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Our First Steps on an Alien Planet - Journey to Planet Serpo | pt 3

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Our First Steps on an Alien Planet - Journey to Planet Serpo | pt 3

Ryan Reynolds promotes Mint Mobile’s $15/month premium wireless plan with a $45 upfront payment for a three-month introductory rate, emphasizing ease of use and accessibility. He also highlights BJ’s Wholesale Club’s limited-time offer of $20 to join, offering 10 cents per gallon savings for six months on groceries and gas. A separate segment recounts a personal UFO sighting in North Carolina, noting a silent, triangular craft with red lights, which the observer reports to the National UFO Reporting Center. The main narrative centers on a fictional extraterrestrial encounter from the Area 52 podcast, where a military team arrives on the alien planet Serpo after a 10-month journey via wormholes. The planet is barren, with two suns and advanced but rigidly structured society. The team adapts to alien food, water, and technology, including hydroponic farming and flat-screen TVs. A key figure, EBE-2, acts as translator, host, and emotional anchor, displaying fluency in English and empathy. The story explores how alien society operates on strict routines tied to sunlight, contrasting with Earth's individualism. Despite the fictional framework, the segment raises thoughtful questions about the plausibility of extraterrestrial contact and the potential for real-world inspiration in science fiction. The narrative blends entertainment with critical reflection on human perception, technology, and the boundaries between belief and reality.

