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Art Bell MITD - Jon The Morgile Josh Grindlay Flat Earth Debate
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So, all right, here we go.
What we're going to talk about tonight is whether or not the earth is flat.
Here comes Somebody we're going to call John, and John prefers to remain anonymous.
He believes the earth is flat.
He has several business clients who might not be ready to have a ball earth skeptic as a strategic consultant.
John is in no way ashamed to be a ball earth skeptic.
However, being a ball-earth skeptic does not pay the bills, says he.
His business clients do, and he hopes the listeners can accept this.
I can.
Other people in the world would only have a glimpse of who John is based on his videos, posts, and interviews, he says.
My statements speak for themselves.
We'll see about that.
And you get a full view of my take on the flat earth slash Infinite Plane Models on my YouTube channel, The Morgile.
That's The Morgile.
M-O-R-G-I-L-E.
So, he is to be met by somebody operating way, I think, below his pay grade, but we're very honored to have him here tonight.
He is a professor, actually.
All right?
Dr. Josh Grinley.
Now, listen to a little bit of this if you don't think he's going to be operating below pay grade.
Research interests.
Compact objects and binaries in globular clusters and the origin and evolution of compact x-ray binaries.
Good Lord!
Accretion into white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes.
Development of a balloon-borne hard x-ray imaging telescope And future space missions for hard X-ray observations of X-ray binaries and quasars.
Good Lord!
He's published over 500 papers.
He definitely thinks the Earth is round, by the way.
Well, or oval.
You know, but not flat.
National Service, numerous advisory committees for NASA, NRC, and NSF.
Chair, of Division of High Energy Astrophysics, holy moly, American Astronomical Society, Division of Astrophysics, American Physical Society, honors, a fellow, American P. Sloan Foundation, fellow American Physical Society, fellow American Association for Advancement of Science, fellow Guggenheim Foundation, and so forth.
So, he's a big heavyweight.
So, I want to welcome both of these gentlemen and hope they're there.
John, are you here?
I am here.
Can you hear me?
Good.
Alright.
Yeah, I hear you.
And, uh, Dr. Grindley?
I'm here, too.
Excellent.
Okay.
Um, I hear a little bit of hum or something.
So somebody's turning something off or changing something.
Don't do that.
Leave it on.
All right, so, John, look, you gave us so many points that you're going to have to work with me, John, and we're going to have to sort of take these one at a time.
I've got them boiled down a little bit.
So, can we do that, take them one at a time, why you think the Earth is flat?
Sure, yeah, if that's the way that you want to do it, we can do it however you want to.
I'm a big fan, a long time listener, love your stuff.
Thank you.
Alright, so let us do that then.
In the interest of time, because the doctor can only be with us, he's on the East Coast, we've got him at best a couple of hours.
So, if you both will hold on, what we'll do is, we'll get our break out of the way.
And then we'll come back and we'll dive directly into this, sort of point by point, if that would be alright, John.
That's kind of the way I want to do it, if you're in agreement.
Sure.
Okay, good.
Hold it right there.
This should be interesting, and again, Dr. Grindley, I really thank you for being here, way below your pay grade, to address this, in my opinion.
But you may get a pretty good argument.
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Is the Earth flat?
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Alright, here we go.
Is the earth flat?
That's what it's all about.
John is here along with Dr. Josh Grindley.
Again, I maintain operating way below his peg rate, but that's okay.
We'll proceed with this and kind of go point by point.
So, John, if you're there, I'm going to skip the first two and go directly to... We have a gazillion pictures of Earth from space.
Or we should have, I guess.
Why don't we have a gazillion pictures of Earth from space?
Instead we have just one, and you add it's a brand new one that's obviously fake.
And I guess, what are you saying, John, that the picture of Earth from space looks flat?
No, that's not what I'm saying at all.
Um, and I think at first, uh, if we skip the two, the first two points, that's, uh, kind of doing it injustice to the argument, but, um, if we can loop back to those or whatever, I think they are important points to make.
All right, well, all right, real quick then.
When was the last time you skeptically scrutinized the globe model?
Is that your first one?
I don't know.
I've got a globe at home.
I scrutinize it all the time because I've traveled around it about three times.
So, I don't know.
I'm pretty familiar.
How about you, Doctor?
Well, I don't think there's much doubt that the globe is spherical.
We've got lots of pictures of it.
We've all traveled around it.
I've been around it many times.
I have friends who've been in orbit.
I haven't, but I would love to do that sometime.
Oh, me too.
We can go around it in 90 minutes.
So I think this whole debate is quite amusing, but I'm happy to be part of it.
Alright, John, a response?
Absolutely, and I think there may be some clarification needed on the term scrutinized or skeptically reviewed the globe model, because there are a lot of things that seem to make the Earth seem like a globe, but at the same time, isn't it possible that we were all sort of taught all of these quote-unquote truths and known facts about the globe when we were Just very small children.
But, John, you're talking to two people, myself and the doctor, who have been around the world several times.
You know, it's kind of like we have a... In fact, I went up in the Concorde on the way to Paris, you know, the supersonic plane when we had it.
Sure.
And at 67, 68,000 feet, I promise you, John, taint flat.
Well John, there was a nice view of the curved horizon of the Earth about a year ago when
that fellow jumped out of a balloon 130,000 feet above New Mexico.
That's right.
Beautiful pictures.
With the fisheye lens, right.
No, no, it wasn't a fisheye lens.
I know it was, it was a GoPro fisheye lens which makes all the, all straight lines appear
curved and...
Well, I don't know how it was done.
If you're in the Concorde, and you see the totally flat horizon, which is an equidistant circle all around you, as altitude is gained, the horizon level never drops.
So if we did live on a globe, the higher and higher you went in altitude, And the further and further your field of vision goes, you know, your angle of attack on the horizon is going to get wider and wider as altitude is gained.
But if we did live on a sphere, then it should drop lower and lower the further away you can look.
And actually, that's measurable.
And we can measure that.
John, that's exactly what was observed by the Apollo astronauts in 1969 as they left Earth.
They saw the globe get smaller and smaller, drop farther and farther away below them, Are you going to respond to that, John?
The Apollo astronauts, I'm sorry to say, and you know, I was raised... Oh, that's right.
You think it's all in a movie lot somewhere.
No, well... It wasn't real, is that it, John?
What I'm telling you is, the Apollo missions were demonstrably false.
Oh, I see.
Gee.
Okay.
All of the rocks were clearly manufactured in some Well, no.
I mean, even by standard science, okay, so you have these radiation barriers about, what, 1,000 or 3,000 miles above the surface called the Van Allen Radiation Belts.
Yes, I'm very familiar with those, John.
Okay.
Yeah, they had just been discovered and they were still being sort of scrutinized and debated when the Apollo missions were launched.
You know, you could argue that it's irresponsible of NASA that they didn't include any sort of radiation shielding because Van Allen did warn them about the radiation.
Okay, we're off on a tangent here a little bit.
We are, yeah.
But I think John is denying the physical evidence.
That's the trouble with this theory.
It doesn't conform to fact.
No.
Then it becomes all, you know, gimmickry and fakery.
And so there was no Apollo.
It was all, you know, done in a movie lot.
John, that scam has been proposed long ago, but it's a very rare group of people that still subscribe to it.
I'm surprised that you do.
NASA is a pack of liars that was founded by Freemasons.
Oh, my goodness.
I don't think this debate is going to be very useful when we have such biased views and such lack of comprehension of simple facts and figures.
How are you going to respond to the fact that Columbus was aware the Earth was round?
watched masts of ships appear before the ships appeared.
That's what happens on a spherical globe, John.
That's a fallacy. We have experts.
No, it's not.
It's an observed fact. Go out on a boat and you'll see it for yourself.
Obviously, they're going to see the mast first, John. Of course they are.
The old wives' tale is that when a ship travels away from you, as it goes beyond the horizon,
you're supposed to be able to see the bottom sort of travel away from you last.
But if you actually look at a ship that travels beyond the horizon with a telescope, you'll see that it is actually just perfectly perpendicular to the horizon.
It just sort of seems to go behind the horizon because that's how the laws of perspective work.
No, John.
No, no.
You see the mast.
Have you looked at the pictures or the videos, Doctor?
I've seen this myself.
It's obvious.
Have you been out at sea on a boat?
Flat, nice, calm sea with no waves?
I have.
I have indeed.
And you know, when I've been out many times, and when I was young I remember saying, wow, you can see the curve of the earth out here on the ocean, but what you're seeing is an equidistant circle around you, because that's how perspective works.
That's how the horizon works.
I'm afraid you don't understand geometry.
This is very simple spherical geometry, plane geometry, understood by the Greeks 2,000 years ago.
We can get into spherical geometry if you want to do that.
No, I don't want to.
I think, let's hear some more.
Yeah, we've got so many points here.
Let's do them one at a time.
Alright, for example, how can we see vertical Comma, perpendicular buildings from over 50 miles away.
They ought to be a quarter mile below the horizon.
That's correct.
And we don't see the bottom of those buildings 50 miles away.
That's right.
We don't see the bottom of the buildings, Doctor, but that's because of the laws of perspective.
No, it's not.
What?
Perspective has nothing to do with it.
Doctor, with all due respect, perspective has everything to do with it.
The curvature of the Earth, you can measure it simply by, it's 8 inches times the mile squared.
And that's how much drop should occur every mile away from the observer's eye.
So it's 8 inches per mile squared.
So if it's one mile, it's simply an 8 inch drop.
And if it's 2 miles, the miles squared, so it's 4 times 8 inches, which is a 32-inch drop.
At 3 miles, it's 9 times 8, that's a 72-inch drop.
When you get out to 50 miles, those buildings should be based a full quarter-mile below the horizon, and they should be angled away from your perspective.
But, instead, we can see them perpendicular to the horizon, perfectly vertical, perfectly visible from well over 50 miles away.
John, that's because we have topography on the surface of the globe.
We're not living on a, you know, on a ball bearing, in case you haven't noticed.
So you're saying that the water... You look out at a city 50 miles away, of course you're not seeing the curvature of the earth, you're seeing the topography of the land.
With all due respect, Doctor, I think it's high time that you apply some rational skepticism to... No, no, no, I'm perfectly rational, that's what science is all about.
If you go back to the ocean, and the mast disappearing last, you have precisely what we're talking about.
That has nothing to do with perspective.
You're actually, um, if you look at the videos, there's video evidence, there's plenty of it.
Um, you're wrong.
That's a wives' tale.
That's not what happens.
Does everything come down to perspective?
Is every argument going to come down to perspective?
Yeah, I'd like to hear perspective defined here.
This is a very interesting use of the word perspective, which has nothing to do with spherical problems.
Exactly, that's exactly right.
Perspective works on a flat plane.
The further away from you objects travel, the smaller and smaller they appear to get.
Agreed?
That's for a fixed finite size, of course.
That's nothing more than the angular size that you're talking about.
So what happens to that object when it gets beyond the vanishing point?
On a flat plane?
There's no vanishing point.
You have to understand some physics here, John.
It doesn't just vanish.
Objects will get smaller and smaller, as you just said.
Very, very small, but then you don't resolve them any longer because something called diffraction prevents you from resolving them.
Doctor, with all due respect... Your eyes are with the telescope.
John, John, with all due respect, we've got only so much time.
Here's another point.
I think we're getting off the subject here.
Yeah.
How can a westbound flight, John says, from New York to Los Angeles have identical duration on a globe spinning about a thousand miles per hour east?
with its return flight.
John, everybody on the globe is spinning together, including the airplane that's flying above the globe, so
there's the answer to your question.
So, we're not, we're not, we're not, So we're all, okay, so, we're all moving, that's right, on
the equator, we're all moving a thousand miles an hour a day.
Isn't that remarkable?
Why aren't we being thrown off is probably what you're wondering.
Now doctor, let me ask you a question.
What about when the jet engines propel the plane westward?
Do you agree that the plane should be traveling in the opposite direction as the spin of the earth?
Yes, the spin of the Earth is the whole frame of reference.
It's the whole frame of reference, but Doctor, objects moving in opposite directions have a much higher relative difference in speed than objects moving in the same direction.
So an eastbound flight should be a much longer flight than a westbound flight, shouldn't it, Doctor, since the world is supposedly spinning towards the east?
That's correct, but there is something that you May have noticed it's called wind and weather, which is what makes the difference between eastbound and westbound flights.
It's the circulation of the atmosphere that the plane is flying through.
Jet stream, too.
The plane is flying over the Earth as a fixed frame of reference, which is indeed rotating.
But so is the plane.
So there's no relative motion relative to the spin of the Earth.
There's no relative motion relative to the spin of the Earth.
That is correct.
So you're arguing that objects traveling in opposite directions don't have a higher relative difference in speed than objects traveling at the same... No, because... John, look, you're getting mixed up here.
The plane takes off from New York.
It is on a spinning platform, and whether it's going east or west, it always has that Angular velocity that it had when it left the airport.
