Knowledge Fight Interactive Search Tool

All Episodes

Previous Next

Jan. 5, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

01:55:04

Situation Update, 1/5/23 - We are REWRITING the future in real time...

Large

Audio Only |

Scroll

Time	Text
	Welcome to the situation update for Thursday, January 5th, 2023.
	I'm Mike Adams.
	Thank you for joining me.
	And I'm so pumped.
	I'm so thrilled.
	And I'm going to get my geek on here for you tonight because I just finished an interview with Dr.
	Malcolm LeCompte with the Comet Research Group.
	I'm so blown away.
	You're going to get to hear this interview.
	And one of the reasons I'm so excited is because it turns out that our laboratory microscope has a feature that is sort of desperately needed for imaging the microspherials and melt glass that was created by the comet impact 12,800 years ago and Dr.
	LeCompte is going to send us some samples for us to image using this microscope feature in our lab and we are of course donating the lab time in order to accomplish this but I'm so thrilled that we're going to get to take pictures of these artifacts That are tied to,
	you know, the comet impact that destroyed ancient civilization, that led to the series of events that eventually led to the rise of this current civilization, the impact that altered Earth's climate so dramatically, raised ocean levels by over 120 meters, I believe, that changed the course of human history, and the artifacts are frozen in physical matter.
	They're captured in time.
	In the melt glass and the spherules and the nanodiamonds and all these other things, and we're going to get to see these things.
	We're going to get to take pictures of them with our microscope in a way that has never been done before.
	At least to my knowledge.
	At least it's not being done by anybody researching this that I'm aware of.
	And if you're wondering what that is, it's something actually simple to explain.
	It's that if you've ever used a microscope, when you magnify the optics, you lose depth of field.
	And so you can only see a tiny, like the only parts that are in focus.
	If you're looking at an object under there, let's say...
	I don't know, a crumb.
	A crumb of food, which looks like a giant boulder under the microscope.
	But only one vertical little tiny slice of that crumb is going to be in focus at any one time.
	And that vertical slice might be one one-hundredth of a millimeter in depth, for example.
	So you can never get the whole crumb in focus at the same time, unless...
	You have a really special microscope, like what we have, and this microscope is able to step through the Z axis and it's able to take pictures of each slice Through fractions of millimeters and then to assemble the composite image using only the slices that are in focus in order to create a new image that is in focus through the entire depth of field of the Z axis, thus performing kind of microscopy magic.
	And apparently this has not been done with these samples before, but we have the capability to do it.
	Dr.
	LeCompte has the samples, and we are an ISO-accredited laboratory, and we're going to donate the time.
	Boom!
	Getting my geek on!
	We're going to get to look at this!
	I'm so thrilled.
	I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight.
	This is crazy.
	I can't wait to start this.
	That's going to be really, really exciting.
	I will, of course, share the images, well, with the permission of Dr.
	LeCompte and the Comet Research Group, but we will share the images publicly.
	That's the whole point.
	They all want to make this public.
	I can't wait to do that.
	This is going to be mind-blowing.
	Wait till you see.
	History captured in physical matter during the transformation of matter at thousands of degrees Celsius during the impact event itself.
	Wow!
	Talk about artifacts.
	Sure beats looking at magnified images of Chicken McNuggets, doesn't it?
	I did that a few years ago.
	Freaked some people out.
	Never zoom in too much on the food you're consuming, by the way.
	Just a little tip.
	The closer you get, the crazier, the more horrifying it seems.
	Look at your food at a distance, especially if it's fast food.
	Trust me on that one.
	It also helps if the lights are kind of dim.
	Cover it with some dipping sauce and close your eyes, chew and swallow, you know?
	All right.
	We're going to get into some interesting stuff today, and we're going to start with something that's an extension of the big news yesterday, which was the big threats to your food security.
	There was a big news item that came out at Breitbart.com in the last 24 hours that has just emphasized the point I was making yesterday in a dramatic way.
	So here's the story.
	Major French food company shuts down 80% of production as soaring energy costs make factories uneconomical.
	And it's called Cofigio Cofigio.
	Sounds like Trump's cofifi comment, doesn't it?
	It's Cofigio, a group which owns several food companies in France, has shut down four of its eight factories over energy costs amounting to 80% of its total production.
	So I would like to say, oh, and this is affecting 800 workers just because energy costs are too high.
	So Of all the factors that I mentioned yesterday, things that will affect your food security, you know, plummeting fertilizer availability, for example, you know, increasing droughts and floods and storms.
	What else?
	Disruptions in transportation due to diesel fuel scarcity.
	Things like that.
	I did not include this one, which is that food facilities could be shut down due to the high cost of energy.
	Somehow I missed this one.
	But in Europe, this is exactly what's happening.
	And we've covered stories of, for example, glass factories in France shutting down because of the high cost of energy.
	But you understand that in a glass factory, because to make glass, you have to melt it.
	You've got to have big glass ovens, and obviously it takes a lot of energy to do that.
	But food companies?
	You wouldn't think that that's crazy energy intensive.
	But, I don't know, I guess you do have to cook it or pasteurize it or...
	What have you.
	So this French group, the Kavifi group, says, quote, So, 10?
	Yeah.
	So, Tomazu, this is the president of this company.
	His last name is Tomazu, says it will go, he's talking about costs, it will go overnight from 4 million euros to 40 million euros.
	Now, I don't know if he's talking about annual costs.
	Or monthly, it sounds like a lot for a monthly expenditure on energy, but even if that's annual, from $4 million to $40 million, a thousand percent higher energy costs.
	You know, how can you handle that?
	And look, we've talked about the de-industrialization of Europe quite a bit.
	You know, the shutting down of the smelting operations, aluminum, nickel, copper, iron, ore, you know, stainless steel, chromium, all this kind of stuff.
	But I was not thinking that food facilities would shut down because of electricity costs.
	And here we are.
	And check this out.
	In the same story, somehow it gets worse.
	Last month it says, Perifem, a federation of French supermarket chains, warned that France could face major issues with food spoilage due to possible power outages, as many supermarkets would not have adequate time to prepare for the outages.
	Okay?
	So then the general delegate of this group, the Perifem, said the following, quote, We've never experienced this situation.
	Stores are very poorly equipped today with generators.
	We will not throw away frozen products that have, for the most part, More thermal inertia.
	Okay.
	In other words, if they stay mostly frozen.
	On the other hand, he says, for fresh products that do not last two hours, there will indeed be significant waste.
	So, you know, in France this winter...
	Depending on what happens with the power grid, you might end up buying formerly previous partially thawed frozen food with possible safety issues, but who knows?
	The story goes on.
	A report from the UK newspaper The Times has claimed that France may be close to having to ration energy due to issues with the country's nuclear power plants.
	Remember, we covered that two days ago because of the cracks in the nuclear power plants.
	Somehow they're cracking and they're shutting them down.
	Energy to cook and preserve food for canning or ready-made meals is not the only place that energy security and food security intersect.
	As reported by Breitbart London, the sudden surge in energy prices has also impacted the production of fertilizer, which is an energy-intensive process requiring natural gas.
	So, and then the story goes on and says, without ready access to modern fertilizers, the crop yields of European farms can be expected to collapse.
	So, number one, I want to Just applaud Breitbart for having the courage to publish a story that just tells it like it is, tells the truth.
	The author here is Chris Tomlinson, and I think that Chris has done a great job.
	So there you go.
	So not only are we having issues where high energy costs are shutting down food production, in this case 80% of the production of this large French food company, it's also causing layoffs, in this case of 800 people, who then obviously won't have, you know, income.
	To afford the food, even though the food is going to suffer food inflation for all these reasons.
	And on top of that, they're expecting to have power outages that will cause grocery chains to lose power.
	They don't have enough generators, apparently.
	And the frozen food is not going to stay frozen.
	So it's going to be a lot of food wastes.
	And perhaps some hungry French citizens dumpster diving for partially thawed, formerly frozen meals.
	Okay.
	And that's not an insult against French people, by the way.
	This is going to happen all over the place.
	It's going to be Americans dumpster diving for partially thought frozen food dishes, too.
	This is going to be a global phenomenon.
	And then, do you remember Germany's energy minister, whose name I do not remember, was saying that high energy costs in Germany are never going back to normal?
	Or at least, did they say never?
	Or did they imply never?
	Well, not anytime soon, we can say safely.
	It's not going back to normal.
	That energy prices are going to stay elevated for the foreseeable future.
	And so what does that mean?
	At what point does this French food company...
	Decide to either, you know, permanently crater the food plants or to say, okay, we're just going to have to pay 40 million euros for electricity.
	So yeah, bring everybody back.
	Your jobs are back in play, but we're going to have to raise food prices by 500% or whatever, maybe not that much, maybe double food prices.
	But you get the idea.
	At some point, They either have to decide to shut down or stay in business and raise prices dramatically in order to cover the heightened energy costs because it's not a sustainable solution in a country to just say, well, you know, electricity is too much.
	Let's just not produce any food anymore.
	You know, good luck, everybody.
	Hope you have, you know, squirrel hunting and skinning skills or something.
	You can't just, you know, what are the people of France going to do?
	That's a vehicle.
	I believe that's a French-made vehicle, possibly worthy of consuming.
	And the thing is, they're shutting down food plants in France, and food is one of the things that France is really good at.
	You know, not cars, which...
	The Pugo...
	But food, France is known for good food, and that's what they're shutting down.
	I'm going to get in so much trouble from making fun of French cars.
	Nothing I can do about it, folks.
	Anyway, look, I feel bad for the French people who are going to not have access to this food from the Cop Fifi group.
	So I guess it's a good time to grow some food, you know, as soon as it's warm enough to do so, which is still quite a ways away in lots of parts of France.
	So, you know, food storage, food production, those are the keys.
	Okay.
	I've got a couple of really great announcements for you.
	We've got two extraordinary women joining Brighteon.TV. They're going to be broadcasting shortly.
	We've got Sherry Tenpenny.
	Joining Brighttown.tv Monday evenings, 7 to 8 p.m.
	Eastern.
	We don't know yet exactly when that's going to begin, but it's coming up.
	And, of course, we're all fans of Sherry Tenpenny and her extraordinary work and courage and research and everything.
	She's just amazing.
	So we can't wait for that show to begin.
	I'll tell you about it when it starts.