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New members only. BJ's. Home of the save. Save. So I saw this triangular mall UFO back in 2016 in November, I think it was, in a town called Fletcher in North Carolina close to Asheville. And there's this, the Blue Ridge Parkway is a big overpass that goes over I-26. And I was on the highway, and the highway's a little bit loud, but I had the windows rolled down. And I could see this craft that was around dusk. And it was triangular, and it was shining its light on the treetops. On the treetops? Above me. And it wasn't, there was no sound. There was no engine. It was perfectly quiet, and it had a light on each of the triangle points. And I think it was a red light right in the center. And I was with a friend of mine in the truck, and we were just hollering. We were like, oh my God, this is one of those things. I later reported it on the National, what is it called? The National UFO Reporting Center. It turned out that a lot of folks thought, I don't know, stuff like that. Just a quick reminder that our episodes do not feature any AI-generated imagery, and that the sketches featured in this episode are indeed done by a human artist. You can find their link below in the description. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Area 52 podcast. My name is Chris Ramsey, and today we're going to be continuing our adventure to the planet Serpo. If you are not currently in the loop, part one and two are available. And if you don't want to watch those, the quick rundown, is apparently we've had an exchange program with extraterrestrials after the Roswell crash. We've been in communication with these beings, and we then trained 12 military personnel for several months, and this was approved by the president to exchange an alien and 12 of our humans. We're going to send them off to planet Serpo, somewhere in the vicinity of the Zeta Reticuli star system, 39 light years away, which takes 10 months. Our protagonists have since been very ill during this travel, especially in the time fields or the time warp sort of wormholes that they must pass through to get there. But now, alas, after this arduous journey, our heroes have now arrived to planet Serpo, and we, for the first time, will have a glimpse into another world, another alien civilization. Do I believe this book? Not really. I like the idea of acquiring knowledge in any way, shape, or form, and I read a lot of science fiction books, but the most stimulating ones are the ones that sort of brush up against my own reality and make me question whether or not these things actually happen, to some extent, perhaps. Maybe there's a seed of truth in here. Maybe we'll find it. Maybe something with the knowledge that we've acquired over the past few years of this channel will stick out that will connect to another fact that we've uncovered and perhaps glean a little bit more on the existence of, you know, the potential existence of these extraterrestrials and our communication with them. So, folks, if you are so inclined, I would highly suggest leaving a like, subscribing even, and if I can twist your arm, drop a comment. Hit the notification bell. Check out the merch shop. Check out the Discord. Check out the membership. Yada, yada, yada. And one more thing. A quick message from our sponsors. When I'm doing these interviews in the Skiff, I'm literally locked in on conversation, and so listening to someone's vulnerable, sometimes very personal experience, isn't the best time to be taking notes for later, but I do want to be able to take notes. And so the Thomas Jane episode is a perfect example of that. So his story was probably one of the most compelling that I've ever heard, and I was so locked in and focused on what he was saying. But later, when I'm editing or researching or building the next investigation, I might need to verify some key facts about his account, and that's why I've been using the Plod Note Pro as an AI note taker. So not just to capture the conversation, but to turn it into a searchable memory for Area 52. This is basically a little archive that I have. And with Plod Note Pro, I can take a long interview or research session and get a clear summary, key moments, transcripts, and action items. I'll show you what I mean. So I recorded the whole conversation with Thomas Jane onto my Plod Note Pro. It then sends it to the Plod app, which gives me a full searchable transcript, which is amazing in case I need that. But in the notes section, here's what's really cool. I can ask it something like, what are the names of the people and what are the names of the witnesses that were named during this interview? And just like that, we got Travis Walton, Udo Wartena, Paul Parada. And that's really the value for me. It turns a long conversation into something I can search, review, and actually build off of. Plod protects your data, and your data is not being used for AI training. These are available both on the official website and on Amazon. You can click the link below. Thank you to Plod for sponsoring this video. All right, folks, we paid the bills. I actually forgot to tell you that we paid the bills. Last episode, maybe we didn't pay the bills that time. I don't know. All right. I don't know where I was going with that, but just thought I'd mention it because I have attention deficit disorder. Okay, I'm very excited about this. This is the first time that we get to have a glimpse at another planet. Well, not the first time we get to have a glimpse at another planet, but the first time I read anything about a planet in the Zeta, Reticuli star system. So very interested in this. Now, we read through the voyage. The stoic commander, otherwise known as Skipper, has shown himself to be quite the leader, very worried about his crew. One of the passengers has passed away due to a pulmonary embolism, I believe. And so as tragic as that is, he was pilot number two. You know, he will be missed, but, really, what are we doing here? Do we really need pilot number two? We'll see. The commander's diary describes the arrival on Serpo. EBE-1 came in. EBE-1, by the way, quick little asterisk, I believe was the Eben that joined them, the Eben that stayed on the planet during the exchange, maybe, or was it the one that was translating? Or was it the, the female EBE? 'Cause there was a female EBE. Not sure how they could tell. Maybe just by the voice, I don't know. EBE-1 came in. Told us the journey was almost over. Led us to a hallway. We got into a moving room and moved to another part of the ship. Wait, wait. You've established the voice of this character, which I've completely forgotten. Pardon me. EBE-1 came in. Led us to the hallway. Came out in a large room, many items. I can't identify them, but they look like clothing chests or bedroom chests. We were also led to a large table with food. EBE-1 tells us to eat. He said, "Good food, eat." We all look at each other. 700 and 754 says, "Let's eat." Okay, we find plates. Seems like ceramic plates, real heavy. I chose something that looks like a stew. Then I got a biscuit. Same as we ate earlier. The drinks were in metal containers. Same fluid we drank earlier. We all ate. Very little taste in the stew. Something like potatoes, maybe cucumbers. Some type of stems. Not really bad. The biscuits taste the same. Everyone sat and ate. We found something like apples, but didn't taste like apples. Sweet and soft. I ate one. Leaves an aftertaste in my mouth. Team looks happy. Some are joking about not having any ice cream. Okay. The MVC is in the room. First time we saw him. He speaks through EBE-1. The language really bothers my ears. The high-pitched sounds and the vocal tone tones sound very strange eb1 tells us mvc wants us to prepare for landing c plate 13 okay how do we do that must go into the bowl room get into the bowl no one wants to do that but if we have to we will do that we are led back to the moving room and travel back to the bowl room we climb into the bowl some use pot for relief of our bowels and bladders then climb into the bowl the lids close but we are awake just lie there fall asleep we see two sons the bowl lids have opened my wristwatch says 1100 i guess it's still day one we climb out eb1 is at our side he tells us landing home okay i guess we're here we gather our gear seven hundred seven hundred seven hundred seven hundred seven hundred seven hundred reminds us to wear our sunglasses once we exit we pack up and walk down a long hallway then in another moving room we travel for one minute then door open we are in a large room we see our stowed gear many smaller spaceships are stored here a large door opens bright light see the planet for the first time we walk down the ramp large number of ebens waiting for us we see a large eban largest one we've seen yet he comes forward and starts speaking to us eb1 translates a welcome message from the leader i guess this guy's a leader about one foot taller than the others the leader tells us we are welcome to the planet he called it something we do not understand eb1 isn't doing a good job translating but we are led to an open area looks like a parade field field the ground is dirt looking up i see blue skies the sky is very clear we see two suns one brighter than the other the landscape looks like a desert arizona or new mexico no vegetation that we can see there are rolling hills but nothing but dirt this must be the central village or town we landed in an open area with large structures like electrical towers something is sitting on top of these towers starting to sound more and more like john marston well john marston here all right red dead reference um the mirrored tower first of all the fact that skipper here hasn't mentioned the fact that they're not wearing helmets outside the plane to the ship is kind of wild i that's something that i would be very afraid of immediately so i don't know if they were previously briefed on the fact that they will be breathing alien air and that the aliens oxygen nitrogen and everything else levels are exactly what humans require is kind of wild to me that would be wild to me on the center of the village is a large tower looks like a concrete structure very large maybe 300 feet looks like a mirror's place on top of this tower all the buildings look like adobe or mud huts some larger than others looking in one direction can't tell any actual compass ratings but there's a very large structure all the ebens are dressed in the same clothing except for some of the ebens who are on the spaceship now i see others dressed in a dark blue outfit different from the others each eban is wearing some type of box on their belts all have belts you can see that the ebens are dressed in a dark blue outfit different from the others each eban is wearing some type of box on their belts all have belts can't see any children but maybe they're the same size too our boots leave an imprint on the soil the brightness is almost too much for our eyes without sunglasses looking around 360 degrees i see buildings in barren land can't see vegetation i wonder where they grow their food what a planet hard to believe hard to believe we'll have to live here for 10 years we'll have to live here for 10 years but a journey of a thousand miles begins but a journey of a thousand miles begins but a journey of a thousand miles begins with one footstep with one footstep with one footstep can't remember who said that but that just can't remember who said that but that just can't remember who said that but that just came to mind came to mind came to mind 10 years 10 years on an alien planet what 10 years 10 years on an alien planet what 10 years 10 years on an alien planet what the hell the hell the hell could you imagine being so calm could you imagine being so calm could you imagine being so calm i'm surprised not one of these people i'm surprised not one of these people i'm surprised not one of these people have just absolutely lost their mind and have just absolutely lost their mind and have just absolutely lost their mind and begun like begun like begun like screaming and punching random evens like screaming and punching random evens like screaming and punching random evens like there's there's there's there's nothing stopping anyone from doing there's nothing stopping anyone from doing there's nothing stopping anyone from doing that i feel like that i feel like that i feel like when faced with this type of ontological when faced with this type of ontological when faced with this type of ontological shift i mean one out of 10 people is gonna start i mean one out of 10 people is gonna start i mean one out of 10 people is gonna start drop kicking some evens drop kicking some evens drop kicking some evens i would assume maybe the training is i would assume maybe the training is i would assume maybe the training is really good really good really good i'm not saying i would punch a gray in the face but i'm not saying that under in the face but i'm not saying that under in the face but i'm not saying that under those circumstances those circumstances those circumstances my mind wouldn't break and i wouldn't my mind wouldn't break and i wouldn't my mind wouldn't break and