Always, always.
That has nothing to do with its velocity relative to the ground.
Laws of motion state that an object in motion will tend to maintain its velocity until enacted upon by some other force.
And with all due respect, Doctor, don't you consider several jet engines attached to a plane some other force?
That's what's propelling the plane over the Earth, the surface of the Earth.
That's the frame of reference that we've just defined.
The problem is not the frame of reference... The fact that the Earth is spinning has nothing to do with the motion of the plane from the Earth to the planet.
The problem is that you are incapable of even theorizing that our world is... No, no.
I can totally understand what our globe is doing.
John, let him finish.
Okay, I'm sorry.
I've just repeated the same point several times, but I don't think John is quite understanding
that there is a frame of reference that the plane has taken off from.
And when it lands and wherever it's going, it's still in that same frame of reference.
We could expand this, if you like, John.
It's not just that the Earth is spinning, we're moving around the sun at an enormous
velocity, 30 kilometers per second.
That makes the spin of the Earth look trivial.
But again, that has nothing to do with the motion of the plane in flight from...
I think that we sort of...
You're using relative velocities because you're making it as if the plane were flying in a
frame of reference that was the ether, as it used to be called, before we understood
what space was all about.
And that's not what's going on here.
The plane is taken off from a point on the solid earth.
You would like it to be flat, but of course it's demonstrably round.
But that has nothing to do with your misconception about relative velocities.
No, it has nothing to do with relative velocities, sir.
That's what you're trying to say.
You're saying if I'm flying east, I'm flying faster than I'm flying... It has to do... Okay, so if you're driving down the highway, and you're going 65 miles an hour down the highway, and the car coming towards you is going 65 miles an hour... No, no, that's what we mean by relative velocities, but that's where you're wrong, John, because... No, that's where you're wrong, sir.
Well, John, this is getting to be slightly ridiculous.
It is.
You're right, because, see, I grew up on planet Earth, and I'm fully aware of the globe model and all of the reasoning behind it, but, see, the difficult thing is to have even a very intelligent person such as yourself Even consider, for just a scientific theory, you know, just for a little bit of, you know, like a mind experiment, to even sit down for a minute and theorize, you know, maybe the world is flat and stationary.
And I think flat Earth is a bad word for it, because it implies that infinite space is somehow true.
That's not the model whatsoever.
We're not, you know, a disc floating around in space, if that's what most people want to think.
The model that I subscribe to is an infinite plane model where basically the Sun has carved out a puddle while traveling around the magnetic center, which is fixed on our North Pole.
And what you know as the Antarctic is actually the boundaries, the outer edge of the dartboard.
Well, okay, John, if we don't want to talk about relative motion, because I think we're not getting very far in that, because you haven't understood what I've been saying, let's talk about your model for the Sun.
I'd love to hear more about your model for the Sun.
That's very interesting.
So, the Sun is this magical thing that is circling around the Earth.
What powers this thing?
It's not, obviously, something that we normally think of as the Sun and a star.
That's a good question, but it's obviously... So is this all some mysterious source of energy that can circle around the plane, the infinite plane that we're living on?
It's no more mysterious than gravity, but I believe it's some type of magnetic anomaly.
There are lots of different theories, but I think a lot more study and scrutiny needs to go into it, because believe it or not, it has been irrefutably proved that our world is indeed flat and stationary, not a spinning globe.
That's remarkable, because it's contradicting all the evidence we've just been talking about.
But the sun makes a very interesting way of testing your model, because this magnetic anomaly, as you call it, must be some very peculiar source of energy that we've never even considered before.
Is that what you would subscribe to?
And all those little pinpoints of light you see in the sky that we call stars, are those just anything like the Sun, or are those other magnetic anomalies, or whatever this theory of yours has to be?
That's a good question, and until we fly up there and see, I don't think anybody really knows.
Sure, we can look at the light, and we can theorize that the Sun is 93 million miles away, but really, the same mathematics that's used to prove the Sun is 93 million miles away, Can actually be used to prove that the sun's about 3,000 miles away.
Oh my goodness, John.
All right, well, you know, that's a great place to break.
No, we gotta break.
We gotta break.
We have to break here.
Everybody hold it.
We'll be right back.
When it's all right and it's coming along, we gotta get right back to where we started from.
Nothing is good, nothing is wrong.
We gotta get right back to where we started from.
Do you remember that day?
When you first came my way?
I said, no one can take your place.
For Dark Matter News, I'm Leo Ashcraft.
Scientists are working on what might be considered the option of last resort for global warming.
Researcher Sudanshu Jain said it's an insurance policy.
It's called the Marine Cloud Brightening Project and it's designed to fight global warming by making clouds over the ocean thicker and brighter so they reflect more sunlight and cool the planet.
The Sunnyvale team has reached a milestone with a high-pressure nozzle that uses salt water and looks like a normal water spray.
But it took scientists a year to come up with the exact rate, flow, and pressure so that the water droplets come out to the perfect size.
Robert Wood, one of the top atmospheric scientists in the world, says we owe it to the future generations to study it now.
Now, I don't think this should be a solution, but I think it's morally, for me, it's appropriate to at least do the research to find out more about it.
The salt particles coming out of this nozzle are so small that in order to see them with the naked eye, you have to turn off the lights and use a laser.
Once the nozzle is fine-tuned, the plan is to use a barge to shoot the salt particles into the sky and see what happens.
The researchers say you can already see the concept at work.
Satellite images show these ship tracks from vessels criss-crossing the ocean, spewing exhaust that turns into clouds and lasts up to a week.
The project needs several more years and millions of dollars in funding before its widespread use.
NASA has captured a beautiful, rare view of the moon passing in front of the sunlit face of Earth.
The stunning animation, taken one million miles from Earth, shows the fully illuminated far side of the moon that is never visible from our planet.
That's because our position is tidally locked.
Which means that we always see the same face pointing towards Earth, although both sides receive equal amounts of light.
The animation shows images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun.
Also it crosses between the Discover Spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Center camera, otherwise known as EPIC, And telescope, as well as the Earth 1 million miles away.
The animation was captured by Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory.
EPIC has a constant view of the fully illuminated Earth as it rotates, providing scientific observations of ozone, vegetation, cloud height, and aerosols in the atmosphere.
Once EPIC begins regular observations next month, the camera will provide a series of Earth images, allowing study of daily variations over the entire globe.
There's a picture floating around social media that states that at 1230 on August 27th, you will see two moons in the sky, but only one will be the moon.
The other will be Mars.
It continues by saying it won't happen again until 2287, adding that no one alive today has ever witnessed this happening.
The email and photo are perpetuating a hoax that rears its crazy head every summer since 2003.
12 years running.
That's a long time for a hoax to run in our world of information.
Mars can never appear as large as a full moon as seen from Earth.
Mars isn't even visible in July 2015, and although it may come into view in the east, Before dawn by August 27, 2015, it won't be anywhere near the July or August full moon.
What's more, Mars is nowhere near its brightest or closest in July or August of 2015, or at any time this year.
This year so far, Mars has been relatively inconspicuous in our sky.
It's on the far side of the Sun from Earth.
That'll continue to be the case throughout the rest of the year.
So how did this rumor of Mars as big and bright as the moon get started?
It started with an actual event in 2003.
On August 27th of that year, Earth and Mars came slightly closer than they'd been in 60,000 years.
Our two worlds center to center were less than 35 million miles apart, just over three light minutes apart.
The last people to come so close to Mars were Neanderthals.
So was Mars as big and bright as the moon even at its closest in 2003?
Never.
But the legend continues.
I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
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And he's debating Dr. Grinley, a very bright, very bright guy that we've got to have back on a full show.
And I think for many people, John probably just blew his case right clear off the flat earth with the comment that the sun, for your model to be true, has to be Did you say 3,000 miles away, John?
Yeah, that's correct.
That's about 3,000 miles away.
That's right.
And we can prove this using Euclidean geometry.
It's a fairly standard experiment where Essentially, you measure the angles of the shadow cast by the sun at high noon at multiple points with miles in between each point on the same meridian.
John, I was going to mention that our astronauts went to the moon, which is 250,000 miles away, but I'm sure you're going to come back with, no they didn't, it was fake.
Well, John, that's really disappointing to hear you say that.
to the moon. That was all a film. The Apollo missions were films designed to trick the
generation, you guys' generation, into believing in a lie.
Well, John, that's really disappointing to hear you say that. I know others have said
that, but I'm surprised that a guy of your age, I don't know how old you are, but that
you would subscribe to this.
I am, too, doctor.
The fact that he... What about all that real live hardware?
It's just all an elaborate fake, I guess, huh?
Doctor, doctor, doctor, let me ask John, let me ask the doctor a question.
Look, John is a bright guy.
I'm curious.
Yeah, but that's why I'm really surprised that you can just get so far down the wrong track, John, in thinking about simple geometric concepts.
Let's go back to the sun, because I think this is fascinating, what you're suggesting.
If the sun were 3,000 miles away, have you worked out the power that the sun would have to have, this magnetic anomaly?
What produces light, and something that is only 3,000 miles away to illuminate the whole Earth?
Produce our climate.
I assume you're not questioning that the distance from New York to L.A.
is 3,000 miles.
So you've got the sun about as far away from you, wherever you are right now, I don't know where you are, doesn't matter, as New York and L.A.
are.
Surely, you can't believe that, John.
This is amazing.
It's mathematically proved.
If you would have let me finish, the standard experiment that's done by colleges all over the world, the default answer will always be 3,000 miles away to the sun using that Euclidean geometry.
Only by adding a layer of complexity into the equation and assuming that we live on a circumference of 25,000 miles, then do you get the nonsensical answer of 93 million miles away?
So, John, let's pursue the 3,000 miles, because this is really interesting.
If it were 3,000 miles, it has to be above us to cast light down onto us.
How do I get daylight in Chicago and San Francisco and New York all at the same time?
If the sun were only 3,000 miles up, there would be a much larger diurnal effect.
That's a good point.
And that's more than three time zones away.
So it doesn't work, John.
Yeah, it's a good question.
And the reason is, see, you're still thinking of the Earth as a globe.
No, no, no.
I'm letting it be flat now.
So it makes it even worse when it's flat.
But your misunderstanding, though, you've got to understand, the North Pole is in the center of the dartboard.
Okay?
And then the next ring out on the dartboard is the Northern Hemisphere.
And then the next ring out on the dartboard is the Southern Hemisphere.
Now, first of all, and this is admitted, all of the maps that we have are all wrong.
You can fit Canada twice in the length of Russia, so all of the relative sizes are wrong on the maps anyways.
So it's really... That means if I were walking from A to B, all those maps being wrong, I could get there much faster or much longer than my map would have told me.
Is that what you're saying?
No.
Well, the maps still work, because, like, okay, you can walk around... They're wrong, but they still work.
Okay.
No, no.
Well, you're twisting my words.
The reason that the maps are inaccurate is because they're assuming that the Earth is a globe when taking the measurements and measuring the relative differences in size of the continents.
But you can You have to study the model.
I mean, I wish you would at least study the Flat Earth Model before assuming that it's... I think it would be fascinating to study, because I've already pointed out to you here, and I'm not sure you've been following what I'm saying, that what your model is suggesting is already, you know, self-contradictory.
We can't have the same three-hour time difference between New York and L.A.
if my light bulb, the sun, is only 3,000 miles above them on a flat plane.
Right. That doesn't work, John. Well, no, that's how it works. And you have to understand,
it's when the light from the sun comes through the atmosphere, it does sort of have like a
shotgun effect. So essentially, roughly half of the Earth is lit at any time by the sun. And
the further it gets away from your perspective and it goes behind the horizon, it takes it,
it goes a lot further, you know, to get behind the horizon because it's on a much higher plane.
Why is there a horizon? The sun is 3,000 miles up, but it's a flat plane. So I can be 10,000
10,000 miles away in my flat plane.
You haven't told me how big the plane is, but I could be 10,000 miles away and the sun is not behind any horizon.
If you go and study weather balloon footage, I don't know if you've ever looked at all.
I know all about balloons, John.
I launched them to 40 miles up.
Every time you see the sun in the weather balloon footage, it'll just be a few degrees above the horizon.
No, not true, John.
The sun can be straight overhead.
I can show you pictures from our own balloon-borne telescope.
He actually launches balloons, so listen to that.
Well, NASA launches them.
But of course, I think John thinks that this is all a fake or contrived operation.
You know, we put balloons 40 miles above the Earth, John, with telescopes on them.
We do real astronomy, astrophysics.
And so, all the things you're talking about are simply not the case.
I haven't been up in the balloon myself, but I've had my experiments, and telescopes, and detectors, and images.
Just like the guy that jumped out of the balloon with that, you're accusing him, with a fisheye lens to somehow have made it all a fake shot that the Earth was curved.
If the horizon appears as a curve from that distance without a fisheye lens, again, it's because it's an equidistant circle around you.