	And then we've got another extraordinary woman who I'm not sure I have permission to announce it yet, but her show begins on February 20th.
	It's going to be 8 to 8.30 p.m.
	Monday through Friday.
	That's Eastern Time, 8 p.m.
	Eastern.
	And it's going to be a very fast-paced, high-impact, current news type of show.
	This is a show you want to watch every evening.
	And it's going to be great.
	And this, again, I wish I had permission.
	I just don't want to give her name until she's ready.
	But I'm a big fan of her work, and she's done incredible reporting on lots of political issues and geopolitics and finance and truth about all kinds of things.
	Anyway, two extraordinary women joining BrightTown.TV. Be sure to check out BrightTown.TV for programs throughout the day and the evenings and also on weekends as well.
	And we also have BrightTownRadio.com for those of you who only want an audio stream.
	Those are different shows with lots of amazing hosts.
	So again, brighteonradio.com and brighteon.tv.
	Now, before we get to the main topic of today, and I'm honestly still trying to decide if I'm going to go with the topic I have in mind, I think I should.
	But before we get to that, I was astonished to learn today from the UK Daily Mail that there is a math conundrum that's been making the rounds.
	It's gone viral somehow, that when you ask people online these days, obviously probably younger people, when you ask them what is 550 divided by 2, people are astonished and befuddled to learn that the answer is not 225.
	I know, right?
	Crazy.
	So again, 550 divided by 2.
	You and I were like, that's 275.
	I mean, we've known that forever.
	But apparently, everybody, okay, not everybody, but a lot of people think it's 225, and they can't figure out why it isn't.
	Somehow, this is a thing.
	Now, imagine what we are up against when we try to educate people about immunology or vaccines or spike proteins or physics, for that matter, or heavy metals in food or nutrition or phytonutrients or, let's say, photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, atmospheric chemistry, whatever.
	How are you going to educate people about these concepts when they're still stuck on what is 550 divided by 2?
	Because wasn't that like maybe a fourth grade problem?
	When did we learn division?
	I'm trying to think back to elementary school.
	Exactly when did we learn simple division?
	It was pretty early.
	I mean, I remember they were teaching us cursive writing, which is now a secret code for older people.
	They were teaching us that in, what, the third grade and fourth grade, I think?
	And pretty much, I think, multiplication and division was kind of mixed in with all that stuff.
	But, you know, the younger generations today, they're not learning any math whatsoever.
	And don't you find it interesting, speaking of generational differences, that If you're in my rough age group, I'm in my 50s, but isn't it weird that we had to teach our parents how to use printers on computers, and then also we have to teach our children how to use printers?
	How come both generations on both sides of us did not know how to use printers?
	And the younger people now don't even know what they are.
	Like, what do you mean you put ink on paper?
	What are you talking about?
	There was an online joke circulating where a mother asked her daughter for a phone book.
	And the daughter, in a very arrogant style, you know, younger daughter, says, Mom, learn to use an iPhone.
	Hands her the iPhone, right?
	So the mother, she smashes the spider with the iPhone, hands the iPhone back to the daughter, all broken now, and says, Maybe you should learn how to use a phone book.
	Ah, yes.
	Generational gaps.
	Somebody needs to tell young people, sometimes the phone book is not for looking up anything.
	It is a weapon.
	We use it to stop bullets when we're testing ballistics, by the way.
	That's what phone books are good for.
	Oh, but getting back to France, though, because we can't miss this story.
	This is from Remix, which is rmx.news.
	They do great reporting on Europe.
	Here's a story.
	French interior minister mocked after saying that only 690 cars were torched on New Year's Eve.
	Yeah, it's just 690 cars.
	I'm hoping they were Pugos, by the way, but that hasn't been released.
	Almost 700 cars were set on fire across French cities.
	500 people were arrested on New Year's Eve.
	But French, because most of the violence was carried out by these migrants, by the way, so the French Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, said that the celebrations had taken place, quote, without any major incidents.
	Doesn't this remind you of CNN? What is saying?
	What, it's on fire but mostly peaceful or something?
	Mostly peaceful demonstrations as everything's burning in the background.
	Only 690 cars were set on fire.
	So reportedly, the country of France on New Year's Eve was flooded with 90,000 police officers.
	And they still had 690 cars on fire because there were so many arsonists, you know, setting cars on fire.
	And they arrested, what, 490 people.
	So this is not a notable incident in the minds of the globalists You know, progressive French authorities.
	Keep that in mind when they start burning your homes and businesses, by the way.
	That also will not qualify as, you know, a notable incident.
	Oh, only 157 food factories were burned down?
	That's nothing.
	It's all good.
	All right, shifting continents here.
	A story out of Bloomberg UK says it's raining microplastics in New Zealand.
	Yeah, it's raining plastic out of the sky.
	The findings of a new study suggest that researchers may be dramatically undercounting the global prevalence of airborne microplastics.
	So apparently some 74 metric tons of microplastics dropped out of the atmosphere onto the New Zealand city of Auckland.
	That's just one city in 2020.
	So they're claiming 74 metric tons of plastic dropped on one city in one year?
	The studies published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, they say it's the equivalent of 3 million plastic bottles that rained out of the sky.
	I'm going to have to search scripture on this one.
	I know there's like frogs raining down from the sky and maybe fish.
	All kinds of crazy things happening.
	And then there's blight on the crops and dead cattle and everything.
	But I don't think the Bible ever said that there were going to be plastic bottles or microplastics raining out of the sky.
	That's a new one.
	The story notes that they found really, really small particles, microplastics at very small sizes that you can't even see with the naked eye.
	One of the researchers said, quote, this is notable because the smallest sizes are the most toxicologically relevant.
	The story goes on to say that microplastics' smallest particles are more likely to be inhaled and then can potentially enter cells and cross the blood-brain barrier and even build up in organs, such as the liver and the brain, the authors warned.
	Future work needs to quantify exactly how much plastic we are breathing in.
	It's becoming more and more clear that this is an important route of exposure.
	So, folks, you know how I've encouraged you to think about moving out of the cities, but we've usually talked about reasons like, oh, you know, You know, civil unrest and what happens when the food stamps stop working and cities being artificial constructs that have to have inputs like water and electricity and fuel that are not really sustainable, you know, and the food, obviously.
	But I did not think that a reason to leave the city would be, well, because you're breathing in plastics all day long.
	Apparently, that's now our reason.
	You're turning into a plastic human.
	I mean, if the plastics are going into your cells and your organs, then if you think about it, one day when you die, if you're buried, and then all of the human parts of you decompose, you would be left with like a plastic rendition of your former organs.
	Right?
	It would be almost like You're the mold for the plastic deposits, and then the plastic parts of you would never decompose.
	I mean, isn't that a morbid idea that your biology is being replaced by plastic?
	And then, of course, those of you taking the mRNA jabs, you're also generating non-human spike proteins, which are circulating around the body, too.
	So it makes you wonder...
	How much of you is still all human if you're living in a city, breathing in plastic, and you're taking mRNA jabs?
	You're drifting further and further away from being fully human.
	That's all I'm saying.
	It also makes you wonder, where are all these plastics coming from that are dropping on New Zealand?
	Because New Zealand is not known as a place for having a lot of factories, but It's not necessarily that far from many factories in Southeast Asia.
	Is this Southeast Asian plastic that's falling on New Zealand and maybe Australia and some other islands and so on?
	Yeah, that's an interesting question.
	Hey, by the way, whoever promoted my podcast here, I think two days ago, I don't know who did that, but I think I should say thank you.
	Because for whatever reason, that podcast got a quarter of a million views on Brighteon.com.
	It's the one where I'm interviewing Bob Griswold and we're talking about the escalation of World War III with Russia.
	And normally my podcast, they get far fewer views, which actually makes me feel a little more comfortable.
	I get nervous when it goes above 100,000.
	Because, you know, if you're up there on the radar...
	You know, you start to get a little too much attention, if you know what I mean.
	So I'm happy to be at the 25,000 to 100,000 range.
	I get a little freaked out when it goes above 100.
	And this particular day, it was 250,000.
	And honestly, I don't know if somebody linked to it and said something like, this is awesome, you should hear it, or they linked to it and said, this is awful, this is crazy, you should hear it.
	But for whatever reason, a quarter of a million people heard it on Brighteon and other platforms even beyond that.
	And now I'm trying to remember what I said on that particular day.
	Apparently, it got somebody excited in some way, either positive or negative.
	I'm not sure.
	But if it was positive, thank you.
	And I guess if it was negative, thank you as well.
	We always welcome new listeners.
	They will learn something on each and every episode.
	Like, for example, here today, Dr.
	Andrew Huff, he's the whistleblower from EcoHealth Alliance.
	He's been working with Attorney Thomas Renz, and he's been interviewed by different groups.
	And the Gateway Pundit did a story on this from a recent interview.
	Dr.
	Andrew Huff described that, in his view, Dr.
	Peter Dezak, who's the head of EcoHealth Alliance, was working with the CIA and On their bioweapons facility or efforts to achieve gain-of-function bioweapons development with Wuhan China.
	So here's a quote from Dr.
	Andrew Huff.
	Quote, this was actually a failed intelligence operation.
	He's talking about the whole COVID, you know, the SARS-CoV-2 gain-of-function effort.
	Quote, this was actually a failed intelligence operation.
	We were actually trading China advanced biotechnology for access to...
	And to collect intelligence on their bioweapons laboratory, I believe.
	I can't prove that, he says, but a number of agencies that I discuss in the book, including Dr.
	Peter Dezak, telling me he worked with the CIA. And by the way, Dr.
	Andrew Huff's book is available.
	I don't recall the title of it, but you can search for Andrew Huff.
	And you can find the book.
	So Elizabeth McDonald is the journalist interviewing him.
	So she replies and says, so Dr.
	Peter Dezak is working with the CIA? Is that what you just said?
	Dr.
	Huff responds, correct.
	He approached me and asked me, should he work with them?
	And then in the next two months, he inferred that he was working with them.
	In the next two months, he told me the relationship Of the work with them was received.
	Okay, I'm not sure what to make of that or if that's a mistranscription.
	Anyway, that's the general gist of this.
	He says Dezak is working with the CIA. Now, we've since learned that, you know, the CIA has been running all the narrative censorship on big tech platforms.
	And, of course, the CIA runs...
	Much of the media tells them what to say, what not to say.
