Micah Hanks is the co-founder of The Debrief, and discusses the Kean-Blumenthal UAP story, Grusch & Mellon testimony on crash recovery, advances in AGI & autonomy, and his upcoming role as SCU Conference moderator.

Micah Hanks is a writer, podcaster, researcher, and speaker whose interests include history, archaeology, science, and the future of humankind.

Along with his weekly podcast, The Micah Hanks Program, he is the co-founder and creator of The Debrief, a news site covering science and disruptive technologies. A longtime researcher and proponent of the scientific study of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UFOs, Micah has authored a number of books and has contributed many essays, articles, and blogs to various publications.

Micah is actively involved in archaeological research in the Southeastern United States, with a specific focus on the Paleoindian period of American prehistory and the transitional changes that occurred at the end of the last Ice Age.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Micah Hanks Official Homepage

https://www.micahhanks.com/

The Micah Hanks Program

https://www.micahhanks.com/shows/

The Debrief

https://thedebrief.org/

Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin

(The Leslie Kean / Ralph Blumenthal Story)

https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/

Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies

https://www.explorescu.org/

SCU AAPC 2024 Conference

Huntsville Alabama - May 31 to June 2, 2024

https://www.explorescu.org/aapc-2024

Dr. José Cordeiro discusses the scientific advances & social trends driving life-extension research as described in his book, "The Death of Death: The Scientific Possibility of Physical Immortality and its Moral Defense".

The Death Of Death (Amazon)

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Scientific-Possibility-Immortality-Copernicus/dp/3031289269

Dr. José Cordeiro is a well-known engineer, economist, futurist, visionary, transhumanist, singularitarian and immortalist. He’s been described as “the leading futurist from Venezuela”, and is Founder of the World Future Society Venezuela, President of the Venezuela Node of The Millennium Project, and former Director of the Venezuela Chapter of the Club of Rome.

José graduated in science at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in Venezuela, management at the European Business School INSEAD in France, and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. He serves in the Board of Directors of The Millennium Project, Vicechair of Humanity Plus, Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science, and Executive Director and Founder of the Ibero-American Futurists Network (RIBER).

He has published more than 10 books in several languages, writes in several newspapers in Spanish, has also been interviewed by international media like ABC, BBC and CNN, and has participated in science documentaries with Discovery Channel, History Channel and NatGeo. He has traveled to more than 130 countries around the planet and hopes to travel to the Moon and Mars as well.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

The Death Of Death (Amazon)

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Scientific-Possibility-Immortality-Copernicus/dp/3031289269

All Books by Dr. Cordeiro (Amazon)

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jos%C3%A9-Cordeiro/author/B08QRMYMDY

José Luis Cordeiro (LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/josecordeiro/

Dr. José Cordeiro (The Millenium Project)

https://www.millennium-project.org/about-us/planning-committee/jose-luis-cordeiro/

José Luis Cordeiro (WIkipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Cordeiro

Larry Hancock discusses Christopher Mellon's "Signal Exchange" with a high-ranking USG official claiming inside knowledge of UFO crash recovery efforts and “recovered UAP that landed in Kingman, AZ in the 50’s”.

Larry Hancock is a well-known UAP researcher, author, and board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. He brings formal training in history and cultural anthropology to his research and writing on Cold War history and national security subjects.

Larry is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, he earned is BA with honors, majoring in history, cultural anthropology and education. Following service in the United States Air Force, his career in computer/communications and technology marketing allowed him the opportunity to become involved in and consult on strategic analysis and planning studies.

Larry is the author of 7 books on topics in national defense and UAP & UFO history, and joins us today to discuss his new paper on the UAP nuclear correlation.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Christopher Mellon's "Signal Exchange"

https://twitter.com/ChrisKMellon/status/1782521425305243793

https://christopherkmellon.substack.com/p/another-signal-message

Kevin Randle: The Decline and Fall of Ufology

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/search?q=kingman

Did a UFO crash in Kingman in 1953?

