And with the recent reports of odd events 531 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:14,080 Speaker 1: near mayottes More, theorists are resurrecting this story, and who 532 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 1: can blame them? It's a great story, do do. The 533 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: cover story from the governments was that all of these 534 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: navies were joining forces to combat Somali pirates. That's true. Yeah, 535 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: that's true, which is strange when you think about how 536 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: much firepower that would be, you know what I mean, Yeah, 537 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 1: to fight a vortex or whatever was going to emerge 538 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: from the vortex. And that's yeah, you've stumbled, you've stumbled 539 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: on it. So people have also connected this with something 540 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 1: called the Norway spiral or war Way vortex. Uh, and 541 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: people started, um, I guess pretty quickly people began bringing 542 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: aliens into the picture, right, because why else would these 543 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 1: geopolitical adversaries or at best freenemies cooperate. Yeah, there's an 544 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: alleged connection to Jupiter, which is which is fun about 545 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: one of the large storms that's on Jupiter and the 546 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 1: vortex showing up when the storm on Jupiter was re emerging. Um. 547 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,319 Speaker 1: I could not correlate those two things together just in 548 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: my own independent research, but it's it's been discussed about this. Yeah. 549 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: And there are other um earthquake related things too, so 550 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:30,320 Speaker 1: we know some of these things are true. Weather manipulation 551 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: is a real thing that occurs. China regularly practices this. 552 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 1: Other countries have certainly dabbled with it. The US engaged 553 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:45,240 Speaker 1: in weather manipulation during the Vietnam War, For some people 554 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,239 Speaker 1: who believe this vortex exists, the world powers or cooperating 555 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 1: to combat weather related shenanigans. But the people who spice 556 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: this up with claims of extraterrestrial or even interdimensional contact 557 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:02,640 Speaker 1: h alleged that world governments in secret have been able 558 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:08,399 Speaker 1: to contact or confront something not of this world. Yeah. 559 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, we 560 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,320 Speaker 1: probably didn't confront something from out of this world because 561 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: we would be squashed like a bug. I don't know, 562 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,279 Speaker 1: man front I get fronted, you know, Yeah, do you have? 563 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,920 Speaker 1: But we're just mostly throwing iron and different metals that 564 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 1: are just propelled at high speed at these things. True, 565 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 1: we don't have any really cool stuff yet. Explosives, I 566 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:33,320 Speaker 1: guess are well. I mean, if you detonated a nuclear weapon, 567 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 1: you would it's kind of cutting off your nose despite 568 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 1: your face, you know what I mean. You'd find a 569 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 1: seismic activity, some seismic activity though. That is true. That 570 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: is true, and you will find reports that say forty 571 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: one earthquake or thirty five earthquakes occurred in a twenty 572 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000 Speaker 1: four hour period in the Gulf of Aiden, and also 573 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 1: a ton of military vessels and commercial vessels are in 574 00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,800 Speaker 1: the Gulf of Aiden. It's it's a huge shipping lane 575 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,760 Speaker 1: for the world, you know what I mean. But yes, 576 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,960 Speaker 1: but there's also one major problem, right, what's that the 577 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:14,760 Speaker 1: location location location? That is okay, yes, yes, that is true. 578 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 1: So the Gulf of Aiden is a seven hour plane 579 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,719 Speaker 1: flight away from Mayo. So while it could be considered 580 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,160 Speaker 1: sort of in the region, it's not nearby. You don't 581 00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:27,880 Speaker 1: pop over to the Gulf of Aiden to you know, 582 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:32,280 Speaker 1: pick up milk. I don't know, well, you know, unless 583 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: you're in some kind of vessel that is interdimensional in 584 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: nature or can travel faster than light, or even just 585 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:45,320 Speaker 1: travel extremely extremely fast and travel underwater. Um, maybe you 586 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,200 Speaker 1: could get there really quickly. Yeah, what is really happening 587 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,600 Speaker 1: at the Gulf of Aiden? And where did these reports 588 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:59,000 Speaker 1: come from? So wiki leaks has been associated with legitimate stuff. 