Eric Weinstein & Michael Shermer: An honest dialogue about UFOs (#157)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 110 minutes

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What is the nature of the abundant accounts of unexplained aerial phenomena? Are they harbingers of advanced extraterrestrial engineering, math, and physics, beyond our standard model? Or is there a more prosaic, though no less significant explanation, ranging from military operations, unreliable witnesses, or confirmation bias? Is our government sharing all it knows? Or is there really anything 'there' there? Beyond wanting to believe, do we have any evidence for our beliefs? 00:00:00 Intro 1:00:00 - Technology 1:02:50 - Antigravity Programs dating back to the 1950s & Feynman? 1:18:36 - Centralized Narratives! 1:28:15 - Science funding and obligations Join me and @Eric Weinstein and @Skeptic Michael Shermer to discuss this fascinating topic. Recent interest in alien craft sightings, documented in my interview with @Mick West is at an all time high: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJtTgIKDUZw. and also see my chat with @SETI Institute scientist Seth Shostak https://youtu.be/IZ9wxV_MWVI Watch my interview with @AlienScientist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVX2sKo3LKE&t=1s Please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book Losing the Nobel Prize: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 🎥 🎥 Watch my most popular videos🎥 🎥 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_conf... Weinstein and Wolfram https://youtu.be/OI0AZ4Y4Ip4 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_conf... Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_conf... Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: Sir Roger Penrose: Are Singularities Real? https://youtu.be/57SMQj3lOm0 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_conf... Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_conf... Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_conf... Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔥 Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 📖 Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeatin... ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 📧Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 👪Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize 🎙️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i... 🎙️Listen on all other platforms: https://wavve.link/into A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating And please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	It is a great, great pleasure to have two of my friends.
0:14.2	Actually, the man who gave me my start in podcasting
0:18.0	during pandemic podcasting, Dr. Michael Sherman
0:22.0	who has influenced me and set me up my initial interviews a year and a half ago almost
0:27.0	when I started my pandemic podcast journey with his book giving the devil his due.
0:32.0	Michael is a professor, he is the publisher of Skeptor. with his book giving the devil his due.
0:32.6	Michael is a professor.
0:33.9	He is the publisher of Skeptic magazine.
0:35.7	He is a noted skeptic, an avid cyclist,
0:39.1	an all around good guy.
0:41.5	And I look forward to chatting more and learning from you
0:45.0	Professor Schurmer how are you today? Well given the alternatives yes life is good
0:57.2	And on my on my left on the screen at least is Dr. Eric Weinstein who is no stranger to the Into the Impossible
1:00.9	Podcast we have been together for many, many decades it feels like, but it's been
1:06.5	less than that. And also coming up on our anniversary, our YouTube first conversation, this
1:11.8	I think is our ninth one. So it's great to have you
1:15.2	too as well. Dr. Weinstein, how are you today? Great to be here. Thanks for having me. Very interesting
1:21.1	also to be with my friend Michael Sch. I really am glad to have this crew
1:27.6	assembled for this topic.
1:29.2	So what's so interesting to me is there's sort of this phrase in German the Germans have the best words for everything Michael knows that better than anybody I'm sure
1:39.0	But but they have words for everything like ambulance the word for ambulance
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