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Hello everybody. In the recent Wow! Signal video I mentioned that Abel Mendez would be joining me on Event Horizon this week. So rather than release it on Thursday, we released it as soon as the editing was finished. It's this week's episode, there won't be one on Thursday, but this story was worth it because its hot off the presses. Do note that around 11:25 Prof. Mendez's pet pterodactyl weighed in. Nothing to see there, perfectly normal. Here it is:
https://youtu.be/mCKuA8P9HOw?si=2zxS5...
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Hello everybody. I'm feverishly at work on finishing the next video, out in a few hours if all goes well. So in my last 10 list on science news stories, I briefly covered the Wigner frozen electron ice crystal discovery and a lot of folks were interested in more information on that one. So we got one of the team members, Dr. Ali Yazdani, and we did a good deep information dense interview over at Event Horizon. View it here:
https://youtu.be/hO0DCgBp7MA?si=lTy2D...
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Hello again everybody. I'm finishing up the script and getting ready to record the vocal track for tomorrow's video. You might be say, wait, it's night time. But there's a couple of reasons why I record most videos at night, often after midnight. No traffic outside the studio is the big one. The Event Horizon studio is in an urban area right next to a main road. Nothing disrupts a monologue recording like a passing Harley Davidson. And there's just something about this content that fits the night. Anyway, we'll be heading into cosmology territory again and talking about the mysteries of cosmic voids and how measurement of a certain type could hint at new physics, and an adjustment to the standard model.
That said, in regards to the Aurora Borealis I saw Friday night, our own Eryn Knight through much meditation and zen stuff was able to shake loose A.N.N.A.'s mind control long enough to head out and capture a time lapse of the Aurora Borealis as seen from Northern England. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/c0Pn9FsRsOE?si=wXI2J...
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Hello Everyone. So I was planning on releasing a video tonight, but I was waylaid by the aurora borealis! The geomagnetic storm is proving to be a bit stronger than expected, now upgraded to G5 according to the NOAA, which is causing auroras far south of usual. In my case, the 38th parallel north. I've only ever seen it that far south once in 2003, and then only a ruddy glow on the horizon. The one tonight was spectacular. As the sun set, it was already there, and went into a burst of activity that frankly looked like what you'd see in Alaska or Iceland. While dim, it was obvious and It was changing colors, red to blue, and undulating with the classic folds and features. I was not able to get a photo, too dim for a phone camera, but Eryn is observing from Britain and has her DSLRs set up and has successfully caught it. So it might pay to take a look up or at the northern horizon if you're south this evening because I'm seeing reports as far south as South Carolina. Not quite as bad as the Carrington Event which actually pushed them as far south as Central America, but quite strong.
Needless to say, I will sky watching all night. But there will be a new video this weekend. We have new candidate technosignatures to discuss and it's very, very strange. Hope everyone is well, and hopefully we won't see any power issues or trouble from the coronal mass ejection.
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Hello Everybody. Well, I intended to drop a video tonight but a weather phenomenon intervened. Video coming in a day or so. But this is what damage from golf ball to baseball sized hail looks like.
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Shout out to the sleep crowd! So, one of the most common type of comments I get here and at Event Horizon are from folks that use the channels to relax and fall into dreamland and snooze. I love this. If I can help people conquer insomnia and ease anxiety in addition to popularizing ideas within science and fire the imagination with the content, you have no idea how useful and fulfilling I see that as. It's a threefold gain for all of us. And I do it too. I don't listen to myself of course other than for reference -- though I can get drowsy while I'm editing the JMG channel audio ... very strange effect that and it only happens when I bed the music -- but I've always fallen asleep to some kind of content. In the 90's, it was late night talk radio. Today it's youtube channels, and it's a privilege that I can do this.
So here is what we have. Many have asked me for longer videos. I can do that on Event Horizon talking to a guest when I have a lot of material and questions, but here with these videos I only have a limited pallet of information to convey. This limits the length of the video, and lengthening after that for filler's sake would be at the expense of being concise ... and as an author I am very aware of the value of being concise. I also don't want to rehash and post compilations of old content here or at Event Horizon because I want the content to be new and fresh. So what I and the Event Horizon production team have done is created a third channel. The JMG Clips channel, link below, that provides those kinds of compilations for those that find them useful. I know, I know, you may be saying that a three hour compilation isn't a clip, but I say, hey, we clipped them together. It's all old content you've probably already seen, but just packaged for those that want to put something on longer than a few minutes and drift off and dream of what may be in this amazing universe in which we liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive.