589 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,520 Speaker 1: The way they lease it may have some sort of angle, right, 590 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: but what what they just I guess a better way 591 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,960 Speaker 1: to say it is Wiki leaks definitely has its own agenda, 592 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: and they do. They do display editorial bias in the 593 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,839 Speaker 1: way that they release certain things and hold other ones 594 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 1: in confidence. But usually when they were at leased stuff 595 00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 1: it's true or it's written in what it's written by 596 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 1: someone who believes it to be true. Right, Yeah, and 597 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: and it was this is part of a strap for 598 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: email at least a leak that came from the global 599 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:38,960 Speaker 1: intelligence files. Okay, this has occurred in two thousand twelve February. 600 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:44,360 Speaker 1: That's when this specific email was was released with with 601 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:50,400 Speaker 1: the subject huh mysterious vortex warned it's creating warned is 602 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:56,759 Speaker 1: creating global weather catastrophe? Yeah. So for context, strap For 603 00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:02,320 Speaker 1: is a intelligence platform, were publisher kind of subscription service. 604 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,600 Speaker 1: You can also get some free emails from them. That 605 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:10,760 Speaker 1: was founded in Austin, Texas, and they report on geopolitical stuff, 606 00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,840 Speaker 1: a lot of state craft and a lot of things 607 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 1: that would be helpful to multinational corporations. Yeah, and specifically 608 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 1: weapons companies are built into this whole thing and intelligence 609 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,359 Speaker 1: and all that. So where can where can you get 610 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,200 Speaker 1: the best price uh selling guns and things like that, honestly? 611 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 1: Or where where our markets unstable? And so of course 612 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,839 Speaker 1: they would be concerned with these weird reports. I know 613 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,360 Speaker 1: what a lot of us are thinking. Did this email 614 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:44,799 Speaker 1: come out on April one? No? Not, first thing I checked. Well, 615 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:50,040 Speaker 1: it was from a website called pack alert press dot com. 616 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: And I mean it was a it was a news 617 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:57,880 Speaker 1: story at the time. But here's the thing. The source 618 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,799 Speaker 1: that was being like mentioned in this email that was 619 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,239 Speaker 1: center found within this leak. That's really what we're talking 620 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,719 Speaker 1: about here. The person that wrote the article or at 621 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:14,160 Speaker 1: least provided the information for the article. Yeah, there's another 622 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,560 Speaker 1: conspiracy here. This is uh. This is an author or 623 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 1: propagandists or group of authors or a group of propagandists 624 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:24,759 Speaker 1: going by the handle sort of Fall, which sounds like 625 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,160 Speaker 1: a cool name from Star Wars, it really does. But 626 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,080 Speaker 1: they're they're known for putting out this this kind of 627 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:37,879 Speaker 1: bogus Again, it's propaganda or just disinformation or just headlining 628 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,720 Speaker 1: or grabbing headlines that are completely false or at least 629 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,439 Speaker 1: based on this tiny little morsel of truth, and then 630 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:50,319 Speaker 1: just nothing. Okay, so I'm with you, but question, to 631 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,879 Speaker 1: what end does this story of some strange vortex over 632 00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:59,400 Speaker 1: the Gulf of Aiden help or hinder Russian operations it 633 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,320 Speaker 1: really is if it really is some sort of propaganda, 634 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,160 Speaker 1: I mean, have you read the It's essentially lore at 635 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:10,040 Speaker 1: this point, right, So I guess the best way to 636 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:13,480 Speaker 1: say it is, do we all remember the film Stargate, Yes, 637 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, all right, so the Stargate. Uh, the 638 00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:22,760 Speaker 1: the villain is also the love interest in the Crying Game, correct, 639 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:29,160 Speaker 1: right a, so so Stargate. The gist of Stargate is 640 00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:35,600 Speaker 1: that ancient civilization was founded by extraterrestrials who possess a 641 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,080 Speaker 1: gate that lets one travel through time and space in 642 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:43,560 Speaker 1: an unorthodox, much more efficient manner, a stargate, if you will. 643 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,280 Speaker 1: And for some people have looked into the Gulf of Aiden. 644 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 1: What's actually happening, in their interpretation is that the US 645 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:56,600 Speaker 1: has found or created or resurrected some sort of thing 646 00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,000 Speaker 1: like this, some sort of passage to other dimensions or 647 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:05,359 Speaker 1: too distant places in time and space several like this 648 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,360 Speaker 1: is very closely related to the idea that the US 649 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:12,680 Speaker 1: invaded Iraq to find a stargate. Did you ever hear 650 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,240 Speaker 1: that one? Yeah? I loved that. I loved that theory. 