	The CIA runs Wikipedia, decides who gets fluff pieces and who gets completely defamed and slandered.
	So the CIA has been running this bioweapons program that was then deliberately manufactured as a bioweapon and then deliberately released upon the world, including to take out Trump, right?
	Remember all that dynamic?
	How this being dropped on America resulted in the pushing of vote by mail and keep voting after the election is over and all the techniques that they used to rig the 2020 election.
	So, of course, it all comes back to the CIA. The CIA was also involved in trying to remove Trump from office during his presidency.
	So of course it all traces back to the CIA. I just find it fascinating that this is all coming out.
	And that leads me to the topic of the day.
	I know it took me 30 plus minutes to get to it.
	But we needed to cover all this first to get to the topic.
	And here it is.
	You know how the other day in the podcast I said 2023 is the year of contraction.
	And I talked about, you know, contracting population, contracting food supply, contracting money supply, contracting energy availability, and so on.
	Contracting globalization, you know, leading to more localized efforts and localized supply and decentralization and so on.
	So in the material world, in the physical world, it's the year of contraction.
	But at the same time, it's also the year of expansion of consciousness and Right?
	Because think about it, the expansion of the realizations is hitting hard.
	It's spreading like wildfire.
	You know what's going viral right now?
	Is the realization that we've all been lied to.
	This is also the year of the expansion of consciousness, in other words.
	And people are waking up and realizing more and more that this is like you're living through the Wizard of Oz.
	And there's a little short man behind the curtain pulling the levers.
	That little short man is the CIA, by the way.
	And the levers are, you know, a loud speech on tech platforms or control over Google or control over YouTube or control over the science, whatever that means.
	That we're living in an artificial world.
	Or you could say the Truman Show, if you like that metaphor better.
	It's maybe more apt.
	But we're living on a prison planet.
	Slash Truman Show, slash theater.
	Everything is staged for psychological consumption by the masses.
	You know, the news is staged.
	You can say it's fake.
	The elections are staged.
	The science is staged.
	Even the history, in many ways, is completely rigged and faked and staged and so on.
	And of course, the entire narrative surrounding COVID and the vaccines and masks is all, you know, fake.
	And what's amazing to me is that this Buffalo Bills football player, his name, is it Hamlin?
	I'm not trying to get it wrong.
	I apologize if it's wrong, but I think it's Hamlin who lost consciousness and they gave him CPR for 9 or 10 minutes.
	And he did that on live TV, something like 20 million viewers, not just in the U.S., but other countries.
	And this is a big consciousness expansion moment because so many people are looking at that and saying, holy cow, here's another person, you know, apparently dropping unconscious.
	You know, hopefully he's not dying from it.
	Hopefully he will still live.
	But dropping unconscious just right in full view.
	They can't cover it up.
	They can't edit it out.
	We already saw it.
	It's already imprinted in the minds and the consciousness of the people.
	And right now, I guarantee you, because I'm receiving texts about this, I guarantee you there are other professional athletes who saw that, not just football players, but soccer players and baseball players and basketball players and so on, who are saying, oh, my gosh, I took the jab too.
	What's going to happen to me?
	Because this is not the first time we've seen this.
	Right now, football players or professional sports athletes are terrified that they are going to experience that same thing next.
	And I can guarantee you that the NFL is terrified next.
	That every televised football game is another roll of the dice.
	They may have to put a delay and not even have live football anymore.
	They may have to have delayed basketball games.
	Put a delay in it because what if somebody else passes out?
	What if somebody else dies on the field?
	They can't let the public see the truth.
	They have to hide the emperor with no clothes.
	They have to hide the little man behind the curtain.
	We can't let you see reality in real time.
	So the sports organizations are panicked right now.
	And it's not just the global messaging of trying to make sure that the people don't realize what's going on, because more and more people do.
	You saw the Rasmussen poll recently.
	49% of Americans believe that they know someone who died from the vaccine.
	That's half the country, right?
	It's not just that.
	It's also the financial risk.
	What if players begin to sue the NFL or to sue the NBA or to sue Major League Baseball to say, you coerced me into taking a vaccine that was unsafe, that caused an injury.
	That cost me, as an athlete, let's say millions of dollars, or hundreds of millions potentially, if you're Tom Brady, in endorsements and lifetime value of being a celebrity athlete and so on.
	The lawsuits could be coming fast and furious at some point against the leagues, but also against the corporations, the employers that push these vaccines on their people.
	And the people are dying and the people are being disabled.
	You know, 7,500 Americans per day dead or disabled from these vaccines.
	We've covered all that extensively.
	So the lawsuits are coming because they can't cover it up forever.
	They can't.
	Because it's obvious now.
	And that's the theme today.
	This is the year of expansion of consciousness or the expansion of the realization is kind of like the aha year.
	You know, peeking behind the curtain, peeling back that curtain and saying, oh my gosh, we've been living in an artificial propaganda theatrical stage psychological operations event.
	And now we see through it.
	So you might wonder, well, what else are we seeing through right now?
	What else are people waking up to?
	For example, the Federal Reserve money printing fiat currency.
	You know, back in the 1990s, I remember there was only one guy in America talking about that, and his name was Ron Paul.
	I mean, pretty much one guy.
	And nobody was talking about, let's audit the Fed.
	Nobody was even—if you said the Federal Reserve is a private corporation, oh, you were immediately called a tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.
	Or if you said that fiat currency is not real money, oh, you're a conspiracy theorist.
	Now, people get it like never before.
	Why?
	Because they're experiencing the collapse of the value, the purchasing power of their dollars.
	They see it every day when they go to the grocery store, when you buy a dozen eggs.
	No one from the White House can lie to you and say you didn't just pay double or triple for those eggs because you still remember that, gosh, just two or three years ago, these eggs were like $1.99 a dozen.
	And now what is it?
	You know, five or six bucks or whatever, depending on what kind of eggs you're getting.
	But you can't trick people into not remembering that stuff used to be a lot cheaper at the grocery store.
	I love how the White House is always trying to say, ah, inflation, it's going down now.
	It's all going down.
	Really what they're saying is the rate of inflation is no longer going up.
	So mathematically they're talking about the second derivative of food prices.
	So they're saying the rate at which the rate of price increases is changing is itself leveling off, i.e.
	the second derivative.
	But inflation is still a positive number, which means food prices are still going up, i.e.
	the first derivative, the rate of change of food prices, is still positive.
	But they're trying to tell people that inflation has leveled off.
	Well, food's still getting more expensive.
	And you can tell people whatever you want, you can't You can't trick them into not realizing that they have less money left every time they go to the grocery store.
	I mean, the brainwashing can only go so far.
	And yeah, you can try to convince millions of Americans that all the people dying around them are not dying from vaccines, or that all the people getting sick are not getting sick because they took the vaccines, but you know what?
	Sooner or later, the numbers just become sort of irrefutable.
	And for a lot of people, we have reached that point.
	Along those lines, by the way, there was a really great article by Alex Berenson, and he writes on the Substack.
	He's a former New York Times science writer, and he's done some great work on this vaccine issue.
	He's got a story entitled, Something Wicked This Way Comes.
	And by something, I mean mRNA immune system dysregulation.
	So, great title.
	It's always great to throw a little Shakespeare in there when you're talking about vaccine genocide.
	He says, by now, you've probably heard about the science immunology paper showing that people who've received the mRNA COVID vaccines produce more of an unusual antibody called IgG4 over time.
	And he says that this thrusts vaccinated people into what he calls a doom loop.
	He says, quote, the worst case scenario is the mRNA shots lead to a doom loop robbing vaccinated people of a crucial immune system tool against the coronavirus in a way that worsens, critically, with each new infection.
	And he writes, thus, over time, the average severity of COVID infections will increase.
	He means among people who take these shots.
	He says people will take longer to get better once they're infected.
	Hospitalizations and deaths will rise.
	The healthcare system will come under worsening strain.
	He did not use the word collapse, but perhaps could have.
	Oh, and he says some people may suffer nasty autoimmune side effects too, including pancreatitis, kidney disease, and even aneurysms and so on.
	Now, what he's talking about here is this phenomenon in the way that the mRNA interacts with the immune system in response to infection insults against the body.
	So this doom loop means, and I know he stated it, but I'm going to restate it.
	It means that A fully vaccinated, boosted person, every time they catch COVID, they're going to have more immune system destruction because of the response mechanism and the changing of the ratios of these antibodies, you know, specifically the IgG4 kind of taking over the ratios.
	And what this means is that These people may be on a trajectory of, well, death.
	Death from simple infections that would not kill people like you and I who have rejected these vaccines.
	But for those who keep taking the shots and keep getting sick, because you notice that's who's getting sick, right?
	You've seen that.
	Every time they get sick, it's worse and worse and worse.
	So it's amplifying the self-destructive properties of the immune system composition to the point where it cannot handle infections that should not kill a patient but will and do.
	Now think about that.
	This is something that more and more people are coming to realize.
	That, you know, my goodness, we were lied to about these vaccines.
	And of all the people getting sick that you know, what percentage of them are vaccinated versus unvaccinated?
	Well, it's across the board.
	It's the vaccinated people who keep getting sick.
	And they get sick with more severity.
	They end up in the hospital more frequently than do those people who are unvaccinated.
	So, you know, I'm unvaccinated, and although I've had a few symptoms here and there over the last few years, as I've mentioned, you know, I beat it with agricultural ivermectin and some chlorine dioxide, and I take vitamin D and zinc, and that's just what I did.
	And, you know, my disclaimer is I can't tell you what to do, and I'm not claiming that those things are going to solve everybody's problems, but that's what I did.
	Turned out fine for me.
	I didn't need a vaccine, wouldn't take a vaccine, and frankly, I don't want to be around people who took the vaccine because, you know, people, Second Amendment people have a shirt that says, don't tread on me.
	I want a shirt that says, don't shed on me, you know, with a Second Amendment type of image, but modified for the spike protein, like a spike protein serpent or something.
	And don't shed on me!
	Take your shed somewhere else.
	But these people have committed a kind of immune system vaccine suicide.
	And the truth is coming out.
	So this expansion of consciousness of which I'm speaking not only encompasses people learning the truth about vaccines.
	And by the way, five years ago, not even 1% of the country would have thought that vaccines were killing people.
	Today, 49%.
	So, whew, such a huge change, right?
	But that's not the only thing.
