Alien Invasions | Case File 251

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09/16/22 • 81 min

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The star at the center of our solar system has an estimated age of 4.6 billion years, while the Milky Way galaxy sits at a venerable 13.6 billion years old. Each day, new stars are cataloged and observed for the presence of orbiting bodies. Each day, humans angle our instruments at our nearest cosmic neighbors and listen for something to reveal that we are not the only ones searching for intelligent life in our galaxy. But what if we reached out and what reached back, did not have benevolent intent? If we were to discover that our fate as a species was to mirror the multitude of colonization histories upon our own world? The idea of an encounter with another species that has traveled across the vast distances of space to seek out Earth in order to invade and/or conquer our species has been around since the turn of the 20th century. A technologically superior race ravaging our planet towards their own unknowable or incomprehensible goals. At our current level of technology and scientific understanding, what would be the most likely scenarios of why and how an event of belligerent first contact would go down? This case file, join the Theorists as they drive you into anxiety fueled death spiral overdrive with the threat of evil alien overlords in...Alien Invasions
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Built into the traditions of the elite U.S. east coast universities, are a collection of student led societies for the most accomplished of senior classmen. The organizations are renowned for their rosters of leadership and alumni who have held influential positions post graduation. They have been such an integral part of the fabric of the Ivy League schools that even characters from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gastby are implied to have belonged to them, so as to emphasize their success. One of the most exclusive of the societies boasts an impressive amount of members who went on to powerful posts within the CIA, positions on The Supreme Court, and even a number of U.S. Presidents. This case file, join the Theorists as they crack open the Tomb and crack a few inside room 322 with...Skull and Bones
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The Mojave Desert is no stranger to high strangeness. A number of qualities lend the area no small amount of mystique to both the casual observer and the seasoned scientist. One of its most famous denizens is the Joshua Tree, an iconic plant species native only to that specific region of the world. The area of Kelso Dune Field is known for its “singing dunes’ which produce an eerie sound at 105 decibels. The wide open vistas and rugged landscapes which are often said to provoke a sensation of both spiritual wholeness as well as supreme isolation have drawn visitors and residents to the high desert for decades. But it's not just the natural oddities that are a draw to the remote communities of the Mojave. Set in San Bernardino county is a large white domed structure that could easily be misidentified as a UFO. The impressive building is not a planetarium or an observatory but it was allegedly built with the idea of becoming a mechanism in which a human could extend their average lifespans on principles handed down from extraterrestrial visitors. This case file, join the Theorists as they drop in on the long lost cousin of the Randomotron known as...The Integratron
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