Well, John, you know, these were regular cameras that this guy used, and they weren't fisheye lenses.
He wasn't trying to take the picture of the whole globe, so there was no distortion in those cameras.
Good.
Granted.
And the reason that it looks like or appears as a curve is because the horizon will always be an equidistant circle around you at that altitude.
Well, that's, I guess, your model, but we have all this contradictory direct measurement data.
We can measure distances.
You know, we don't have to imagine what they are on some map.
We can measure distances precisely.
Radar does that, as you certainly know.
So we know what shapes and distances of things are.
So there's no ambiguity.
There's no purpose.
You could not fake this.
There is no purpose.
John, the science about the sun is good, hard, settled science.
No, it isn't.
All of this is hard, settled science, including going to the moon.
We have enormous amounts of data.
We don't want to get stuck there.
He'll take us somewhere we don't want to go.
I mean, anybody who believes we went to the moon believes in a TV series that was false.
We're going to have to agree to disagree on that.
Yes, let's do that.
Tell me about this wonderful, exciting news of NASA's mission to Pluto a few weeks back.
Is that all just a big sideshow as well?
Sure, why not?
How much money are they going to get to make that movie?
I don't know.
Are you?
So who's making money on these movies, John?
I mean, this is amazing.
I don't know.
Are you?
I don't know.
No, certainly not me.
And certainly not NASA.
NASA is not making money in anything.
It's doing pure science.
This is what gets in the textbooks.
This is what you should be... Gratching for a budget.
John, this is what you should have taken back.
I don't know.
All of NASA's stuff is photoshopped images.
Oh my goodness, John.
They might have some stuff from Hubble that's pictures of the stars, but...
Let's do Hubble for a second.
I want to hear about Hubble.
So we've got this beautiful telescope up there, except it's not above a globe, it's above this flat plane.
How is it getting those gorgeous pictures?
Things that we couldn't even imagine.
Are those all photoshopped as well?
And you know, it's amazing that science, and I can prove to you that the Earth has no curvature, Wait a minute.
John, you're not responding.
You're not responding.
The Hubble stuff is just fluffy pretty pictures and no science, is that it?
you're not responding. The pretty pictures, it's not science. So yeah. You're not responding.
The Hubble stuff is just all just just fluffy pretty pictures and no science, is that it?
They are definitely pretty pictures. They are.
But, I mean, do they have any reality, or is this just, again... Well, a guy named Matt Boylan was actually a subcontractor for NASA.
He did a lot of realistic art of, you know, hypothetical alien worlds with three defined You know, lighting scenarios with mock celestial events.
And so, he was one of the people that actually broke the story that NASA was basically faking just about everything.
Oh my goodness, John.
So, are you suggesting the Humble?
After you say that.
Are you saying the Humble book?
Well, hold it, John.
It's called Beautiful Expectations of the Universe.
And you're saying, and this space artist, I like space art, by the way.
I'm a science fiction fan.
But you're saying that whistleblowers are fat?
This is so much better than fiction, John.
This is the real thing out there.
These gorgeous images of galaxies a gazillion light years away.
And that trumps the measurable fact that the Earth is flat and stationary, the pretty pictures.
Well, it doesn't trump anything, John.
This is reality.
This is the world we live in.
It is.
It's the world that the Greeks understood 2,000 years ago.
Well, they theorized it 2,000 years ago.
No, no, John, they didn't.
Do you know the experiment the Greeks did in a well between Cyrene in northern Egypt and what we would now call Cairo?
They measured the diameter of the Earth and proved it was round by simultaneously, amazingly they could do this, measuring the depth of a sunbeam into a well on two different points on a meridian.
And that's why we can go 40 miles into the air with a weather balloon and there's no curvature of the horizon.
John, the Greeks proved there was curvature and they measured the diameter of the Earth.
We can see it with our eyes, sir.
400 B.C.
You're failing to see what's right in front of you, because you cannot imagine our world as anything but false.
No, no, I can imagine what you're talking about, and I just have trouble taking it seriously, because it's so demonstrably false, and you're refusing to elicit the fact.
Hang on a second, and I'll tell you.
Six months ago, I would have agreed with you that our world is a globe spinning around the sun, and if you would have mentioned the word flat earth, I would have laughed and gone about my business.
Okay, you have an accident?
Did something happen?
Did something happen?
I looked at the evidence, and I scrutinized it in both models, and I found that the only one logical correct answer is the infinite plane model, and I'm sorry, you know, it sounds crazy.
You haven't given it enough thought yet, but I'm telling you that it's the truth.
No, no, it's fascinating, John, to hear your reasoning, but tell me, I'm really curious, what was it, I guess this is what Art was asking, How is it that all of a sudden, after how many years you've been aware of your everyday surroundings, which I'm sure you've always been, what was it that all of a sudden tipped the scales?
And just six months ago, you gave up on this thing that was second nature to everyone, that we're on a globe, and it became flat.
Well, and the reason it's second nature to us is because it's drilled into our minds since our very first day at school.
You learn one plus one is two, and the world is a globe.
I mean, that's how early they get you with the propaganda.
And to answer your question, what happened was, is I was simply compelled to look at the evidence.
And I think it's high time that the rational, skeptical scientists of the world take a little time to just rationally, skeptically look at the globe, which is something that you have not done since you were a child.
No, no, no, John, that's where I beg to differ.
I've done this, all of us have done that.
You're absolutely right.
We should look skeptically at our surroundings, and we should rely on pure measurement and observation and not make assumptions, and if you follow that course,
that's what science is all about.
You would be forced to conclude, John, there's absolutely no alternative, that we are indeed
on a globe, that our globe is spinning, that our globe is not only spinning, it's orbiting
the sun.
Ptolemy went through all this.
Ptolemy of course had this earth-centric view.
Copernicus came along and understood that it was just the heliocentric view, and we've
been on that course ever since.
All of the misconceptions and things that didn't quite fit.
In the Ptolemaic view of what our solar system is all about, which was a much, much simpler thing to understand.
We had no clue that there were galaxies and everything else going on until the 1920s.
So, this is the last several hundred years, 500 years, 400 years since Copernicus when all of this revolution has taken place, but right up through the last 50 years, So, you're doing the right thing to be skeptical, but this is exactly what science has done.
Doctor, have you ever read Zetetic Astronomy by Dr. Rowbotham?
No, I'm afraid I haven't read that.
Well, you ought to read it, because actually there's a lot of great proof.
And, you know, you want to talk about science.
Okay, let's talk about the North Star Polaris.
How does the North Star Polaris maintain its alignment?
And, you know, people say it's hundreds of years, or some people say it's thousands of years, some people say, oh, well, it changed once, but the point is... No, no, can I just jump in here?
Polaris does not maintain its alignment.
The Earth is a spinning top, and if you remember as a kid playing with a top on a tabletop, you pull the string and it spins, and it's kind of stationary, and then it starts to wobble. Remember how that
worked?
It wobbles and then eventually the top falls over on your desk or tabletop.
That's exactly what the Earth is doing. It's a spinning gyroscope and because it's spinning, it's wobbling, it's processing,
we call it.
The reason it's doing that is because the Moon is producing a gravitational pull on the Earth.
Wait a minute, what about the North Star Polaris?
So the North Star doesn't always stay over the North Pole.
It's moving on a circle, and it moves around every 26,000 years.
and it moves around every 26,000 years.
No, okay.
No, it does, John.
You're talking about the precession of the equinoxes, but...
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
That's what makes the North Star no longer the North Star.
The ancient Egyptians didn't have a North Star to line up north on, on building the Great Pyramids.
The North Star was way off.
Polaris, rather.
The star was there, of course, but it was no longer lined up with the spin axis of the Earth.
All of this is well known.
So you were around back then?
We know exactly where Polaris was 5,000 years ago.
You do?
Yes, we do.
Just like you know the Earth is a globe.
No, no.
John, the difference is I can measure it.
I can measure where Polaris was 5,000 years ago.
But you can't measure if there's no curvature.
I can measure that there is curvature.
So can you if you go out in an airplane and measure distances.
On your so-called flat plane, they won't be consistent with a flat plane, because it's not a flat plane, it's a spherical globe.
Can I ask you a question, please?
I want to ask a question.
I'm running out of time here, Art, but let's have a few more questions, I guess.
Well, this is my question.
When you fly from Los Angeles to, let us say, Hong Kong, And you measure the distance.
That we can do, scientifically.
I hope John believes we can do that scientifically.
Do you, John?
Well, of course you can measure distance.
Okay, I know.
If you take the Great Circle route to get there, it's not as far.
How come?
The Great Circle.
Yeah.
In other words, if you go north and then around, as if, you know, it's a globe, a ball.
Well, because you've got to understand, the flat Earth is sort of like the globe model, but it's wrapped around the North Pole.
You have to study the model to understand it.
You're trying to apply globe model laws and maps to the flat Earth map.
I'm just talking mileage here.
Mileage?
Okay.
Well, then how can you explain that you can fit Canada twice into the length of Russia on the standard maps?
I don't know.
I'm asking you a question and you're responding with another question.
Exactly.
That's the point.
I mean, you can't go by the maps that you're looking at because they're inaccurate.
Well, John, they can be confirmed by going out.
If you wanted to go out with a ruler stick, you can measure what your map should be telling you.
That's the way maps are constructed.
You probably know all about GPS.
I don't know if you have a cell phone, but that's what tells you where you are, again, on the surface of a globe.
If your theory were right, if you're living on this distorted flat plane, GPS wouldn't work.
Nothing would work.
Are you familiar with Nikola Tesla Towers that he invented?
I think it was like, what, in the 20s or 30s or whatever, where it was basically wireless communication.
John, you're doing it again.
That's where radio communication began.
That's precisely what's used to triangulation.
Yes, I know.
Cell phone towers.
Yes, of course, John.
That's exactly what we're talking about.
But the... You don't even... Why would we need satellites if we can bounce radio waves off the ionosphere anyway?
Oh, you know what?
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Now, here's Art.
Here I am.
We've got with us John.
He's anonymous beyond that name for business purposes.
And Dr. Josh Grindley.
And we're discussing whether or not the Earth is flat.
It's been pretty spirited, I would say.
I would like to get a couple more points in.
I can sense the doctors getting close to bailing, but a couple of more points.
For example, here's one.
John says, how can the upper atmosphere be adjacent to the vacuum of outer space?
Gravity, John.
Gravity pulls the atmosphere adjacent.
Keeps it on this round globe.
Why is it round?
Because that's the equilibrium shape that a mass must assume.
That's why stars are round.
Spherical.
They're not pancakes.
So, all of this we understand, John.
But again, I'm not trying to sound like I'm belittling.
I hope I don't convey that.
I'm trying to convince you, John, that you ought to lighten up here and understand what the whole world of
science has arrived at, not just recently, but over hundreds of years, and with such
incredible discovery in the last decade or two.
Those Hubble images we were talking about, I could also talk about x-ray images that we have from the Chandra telescope.
And you think they're all fake.
This is just so discouraging.
Well, everything that does seem to be proof, Doctor, you're right, seems to be then judged to be fake by John.
And John sounds like such a bright guy that I just can't figure how he, and he obviously believes this.
That's why I was asking what happened six months ago.
I mean, it's great to have a moment of truth and say, my God, what is the world I'm living in?
That's fine.
I'm all in favor of that.
But to deny rational thinking and thousands of years, beginning with the Greeks, who I keep coming back to.
They're so amazing, what the Greeks did.
But all of modern science.
And you've got it all cooked up to be a giant hoax.
It's just a... So you say that it's the magic of gravity that keeps the atoms... There's no magic.
There's no magic of gravity at all.
Isaac Newton taught us what gravity is, and we now understand it in glorious detail.
Okay, hold on.
Now, first of all, gravity was theorized in order to account for the fact that we're not flung from the spinning Earth at a thousand miles per hour towards the east near the equator.
Okay, gravity is a theory to prove the globe model.
Now, you're also saying that... What do you suppose keeps you, you know, sitting in your chair instead of floating off if there's no gravity?
I mean... Well, there's no need for gravity on the flat, stationary Earth that we dwell on.
Oh, I see.
Because we're not spinning at a thousand miles per hour, so you don't have to account for that outward thrust generated by the spin.
Okay, okay.
It's the simple laws of density or buoyancy that causes, you know, heavier, denser objects to find their way down, and lighter, less dense objects to find their way up.
It's the natural order of things, and there's no need for gravity to explain the law of physics.
What goes up must comes down on the flat.
Oh, really?
Well then, I mean, why do things come down?
If I throw a ball in the air, why does it have to come down?
Something's pulling it down, John.
Well, it's more than likely, sir.
It's electromagnetic, but gravity has never been proved, sir.
It is a theory.
Oh, gravity's been proved time and time again, and it began with Newton.
No, sir.
We're on the verge, John.
If you don't like the proofs of gravity so far, in probably the next five years, there will be a very major discovery.
That will come from astrophysics, but from physics really, and that is of waves of gravity.
