Episodes
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Nightmare 3: Dream Warriors - PoT #161 (W/ Bill Kammerer & Jack Picone)
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Monday Sep 02, 2019
PoT newcomer Bill Kammerer comes to hang out by way of veteran Jack Picone to talk about, in our opinions, the best Nightmare on Elm Street movie of the series, Dream Warriors. Bill is a stand up comedian, Uber drive and 5 star grinder user.
Monday Aug 19, 2019
PoT #160- Scream 2 (W/ Erika Gwynn)
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Monday Aug 19, 2019
Erika finally begged enough that Matt let her come back. I guess she has already signed on for the other 2 screams, Brightburn and every Twilight. So that's terrible....
Monday Aug 12, 2019
PoT-#159 Saw 1 & 2 (W/ Randy Fitzsimmons)
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
ACW Superstar, Randy Fitzsimmons joins us to talk about Saw 1 and 2. There are long periods of time where we talk about Danny Glover and not Saw. I know this is a shocker but you've been warned.
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Us - PoT #158 (W/ Katie and Kenny of The Haunted Heart Podcast)
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Monday Jul 29, 2019
Well, we talked about a lot here...From snacks to the movie. Music styling to salad dressing. We made some new friends and talked about old. This episode was a shit load of fun and we are very happy to have some new friends!
Next time: We take a week off so Matt can attend Flashback Weekend in Chicago then we come back with the reschedule of Mike Hickey to discuss Saw 1 and 2!
Monday Jul 15, 2019
PoT Shot #4 - Random Times
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Unexpectedly had to postpone our Saw 1 and 2 discussion with Mike Hickey due to a flat tire so we tested a new streaming method and talked long enough that we decided it was an episode!
Listen at your own risk, kids.
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Marking Time and William Shatner’s The UnXplained # 260
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
How to keep track of time in space, William Shatner’s new mystery series, The UnXplained premiers this month, and a couple of sightings from one of our listeners.
The Question
In the movie, Edge of Tomorrow, aliens are able to manipulate time by forcing humans to relive the same day. If aliens are able to manipulate time, do you think it would be localized or would it affect all of space-time?
News
The UFO community still believes — and science is starting to listen
We appear to be on the cusp of an era where humans live outside this pale blue dot. According to some newly leaked NASA documents, the agency hopes to build a moon base by 2028.
There are serious technical hurdles to establishing space settlements and enduring long-term flights: How will humans grow food? What happens to our waste? But there are also squishier, logistical ones that we take for granted here on Earth. One of the first things we’ll need to figure out is how to keep track of time.
The solution might seem straightforward: just bring a watch and a calendar, and mark off the days! And yes, this is how the only full-time space settlement—the International Space Station—handles things. The crew of the ISS operates on Greenwich Mean Time and, via their close contact with Earth, gets updates on the time.
GMT For Space
But there are challenges to keeping space dwellers on an Earth-bound time-keeping system. One is the practicality of using a time-keeping system that ignores your local reality. Keeping astronauts on a 24-hour, GMT-based system makes things easier for ground control, but trying to keep Earth hours takes a toll on astronauts’ sleep, as their circadian rhythms are thrown off by the comparatively erratic light cycle: The ISS orbits Earth every 90 minutes, so over the course of a typical 24-hour Earth “day,” the crew sees 16 sunrises and sunsets.
Astronomers, science-fiction writers, and enthusiastic hobbyists have presented a range of proposals for new time-keeping systems for potential space settlements. Mars has particular intrigue to those dreaming of space settlements. Thomas Gangale, creator of the Darian calendar, came up with his design in 1985. “If we’re going to send people to Mars and settle it, they’ll need to reckon time according to the natural rhythms of the planet,” Gangale says. His system adapts our traditional Earth time-keeping methods to the rotation and solar orbit of Mars. While Earth rotates once every 23 hours and 56 minutes, Mars’ rotation is slightly longer: A Martian day is just shy of 24 hours and 40 minutes, a unit astronomers call a sol. Mars’ solar orbit is about twice as long as Earth’s: It takes 687 Earth days to our 365, which comes to 668 sols.