	Who trusts the FBI? Now, think about it.
	You know, with all the selective investigations and selective prosecutions and covering up with the Hunter Biden laptop and, you know, the FBI has become kind of the Democrat Party enforcer mafia group.
	You know, who trusts the FBI? Who trusts the CDC? Who trusts the FDA at this point?
	Who even trusts the news at this point?
	You know, mainstream news.
	Nobody intelligent does.
	Who believes that dollars are a store of value?
	Nobody who's informed.
	Nobody.
	And not even in the experience of the uninformed.
	Again, their dollars keep losing value every month.
	But who believes that elections are honest?
	Almost nobody who's informed.
	Who believes that the food supply is safe?
	Who believes that Big Pharma can be trusted to have good science behind all their prescription drugs and different treatment modalities and vaccines and so on?
	Nobody who's informed believes any of that any longer.
	And this trait of not believing the establishment used to be a fringe approach.
	You know, theory.
	It used to be the fringe of society, you know, less than 1%.
	Now, it's about 49%.
	Now, why does this matter?
	Well, because I believe that we are about to experience a global revolution in consciousness.
	I think that the human race is about to pass through a very difficult time, but a time that will be known as a pivot point for the future of human civilization.
	And I don't think the future is going to look like the past.
	In other words, we're not going back to the way it was.
	I believe that we are on the cusp of a consciousness expansion that will lead to a radical restructuring Of society, which means restructuring the way resources are collected and harvested and distributed.
	For example, I think we're going to move to more localized food production and local food distribution slash decentralization systems, which is a good thing.
	I think also that our planet is sick and tired of a few hyper-privileged billionaires preaching to us and controlling everything from information and technology and medicine and population control and all that stuff.
	You know, the Bill Gates of the world and so on.
	And this insane accumulation of wealth in the hands of the undeserving few.
	This has got to stop.
	And, you know, I'm not a proponent of, let's say, a communist-style redistribution of wealth, but rather just having a fair and level and merit-based playing field where we the people, if we choose to run a business, even a local gym, a local restaurant, or whatever, that we get to keep what we earn.
	Instead of having to forfeit everything via money printing, by the way, to a centralized corrupt system that hands out money to the Jeff Bezos of the world and the Bill Gates of the world and so on.
	We do not live in a free market system.
	We live in a rigged kleptocracy system that puts most of the wealth in the hands of the few.
	And that's done by confiscating wealth out of the hands of the deserving, the people like you and I who are the actual producers of the world.
	We're the ones doing the farming, running the businesses, producing the content, inventing things, solving problems, informing people, uplifting people.
	We're the ones with the real knowledge base.
	We're the ones who could save lives during COVID. But we're the ones who are looted by the governments of the world that steal the productivity of people like you and I and then put it into the hands of the wealthy, elite, undeserving few.
	And I think that era is also coming to an end, believe it or not.
	I do.
	Now, it's going to take a massive global collapse, which I believe is coming, and not everybody's going to survive this collapse.
	You already know my beliefs on that.
	We're going to lose a few billion humans.
	But on the other side of this, we do not have to return to the way it was, nor should we desire to.
	Why would we want to?
	It hasn't been that great.
	It could be so much better.
	Imagine if you could keep the product of your own labor.
	Imagine if money was honest and didn't just lose value from sitting around.
	Imagine if money itself was a preservation of wealth.
	Imagine if you could speak freely without government interference in your ability to tell the truth or to express dissent or to question the lies of the establishment.
	Imagine if you could farm without being accused of destroying the planet.
	Imagine if you could question the scientific establishment from within the system of academia without being blacklisted from research grant money.
	How about that?
	We are about to live through the most radical revolution in consciousness that human civilization has ever seen, at least that we know of, at least in modern times.
	Because we cannot survive if we stay stuck in the old system of false belief in authority, lack of discernment, you know, gullibility.
	Oh, they said, take the job!
	We just take the job!
	Oh, they said government is trying to save us and help us.
	Here, have free money, welfare state, you know, food stamps for everyone because we're so compassionate.
	No.
	You've created dependency.
	You have harmed generations of people by taking away their dignity.
	Humanity's future will be much brighter than humanity's past after this dark period.
	And 2023, I am convinced, will be a key year as a pivot point during this process.
	And I don't mean the process will be limited to just one year.
	This is a multi-year event, perhaps a decade.
	We don't know for sure.
	But on the other side of this very dark time is going to be, I believe, a new golden age for humanity.
	A golden age where the entire value system will be different.
	We won't judge ourselves and others by how much stuff we have, which is the way it has been for so long.
	How many cars, how many cylinders and valves do you have?
	I don't give a crap.
	I want to know about the quality of your relationships.
	I want to know about your integrity, your honesty, the quality of your day-to-day life, your contributions to society, your happiness, your joy.
	When we can achieve those things on a planetary scale, which will naturally occur if we get these global crime cartels known as big government off our backs.
	Then we the people can live in peace and prosperity and we can experience true joy.
	We can rest well without the stress of not knowing whether our corrupt criminal governments are going to, you know, shut us down on any given day with forced climate lockdowns or whatever nefarious plans they have up their sleeves next.
	Imagine a world where you're not targeted for termination by your own government.
	Imagine that world, because we can create that world, I believe we will, those of us who survive this time.
	And interestingly, the contraction of the physical stuff, you know, supply chains and cheap goods and plastics and all this garbage...
	The contraction of that is actually a necessary component of this radical consciousness transformation that is necessary for humanity to move forward.
	We had to see the low.
	You know, we had to drag ourselves out of the gutter as a species.
	Because we are in the gutter of being overwhelmed with war and violence and greed and selfishness and stuff.
	So much stuff and cheap money and endless debt and leveraging and derivatives and all this crap.
	This is the gutter of human civilization.
	We can only go up from here.
	And this is what we are doing with our platforms, by the way.
	Brighteon.com, free speech video platform, join it.
	Brighteon.social.
	Join a community of like-minded people who get this stuff.
	They get it.
	They understand all this.
	If you're listening, you might already be a member there, and thank you if you are, because it's a very dynamic, exciting, informative place to be.
	You can join up for free.
	It's like a Twitter.
	It's a social media platform, brighteon.social.
	We've got a lot of surprises of things we're going to be announcing this year on brighteon.tv.
	Like I said, new hosts, new shows.
	We've got a new tipping system coming out for brighteon.com so that video content creators can actually earn revenues.
	To be compensated for their efforts.
	We've got new documentary series coming out.
	Many of them.
	In fact, many of them scheduled for this year.
	And also in our online store, healthrangerstore.com, you know our sub-slogan, Healing the World Through Clean Food.
	We believe that nutrition and superfoods and avoidance of toxins so that we can have clear minds and clean blood is actually critical for the future of humanity.
	And that's one of the ways that we contribute to that future.
	And we're going to be here with you and with your support, with your help.
	We're going to be here.
	We're going to empower others with their free speech voices.
	We're going to provide clean, lab-tested, certified organic food and supplements and storable food and personal care products for people that help them make the switch away from toxins into something that's actually clean and good for them.
	We're going to question the liars and the propagandists that are out there and the censors.
	And we're going to support free speech, free thinking.
	We're going to support food production, local gardening, decentralization of power and food and resources and finances and all of it.
	Because we want to live in a world where people are free.
	And that's the greatest wealth of all, is it not?
	Being healthy, being free, being able to contribute, being part of a community that's making a difference, that outpaces Any number of fancy luxury race cars in a garage.
	I'm just thinking like Jay Leno.
	He's got 150 cars.
	Okay.
	Who cares, man?
	Who cares, Jay?
	I don't care how many cars you have.
	That is not the measurement system that we live by anymore.
	Maybe that was the 1980s.
	Not anymore.
	How about we start measuring by how many lives we empower, how many people we touch, how many people we uplift, how many minds we red pill, how much we expand consciousness among the people that we are able to influence.
	There you go.
	That is far more important than a garage full of cars.
	I don't mean to knock Jay Leno, by the way.
	It just came to mind.
	He also got kind of partially blown up by one of his cars recently, but he's okay.
	I'm glad he's okay.
	But it's just an example.
	I mean, Jay Leno's probably a perfectly decent guy with a lot of money, and I guess he likes cars.
	But the point is, we've got to get past that.
	There's way more important stuff to do.
	If I had enough money to buy 150 cars, I wouldn't buy cars with that money.
	I would do something related to food security.
	In fact, I'm talking to some people about a number of things and we have a donation coming of actual food supplies.
	I'm waiting for the final numbers from the Truth About Cancer group because we did an affiliate promotion a few months ago.
	We're getting paid, I think, sometime here in January.
	And as you may recall, I pledged 100% of that money to providing food to food banks.
	And obviously we're going to make good on that.
	That's coming.
	As soon as we have the numbers, we'll make the announcement and we'll show you what we're doing and we'll get food into the hands of Americans through food banks.
	It might be in Florida.
	It might be in Texas.
	I don't know yet, but we'll figure it out.
	That's what I would do with money like that.
	You know, if I had a billion dollars, I would find a way to Feed millions of people with something clean, something that's going to help them.
	Detox, you know, lead a better life.
	Or I would teach 10,000 people to farm.
	Or, you know, do something that really matters, man.
	Something that makes a difference.
	I mean, I don't want to end up one day with a gravestone.
	It's like, oh, he had the most stuff, you know?
	Who cares?
	How about he or she did the greatest good that was possible?
	How about that?
	Lived a life with integrity.
	Helped a lot of people.
	Empowered.
	Uplifted a lot of people.
	Made a difference instead of, oh, had a bunch of stuff.
	I mean, I understand.
	I mean, I'm a prepper too.
	We've got to have a certain amount of stuff just to make it through.
	But not like crazy amounts of stuff.
	Like, yeah, 10 airplanes.
	I don't need 10 airplanes.
	So anyway, that's my philosophy.
	We're going to go to the interview here shortly.
	But seriously, if you want to support us, healthrangerstore.com.
	Get yourself squared away with nutrition that's real and that actually helps.
	And that it is lab-tested, certified organic, clean food and personal care products.
	And we've got freeze-dried fruits and vegetables in number 10 cans for long-term storage.
	It's awesome.
	We've got freeze-dried blueberries.
	You can eat that stuff as a snack.
	We've got freeze-dried mango chunks.
	Snack time!