Gravitational waves.
Yeah, that have never been, that have never ever been detected, even though you've looked at them for hundreds of years.
That's right, but now there's an enormous big telescope in the state of Washington, and another one in Louisiana, and another one in Italy, and in Europe, and those gigantic gravitational wave telescopes are now almost sensitive enough to detect the gravitational
wave sources that we have proven are out there.
Gravity is a theoretical fantasy that was dreamed up by...
Well, John, I don't think that's what anybody else but you and your colleagues and your...
No, that is what it is. That's what gravity is.
Gravity was a... Sir, gravity was a theory designed or theorized to explain the globe model
model and why we're not flung from the face of the earth.
No, no.
No, that's not what gravity was designed to do at all.
It was designed to explain the fact that objects fall.
That has nothing to do with the globe model.
Okay, then what is keeping us pinned to the earth while we're spinning a thousand miles per hour?
The mass of the earth, John.
That's what gravity is due to.
Yes, because the earth is not a flat plane.
Gravity is supposedly due to the mass of the Earth.
Warping space-time... No, no, no, John.
You're getting confused.
You're jumping ahead to Einstein.
Warping space-time has nothing whatsoever to do with the Earth's gravity.
It's a very teeny, teeny, tiny effect.
Barely measurable.
Measurable.
It's been measured.
It's not that tiny.
But Newton, of course, had no conception of this.
300 years until Einstein told us and instructed us in his brilliant way about the warping
of space and time.
But that we haven't talked about.
If we were talking black holes, which is what I normally like to think about, we'd be having
fun discussing warped space-time.
But gravity on the Earth, no need for any of that.
The apple falls from the tree.
That's what Newton observed.
He said, my God, how could this happen?
Because the apple is denser than the air above it, and it's not as dense as the ground below it.
So that's where it finds its way to, just like everything else.
It's natural.
If that were true, John, then we would have everything.
If everything were density dependent, all of our laws of motion would be totally different.
Airplanes wouldn't fly.
Motors wouldn't work.
You're defying everything that's around you.
Airplanes can fly without gravity, with all due respect.
That's ridiculous.
Airplanes fly due to barometric, or the pressure beneath the wing being different for both.
What I'm saying is that when you're denying gravity in Newton, you're denying all of the physics, the very simple physics that goes with that, which is led to all the devices that you are using in your everyday life.
You're denying science.
So I'm denying a theory that was dreamed up by proponents of the globe model that it's demonstrably false.
Again, the globe model had nothing to do with it.
It really didn't.
It was a conceptualization that Newton may have used.
He didn't have to.
The only reason you need gravity is to explain the fact that you're not flown from the Earth at a thousand miles per hour near the equator due to the outward thrust generated by the spin of the Earth.
That's what gravity was theorized to defend the globe model, which is... No, that's not... John, I'm sorry, you're wrong.
That's not what gravity was theorized to deal with.
So you're changing history now?
No, no, I'm trying to... John, John, John, you were in history!
I understand what Newton did.
Read the Principia and understand.
Newton was trying to explain acceleration, force, and mass.
And gravity was his way of understanding and explaining Why we are bound to the ground that we're standing on.
That's a theory.
And with a certain acceleration.
The very simple laws of motion that Newton so brilliantly derived explain to umpteen decimal places why objects move as they do.
It's all because of a force, the gravitational force acting on them that objects Are accelerated when they fall at 32 feet per second per second.
So do you agree that inertia is possibly an electromagnetic force?
No, I don't at all.
Inertia has nothing to do with electromagnetic forces.
It has to do with the state of matter as a source of mass that has inertia.
Force equals mass times acceleration.
Newton's famous equation.
All of these things have nothing whatsoever to do with the globe of the Earth.
They can be generalized to talk about what happens on a globe, but that's not at all the same.
So just so I got this straight, the same gravity that is so weak that keeps me stuck to the Earth, but also keeps the atmosphere from being sucked into the vacuum of space, that explains it perfectly.
It does.
It does.
I was being sarcastic, but okay.
No, I know you were, but it does.
It explains it to the T. And it also explains why if you take a steel ball bearing and roll it on a table, and the table is tilted, so it is now accelerated as it's rolling faster and faster.
All of that, which has nothing to do with the, you know, the atmosphere of the Earth, or the shape of the Earth, All that is explained by Newton's laws.
That's what I'm trying to convince you of.
There are laws like what goes up must come down.
I agree that's a law of physics, but I disagree that gravity is simply a theory.
What the source of acceleration is, which is gravity in the case that we're talking about here.
What I'm trying to convince you of is that there is a reasoned approach which has been worked out With great minds, the real heroes of science, people like Newton and then Einstein much, much later.
And you can't deny these guys.
It had nothing to do with the Earth being round.
Of course, the Earth being a globe, as we know it is, allowed many other things to be explained by the same basic laws of motion.
And allowed us to get to the moon and to get a spacecraft out to the planet Pluto.
All of that wouldn't have been possible without the physics that has been developed and understood over the last 350 years.
Well, he thinks all Pluto mission was, you know, fake anyway, so... I know, I know.
But it's really tragic, John, because you're missing out on some really exciting stuff.
So, Dr. Greenlee, anybody could have possibly photoshopped That's the amazing part of it.
Do you agree that even if I was to show you all kinds of irrefutable proof that the Earth was not a spinning globe, that you would agree, that you would never change your mind that it was indeed always going to be a spinning globe no matter what?
No, I only go on the basis of measurement and observation, John.
Really?
It's not that we're bound to some, you know... Well, I hope that you live up to that, and only you will know the truth of whether you're actually going to live up to that.
But if you go by observation, the scientific method, then there's only one correct answer, and it is not a spinning globe.
Well, John, I'm afraid we're just having a rather pointless argument, because you're denying mathematics and fact... No, I'm not.
Well, you haven't done any of these measurements.
You haven't gone out and done the simple tabletop experiments I was talking about, which tell us that the physics is all something we understand.
And what you're proposing, beginning with your model for the sun, which is the most fantastic thing that has nothing whatsoever to do with physics, magnetic anomalies producing The enormous luminosity of the sun that is keeping us all warm and alive.
The celestial bodies, including the sun and the moon and the stars and the wandering stars, the planets, the celestial bodies are definitely beautiful and mysterious features of our world.
It's not a heliocentric model with an infinite universe.
The whole model is wrong.
I'm afraid you've just missed out on the last 500 years of intellectual thought, and it's really a shame.
I don't know... Well, either that, or maybe his science teacher hit him hard.
It's really sad that you just have lost contact with reality.
Well, I'm sorry, sir, but I could say the same thing.
It's been irrefutably proved that the Earth is not a spinning globe, but no matter what, until you break the programming and simply look at the evidence with an open mind, you will always dwell on a spinning globe.
John, an open mind is looking at data.
Data, my friend.
Pictures.
Real measurements, not distorted maps with the North Pole at the center and all this
perfectly visible buildings from over 50 miles away and planes that somehow have identical
durations traveling east and west, and the globe spinning to the east.
You went through it and you glossed over it.
Oh, I didn't gloss over anything, John.
You just weren't listening.
You weren't understanding.
No, you weren't listening, but OK.
We'll agree to disagree on that, too.
All right.
Well, listen, I want to thank you both.
I think we've come... Unless we can discuss actual points here, we've come to a stop.
John wonders how we can see the same stars overhead in the summer, but also in the winter.
And, of course, the answer, John, is we don't.
Do you think you see the star Vega overhead in the winter, which we see overhead in more or less June and July?
No, we don't.
Because it's on the opposite side of the sun, John.
The sun's in the way.
There are stars that should be totally invisible during the entire winter that we can see overhead in the winter, and we can also see them overhead in the summer.
There's no way we could ever see the same stars in the winter compared to the summer because the sun would be behind, you know, in between those stars in your eye.
That's exactly why we don't see Vega in the winter.
One star, one star.
Lots of whole constellations, John.
No, you don't understand.
You should never see any of the same stars in the winter versus summer.
Well, with your model, I guess that's the way it is.
No, in the false heliocentric model, Look, look.
Do you know the constellation Orion?
Let's talk specific here.
Do you know what Orion is?
I know what Orion is.
It's a beautiful constellation that's visible in November and December.
Of course.
Alright?
We don't see that in the spring.
Okay?
Precisely for the reason you're saying.
The sun is in the way.
It's true for every star in the sky unless you're close to the poles.
We see Polaris all through the year because it's not in the plane of the ecliptic.
The spin axis is pointing.
We get to see it as a North Star.
Through the miracles of science and pretty pictures, right?
What's that?
So, Polaris must be traveling millions of miles through space back and forth
to maintain perfect alignment with our measly, wobbly North Pole.
No, no, no, no, John. No.
It's millions and hundreds of millions of miles away, first of all.
uh... it's not your pretty perfect alignment isn't it so it's not perfect one
I already told you that 5,000 years ago, it wasn't aligned over the North Pole at all.
The Earth's spin axis is wobbling in space.
So you don't agree that for that thing to be so many hundreds of, however, billions of miles away, that there's not a very, very nicely perfect alignment with our North Pole for it to stay directly above it all year long?
John, the Earth is a gyroscope.
Its axis is precisely fixed on the celestial sphere.
On the North Pole?
Not on the North Pole.
I mean, on the North Pole star, the North Pole star.
John, Polaris just happens to be lined up on our North Pole.
And 26,000 years from now, it will be lined up again.
You're not listening to me, John.
The trouble, John, is you don't seem to understand basic, simple, physical facts, which have been proven over centuries of thought and reason and measurement.
And what you're talking about has nothing to do with measurement.
No, what you're talking about has nothing to do with reality, sir.
Oh, I see.
Well, it's just because you are living in a... you're back in the age of There's no way, there's no way that our Polaris could maintain any alignment with our... Yes, there is, John.
It's all something that is very simple physics.
I guess I can't convey it to you because you've obviously never taken any basic science.
John also asked, why don't we have equal 12-hour days and nights all year round?
And the answer is because we're living on a spinning globe.
And we have the Earth's axis, this thing that John doesn't seem to understand, that we're pointed fixed in space on the celestial sphere, just happened by pure happenstance to be pointing close to, but not precisely at, the direction of a star that we call Polaris.
So because the Earth's axis is tilted with respect to our orbit around the Sun, The days and nights, the length of the day and the length of the night change.
This is all basic 6th grade general science that John should have learned.
I hope he did.
You haven't thought it through, Doctor, because if you look at the... I teach this to my students.
You've misled a lot of people, because on Earth it is spinning at a constant speed.
You should have equal 12-hour days and nights.
No, no.
John, it's because you don't understand simple geometry.
That would only be true, John, if the Earth's spin axis were perpendicular to its orbit around the Sun.
Then we would have equal days and nights.
Correct.
But it's not.
The Earth is tilted.
That's why we have seasons, John.
That's why we have winter in the North.
The reason we have seasons is because the Sun is in the Southern Hemisphere.
These are all basic facts.
The Sun is traveling in an oscillating flat circle around the magnetic center, which is fixed on it.
See, what you've done is you have this hopelessly contrived, complicated, wheels-within-wheels picture.
Ptolemy and the ancients thought was going on because there was no understanding of physical
reality.
We now have something that we understand perfectly, and we teach it to our sixth graders, and
you should have learned this way back when.
And it doesn't return to the classic economics of the machines.
So what I'm trying to convince you of is that the beauty of science, and that we have a
really complete understanding of this, is remarkable intellectual achievement.
There's no...
What you call science, with all due respect, is not science.
What you call science is looking at pretty pictures and trumping what is measurable and
verifiable.
No, no, pretty pictures are just a wonderful by-product.
What I call science is truth and understanding reality.
What you are doing is inventing a reality which goes back to, as I keep saying, the
sort of Ptolemaic view, wheels, magnetic anomalies, all of these things that are contrived realities.
realities to make things inconsistent.
The contrived falsity is the globe model, and anybody can verify that we indeed live on a flat, stationary plane.
I think we've gone as far as we can go.
I've still got nine more points to make.
As I told Art, This debate is interesting, it's been fun, and I respect your point of view.
I'm not trying to put you down, but what I've tried to convince you of over the last hour and a half is that the real picture that all the rest of the world believes, I think you're in a very small minority, as I'm sure you must realize, and for some reason I'm still fascinated to think about or understand whatever led you to
adopt this view on such a recent time scale as six months ago. There must have been
some remarkable thing that happened. Yeah, there was. And again, I was simply
compelled to look at the evidence and scrutinize both models and draw rational, verifiable
conclusions. And I wish you would do the same thing.
Okay, well John, this is what I do every day. I do verifiable models and... Well, by saying that gravity is a
proved fact, you are not a scientist, sir. Oh, John.
Oh, John, listen.
This gets to be the point where it's just not useful to discuss.
It's not just me thinking that gravity is a proven fact.
This goes back to all of physics.
I refuse to... There are points at which... I'm sorry.
