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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

512: Project Looking Glass | The Time Warriors of the 2012 Apocalypse

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Science, Life Sciences, Fiction, Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

You’re not supposed to be alive.

None of us are.

About 10 years ago, you woke up to an eerie silence. The power was out. You went to check your phone for news but your phone was dead.

Then you realized, everything was dead. Some kind of blackout, you thought.

You looked out your window, confused. It looked like a normal December morning. Holiday decorations were up, though all the Christmas lights were out.

You saw neighbors also peering through windows and standing on their front porches. Everyone was looking up.

It looked like the stars were falling. Only, they weren’t stars. They were satellites and space debris. It was raining fire. And for the first time in your life, you saw the aurora borealis … in the middle of the day.

You looked at the calendar. Today's date was supposed to mean something, but before you could remember, everything went black.

It was December 21st, 2012.

The end of the world.

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0:31.4

You're not supposed to be alive. None of us are. About 10 years ago, you woke up

0:36.4

between eerie silence. The power was out. You went to check your phone for news,

0:40.4

but your phone was dead. Then you realized everything was dead, some kind of black out you thought.

0:46.3

You looked out your window confused. It looked like a normal December morning.

0:50.4

Holiday decorations were up, though all the Christmas lights were out.

0:54.3

You saw neighbors also peering through windows and standing on their front porches.

0:58.8

Everyone was looking up. It looked like the stars were falling,

1:02.5

only they weren't stars. They were satellites and space debris.

1:06.6

It was raining fire. And for the first time in your life,

1:09.9

you saw the Aurora Borealis in the middle of the day.

1:13.4

You looked at the calendar. Today's date was supposed to mean something,

1:17.4

but before you could remember, everything went black.

1:20.4

It was December 21, 2012, the end of the world.

1:32.9

In early 1948, the Curator for the National Museum of Iraq had a very exciting meeting.

1:38.9

Two American archaeologists walked into his office with a briefcase

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