New video coming soon. Next up is a spooky one regarding nanotechnology and neural dust. And after that, we revisit the strangeness of Mars with some new developments. See you then and sweet dreams!
https://youtu.be/Lf2iz6LqCxQ?si=jB1AJ...
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Hello Everybody! Just for fun, exactly 8 years ago today on February 7th 2016 I said to myself "Hmm, perhaps I might like to make one of those "youtube" videos ..." and this channel began. I did not immediately post a video, but I began collecting up the materials for what would become the original video exploration on the science behind KIC 8462852, a star that remains an enigmatic mystery. I expected a few views maybe, but little did I realize where it would go. And it still feels like I just started. I can think of nothing I would rather be doing than making videos and hosting Event Horizon and interacting with everyone. So thank you everyone for your support and sticking with me all these years, and here's to many more years to come of regular, in-depth explorations of the interesting, weird and unknown aspects of this amazing universe in which we liiiiiiiiiiiiive.
Fun fact! If you watch my first video, I somehow ended up with the basic version of my outro from the very start. It just seemed like the natural way to close it out at the time, and then I just started adding humor and possums, liiiiiiiive, eyeing things suspiciously and LeBarons n' such over the years, but the basics have been there from the start and I wouldn't change it for the world. And finally some behind the scenes pictures. The first is the Event Horizon studio from which all of this emanates. And the YouTube play buttons. Most YouTubers put these behind them in the background in their videos, but since I rarely appear in videos mine are on a wall but I often get asked if they exist, so here they are.
Anyway, thanks again all, and the next video is already in the works and Event Horizon will be delving soon into territory that I think is not as well traveled as it should be. The Parker Solar Probe.
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Happy New Year everyone! It just passed here a few minutes ago. A.N.N.A. is calculating pi to further decimals, the possum is setting off questionable antimatter fireworks, and I'm settling in for a late night play of Starcraft II. 2024 is going to be great. A whole new year of JWST discoveries, but as important is first light for the Vera Rubin observatory in August. Surveys won't start until the following year but that telescope is going to dump so much astronomical data that it's not even going to be funny. It holds the potential to make discoveries ranging from more Kuiper belt objects, comets, asteroids, interstellar objects and most intriguingly the potential of new full on planets in the far outer solar system. Planet nine being a potential, but there are other hints in the outer solar system that there may be other Mars sized objects out there shepherding the Kuiper cliff and so on.
And here's to a new year of content. I'll be kicking things off on this channel within the next few days with a video on the bizarreness of Jupiter, there are aspects of that planet that aren't well known such as it's the oldest planet, the first to form which in turn influenced the formation of the rest of the solar system including Earth. It actually predates earth by as much as 50 million years. And over at Event Horizon, we'll be kicking off the new year with our old friend Fraser Cain for an astronomy year in review and a look ahead to 2024. All the best!
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I hope everyone is enjoying the new ten list this evening, but there's something developing that is one of those cases where you'll hear from me in a video again within 24 hours. Today NASA announced the characterization of an exoplanet with an atmospheric signature of methane and carbon dioxide by JWST. This is huge news on its own and will get media attention. But here in our little astrobiology alcove, I can say there's more. This is another Tabby's star.
The reason is two fold. First the main atmospheric make up of this planet, a terrestrial super earth, is hydrogen. That's interesting, because the carbon dioxide's presence should amount to a rather big disequilibrium as is being pointed out by Robert Zubrin and others on Xwitter. That's a potential biosignature. The other is a detection of Dimethyl Sulfide. This is a biosignature gas, but also an industrial technosignature gas. If it really is there, which needs to be confirmed, either nature has a way to make a planet exhibit this that we don't know about, or it's a second biosignature for this exoplanet.
There are pros and cons and problems and weirdness and all sorts of things floating around the astrobio community right now, which I will cover in the video tomorrow and then updates from then on, just as we did with Tabby's star. I urge caution, it is after all the search for alien life, but it's clear JWST has discovered something very, very interesting here as far as exoplanet science goes. That telescope has delivered.
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In the flurry of content as of late, look for a new video here probably on Sunday. Had to take a little time off after three videos in a row for three days. However! A day off isn't really a day off, so we will have a new addition in just a few hours on Event Horizon. An extensive talk with Dr. Loeb on the rather unusual findings of the IM1 expedition. Interstellar material from a molten exoplanet? Uranium and beryllium? Interesting stuff, and if you've ever wondered what it's like being the host of Event Horizon, this meme says it all:
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Author and futurist John Michael Godier explores the universe in weekly documentary videos released randomly. These videos center on science, future technology and the mysteries of the universe. Additionally, John releases irregular videos covering breaking news on important developments in space science and technology as they happen.
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