All right, this is that point.
So, you know what, Doctor?
I'm going to thank... Hold on, John.
Hold on.
Doctor, I'm going to thank you for being here.
I'm going to invite you back so we can do a show on everything that you do know about.
Well, I think I know everything about what this fellow John is talking about, but I find it very disappointing that somebody who clearly can at least articulate, but not describe very accurately even his theory, although I think I see the broad picture of it, I think just Very unfortunate that one can come to such a limited view and perspective of what the real world is.
When one has the natural beauty of what the real world is, to understand it right at your fingertips, it's what all of science is all about.
You can't just throw it out the window.
No.
And go back to this early primitive way of thinking that we must be on a flat earth.
It's not primitive.
For it to be true, for what John says to be true, so much has to be thrown out the window and the rest of it has to be just labeled fake.
Yeah.
Well, no.
I don't think everything has to be labeled fake.
I think that we've all been misled as an entire species to one specific end, which is to essentially trick us into believing we live on a finite, enclosed system with no escape.
And they've done a great job of it, because even the rational, skeptical, scientific, very brilliant minds of the world are trapped in a matrix of a globe model, and until you can just really scrutinize... So, John, why do you suppose, you know, millions of people, scientifically educated people, many millions, hundreds of millions, really, How could all be so completely trapped in this totally false view?
Because it's all done, since we've been very young, it's drilled into our paradigm, and we never ever question it.
That's why I'm telling you.
Oh, this is what science is all about?
Questioning, questioning, questioning?
No, it isn't, sir, because I've already proved to you in this conversation that the world is flat and stationary.
No, you have not, John.
Proof is demonstrably wrong, and I'm not going to go back over it.
I've pointed out to you ways that your so-called proof is ridiculous.
We can measure distances and tell her that we're living on a spherical surface.
We're not going to go back over this again.
This is where we started an hour and a half ago.
So, again, the tragedy is you're just denying intellectual history and thinking.
It has nothing to do with being led astray.
It's the opposite.
It's the exact opposite.
What science does is to confront the very primitive ways we could only understand our world back in prehistoric times.
What you're proposing is, of course, exactly what everybody thought more or less must be the case.
We're on a flat earth that began as on the back of a turtle or God knows what.
All of this has taken over tens of thousands of years, but really only over the last 500
years, 2,000 years, again going back to the Greeks, to finally be clarified.
And there's no fakery or misleading thing going on, which is of course what you require
to make your theory stand up in light of all the evidence.
And when you say that...
Well actually the simple verifiable truth has nothing to do with the globe.
The globe is demonstrably false, and in fact, it's preposterous, if you scrutinize it.
Okay, at that point, John, I'm sorry, I'm going to sign off, because I've tried to make you aware of the beauty of time.
You've regurgitated the programming, is all you've done.
Well, actually, I think he's done a great job.
Doctor, I want to have you back and talk about black holes, pulsars, all kinds of good things.
Okay, well, we'll be happy to do that at some point, but this is quite disappointing to see that there could still be this view out there amongst a small segment of society.
I know from what little I've heard about this group, but it just shows that our whole education system still has a ways to go.
On the whole, it is doing well, because most people, everybody, I would say, has generally been taught, and not felt that they've been brainwashed, or whatever John may be suggesting, into some very peculiar view, but instead, the learning of the general scientific realm is Is there for the most part.
All right, doctor, I'm going to break it off with you and say thank you and I want to have you back and talk about all the other stuff if we can do that.
OK.
All right, doctor.
Thank you so very much.
You're very welcome.
All right.
So, John, we've still got you and time for a final statement from you, John.
Sure, and you know, I appreciate you having me on Art.
It's been a real honor.
I'm flattered.
I disagree with the doctor, you know, and I think he's certainly a very smart, intelligent person, but I really have looked at this.
I've thought about it.
I wouldn't be out here shouting from the rooftops that I believe that we live on a flat, you know, stationary plane unless I had Scrutinized it.
Verified it.
And, unfortunately, even the scientific people of the world are simply unable to even just hypothesize that we live on anything but a globe.
And, in fact, if you do look at the evidence and scrutinize it, and certain things we can verify and prove, the globe-earth model, the heliocentric model, is indeed wrong.
Okay.
Well, you know, again, from my point of view as I listened, And I wouldn't have missed this for all the world.
So many things have to either be wrong or fake or just so far out for anybody to grasp what it is that you've been saying.
But nevertheless, listen, I appreciate your being here tonight.
I appreciate your making the argument.
People who have never heard this argument made before probably have their chins on their chests.
I appreciate your being here, John.
Take care.
Good night.
Wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Flat or round.
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The man who was killed Wednesday by Nashville police after he allegedly went after moviegoers with a hatchet and pepper spray had been committed to a mental institution four times.
Vincent David Montana was committed twice in 2004 and twice in 2007.
Montana had been arrested in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 2004 in a case of assault and resisting arrest.
Police say they have no motive for Wednesday's attack.
Montano had an air pistol with him that he aimed and fired at the police in the theater.
Such a weapon looks just like a semi-automatic pistol, but fires plastic or BB pellets.
Montano's mother had filed a missing report with the Texas Rangers two days ago, and they had notified the authorities in Tennessee.
In the report, his mother, Dennis Pruitt, told authorities that Montano was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2006.
From ancient pyramids to military bunkers, there's not much conspiracy theorists haven't seen on Mars.
Now in their latest bizarre sighting, alien hunters say they've spotted a mysterious facehugger crab on the Red Planet.
Since the image was uploaded on Facebook, a number of people have said it looks like the facehugger monster shown in the 1979 film Alien.
The crab can be seen in an image taken by the Mars rover Curiosity, which shows a formation that looks like a cave mouth on the Red Planet.
The photo was taken by NASA in July but recently appeared in a Facebook group who has the slogan, they will not tell the truth about Mars.
You can take a look at the photo yourself by visiting artbell.com and let us know what you see.
Of the 91 metals that we know to exist, only three are truly magnetic at room temperature.
Iron, cobalt, and nickel.
This poses somewhat of a problem, as we have to rely heavily on these elements for anything for which we need magnetism.
Like MRI scanners, computer memory storage, and wind turbines.
But what if we could make more of these 91 metals magnetic?
That's exactly what a team of scientists led by the University of Leeds has been able to do, turning the non-magnetic materials manganese and copper magnetic.
Although the effect was fairly weak, the research published in Natural Material Science is hugely promising, and they think that the method could be applied to almost any metal.
Future technologies such as quantum computers will require a new breed of magnetics with additional properties to increase storage and processing capabilities.
This research is a step towards creating such magnetic metamaterials that can fulfill this need.
The researchers will now try to enhance the effect in the hope that some of the numerous practical applications can be fulfilled.
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It seems like close encounters of the window seat kind are happening more frequently these days.
Videos have been released of three different UFO sightings near commercial aircraft that have occurred over the past several months, with more undoubtedly unrecorded or unreported.
What's causing this sudden attraction of UFOs to airplanes?
The most recent sighting has been getting a lot of publicity since it occurred at JFK Airport at New York City while the plane was taking off.
The video taken by an anonymous plane enthusiast Shows a Virgin Atlantic plane rising in the sky on July 7th, and then being overtaken by a UFO seen flying above it.
The cigar-shaped object is too close to be another commercial aircraft, and no military jets were reported in the area.
The next two sightings took place in England, one from June 12th over Lambourne, England, showing an airplane passing by a UFO, and the third sighting was made by a passenger inside a plane flying over Liverpool.
There's been no definitive identifications of any of these UFOs seen accompanying or passing the planes.
Commercial and military pilots admit they see a lot of UFOs, but sightings by passengers and ground witnesses are less frequent.
So what do you think these objects are?
Why are they hanging around airplanes?
Check out the photos and videos at darkmatternews.com and let us know your opinion.
I'm Leo Ashcraft for Dark Matter News.
This is a story about a man who was a bit of a fool.
He was a man who was a bit of a fool.
And what's wrong with that?
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That was Radio Gold.
Or as one caller said not long ago, Radio Platinum.
If anybody ever tells you the Earth is flat, You're going to want to refer them to that 90 minutes of radio that we just did.
It was remarkable from so many different perspectives.
One, it was an example of a highly credentialed man putting up with 90 minutes more than I thought he could possibly take.
Number two, it was an example of somebody who's obviously very bright, He had a pretty decent level of intellect, right?
Didn't he?
He was pretty smart.
He was arguing a lot of points that you had to be reasonably well educated to argue even if you're wrong.
he had a pretty decent level of intellect, right? Didn't he?
He was pretty smart. He was arguing a lot of points that you had to be reasonably
well-educated to argue even if you're wrong. And so the big question is, what happened
to John?
on.
How could he so fervently suddenly believe what he apparently believes?
I blew right through a break so we wouldn't have to stop and we could get the full 90 minutes in and I'm telling you right now, you've got to point this 90 minutes of radio out to somebody you know.
We're going to open lines and here are the numbers.
The public number is That was some hour and a half.
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The last 90 minutes were, frankly, a lot like that in every way.
Evan, I'm going to put you on the air on Skype.
Hello.
Hi, how are you doing this evening?
Well, I'm recovering.
Recovering, yes.
Yeah, well, I've got to ask you, is that guy actually for real?
Oh, no doubt about it.
You know, I just finished saying it.
John was obviously a bright guy.
And something happened to him, like a science teacher smacked him with something hard, or I don't know what happened.
Opened his mind too much, it fell out.
I don't know.
Sorry, yeah.
I was just going to relay an experience, actually.
The city I live in here, I don't know if you're aware of the phenomenon or not, but you know the loud booms?
Oh yeah.
You know what I'm talking about?
We in here, I live in Calgary, Alberta.
In a particular neighborhood I'm in, There has been, for about the past six years now, almost, probably about, at least a couple of times a day, a series of loud booms going off.
Man, we're hearing all about it.
Yeah, no, but it's been, they're doing local research into it as well, actually.
They put some research into it.
If anyone wants to Google Ranchlands Calgary noise, there's a study they've been doing on it, and six years, they still can't figure out what's causing it.
No idea?
No theories?
Not at all.
They involve a local university.
Everything, I honestly couldn't tell you.
Well, there are mysteries within science, and this clearly is one of them.
A lot of people think they're connected to earthquakes.
How about that one?
Yeah, well, it's food for thought anyways.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
Pleasure to speak to you.
Well, thank you for making it.
And I want to report very quickly, before we move on, on something that we've been talking about for years.
Harp.
Do you know about harp?
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
Guess what, folks?
It's going to transfer from military into academic hands next month.
That's right.
The military is giving up HAARP.
After a swell of support last year from the scientific community and intervention by Alaska vs. Senator Lisa Murkowski, plus a lot of uncertainty before that, the U.S.
Air Force delayed its plans to shutter the Ultra High Power Harp and demolish it.
Now, the University of Alaska Fairbanks has won a bid to assume ownership of the facility near Gakona.
That's going to happen on August 11.
Now, I'm a ham operator, and a lot of ham operators think that our government, while it had HAARP in its hands, screwed up our ionosphere big time.
So now it's going to pass, and actually the ARRL, the organization that represents amateur radio, David Sumner, ...has written the U.S.
Secretary of Defense to urge that HAARP be maintained in its current condition until the UAF Geophysical Institute's proposal process has been completed by the National Science Foundation.
He says most of our 164,000 members employ ionospheric propagation of HF radio signals for their communications and technical investigations.
Sumner told then Defense Secretary Hagel, ionospheric research therefore has great significance and importance to us.
And as ham operators, certainly the ionosphere is very, very important.
But frankly, Mr. Sumner, a lot of the hams out here think that they really screwed it up.
And if there's any hams out there who want to comment on that, you're welcome to.
So Harp passes from government hands into private hands.
Then what?
Well, because I blew a break in the last half hour on purpose, and I mean blew it.
In fact, we blew everything right on through the roof.
We'll take that break now, and then we'll continue.
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If you have a comment on what you've been hearing, you're certainly welcome to make that.
We've got plenty of people wanting to say something, that's for sure.
Let's go to Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the phones.
Hi, you're on the air.
Hi, Art.
First-time caller, long-time listener.
I just wanted to say two things.
One, I absolutely love the doctor, and I would be very sad if we were unable to see him again.
He was an excellent guest, and I really enjoyed hearing him, and I really hope we get to hear him talk about Deep Space Pulsars and black holes and everything else.
Sure.
And he will come back.
He will.
We talked about that.
He knew what he was facing tonight.
I think, you know, he deserves a gold star for even facing off like this on the subject.
Yes, sir.
Yep.
So the other thing was for John.
I don't know if he's still on the line with us.
No, I didn't think that would be fair.
OK.
Yeah.
The deal I would say for him, because he was wondering about airplanes traveling on the globe, one direction, the other direction, and what I would do, I'd say for him a simple experiment he can do to observe the principles himself would be to set in his vehicle and accelerate to whatever the speed limit is in his area, we'll say 65 miles an hour, set cruise control.
