Exposing PseudoAstronomy

February 16, 2013

Podcast #65: José Escamilla’s Movie “Celestial”


A fantasia of pareidolia and misunderstanding image data, the movie “Celestial” gets a quick review on this roughly 24-minute-long episode.

There’s a Q&A, Puzzler (and solution for last time), and even a correction for the last episode and announcement for this one:

The episode for March 16, 2013, should be another interview with the pseudononymous Expat, who was my first interview ever back in Episode 10, for November 1, 2011. Expat will be returning to talk about the many conspiracy theories of Richard C. Hoagland related to politics and some technology at NASA. The reason I’m announcing this so early is that this topic garnered a lot of interest on the Facebook page for the podcast, and so I wanted to let you know early so that if there’s a specific question or topic you’d like me to ask Expat about, you can send it in. You can do that in any of the half-dozen ways there are to get in contact with me.

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  1. I was listening to the episode on an Ipod and part way through it stopped at about 11 minutes in. When I tried listening to the episode on my computer it stopped at the same point. Up to that point I was finding it quite interesting, I had not realised the ‘Rods Guy’ had branched out.

    Comment by Graham — February 17, 2013 @ 5:03 am | Reply

    • Try re-downloading the episode. The version that I downloaded from the server seems to work fine. Re-download and let me know if the issue persists.

      Comment by Stuart Robbins — February 17, 2013 @ 11:35 am | Reply

      • I’ve re-downloaded the episode and this time there were no problems. Looking forward to your episode on the Schumann resonances, Chris White covered this in his debunking of some of Gregg Bradens claims. I’ve watched that youtube clip and there is a section where Chris makes some claims about the orbit of Mars that might be worth doing an episode on.

        Comment by Graham — February 19, 2013 @ 1:50 am

      • Glad it works now. Do you have a link to the White interview?

        Comment by Stuart Robbins — February 19, 2013 @ 9:44 am

      • You can watch the film on youtube, the direct link is below, the segment in question starts at 0:21:26 in with Braden claiming the Earth is going to stop rotating on 21/12/12 and then start rotating in the opposite direction. White then points out Braden does not provide a mechanism for this and then brings up (At about 0:27:30) the idea that Mars was once in a resonant orbit with Earth and that it only obtained it’s current orbit in historical times.

        In the next few days i’m going to email a question for Expat, it’s got a long quote from Hoagland coming from one of his pre ‘Face-on-Mars’ writings.

        Comment by Graham — February 19, 2013 @ 1:46 pm

  2. In answer to your question — the net has democratized info sources to the point that any loony can now seize raw data of the kind that was once available only to the educated/initiated. With the results you describe. My reaction, personally, is get in in among ‘em. Post comments to youtube insanities, ATS, Kerry Cassidy’s astoundingly ignorant “community.” Maybe I’ll tire of it one day. But the genie will never go back in the bottle, or the condom back in the foil pack. Whether we choose to look or not, we’re stuck with the Escamillas and Baras.

    Comment by Expat — February 18, 2013 @ 9:23 am | Reply


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