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-contributor/2016/11/15/did-ufo-crash-kingman-1953/93828300/

Kingman UFO incident in 1953 followed Nevada explosions; radar blamed

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/kingman-ufo-incident-in-1953-linked-to-series-of-explosions-in-nevada/

Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies

https://www.explorescu.org/

UAP Pattern Recognition Study 1945-1975 US Military Atomic Warfare Complex

https://www.explorescu.org/post/scu-publishes-uap-pattern-recognition-study-of-the-us-military-atomic-warfare-complex

Larry Hancock's Books (Amazon)

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Larry-Hancock/author/B004FOXTAK

Dr. Natasha Vita-More discusses Artificial General Intelligence, the social ramifications of superlongevity, how molecular manufacturing will enable a post-scarcity economy, and the role of transhumanist philosophy in shaping the future of mankind.

Dr. Natasha Vita-More is a pioneering leader and community organizer in transhumanism, and a proponent of human rights, morphological freedom, and ethical means for human enhancement.

Called an “early adapter of revolutionary changes” by Wired Magazine and a “role model for superlongevity” by the Village Voice, Dr. Vita-More is the Founder of the H+DAO—the first transhumanist decentralized autonomous organization, is the current Executive Director of Humanity+, has served as president of the Extropy Institute, is on the Scientific Board of Lifespan.io, is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Future of Mind Institute at FAU. As a scientist, she achieved a scientific breakthrough in vitrification and long-term memory.

Dr. Vita-More holds a PhD from the University of Plymouth, where she works as a a professor of innovation, business, and ethics. She also holds a Master of Philosophy and Master of Science degrees, is a Retired Senior Professor at UAT, and has lectured at Harvard, Stanford, Virginia Commonwealth, Cambridge, Aalto and Polytechnic universities, and was a visiting Scholar at 21st Century Medicine.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Women In Longevity Leadership

https://willeadership.io/

Humanity+

https://www.humanityplus.org/

Transhumanist Studies

https://transhumanist-studies.teachable.com/

Dr. Natasha Vita-More (Official Website)

https://natashavita-more.com/

Pioneering Transhumanism: a conversation with Natasha Vita-More

https://www.forbes.com/sites/calumchace/2023/02/01/pioneering-transhumanism-a-conversation-with-natasha-vita-more/?sh=15c0cf9b3350

SENS Research Foundation

https://www.sens.org/

Nebula Genomics

https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/

Americans spend $50 billion annually on supplements - but are we getting our money's worth? Dr. Michael Lustgarten discusses life-extension biohacking with a focus on rigorous self-testing & biomarker analysis.

DISCLAIMER: This podcast discusses ongoing scientific research, and is NOT providing medical advice. Viewers should consult their doctor before starting any supplements, beginning an exercise routine, or undertaking lifestyle changes.

Dr. Michael Lustgarten earned his PhD in Physiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been studying aging in both animal models and older adult humans for the past 15 years.

In addition to his academic work, he is the creator of the YouTube channel “Conquer Aging or Die Trying”, where he rigorously details his personal experiments aimed at optimal health and longevity.

Today, we’ll get into his objective, data-driven, testing, tracking, and intervention-based approach, which attempts to slow aging and disease risk by discovering the diet, supplement, exercise, and sleep recipe that can push systemic biochemistry towards youth and health, and that keeps it there indefinitely.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Official Website

https://michaellustgarten.com/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/mike_lustgarten

Conquer Aging or Die Trying! (YouTube Channel)

https://www.youtube.com/@conqueragingordietrying123

Longecity

https://www.longecity.org/forum/

Reddit Life Extension

https://www.reddit.com/r/lifeextension/

Harvard Health

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/dont-waste-time-or-money-on-dietary-supplements

Will Elon Musk's Starship revolutionize air travel? Brian Wang of Next Big Future discusses humanoid robots, next-generation nuclear power, why gigacasting will revolutionize manufacturing, and how SpaceX is making AFRL Rocket Cargo real.

Brian Wang is a Co-Founder and Futurist Thought Leader, and a prominent Science blogger whose platform, Nextbigfuture.com, boasts over 1 million monthly readers and is ranked as the #1 Science News Blog. The blog has over 30,000 articles written by Brian covering disruptive technologies and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Self-driving cars, Global electrification, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.

Brian has given annual updates on nanotechnology at Singularity University, advised laser nuclear fusion company HB11 Energy and worked with Airbus Ventures on their portfolio of space and satellite companies. One of Brian's space designs is on the comprehensive internet source of space propulsion concepts, projectrho.com, the Verne gun.

