Dr. John Dvorak, planetary geophysicist and Caltech Ph.D., debunks Hollywood’s earthquake exaggerations while explaining real-world risks like California’s seismic lull and the Pacific Northwest’s volcanic threats—Mount Rainier, Shasta, and Hood. He explores Pluto’s 11,000-foot nitrogen glaciers and possible internal ocean, defying expectations despite radioactive decay models. Dvorak predicts multiverse theory will dominate 21st-century science, citing cosmic microwave background anomalies and dark flow as hints of unseen universes. From black hole time dilation to fracking-induced quakes in Texas, he ties quantum physics, gravity waves, and unproven wormholes to life beyond Earth—even suggesting microbial hitchhiking via meteorites. The universe’s edge remains a mystery, but math suggests deeper layers, leaving mainstream science skeptical yet intrigued by his telescope data from Hawaii. [Automatically generated summary]
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Because we have a photograph there of how the White House is going to look about a year after Mr. Trump is elected.
You might want to take a look at that.
Oh, by the way, I'm going to be on the Tom Lykis show tomorrow.
They have invited me to come and be part of whatever it is they do there, and it's some strange stuff, I guess.
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All right, so we've got this barnacle-encrusted wing part, which Boeing is saying, yep, part of a triple seven, really could only be part of that triple seven because it's the only one that's crashed out there.
Can they trace it back and see where it really went down?
If it went down on the line, that they have that curved line?
I don't know.
That's a reach, I think, for modeling.
Anyway, they also picked up a suitcase today, a suitcase that belonged to perhaps somebody on that ill-fated flight.
The mainstream thinking, and the mainstream talking head people, is what I should say, still think that it was a man-done deal.
And it probably was.
It made an awful lot of turns.
NBC ran a very interesting article on China.
700 successful cyber attacks on the U.S. this last year.
Maybe we should get hold of Anonymous.
I do have that contact, you know.
And they should fight China.
They could probably do it.
I'm not sure how the NSA is doing, but maybe my friends at Anonymous really could make a difference.
And one other story, and then we'll get to our guest who's going to be really something, Dr. Dvorak.
He, well, I'll get to that in a moment.
A swarm of UFOs, and this is on Art Bell2, artbell.com.
A swarm of UFOs have been caught on camera by many, many, many in Japan's port city of Osaka.
The footage, which has been viewed by about 9,000 people now, so it's pretty young.
It's released on a Japanese YouTube channel as well.
Spherical objects glowing white can be seen flying across the sky in the low-quality video.
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And some users have speculated they are evidence of E.T. Life.
Well, who knows?
But the Japanese UFO sighting seems eerily similar to one in London, where concertgoers there witnessed a bright group of lights overhead in Hyde Park.
You know, so these are mass sightings.
I mean, it's not like one or two people.
This is many, many, many people seeing all this.
Coming up in a moment, Dr. John Dvorak.
He received his Ph.D. in planetary geophysics from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
That was followed by working for the U.S. Geological Survey on Earthquakes and Volcanoes, including the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Other eruptions in Hawaii, Alaska, Italy, Central America, and Indonesia, they get big ones.
Currently, Dr. Dvorek operates one of the largest telescopes at the summit of Moana Kia in Hawaii.
Hope I got that right.
His professional interests include the question of scientific evidence for life beyond planet Earth and whether the multiverse exists.
So this is going to be a lot of fun.
So coming up in a moment, Dr. Dvorak, stay right where you are.
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But one thing that you might be surprised about is that the ground shaking that they showed in the movie is not nearly as strong as it will actually be.
And the reason you can't run around is the acceleration is more than 1 G. So there are going to be times when you are actually in free fall, and then just a fraction of a second later, you will be under an acceleration of 2 Gs or more.
We're about 65 miles west of Las Vegas, and 6 miles from the California border.
And a few years ago, we had a 7.3 in the desert.
And let me tell you, Doctor, I've got a 100-foot radio tower over my house, and I was sure that piece of steel was going to come cutting through the house like a knife through hot butter, you know.
There's a zone that's known as the Walker Seismic Zone.
It's named after the first Westerner to go in Yosemite National Park.
It was, of course, in a park then, but he was the first one to see it.