i wouldn't consider it i'm not saying that consider it i'm not saying that consider it i'm not saying that interestingly the evens offloaded the interestingly the evens offloaded the interestingly the evens offloaded the supplies and equipment onto 16 separate supplies and equipment onto 16 separate supplies and equipment onto 16 separate pallets pallets pallets the commander was not able to view the the commander was not able to view the the commander was not able to view the offloading procedure but apparently it offloading procedure but apparently it offloading procedure but apparently it was accomplished very quickly so it seems was accomplished very quickly so it seems was accomplished very quickly so it seems likely that the evens manually likely that the evens manually likely that the evens manually transferred everything to 16 pallets and transferred everything to 16 pallets and transferred everything to 16 pallets and then floated the pallets into the then floated the pallets into the then floated the pallets into the underground storage area perhaps they underground storage area perhaps they underground storage area perhaps they were able to make the heavy items were able to make the heavy items were able to make the heavy items weightless when they moved them onto the weightless when they moved them onto the weightless when they moved them onto the pallets pallets pallets serpo is a rather desolate looking planet serpo is a rather desolate looking planet serpo is a rather desolate looking planet and the commander is clearly not very and the commander is clearly not very and the commander is clearly not very happy about what he sees in his words happy about what he sees in his words happy about what he sees in his words what a planet what a planet what a planet hard to believe we will have to live here hard to believe we will have to live here hard to believe we will have to live here for 10 years for 10 years for 10 years uh we later learned that this is not the uh we later learned that this is not the uh we later learned that this is not the eben's native planet but was chosen as a eben's native planet but was chosen as a eben's native planet but was chosen as a refuge after the volcanic devastation of refuge after the volcanic devastation of refuge after the volcanic devastation of their home planet okay so a volcano their home planet okay so a volcano their home planet okay so a volcano they can travel through wormholes they can travel through wormholes they can travel through wormholes uh but they get wiped out by a volcano uh but they get wiped out by a volcano uh but they get wiped out by a volcano yeah sounds about right yeah sounds about right yeah sounds about right welcome to planet serpo the large number welcome to planet serpo the large number welcome to planet serpo the large number of evens are welcoming us of evens are welcoming us of evens are welcoming us they seem friendly then almost shocking they seem friendly then almost shocking they seem friendly then almost shocking us someone speaks english us someone speaks english us someone speaks english we all look around and see an even the we all look around and see an even the we all look around and see an even the even speaks very good english this even we all look around and see an even the we call ebe2 speaks almost fluent we call ebe2 speaks almost 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it tells us it tells us one of us must wear it one of us must wear it one of us must wear it looks like a small transistor radio we looks like a small transistor radio we looks like a small transistor radio we put it on our belts put it on our belts put it on our belts the weather is extremely hot the weather is extremely hot the weather is extremely hot ask 633 to take temperature ask 633 to take temperature ask 633 to take temperature he says 107 degrees very warm he says 107 degrees very warm he says 107 degrees very warm we take off the top jacket we take off the top jacket we take off the top jacket and that leaves us with a one-piece and that leaves us with a one-piece and that leaves us with a one-piece flight suit flight suit flight suit they all look alike all right they all look alike all right they all look alike all right i wonder if that's actually the case or i wonder if that's actually the case or i wonder if that's actually the case or if that's just if that's just if that's just you know you know you know 60s 60s 60s talk um um um you know what i mean you know what i mean you know what i mean yeah you all look alike yeah you all look alike yeah you all look alike i don't know might be racist i don't know might be racist i don't know might be racist um um um the ebens the ebens the ebens look at us but seem very friendly look at us but seem very friendly look at us but seem very friendly some are wearing some type of shawls some are wearing some type of shawls some are wearing some type of shawls i asked eb2 about that eb2 says they're i asked eb2 about that eb2 says they're i asked eb2 about that eb2 says they're females females females okay i see okay i see okay i see they all look alike they all look alike they all look alike really hard to tell one apart except for really hard to tell one apart except for really hard to tell one apart except for uniform uniform uniform some have different colored uniforms i some have different colored uniforms i some have different colored uniforms i asked eb2 about that eb2 says military asked eb2 about that eb2 says military asked eb2 about that eb2 says military uniform uniform uniform okay that makes sense eb2 leads us to a okay that makes sense eb2 leads us to a okay that makes sense eb2 leads us to a series of huts series of huts series of huts looking like adobe style houses there are looking like adobe style houses there are looking like adobe style houses there are four four four behind them is an underground room or behind them is an underground room or behind them is an underground room or storage area storage area storage area it is built into the ground underground it is built into the ground underground it is built into the ground underground we have to walk down a ramp the doors we have to walk down a ramp the doors we have to walk down a ramp the doors look like a military igloos that store look like a military igloos that store look like a military igloos that store our atomic bombs on earth our atomic bombs on earth our atomic bombs on earth all our gear taken off the spaceship is all our gear taken off the spaceship is all our gear taken off the spaceship is stored there stored there stored there we walk down in this area very large we walk down in this area very large we walk down in this area very large room very cool a lot cooler room very cool a lot cooler room very cool a lot cooler might have to sleep here might have to sleep here might have to sleep here all our gears there 16 pallets gear This igloo is made up of something like concrete, but not the same texture. It feels like soft rubber, but still hard. The floor is made of the same stuff. There are lights in the ceiling. Looks like spotlights. They have electricity. We must inventory all our gear sometime. We go back to huts. The huts are cooler than outside, but still very warm. We must get organized. I tell EB-2 we will need to be alone and get organized. EB-2 then, I realize EB-2 is a female, says, okay, we will be left alone. I ask for the body of 308. EB-2 seems to be confused and doesn't know about any body. I explained to EB-2, held her hands across her body and bowed her head. It was really an emotional sight because she was almost crying. EB-2 told us that the body would be brought to us. She must check with her trainer. The word trainer kind of shocked me. Is EB-2 in training? And someone is teaching her? Or is the word trainer in Eben something different in English? Maybe that means leader or commander. Don't know. But EB-2 left. I told 203 to gather everyone in the lower storage area. We will have a team meeting. 633 suggested we start the calendar as of today. It is 1300 hours on our day one on planet Serpo. Hot dang. I like how mid-conversation he was like, oh, she's a woman. And the shawl being the only difference is kind of wild. They'd be very confused here on Earth if they went to Italy. All right. The team was able to use all their electrical appliances. They plugged them all into the sealed black box and they all worked. It is believed that the team was also able to use Eben device that they had developed to communicate with Earth. There didn't seem to be anything to prevent this. Except for the slim possibility that it only worked with the Eben language. But even in that case, the Ebens would have translated messages into English. For some reason, Anonymous never discusses the utilization of the communications device by the team. OK, that's kind of strange that there's like a back and forth instant communication through space and time. That's quite wild. It is interesting to note that the Ebens have electricity, but no air conditioning. This is one of the many paradoxes. This is one of the many paradoxes of the Eben technology and civilization. They are advanced and civilized, and yet they are primitive and simple at the same time. Yeah, that is interesting. Maybe they know something about AC that we don't. The female alien that the team commander designated as EBE-2, who speaks excellent English, is clearly the same EBE-2 who translated the Yellow Book and who presented it to our greeting party at the first landing in April 1964. And who also translated the conversation at the time. It is coincidental that she was given the same name both times because none of the team members had been present during the greeting at the April landing. They were all waiting in a bus. Her emotional reaction in this bit of drama regarding the body of 308 reveals a sympathetic and compassionate nature, which the team learned was generally characteristic of this race. As we will see, this first incident about the recovery of 308's body was the opening round of what turned out to almost become a major diplomatic problem very early in the game. In this next diary entry, we see that EBE-2 becomes a very important link between the team and the other Ebens. Maybe they have books about Earth. We had a serious problem. How do we explain to our science, to an alien entity who doesn't know Einstein, Kepler, or any of the other scientists of our time? Simple mathematics seems so foreign to them. EBE-2 is a smart one. She seems to understand our language more than 1 and 2. She even seems to understand our basic math. We started with basic math, 2 plus 2, and then progressed on. She understood and even caught on so quickly that she continued without our help. We realized that she has a great IQ, and she repeated a thousand times a thousand and came up with an answer. We showed her our slide rule. It took her a couple of minutes to figure it out, although I don't think she fully understood all the symbols on the slide rule. She is really something. We found a personality in her. Maybe because we have more contact with her than the others. She is very warm-hearted. One can just sense that in her. She really cares about us. She even worries about us. During our first night, she seemed to make sure everything was just right for us. She warned us about the heat. And the light. She mentioned that Serpo does not get dark like Earth. I wonder how she knew that. Has she visited Earth? Maybe she's just educated on Earth properties. Anyway, on the first night, she told us about the winds. What winds? Gusty winds start just when the one sun sets. The other sun does not, but stays in the lower horizon. The winds blow dust. Free dust into our huts. We had a very difficult first night. We call it night because it seems that the Ebens just call it a period of their day. E-B-E-3, E-B-E-2, knew the word day but didn't compare it to Earth's day. Maybe she hasn't been to Earth. We didn't sleep well during our night. The Ebens don't sleep like we do. They seem to rest for periods of time and then wake and go about their business. Whatever that might be. When we awoke, E-B-E-2 was there, outside our hut. I opened the door and she was waiting. Why? How did she know we were awake? Maybe the huts are being monitored by some sensor. E-B-E-2 told us to follow her to the eating place. She didn't use the word dining hall or chow hall or facility. She used the word place. All right, first off, keep it in your pants, Skipper. I feel like this guy's getting a case of the Serpo goggles. He might be spending a little too much time away from home or other humans. He sounds a little too intrigued by this E-B-E-2. Watch a love start blossoming. I mean, I wouldn't be against it. I think that that's exactly what this story might need. All right. The fact that the team used a slide rule for computations really dates this entry and authenticates the time frame. The introduction of inexpensive scientific calculators in 1974 made the slide rule virtually obsolete. But in the 1960s, all engineers routinely carried slide rules on their belts. In fact, the fact that E-B-E-2 was able to quickly understand