651 00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,719 Speaker 1: That was so much fun. Again for me, these are 652 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,960 Speaker 1: so exciting and I don't know, they reawakened the kid 653 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 1: in me that watched the X Files, you know, before 654 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,600 Speaker 1: going to bed, and then had glorious dreams and nightmares 655 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,680 Speaker 1: about the monsters that you could find within or the 656 00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,879 Speaker 1: aliens and what they would actually be like. Um but unfortunately, 657 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,000 Speaker 1: in my mind, to my mind, that's what this is, 658 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,840 Speaker 1: because we're still talking about seismic activity that occurred in 659 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:47,479 Speaker 1: a place that is a seven hour airplane ride from 660 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: this other place that allegedly maybe had something weird going 661 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:58,839 Speaker 1: on with the vortex that some propaganda's ferred about. Okay, yes, 662 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:04,440 Speaker 1: totally true. Also, I think I'm pretty biased here. I'm 663 00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,480 Speaker 1: just gonna say I've never been to the Gulf of Aiden. Okay, same, Yeah, alright, 664 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,480 Speaker 1: that's what they get up to around there, that's fair. 665 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,759 Speaker 1: It might be star gates all day. Man. It might 666 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:18,000 Speaker 1: be like a mall that is also a stargate so 667 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,160 Speaker 1: that you can get I would picture the star gate 668 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,120 Speaker 1: would be sort of in the center where Santa Claus 669 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:28,280 Speaker 1: usually sits, so you have to wait in line to stargate. Yeah, 670 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,640 Speaker 1: either that or like an anchor store. You know. It's 671 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,359 Speaker 1: I think you're right, man, it's basically wherever they put 672 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,200 Speaker 1: the Santa that's where they put the star. And to 673 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,480 Speaker 1: be further fair, I think it's safe to say that 674 00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,040 Speaker 1: all of us are just holding our breaths until the 675 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:47,360 Speaker 1: ancient ancient ones come back, right, I personally will welcome 676 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,200 Speaker 1: them with open arms. Yeah, and pledge my allegiance to 677 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,680 Speaker 1: them instantly. Oh yeah, I mean you'll only exist for 678 00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,880 Speaker 1: a few seconds, but those seconds will just be not 679 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,600 Speaker 1: if I pledge my allegiance quickly enough. You think, so, yeah, 680 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,640 Speaker 1: you gotta know the customs man all right, Like what 681 00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:04,000 Speaker 1: what is considered pledging allegiance? You know what if they 682 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:08,319 Speaker 1: communicate by smell and the first person to just rip 683 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:14,480 Speaker 1: an obnoxious fart becomes like they're yeah, they're human liaison, 684 00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:19,160 Speaker 1: like Lepetal Mount, the professional French flagile. These are all 685 00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,239 Speaker 1: very important things to consider. These are all very we 686 00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:26,640 Speaker 1: want you all to go into this prepared. Uh. It's 687 00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:31,280 Speaker 1: true though this this stargate theory sounds wild. The Gulf 688 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:35,239 Speaker 1: of Aiden isn't really that close. But there is that 689 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,760 Speaker 1: report from Wiki leaks, And even though the Stratford people 690 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 1: themselves seem pretty I don't know, dismissive of it, Maybe 691 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,520 Speaker 1: they they're they're probably dismissive because they couldn't find any 692 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,279 Speaker 1: other source to confirm it, right, or they couldn't find 693 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:56,080 Speaker 1: any source that existed independently. It all ultimately goes back 694 00:43:56,080 --> 00:44:01,600 Speaker 1: to this Russian report, and still it doesn't explain this earthquake, 695 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,880 Speaker 1: this series of earthquakes, this thing, this low key rumble 696 00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,719 Speaker 1: that is not supposed to happen this way with a 697 00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:14,840 Speaker 1: weird metronomic clicks. It's kind of like the bloop, remember that, Yeah, 698 00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:21,120 Speaker 1: unexplained noise that I think ultimately people no one conclusively 699 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:25,879 Speaker 1: solved it, but people did seem to think overwhelmingly there 700 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:30,160 Speaker 1: was the sound of ice moving in a in a glacier, right, Yeah, 701 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,160 Speaker 1: but I don't believe that for a second. You think 702 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:39,160 Speaker 1: it was You think it was an eldritch something. So 703 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,239 Speaker 1: at this point in time, it looks like the most 704 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:46,520 Speaker 1: plausible explanation for the strange global shiver. Let's call it 705 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,000 Speaker 1: is the underwater drainage of a massive amount of magma. 