And the Walker Seismic Zone is about 600 miles long, about 100 miles wide, and it pretty much runs down the border between California and Nevada, between Reno and Las Vegas.
Now, going for a second back to the movie, then, of course, the rest of the movie happened, and there became an earthquake up and down San Andreas virtually all the way.
For all the movie-goers, and I know a lot of people saw this movie, is such a thing even possible, Doctor?
This is the scenario that people worry about a great deal.
To back up a little bit, in the last few decades, one of the things we've learned about earthquakes is that they are not random and they don't reoccur like clockwork.
But large earthquakes seem to come in clusters, and they are called earthquake storms.
And I'd like to turn your attention over to what is probably the most famous earthquake storm.
It occurred in Turkey along a fault right along the northern edge of Turkey on the edge of the Black Sea.
And so that's 13 major earthquakes in 60 years, or roughly about one every four or five years.
It's like having, if you recall, well, like the earthquake that you had in 99, the Hector Main earthquake, or the Northridge in 94, north of Los Angeles, or the Loma Prieta, also known as the World Series earthquake in 1989.
But somehow, under the ground, I have this mental picture of two things pressed up against each other, trying to move, trying harder to move, trying harder to move.
And they've been trying for a while now.
And then when they do move, they're really going to boogie.
That the outer part of the planet has a dozen or more plates that are moving very slowly.
And where they come together, they're stuck.
And they sort of grind against each other.
And the only way of releasing this is by a big earthquake.
And so it's inevitable.
There's going to be large earthquakes.
The question is when.
And it just happens to be that during the great urban expansion in California, you know, from 1920s to the 1970s, that was an extremely quiet period in terms of earthquakes.
And that's where this concept of earthquake storms come from.
So there isn't any global increase of activity, but you can have a regional increase of activity that will last decades, which is pretty much a lifetime.
Police say they were called to the scene, but since it's not illegal to perform an exorcism in a public place, they did not take action.
No injuries were reported.
A Hillview man has been arrested after he shot down a drone flying over his property, but he's not making any apologies for it.
It happened Sunday night at a home in Bullitt County, Kentucky.
Hillview police say they were called to the home of a 47-year-old William Meredith after someone complained about a firearm.
When they arrived, police say Meredith told them he had shot down a drone that was flying over his house.
The drone was hit mid-air and crashed.
Well, we might be a little closer to interplanetary travel after scientists have recently confirmed that an electromagnetic propulsion drive, which is fast enough to get to the moon in four hours, actually works.
The EM drive was developed by the British inventor Roger Shawyer nearly 15 years ago, but was ridiculed at the time as being scientifically impossible.
It produces thrust by using solar power to generate multiple microwaves that move back and forth in an enclosed chamber.
This means that until something fails or wears down, theoretically the engine could keep running forever without the need for rocket fuel.
The drive, which has been likened to Star Trek's impulse drive, has left scientists scratching their heads because it defies one of the fundamental concepts of physics, the conservation of momentum, which states that if something is propelled forward, something must be pushed in the opposite direction.
So the forces inside the chamber should cancel each other out.
In recent years, though, NASA has confirmed that they believe it works.
And this week, Martin Toshmore, professor and chair for space systems at Dresden University of Technology in Germany, also showed that it does produce thrust.
Well, you know how it is.
You're swinging a hammer around, having heaps of fun, and you stumble across your very own personal bat cave.
Except it's not a bat cave.
It's an entire city.
While redoing his house in 1963, a man in Neveshir province of Turkey in an area known as Cappadocia knocked down a wall.
Behind that wall was a tunnel.
And behind that tunnel, there was an underground city.
What he had stumbled across was one of the many hidden entrances to the ancient underground city of Derenkuyu.
This was an entire city carved into the stone below Cappadocia, reaching some 60 meters below.
It had 18 levels.
It had it all.
Residences, churches, food storage, wineries, and even a school.
It was designed to house some 20,000 people as well as livestock.
It features vents to the surface and several discrete entrances.
This all suggests that the city was built as a precaution to protect the people during times of war or natural disaster.
Cities like these were used during times of Christian persecution, so religious items would be placed on the lowest levels for protection.
The city was also used as a refuge from the Mongolian invasion in the 1300s and up through the 20th century for Christian people fleeing persecution.
