Episode 0213 · Jul 31, 1996 · 41m
July 31, 1996: Outer Space - Richard C. Hoagland
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Open transcriptHoagland's plagiarism claim against the Cornell Europa ideaHoagland opens by claiming priority on the idea of Europa as a possible harbor for extraterrestrial life. He says he originated and published the proposal in 1980 in Star and Sky magazine, that Arthur C. Clarke credited him in the novel of 2010, and that a NASA-contracted Cornell professor has now nakedly plagiarized the work.
The mile-long triple-Julia-set crop formation at WiltshireHoagland describes a brand-new July 29 formation in Wiltshire, England - three Julia sets combined with 194 circles, roughly a mile long. He frames the recent crop formations as increasingly mathematical, geometrical, hyperdimensional artifacts pointing at the Mandelbrot set and a coming change in physics.
De Palma, spinning gyroscopes, and the silenced gravity experimentHoagland recounts Bruce De Palma's experiments showing that spinning gyroscopes thrown in a gravitational field travel differently than non-spinning ones - a result inconsistent with Newtonian mechanics. He says Polaroid's Edwin Land and MIT's Dr. Edgerton (founder of EG&G, the firm tied to Bob Lazar's Area 51 story) personally counseled De Palma to stop pursuing the work.
The conversation ranges widely, from a spectacular new crop circle at Wiltshire, England, featuring three Julia sets and 194 circles, to physicist Bruce De Palma's rotating machinery experiments that showed lawn grass growing faster over spinning systems. Hoagland connects these findings to hyperdimensional physics and scalar electromagnetics, arguing that the established physics taught in universities is incomplete. He describes plans to launch citizen science experiments through his Enterprise Mission website, inviting people worldwide to replicate De Palma's grass-growing results.
Art and Hoagland also discuss suspicious interference with their websites, the suppression of unconventional physics research, and the broader thesis that humanity shares a genetic heritage with beings elsewhere in the solar system. Hoagland frames the internet as the great equalizer that could finally break through decades of scientific gatekeeping.
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