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The radio show “Coast to Coast AM,” known for its intriguing discussions on paranormal phenomena, recently featured an episode exploring the tantalizing possibility of a secret agreement between humans and extraterrestrials. The episode, titled “They Gave Us Alien Tech, We Gave Them Antarctica,” delved into the fascinating claims of Len Casten, a former U.S. Air Force member, who has devoted much of his life to researching UFO phenomena.

The Encounter That Sparked a Lifelong Quest

Len Casten’s journey into the world of UFO research began with a personal encounter. As a young man in the U.S. Air Force, he witnessed a mysterious craft, glowing green and gold, silently soaring across the sky. This sighting, corroborated by radar reports of unidentified flying objects, planted the seeds of curiosity in Casten’s mind. Although it would take years before he fully grasped the significance of his experience, it ultimately led him to join the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and pursue a lifelong interest in extraterrestrial phenomena.

Alien Involvement in World War II

One of the most controversial topics discussed on the show was the alleged involvement of aliens in World War II. According to Casten, Hitler’s development of advanced weaponry, such as anti-gravity aircraft, was not achieved solely by German scientists. Instead, he suggests that the Nazis received extraterrestrial assistance, potentially from a malevolent race known as the Reptilians. This alliance, he argues, was aimed at world domination, with the extraterrestrials seeking to use the fascist movement as pawns in a larger cosmic game.

Operation Highjump: The Battle for Antarctica

The episode also covered Operation Highjump, a U.S. military expedition to Antarctica in 1946. Officially described as a research mission, Casten claims it was a full-scale military invasion intended to destroy a secret Nazi base. This base, reportedly discovered by British intelligence, was believed to house remnants of the Nazi regime, including advanced technologies developed with extraterrestrial aid. However, the mission allegedly ended in failure when the fleet was confronted by flying saucers, forcing a hasty retreat.

Eisenhower’s Alleged Treaty with Aliens

A significant portion of the episode focused on President Dwight Eisenhower’s purported meetings with extraterrestrial beings in 1954. The first encounter was with the Nordics, a group of aliens who offered to share advanced technology and spiritual wisdom in exchange for the abandonment of nuclear weapons. When this offer was declined, a second meeting occurred with the Grays, resulting in the signing of a controversial treaty. This agreement allegedly allowed the Grays to abduct humans for experimentation in exchange for sharing advanced technology, including weaponry.

The Hybridization Agenda

One of the most unsettling aspects of the discussion was the Grays’ alleged hybridization program. Casten explained that the Grays, facing the decline of their race, aimed to revitalize themselves through genetic manipulation, creating hybrids with human DNA. While some theorists, like Dr. David Jacobs, view this as a prelude to a future takeover, others speculate that it could be a strategy to ensure survival in the face of an impending global catastrophe.

Presidential Awareness and Secrecy

The show also touched upon the knowledge and involvement of various U.S. presidents in extraterrestrial affairs. From Truman to Bush Sr., each president reportedly had different levels of awareness regarding UFOs and alien interactions. The ongoing secrecy surrounding these topics is often attributed to the embarrassment and potential public panic that would arise from acknowledging such agreements and activities.

Time Travel and Dimensional Theories

Adding another layer of complexity, the episode explored theories suggesting that some extraterrestrials might be time travelers or multidimensional beings. These ideas challenge traditional notions of space travel, proposing instead that aliens may traverse time or dimensions to reach Earth, bringing with them technology and knowledge far beyond our current understanding.

The Cosmic Struggle: Good vs. Evil Alien Races

Throughout the episode, a recurring theme was the cosmic struggle between benevolent and malevolent alien races. The discussion highlighted the potential for humans to align with more advanced and benevolent extraterrestrial civilizations, which could aid in creating a utopian society on Earth. However, this vision is hindered by the alleged alliances between certain military factions and tyrannical alien races.

Crop Circles and Ancient Aliens

The episode also delved into the mystery of crop circles and their possible extraterrestrial origins. While some crop formations are believed to be human-made, others exhibit complexities that suggest non-human creation. This topic ties into broader theories about ancient aliens and their influence on human civilizations, including the construction of monumental structures like the pyramids.

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As the episode concluded, the hosts speculated on the potential for future disclosure of extraterrestrial presence and interactions. While official government acknowledgment seems unlikely, the possibility remains that extraterrestrials themselves might reveal their existence to humanity. Until then, the mysteries surrounding UFOs, alien technology, and secret agreements continue to captivate and intrigue audiences worldwide.

A team of North Carolina State University Engineers has devised a shapeshifting robot inspired by the ancient Japanese paper-folding art of Origami, capable of functions ranging from space exploration to disaster relief.

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By implementing hierarchical concepts observed in nature, the team’s approach combines simple and efficient kinematics with “rich shape-morphing capability” to successfully mitigate the complexity and power use issues holding back earlier concept work from real-life implementation. The researchers believe these improvements could pave the way to a simpler, more malleable shape-shifting robot for practical use.

“The question we’re asking is how to achieve a number of versatile shapes with the fewest number of actuators powering the shapeshifting,” said Jie Yin, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, in a press release announcing their work.