Brian is a board member of Monte Jade West and gives quarterly talks to Asian & Asian-American business professionals, executives and entrepreneurs on topics like AI and humanoid robotics. He has invested in startups as an angel investor, helps with tech fundraising, and also wrote part of SpaceX investment guide.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Next Big Future

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/

How Will SpaceX Bring the Cost to Space Down to $10 per Kilogram from Over $1000 per Kilogram?

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/how-will-spacex-bring-the-cost-to-space-down-to-10-per-kilogram-from-over-1000-per-kilogram.html

Tesla Gigacasting

https://www.reuters.com/technology/gigacasting-20-tesla-reinvents-carmaking-with-quiet-breakthrough-2023-09-14/

Tesla AI & Robotics

https://www.tesla.com/AI

Robert Powell discusses his new book, UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know)", and the existence of not just two videos, but five videos from 2015 of UFOs operating in the vicinity of the USS Roosevelt nuclear aircraft carrier.

Additionally, we'll be touching on implications of exoplanet discovery for the UAP phenomenon, the changing culture of mainstream science with relation to UFOs, the role of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, and what the AARO Historical Report missed - and how they can do better in the future.

Robert Powell is an Executive Board Member and Founding Member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies. Robert has been studying the UAP phenomenon since 2007, and prior to the SCU has served as Director of Research at MUFON and created MUFON's Science Review Board.

Robert is the co-author of a detailed book 600-page book on the history of the phenomenon, "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry", and author of the children's educational book, "The Truth About UFOs: A Scientific Perspective". He is also the author of numerous papers on UFOs, including the 2008 Stephenville, TX case, the 2013 Aguadilla Puerto video, and the 2004 Nimitz encounter.

Robert has a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and 28 years career experience in engineering management in the semiconductor industry, and helped Advanced Micro Devices develop its first flash memory technology. He's also managed state of the art chemistry labs & R&D groups, and is the co-holder of four patents related to nanotechnology.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know)

https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Scientist-Explains-What-Know-ebook/dp/B0CFZQN6S7

The Truth About UFOs: A Scientific Perspective

https://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-UFOs-Scientific-Perspective-ebook/dp/B08NPVPFHT

UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry

https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Government-Historical-Michael-Swords-ebook/dp/B01JJ9JF7Q

Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies

https://www.explorescu.org

Robert Powell's critisism of the AARO Historical Record

https://twitter.com/rpowell2u/status/1766467359768797476

Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf

Elon Musk is predicting AGI in 2025: should we celebrate this or be concerned? Amal Graafstra discusses AI, AGI, Ray Kurzweil's Technological Singularity, David Woods' "Economic Singularity" & more.

Musk is has estimated a 50% chance that AGI will exist by the end of 2025, which in his words will perform cognitive tasks "better than any human can do". He is also predicting that AI could exceed the collective intelligence of all humans combined by 2029, whereas Ray Kurzweil predicted they'd match human intelligence and pass the Turing test by that date.

Three months ago, Ray released a video reaffirming his prediction for AGI by 2029 and the Singularity for 2045. I went back to "The Singularity is Near" and the graphs show single human intelligence by that date - which puts Musk's prediction for collective human intelligence ahead of schedule.

Overall I think Elon is aligned with Kurzweil's view of Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity, but Musk appears more focused more on "functional AGI" based on performance completing tasks rather than Kurzweil's approach, which focused more on mapping and synthesizing the functions of the human mind.

In the United States, The White House recently released the "The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" as a framework to protect humans from a number of technological threats, and the National Conference of State Legislatures reports that over 25 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia introduced artificial intelligence bills in 2023.

The European Union also recently passed the "Artificial Intelligence Act", which bans the use of AI for applications that threaten threaten citizens’ rights, including biometric categorisation based on sensitive characteristics, untargeted scraping of facial images from video to create facial recognition databases, along emotion recognition in the workplace and schools, social scoring, predictive policing, and the manipulation or exploitation of human behaviour or exploits people’s vulnerabilities.

Elon Musk's prediction as echoes expert opinion and widespread concerns over the fast pace of AI development, and regardless of legislation, it seems like we're moving into a world where humans simply can't compete. I believe Kurzweil and others have predicted a merger of human and machine in the future, which takes us into Amal's area of specialization.

Amal Graafstra is a Book author, TEDx speaker, and CEO of biohacking companies Dangerous Things and VivoKey Technologies. Amal has various RFID and NFC implants in his body that open doors, start vehicles, unlocks his smartgun, and logs into computers.