Take a pencil or a pen and hold it out and drop it.
Now, according to what he's thinking, The pen or pencil should fly right straight to the back of the vehicle, not fall down.
Because when he realizes that that pen is moving at whatever speed the vehicle is moving, it should be easier in his mind to realize, OK, the entire globe is spinning.
So everything on the globe is spinning at that rate, and everything else is relative to that.
And it would be a nice way to illustrate that.
I had to explain this to a kid recently, and I actually went through the same thing, but not for flat earth reasons.
The kid was wondering why If I drop my book bag on the school bus and it doesn't fly, why not?
I wonder how many people embrace... I mean, clearly, John truly embraced it.
Clearly, John was not a dunce.
He was a pretty bright guy.
You're only left wondering what happened to John.
You know, some of it might just be isolating yourself from Well, it tells us something about... I don't know what it tells us.
to stay close-minded but he immediately shut down anything about math, science, demonstrable
measurements, anything from NASA was all a lie.
All fakes.
Once you isolate yourself, I mean, that does it.
Well, it tells us something about, I don't know what it tells us.
You know, it's confusing to me because on the one hand he's a bright guy, even to sit
and be able to argue with the doctor, you could tell he was a bright guy, but all twisted
up in a way that I can't fathom.
You know, and I'm not sure how old he was, but I assume we're probably in the same generation.
Sounds like it.
I love space, and I'm jealous of your generation.
You guys got to see the moonwalk.
We have nothing.
We shut down our space program.
It's a shame.
It's a shame.
Well, let me be John for a second.
Of course we shut it down.
We couldn't keep up that lie for that long.
I'll clear the line so you can take the next caller, but I appreciate it, Art.
It's been a great show.
Thank you very much for calling in.
Take care.
I had a bunch of breaks, a bunch of the breaks up a little bit here.
Let's go to, gee, I don't know, somewhere in California, I think, on the phone.
Hi, you're on the air.
Yeah, hi, Art.
I'm debating whether to talk about this previous segment or not, because there's so much.
There's so much fertile ground to plow.
Oh, I know.
Instead, I think I'll thank you very much for having Preston Bennett on last week.
He cleared something up for me that I've been wondering about for more than 30 years, and if he's correct, what I had more than 30 years ago, It was an out-of-body experience, but it involved witnessing something from a past life, and that something that I witnessed was my being executed in an electric chair.
Oh my!
Yeah, and I figure it was the 30s, maybe the late 20s, or in the 30s, or possibly the 1940s.
What had you done?
I don't know.
Whatever it was, it was bad enough to be executed.
Yeah.
And I witnessed the hood going over the face from my perspective, and I experienced the jolt of the electricity.
So how was it?
Well, it was quick.
I will tell you it was quick.
Well, in a lot of executions, it's not.
If they don't get everything just right, they've had guys' heads catch on fire.
It's awful.
Oh, I know.
I know.
But in my case, it was mercifully brief.
And you had mentioned one of your hang-ups is being afraid, and I tend to think that whatever fear you're experiencing in that sort of experience of OBE is fear that you're bringing with you.
Oh, yes.
Just to tell you that there's really nothing there that can harm you other than what you bring along with you to freak you out.
All right.
Well, thank you very much for the call.
I really appreciate it.
Right.
Um, let's see, okay.
Let's, uh, well, now let me talk about that fear.
A million times I've tried to tell myself, don't be afraid when these things happen, but going back to my most recent experience, you know, the shadow guy, didn't work at all.
Absolutely didn't work at all.
From the first second I saw him, I was absolutely terrified.
So, somebody's gonna have to teach me How, when these things occur, how, when a giant triangle appears over you, or a shadow guy next to you, you don't be afraid.
Instead, you relax, and you sort of white-light yourself, I think people say, and, you know, all the rest of it.
Let me go overseas somewhere.
Will, you're on the air.
Hello.
Uh, Bill?
Yes, hello.
Hey, how are you going, mate?
I'm doing well.
Sounds Aussie to me.
Very Aussie.
Where are you?
Newcastle in Australia, East Coast.
Good to have you.
Yeah, good to be on.
I've followed you for years and years and yeah, great to get through.
Seems to me like people in Australia are beginning to discover us big time.
Yeah, I tell all my friends.
So I've got a few people tuning in.
Alright.
Hi people.
Anyway, go ahead.
Yeah, the Flat Earth stuff from the first part of the show.
Right.
Yeah, I started seeing videos and stuff on Facebook and YouTube about 12 months ago, and thought it was absolutely ludicrous.
And then I watched them, you know, cut like I was long, and did my own due diligence, and what I found out isn't too far from what Jay was talking about.
I've got you!
Another Flat Earther!
Another flat earther.
Yes, well, you know, we need to explore how this happened to you.
You were exposed, obviously, to flat earth stuff, propaganda, and somehow you became converted.
How long a process was that?
Probably about six weeks of really scratching my head, and I spend a lot of time outside at night.
You didn't literally scratch it raw or anything, did you?
Bleeding?
Possibly head injury?
You sure?
No, no, no head injury.
Look, look, look here.
We're out of break point.
I'm gonna hold you over.
Alright?
We've got to explore this.
I've gotta try to understand.
There's gotta be a way to hold on.
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Thank you, Ross.
We're back, and as a matter of fact, the other side of the globe is where we're going again.
Back to Australia and Will, who is another flat earther.
And what astounds me about the Flat Earthers is they seem, otherwise, like pretty bright people.
So, how does that happen, Will?
Um, I don't know.
Like I said before the break, I spend a lot of time outside at night.
Yeah, just what I was seeing and staring at just didn't quite add up, and I just started looking for answers why, because the answers that we're told in school and stuff just didn't make sense to me.
Do you actually think our sun is only 3,000 miles above us?
I'm still undecided on how far the sun is away, but... Oh, see, it has to be.
I mean, to be really a flat earther, that sun has to be sitting out there 3,000 miles.
I wouldn't go preaching on people's doorsteps about it, but it just made a lot more sense to me than The Globe.
The evidence they put forward is quite good.
Well, but again, if you want it to be true, then the sun has to be only 3,000 miles up.
That may be so.
Like you said, you'd have to go up and have a look.
There's just no real way to tell from down here.
Well, do you agree with John that all of the NASA stuff, all of the stuff we know about, is fake?
That's a big question.
Yes and no.
Because last night's show had a lot of stuff to do with they went there, but not the way that we know.
Right, but still, even if we went, no matter which way we went, the slow way or the really fast way, it's still 250,000 miles away.
To the moon, that is.
Yeah.
And then there's that 93 million miles to the sun.
So, I mean, think about it.
We would have passed the sun on the way to the moon long since.
That's right.
That's right.
But just something to think about is when you're looking at a moon, not actually, when the moon's still up in the day.
So you just say there's a full moon, but you can still see it in daylight, right?
Just say 12 o'clock in the day, the sun's above the moon, the moon's below the sun, still a full moon, you can still see it in broad daylight, yet the sun should be off behind the moon, and we're still getting the same image of the moon, the same side lit up.
But doesn't the moon block the sun, and we call that an eclipse?
That's what I just can't work out, I can't justify in my head how it's Our globe is the reason we have the moon changes.
So it's like there in Australia, Will, you're not down under, you're just over.
Just over, yes.
Alright, well, Will, thank you for the call.
I really appreciate it.
I'm just astounded.
Thank you very much.
You know, I really am astounded.
I mean, isn't it a thing in itself that That people believe as they do?
Isn't it absolutely astounding to listen to this?
And these are otherwise, it would seem, pretty bright people.
Jordan on Skype, you're on the air.
Hello.
Yeah, probably when... Jordan, you're breaking up on me, buddy.
Is it better now?
A little.
Sorry, I got you on Skype here.
Is it better?
It is better.
Yes, go ahead.
Let's see if we can do it.
Well, um, one thing I wanted to say is I'm not debating whether we landed on the moon or not, but I kind of go with the theory of where we went there, but we ended up finding something.
We ended up taking stuff back, and I think that, yeah, we ended up, I don't know if we took rocks back.
You know, they might be alive.
That was just a joke.
But I also want to hit on one more thing.
I wanted to tell you one thing that I listened back in the day when you had the pilot on the phone and he had captured a giant with the military and they were transporting, he was transporting a giant.
I just wanted to see if you could touch bases on that and kind of recreate that moment.
I'm not sure what moment you're talking about.
We had a pilot on the show who flew into Area 51.
Um, but I don't remember a pilot with a giant.
Maybe it was the Area 51 one, and you had lost connection with him?
Yes, uh-huh.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
That was even put into a song by Tool.
I mean, it's legend at this point.
I just said, you know, I'm a young buck.
What do you say?
Well, there's nothing to say.
Thank you very much for the call.
It was just astounding radio.
What happened to him?
I don't know.
I'm sorry.
I haven't heard.
Overseas, somewhere, you're on the air.
Hi, how's it going tonight?
Thanks for having the debate.
I love the subject.
My name is Ernest.
I am a flat earther.
Another one.
Ernest, welcome to the program.
Where are you, Ernest?
Well, right now I'm in the Boston area.
I just want to say I make more money, probably, than most of your callers.
Ernest, this is our overseas line, buddy.
So, no matter how much money you make, if you're in Boston, you can't call on this line.
I'm sorry.
You know, you don't post where the call-in information is.
It's at Artbell.com.
Okay, thanks, buddy.
Thank you very much.
Call me over there and we'll talk.
That line is restricted for people outside of North America.
That means America and Canada, in this case.
So if you're outside America and Canada, it's Skype at M-I-T-D-5-5.
M-I-T-D-5-5.
Let's go then... Where?
I don't know.
Let's try Chris on Skype.
Hello, Chris.
I think I tried Chris on Skype.
Did I do it wrong?
No, I didn't.
Chris, are you there?
Apparently not.
Well, let me try it once more.
Is this Chris?
Hello, Chris.
Hello?
Turn your radio off, please.
Yes, sir.
Okay, we'll hold while you turn off your radio.
Thank you.
And you're rustling around, too.
Hold good and still for me.
Hello, Art?
Yes, go right ahead, Chris.
And turn off your radio, please.
It is off.
Okay.
So, I'm talking to Art Bell.
You are.
Oh, my God.
I'm so glad you're back, Art.
Thank you.
It's been a long haul, but we've all been waiting, and we're thrilled you're back.
Thank you.
So, I just wanted to thank you also for bringing the GIS people back.
Yet to come.
On the 20th, right?
Yes.
I'm looking forward to that.
I hope they have some nice new juicy EVPs for us all.
I hope.
Yeah, they kind of, that show sort of launched myself and my wife into our little amateur ghost hunting and had a couple things.
Finally got to feel what it's like to have the hair on the back of your neck come up.
And I was doing an investigation in Fairfax, an old building, well, several.
One was, it was a tuberculosis hospital.
and uh... refugee camp for nineteen oh six earthquake victims and uh... nothing
really significant happen
uh... that we've felt or saw but
uh... the last night was pretty strange retrieving my camera at two a.m. in the
morning in a dark bathroom i go to reach for my tripod and i hear uh...
like you stumbled over someone in an alley or something but no one there
Quite startling.
Well, do you have any proof?
Photographic?
Audio?
I got one apparition image that came after what we thought we heard, a woman's voice, and we got what looked like a shooting star on a video camera in the house.
Okay, if I give you an address, can you email that to me?
Absolutely.
Alright, here it is.
ArtBell.com.
And this goes for everybody.
That's my email address.
If you want to get a photograph to me, then ArtBell at ArtBell.com.
If you want to get somebody on the show, don't email me.
Email my producer.
That would be producer at ArtBell.com.
And I give these out so that I don't have to do it all the time otherwise.
You know, I have to keep emailing people back who are suggesting people and I appreciate that.
Really, truly, I do.
Whenever you can suggest somebody for the show, happy to have them on.
But please, by all means, send it to producer at artbell.com.
Now, let's go to Joshua somewhere.
Hi, Joshua.
Hi, Israel.
I beg pardon?
I'm in Israel.
You're in Israel?
Yes.
Hey, you're my first caller from Israel, Joshua.
Welcome.
Yeah, so I was just wondering about this whole flat earth thing.
I've traveled a lot.
I'm born in the United States.
One time I flew to Israel.
I flew a very northerly, very northerly route.
It was the middle of summer.
I was looking out the window and I was seeing snow.
And another time it took a more equatorial route with a couple stopovers.
And I don't see how going all of these different directions would make sense if the earth wasn't round.
Well, I tried to point that out to John.
And, you know, I boiled it down to mileage.
You can shorten up the trip in actual measurable miles by doing the circle route.
Right?
That means it's a big ball.
Right.
Has anybody ever, you know, offered to fund a flat-earth conference, maybe in the lounge area of a 747 while it flew around the world?
Let them actually see it?
I don't think so, but it's not a half-bad idea.