It was finally abandoned for good in 1923.
After its rediscovery, the city opened it to tourists in 1969.
Today, about half the city is available to the public.
I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
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Well, the center of the continents are very, very stable.
Like in North America, if you go to Canada, those are very stable platforms, and they're known as cratons.
But almost all the geologic activity occurs on the plate boundaries.
So along the west coast of North and South America, Japan, Indonesia, that's where almost all of the geologic activity is going on, earthquakes and volcanoes.
Okay, maybe this is the wrong way to think of it, but on a mountain, if you've got pretty big rock, if that rock starts falling down the mountain, it can either go down pretty well unmolested and maybe block a road at the bottom, or it can hit a million other rocks on the way down and you've got a total landslide on your hands.
Down deep in the earth, is there an equivalent to that?
I mean, you said a small earthquake might cause a big one.
So conceivably, man is getting pretty powerful now.
We could do something that would be powerful enough to cause an earthquake.
I mean, I am just over the mountain here from where they set off the nuclear weapons when they were testing them above and then below ground.
And I remember being on the air in Las Vegas and having to warn people because, boy, I'll tell you, Vegas would rock and roll when they set one of those things off.
Indeed, I mean, I could ask, if you were to set off a nuclear weapon with a pretty big yield somewhere on the San Andreas, do you think that has a chance of triggering the whole mess?
And from my house, I can see both, Kilauea, which I live on, in Mauna Loa, and I actually saw both of them erupt simultaneously when I was in bed one morning.
She wasn't going to go, and so we never did end up going.
But the Mayan volcano was going pretty well there for a while, and it was getting scary, and they were beginning to make people move away and safety areas and all that sort of thing.
I know that they've set up lasers looking across mountain ranges and looked for movement, and they've done all these different things, and so you just can't predict.
Well, the eruption was spectacular, and dealing with putting in instruments, standing on the ground as it shakes like jello, and just to be, well, the one that I was close to was not St. Helens.
It was one down in Indonesia, just less than a mile away when it blew up.
And that was the night that my life changed.
It was an epiphany to me when I was just within a mile or two of this volcano exploding.
And I had just been in the crater a couple hours earlier.
I doubt if people remember that when it exploded in 1982, we were actually at the top of a volcano called Merapi, 50 miles away, during its first explosion.
And then we got in Land Rovers and we rushed over there as fast as we could.
All right, Dr. Dvorak is my guest, and we're talking about calamitous things, actually.
And, yeah, I used to chase tornadoes, and I can't tell you the thrill of seeing the sky utterly dark in front of you, big roll cloud coming, the sun peeking out somewhere, and then suddenly a tornado dips down.
Now, even the meteorologists on the weather channel have a hard time, Doctor, sort of hiding their elation at what they're seeing.
This baby is amazing.
But then, on the other hand, they have to say, but of course it's awful and very dangerous.
Get in your basements right now.
So people like us, it's like writing a fine line, isn't it?
The only thing that is certain right now is that it's going to grow from a tropical storm into a hurricane, category 2, and it will pass close to the Hawaiian Islands at the middle of next week.
So Mount St. Helens, is the fact that it recently, fairly recently, exploded, does that indicate to you that it's liable to go again or exact opposite, that it'll go to sleep for a while?
Well, a system like that can certainly go dormant for hundreds of years.
It is very unlikely to have a replay of what happened in 1980.
And there's a variety of reasons.
And so that's not, if you ask people who are involved in hazards of volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest, Mount St. Helens is there, but the bigger concerns are Shasta, Mount Hood, and Mount Rainier.
Mount Hood, most of the watershed for Mount Hood, that's the water supply for Portland, Oregon.
Mount Rainier, because of the amount of ice on it, could produce a lot of mud flows.
And they can reach the water, you know, in the southern part of Seattle.
And there's hundreds of thousands of people live there.
And Shasta, there's not as many people, but it could certainly produce a lot of destruction.
Those are the three which, if you ask about the Pacific Northwest, those are the ones that people focus on.
It seemed to me that when Mount St. Helens went, it was a big surprise.
And then after it went, I saw a picture of saying, well, they should have known because the side of the dome was getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
Well, I can tell you what the discussions were of people who were there.