	We've got freeze-dried organic corn.
	I don't know if it's in stock, but we normally have it.
	It's really good stuff.
	All right.
	With that said, thank you for listening.
	We're going to go into the interview now with Dr.
	Malcolm LeCompte.
	And as you heard earlier, I'm really jazzed up about this interview.
	I had a great time.
	I'm fascinated by this topic of comet impacts.
	In this case, extraterrestrial, just meaning not from Earth.
	Space rocks are extraterrestrial objects by definition.
	So anyway, they impact with Earth, and there are some pretty big effects from that.
	So here we go.
	We're going to talk to Dr. Malcolm LeCompte about that topic.
	And I'll be back with you tomorrow with whatever updates, whatever crazy things happen between now and then.
	I imagine there will probably be like 10 more votes for Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, that will fail probably tomorrow.
	How many times are they going to try to vote this guy in?
	Maybe they should find a better guy, or gal for that matter.
	Just find a better person for Speaker of the House.
	How about that?
	Nevertheless, here's the interview with Dr.
	Malcolm LeCompte.
	Enjoy it, and I'll be back with you tomorrow.
	Thank you for listening.
	God bless you all.
	Take care.
	Alright, welcome folks.
	I've got a great interview for you today.
	We have Dr.
	Malcolm Lecomte, who is with the Comet Research Group, and his doctorate is in astrophysical, atmospheric, and planetary science, which means he began studying atmospheres of other planets and has become interested in the comet impact theory and implications for understanding the history which means he began studying atmospheres of other planets and has become interested in the comet impact theory and implications for understanding the history
	And I'm really thrilled to have him on because, well, this is, I think, one of the most critical issues we need to understand in order to have a future on this planet.
	So, Dr. Lecomte, it's a pleasure to have you on.
	Thank you so much for joining me.
	It's been a pleasure to be here.
	Well, I think it's a good question.
	Well, where do we even begin?
	How about this?
	How did you get interested in comet impact theory?
	What led you to this point where you are right now in the Comet Research Group?
	I experimented my own and started looking at what we call bolide impacts, which are essentially meteorites that hit the Earth on a regular basis.
	And it turned out to be roughly one a month or one every couple of months as a meteorite explosion that's about as bright as the full moon.
	Wow.
	And investigating that, it turned out that the estimates for the numbers of these things was off by about an order of magnitude.
	I mean, this is the thing I think is a problem with science today is that there's a sense that we know everything and I think we know very little.
	We have some ideas.
	We have some boundary or estimates of how often things happen, what the probabilities are.
	But we're really just learning.
	And we have to keep open minds and investigating because we don't know as much as I think we think we know.
	I would agree with you on that point.
	We have to be humbled from time to time.
	Absolutely.
	And that got me pursuing this topic.
	And I started asking around from colleagues who might be doing work that would You know, expand that domain to larger objects.
	What was the likelihood of serious impacts in the Holocene the last 10,000 years, or the recent Pleistocene, you know, going out to 20,000 years or so?
	And I got hooked up with this Dallas Abbott at Columbia, Lamont Daugherty Earth Observatory, connected me to Dr.
	Alan West, Dr.
	Rick Firestone, who was at Lawrence Livermore, and And they took me, as it were, and showed me the analysis techniques that they were using.
	And I did some work on samples I collected from different sites in the States and validated their results.
	And that was my first paper in the support of this research.
	It was an independent paper that used their techniques to validate what they had done, because it was in dispute at the time.
	People were saying, well, you can't reproduce those results, and I found them eminently reproducible, easily reproduced, in fact.
	I have so many questions for you about that, but let me mention to the audience first, the website that you need to visit on this is cometresearchgroup.org, and there's an excellent series of presentations there.
	If you click on Comets, Diamonds, and Mammoths, and you have the Younger Dryas Impact Overview, you can go through that presentation.
	I think it's really outstanding.
	So, did your research then, I mean, you said, of course, it was controversial.
	We understand that Graham Hancock's special on Netflix has kind of reinvigorated a lot of attention in this area, but there's been a lot of resistance from traditional, you know, archaeological and planetary science academia circles, you could say.
	But it seems like that attitude is changing.
	Yeah.
	It is.
	I think it is, by and large.
	There seems to be more acceptance for it because the evidence is pretty much overwhelming.
	Every site we look at, every archaeological site, because we tend to piggyback off the archaeologists because they have the dated soil.
	So we can go to a specific layer and test it and test the layers above and below it to see if it's reproduced.
	And we have this one layer that's enriched in these, what we call proxies, evidence of the impact at that time, roughly 13,000 years ago.
	Now, is that what Hancock is always talking about, the 12,800 years?
	Yes.
	Is it believed to be a single...
	I don't mean a single object impacting, but rather a single passing through the tail of a comet that has multiple debris objects, for example.
	But is it believed to be a single event or multiple events spread out over a thousand plus years?
	You know, that's a really good question, and we don't know.
	I mean, we think it's a single event, but there's also just, you know, kind of, what would you call it, distractors that say maybe it's not.
	Maybe there were other, because we pass through the trail of what's hypothesized to be the source of this event, the Yankee Comet Debris Trail.
	They turn out to be the Torres, as I recall, meteor streams, and we pass through it twice a year.
	So turn back the clock 13,000 years, and there may have been larger objects more commonly distributed in that trail.
	And the 13,000 year event may not have been the first time we did it.
	So we really don't know.
	This is such new science that it's really hard to nail down.
	That's why I say we probably don't know nearly as much as we think we know.
	We certainly don't know enough about this event.
	Well, that's why I really enjoy talking to intelligent scientists like you, because I'm right with you.
	I don't think that we as a species know as much as we think we know either.
	I think there's too much arrogance and there's too much sort of dogma in science.
	And I appreciate people who question it with new theories, which...
	Many of which may be proven inaccurate, which is fine, but sometimes a theory comes along that is a game-changer, like plate tectonic theory, for example, or quantum physics theory, or what have you, right?
	And I think that this impact theory and how it changed human history, I think it's in that same category in my mind, and that's why I appreciate you talking about this.
	Any comments on that?
	Or I've got a ton of questions after your comments.
	Yeah.
	Well, we tend to agree with that, that it was certainly a pivotal event in human history.
	You know, our research is...
	There was one experiment that I did in that first paper, which was suggested by the archaeologist at the site, Al Goodyear, where we took some flakes of...
	Of the typical stone that you use for making points.
	We'd call it debris.
	And that debris sat on top of a layer that was the Younger Dryas boundary layer, which is the start of that Younger Dryas period.
	And we looked above it, and there were these impact proxies.
	We looked below it, and there were none.
	And also, above that debris trail was no debris.
	So we knew that whatever was going on at that quarry ended, stopped.
	You know, full stop.
	There was no more human activity for another thousand years.
	And then the quarry was still quite liable, and Native Americans did return.
	But at the time of the event, They were gone.
	We don't know what happened to them.
	They may have moved somewhere, maybe to Mexico, to get to a warmer climate.
	We don't know.
	We do know that it affected human lives profoundly.
	Oh boy, yes.
	I want to ask you about that.
	But first, can you talk about some of the physical evidence?
	Because I've read Graham Hancock's books, Fingerprints of the Gods, Magicians of the Gods, and he talks about nanodiamonds and I believe carbon spherules and I think distribution of iridium or platinum, other kind of rare earth elements that are distributed following impacts and so on.
	What is the physical evidence that you and others are citing?
	For this impact theory?
	Typically, a few of us have specialties.
	And what I typically look for are the magnetic spherules, the glass spherules, and the melt glass.
	Those are the three.
	And if I want to find platinum, platinum seems to be the signature.
	Now, the dinosaur killer is the KT boundary event that was 65 million years ago.
	Iridium was the signature event.
	Platinum group element that is typically rare on Earth, but more common in extraterrestrial objects.
	Okay.
	That was the signature element for that event.
	Platinum seems to be the signature element for this event.
	Whenever we look, we find a platinum layer, we know we've got the Younger Dryas boundary.
	That's pretty much the case.
	Not always, but it's pretty much.
	So that's one of the primary proxies we look for, is that layer of enhanced platinum.
	Now, it's not huge.
	It's not like you could go and make yourself rich by mining a boundary for platinum.
	But there's enough there that's above the background levels to say, that's the layer.
	Right, so the platinum might go from like 200 parts per billion to 400 parts per billion in that layer or something like that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And the others are, well, if you take an object and you throw it against the Earth and it explodes with enough violence to excavate a crater or to excavate a certain amount of what we call the target rock, You get essentially vaporized target rock.
	So imagine a rain that is melted iron, melted silica, melted aluminosilicate objects, just spherules.
	That's the raindrops, but they're all melted in molten form at 1400 degrees Celsius or something in that range, 1200 to 1400 degrees Celsius.
	And that's a hot rain and that'll hurt.
	If you're in that kind of a rain.
	And that's what you look for is that layer of enhanced magnetic spirals and glass spirals that say that that was the rain that was falling out of the sky at that time.
	So the instrumentation that's used to find this, I would imagine, you know, I run a mass spec lab for food science.
	We do, for example, ICP-MS for elemental analysis in foods, but that wouldn't tell us the shape.
	You must be using a combination of microscopy plus mass spec.
	I mean, what kinds of instruments are you turning to for this?
	Well, in my home lab, I use a microscope.
	I can identify spherules.
	But there are all kinds of processes that create spherules.
	There are anthropogenic processes.
	Humans create them.
	Brake pads, when you put your brakes on, you're producing spherules that spin off the brake pads.
	So there are many processes.
	You have to separate the...
	The things that create spherules from those that you're looking for.
	And they typically have very specific surface features and very specific composition.
	So we look for the composition and the surface features using imagery on an electron microscope.
	So I can take out from a sample the spherulitic objects that look like they might be spherules, and then I've got to go through and ensure that they really are the things we're looking for.
	Wow, that is tedious.
	Oh, God, yeah.
	I mean, at magnification, the landscape of one sample is enormous.
	I mean, you can spend weeks plowing through something on one slide.
	If you're magnified enough.
	That's accurate.
	Yeah, that's exactly accurate.
	Tedious is the word.
	That's the word that I use and the word when he tries it uses.
	Well, I've earned a few badges in this area.
	I spent many days plowing through bio sludge looking for plastics because they were everywhere in it.
	So this is the composted waste, the human waste that's sold by cities like Austin, Texas.
