October 16, 2015: Open Lines - Super Power Line
Oct 16, 2015
2h 23m
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Art Bell opens the phone lines for a Friday night open lines session with a special superpower line reserved for callers who possess extraordinary abilities. The evening begins with a recap of the week's biggest story, the mysterious star KIC 8462852 and its possible alien megastructures, along with a chilling coded military emergency action message recorded on a SAC frequency.
Callers share a wide range of experiences. A man from Albuquerque claims he can hear normal conversations from 1,000 feet away, a woman from Illinois reports frequent precognitive dreams that her daughters also share, and a listener in Utah describes a hypersensitive sense of smell that allowed her to diagnose patients during her years as an ER nurse. Art also fields calls about the technological singularity, the Library of Babel website, and a caller from Scotland who rings in at six in the morning local time.
Between calls, Art discusses Playboy's decision to remove nudity, a possible return of the Phoenix Lights based on a new photograph, and an underground landfill fire in Missouri creeping dangerously close to buried nuclear waste. The show features multiple Skype calls from listeners worldwide, including Switzerland and Australia.
Callers share a wide range of experiences. A man from Albuquerque claims he can hear normal conversations from 1,000 feet away, a woman from Illinois reports frequent precognitive dreams that her daughters also share, and a listener in Utah describes a hypersensitive sense of smell that allowed her to diagnose patients during her years as an ER nurse. Art also fields calls about the technological singularity, the Library of Babel website, and a caller from Scotland who rings in at six in the morning local time.
Between calls, Art discusses Playboy's decision to remove nudity, a possible return of the Phoenix Lights based on a new photograph, and an underground landfill fire in Missouri creeping dangerously close to buried nuclear waste. The show features multiple Skype calls from listeners worldwide, including Switzerland and Australia.
Key Moments
Emergency action message explained: Art reads a listener's chilling explanation of the military emergency action message aired the previous night.
Technology singularity fears: A caller raises the technological singularity and Art considers whether humanity could become machine-dominated.
Precognitive dreams: Art reacts to a caller's exact precognitive dreams and weighs whether such a gift would be a burden.
Smelling illness in the ER: A former ER nurse says her hypersensitive sense of smell let her detect what was wrong with patients.