It was, how could we have been so stupid?
It was so obvious in hindsight what was going to happen.
But then as we talked about it, they said, okay, let's go back a week.
What were we talking about?
And it wasn't obvious at the time exactly what was going to go on.
And there was this constant balance of how much do we tell people of potentially how bad it may be as to, well, this might happen, but it's a low probability.
And then we have this uncertainty.
This activity could go on for a year without an eruption.
And people's homes are there and their jobs are there.
Are we really prepared to tell people you are out of work for a year and it may or may not erupt?
And we did spend a lot of time trying to balance that out.
Well, let me preface it by saying Earth is one of my favorite Planets.
Oh, mine too.
It certainly is on my list of favorite planets.
But you hit it on the head.
We know much less about the interior of the Earth than we do about the surface of Mars or even on the interior of the Sun.
We know a surprisingly great detail of what's happening inside the Sun.
The other thing is the most geologically active part of planet Earth is not on the surface.
It's thousands of miles beneath our feet.
The Earth is like an onion.
There's a core, and that's mostly made out of iron and nickel.
There's an inner core that's solid, an outer core that's liquid.
And then, as you learn in grade school, the mantle that's made out of what we call just a rocky material.
And actually, the most geologically active part, that is where most of the chemical changes are occurring, are actually between the core and the mantle.
I mean, ironic and then it's clear that for a variety of reasons, we not only know it's iron and nickel, we also know it has a very small amount of sulfur in it.
And it escapes me what else, but we're very sure it's iron-nickel.
Dr. Dvorak is my guest, and we're going to be talking of some really fascinating stuff.
Already done it, but I'm telling you, there's a lot coming up.
Yeah, what's down there?
Center of the Earth, right?
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It's an active volcano out there in the Canary Islands.
And part of the evolution of those volcanoes, the same as here in Hawaii, is that part of them eventually slide into the ocean, and that creates a huge wave.
Such things occur over a period of 10,000 years, 100,000 years.
And so the probability of it happening is very low.
I don't know of anyone, and I was in that, who would have thought that this was Pluto.
I really thought it was just going to be a big part of ice with some craters on it.
And the surface would be billions of years old, but it's an active surface, which means the internal part of it's active, which means what's the source of the heat that describes this geology.
And in terms of, well, this looks boring to me, these, I mean, what the person said at the news conference, this always goes back to that same fundamental question.
Are we alone?
What was our origin?
And so forth.
When you look at a brand new world, that's still part of our history.
And we may have collected data and the telescope that I work at, I may have had observers which have collected data, and they're desperately working through it and trying to convince people that, yes, the multiverse is out there.
A minor earthquake has struck off the northern tip of Vancouver Island.
Natural Resources Canada says a 4.7 magnitude quake hit around 5.30 on Wednesday evening.
The shock originated about 175 kilometers west of Port Hardy, British Columbia.
Natural Resources Canada said there were no reports of damage and that none would have been expected.
The ministry said the quake was not felt.
According to a new study, Washington, D.C. is slowly seeping into the earth, and it could sink another six inches in the next century due to subsurface land movement under the Chesapeake Bay.
The research confirms twin hypothesis, both of which are worrying.
The first is the tide gauges show sea level rises in the Chesapeake region are twice the global average, and that levels are rising faster than elsewhere in the East Coast.
The second is that the prehistoric ice sheets in the north, which pushed up the land around D.C. are now melting, and the land in the Chesapeake region is settling back down as a result.
Researchers at the University of Vermont said the sinking land under the nation's capital would exacerbate the effects of flooding caused by climate change and rising ocean waters.
This would in turn threaten the region's roads and monuments, wildlife refuges, and military installations.
There are numerous reports of people who saw a different-looking aircraft in the sky last night.
Many from the Denver, Colorado area say they saw a stealth bomber flying over Dick's sporting goods in Commerce City.
This was just ahead of the MLS All-Star game, and that's the aircraft they saw, which means it wasn't so stealth.
It made an appearance right after the national anthem around 7.15 that evening.
Quite a few local area residents caught the stealth bomber on video and photographs.
You can take a look at them at darkmatternews.com.
A mystery over a group picture.