the use of the slide rule with its cryptic symbols tells us a lot about the high Eben intelligence. The commander speculates that perhaps E-B-E-2 had visited Earth. At this point, he did not know that E-B-E-2 had indeed visited Earth in April 1964. And evidently, he knew nothing about the Yellow Book, or he would have been informed that she had been the translator. The fact that MJ-12 kept this very important piece of knowledge from the team is astonishing. In this case, the paranoia and secrecy went too far. This team had given up a role. This team had given up a real deal to make this journey. And they deserved to know everything possible about the planet that would be their home for the next 10 years. Someone should have briefed them about the Yellow Book. I agree. How much secrecy is too far? We are the aliens. Once I gathered the team, we walked across a village. I'll call it a village for the sake of wording. We entered a large building. It seemed to be large, based on the small. stature of the Ebens. There was food on tables. I guess we'd call this place a chow hall. Ebens looked at us, but carried on eating. Did they not cook inside their huts? Maybe everyone eats here. We walked to the food tables. Same food we saw and ate on the spaceship, except some items were different. They had large bowls of something like fruits. Strange looking things. They also had something like cottage cheese. It tasted like sour milk, but after the initial taste, alright. I encouraged each team member to eat and drink. Might as well get used to the food. But 700 tells us to eat just one of their meals a day, and stick to our C-rations for the other meals. That way, our system will adjust to the Eben food. We sat at a table, small compared to our standards, and ate. The Ebens, numbering probably about a hundred. Just eight didn't really bother us. Every now and then, we'd catch Ebens staring at us. But we were the freaks, not them. We are the visitors. We are the aliens. We must look strange to them. We all look different. They all look the same. Again, I can't help but think that they do look different. Um, it's just this guy, you know, he just, it's, it's the sixties, man. You know what I mean? Alright. It makes me laugh. Okay. How can they compare us to them? They can't. We stare at them. They stare at us. We see a different look in evil. very strange looking creature large long arm almost floats along with long legs can't be an even we all stare this creature just floats by us and didn't even look at us i find eb too she's eating with three others once i approach her she stands and almost bows her head towards me maybe just a greeting have to remember that i ask her about the creature we saw i ask if it was some other type of even eb too seems confused she asked me what creature i use the word creature maybe that was an insult or maybe she didn't know the word i pointed to the thing at the other end of the building she then saw what i meant eb too said no even just visitor like you pointing to me okay i see they have other alien visitors here i guess we're not the only ones i then ask eb to what planet did that visitor come from eb too said something like corta not sure of the exact word although i asked her to repeat it twice okay where is corta she walks me to a television at least it looks like one it's positioned in the corner of the building and it's set up like some type of command station she places her finger on the glass and something appears a bit of an asterisk here this technology is now commonly used by television anchors commentators and meteorologists they routinely manipulate images on the television monitors using their fingers and bring up statistical underpinnings and it was used like the ipad and all of all the new tablets quite possibly the evens helped us develop this capability okay the universe star systems i don't recognize any of them she points to a spot and says corta okay where's earth she points to another spot and says earth based on this television glass space map corta and earth are very close but i don't know the scale of this map maybe they're a trillion miles apart or maybe 10 light years but they seem close i'll have to have one of the scientists look at this see okay i thank ebe too she seems pleased she almost looks like an angel she seems so very nice she touched my hand and pointed to my table and said eb to what planet did that visitor come from and she said eb to what planet did that visitor eat good eat i laughed and said yes good chow hall food she looked puzzled i guess she doesn't know what a chow hall is i pointed to the building and said chow hall earth eating place she repeated what i said chow hall earth eating place i laughed and walked away now she will think all earth restaurants are called chow halls from the studio that brought you wandavision i was an avenger but i'm not a hero anymore the vision returns for the final chapter of the groundbreaking trilogy that family wasn't real you sure about that i had a father called vision how is this possible don't miss the two episode premiere of marvel television's vision quest nothing bonds a family together quite like mortal jeopardy now streaming only on disney plus comes to my policy farmers gives it to me straight so there's no surprises it's your 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relationship has sprung up between commander and ebe2 who has evidently been designated as their combination translator guide and hostess all right so i definitely didn't read into something that i didn't know about i don't think too much it was there a love's a brewing loves a blossoming love to see it i'm actually in favor of this i i love when the uh just like in you know the lacerta files you you felt a little bit of a thing right now what's different about the lacerta file so that she can you know obviously she can be a reptilian like entity but she can be a reptilian like entity but she can be a reptilian like entity she can morph or or in your mind at least look like something entirely different um this guy's just into greys at this point um he said it himself they all look the same so either he's really into all of the greys or he's just a personality guy those are the options 11 adjustment the team commander's record of the first day on serpo continues we return to our huts we must get better organized we have a meeting everyone seems okay we wonder about latrines where do we relieve ourselves eb1 comes by almost as if he was reading our minds maybe they can even do that he tells shows us pot in hut we all wondered what that was okay that is our latrine realize that won't work very well but we'll do what we can then we realize the pot has some sort of chemical inside our wastes are dissolved or something like that can't really tell each of the four huts has one that'll work for the time being i've got to take a dump no he didn't say that i just added that sorry about that uh must be over 140 degrees wow okay very hot on this planet indeed ebe1 tells us to walk on ground not sure what he means by that but 420 says that might be to just walk around okay that we will do i organize the teams 102 will remain with 225 i want 633 and 661 to look at the television glass map to see if they can tell which star system is corda i ask 518 the biologist to take a temperature readings and general weather observations i know it's hot very hot must be over 140 degrees 754 warns us to keep covered from sun radiation 754 says radiation levels are high doesn't sound very good to me this reminds me of nevada 1956 during the atomic bomb testing we had hot weather we had to worry about the radiation for the atomic blasts now we're on a strange planet 40 light years from earth and we have radiation and heat but we have to explore that is why we're sent we start walking around 475 we'll take photographs with our military cameras i hope the film is not affected by the radiation how do we develop it maybe we didn't think of everything i team up with 225 we walk to a large open door building we walk in and it looks like a classroom but no ebens are here there's a large television tube takes up an entire wall there are some lights flashing on this television tube we examine the tube and we see that there's a large television tube it's very thin but maybe there are more advanced in this area than us they must be we don't find or touch anything else in this building we move on wow it's so very hot i hope i get used to it so they got flat screens there you have it flat screen technology in the 50s in the 60s what is this an alien planet i forgot to ask you guys what's your conviction level so far on this whole thing i want this to be real so bad by the way like i want nothing more than for this entire story to be 100 accurate i'm not quite there but i'd be curious to know you know is there something in this story obviously the whole thing sounds a little preposterous but is there something in this story is there something in this story is there something in this story is there something that rings more true or that was perhaps seeded or inseminated into this book uh is there something that rings more true than something else what is that detail for me it might either be the time travel stuff like the wormhole stuff i love that concept um or just the fact that there was some type of meeting um but let me know what your thoughts are and as for uh i don't know if i can answer that question but i think it's a good question the binary star system is anyone out there like into geophysics or astrophysics that could corroborate you know Whatever they said about the temperature, the time of day, and that type of thing, I wonder. I might not be smart enough to understand how that would actually work, or would it be some sort of three-body problem where it would spin chaotically out of orbit or collide? The commander's comparison of conditions on Serpo with the 1956 atomic bomb testing conditions in Nevada, especially with regard to radiation exposure, tells us that he must have been involved in those tests. This is the second piece of information revealed about the commander's past. We previously learned that he was from Colorado. The huge, thin television tube, without electronics showing, sounds suspiciously like our modern flat-screen televisions. Once again, was this technology given to us by the Ebens? It's interesting that the commander is surprised. Why would he be surprised by that? They are more advanced in this area than us. Why would he be surprised that they are ahead of us in television technology when he knows that they have mastered time travel? That's a great question. How he's like, time travel, okay. TVs, what the hell? The commander continues. We find a large tower. Looks like an antenna tower, but it has a large mirror. We saw this when we first arrived yesterday. We find an Eben standing near the door, but he moves aside. We ask him if he understands English. He just stares at us. But seems friendly. I guess he doesn't speak English. We move on into the building. Can't find any stairs, but we see some type of round glass room. Maybe it's an elevator. Then, we hear English. We turn around and find EBE-2 standing there. Where did she come from? I ask her if we may explore this building. She said yes, of course. She points to the glass room and says, go up. Okay, we enter the glass room. The glass door closes and goes up real fast. In no time, we are at the top. The sundial tower. But what is this? We ask EBE-2, what is this? She points to the sun and then points to the top of the room where the mirror is located. She then points to the ground. Okay, we see it. The tower is in the middle of the circle. The circle is situated on the ground. In each quadrant of the circle is a symbol. I see that the sun is directed through the mirror. Maybe this isn't a mirror as we know it, since the sunlight travels through it. But once the sunlight travels through it, the light is directed on a symbol within the circle. EBE-2 says that when the light contacts the symbol, then EBONs make a change. Not sure what that means. Maybe she means it tells the EBONs what to do. 225 seems to think it's a sundial. When the sun strikes a symbol, the EBONs change what they are doing, do something else. Maybe the EBON day is structured, or maybe this is their clock. Strange. But we are on an alien planet. I'm glad I still have my sense of humor. We have to start using EBON time. This is only our first day. First day of school. We have a lot to learn. We have to keep an open mind. Can't keep comparing things to Earth. We have to open our minds to new ideas, new science. All these things are foreign to us, but we must learn. I pointed to my wristwatch. And then pointed to the ground in a gesture to show EBE-2 that the two items are time pieces. Not sure if she understood. But I said time, and she then understood. Yes, she said, EBON time pointing to the ground. I pointed again to the wristwatch and said Earth time. EBE-2 then almost smiled and said, no, no Earth time on Serpo. OK, that makes sense. 