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NASA Physicist: UFOs, Moon’s South Pole, & Advanced Pre-Human Civilizations | Adam Frank

2026-02-23 Entertainment
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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Adam Frank is an astrophysicist and leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun using advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how they die. SPONSORS https://mizzenandmain.com - Use code DANNY20 for 20% off. https://rhonutrition.com - Use code DANNY for 20% off sitewide. http://amentara.com/go/dj - Use code DJ22 for 22% off. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off EPISODE LINKS https://www.everymansuniverse.com Little Book of Aliens: https://a.co/d/09qdwlxG FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny LISTEN ON Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4VTLG0HiIZaCjH9gE6NFPq Apple - https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1441238966 OUTLINE 00:00 - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) 01:02 - the first exoplanet discovery 02:49 - Techno-signatures 05:36 - the silurian hypothesis 10:28 - gaps in the fossil record 16:12 - alternate technology of ancient civilizations 17:12 - the 2 meanings of a "theory" 20:30 - Townsend Brown & the Biefeld-Brown effect 24:08 - why there's no such thing as anti-gravity 31:56 - science for public vs. private knowledge 35:28 - military insiders on aliens & UFOs 42:37 - the universe is accelerating 45:35 - why personal testimony on UFOs is useless 49:17 - the greatest minds don't go into government 54:29 - aliens didn't come from other planets 59:45 - where human evolution is headed 01:03:13 - interstellar distances are not travelable 01:07:01 - the dark inspiration behind Arc Raiders 01:09:47 - the danger of current AI technology 01:17:44 - doomsday scenario where AI becomes useless 01:25:11 - the transformation of humans into cyborgs 01:31:08 - how humans change with technology 01:32:52 - what brings down human civilizations 01:36:53 - why moon landing deniers are full of s**t 01:41:42 - commercial space travel 01:46:34 - abandoning a shared reality 01:48:20 - science = national prospertity (china is gaining influence) 01:51:25 - the south pole & weird things about the moon 01:57:04 - the rare earth hypothesis 02:01:41 - how organisms change the atmosphere & climate 02:07:49 - climate patterns throughout Earth's history 02:13:02 - Earth's 5 mass extinction events 02:14:08 - "don't save the earth, save yourself" 02:16:48 - why top scientists disagree on climate 02:24:31 - the state of solar power 02:32:46 - pollution from SpaceX 02:34:56 - the younger dryas impact hypothesis 02:39:22 - the astrobiology field 02:41:54 - the Channeled Scablands 02:44:05 - what really happened to megafauna 02:45:25 - the ethics of human preservation 02:46:27 - human life may have started on Mars

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@dannyjones 2026-02-23

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@jordanbrw 2026-02-25

This guy is the Flint Dibble of physics

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@raspa2000 2026-02-26

That's the first time I drop a Danny's interview half before the end... this dude is so in love with the sound of his voice it's embarrassing

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@flowerstreetfarmbees 2026-02-23

This guy must be in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s book club.

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@larb9136 2026-02-25

ignoring fringe sceince would have ignored almost every great discovery we have ever had

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@RetroAnimeBytes 2026-02-23

‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ has turned into a thought-terminating cliché. Sagan also said ‘absence of evidence is not evidence of absence’; skepticism isn’t supposed to pre-decide what’s impossible.

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@Mababama 2026-03-03

As a fan of this podcast a little bit of grounding from time to time is super healthy, thanks!

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@ravensgaze88 2026-02-23

"We know all the elements that there are" is a crazy thing to say

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@questioneverything1682 2026-03-10

Good speaker. Standard Establishment framing of all of Science.

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@brandondurrell 2026-02-23

He talks about how exact science is and how we have to trust everything he has to say, how may instances in our past was mainstream science wrong and the “fringe” science turned out to be right in the end… idk not a huge fan of such closed minded “what I say is the only truth” type dudes.

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