Everyone was having a good time until they noticed that they were being photobombed by a ghost.
Nothing out of the ordinary seemed to be going on when the photos were taken.
But when they took a closer look, that's when they said they noticed a shadowy figure peering out at them from the second story window.
Natasha Oliver and her friends were hanging out in her hometown of Wim in Shropshire, UK.
Oliver told ABC News that she truly believes there is a ghost woman and her baby in that window.
She and her friends freaked out after they saw the photo on her digital camera back in 2010, taken when they were hanging out on the front lawn of the unfinished home, still being built at the time.
Oliver said when we saw the ghostly figure, the boys climbed up the scaffolding to see what was up there, thinking maybe someone was watching, but there was nothing up there.
There were no floorboards or anything.
Though the photo was taken almost five years ago, Oliver said it recently got widespread attention after she commented on a Facebook post about a fake ghost picture.
Though some on social media believe Oliver's photo could be photoshopped, she insisted it wasn't and added she hopes to get in touch with professional photo analysts and paranormal experts to solve the mystery of the ghost in the window.
The town of Wim, where the picture was taken, previously made headlines about reported paranormal activity in 1995 when a photographer claimed he captured an image of a little girl's ghost at the ruins of the town hall that was ravaged by a fire in 1677.
Oliver concludes by saying, I didn't believe in ghosts before, but I do now.
Actually, I've converted.
Fake or real?
Take a look at the photos yourself and let us know what you think.
DarkmatterNews.com.
And with that, I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
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All right, we are a new show, so here come the basic best ways to call the show, speech.
Really, the best way is if you have a smartphone, you can put Skype on your phone.
It's a free download, right?
Put Skype on.
And then if you're in North America, America, or Canada, simply make out like you're going to call us, like you're going to make us into a contact, and put in M-I-T-D-51.
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You don't have to spell it out, just the initials, M-I-T-D-51, and then it'll be on your contact list, and you can just press it and call us.
And the same thing goes for those of you in other parts of the world.
We've got an overseas Skype set up, which is really cool.
And you would just put in MITD 55, Midnight in the Desert, M-I-T-D-55.
And then you could call us at will.
And then, of course, the public number, which is not a single line, folks, it's many, many lines.
Well, these people have started what is called dark flow.
That there's a general flow to the visible universe.
And let me illustrate this with an analogy.
If you were floating in a swimming pool, and no matter where you were in the swimming pool, there's always a current going from one edge to another, you would conclude there's something outside the swimming pool producing this current.
I'm going to give you a chance to try and explain something to me that I ask most people of your caliber.
Quantum physics is fascinating to me, and quantum entanglement with that.
You know, I'm a ham operator.
I understand communications, but I don't understand how two things can act in unison no matter how far they're separated without a form of communication that we don't begin to understand.
What I want to tell her, and this is something that we spend a lot of time thrashing about, if there's an earthquake like the magnitude 6 at Napa, the probability of a larger one in 72 hours goes way up.
And so if there has been some destruction and you are going to start rescuing people, be aware that the ground could start shaking at any moment.
The only thing which we can do is give a probability of something happening.
For example, the probability of a World Series earthquake like the Loma Praeta happening over the next three days is like one out of 25,000 or something.
If you have a Napa earthquake, the probability of a larger one in the next 72 hours is like one out of 20.
So it goes way up for those next day or two.
And people concerned about earthquake hazards and physics of earthquakes make a very strong point to the rescuers.
Understand, if you're going into a wrecked building, this thing could collapse on you.
First of all, do you believe, does your guest believe, that there's any truth to the charge or the claim that fracking contributes to triggering earthquakes?
And could he comment on the case in Italy a few years ago where I believe several seismologists were actually convicted, I believe, of manslaughter because they had failed to predict an earthquake that occurred.
I believe their charge was reduced, but I wonder if he could comment on that.
My question was, you were talking about multiverses and black holes, and I was just wondering what your take was on the depiction of a black hole and multiverses in the movie Interstellar.
I loved Interstellar except for the first 40 minutes.
And I don't understand why the first 40 minutes were there that was so slow.
Interstellar got the time dilation exactly right.
That is, going close to a black hole, you don't age as fast.
And I thought the way that they did it was brilliant.