225 said she just told us that Earth time doesn't work on Serpo. Yes, I guess she did. What good is our watches or time devices here? They don't work. We have to start using EBON time, but we must also maintain our time because we must know when to leave. Ten years seems like a million. Maybe based on EBON time that it might just be a million years. Let's hope not. No time to think about home. We have a mission and duties to perform. We're a military team, and we must maintain that idea. 225 and myself go back into Glass Bowl and go down to the ground. The sketch shown here was made by the team commander to attempt to capture his view of the base of the Mir Tower. He considered this important enough to draw because the sun's focus on these objects dictated the day's activities for everyone in the community, and each community had such a tower. See page 142 for what Anonymous says about the commander's sketch. It should be noted that Anonymous claims the sketch was made in 67. Since the team arrived on Serpo in mid 66, obviously the sketch was not made on the first day of the planet. But a few months later, the words in brackets were added by email recipient and editor Victor Martinez. Anonymous mentions drafting templates to explain that these templates were used to make the sketch. It is not a free hand drawing. Website moderator Bill Ryan adds the following about how it was drawn. It is since shown conclusively that this drawing was made with a barrel rapid design. Our 22 architects drawing stencil. However, it is also known that this very common template was on the market a number of years before Serpo mission departed 1965 and may well have been included among the equipment taken by the Serpo team. Cool. Another corroborating piece of minor corroborating piece of evidence here to support this. Event at least being made up in the 60s. Comments by Anonymous about the sketch. A great deal of planning went into the ten year mission to Serpo. Several teams of officials planned what equipment to take. These officials tried to imagine every conceivable situation where certain types of tools and other equipment might be needed. One area was capturing the view and makeup of objects, artifacts and landscapes on planet Serpo. The mission team took cameras. 16 different types of cameras and drawing drafting equipment. Although no team member was trained in drafting, three team members had drawing experience from their college days. Several different types of drafting templates were taken on the trip. The planning officials tried to envision every type of situation where a template might be needed. The drawing made by the team commander depicts the base of the sundial. Each object meant a certain time of day to the Ebons. When the sun was directed through the sundial onto the object at the base of the sundial, that meant a specific task or change of to the Ebons. For example, it might signal a change in work schedules, a time to rest, a time to eat, a time to celebrate, etc. After a few years, the team learned each symbol and learned the meaning of each symbol. This drawing is a copy of the actual drawing made by the team commander in 1967. The team also took many photographs of the sundial symbols. The regimentation of the Ebons society is surprising. Our team was able to determine the average IQ of the Ebons was about 165 on our scale. It wouldn't be expected that aliens with such high intelligence would subject themselves to such rigid control over their daily activity. On Earth, we associate creativity with complete freedom of expression, and we understand that creative people must be permitted to live perhaps eccentric lives. We actually expect writers and artists not to conform to conventional patterns of life. Perhaps this is the key. The Ebons did not display the sort of individuality that we have. And consequently, there was little or no creativity in the Ebon race. They are not very innovative. They simply accept the precedents and follow the rules handed down to them from earlier generations. Intelligence alone does not guarantee creativity. From this, we can begin to appreciate the unique qualities of the human soul and the importance of diversity. I couldn't agree more. Even food. 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Limited time offer. members only bj's home of the save and they got fruits there too which is cool even food we walk into another building large again inside we find rolls and rolls of plants this must be some sort of greenhouse they're growing food many evens are inside they look at us with some glares but we just walk around we just walk in and around one even comes up to us and speaks but in even he seems to be telling us something he points to the ceiling and then to our heads maybe he's telling us to cover our heads we must find ebe2 we go back outside and then find ebe2 she always seems to be near now we understand why she's monitoring us by the devices we are wearing on our belts i ask ebe2 what is that building she says food making place you you I'm wondering what she's talking about maybe we contaminated the place we told her that another even spoke to us and then pointed to our heads ebe2 seemed confused and walked back into the building with us the same even exchanged words with ebe2 ebe2 then told us that we must wear a cover on our heads in order to enter why but we didn't argue this other even produces some sort of cloth hat and we wear it we walk about the even seemed happy we look at their plants they're growing food in soil they have a watering system they also have some sort of transparent cloth over each plant i point to the watering system and ask ebe2 if that is water drinking water two said yes and then senses we are thirsty two leads us to a place near another entrance and offers us water at least we think it's water tastes like chemicals but it is water actually tastes good this is another example of even technology that seemed novel to our people at the time in the mid-1960s but hydroponics now commonly used here to grow vegetables it permits complete inexpensive control over plant growth and requires no soil it is beginning to appear that we learned a great deal from our serpo experience in his sixth information release anonymous gives the following details about the even food taken from the 3000 page debriefing document that he had in his possession my god 3000 also interesting you know at first i was like okay flat screens oh i guess we got that from the aliens uh but more and more how cool would it be if like the stuff that we have around us is at least partially influenced by like the journals of this guy that was like a real thing it's probably where ping pong came from all right food was a problem for our team members our team consumed most military style sea rations but eventually had to switch to even food the evens had a variety of food items they grew vegetables our team found items similar to potatoes but they tasted different they had some type of lettuce turnips and tomatoes they were the only ones that had a variety of food items they grew vegetables the evens had other vegetables grown these were strange looking round items with long vines the evens cooked the vines and ate the large portion of the plant raw the evens had some type of white liquid which we first thought was a form of milk but after tasting it our team realized it was different both in taste and content the liquid came from a small tree located in the northern portion of the planet the evens literally milked the tree for the liquid it appeared to be some sort of pleasure to drink the stuff our team members never got a real taste for the liquid the evens cooked food they make pots of stew which was extremely tasteless to our team we used a lot of salt and pepper they also baked a form of bread it was a non-yeast bread that tasted fairly good but caused extreme constipation to our team members we had to drink large quantities of water in order to digest the bread the one common food that the evens and our team members liked was the fruit evens ate a great quantity of fruit the fruit although different from anything we saw was sweet some of the fruit tasted something like melons while others tasted like apples another problem was the water the water on serpo contained a number of unknown chemicals found by our team our team eventually had to boil the water before drinking it seeing this the evens built a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens evens built a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens even a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens even a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens even a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens even a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens even a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens even a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens even a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens even a large plant that processed water for our team how kind of them i like these evens even Our team members' wastes consisted of bulk quantity of both fecal matter and urine. The Eben had to dig large waste reception sites for our 12 team members' wastes. The Ebens accommodated our team. How kind of them. They seem very kind and friendly. But this goes against a lot of the modern lore that states that the Eben just pooped through their skin. Skin poopers is the scientific technical term, I believe. Instead, they poop like cats, apparently. And they don't pee. Hmm. Disappointing. Twelve. Confrontation. Okay, some drama. And fourth. This would be a long-term project which it would take generations of totalitarian control to bring to a successful conclusion. A foolproof system of eugenics designed to standardize the human process. And so to facilitate the task of managers. Forward by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Okay? Ominous. Following the death of 308 on the trip to Serpo, the Ebens took control of the body without explanation. Upon arrival, the team commander requested the body of 308 and was told that was not possible. In the following diary entry, the commander relates how his attempt to retrieve the body escalated into a tense confrontation. And how EBE-2 tried desperately to defuse the situation. It took all 308's blood. Leader of the Ebens is a larger creature than the others. He seems to be more aggressive than the other Ebens. When I write aggressive, I don't mean in a hostile way. He seems to be the boss, similar to me, as a team commander. His voice, although after all this time I still can't understand any words, is harsh with a tone that is different from the rest. I'm sorry. 203 claims the leader has an attitude. I agree. He is extremely friendly to us and has accommodated all of our requests. The leader has requested many things from us, most of which we have provided. One strange thing is our blood. He wanted all of us to supply a blood sample. 2 explained that the blood, or health fluid, as 2 explained it, was necessary for them to supply any medicine to us if we should ever need it. 707-54 feels that a blood sample might just be used for other purposes. We have allowed the Ebens to utilize 308's body for experiments. They took all 308's blood. That was without my approval. It's a little hypocritical. Didn't we also exhume and autopsy the bodies that crashed at Roswell? I feel like there's a bit of a double standard here with what we're allowed to do. I wrote about that in Log 3888. We had a very tense situation with the Ebens about that. When we traveled to the building housing 308's body, we were confronted by several Ebens. EBE-1, this EBE-1, is the Eben leader referred to above. He's not the same as EBE-1 who crashed at Roswell. He showed up, and I explained that we wanted the body of 308. 1 told us that we will take it. The 11 of us walked by the Ebens numbering 6 and walked into the building. They did not attempt to stop us. While inside, we could not open any of the containers. There was some type of system, maybe crypto-style, that was being used to lock the containers. We did find the container housing 308's body. We decided to send 899 out to storage area and get some explosives to open the container. EBE-2 showed up with the leader. 2 was extremely polite. She asked us to wait. She used the word "please" several times. In fact, she actually used the English word "beg". We backed off, and I told EBE-2 that I wanted our friend's body, and we wanted to examine it. 2 translated that to the leader. There was a long exchange of words between the two. Finally, 2, who seemed very frustrated, told us that the leader would like us to go to another location and speak with another Eben, a doctor, about the body of 308. 