	They sell it as a fertilizer or a garden soil amendment.
	It's called Dillow Dirt.
	So you can go to the hardware store, buy Dillow Dirt, stick it under the microscope, and it has, like, ground-up plastic pieces from tampons in it.
	It's crazy.
	Oh, my God.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's not an exaggeration.
	Every crazy thing is in there.
	People put it in their gardens.
	Humans are good at soiling their own nests.
	Yeah.
	As a species, we soil our own nest.
	That's a shame.
	That's tragic.
	Well, it makes me wonder, you know, if future archaeologists take a look at our current epoch, wouldn't they characterize it as the plastic trash layer of humanity or something like that?
	I'd be surprised.
	Yeah.
	Where did all these DVDs come from?
	You know, things like that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I haven't thrown mine out yet.
	Right.
	It's like, what process formed these shiny discs?
	Okay, but getting more serious here again.
	So do you get into the...
	Well, actually, let me ask you a different question.
	How do we understand the differences in where a large extraterrestrial object strikes Earth?
	For example, ocean impact versus land versus an ice shelf?
	Because each of those three would have very different effects, would it not?
	Ocean survey...
	Sonar or otherwise, some other means of determining depth in pilot resolution.
	Of course, the land is the easiest, but even the land can be difficult.
	In fact, establishing the An impact crater or that a feature was created by an impact is one of the hardest things in geology, I think.
	It goes through...
	This is why I think our research is so controversial.
	We don't have the crater to prove.
	So that makes it...
	It's like...
	Opening up a can of worms.
	Because how do you prove it?
	We're just...
	Really, humanity is just developing these techniques to identify airburst events that affect the ground.
	Chelyabinsk was a high-altitude event, but it also affected the ground.
	It didn't excavate much in the way of ground soil, as far as we know.
	But it leveled trees.
	It leveled forests, didn't it?
	Yes.
	It leveled buildings.
	And...
	Had caused damage from everything from sunburn to blown glass damage to 1,500 people.
	It was a bad event, and it was nothing like the stuff that we're looking at.
	Right, and what year was that over Russia that that happened?
	2013.
	Wow.
	Wow, okay.
	And that was caught on some people's video, as I recall, right?
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	Yep.
	Okay.
	And you have the thermal event that comes from when those things hit.
	The thermal event is usually above ground.
	You know, if the thing reaches the ground or...
	It comes near the ground.
	The thermal pulse that's generated by what's effectively a small sun, because the temperature of that will be probably an order of 5,000 to 6,000 degrees.
	And that thermal pulse will incinerate anything close by.
	And that was like 20-some miles away from Chelyabinsk.
	People had pretty good sunburns.
	Wow.
	So, of course, it drops off.
	By one over r squared is the distance.
	So the square of the distance diminishes the intensity of the thermal pulse.
	But if you were close, it would really do serious damage.
	Absolutely.
	That is extraordinary.
	I wasn't aware of that...
	But let me ask you about airburst events.
	What is it that determines whether an object actually reaches the ground with an impact?
	I mean, obviously, composition and density and things, but does the angle of entry into Earth's atmosphere...
	I mean, I imagine that would be a big factor, right?
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	The thing's got to get further down if it comes in at a vertical angle, coming straight down.
	Right.
	If it comes in at a great grazing angle, it's not going to go very far and probably end up being an airburst like Chelyabinsk.
	That was kind of a grazing low angle incidence object and exploded at high altitude.
	Why are there meteorites?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I was going to say that it's really a complex question, and there's models that you use, and you have to factor in the density of the object, the internal strength of the object, the composition of the object, the angle of incidence, and the velocity of the object.
	So there's a lot of variables to try to figure this out.
	It's not easy.
	Well, that makes sense, because I would imagine if it's very sensitive to heat-based expansion, then it could crack.
	Once it cracks, then its surface area massively increases, and then it can be vaporizing the atmosphere from increased surface area contact.
	Yeah.
	And of course, something like an iron object is going to penetrate deeper than something that's a rock or a carbonaceous chondrite, something that's a mixture of all kinds of things, volatiles and non-volatile materials.
	So it really depends on the composition.
	Well, then, what's in the tail of this comet that we're talking about 12,800 years ago?
	I mean, comets are...
	At least understood to have a lot of ice.
	At least that's my understanding.
	I mean, you correct me, but what's in the tail of a comet that can reach the surface of the Earth?
	Parts of the comet.
	We don't know that anything reached the surface of the Earth.
	That's the thing.
	We're still looking to see if there's a crater.
	There was a lot of excitement a couple of years ago.
	When there was a crater found up in...
	In fact, there were two craters found.
	One is completely unknown, unexplored.
	But the one that's Hiawatha crater is at the northern end of Greenland.
	And there were some features in that research that suggested it might be very young.
	Sort of the smoking gun or the big piece of the comet that might have hit.
	And the only reason...
	Really, we don't know what it was.
	It may have been a comet.
	It may not have been.
	But we think the evidence leans toward...
	A comment because there are sites.
	Let me explain more about the proxies.
	Yes.
	We have examples of sites that we've, and I should give you a summary of the sites we've looked at.
	We've got about 30 sites in North America.
	There's like three sites in South America.
	There's about half a dozen sites in Europe, as I recall, and a site in South Africa.
	And they've all produced the platinum.
	Some of them have produced the spirals.
	And in terms of the melt glass, which are much larger than the spherules, spherules are about the size roughly of half the diameter of a human hair.
	Oh, my.
	You know, the vaporized sediment, the vaporized target rock.
	The milk glass can be...
	The biggest we've seen, I think, is probably a couple of millimeters across.
	And that's not going to go very far from whatever was the source.
	So if you've got milk glass, you're close to where the event took place, where that local event took place.
	Because if we have a dozen here, a few weeks somewhere else, you know that there's a lot of these things.
	It's more like a shotgun.
	And you're getting hit with a lot of pellets, but it's hard to find where the pellets landed.
	And when we find the milk glass, we say, well, it was near here.
	And we've got a bunch of those, one up in New York State, a couple in New York State, and a couple in New Jersey, one, I think, in South Carolina.
	Not too many out west, but because as we've evolved the research, we've been more conscious of looking when we find some of the milk glass.
	But that's the indication that it may have been something like a comet that fragmented.
	And you see some of these comets fragmenting, and they go into thousands and thousands of pieces.
	Not just the tail, but as it gets closer to the sun, it fragments.
	Okay, this is truly fascinating.
	I've got questions for you about relative velocities.
	But how do you eliminate, or how do your researchers eliminate, solar events that could possibly explain this, too?
	For example...
	And pardon me, because obviously this is not my area of expertise, but is it possible there could be a large solar flare that would do this, or some kind of a solar outburst that mimics what you're seeing?
	Is that a possibility?
	There are some people who claim that that's the case.
	I think the amount of evidence that's compiled so far leans to an impact by objects.
	What exactly the nature of that impact was is a little not clearly understood, to say the least.
	We don't know.
	I mean, something might have hit the moon and showered the Earth.
	We just don't know.
	I mean, some people have proposed Tycho, Greater Tycho, as having been formed at that time.
	Basically, at this point, I'm still working at the level of trying to find sites with dated soil and seeing what's in them, and maybe that'll help us move forward.
	Okay, so there's a lot of research yet to be done on this.
	Absolutely.
	We know that something happens, a big event that changed...
	The Earth's climate.
	It seems to have changed the Earth's climate.
	We don't have...
	Even that is a hard thing to nail down.
	Did it cause the umber dryness or was it contributory to the umber dryness in a warming climate?
	Because the Earth was warming, had more solar insulation then than it does today.
	And the question is, why did the Earth go back into a deep freeze?
	Almost late to near glacial conditions.
	And it seems to have occurred about the same time as the event occurred.
	Well, that would be explainable, of course.
	I know you already know this, I'm just sharing this with the audience, but that's easily explainable by the impact debris being ejected into the stratosphere and mesosphere and so on, and circulating for years, blocking sunlight, right?
	Yeah, and also the shutdown of the thermal hailing circulation, if that's what it caused.
	There's some evidence of that.
	Well, that's the conveyor of warm water.
	That's the Gulf Stream.
	Basically, it warms the Northern Hemisphere.
	Right.
	Right.
	If it shut down that, that would alter the climate tremendously.
	If it shut off the solar insulation, even with two effects that could have contributed to sending the Earth into a deep freeze.
	Yeah, no more nice French summers on the south of France when that's happening, right?
	No.
	It would be as cold as North UK right now.
	But what about, has anybody done...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Example of what the weather was like.
	There's been models of what, during the Umbridge riots, what the winds were like in the southern U.S. So imagine Louisiana, Alabama, Florida.
	The winds at that time were cyclonic force on the average.
	That was the average wind was essentially 40 miles or plus miles per hour.
	Whoa.
	I mean, think about that.
	That's every day, you know, on average, you've got a wind that's essentially a cyclone.
	There's a tropical, I'm sorry, tropical storm force.
	Yeah.
	And that's crazy.
	Well, yeah, I mean, it makes you wonder, how do pollinators function?
	How do plants spread seeds?
	Well, I guess the seeds would spread quite far, but how do pollinators function in winds like that?
	How do you have...
	Well, I guess at that time there was no organized agriculture.
	That's a really interesting proposal there.
	It just never occurred to me, but I've been thinking that what this thing may have done was collapse the ecosystem.
	And that would explain the deaths of the megafauna.
	We certainly accelerated the process.
	So we've lost 36 species of large animals.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, think about it.
	You know, insects can't fight a 40-mile-an-hour wind.
	No.
	That just doesn't fly.
	Right.
	So if you're a honeybee, how do you get back to the flower that your friend told you about when the wind is sending you sideways?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's an interesting question.
	Fascinating.
	We'd have to get a...
	What's the study of honeybees?
	I forgot the name of that area of study, but we need to get a honeybee expert and talk about that.
	Right.
	I know api-therapy is bee sting therapy, I believe, so maybe it's api-something.
	Apiary?
	Apiary.
	Yeah, probably something like that.
	Let me ask you, has anybody done the math on calculating possible relative velocity of this comet that is believed to have impacted or objects from it have impacted Earth?
	I'm sure Bill Napier has.
	There's such a wide range of possibilities.
	It's really tough to nail down.
