At a UFO convention last month, Secret of Skinwalker Ranch star and occasional U.S. government UFO investigator Travis Taylor attempted to tie together cattle mutilation, UFOs, and metamaterials in a grand speculative hypothesis about the real reason space monsters want to cut up our cows: "What if these aliens are using, somehow, the cow blood to make their engines go--work right?" he said in a clip recently posted to X. Taylor speculates that aliens mutilate cows to lubricate their UFO engines with a topological insulator from bovine albumin serum for faster-than-light travel. Bovine albumin serum has indeed been investigated as a topological insulator, though it would seem to defy logic for aliens to require cows. Just imagine: After flying across millions of miles of space, through wormholes across the universe, the aliens need to top up on cow blood to make their rickety space jalopies go. Good thing there are cows on Earth, or they'd be in real trouble.
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Luke
10/8/2024 05:45:07 pm
"Hey Krasssshtarrr, how did you get back so fast?" Flarb asks
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Kent
10/8/2024 06:04:12 pm
Wow. Thanks. I clicked the link, hope this gets made part of a cable show toot-sweet. So many insaniacs with PhDeezNuts. Not forgetting actual Dr. Steven "No you're thinking of Doctor Drew" Greer.
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Larry
10/8/2024 09:41:32 pm
How about sheep, horses, goats, pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, bison, moose, deer and elk blood. They have all been reported mutilated just like cows.
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You forgot one
10/9/2024 02:48:42 am
What about the aliens mutilating Whitley's arse. What kind of lubricant were those aliens mining?
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Kent
10/9/2024 02:40:26 pm
People talk about BOVINE serum albumin because Big Meat has a huge business, AbbatoirCo that is awfully interested in generating products from offal. It's just what people, including Travis "Twit" Taylor know about. I once spent a summer grinding up cow ovaries freeze-packed from the slaughterhouse to extract
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An Over-Educated Grunt
10/10/2024 09:26:13 am
Since academic lineage is a thing, one wonders what his doctoral committees think of him.
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Kent
10/12/2024 07:50:13 pm
Typically Wikipedia pages list the thesis advisor (s). Are they BOTH embarrassed? Is Travis Shane even a real person? This is the sort of thing Leviathan would stand up and walk around and see if it stuck. Did anyone else see Wild Palms back in the 1990s? Know who I like? I like Danny Kaye.
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Dr. Joel Fischer
10/13/2024 07:51:03 pm
Having served on many doctoral Committees during my 40 years as a professor, I can tell you what any doctoral committee member, especially the chair who works most closely with the student, would say if they find out about Taylor's paranormal adventures: OH MY GOD! DID WE REALLY GRADUATE THIS GUY? HOPE NOONE FINDS OUT WHAT UNIVERSITY HE GRADUATED FROM!
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tru fom
10/10/2024 11:47:39 am
Wow. That old comedy show, Married with Children, comes to mind in an episode that had aliens visity the Bundy residence. Their saucer had run out of fuel and the only fuel source on earh was Al Bundy's stinky socks. They got some of his dirty socks and went on their way, mission accomplished.
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Gern Blanston
10/13/2024 04:34:32 am
"Topological insulator" is a thing of beauty. I may start retiring my jibe about "degaussing your chakras" in favor of this. You've made my day, Jason!
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Rock Knocker
10/13/2024 07:11:21 pm
I will refrain from using the so-obvious reference about Travis’s theory being bovine excr..ent. Woopsy!
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