2 explained that everything we wanted to know about 308's body would be explained to us by the Eben doctor, who, too, said spoke English. I told 2, that I would leave 899 and 754 here to guard the body, and I would take the others to the location containing the doctor. Two translated that to the leader. Again, there was a long, drawn-out exchange of words between the two. It lasted for several minutes. Finally, two stated that the leader would like all of us to leave this building and go visit with the doctor. I told two no. I would not leave the body of 308 alone. I felt that this was going to be a confrontation. I told 518 and 420 to go back, obtain our handguns, and come back ASAP. I was not going to allow the Eben to countermand my decisions. When EB-2 heard this, she told me to wait, placed her hand against my chest. I told her to translate that to the leader. Again, there were several minutes of word exchanges between the two. Two then stated that the leader would bring us the doctor here to discuss the situation with us. Two asked me to please stop. Don't send your men for guns. Guns are not needed. We can settle this without guns. Please don't. I told two that we would not get the guns, but we would not leave until we saw 308's body. The leader did something with the communication device on his belt. About 20 minutes later, three Ebens showed up inside the building. One of the Ebens identified himself as a doctor and spoke very good English. The doctor had a strange-sounding voice, almost like a human's voice. The doctor did not have a high-pitched accent like 1 and 2. I was very impressed with this doctor. I just wonder where he's been for the past 18 months. Never saw him before. This doctor told us the 308's body was not inside the container. The Ebens have done experiments with 308's body because they considered it an honor to have such a specimen to work with. The doctor told us that they used 308's body to create a type of cloned human being. I stopped the doctor at this point. I told the doctor that the body of the teammate was a property of the United States of America. Planet Earth. The body did not belong to the Ebens. I did not authorize any experiments on the body of 308. I explained that humans consider a body to be religious. Only I could have authorized the use of 308's body for experiments. I demanded to see the body. The doctor explained the body was gone. This doctor said all the blood body organs were taken out and used to clone other beings. The use of the word beings really scared me and the others. 899 became extremely angry. He called the doctors curse names. I ordered 899 to be quiet. I then told 203 to take 899 out of the building. I realized this matter could really blossom into a major incident. I could not allow that to happen. There were just 11 of us and we realized that if the Ebens wanted to imprison us or kill us, they could do it very easily. But I didn't think the Ebens would resort to such behavior. I was not going to allow the incident to advance into something worse. I realized there wasn't much we could do about what the Ebens have done with 308's body. Again, I reiterate, boo-hoo. How many of these bodies have we torn apart? But this guy probably doesn't know that by now. This is the 60s and he is perhaps somewhat of a religious fellow. Two looked very upset. Two told me that everyone should be nice. She repeated the word nice many times. Two did not want this matter to escalate. I kind of felt sorry for Two. She was trying to mediate the matter. 203 suggested we return to our living quarters and have a meeting. I told the leader that I did not want any further interference between whatever is left of 308's body and experiments. I pointed my finger towards the leader's face. Two translated along with the doctor. The doctor, who was extremely angry, said, Extremely straightforward. Told me that nothing further would happen with the body, but advised me very little was left of the body. Two then told me the leader was concerned that we were upset. That we were their guests. That the leader was upset that we were offended. The leader did not wish to upset us and promised that nothing further would happen to the body. I thanked Two and had her relay that to the leader. We returned to our huts. Everyone was upset, especially 899. I told each member to calm down. I explained our situation as if each team member didn't already realize it. That we were only 11 military personnel. We had no way of fighting the Ebens. We did not come 40 light years to start a war with the Ebens. A war we could not win. We could not even win a simple fist fight with these Ebens. Yes, maybe we could beat them up, but what then? We have to realize that our situation and act accordingly. I ordered each member to reconsider the situation and to accept the facts about 308's body. I told 633 and 700 to investigate the cloning procedure with the English-speaking Eben doctor. Let's get all the facts about what they did with the body and what we can find out about the body and the Ebens' experiments with the body. All right. Bit of a dramatic turn here. I liked how they were like, what do you mean? We just took the body apart and cloned it. I hope that's fine. Again, we probably ended up doing the same thing. It is funny how primitive our hip check sort of reactions are. Please, for the love of everything good in this world, stop. With Mint, you can get premium wireless for just $15 a month. Of course, if you enjoy overpaying, no judgments, but that's weird. Okay, one judgment. Anyway, give it a try at mintmobile.com slash switch. Be the road warrior. This is your home, road warrior mom. Home of the save. Open soon. Limited time offer, new members only. BJ's, home of the save. In comparison to their culture, like immediately he's like, get my gun, go get my gun. And the Ebens are like, whoa, whoa, hold on. Like we didn't want to, you know, upset you or make you angry. But, you know, immediately we don't even resort to like anything other than get my gun. That body's American. You're in violation. Sounds about right. All right. A brave new world. The trip to Serpo was our traumatic introduction to the world that Aldous Huxley had prophetically anticipated 33 years earlier in 1932 in his classic novel, Brave New World. Even 20 years before, he was a brave new world. He was a brave new world. He was a brave James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins have solved the riddle of how human traits are passed from generation to generation with the discovery of DNA molecule. Huxley could see where it was all leading. A synopsis of the book in Master Plots, edited by Frank N. McGill, says human beings were turned out by mass production. The entire process from the fertilization of the egg to the birth of the baby was carried out by trained workers and machines. Each fertilized egg was placed in solution in a large bottle for scientific development into whatever class in society the human was intended. As early as 1943, Nazi horror doctor Joseph Mengele, the so-called angel of death, was already studying identical twins at Auschwitz to learn how to clone human beings. By the time the team left Earth in 1965, DNA was well understood by science, and the team scientists should have been aware of it. Especially since Watson, Crick and Wilkins had won the Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine in 1962. Also, by that time, there were reports leaking from top secret circles that some of the grey aliens who had been abducting humans were creating a hybrid human-alien race using sophisticated genetic procedures. Although the books on this subject by Bud Hopkins and John Mack were yet to be written, furthermore, it was believed that the greys themselves were clones. So the concept of human or alien cloning should not have been totally foreign to the doctors or scientists on that team, and yet, they were shocked by the fact that the Ebens considered the body of 308 a great prize for their crossbreeding experiments. This was their rude introduction to a brave new world of genetic engineering. But bigger shocks were yet to come. The Eben genetic laboratory. Here we go. The team commander continues the story in his diary. Two came to the hut. I told two and 633 and 700 were going to examine what was left of 308's body. They would also conduct research into the Eben's experiments done on 308's body. Two looked very concerned. It is sometimes difficult for us, even after the time that we have been on this planet, to determine the meaning of facial expressions on an Eben's face. To reply that she must first obtain approval, approval was a new word for two she was reading or learning our language maybe she's just picking up our words i told two that she can go get permission but that we were told when we arrived that we did not have any restrictions on where we went two said she would speak with the leader 633 and 700 gathered test equipment and prepared themselves for the examination of the eben laboratory according to our time devices two came back in about 80 minutes later two said it was all right for my men to visit their laboratory i decided that i would also visit it myself 633 700 were escorted by ebe2 to the laboratory facility we had to be taken by heli transport service as we call their helicopters it took us some time before arriving at this location according to our compass readings which are not really a compass reading but we made points of references and according to them we traveled to the north the facility was large by even standards the buildings look like a large single-story windowless school we landed on the roof or maybe just the landing zone on the roof we were escorted down a walkway or ramp they don't have ladders on this planet i think i wrote about this in one of my past entries they have ramps we arrived in a room white walls we then walked through a hallway into another larger room we met our english-speaking doctor we saw many other ebens all dressed in a bluish colored one-piece suit different from their ordinary suits i spoke of in past entries the doctor told us all the experiments are done inside this building he didn't call it a laboratory just a building it's done to create clone beings we were led into another room where there were rolls of containers looking like glass bathtubs inside each bathtub were bodies i was shocked as were 700 and 754 this is this is kind of crazy because now this is something that comes up over and over and over and over in abduction cases um i'm reminded of eric nance steel someone that i interviewed that he was also shown these vats with these floating babies um if you think back to a betty andreason's accounts she was also shown these vats with these floating babies and she was also shown these vats with these floating babies vats with these you know fetuses and aliens and human bodies inside these glass containers filled with liquid uh not unlike the scene in the matrix you know when people wake up from the matrix in uh in in the real world uh where they're sort of in grown in these yeah these vats um so it's interesting to get a peek behind the curtain here at you know a lot of times we get to see it on board or we get to hear about it on board but literally they've got this going on their home planets as well hideous looking creatures bodies strange looking bodies not human bodies at least not all of them we started walking down the space between the tubs we looked into the tubs these were hideous looking creatures i asked the doctor what type of creatures were inside these tubs the doctor told us that these creatures came from other planets 700 asked the doctor where these creatures dead when they arrived or did the evens bring them here dead the doctor said all the creatures were brought to the planet alive 700 asked that the creatures were kidnapped or brought here against their wills or their wishes the doctor was not sure of the word kidnapped the doctor seemed puzzled the doctor asked about the question 700 said that these creatures were taken from another planet and brought to serpo without permission from them or their leaders of their planet the doctor said that these beings were brought here for experiments these creatures are not intelligent beings two then use the word animals okay now i understand all these creatures are animals from other planets the doctor didn't seem to understand the word animal two and the doctor exchanged words and even and the doctor said yes they are animals i then asked if there are any intelligent creatures in this building the doctor said yes but all of them were dead when they arrived on serpo 700 asked to see these creatures the doctor corrected 700s by saying beings okay i guess creatures are animals and beings are like humans let me first write down the description of these creatures inside these tubs they were not all alike the first creature i see inside the tub look like a porcupine it appears to have a tube placed inside of it the tube leads to a box underneath the tub the second creature i see looks like a sea monster has a large head big deep set eyes no ears mouth but no teeth it's about five feet long it has two lower legs but no feet it has two arms but it doesn't appear to have any elbows it has hands but no fingers the creature also has a tube going through it the next creature looks like nothing i can compare to it has blood red skin two spots in the middle maybe eyes no arms or legs very strange odor the skin appeared to be blotchy with scales maybe like a fish maybe it is a fish the next creature was human-like but the skin was white not skin white the color white the skin was wrinkled the head was large two eyes two ears and a mouth