	Like I say, we're still trying to establish the full extent of what the earth contains as far as the evidence that we need to really nail this thing down.
	So we're groping at that level, basically working in the dirt.
	Getting our heads above the dirt is not easy.
	We just have just submitted a paper on low shock quartz, which was not expected to be.
	But we made the analogy with nuclear weapons.
	And you can make that analogy in many ways.
	You can make it with the collapse of the ecosystem by the essentially nuclear-style winter that would have followed an impact of this magnitude.
	There's just a lot of threads that you can use to...
	Estimate the severity of the event, but the velocity can range from roughly, I don't know, roughly 20 kilometers per second to comet speeds are typically 40, 40 or 50 kilometers per second.
	So the range is huge, and the energy that the comet release, if it impacted at that type of velocity, would have been catastrophic.
	So I assume that these were small Relatively small fragments of the comet.
	Because if it's one of the big, potential big comets that come from the outer solar system, that could be a threat.
	That would put an end to us.
	I don't think there's any doubt that it would be an extinction event.
	Well, and that brings up the next question, then.
	And I think that...
	Well, I suspect that one of the reasons why a lot of mainstream scientists in this area may not want to talk about this is that...
	There could be more impacts.
	And we're not really watching the sky that much, as I understand it.
	We're only watching NASA or other groups watching very tiny sectors of the sky in terms of degrees of what's...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Yeah.
	Fortunately, there's been a real increase in the number of observation programs.
	I can't list them all.
	At one point, I could list them, and some of the more productive ones that are finding these objects and estimating the threat.
	But unfortunately, that's the big problem.
	There's a portion of the threat that we can't estimate.
	We've got something on the order of...
	There's the near-Earth asteroid population that's relatively close to the Earth all the time.
	They're within the orbit of Venus and Mars, so they're circling roughly in our general vicinity, and the initial thought was, well, they've got to be the biggest problem.
	They've got to be the biggest threat.
	There was a class of these objects that are called the potentially hazardous objects, asteroids and comets.
	They're burnt-out comets, typically, so they don't have the velocity they once had, and they're in roughly orbits that go along with the The Earth's orbiter were the interplanet's orbits.
	So they're not as...
	They're good-sized, but not necessarily huge.
	Maybe a few kilometers at most.
	But the...
	So if they hit, they would cause a big problem, but it wouldn't be a catastrophic problem the way a large comet coming from the outer solar system would.
	And they're the ones that, in some respects, are a bigger threat because we don't know.
	We can predict them for a longer period in advance of a potential impact.
	But the population out there are in the trillions, going into the Oort cloud.
	And there's different populations.
	When you get past Jupiter, there's different populations of these objects.
	And they range from hundreds of kilometers to thousands of kilometers.
	Whoa!
	And if a thousand kilometer object hits the Earth...
	It's over, yeah.
	It's over, yeah.
	Fortunately, that's probably the age of the universe kind of a probability event.
	But the smaller ones we know come in.
	I mean, they come in on a regular basis.
	And they're coming in from the outer solar system and are from that population of up to trillions of objects.
	So this reminds me of the Schumacher-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter.
	Absolutely.
	And that was, I think, was that 94?
	When did that happen?
	I think 94 was right, yeah.
	So that event, I even remember seeing at the time, I mean, I was fascinated by it, but I remember the scientists at the time saying on the news that they were shocked at the size of the, you know, of the visible impact that, like, I don't know, the crater, the...
	But was that a big eye-opener event for impact theorists?
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Yes, it was a very big eye-opener.
	And to some extent, it may have implications for what we're talking about at the Younger Dryas Boundary.
	Not nearly as severe as that was.
	I mean, we can't imagine how bad that was.
	It was so bad.
	Those plumes were bigger than the Earth that you saw on the surface of Jupiter.
	That's what I remember hearing, yeah.
	And I also remember hearing that this, I believe it was a comet that impacted it, but the comet broke up because of the gravitational pull, and so there were multiple impacts over a sequence, right?
	I think there were nine.
	Nine or ten, as I recall.
	Wow.
	Nine or ten big impacts, yeah.
	So imagine getting peppered in a line as your planet is rotating, and you're just getting zippered by these high-velocity impacts right in a row.
	Yeah.
	Man.
	Yeah.
	I mean, wouldn't that also set off plate tectonic, you know, earthquakes and volcanoes, just because of the shocks?
	Yeah, I mean, those, if it was something akin to the Shoemaker levee, which is what hit Jupiter, that would have, that would certainly have been major damage to the Earth's crust.
	There's a Sudbury Lapa that is thought by some to be a crater.
	And it differentiated to the magma, and the magma came out, and this is where you mine nickel.
	So this stuff would have perforated the crust of the earth.
	And just imagine the amount of magma coming out of these multiple holes.
	I mean, as I say, it does the earth in.
	There's...
	Well, and ocean impacts, can't they go all the way through the ocean and then hit the crusts at the bottom of the ocean, right?
	They can.
	And they can be very severe.
	There's a In fact, a long time ago I read an article that posited that an ocean impact would be worse for the Earth than a crustal impact, a continental impact.
	Partly because I guess the crust is so much thinner at the ocean bottom than it is on the continents.
	We're just islands floating on the ocean in the crust, if you will.
	But you would think that the water would absorb a whole lot of energy, but then, of course, it would unleash these crazy tsunamis all over the world, all the coastal lands.
	And the vaporized water would go into the ozone layer and eat it.
	There's no ozone layer.
	Oh, boy.
	Right.
	One more thing to worry about.
	Plus the water vapor reflecting sunlight.
	Yes.
	And coming back down to Earth.
	I mean, a torrential downpour?
	So we don't know what a torrential downpour is.
	Yeah.
	Which, you know, compared to what that would be.
	It would be raining cubic miles of water vaporized.
	Oh, good point.
	Yeah, right.
	So, and it would like throw ocean fish into the air all over the...
	It'd be raining swordfish or whatever.
	Yeah.
	It's raining squid.
	This is a biblical event for sure.
	Yeah.
	So, okay, let me ask you a question that you are free to skip, if you wish.
	If an object were approaching, now, the reason I ask this is because some of my other guests have mentioned this as a possibility, but if an object were approaching and our government knew about it, do you think they would tell us?
	If it were going to hit, would they bother to tell us, or it's too late?
	What do you think about that?
	I think that the word would get out, because I think there are enough maverick astronomers that would say, bullshit, I'm not going to keep this to myself.
	Yeah, you'd get a lot of Twitter or YouTube videos until the impact, right?
	You'd be popular until Impact Day.
	Yeah, let's differentiate, though.
	We are trying to address the problem of the hazardous...
	Nearer the asteroid population that could potentially come in and blindside us.
	Those are typically the smaller objects, so they're not going to be catastrophic.
	Nobody's going to hide those.
	That'll come out.
	Right.
	Because it's not going to be...
	They might kill a city, but they will not kill a nation or a continent.
	Yeah.
	Very unlikely.
	On the other hand, something coming in from the outer reaches could be detected up to six months to a year, perhaps, in advance.
	If you've seen the movie Deep Impact, I think that's relatively accurate compared to, say, Armageddon, which is to me ridiculous.
	I agree with you.
	Armageddon was ridiculous.
	All the physics in that movie are so bad.
	Oh, yeah.
	I can't stand watching it.
	Yeah.
	But the idea that the government tried to suppress it and keep it from people, although it was trying to develop some means of response, that's the option you have, I guess, if you've got something coming in 60 months to a year in advance.
	But whether or not you could do what they did, That little time remaining.
	You have to give it to Elon Musk, I guess.
	I don't know.
	Yeah, right.
	Right.
	Well, but it brings up a question.
	You know, the trajectory calculations of those objects seemingly would be very accurate if the object experienced no further Thrusting, and thrusting could happen from the heating of ice and off-gassing in certain vectors off of the object, right?
	So you can't really tell where it's going exactly.
	That's correct, yeah.
	I mean, then there's the gravitational perturbations that's going to experience coming into the solar system.
	It's relatively unpredictable.
	And so you've got all that working against you.
	So you may or may not get hit.
	You may get lucky or not.
	Wouldn't that be wild to wake up one day and have, like, a thousand-kilometer object just streaking across the sky and not hitting us, but you could see it?
	Yeah.
	You know?
	I think a lot of people would get religion real quick if that happened.
	I think so, yeah.
	Like a mountain going through the sky.
	You know?
	Actually, probably more impressive.
	I mean, you've seen the pictures of that in films.
	There have been a couple of films going back to the 1950s that kind of depicted that event.
	But yeah, seeing a mountain go by would be impressive.
	Get your attention, certainly.
	For sure, for sure.
	But now, if something came that close to us, then depending on its approach, Earth's gravity could cause a slingshot effect, and it could accelerate this object's velocity, right?
	Couldn't it?
	It could sort of slingshot it back...
	Into the outer orbit of the solar system to haunt us again another day.
	I don't know if we've got that much energy to imbue, but it could certainly put it into a new orbit.
	We do it with satellites all the time, have them slingshot past the Earth to get an additional velocity and they go after the outer solar system.
	Right.
	So, yeah, that's a sound observation that could be done.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, interesting stuff.
	Well, what have I not asked you that you think is important for people to know?
	Because I'm such a curious person, but I don't mean to dominate with questions here.
	What do you want to say?
	I think that the potential for catastrophic damage, whether it's to a city, to a region, to a nation, or to the Earth itself, is...
	Something that needs to be understood and addressed, and we need to deal with it.
	That's part of our existence on this earth, is that we're in a shooting gallery, and we need to recognize that fact, and that the potential threat comes in many varieties.
	There's many sources for it, different objects, different locations, different sources, and address that So in doing that, let's suppose then the primary establishment gatekeepers of scientific funding, right?
	Because that's what's behind a lot of this is where the money comes from.
	But let's suppose they all decide, okay, this is real.
	We're going to fund this.
	And the next step is they have more programs to watch the sky.
	Okay, so they map everything that's happening out there, objects, velocities, trajectories, and so on.
	But then what?
	I mean, suppose you identify ten objects that might strike Earth.
	What can you do about it?
	Well, that's exactly what's being thought about and developed.
	As we speak, I mean, there are people that, projects that are ongoing that are trying to determine what's the best approach to deflecting, to moving these objects in a timely fashion.
	The trouble is if we get blindsided, there's one comes in that we don't see, we can't predict, and we have no options.
