Jake and Brad’s Excellent Invasion (Premium E301)
In the cold and indifferent void of space, an interstellar object the size of Manhattan rushes towards our tiny planet. This coming November, Earth may be invaded by an advanced Extraterrestrial civilization, or it might just be a passing comet named 3I/Atlas. In Brad’s belated return to the pod, he and Jake brace our listeners for the imminent attack, with only Travis as humanity's last rational hope. With urgent warnings from an unlikely cadre of blind Bulgarian prophets, Christian doomsday accounts, and esteemed Harvard astrophysicists, could there be something more than conspiracy slop to this story? Probably not… but just in case, board the QAA mothership for Jake and Brad’s Excellent Invasion.
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Comments (94)
More Teddy!
If I saw an alien, I would hand it a Twinkie and ask “thoughts?”
Wait. I’m single. And I never leave the house. Am I an alien? There’s no evidence that I am not an alien!!!!!
I also have a VR headset and could have a 3 body problem.
I think Travis' little "...what?" is one of my new favourite QAA moments.
I have a concept of an idea of what a ship show is
Bring back spectral voyager already
A quiet place needs mention on best alien movie
Pedant note: Chris Lintott’s “nonsense on stilts” burn, which Jake liked so much, was coined back in 1795 by Jeremy Bentham, with reference to the idea of natural rights. I’m pretty sure Lintott would know this, if only because he did his graduate work at University College London, where Bentham’s clothed skeleton is to this day preserved and publicly displayed as an “auto-icon,” along with his entire, but separate head.
We watched the new war of the world’s movie the other night. That 3% is extremely generous.
I am watching a prototypical ship show right now called Dark Matter. The cool thing is that, while the SyFy Network show Dark Matter is a show about a ship, the Apple TV+ show also called Dark Matter fits Jake's description of a ship show though it's about time travel.
I watched the apple tv+ show first when I got the wrong series from my usenet. Now I am watching the SyFy serties.
Love a Brad episode, and this was a great one. Glad to see him back!
This alien guy is probably being fed ‘information’ from someone to make them feel special. It’s a good distraction from reality and I know it has been used by the US government to distract its citizens.
Angela Collier is amazing of y'all don't know her. She hates billionaires and grifters. https://youtu.be/aY985qzn7oI?si=965G2nNmRErOKEd9
Avi Loeb is a grifter who seems to people who don't know that people are doing this science like he's just asking questions. He was so shitty to the woman on whom Jodie Foster's character in Contact is based. She's been asking for more funding. She's doing this work. He needs extraordinary evidence and he doesn't have it. To experts he's clearly constructing a straman. I forget who it is but a Nobel Prize winner became an HIV conspiracy theorist. People decide they know everything because they know one thing. From the outside Loeb seems like he's talking from knowledge but he's not. He really likes attention and doesn't mind that the cost is throwing the entire scientific establishment under the bus. He's weaponizing scientific credentials against science. It's so shitty to people doing the work he's pretending is not happening.
Fun thought on aliens: maybe they are nothing like us and the majority of civilizations making it ‘to the stars’ are either post-scarcity or AI based. Only 1/high-n are dumb enough to try a Dyson sphere and most burn out along the way… how about that, Avi?! Huh?!
YES!! I’ve wanted more spectral voyager ever since it came out, thanks guys!
Read all of the series starting with Three Body Problem. I’ll say that the second book (titled “Dark Forest”) is actually very good, maybe even better than the first. And the Dark Forest theory makes for very interesting storytelling from a sci-fi thriller perspective. However, it forces the author to write themselves into a corner and the third book of the trilogy is a massive disappointment as a result. Absolutely awful end to a great sci-fi series.
Terrifying series.
That crank blog post is obviously written by a crank, but his quip about Loeb just spreading falsehoods for funding isn't that outrageous. I read his (very not good) book and he spends a third of it giving his pitch for why he thinks 'Oumuamuatis a solar sail, and the following third is about how he needs money to do his own solar sail project. I'm not how his escalation to "actually we're being stalked by hostile aliens" fits into this, but when he started on this trajectory, it really seems like it was out of self interest, rather than pure scientific speculation.
What was dude saying? “Scien-list”? Did I mishear?
He also said scienlific. I suspect it was an AI problem. The letter t had been replaced with an l and the AI read it as written.
Jake: "I think Signs is probably my favorite alien invasion movie." Brad: *starts laughing* Wonderful. I love this episode already.
Oumuamua did have some peculiarities to it . One of those that you mentioned was its unusual acceleration after passing our sun . Of all the explanations for this I think Jake's is the best. Mystery solved! Hopefully this next mothership gives us no problems and leaves us and our blessed stock market alone ! Perhaps they will just move on after regarding this place as either a " bad neighbourhood" or "mostly harmless"!
an israeli who thinks an "other" is inherantly hostile and primed to wipe us out? never heard this one
That's the mental illness of colonial patriotism throughout history. Where empathy no longer exists, projection takes its place to define others.
Was that Teddy's first official appearance on the pod? (also yay, Brad!)
Great episode again, guys! I love all this alien stuff too and have been following the adventures of Avi and others down the space rabbit hole ( worm hole , perhaps?) Good call on this one,Corey!
Welcome back,Brad . Sounds like you have had a lot to deal with so good to hear you again.
Just found out that our beloved Roger Spurr made a few vids about this, but I’m sure our beautiful boys already know this.
The real intel is in the comments
Just a heads up, arXiv is pronounced "archive," the X is the Greek letter chi ("kai"). Also, Avi Loeb is somewhat silly when it comes to statistics. You cannot multiply the probabilities of two events to obtain their intersection unless those events are independent of each other. Because the planets all orbit in defined paths around the same object, the events he has assumed are independent are certainly not. Sure, it's a weird path through the solar system, but it's really difficult (or impossible) to reasonably estimate the probability of it happening.
