Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

The Artemis II mission to the dark side of the moon will be the furthest human beings have ever travelled from Earth. It's the precursor to a return to the lunar surface and perhaps even reaching Mars.

But still, there are those who say humans have never set foot on the Moon, such as Bart Sibrel. Once punched in the face by Buzz Aldrin, he says he’s on a CIA hitlist because he blew the whistle on the original moon landings being fake.

He speaks to Piers Morgan opposite Dr. Brian Keating, distinguished professor of Physics at UC San Diego and host of the ‘Into The Impossible’ podcast.

Then Piers is joined by former astronaut Charlie Duke, who was the youngest person to walk on the Moon, and Star Trek’s very own Captain Kirk, William Shatner.

Bart Sibrel's website: https://www.sibrel.com/
Dr Brian Keating's website: https://briankeating.com/

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
01:25 Dr. Brian Keating on moon landing conspiracies
03:30 Bart Sibrel discusses his conspiracy investigations
11:20 Bart Sibrel on lights, shadows and radiation belts
18:20 Motivation behind faking the moon landing
22:00 Will the Artemis mission be genuine or fake?
26:43 Charlie Duke and William Shatner join
28:17 Charlie Duke on walking on the moon
30:22 William Shatner on the opportunity to walk on the moon
33:00 William Shatner on being in Space
41:26 Charlie’s advice to Artemis II astronauts
42:43 Charlie and William on moon landing conspiracies
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Brian Keating takes us on an exclusive tour of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh with cosmologist Marcos Pellejero, exploring the mysteries of dark energy and the accelerating universe. From the historic halls where human "computers" shaped the foundations of modern cosmology, to the cutting-edge DESI experiment mapping galaxies across the cosmos, the conversation explores whether dark energy is truly constant—or if our cosmological model is beginning to show cracks.

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Key Takeaways:

00:00 "Dark Energy and Cosmic Clues"
04:42 "Light Pollution Ruins Observatories"
07:03 Royal Astronomer's Electric Chair Solution
11:06 "DESI Challenges Vacuum Energy Constant"
15:48 "Advancing Simulations and Synergies"
19:14 "Science and Art: Problem Solving"
20:29 "Exploring Dark Energy's Secrets"
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With NASA planning to send Artemis astronauts farther into space than ever, should they be worried about the deadly effects of the Van Allen belts? Here, I describe to James Altucher what the claims are and what the real concerns should be.

My response to Moon landing denial claims by Kim Kardashian, Candace Owens, and Bart Sibrel

I answer all the big questions:

⇨ Why did the flag move with no wind?
⇨ Is there really no gravity on the moon?
⇨ Why haven't we gone back?
⇨ How did the astronauts survive the Van Allen radiation belts?

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Timestamps

00:00 Moon Landing Hoax Claims
05:12 Trust, Truth, and Controversy
07:26 Apollo Astronauts' Press Conference Doubts
10:50 Joe Rogan Questions Moon Landing
15:36 Van Allen Belts and Radiation
18:43 Debunking Van Allen Belt Claims
20:01 Worst Moon Landing Hoax Argument Explained
22:57 Van Allen Belts and Spaceflight
28:42 Moon Landing Conspiracy Critique
29:28 Refuting Lies is Harder

References:

Joe on American Alchemy with Jesse Michels https://youtu.be/C_Na1tI5qpw?si=-K2I10rLwf_OYriL
Bart SIbrel on Danny Jones https://youtu.be/58YGzlW3Koc?si=pWcZ2QecGf33owr2
Bart SIbrel and Charlie Duke on Danny Jones https://youtu.be/kMn6sI4X66s?si=X3v8Eng3lT3BYwDT
Bart's confrontations with NASA astronauts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronauts_Gone_Wild
Fauci-Collins "devastating published take down" of "fringe epidemiologist" Jay Bhattacharya https://aier.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/FirstCollinsEmail.pdf

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Matt Kaplan is a science journalist at The Economist and a trained paleontologist. His new book I Told You So!: Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right is a candid investigation into how science actually works — and why the engine of discovery is badly in need of a tuneup.