They seem like intelligent, very scientifically-minded people who just doubt the evidence they see in books.
Maybe if we get them all on a plane, give them their own Compasses, so they don't have to trust the equipment in the cockpit.
And fly it in one direction until it can land at the same place it took off.
Yeah, I know.
But Joshua, they have to throw away so much.
I mean, so much has to be fake for what they believe to be true.
Our sun has to be 3,000 miles up for what they believe to be true.
And you're right.
I mean, they sound intelligent otherwise.
And so it's a mystery to me.
It's honestly a mystery.
I think, and it seems that there are a lot of Flat Earthers listening this morning, I suggest that one of them, who's willing to go on out on a limb, try to crowdfund a meeting of the Flat Earth Society, and actually publish the results.
Do this.
Try this.
See if they fly around the world, or see if they find the edge.
Because I'm sure the rest of the scientific community would be very, very interested in a well-documented discovery of the edge of the world.
We'd all love to see that!
I guess I don't want to stand right there, but I'd like to see it.
Thank you for having me on.
Joshua, thank you for calling.
Israel, that's the first call from Israel.
And again, outside North America, it's MITD55.
MITD55.
Let's try the phones.
Foley, Alabama.
Hello.
Hello, yeah, this is Rex, Art.
I'm glad to find you back again.
Yes, sir, I'm glad you found me.
How did you find me, actually?
Well, I'll tell you.
I was scanning my shortwave radio, doing a third shift, and I said, this can't be true.
And I listened to the program.
I became so overwhelmed with emotion.
When I realized it was you, streetlights began to flicker on and off around me.
It was incredible.
That's a great way to have found me and we are on shortwave like I think two or three different stations so you could find us around the dial and the funny thing about shortwave is so many of the countries that used to broadcast shortwave have stopped because of the cost involved and other reasons that there's not much on shortwave worth listening to anymore so I guess we sort of stand out You do, and like I said, I felt like I found a lost brother, and I want to thank you for coming back on the airways.
I have a bit of scientific, intriguing information that you might find innovative.
Okay.
Our solar technology right now, even on the spacecraft, the most advanced solar technology, it's still not up in the upper percentage of efficiency.
And especially the stuff you put on the roof of your house.
But what if you could create a 100% efficient photoelectric cell that would actually produce a kilowatt of electricity over one square meter?
The only way to do that, Art, is to embed or embody an alpha or beta particle in a selenium to Cause the photoelectrons being thrown off to do that at a faster rate, and if you could create a 100% efficient photocell, then that could accompany your space flight.
So even if you're out there, even in the Oort cloud, you're going to be able to power your spacecraft.
Now, there's a doctor that worked at Los Alamos, and I won't mention his name, but he's from Dallas.
He's no longer with us.
He's the one who came up with these calculations about this 100% efficient photocell, and if you could do that.
And he also introduced an intriguing method of traveling through the universe.
All right, one thing at a time.
If you could produce such a solar device, you would be rich beyond belief.
The Arabs would be after you.
You'd be in all kinds of trouble with even the oil companies here.
You're right.
Yeah, I am right.
So if you've got something like that, you know, buy a gun.
Well, that brings me to a very paranoid feeling.
I have these equations in front of me right now.
Alright, well I'm sorry, we don't have time for the equations, but feel free to email them to me.
I'd be happy to take a look.
In the meantime, Buy a gun.
If you've really got that, they're gonna get ya.
from the high desert the great american southwest
this is midnight in the desert rocking in the night time and taken over
the the
I Referring back to my last experience.
Midnight Matters are best handled by those that understand how to move in the darkness.
Like Art Bell. To call the show, please dial 1-952-CALL-ARTS.
That's 1-952-225-5278.
After I saw that thing, I moved in the darkness, alright?
Bring back my last experience. Listen, everybody.
If you want to start a radio station in your area, we're not adverse to it,
even though this show is designed to be an internet radio program.
It, um, it plays just fine on radio stations, and, uh, we keep welcoming new ones, so what you would do is call a station in your area, preferably one that doesn't carry, you know, the other one, that other show, and, uh, tell them you would like to get on and prove to them that they can actually be number one.
Let us go to Michelle.
I think it's Michelle.
Where are you, Michelle?
Hi, I'm in Japan.
You're in Japan?
I'm sorry, where in Japan?
My signal's not very good because I'm at work.
Oh, that's okay.
I hear you fine.
I would say Ohio Gazimus.
What part of Japan, Michelle?
She's welcome.
Okay, excellent.
Well, welcome.
Near Fuji.
Right.
So, it's great to hear you again.
I've been dying to hear radio like that again.
It's summer, so I don't have anything to do at my job, so I tuned in.
First time I've gotten to tune into you again, and man, that was some interview, huh?
Oh, yes.
We're here every night, Monday through Friday, here in the U.S.
Great.
So, the thing is, when I came to Japan, we did the circle thing you're talking about.
I mean, we went way up north, and then back down.
Sure you did.
And I could see it all, because I had the window seat.
I mean, I get that you can make that kind of a theory, but there's so much evidence that He just didn't want to listen to, and that's what bothered me.
Well, you know, what bothered me, Michelle, honestly, is that both of these guys that we've had now sounded like otherwise, frankly, bright people, sort of inexplicably going down this wrong highway.
I've been on the internet and on social media for so long that that kind of stuff doesn't faze me anymore.
Really?
There is no dearth of people out there who will get something in their head and no matter how intelligent they are, they will refuse to change what it is they believe and will just completely discount.
You can see it everywhere.
But even up against absolute scientific fact?
Yeah, but even up against absolute scientific fact?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Well, Michelle, I'm saying.
Welcome to humanity, right?
I guess.
So, in a sense, that was radio gold, because never has an academic like that man sustained 90 minutes of what he did.
That's true.
I have to give him a massive amount of credit for actually sitting there and being willing to keep that going for that long, and not just lose it and give up.
By the way, are you worried about Fuji blowing up?
No, not really.
It's kind of one of those things that's in the back of my mind, but it's, you know, I'm about, I don't know, 30 miles away.
So you must see it real well.
Oh yeah, you can see it right out the window here where I'm at.
I've got some gorgeous, I know I didn't email you one of the pictures I took from my apartment one day.
I would love it.
I will do that.
I will send that to you.
I'm so glad you found us.
It's great to hear you again.
Listen, I am curious.
How did you find us all the way over in Japan?
Actually, I clicked on a link on Facebook about something today, and then it showed me one of those related article things about you starting up this new show, and I immediately freaked out, because I listen to you online with old shows and stuff all the time, constantly.
We're hearing something new.
I was like, well, immediately tell me what it is.
Do me a favor and tell your friends.
I will definitely do that.
That'd be like doing me a friend.
All right.
Thank you very, very much for calling and take care.
All the way from Japan.
Wow.
Okay.
It's hard to know where to go, but Scott is my guy and that's where I'm going.
Scott, hi.
Hello, Scott.
Yes.
Hey, this is Don.
Actually, I'm using Scott's computer.
I'm sure you asked Scott for permission, right?
Yeah, yeah.
He's letting me use his Skype right now.
That's good.
Alright.
We're both listening to you on this Flat Earth thing tonight, and I just wanted to put my two cents in on this.
I did a lot of sort of, I guess, YouTube investigations, which you call it, just sitting around watching YouTube videos about this Flat Earth thing a couple of months ago.
Yes.
And what this really seems like to me, and to a few other people that agreed in comments, was this is a PSYOP thing.
This is something designed to muddy the waters, to get people thinking in a certain way, I think.
Toward what end?
I don't really know.
That's what's interesting.
I think the question should be, not is the Earth flat, but why are you telling us the Earth is flat, and who's paying you to do it?
Oh, so you... See what I mean?
Well, kind of, yes.
But again, to what end could you even imagine?
Well, looking deeper on the wiki page of Modern Flat Earth Societies, all of this is really based on a couple of verses from the Bible.
Really?
I don't know specifically which ones.
Can you paraphrase?
I have to look up that wiki page again.
I wonder where in the Bible it leads us toward believing that.
well what it would lead me to believe is this is like a creationist agenda
that they're trying to push now you might be on the somewhere you see what i'm saying sure
you might be on the somewhere uh... a lot of uh... creationist believe the earth is
very young and that man has only been here for you actually uh... six thousand five
That's right.
And that might fit in with the sun only being, what, 3,000 miles away?
Right.
And they talk about, I think, the other nine points that John didn't get to tonight.
Some of those points were the idea of the firmament above being an ice dome above us, the idea of Antarctica being surrounding all of the continents, and that Admiral Byrd could never get past these certain points in Antarctica.
There's all these mysteries about Antarctica and what it is.
There were more points, you're right, we didn't get to all of those.
A lot of it seems compelling, but the whole thing, it just seems like this creationist agenda, like they're trying to push for whatever reason.
It seems like a disinformation thing to muddy the waters, to throw it in the bucket with other sort of fringe ideas.
The only place where they almost had me Was the airplane going one direction and the airplane going the other direction?
Right, that's a good one.
I had to think about that a little bit.
I'm still not... Going from continent to continent.
I'm still not sure about that one.
Otherwise, no, I didn't buy any.
But that one I'm going to have to give a little thought.
It seemed like that might have made a little sense to me.
I mean, after all, the Earth is turning in one direction, the plane going in the other direction.
Oh, there was another point about, like, you couldn't fly a plane, you couldn't get a flight from, say, South America to South Africa.
Or from South Africa to Australia.
You would always have to go to the Northern Hemisphere and connect somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, like Dubai, or in the UK, and then fly to your location in the Southern Hemisphere.
And then if you looked at it on the flat Earth map, it would make sense because it would go in a straight line.
But on the spherical map, on the globe, it has to sort of go zigzag up and down, up to the Northern Hemisphere, and that seemed a bit odd.
Right.
Alright.
But just a few more things I thought I'd throw in there for No.
Look, I appreciate it.
I mean, what damage could you possibly do throwing anything in what we did tonight?
Yeah, it was really fun tonight.
All right, I've got to go.
I'm at a break.
We'll be back.
This is Midnight in the Desert.
I'm Art Bound.
Southeast Asia braces for what could be a devastating blow from the Super Typhoon.
Food, water, cots, generators and other federal emergency supplies were rushed Tuesday from Hawaii and Guam to help Saipan after Typhoon Settler blasted the tiny U.S.
island in the western Pacific.
After hitting the island, the typhoon strengthened into the Earth's most powerful storm of 2015, equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of 180 miles per hour, as it continued Monday across the Pacific Ocean.
By Tuesday evening, the typhoon was downgraded from a super typhoon, with winds around 130 miles an hour and gusts of 161, which is equal to a Category 4 storm.
The typhoon was taking aim at Taiwan, China, and some of Japan's southern islands.
Be prepared to grab a lawn chair or a warm blanket and look up.
It's time for the best meteor shower of the year.
The Perseids are the year's most popular and anticipated shower due to two factors.
The warm weather and abundance of meteors that streak across the sky.
Meteor showers occur as Earth passes through the dust left over from a passing comet.
In this case, Earth is passing through particles left over from Comet Swift-Tuttle.
The small particles then enter Earth's atmosphere, come in around 59 kilometers an hour, and then quickly burn up in our atmosphere, creating a shooting star.
The best part of this year is that it's almost a new moon, so even faint meteors will be visible.
The Perseids are active from July 13th to August 26th.
They peak on the night of August 12th through the 13th, with as many as 100 meteors an hour being visible from dark locations.
This is Dark Matter News.
Take me away, I don't mind.
You better promise me I'll be back in time.
If you've ever dreamed of cruising around town on a floating skateboard like Marty McFly does in the classic 80s flick Back to the Future Part 2, then you could soon be in luck.
A pair of innovators is trying to make the futuristic fantasy of riding a hoverboard into a reality.
Husband and wife design team Jill and Greg Henderson launched a Kickstarter campaign for their Hindu hoverboard.
A levitating skateboard that could hit hover parks as early as October of this year.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, stop! Little girl, little girl, stop! Look, I need to borrow your hoverboard.
The Kickstarter campaign which ended in December of last year was a resounding success.
It brought in well over its initial goal of $250,000 in its first week.
And before the campaign ended, the project had already raised nearly $500,000.
But with all this hype, there comes an important question.
How in the world does this thing work?
The basic premise behind the technology is something called Magnetic Field Architecture.
MFA is Henderson's term for what others may call Magnetic Levitation, or MagLev, which is already used to power super-fast hovering trains in Japan, China, and South Korea.
These trains use magnets to create lift and thrust, and can travel at blistering paces because there's no friction between the train's wheels and the axles and the rails.
But the technology behind the Hendo Hoverboard is different from other applications of Maglev.
The most obvious difference is that unlike a train, the board doesn't follow a track.
Instead, it hovers freely on top of a surface plated in copper.
But it could also be made to hover over aluminum, as well as a variety of non-metal
materials that are also inductors.