Jesus. Independence DaY? Mars Attacks? Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds?!? Three of the worst Hollywood drecks ever. C'mon!
I for one welcome my new interstellar overlords
Somebody never watched B5 multiple times...
If the decoded alien message began “Hello, friends!” then clearly the invasion is being led by Invader Zim. Also was anyone else reminded of that creepypasta that was like, we’ve been sending messages into space trying to contact alien civilizations, and we finally got a single response: “Shhhh, they’ll hear you.”
The idea of Trump meeting with aliens is so funny. I'm imagining it like that picture at Halloween where he's patting the Minion on the head
Honestly I'd be down with redirecting the Juno probe, Jupiter ain't going anywhere and how often do we get to analyze interstellar material?
Unfortunately it doesn't have the required Detla V, otherwise I might be inclined to agree. However given how frequently these objects seem to be, we may get a better opportunity later down the road
That Angr* Astron*mer is pretty kooky.
I gotta say I (also a professor) have some level of suspended disbelief about 3I
Ironic to hear an Israeli wax poetic about "fighting over territories on this rock"
Love you Brad!!
And, with your rejection of the scientific method by agreeing with Loeb that wild speculation is acceptable research, you’ve lost me.
No one cares, man
Where’s the Bill & Ted inspired poster? I want to see it. Also “Edge of Tomorrow” or “Live. Die. Repeat.” is that freak, Tom Cruise’s, best alien invasion movie.
Came here to say this. Show us the poster, cowards!
You guys should add "ship show" to urban dictionary. I know I use it as much as possible.
I couldn’t possibly know less about what is or isn’t a “ship show” at this point.
I’ve learned and forgotten at least three times by now… Currently in ‘forgot’ mode
Brad episodes are always great. He’s such a good addition to the crew.
Not apropos of this episode but something I wanted to share: there is a “shaman artist” named Q who runs (with other members) the “Institute of Perception” in Jacumba California. The furthest back I could find about Q is from 2015. Funky art, mysticism, vortexes, a creepy pyramid, tunnels. It’s an Airbnb now.. Needed to share on a Brad episode!
so avi loeb is an israeli whiz kid who got fast-tracked to harvard & mostly publishes speculative PR shit instead of research? what are the odds this guy DIDN'T know jeffery epstein? i'm surprised no one raised the possibility of this alien invader shit being some kind of potential psyop, given that brad has already done some pretty good coverage of UFO disinfo coming out of various covert state programs past and present.
I like calling Loeb "Harvard physics blogger" since most of his papers are just back of the envelope calculation and speculations that only get published because of his notoriety which in turn add to his notoriety
Avi loeb is lowk a fraud. Highly recommend the Angela Collier video on him. I’ve met him in person before he’s … interesting
Her video is great and so is Prof Dave Explains’ video on him. God Loeb is so cringe, accusing the former lead of SETI (the person that inspired Jodi Fosters character in Contact) of not wanting to break the taboo of looking for aliens 🙄
I don’t think you could find better than the QAA team to greet our new alien overlords.
"If you ask what's the most likely explanation, you are throwing away the possibility of finding something new": I fucking agree. Booo Ockham, you boring loser, I'm cancelling my subscription to your dumb razors which I never use anyway. It's called ROCKET money for a reason 🚀💰
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Whoa Three Body Problem mentioned. 🤯 Literally the best sci-fi books I’ve ever read!! (The Netflix adaption is just ok in my opinion)
The Chinese series is so much better
I have trained myself to hear a cuckoo sound every time I read or hear the name Avi Loeb. And my favorite alien invasion movie is Pacific Rim.
Yeah he is like my nemesis. “But he’s from Harvard!!!!” As if no cranks or morons went there.
Blindsight for QAA bookclub?
Where in Australia is Julian I'd like to give him a kiss
Same! What the hell is he doing down here?!
Liv agar
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Can’t believe jake didn’t mention coneheads.
why the fuck is the tiktok guy saying "scienlist" every time? and why is no one addressing it? I feel like I'm going nuts
i made my wife listen to it to make sure i wasn't going insane
Since joining the Patreon, I got something to listen to while working
Would Bowfinger count as an applicable QAA movie watch? It involves alien conspiracies but more about intentionally sending someone insane who was already teetering on the edge of mental instability, and is as far as I'm aware still considered "not awful"? Was only introduced to it in film studies college class so, uh, I dunno where I was going with that, probably that it's a weird place to discover that kinda movie lol - the other one was Remains of the Day with Anthony Hopkins, not the most exciting competition tbf
Alien Earth is amazing and I can't wait to hear the takes on it, especially since I'm predicting 2 episodes in that black goo is coming back and the Prometheus truthers will be vindicated.
what if teddy had insider knowledge? let him speak! STOP SILENCING TEDDY!
yeah he sounded like it!!!
The "then the stock market will crash" bit and Travis' "...what?" had me dying laughing.
if I wasn't too dumb and gay to drive this bit would've necessitated me pulling tf over
Julien is in Australia?
Julian is in Australia? If you’re in Melbourne and need tips on what to do? Hit a brother up?
of course a cunt named shane is gonna be a melburnian 🤝 julian I second this
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Fingers crossed for spacecraft full of bigfoots.
John dies at the End…best alien movie.
Haven't finished yet just wanted to add my my voice to the "Please watch War of the Worlds" list.
Jake ...in space
Hell yea Jake and Brad together is one of my fave combos
Gradually exposing my mom to more left wing perspectives, encouraged her to check out the QAA episodes where the nice Jewish boys talk about ghosts
You have no idea how much I needed this right now.
Liv Agar!
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