What's In A Day
We could just leave time measurement at the sol level, and in fact, some Mars calendar proposals suggest that. On Earth, the Julian calendar assigns each Earth day a number, counting up from Jan. 1, 4713 B.C., as “Day 0,” which makes it easier to calculate day-based milestones like use-by dates for food. A Mars sol-based calendar would work similarly, counting up from a “Day 0” we’d need to decide on.
Currently, engineers take care of this issue by translating between precise Earth time and the spacecraft’s USO time readings. But as we get deeper into space or need to perform more instantaneous maneuvers, depending on Earth time would quickly become cumbersome. While the lag between Earth and the moon is only about a second, that balloons to between seven and 22 minutes between here and Mars, depending on the relative positions of the two planets, which varies over the course of its orbits.
Seubert is the deputy principal investigator of a team of NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory building the first deep space atomic clock. “Right now, every spacecraft out there through deep space is being navigated by people on Earth; we compute the trajectory solution on Earth and upload it to the spacecraft,” says Seubert. Instead of relying on communications with Earth, spacecraft could carry their own atomic clocks, enabling them to keep more precise local time, which will in turn allow them to compute their own locations and execute maneuvers without help from back home.
In late June, the deep space atomic clock hitched a ride into space aboard a SpaceX rocket; beginning in August, JPL scientists will evaluate the clock for a year to determine its stability.
GPS Issues
Plus, it will be necessary for other technologies necessary for a space colony, both as a time keeper and for local GPS. Sci-fi movies often show astronauts driving around on the lunar or Mars surface with a map screen showing their progress. Currently, that’s not possible, but a deep space atomic clock could provide precise enough time and location to support that real-time tracking.
So far, most of the space time-keeping ideas floated have been modeled on what we do here on Earth. It may not be practical, but perhaps settlers will take the opportunity of leaving our planet to devise entirely new conventions.
Story was written by Jane C. Hu
More here: https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/space-settlement-time-sols-darian-calendar.html
The Unxplained: History Launches Anthology Series, Hosted by EP William Shatner
HISTORY will premiere the nonfiction series “The UnXplained,” hosted and executive produced by Golden Globe® and Emmy Award® winning actor William Shatner (Star Trek, “Boston Legal”) on Friday, July 19 at 10pm ET/PT. The eight-episode, one-hour anthology series will tackle subjects that have mystified mankind for centuries, from mysterious structures and cursed ancient cities to extraterrestrial sightings and bizarre rituals.
“I’m thrilled to be hosting and producing the new HISTORY series ‘The UnXplained” said Shatner. “It’s an intriguing show that will offer viewers credible answers to questions about mysterious phenomena, while also leaving other theories left unexplained.”
From Executive Producer Kevin Burns, the creator and producer of HISTORY’s most popular series, including “Ancient Aliens” and cable’s #1 nonfiction series “The Curse of Oak Island,” “The UnXplained” will explore facts behind the world’s most strange and bizarre mysteries. Hosted by Shatner, the series will also feature contributions from top scientists, historians, engineers and researchers – each seeking to shed light on how the seemingly impossible can happen.
The Line-Up
“The UnXplained” joins HISTORY’s Friday night programming block which includes “Ancient Aliens,” one of the network’s longest running nonfiction series which reached over 80 million total viewers across total day in 2018 and the limited nonfiction series “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation,” where former intelligence officials break boundaries and perceived government taboo by disclosing information about efforts being made to change government policy surrounding UFO phenomena; and the hit scripted series “Project Blue Book,” from executive producer Robert Zemeckis and recently renewed for season two, based on the true investigations into UFOs and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force in the 1950s and 1960s.