Prior to his current roles, Amal’s experience includes numerous exective & IT-related roles at firms including Walletmor, Everfind, the medical biotech company Morpheus, Atomic Mobile, Silicon Energy, and more. He joins us today to discuss the intersection of information technology & medicine with a focus on the intersection of biology and technology, and the evolution of our relationship with machines.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Vivokey Technologies

https://vivokey.com/

Dangerous Things Biohacking

https://dangerousthings.com/

Amal Graafstra at TEDxSFU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DxVWhFLI6E

Amal Graafstra (Personal Website)

https://amal.net/

Exponential Growth of Computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

Ray Kurzweil is sticking to his long-held predictions: 2029 for AGI and 2045 for the singularity

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/18m0dnf/ray_kurzweil_is_sticking_to_his_longheld/

Future Visions: How to Survive and Thrive in the Upcoming Economic Singularity: A Variety of Perspectives

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTGHJCT4

U.S. Transhumanist Party Virtual Enlightenment Salon with the OmniFuturists – January 28, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHIpd4_Hauc&t=614s

The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/

Artificial Intelligence 2023 Legislation

https://www.ncsl.org/technology-and-communication/artificial-intelligence-2023-legislation

Dr. Aubrey de Grey discusses the latest trends in anti-aging research, offers insights on experimental life-extension therapies for an aging boomer population, and discusses his work at the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation.

DISCLAIMER: This podcast discusses ongoing scientific research, and is NOT providing medical advice. Viewers should consult their doctor before starting any supplements, beginning an exercise routine, or undertaking lifestyle changes.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey is President and CSO at the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation and Co-founder at the SENS Research Foundation. He's also the author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging and co-author of Ending Aging.

Dr. De Grey is generally recognized as one of world’s leading experts in longevity research, and is an international adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the American Aging Association, and also the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Dr. De Grey has a BA in Computer Science, studies in Bioinformatics, and a PhD in Biology from the University of Cambridge.

LEV Foundation

https://www.levf.org/

SENS Foundation

https://www.sens.org/

Dr. Aubrey De Grey (Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey

Dr. Kevin Knuth discusses the AARO Historical Report, the role of scientific skepticism and impact of stigma, and describes UAP flight performance characteristics, warp-drives, interstellar travel & the ultraterrestrials.

Dr. Knuth describes the work of German rocketry pioneer Hermann Oberth, who cited over 50 radar measurements back in 1954 that establish UFO speeds in excess of Mach 55, and you have said, "it was known 70 years ago that these things are flying at spacecraft speeds. Why do people always assume their spacecraft? It's simple, because they fly as fast as spacecraft do."

He will also discuss the documented speeds & acceleration for UAP, which would liquify a human pilot & crush a traditional airframe. Also, as Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick & Avi Loeb have pointed out air ablation at those speeds would also be unsurvivable. Could UAP performance, along with what may be evidence of "gravitational lensing" in the 2013 Aguadilla video be hints that UAP are using some kind of warp-drive technology?

Dr. Knuth will also discuss the possibilities of UAP interstellar travel without violating the speed of light, and the challenges of bridging the gap between SETI, NASA & UAP science.

Dr. Kevin Knuth is a Professor of Physics at the University of Albany with over two decades of experience in machine learning algorithms for Astrophysics, Bayesian Probability Theory, Information Theory, Robotics, Signal Processing, Neuroscience, Nonlinear Dynamics, Quantum Mechanics, and many other areas.

Kevin is the editor of the peer-review open-access journal “Entropy”, as well as being a member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies and co-investigator on a NASA-funded grant to study exoplanets.

In September 2019 he published the landmark paper, “Estimating Flight Characteristics of Anomalous Unidentified Aerial Vehicles” co-authored by Robert M. Powell and Peter Reali. In that paper, he described UAPs as reportedly being “structured craft that exhibit ‘impossible flight characteristics’.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Kevin Knuth on The Physics of UAP (SOL Foundation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlYwktOj75A

Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/LK1.pdf

He quit heading the Pentagon’s UFO office. Now a report of his has shaken up ufology

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/22/ufologists-sean-kirkpatrick-pentagon-report-uaps

The Government’s Former UFO Hunter Found Something More Concerning Than Aliens

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-governments-former-ufo-hunter-has-a-lot-to-say/