“Here we use a hierarchical concept observed in nature – like layered muscle fibers – but with plastic cubes to create a transforming robot.”

A prototype of the transforming robot Shapeshifter is tested in the robotics yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Shapeshifter is made of smaller robots that can morph into rolling spheres, flying drones, swimming submersibles, and more.

An illustration of an early concept of Shapeshifter imagines the robots on Saturn's moon Titan. In the picture, the Shapeshifter breaks into smaller pieces that can investigate a methane waterfall from the sky.

An illustration of the small robots that form Shapeshifter. Dubbed "cobots," they each have a propeller for flying and can combine to form a sphere, rolling on the ground to save energy

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Shape-Shifting Robot Built Like Human Muscles

In that same release, team leader Yin explained that they looked at the hierarchical construction of human muscle, of fiber wrapped in connective tissue, with those bundles once again joined by another layer of connective tissue. To this hierarchical concept, they added a combinatorial principle that the robot could split into sub-pieces or even into smaller autonomous units. According to the team’s new paper recently published in the journal Nature Communications, the combination of these two ideas provided the jumping-off point to rethink how a shape-shifting robot could be composed,

In that work, the team also looked at the issues plaguing previous work, including one Origami-inspired robot previously covered by The Debrief that was otherwise promising. Plus, while advances have been made in other biologically inspired robots, they have so far struggled to compare to the real thing.

For example, the variety of shapes that many robots could put themselves into was limited. Also, those with a more diverse array of potential forms quickly became a complicated mess of intricate control systems and actuators. Their transformations were difficult, lengthy, and tapped too much energy.

In an effort to overcome those limitations, the team designed a robotics framework that can bend, fold, and reshape itself into a variety of forms. In their shape-shifting robot’s final structure, four, six, or eight cubes are connected by an equal number of hinges acting as joints. These joints are also rotational, increasing the angles available to a single pivot.

Adding to the robot’s versatility, the servomotors that control them are controlled by Bluetooth and powered by rechargeable batteries.

Mori3: A polygon-based modular robot

Printing Out a Transforming Robot

To construct their test model, the team relied on 3D printing. First, they printed rigid ABS plastic panels, which were then connected into hollow cubes and joined with flexible hinges. According to the researchers, this design does not just make assembly easy; it becomes a snap to disassemble and change the hierarchy. Additionally, the model tested to have a significant amount of strength. For example, it could support two and a half times its weight even when deployed as a multistory structure. Simpler uses, such as bridges and tunnels, could bear even greater stress, over three and a half times its weight.

“We want to make a more robust structure that can bear larger loads,” said Yanbin Li, an NC State postdoctoral researcher and co-corresponding author of the paper. “If we want a car shape, for example, how do we design the first structure that can transform into a car shape? We also want to test our structures with real-world applications like space robots.”

The efficiency of this robust design relies on allowing for many possibilities while finding the simplest solution. While one robot is equipped with 22 motors controlling 36 joints, it only needs to use up to three at a time for a transformation. This includes rearranging itself from a dense cube into a fully open structure, a feat that was accomplished with only two motors actively driving 16 of its joints.

The Mori3 robot standing up.

The Mori3 robot standing up.

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This reduced transformation times to two minutes from the hours described in earlier work.

When highlighting the design’s efficiency, the paper’s authors noted that at its maximum expansion, the robot could occupy 200 times the initial volume of its components when packed flat. Based on its unprecedented speed of transformation and compactness for transport, the team identified the robots as perfect for use as emergency shelters or other structures needed in rapid deployment situations.

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When operating on a planet’s surface, large-scale functions like transforming into a shelter or acting as a cargo robot are possible. In one proposed application, the separate pieces split into multiple robots with separate functions, an idea common in Japanese science fiction entertainment. This level of malleability also allows the shape-shifting robot to assume a more aerodynamic shape for either pointing down and landing or pointing up and taking off without turning the entire structure around. Such a robot could significantly cut down the needed equipment, while simultaneously increasing its own safety and efficiency.

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In their paper, the researchers also illustrate an example of how such robots could be used in space exploration. This is consistent with recent work in the field that has been trying to identify ways to make devices more reclaimable and cost-effective. In a previous story, The Debrief looked at the ways engineers have been attempting to make space vehicles reusable.

One example highlighted by the NC State researchers is how it can form itself into a large, flat slab for solar panels, maximizing the surface area for energy collection. It can also reconfigure itself to create holes in its surface for objects to pass harmlessly through, avoiding collisions with small space objects. Such a feature would also allow it to generate docking ports for other spacecraft or even convert itself into a living space for future astronauts.

“We think these can be used as deployable, configurable space robots and habitats,” said Antonio Di Lallo, an NC State postdoctoral researcher and co-first author of the paper. “It’s modular, so you can send it to space flat and assemble it as a shelter or as a habitat, and then disassemble it.”

Whatever form the shape-shifting robots ultimately take, the researchers agree that ease of use will be critical to their overall value.

“For users, it needs to be easy to assemble and to control,” Yin said.