	As they say, the possibility of blowing one up is probably a bad idea because then you turn something that's an object into a shotgun and a reproduction of what you think happened at 12-8, 12,800 years ago.
	But there's strategies for moving the object into a different orbit, orbital path, and you hope that that doesn't come back to bite you sometime downstream, sometime into the future.
	Because once again, you've got these perturbations that can go on that can...
	I can change an orbit.
	And you hope that you haven't caused something that you were trying to avert to happen more seriously some other time.
	So there's a lot of unanswered questions.
	There's different methods of moving an object.
	You can attach some sort of...
	A screen to it that might be able to reflect sunlight and by a very small push move it into a different orbit.
	You can put rockets on it I suppose.
	That doesn't seem very practical but maybe it will be sometime in the future.
	Or you can do what's called a tractor which puts a small object nearby and effectively changes its orbit because of its proximity.
	It's another gravitational force on that object that you can manipulate.
	Well, gosh, that seems like you'd need a lot of mass to make a difference unless you're planning well ahead.
	Exactly.
	That's exactly right.
	You need a lot of warning.
	It seems like the Moon would be the obvious base from which to launch such projects because the Moon's already escaped Earth's gravity.
	Well, it's the high ground.
	It's got better observation, no atmospheric interference, and so on.
	Doesn't this really lead to the importance of using the Moon strategically in Earth's defense?
	I think it's a good idea.
	Strangely, the Moon itself has been kind of a, not exactly a vacuum sweeper, but it's helped defend us.
	If you look at the surface of the Moon, you see it's picked up a lot of the stuff that might have hit us.
	Yeah.
	You know, eventually.
	So, perhaps it's been doing that for a long time and we just haven't recognized it.
	But you're right, if we can get facilities established on the Moon that can do monitoring that we might not be able to do as well from the Earth, it might be a big help.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	You know, you also have the moon's relative orbital velocity around Earth to use in aiding your trajectory to get to the target more quickly, right?
	Well, you know, depending, of course, on where it's coming in from.
	Yeah.
	Because it's got its own limitations as far as, you know, the path of the moon and the speed that it's going.
	You may have to cancel some of that out.
	Sure.
	It's probably, there are spots, orbital positions that might give you A bigger advantage.
	Some of the Lagrange spots, the spots that are sort of null gravity that encircle the Earth and the Moon, they might be better.
	I haven't studied this at all, so I'm just, you know, it's a spitballing possibility.
	But I think generally having a good capability and bases established, whether they're orbiting bases or bases on the surface of the Moon, Have got to give you a capability that you don't now have to protect the Earth.
	Yeah.
	Well, that's an interesting conversation all by itself, but it brings up a lot of issues.
	Wouldn't it be great if our militaries of the world would focus on maybe protecting people instead of figuring out how to kill more people all the time?
	They're busy doing that.
	Right.
	So, I mean, we have all this great technology, but we're aiming it at each other instead of maybe, let's look at a bigger picture.
	But We're coming up on time.
	I want to be respectful of your time.
	But let me give this out.
	Folks, if you want to help support this organization, there is a donation button on their main website, cometresearchgroup.org slash donate slash, or you can just find the button on the homepage.
	And may I ask you, Dr.
	LeCompte, what would this group do with additional funding?
	What do you need funding for?
	Oh, analysis of the samples we collect.
	From all over the world.
	I'm going to Jordan to get samples for analysis, but for a different event.
	It was a much more recent Middle Bronze Age event that took out a city.
	We've established that that's happened, and that city was probably at 50,000 people or so and apparently died in an incident.
	That was one event that we've been researching.
	And then the analysis of samples from the Younger Dryness Boundary 12,800 years ago.
	We're going to Greenland and I've got a bunch of sites in New York that I'm going to be collecting samples from.
	So that's one of those spots that we have melt glass from.
	So we know we're near the epicenter of one of these events.
	So we're going to be looking at samples from there.
	For most sites very carefully.
	So what we do is we use the funds to buy the instrumentation time because all that instrumentation time is expensive, you know, thousands of dollars per hour.
	And typically we have hours and hours of time in those labs.
	So let me ask you this then, because I have a lab.
	We do food science analysis.
	We actually have two ICP-MS instruments in our lab, plus some other triple-quad LC-MS instruments for pesticide analysis, things like that.
	We've got a really good digital microscope, too, with a nice lens.
	It's capable of...
	2000X optical, but of course you can't tell what you're looking at.
	It's like, what is this?
	It's a really good digital microscope, very high end, but can we offer some ICP-MS analysis services as a donation?
	I think we would appreciate that immensely.
	I think that would be very, very helpful to us.
	Both the microscope and the ICP-MS. Well, we recently hired a microscope expert.
	They're doing some biological samples with some staining and we're looking at weird things in food like cricket protein.
	But no, seriously, that's one of the things we're doing.
	But we should talk after this because I'd love to donate some lab time to you and About the ICP-MS, we do a nitric acid with a little bit of hydrochloric for sample prep, but we don't like to run hydrofluoric acid because we don't have nebulizers on the ICP that can handle that acid.
	So typically we don't do geological samples.
	That might be a limitation, but...
	Well, not for us.
	I don't think we use much of that at all, except for one application for...
	The shock quartz, I think, uses some of that.
	Oh.
	The stuff that I'm doing uses no chemicals.
	What?
	You might coat something with gold or something just for charging, to minimize the charging of the sample.
	Yeah.
	But that's about it.
	Well, what kind of samples are you analyzing then, and what kind of materials?
	Well, it's looking at spirals and analyzing their composition.
	So, some of that can be vaporized and run through an ICP-MS. Certainly, sediment can be done, and we can isolate things that we never treat beforehand.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	We do fire assay, so I don't know what chemicals are used in that.
	Well, we do a...
	Yeah, I think we could help you, because our instruments run both what's called a full quant and a semi-quant simultaneously.
	The full quant uses external standards, so we have multi-element external standards for the elements that we want to look for, which includes things like mercury.
	But the semi-quant method, which does not use external standards, scans the entire table of elements, with a few exceptions, obviously.
	Yeah, that would be very helpful.
	And it gives you kind of a ballpark of things.
	And then if you find something interesting, then you could maybe send it to a lab that's actually got standards for those elements.
	Yes, exactly.
	Getting that estimate of what's there is so crucial, and we're continually running up against that.
	Otherwise, we have to basically send it off and pay a lab to do their highest-end test And get results that a lot of which is we don't need.
	Getting that initial estimate of what's there is something we've been struggling with for actually a couple of years.
	Wow.
	And kind of pushing our capabilities for the instrumentation that we have access to to the limit.
	Well, look, we can absolutely help in that respect.
	So we'll talk after this.
	And we also remember in the semi-quant mode, it also gives you a read on radioisotopes.
	I mean...
	Oh!
	Well, in that case, let's talk.
	Yeah, because, I mean, mass is mass, right?
	I mean, the instrument's looking at masses.
	Isotopes are...
	The isotopic composition of these materials...
	It's really critical for establishing whether it's extraterrestrial or terrestrial.
	Yes, yes.
	And by the way, our lab is ISO accredited, 17-025.
	So it's, you know, it's legit results that you can cite as long as we are accredited for that specific method that we're using.
	Of course, our methods right now are food methods, but we could expand our methods over time.
	So anyway, this is fascinating.
	I hope we can help.
	I hope so, too.
	Yeah.
	I'm excited about this.
	We'll inform the group immediately.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's nice to have, like, mass spec equipment laying around.
	Oh, yeah.
	We have one that doesn't work.
	Oh, yeah.
	There are a lot of those.
	Those things are hard to keep up.
	Oh, you don't have to tell me.
	What it costs just to do maintenance annually could buy a car, you know?
	Yeah, yeah.
	A nice one.
	And of course, a small university doesn't have those kind of funds.
	So we're having to funnel off funds that we get from donations to maintain some of the equipment.
	We don't even get to use it for analysis.
	We get to get it just for maintenance.
	Right.
	You have to replace the turbine.
	There you go.
	30 grand.
	Yeah.
	Well, okay.
	So after we finish here, don't hang up and I'll give you my direct contact information.
	So We can coordinate some of this, and I'll get in touch with my lab techs and so on.
	We can help make some of that happen.
	But in the meantime, I just want to thank you for taking the time here.
	This has been really fascinating.
	This has been terrific.
	I really enjoy this.
	Well, me too, and I think what's cool about this is we get to educate people about this subject that, honestly, not a lot of people think about day to day.
	But they should, I think.
	Well, I think it should be aware.
	It's something that we all should be aware of because it's part of our life.
	It's part of the hazards of existence.
	Yeah.
	Not to cross the street, the middle of the street, wait for stoplights and things like that.
	This is one of those things that, if we aren't aware of it, can kill us.
	Yeah.
	All of us.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	We truly are in this together.
	Yeah.
	We don't have another planet to go to right now, so we better protect this one.
	My doubts about Mars.
	Yeah.
	Seems like something's lacking in the atmosphere there for some reason.
	Yeah.
	Not to mention the...
	The climate leaves a lot to be desired.
	Yeah, right, right.
	I'm not too sure.
	How's the magnetosphere there?
	Kind of on the weak side, yeah?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's what I figured.
	Yep.
	Well, this has been great.
	So, folks, the website is cometresearchgroup.org, and I want to thank you, Dr.
	LeCompte, for taking the time, and this has been fascinating.
	I hope you'll come back and join us again with more discussions about this.
	In the meantime, we're going to see if we can help you with some analysis using our lab.
	That would be terrific.
	Yeah, yeah, it would be a blast.
	I'd love to do that.
	Okay.
	Well then, folks, feel free to repost this interview on your own channels.
	You have our permission to do so.
	I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com and, you know, the food science guy.
	That's what I usually do with my lab.
	But now, hey, maybe we'll study some geological samples.
	This will be fun.
	Thank you for listening, everybody, and I hope you enjoyed this.
	Have a great day, and we'll be back with you with more updates later on.
	Take care.
	A global reset is coming.
	And that's why I've recorded a new nine-hour audiobook.
	It's called The Global Reset Survival Guide.
	You can download it for free by subscribing to the naturalnews.com email newsletter, which is also free.
	I'll describe how the monetary system fails.
	I also cover emergency medicine and first aid and what to buy to help you avoid infections.
	So download this guide.
	It's free.

▲