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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
If you look at LA and you were to flashback 40 years, it's the same LA.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
It's the same exact infrastructure.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Like the world of the Jetsons did not come to fruition, right?
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
So you're telling me that we have something where, you know, an experiment where electromagnetism is the input and some sort of gravitational perturbation or propulsion is the output, right?
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And that's, we're just sitting on that.
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Okay.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Like maybe it makes sense if you have the extreme dual use implications of, you know, turning the H-bomb into the child's firecracker.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Like I would stop talking about it tomorrow if I knew that were the case.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And in a lot of cases, you know, that's what science is.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
Like you think about nuclear fusion, controlled nuclear fusion could lead to free energy, but it's also the H-bomb when it's uncontrolled.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
So often technology serves as this weird dual use forcing function for civilization to kind of, you know, up its game consciousness wise or whatever.
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So my guess would be it's a long winded way of saying my guess would be it would be, you know, DOE and national labs.
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And then my big issue on the whole thing is like.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
I don't know if... Part of me thinks the lights are on, but nobody's home.
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And we don't have a framework where it's like, if Russia and China are at parity with the US on this stuff, we need to roll it out.
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And we need to use it in our cities and make the world a better place and just admit that this stuff is real.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
And then if they're not...
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
you know, maybe there's some, you know, extreme reason for secrecy.
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E178 - Jesse Michels: What UFO Sightings Reveal About Power, Technology, and the Unknown | Jesse Michels
What's weird is I feel like I'm living in the Truman Show sometimes because, like, I truly, truly, like, I don't think I'm
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an idiot.