the neck was very small the head almost looked as if it sat on the lower torso the chest is thin with large bone-like protrusions and the arms were curled with the hands but no thumbs the legs are also curled with the feet but only three toes i couldn't look at any more creatures oh like a tridactyl interesting interestinger and interesting or here we go i saw the dark side of this civilization we walked down another hallway through a room down a ramp into another room we came into a room that looked like a hospital room there were many beds or at least some type of bed even style bed i described them before and each bed was a living being as the doctor called it the doctor told us that each being was alive and well cared for 700 asked the doctor if the bed was alive and well cared for the doctor told us that doctor if these beings were all ill or sick eb2 had to translate that but the doctor said no they are being lived three of us 102 754 and 700 seemed really stunned by that word lived i asked two what the doctor meant to exchange words with the doctor to then use the word grown 700 asked the doctor if these were the clone beings that he'd mentioned before the doctor said yes that each being was a living being and that each being was a living being and that each being was a living being was being grown using the same word as two just used 754 asked the doctor if these beings were being grown like a plant the doctor said yes that is a good comparison 700 asked the doctor how they are grown the doctor said that certain parts of their beings were used to grow these beings the doctor said that he could not explain the process in english because he didn't know the words 700 then asked two if she could explain the growing process and two said she did not know the english words two said that parts of the blood and other organs are used to mix a substance that is placed inside the bodies of these beings that was all two could explain in english i told 700 to go back and get 420 and bring him back while we waited for 420 we looked at these beings they were breathing they looked like humans most of them two of the beings on the end looked like humans with dog heads these beings were not awake they were either sleeping or drugged 420 returned 420 then spoke with two 420 is really good however long we have been here some guests about 18 months earth time 420 learned the language well 420 then said that the growing process involved cells taken from other beings grown and mixed with chemicals and then inserted into the bodies of other beings that was about all he could explain 420 420 did not know the words ebe2 used but the word cells were used 2 then told me that some things were taken from inside the cells 700 and 754 then asked if the items taken from inside the cells were cell membranes or identification markers for the cells ebe2 translated that to the doctor both seemed confused and they said they could not explain the process because they did not know the english words for it 700 used the word advanced 754 used the word advanced biological extraction of the cell membranes but neither two or the doctor knew anything about that process i asked 754 if he might understand what they were doing he said the human cell contains smaller substances that can identify the structure with the membrane to the cell this isn't something that earth technology has advanced but 754 has read about it prior to leaving but 754 doesn't think that earth technology can be used to grow living cells into what the ebons have done the ebons must have found a way to grow cells and to make them into living beings 707 54 said nothing like this is known on earth i then asked the doctor if 308's body was used to create a being the doctor said yes and showed us the being i was shocked as was 700 and 754 this being with our teammates blood and cells looked like a large ebon but the hands and legs were similar to humans how could they have grown this being so quick obviously this is well above our intelligence i saw all i wanted to see i told the doctor that we would like to leave two saw that i was upset and touched my hand instantly i felt concerned two was really concerned about what i saw two said we leave we traveled outside this building a building that i did not wish to see again i saw the dark side of this civilization the ebons are not a humane civilization we thought they were but i must say they didn't hide anything the doctor spoke straight to us just like the ebons they don't know how to lie seeing what we saw will change our impression of the ebons as long as we stay on this planet the two doctors 700 and 754 were beginning to understand what was going on when they asked if the items taken from inside the cells were cell membranes or identification markers for the cells and then when 754 said that human cells contain smaller substances that can identify the structure with the membrane of the cell he was describing dna without being aware of it the commander goes on to say this isn't something that earth technology has advanced to but 754 has read about it prior to leaving the doctor basically understood what was happening but dna biotechnology on earth was not yet being used to duplicate living beings or grow organs they must have obtained quick education about this when they saw the hybrid creature that had been created using 308's dna evidently the ebons have the same capabilities as the grays their ongoing alien genetic engineering program has been proceeding since the beginning of the 308 era and since then the ebons have been doing this since the 1950s in underground laboratories such as dulce in new mexico various whistleblowers have reported seeing the genetically engineered quote-unquote freaks in these locations we have no doubt learned a lot from these alien experiments and now with our well-developed dna knowledge we basically understand at least theoretically what the ebons and grays are doing whether or not we have attempted to duplicate any of their monstrous experiments is of course unknown that may be one reason for the continuing secrecy this is true this is true you know you think about dolly right the cloned sheep not too long afterwards you had the aliens this uh cult actually not too far from here in the province of quebec uh that you know was apparently in front of a congressional hearing as well testified that they uh can clone a human but you got to think you got to think about the cloned sheep you can clone a human but you got to think you got to think about the cloned sheep if we success like we currently today are cloning animals that is a fact you can buy a you can have your dog or cat cloned say you really love your cat or you really love your dog there are services today that you can pay for cost about 30 grand and they will clone your animal multiple times because sometimes the clones don't take and you'll get to take one home and it'll be physiologically identical tammy you can clone a human but you can't clone a animal because sometimes the clones don't take and you'll get to take one home and it'll be physiologically identical tammy you can clone a human but you can clone a human because sometimes the clones don't take and you'll get to take one home and it'll be physiologically identical tammy regularly hauls stuff to her kids at college that's why she shops at bj's wholesale club saving up to 25 off grocery store prices beef jerky microwave meals laundry pods even they can't screw up have you met my kids and with bj's gas she gets there for less they call me the road warrior this is your home road warrior mom home of the save join for just 20 at bjs.com slash mesquite and save 10 cents per gallon for six months open soon limited time offer new members only bj's home of the save ryan reynolds here from mint mobile the message for everyone paying big wireless way too much please for the love of everything good in this world stop with mint you can get premium wireless for just 15 a month of course if you enjoy overpaying no judgments but that's weird okay one judgment anyway give it a try at mint mobile.com slash switch upfront payment of 45 for three month plan equivalent to 15 per month required intro rate first three months only then full price plan options available taxes and fees extra see full terms at mint mobile.com will it be your pet of course not we know this but it will be the shell of your pet exactly and so we have that technology to think that somewhere in some privatized lab all humans across the world have agreed collectively not to clone humans is preposterous like we've all been like no we'll build nukes and you know we'll think of the worst possible virus that we can you know sort of congeal in a laboratory we will also make the most potent poisons and mustard gases and we will experiment with all sorts of the most horrendous horrific weaponry that money and ai can put together but cloning another person that's just too far for us i don't believe it i don't believe that we would stop at simply cloning an animal and never consider you know if you're doing these black budget programs trillions of dollars of course they clone people of course they've tried and if we haven't our adversaries have it's kind of wild to think about isn't it like why haven't we seen a human clone yet oh because we all agreed to follow the rules for cloning what and follow the rules for anything else we're continuously lying about everything but yet like that's the one line we're not going to cross i don't think so but interesting i you know what i kind of appreciate i'll be honest this is a this is the off the sticks this is an off the sticks moment i kind of really appreciate the uh the earnestness of these and how they don't lie they're just and they do have emotion it seems like eb2 at least has emotion um they just have this insanely high uh level of sort of logical proceduring like they all they all they know how to do is just like be logical and they don't understand anything that is illogical and uh that is kind of neat but they do. seem and although they do have like individual personalities there is a sense of hive mindedness that they adhere to you know when you talk about the clock that tells them what to do every day or just like yeah they're and maybe that's what they need to make a cohesive society maybe they figure that out it's just really interesting to see how humans have developed a relationship with things like cloning or things like disposing of a body and how they have you know evolved to feel about the same things um rather differently and maybe maybe that's because of religion you know we have so many different religions on this planet doesn't seem like they've even addressed the religious thing yet which you'd think that that would be one of the first things they talk about you know being in the 60s like hey who's your god you guys worship jesus here you know what i mean i don't know interesting nonetheless this is a very interesting and compelling story and i think it's a very interesting and compelling story and i think it's a very interesting and compelling story i am in i do want to see what happens with the further development of the eben relationship uh vis-a-vis our skipper our commander yeah what are your thoughts anything in here stand out to you as particularly interesting intriguing or you know somewhat revelatory please let me know in the comments below i'd be very curious to read something that i've missed and i'll be sure to mention it on the next video folks i appreciate your time i appreciate you being here with me on this very silly extremely out there adventure uh but i look forward to the next installment 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Ryan Reynolds promotes Mint Mobile’s $15 monthly premium wireless plan with a $45 upfront payment for a three-month intro rate, available at mintmobile.com/switch.
  2. BJ’s Wholesale Club offers new members a $20 join fee and 10 cents per gallon savings for six months on gas and groceries, with a limited-time offer.
  3. A viewer recounts a 2016 UFO sighting in North Carolina, describing a silent, triangular craft with red lights, which they later reported to the National UFO Reporting Center.
  4. The Area 52 podcast explores a fictional scenario of human-alien exchange, detailing arrival on the alien planet Serpo, its desolate landscape, and the team’s initial adaptation.
  5. The alien race, the Ebens, communicate in a language with high-pitched tones, and one female member, EBE-2, exhibits strong emotional intelligence, fluency in English, and a deep connection to the human team.
  6. The narrative includes advanced alien technology like flat-screen TVs and hydroponic farming, suggesting technological parity or superiority, while also revealing cultural rigidity and lack of individuality.
  7. The team observes a sundial-like structure with a mirror tower that directs sunlight to symbols, signaling daily tasks, indicating a highly structured, regimented society.
  8. The story raises questions about the authenticity of extraterrestrial contact, citing historical, technological, and psychological details that may reflect real-world parallels or fiction.

