• Ep 8: Mysterious Benefactors: Skywatcher, Gifted Tech, and the Complicated Ethics of Contact

  • Apr 18 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
  • Podcast

Ep 8: Mysterious Benefactors: Skywatcher, Gifted Tech, and the Complicated Ethics of Contact

  • Summary

  • Fresh from the Archives of the Impossible conference at Rice University, Kelly and Jay sit down to unpack one of the most talked-about moments of the weekend—a provocative presentation by Dr. Garry Nolan on his involvement with the Skywatcher initiative.

    Skywatcher is an emerging public-facing effort claiming to demonstrate CE5-style contact, utilize psionic assets, with the aim of potentially reverse-engineering non-human technologies. The implications are enormous—and so are the questions.

    In this wide-ranging, deeply reflective conversation, Kelly and Jay explore:

    • The strange and rapid emergence of Skywatcher and the implications for the disclosure movement
    • The increasingly blurred lines between whistleblower testimony, media spectacle, and operational theater
    • The question of who’s leading the charge into direct contact with non-human intelligences—and why
    • The need to balance the objectives of science and venture capital against humanitarian, ethical, and philosophical questions in our quest for contact—and why that will almost certainly not happen.
    • The potential cost of accelerating contact without asking the deeper metaphysical, spiritual, and cultural questions

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    TIMESTAMPS

    02:18 Exploring Sky Watcher's Initiatives
    03:38 Jake Barber's Revelations
    05:22 CE-5 and Public Disclosure
    07:16 Community Reactions and Ethical Questions
    15:39 Garry Nolan's Scientific Perspective
    20:56 Technological Worldview and Ethical Implications
    30:03 Heidegger's Philosophy and Technology
    39:20 The Value of Human Life in a Technological Age
    40:17 The Ethical Implications of Technological Intelligence
    43:55 The Concept of Hyper Objects and UFO Phenomena
    45:54 The Great Filter and Technological Surveillance
    47:52 The Role of Experience in Understanding Phenomena
    51:19 The Spectacle and Mediated Reality
    56:09 Dwelling vs. Dominating: A Philosophical Approach To Contact
    01:05:31 The Importance of Bracketing in Phenomenology
    01:07:57 Balancing Speed and Methodology in Disclosure
    01:11:00 Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions

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