DAVID SUSSIN

We get hit with stuff from space constantly. More than you might think. Somewhere around 20,000 meteors larger than a softball hit Earth every year. A few hundred are big enough to recover and catalog. Why aren't they more of a big deal? So far, every single one has been from our own solar system, mostly from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, some from the Moon or Mars after they're hit by other meteors. So, there's not much new to be learned by these objects. We're just glad they aren't the size of buses, and they mostly disappear into our oceans. It's extremely rare anything enters our solar system from outside its boundaries. Astronomers call these objects 'interstellar'. They know immediately when an object has arrived from interstellar space: its trajectory and velocity can't be explained by gravitational interactions within our solar system. Meaning, it's not orbiting the sun or any other object. It's literally passing through....

In 1997, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded a strange sound deep in the South Pacific. NOAA officials knew it was some kind of animal, because the sound started at ultra low frequencies and rose in pitch. Ice breaking or underground quakes don't have that kind of pattern -- they're abrupt and limited in frequency. And unlike ice cracking or ground shifting, the sound lasted nearly a minute. The pattern clearly matched what they'd expect from whale calls or other animal vocalizations. And it was detected across thousands of miles of ocean, again common for the low-frequency sounds made by marine animals, but rare for ice quakes. This noise was biological. Researchers who heard the sound called it "amazing". But it was also disturbing. Because they didn't know what animal could make it. It was no whale.  In fact, the amplitude was beyond what any currently known creature could make. It was extremely loud. Which suggested the...

 In June, President Trump was asked again about those mysterious unidentified flying objects seen over New Jersey late last year. The question came from podcast host Miranda Divine on her show "Pod Force One", produced by the New York Post. And if the question seemed out of left field -- the mysterious lights in the sky are no longer in the news -- it was a good one to ask. Because nine months later, the public still has no idea what they were. As a reminder, this was much bigger than a random UFO sighting by some guy on a farm somewhere. FBI investigators at the time collected over 3,000 witness reports.  And the flying objects were seen over military sites like Naval Weapons Station Earle, and critical infrastructure like the Round Valley Reservoir. The objects were absolutely real. The FAA even restricted flights over the area. So near the end of the forty minute interview, Divine asked if the President knew what they were. Mr. Trump said, "I can't tell you who it...

 In 2003, the Pentagon added an ominous item to its wish list of weapons they deemed essential to maintaining superior firepower: a gamma ray bomb. The Department of Defense at the time said, "such extraordinary energy density has the potential to revolutionize all aspects of warfare". They weren't kidding. A weapon capable of releasing high energy gamma rays would be devastating beyond anything used on a battlefield today. Every living thing in the immediate area would be eradicated. In a flash. If this sounds like a nuclear bomb, it's actually worse. Precisely because no one wants to use a nuclear bomb. A nuclear blast radius is enormous and indiscriminate, killing and destroying everything miles from its target. And there's fallout. Radiation contaminates soil, water, and air for a generation. The area hit is uninhabitable. Nuclear weapons are an effective threat between nations, but in battle they are destructive on a scale that removes them as a viable option...

Bob Lazar claimed he helped reverse engineer alien propulsion systems at a site near Area 51. If you follow Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), you know the story. Lazar claimed he was a physicist hired by the U.S. Government. He was interviewed by an investigative television journalist in 1989, and and said he'd worked on an anti-gravity reactor from an alien ship. There's no record of his working for the government in any capacity, so it's easy to dismiss his claims. But in July of 2023, former Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office intelligence officer David Grusch testified before the House Oversight Committee and said projects like Lazar's had been going on for decades. He insisted, under oath, that he knew of a "multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program". In November 2024, during another congressional hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth," several former officials confirmed the s...

Scientists at Scripps Research Institute just made a major leap toward synthetically enhanced humans. A large portion of medical breakthroughs involve proteins. Life saving medicine like insulin, antibodies that target cancer, and enzymes that correct genetic defects, are all proteins. But there's been a significant limitation to these advances. We're stuck with the proteins naturally available. And they don't change very often -- or more accurately, they're always changing, but at a glacially slow pace. In nature, protein evolution happens over millions of years.  Proteins only change as organisms accumulate mutations. This happens across generations. This is time we don't have. For a human living on Earth today, millions of years is the same as saying never. We can't wait around for new proteins to evolve, so any future medical advancements based on them are pretty meaningless to us. Of course, in lab settings scientists have been able to speed up the process ...

According to the 2025 U.S. Intelligent Threat Assessment, the next terror attack won't involve highjacking a plane. It'll be invading our DNA. The 2025 Report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirms that Russia and North Korea possess active offensive biological weapons programs. Bad operators China and Iran are also identified as actively pursuing bio weapons. But particularly ominous are the terrorist organizations. Helped by the increased speed of AI assistants, terrorist groups are pursuing biological materials for use as weapons. The report specifically mentions Al-Qaeda's pursuit of anthrax, botulism, and plague. ISIL also gets called out for potentially possessing tools and know-how to produce these weapons. In addition, lone wolves and domestic militia groups are referenced as intending to use these horrific means to reach their goals. AI has boosted nearly every facet of society. Unfortunately, biological warfare is one of them. Add to tha...