The technology behind the hoverboard is also offered in a scaled back form as the White Box Developer Kit, which is simply a box equipped with the company's signature hover engines.
For a look at these new futuristic hoverboards in action, visit DarkMatterNews.com.
I'm Leo Ashcraft, for Dark Matter News.
The Screaming Lady.
Remember the Screaming Lady commercial?
People went berserk over the Screaming Lady commercial.
Oh my God!
I'm going to cancel!
How can you have that on?
I got email after email after email.
You wouldn't believe it.
And so they rotated and the Screaming Lady came out.
A day or two passed.
And then I'm inundated with zillions of emails.
I miss the screaming lady!
What happened to the screaming lady?
Duncan in New Zealand says, by wormhole, I agree.
This is all a psyop with a mass wakening of people occurring.
It's just a distraction to stop us looking out into the universe.
Frankly, citing business reasons for his anonymity raises some serious Red flags with me.
Well, I understood it.
I understood the reason for his not wanting to reveal his real name.
Would you?
I mean, he had solid business reasons, I guess.
Steve on Skype somewhere.
Hi, you're on the air.
Hi, how you doing?
I'm doing pretty well, Steve.
Get good and close to where the microphone is on your computer, because you sound like you're in a hollow room.
Okay, I'm probably from Germany.
I'm ex-military.
I was working, used to work on the Persian missiles and stayed over here.
Well, I've been listening to your program today.
It was really great.
This flat earth thing, you know, I never ever thought the world could be flat.
But I was watching some of these YouTube videos about the flat earth.
And they got some pretty interesting facts that make you go, hmm, could it be?
Okay, you watched.
I know there are YouTube videos.
What is it that impressed you?
Well, what impressed me the most is, well, I think it was a lighthouse.
There was a few videos.
It was a lighthouse.
And they went a few miles away, and they were trying to say, well, if the Earth is really round, a curvature, you shouldn't be able to see the lighthouse anymore at this distance.
Well, Chris, a lighthouse sticks out or up, right?
I guess as you went further and further, more and more of the lighthouse would disappear until finally even the blinking light up top would be gone.
Right, exactly.
But it wasn't.
It was straight on.
You mean the lighthouse stayed in full view no matter how far you went?
It stayed in full view.
And that was the thing that was really impressive to me.
Well, it's impressive, but it's impossible.
Well, yeah, but, you know, I don't want to believe it.
I really don't, but I don't know.
Have you, yourself, looked at any of these YouTube videos?
I have.
Actually, I have, yes.
And a few of their arguments are kind of interesting.
I think I mentioned the airplane, right?
The one he made.
That still is grabbing me a little bit, but the amount of stuff that has to be fake and wrong for it to be true. I mean, the sun's 3,000 miles away.
Really?
No, no, exactly. Yeah, yeah, I know it's not possible, but there's just some things that
are really that you scratch your head. Yeah, it would be nice if you do another show about
this flat earth thing. And it's good to hear you back in the air.
I don't want to waste anybody's time with a more important call than mine.
Well, just out of curiosity, though, if you don't mind, how did you hear about us and why are you in Germany?
Well, I used to be in the army.
I worked on the Persian missiles.
Yes.
And I stayed over here.
You know, I met a girl and fell in love.
Ah, yes.
And I've been listening to Dark Matter for a long time, and I used to listen to Wilson and Kerry Cassidy on Project Camelot and Stephen Greer.
I've been following this stuff on UFOs.
Oh man, I cannot wait to have Stephen Greer on again.
Did you hear the statement I played that Stephen Greer made?
No, what was it?
Oh, you didn't?
No, no.
Seriously?
You know what?
Stay right where you are.
I'm going to turn you down a little bit, and I'm going to play something here that I want you to hear.
So let's see.
You're in Germany, right?
But I've got somebody else over here.
Hold on in Germany.
Adam, hello.
Hey, Art.
I feel like I'm in a time machine listening to your show.
It goes so quick.
You've got such an interesting and diverse number of guests on there.
I wanted to say that I was lucky enough in my work industry to have access to press passes to get into the STS-2 space shuttle launch site.
Yes, sir.
And I was an audio enthusiast, and at the STS-2 launch, I was able to bring in a pair of ElectriVoice RE-15 mics and a little Nakamichi battery-operated deck.
I have this great recording STS-2 launch.
When this thing does the roll, you know, as it clears the launch tower, you can hear the fire crackling out of the engines.
And now that you've got this great streaming stereo platform, if you'd like, I would be happy to send you a non-compressed copy of that to do with what you do.
I would love it!
I would love it!
Send it to Art Bell at ArtBell.com All right.
Any file size limitation on the email server?
It's a good question.
I think if it's... How big is it?
Do you know?
Well, if I send it at, like, 96 kilobits?
Yes.
24... Whatever that 2496 stream is, I think it probably would be about 12 to 15 megabits.
That might be pushing it.
I'd be happier if it was slightly under 10.
I'm not sure what limits, if anything, I've got on, but I think it might be around 10.
I'll squeeze it in under that.
Alright.
Give it a shot, would you?
You got it.
And I'll play it.
Yes, and you're right, in stereo.
Look, everybody do me a favor.
Tomorrow, Bob Crane has these amazing earbuds.
When I say amazing, I really mean amazing.
I don't know what they're made out of at the end, but they conform to your ear.
And when you plug in earbuds to your, you know, I don't know what, your phone or your iPad or whatever, it's like you came into a new universe with this program.
It'll sound so good.
They're like $9.95, which I think cheats Bob Crane.
Call them in the morning, tell them Art Bell told you to call, get a pair of those on the way, and then you can review them on the air for me.
They're amazing!
Call him at 1-800-522-8863.
I've done those commercials for years, so I actually know his number.
1-800-522-8863.
All right, now, let me see.
I'm going to have to manipulate a little bit here, and I'm going to have to clear that, and I'm going to have to bring up the statement by Dr. Greer.
This is astounding to me.
Now, I'm going to say something here because this is enough years after it happened.
Steven Greer.
A few years ago, there was a show called Coast to Coast with Art Bell.
And it was on the cover of Time Magazine.
And I was one of his favorite guests.
And when I'd be on that show, it really lit things up at certain agencies.
And one time I was on his show a few years back towards the end of his career there.
And this issue came up and I said, well, you know, I have a source high up in SETI that confirms to me that they in fact have received interplanetary signals, but in a kind of phased, not normal array, it was kind of a pulsed array and that it was kept secret and covered up.
The city people are furious.
Subsequently, Seth Shostak got on the show and just said, well, Dr. Vera knows what he's talking about, and he probably talked to some volunteer computer operator, because we have all this network of volunteers.
What Eric Bell didn't know, and what Seth Shostak didn't know, which I'm going to say now, because there's enough water gone under the bridge, is that The guy who told me that was the founder of the SETI project and the Drake equation, Dr. Drake.
He told me that, that they had had that contact.
Moreover, a man who had been one of Carl Sagan's best friends, the best man at his wedding, confirmed it.
And he had been present when the wow signal came in at Harvard.
Okay, so back to Steve in Germany.
Yeah, listen, you know, Steven Greer, he's a good guy, but after the serious movie documentary he made, You know, I don't trust him anymore.
He's looking a little more and more shady to me.
Not to me.
I've always trusted him, and you know what?
That statement he just made, and he's going to be on the show, and believe me, trust me, when I tell you we're going to have him explain that, and then we're going to have Seth Shostak on, because what he essentially just said is, we haven't been told Uh, the truth.
We've had contact.
I mean, that's what the man just said.
We've had contact.
Well, I believe that.
I think everybody believes that.
No, everybody doesn't believe that.
We've had Seth on a million times asked him about contact, and of course he has said that, uh, yeah, we have the wow signal, but Greer was talking about real contact and the fact that it was It's not known.
And so, if we've actually had contact, that's big, big news.
Well, yeah, of course that's big news.
Are you talking about that the government has had contact, or that the city has had contact?
Well, the city had contact.
Apparently, we didn't know about it.
So I'm telling you, that's a blockbuster, if true.
Listen, I've got to run, but thank you for the call.
Okay, when is he coming back?
When is this show going to happen?
I don't know.
He's on our... I don't want to say.
We can't talk about our guest for some reason.
Okay, okay.
Alright, thank you very much.
Thanks for hearing me out.
And you're very welcome.
Happy to do it.
Okay, who is JP?
I guess that's... right?
Is that correct?
JP?
No?
Ah, too bad.
All right.
JP, you would have been on the air, but I guess you're not going to be unless you're there.
One last try.
Are you there?
Nope.
Okay.
No problem.
Let's go to Pat.
You're on the air.
Hello.
Hi, Art.
This is Pat, also known as Magical Chet.
Okay.
I'm calling on behalf of the good people at Pound DM Talk Group on the social media platform Twitter.
Really?
Yes.
And I'd like to give a shout-out to Skinny President.
The only shout-out that she'll let me give.
My question is, when will you play One Velvet Morning?
Because we're all waiting.
I'll take my answer off the air.
Okay.
Alright.
No problem.
Probably never.
Well, that's not true.
I won't say never.
We have a restriction against playing tunes prior to 1972.
Unless they have been remastered.
So, that's the deal.
So I don't want to say never, because they are actually in talks so that the people who had songs that are, you know, prior to 1972 can be played and can be paid for, but right now there's no mechanism to pay for them, so we're stuck.
I'm sorry.
There's nothing we can do.
Hopefully, The talks are underway right now.
They'll get it straightened out, and then as we can play current commercial music post-72, soon we'll be able to play the stuff prior to 72.
I hope that kind of answers your question.
Let's go to Charlotte something or another.
Hello, on the phone.
Hello, it's Calvin.
Charlottetown, is that it?
Yeah, it's Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Nova Scotia, okay.
Prince Edward Island actually, it shows up Nova Scotia in the Colorado.
It does, yes.
Yeah.
Okay, proceed.
Proceed, okay.
Yeah, I just wanted to say that about John there, you know, like he doesn't seem to sound too much older or younger than I am.
I just wanted to say like, you know, it's kind of like almost depressing that, you know, We're supposed to be the progressive generation here, and, you know, we've still got people hung up on whether or not the earth is flat, which has been proven, you know, thousands of years ago.
It's just kind of a bleak thing to think about, and I'm not sure why anybody would ever... Well, I think what made me feel bleak about it was that John otherwise sounded very bright.
No, absolutely, right?
It's very concerning to me that he could go down a trail that a bright person shouldn't be able to go down.
No, it's kind of sad almost and I don't want to like belittle the guy because we both agreed on, you know, he sounds like really smart but it's just kind of like, I don't know, how do you go that way, you know?
I don't know.
I'm sorry, I just flat, excuse the word, flat don't know.
Yeah, no, anyway, you know, that's all I just really wanted to say.
I think a lot of other people listening tonight probably think the same thing.
Well, thank you for the call, and I'm sure they do.
Roy, you're on the air, wherever you are.
It is I, J.C.
Webster III.
Oh my God!
You did not... This is J.C.?
F640, F640.
Yeah, it's not.
It's not J.C.
It sounded like J.C., didn't it?
That's not J.C.
J.C.
has not been on his Facebook page in a long time.
Something... I hope nothing has happened to J.C.
Nothing untoward has occurred to J.C.
Anyway, Kurt, your turn.
You're on the air.
Hello.
Hello.
How are you today?
uh... mystified but here all right let me turn this uh... i think i should have said
okay double should've said flat mystified
anyway what he said i'm flattered to be on your show and i think that gift
he will i think he was full of us i'd do but i don't have a sense in my
in my gut that he knew that how in the world can anybody believe that the earth is still
flat?
You're going to get in a ship and then you're just going to fall off into where?
I think you're wrong because I think he did honestly believe it, I'm sorry to say.
Oh yes, yes, yes, yes.
I can't believe that anybody in 2015 believed that we're on a flat plane.
Bubbles, when we blow a bubble, it turns to a sphere.
I think the Lord, with His breath, made the planet.
So that's a sign that a bubble, a bubble's not flat, I don't know, just an idea.
But I just don't believe that somebody in 2015 I don't believe the earth's flat.
Are they nuts or what?
Are they in a cult?
I just don't know.
I'll let you go.
You have a good night.
Alright, I'm going.
Bye bye now.
Alright, well that's it.
Man, where did that program go?
That's the name of it.
Where'd it go?
We'll be back tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night is Bigfoot.
I'll go that far.
We'll tell you it's all about Bigfoot.
One you're not going to want to miss.
As midnight in the desert takes over, listener by listener by listener by listener, goodnight.
Seeking for the truth, will we make it till tomorrow, will the sun shine on you? Midnight in the desert, and we're
listening, we're listening.
Midnight in the desert, and we're listening, we're listening.
Midnight in the desert, and we're listening, we're listening.
Midnight in the desert, and there's wisdom in the air.
I've been looking for the answers, all my life I've found you there.
Have we lost our intuition?
Are we running out of time?
Midnight in the desert And we're listening And we're listening
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