Story was written by Doris Elin Salazar at https://www.space.com/
Sighting
This sighting is actually a little unusual, in that we didn’t go looking for it, it came to us. This week’s sighting actually contains two sightings from one of our listeners. Dylan is from the Sacramento California area.
We received our first sighting from Dylan on Jun 8, 2019. "A couple of days ago I saw a green light above someone's house not too many blocks away. All I remember is that it was windy that night. It was there for over six seconds, and it disappeared. It didn't blink or anything. I thought I should tell someone though. "
Sun, Jun 9, 4:42 PM: "I just found out that it is most likely not an alien because that is the direction of the airport."
This was sent to us. Tue, Jun 18 (13 days ago), over his home (which is somewhere in Sacramento County is our guess):
"I found something else. Do you guys have any idea what it is? If this is a real sighting here is some more information (the time, temperature, and the humidity)."
Picks and Warnings
Rim of the World - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8179388/
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Opening theme – Alien Syndrome by Monkey Warhol https://soundcloud.com/monkeywarhol/alien-syndrome
Closing theme – Be Water by Rettward von Doernberg https://thecaravel.net
Between Segment Audio – Lunar Orbit by Monkey Warhol
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monkey_Warhol/The_Darwin_LP/Monkey_Warhol_-_05_-_Lunar_Orbit
Disclaimer audio recorded by Ben Olson – http://www.benolson.com
Featured image - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Shatner_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg
Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
Sunday Jul 07, 2019
Behind the Mask - PoT #157
Sunday Jul 07, 2019
Sunday Jul 07, 2019
Anthony Raus, creator of The Audition and the upcoming movie Absolution stops by to talk about one of his favorite movies.
Next week: Saw 1 and 2 with Mike Hickey.
Sunday Jun 30, 2019
The Purge - PoT #156
Sunday Jun 30, 2019
Sunday Jun 30, 2019
Next week: Behind the Mask with Anthony Raus
Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
The Sound of Space Music, Black Hole Pics, and Chestnut Ridge - Alien Invasion #259
Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
Wednesday Jun 26, 2019
Music for Space, Scientists attempt to photograph a black hole, and a cigar shaped UFO in Rhode Island.
The Question
If there are indeed planets with life, do you think those beings worry about UFOs or conspiracy theories regarding the government covering up signs of extraterrestrial life? (I guess what I am asking is… are aliens as paranoid as humans?)
News
The UFO community still believes — and science is starting to listen
Music has long been known to affect people's mood. A certain tune can lift you up or bring you to tears, make you focus, relax or even run faster. Now a study is investigating how the power of music may improve human performance in one of the most stressful and alien environments we know – space.
Music can help release a cocktail of hormones that have a positive effect on us: oxytocin, endorphin, serotonin and dopamine. Besides the pleasure we get from it, music can be used to prolong efficiency and reduce anxiety.
Stress factors in space can lead to disrupted sleep, impaired time perception and spatial orientation.
"Space appeared to me as the perfect testing ground to use anti-stress music," says violin teacher Luis Luque Álvarez, whose 'Music for space' project puts the psycho-physiological research of music at the service of space exploration.
Story was written by the ESA at http://www.esa.int/ESA
More here: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-music-space.html
The Event Horizon Telescope is Trying to Take the First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole
Astronomers orchestrated radio dish telescopes across the world into an Earth-size virtual camera for a bold new experiment attempting to deliver the first-ever image of a black hole. The telescope collaboration is set to make a big announcement of results this week, and members also described their research approach at a talk in March.
The astronomers' idea is to photograph the circular opaque silhouette of a black hole cast on a bright background. The shadow's edge is the event horizon, a black hole's point of no return. A picture is worth a thousand words, and a photograph of a black hole would be an important tool for understanding astrophysics, cosmology and the role of black holes in the universe.
Story was written by Doris Elin Salazar at https://www.space.com/
More here: https://www.space.com/event-horizon-telescope-is-trying-to-photograph-black-holes.html
Sighting
I saw what seemed to be a cigar shaped object glowing brightly zoom across my home then fly across the sky again.