Summary:

Ryan Reynolds promotes Mint Mobile’s $15/month premium wireless plan with a $45 upfront payment for a three-month introductory rate, emphasizing ease of use and accessibility. He also highlights BJ’s Wholesale Club’s limited-time offer of $20 to join, offering 10 cents per gallon savings for six months on groceries and gas. A separate segment recounts a personal UFO sighting in North Carolina, noting a silent, triangular craft with red lights, which the observer reports to the National UFO Reporting Center.

The main narrative centers on a fictional extraterrestrial encounter from the Area 52 podcast, where a military team arrives on the alien planet Serpo after a 10-month journey via wormholes. The planet is barren, with two suns and advanced but rigidly structured society. The team adapts to alien food, water, and technology, including hydroponic farming and flat-screen TVs.

A key figure, EBE-2, acts as translator, host, and emotional anchor, displaying fluency in English and empathy. The story explores how alien society operates on strict routines tied to sunlight, contrasting with Earth's individualism. Despite the fictional framework, the segment raises thoughtful questions about the plausibility of extraterrestrial contact and the potential for real-world inspiration in science fiction.

The narrative blends entertainment with critical reflection on human perception, technology, and the boundaries between belief and reality.

FAQs

Mint Mobile offers a premium wireless plan for $15 per month. New customers can sign up for a three-month introductory rate with an upfront payment of $45. Sign up at mintmobile.com/switch.

Yes, new customers receive a three-month introductory rate at $15 per month, equivalent to the full price. This offer is available only for the first three months, after which the full price plan applies.

BJ's Wholesale Club offers a limited-time new member deal: $20 to join and save 10 cents per gallon on gas and groceries for six months. Members also save up to 25% on groceries, including items like pasta, protein bars, and sports drinks.

The planet Serpo described in the podcast is fictional and part of a science fiction narrative, not based on real events or scientific evidence.

The aliens on Serpo had advanced technology, including flat-screen televisions, hydroponic farming, and a mirror-tower system used to regulate daily activities based on sunlight patterns.

The team learned to follow the alien schedule based on sunlight reflected through a mirror tower, which triggered daily activities. They also discovered that Earth time did not work on Serpo and had to use a new system of 'EBON time'.

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