In this conversation, we discuss why the pandemic exposed science's dirty secrets to the public, how Ignaz Semmelweis discovered handwashing saved lives and was thrown in an asylum for it, why Katalin Karikó survived where others didn't, the replication crisis and how funding models are making it worse, whether older scientists should control research dollars, why Galileo was never actually tortured, and what journalists and scientists must do differently before public trust collapses entirely.

Matt Kaplan also recently discussed science communication and dysfunction on other outlets — in this conversation, we go deeper on the replication crisis, the Semmelweis story, and why the funding model is quietly corrupting the scientific process.

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INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE — where Nobel Prize winners, physicists, and bold thinkers explore the biggest questions in science.

Key Takeaways

00:00 Why the pandemic was science's most damaging moment of exposure

03:30 The scientific-industrial press complex — and who's really to blame 

06:50 How science journalism fails the public 85% of the time 

10:00 Ignaz Semmelweis: the man who proved handwashing saves lives and was destroyed for it 

20:10 Why infection rates dropped from 21% to zero — and nobody listened 

24:30 What Katalin Karikó had that Semmelweis didn't: shelter 

28:00 The replication crisis — why nobody is funding the most important work in science 

33:00 How funding models force scientists to run experiments they've already won 

40:30 Should older scientists control research dollars? A Nobel laureate weighs in 

43:45 Why Galileo was never tortured — and why the myth won't die 

47:00 The rhinoceros tooth: a paleontologist's lesson in confirmation bias

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Michael Wong recently discussed theory of evolution on TED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSrf7ErdHWA  — in this conversation, we go deeper on the law of increasing functional information and what it means for life, complexity, and the future of science.

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Is there a second arrow of time? Astrobiologist and planetary scientist Dr. Michael Wong joins Brian Keating to explore the law of increasing functional information — a proposed new law of nature that may explain how complexity evolves across minerals, biology, AI, and the cosmos.

Dr. Michael Wong of the Carnegie Institution for Science has been working with a cross-disciplinary group of scientists — the "Missing Law Group" — to propose something bold: a new law of nature. Their law of increasing functional information argues that evolving systems, whether biological or not, tend toward greater complexity and function over time. In this conversation, Brian and Michael unpack what functional information actually means, how it differs from Shannon entropy, and why it may describe something fundamental about the universe we live in.

From the formation of minerals in stellar atmospheres to the evolution of life on Earth, Michael walks through how this framework applies across planetary science, astrobiology, and even cancer research. Brian pushes on the hard questions — the Fermi paradox, the boundary conditions of the law, its relationship to the second law of thermodynamics, and whether it truly qualifies as a "law" at all. Sean Carroll blurbed the book and later called it out on his podcast — Brian asks Michael about that tension directly.

They also get into panspermia, the contingent role of cosmic collisions in shaping Earth's evolutionary history, the search for biosignatures on Mars and beyond, and what the rise of generative AI looks like through the lens of selection for function. This is a wide-ranging, technically honest conversation about one of the most ambitious proposals in contemporary science.

Key Takeaways:
00:00:35 There May Be a Second Arrow of Time — and It Points Toward Complexity

00:01:35 The Law of Increasing Functional Information Explains How the Universe Evolves

00:07:15 Functional Information Measures How Well a System Performs a Specific Function

00:11:30 Three Universal Selection Pressures Drive All Evolving Systems 00:18:00 Mineral Evolution on Earth Is a Measurable Proof of the Law in Action

00:22:00 The Law Is a Tendency, Not a Guarantee — It Doesn't Resolve the Fermi Paradox

00:27:00 Life and Non-Life Contain the Same Building Blocks — the Difference Is in the Distributions

00:32:15 Cosmic Collisions Didn't Derail Evolution — They Opened New Possibility Spaces

00:50:00 Cancer Behaves Like an Evolving System — and That Could Change How We Treat It

01:05:15 AI Is a New Form of Evolving Life — and Without Stronger Selection Pressure, It's DangerousFeatured Guest ➡️ 

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