What they did with the physics of the black hole was more of a Hollywood take than what happens in science and what we know about it, or the physics of a black hole.
I don't recall, I saw the movie, did they actually pass the event horizon?
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Yeah, he goes into the black hole, and it's a little confusing, but he basically exists in a Tesseract, and he can go to any point in time in his daughter's life.
And that's why the research in trying to figure out what triggers a large earthquake is so critical.
And the ignorance is very high on this question.
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Well, it's just a little bit scary.
My brother was visiting in town recently, and we were talking about the earthquakes, and it got to the point where there was an earthquake every two hours.
And it got to the point where I was able to say, you know what, I think there's going to be an earthquake at 10 p.m. tonight, and I bet I'll be right within 10 minutes.
There must be a state geologist who has to issue an actual statement.
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I guess, yeah, I haven't looked into that, but it's definitely interesting.
I had one other question.
Not exactly related to earthquakes, but it does have to do with something I know is in your area of expertise, which has to do with just other life in our solar system.
I'd love to get your just quick thoughts on the possibility of life on Europa or Titan, and if you think that there's any significance to those claims.
I have to give you the non-scientific answer, Oak Right?
The one that is the passion in me.
And that is microbial life is probably all over the solar system.
Because we know that microbes, the deepest drill holes that have ever been put into the earth, they find microbes.
You find them in those hot mud pots at Yellowstone.
You find them in the ice in Antarctica.
And the reason that they're probably spread all over the solar system is because a large impact will throw rocks out that will land on another planet or moon.
And there certainly has been plenty of opportunity.
It's just really hard to figure out how people 100 years from now are going to look back on us and say, well, they were immoral in this way or what they were going to go on.
And just one other thing, something I've heard since I was a kid, that during an earthquake or before an earthquake, like dogs or other animals know what's coming.
That's right.
Is there any studies on that, or is that just a tale?
If you're with a friend and one friend is standing, okay, you're in a room and you're lying on the ground and your friend is standing, you will feel the earthquake first.
And I know many people have said this.
You know, I was at home, I was lying on the couch, and I felt the earthquake, and my wife didn't in the kitchen until later.
What is happening here is that people have heard of the P and S waves go by.
The S wave carries almost all the energy, but it's slower.
And so if you're lying on the ground, you have a better contact with the ground, and you're feeling the P wave.
And if you're standing, you're probably not, what you're feeling is the S wave, which comes later.
And so that's probably what they're feeling.
In terms of the animals, people who report this are very sincere, without a doubt.
And so what they're reporting, as far as I, is true.
What they saw is true.
The question is Because it's not consistent That's not a scientific observation Yes but somehow Right, but Sometimes what is anecdotal becomes definitive.
And that's excellent.
A lot of science eventually is born out of things that are anecdotal.
And it's a question of trying to figure these things out as to all this noise that comes down of all these stories, which one is going to tell us more about the basic physics of earthquakes.
Yeah, I was wondering about Cascadia subduction zone.
I've read a couple of things recently, effects of that, and how that would basically drop the edge of the plate because it's a major convergence zone for a couple of plates.
And they say, like, the tsunami would wipe out clear back to like five in Seattle.
What would somebody standing in like between Idaho and Washington, North Idaho and the border of Washington, what would somebody feel up there in the farmhills where it's rolling and the soil is like consistency of old alluvial silt and clay there?
A baby cries, a bus rolls by, wind keens, and rains fall.
These sounds and many more are included on NASA's Golden Record, a compendium of sounds of our planet that traveled out into space with the Twin Voyager 1 and 2 missions in 1977.
The phonograph disc itself was 12 inches and made from copper-plated gold.
Previously, the tracks on the album were available as individual clips, but NASA this week released them as an entire recording available to listen to on streaming music service SoundCloud.
You can pretend you're an alien way out somewhere in the universe, encountering a Voyager spacecraft and listening to an audio introduction to what Earth was like in 1977.
You'll hear crickets, footsteps, morse code, laughter, fire, a barking dog, and an elephant.
The sounds on the record were chosen by a committee headed up by famed astronomer-astrophysicist Carl Sagan.
As NASA notes, it was intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials.
The Golden Record was created before the age of the internet.