Just moved into our new home. I have noticed a ton of low flying military helicopters flying over our home at all hours of the day into the night. At least 3-4 times a week. I am fully aware there is a Military base in Coventry, RI, so I accepted the fact that they are doing drills of some sort.
More here: http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/145/S145377.html
Picks and Warnings
Invasion at Chestnut Ridge - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7183826/
OTHER INFORMATION
Leave us feedback by calling our voicemail number at (805) 328-3966 or e-mail aliens@gncasts.com
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Opening theme – Alien Syndrome by Monkey Warhol https://soundcloud.com/monkeywarhol/alien-syndrome
Closing theme – Be Water by Rettward von Doernberg https://thecaravel.net
Between Segment Audio – Lunar Orbit by Monkey Warhol
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monkey_Warhol/The_Darwin_LP/Monkey_Warhol_-_05_-_Lunar_Orbit
Disclaimer audio recorded by Ben Olson – http://www.benolson.com
Featured image - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catherine_Coleman_with_flutes_floating_in_space.jpg
Attribution - NASA [Public domain]
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
The Truth, A Change of Plan, and a Twofer - Alien Invasion #258
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
The scientific community is opening up to extraterrestrials, the first all women space walk is called off, a couple of UFO sightings from Connecticut, and a review of Love, Death & Robots: Helping Hand.
The Question
How do you think, the aliens we may eventually meet, will perceive time?
News
The UFO community still believes — and science is starting to listen
ORLANDO, Fla. — He appeared as if a hologram at first — then solid — suddenly there and clear as you or I, at the edge of the forest behind Trish Bishop’s home in Kissimmee.
It was a Thursday in March 2013, the glow of the afternoon tucking in for the day behind the trees. He stood tall, at least 6-foot-3, perhaps 220 pounds and certainly muscular, wearing a formfitting tan colored uniform, boots, and gloves. He lingered by the crape myrtle tree in the middle of the backyard.
Story was written by Chabeli Herrera at https://www.inquirer.com/
Astronauts Won’t Make the 1st All Female Spacewalk After All, NASA Says
The first all-female spacewalk in history won't be happening this week after all due to a last-minute crew swap, NASA announced today (March 25).
NASA had planned to send astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch on what would have been the first-ever all-female spacewalk this Friday (March 29), but International Space Station mission managers have "decided to adjust the assignments, due in part to spacesuit availability on the station," agency officials said in a statement.
While Koch is still on the schedule to take her first spacewalk on Friday, McClain will stay inside the orbiting lab this time. NASA astronaut Nick Hague will take her place.
Story was written by Hanneke Weitering at https://www.space.com/
More here: https://www.space.com/no-all-female-spacewalk-nasa-says.html
Sighting
We’re going to share 2 of the 10 UFO sightings featured in a post from the Connecticut Post.
Story was written by Jim Shay at https://www.ctpost.com/
More here: https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Latest-UFO-sightings-reported-in-CT-in-2019-13705550.php
Picks and Warnings
Love Death & Robots: Helping Hand - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9788504/
OTHER INFORMATION
Leave us feedback by calling our voicemail number at (805) 328-3966 or e-mail aliens@gncasts.com
Subscribe to this podcast by clicking https://gncasts.com/subscribe-alien-invasion/
More episodes can be found at https://gncasts.com/category/thealieninvasion/
Please consider becoming a partner with us by going to https://gncasts.com/support
Opening theme – Alien Syndrome by Monkey Warhol https://soundcloud.com/monkeywarhol/alien-syndrome
Closing theme – Be Water by Rettward von Doernberg https://thecaravel.net
Between Segment Audio – Lunar Orbit by Monkey Warhol
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monkey_Warhol/The_Darwin_LP/Monkey_Warhol_-_05_-_Lunar_Orbit
Disclaimer audio recorded by Ben Olson – http://www.benolson.com