706 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,879 Speaker 1: And reading the descriptions of this, I don't know about 707 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,280 Speaker 1: you guys, but it made me think of when people 708 00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:00,160 Speaker 1: talk about popping or draining a ZiT or something. You 709 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:04,840 Speaker 1: know what I mean? Is this uh earth and earth 710 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,879 Speaker 1: ZiT like under the skin? What's it called if it's 711 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,440 Speaker 1: under the skin and it hasn't popped yet, subdermal something? Okay, 712 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,919 Speaker 1: I don't know there's a name for Yeah, No, it's 713 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:20,920 Speaker 1: not that No, not a doctor. But that's so. So 714 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,160 Speaker 1: it looks like this may have a mundane explanation, but 715 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,879 Speaker 1: that's not a guaranteed cause. And at this point, as 716 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,880 Speaker 1: we record this episode, we still don't understand how this 717 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,759 Speaker 1: happened the way it did. And that's very, very important 718 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,400 Speaker 1: because you know what happens when there's a lack of 719 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,480 Speaker 1: transparency and a lack of clarity. Colin Rittman comes along 720 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,560 Speaker 1: and he's like, he needs more time. It needs more 721 00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:47,279 Speaker 1: time to finish that video game. All the crappy guys. 722 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,759 Speaker 1: You know, a ZiT under the skin is called what 723 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:58,040 Speaker 1: it's called an underground pimple, an underground Well, we've solved 724 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,880 Speaker 1: that mystery conclusively and think, you know, in the case 725 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,120 Speaker 1: of the global seismic event, Until it can be proven 726 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,440 Speaker 1: that there is a definitive answer to this mystery, questions 727 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:13,520 Speaker 1: are going to remain and frene researchers will continue asking 728 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,920 Speaker 1: whether this is just an oddly well organized earthquake that 729 00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:20,719 Speaker 1: has a great sense of rhythm, or if it's evidence 730 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,880 Speaker 1: of something else, something they don't want you to know. 731 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,000 Speaker 1: But I don't know, man, what do you think I 732 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:29,920 Speaker 1: wanted to be a starry Gate. But I'm pretty sure 733 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:33,000 Speaker 1: it's magma. I'm pretty sure it's an undergrounds it. Yeah, 734 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,560 Speaker 1: it's it's for me. Is that one piece of the puzzle, 735 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:41,120 Speaker 1: that the rhythmic nature of of the one the one 736 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:45,760 Speaker 1: set of frequencies and they're just making that weird little monochromatic? 737 00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:52,480 Speaker 1: I think mono chromatic? Wait, mono chron chronomic? What does that? 738 00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:58,040 Speaker 1: How does that work? Is it? In terms of sound monifonic? No? 739 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:00,640 Speaker 1: I mean monif just means one voice of time. It doesn't. 740 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,600 Speaker 1: That only happens as a single instance, not stacked like 741 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,800 Speaker 1: chords or whatever. You know. Monophon just means a single 742 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,839 Speaker 1: tone that only mono symphon sounds at its on its own, 743 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:16,399 Speaker 1: because it's never like joined by other sounds. But it's weird, right, 744 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,839 Speaker 1: This thing is weird. It's doesn't sound the way an 745 00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,000 Speaker 1: earthquake is supposed to sound, and it doesn't move like 746 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,920 Speaker 1: one either. It's not cool, not cool at all. I 747 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,880 Speaker 1: think it's super cool, man. I think it's probably just packs, 748 00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:31,520 Speaker 1: you know, p a X hanging out down there, K packs, No, 749 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,560 Speaker 1: just packs. It's a demon, Pacman, It's a demon the 750 00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:38,160 Speaker 1: you're supposed to worship. Pacman's a demon. Um, yeah, yeah, 751 00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,359 Speaker 1: program and control man have you seen that? Have you? 752 00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:45,160 Speaker 1: Have you guys seen yeah? Man, conspiracy realist, let us 753 00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,400 Speaker 1: know what she thought of that. He escapes one he 754 00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,600 Speaker 1: escapes out the maze one way, only to come in 755 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,200 Speaker 1: on the other side. Man, that's a good one. That's 756 00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:54,880 Speaker 1: a good voice of that kid. And I forget his name, 757 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:59,480 Speaker 1: but he's excellent that movie Singing Later. He's also in. Yes. 758 00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,680 Speaker 1: You can let us know your opinion of band or 759 00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:09,480 Speaker 1: snatch the Possible Secrets of Unexplained Earthquakes and more by 760 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,919 Speaker 1: finding us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. That's it. Yeah, 761 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,520 Speaker 1: we're we're conspiracy stuff and or conspiracy stuff show. You'll 762 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,440 Speaker 1: figure it out. If you don't want to do that, 763 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:22,440 Speaker 1: come join us on Facebook and hang out. And here's 764 00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,319 Speaker 1: where it gets crazy. That's our our page where we 765 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:28,600 Speaker 1: all get together and discuss things like this. Yeah. I'm 766 00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,720 Speaker 1: looking forward to hearing what you believe or don't believe. 767 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:33,880 Speaker 1: He Matt, don't we have a phone number. We have 768 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,719 Speaker 1: a phone number. It is one eight three three st 769 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:41,000 Speaker 1: d w y t K. 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