Would a new Golden Record today skip the sounds of a horse and cart and instead include a cell phone ringing or the clicking of a computer keyboard?
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UFO watchers are in a tiz over the discovery of an ancient skeleton with an elongated skull that resembles an alien.
The humanoid skeleton was unearthed from a site known as Russia's Stonehenge, and it's being heralded as proof that aliens visited Earth thousands of years ago.
However, archaeologists don't share the same view as alien hunters, insisting that the skeleton belonged to a female from a tribe that used to bind the head to make it grow out of shape.
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A mystery over a group picture.
Everyone was having a good time until they noticed that they were being photobombed by a ghost.
Nothing out of the ordinary seemed to be going on when the photos were taken.
But when they took a closer look, that's when they said they noticed a shadowy figure peering out at them from the second story window.
Natasha Oliver and her friends were hanging out in her hometown of Wim in Shropshire, UK.
Oliver told ABC News that she truly believes there is a ghost woman and her baby in that window.
She and her friends freaked out after they saw the photo on her digital camera back in 2010, taken when they were hanging out on the front lawn of the unfinished home, still being built at the time.
Oliver said when we saw the ghostly figure, the boys climbed up the scaffolding to see what was up there, thinking maybe someone was watching, but there was nothing up there.
There were no floorboards or anything.
Though the photo was taken almost five years ago, Oliver said it recently got widespread attention after she commented on a Facebook post about a fake ghost picture.
Though some on social media believe Oliver's photo could be photoshopped, she insisted it wasn't and added she hopes to get in touch with professional photo analysts and paranormal experts to solve the mystery of the ghost in the window.
The town of Wim, where the picture was taken, previously made headlines about reported paranormal activity in 1995 when a photographer claimed he captured an image of a little girl's ghost at the ruins of the town hall that was ravaged by a fire in 1677.
Oliver concludes by saying, I didn't believe in ghosts before, but I do now.
Actually, I've converted.
Fake or real?
Take a look at the photos yourself and let us know what you think.
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It's not radio, but it is what's next to cast your ray of light into the darkness.
That is packing a walloping 100 kilowatt signal, and I think it's lighting up the ionosphere worldwide.
My question for your guests is, according to Einstein's famous equation equals M C square, one has to realize that C square is simply a constant of 90 quadrillion.
So if you divide both sides of that equation by 90 quadrillion, you get energy divided by 90 quadrillion equals mass.
It seems to me impossible that mass could hold all that energy without just vaporizing or dissolving or blowing apart.
Could it be that this is a placeholder where some of that energy has to be transferred to a higher dimension in order for it to exist as stable gravitational producing mass?
And the explanation, you know, of the four fundamental forces, of the strong force, the weak force, and the gravitational force in there, people have said, why is the gravitational force so weak?
It's so much weaker than the rest.
And one explanation is because it goes through all these other dimensions.
And the strong and weak force stay only in the three dimensions that we have.
I'm actually calling him from Hagerstown, Maryland.
Good evening, Art, and good evening, Dr. Dvorak.
My question is, are you familiar with Charles Hapgood's theory of the Earth's crustal displacement?
It's the slippage of the entire crust of the Earth on the lithosphere as one solid motion.
It's believed that the theory says that the Earth could have actually slipped as much as 40 degrees, where the core, the mantle stays in place and maintains its axis.
But this does not conflict with the idea of plate tectonics, because plate tectonics, of course, plates ride on the lithosphere.
And I think the theory originally started, it was a Russian study back in the 40s and 50s.
And Charles Hapgood caught onto it, and he presented it to Albert Einstein.
Einstein gave it some credibility.
He didn't really acknowledge it as something that he was going to sign on to, but he didn't discount it completely.
And my interest in this is the idea that recently there has been borehole drilling in Antarctica, and some of the specimens that have come up have shown tropical plants that were frozen nearly instantly.
And if this crustal slippage did actually happen, it could have brought Atlantis from near the equator down to where Antarctica is today.
And then that would tie in with some of the ideas of why Hitler and Nazi Germany were so interested in Antarctica.
Another way to think about it, if you're standing on land and you look out to the ocean and there's a ship sailing away and this ocean is sort of expanding and the ship is riding the ocean, eventually it's going to go beyond what you can see.