The Cosmic Tusk

Dr. Filippo Biondi is a radar demographer and satellite imaging specialist who developed his synthetic aperture radar technique to detect micro-cracks in large infrastructure - inspired by the 2018 collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa. The application to Giza emerged from a simple question: if the technique can detect micro-vibrations in bridges, why not pyramids? In 2019 he pointed it at the Giza Plateau. What came back took two months of repeated processing before he and his colleague Corrado Malanga were willing to accept it was not noise. The findings - vast underground shafts, tunnel networks, and subsurface structures - were already extraordinarily controversial. Then, based on a suggestion from Italian researcher Damiano Piras and geometric analysis of the Dream Stele, Biondi turned his scanning capability toward a debris mound in the Western Cemetery. His initial announcement placed the probability of a second Sphinx at 80%. On this episode, recording live with George Howard, he upgrades that figure to 100%. The upgrade is based on new processing completed in the weeks since his appearance on Matt Beall's podcast. The acoustic imaging now shows a head, a body, and legs - including visible fingers on the legs. The head is a different shape from the known Sphinx. Critically, the structure sits beneath the surface of the Giza Plateau independently of the debris mound - meaning the 1930s aerial photography that sceptics used to debunk the finding is simply not correlated to the Sphinx location. The full visual data will be presented at a conference in Bologna, Italy on June 21st 2026. Biondi is running the processing on three personal computers operating 24 hours a day, entirely without institutional funding. The episode also covers the physics underpinning the work - a digression into entropy, vibration, and electromagnetic spectrum that Biondi frames precisely: vibrations are information, information is entropy, and everything in the universe communicates through waves. The technique that started with bridges in Genoa is now, if Biondi is right, rewriting the history of the most studied archaeological site on Earth. --- **Approximate Timestamps** - **00:10** - Introduction and the origin story of the technique - **04:11** - Why Biondi first pointed the radar at the pyramids - **05:19** - The Morandi Bridge collapse and the motivation behind the research - **08:10** - The second Sphinx announcement and the move from 80% to 100% confidence - **15:03** - The geometric and acoustic case for the second Sphinx location - **17:41** - The debris mound, the 1930s aerial photography, and why the debunking fails - **22:47** - The new scans showing head, body, and legs - **29:23** - 100% confidence confirmed - head shape different from the first Sphinx - **31:01** - Resolution, computing power, and what better hardware would reveal - **34:34** - Vibrations, entropy, and the physics behind the technique - **42:37** - Three computers running 24 hours a day with no institutional funding - **44:01** - The Bologna conference on June 21st 2026

George Howard sits down with Daniel Hodges of the Hodge Cast for a conversation that moves from the frontlines of the second Sphinx debate to the collapse of free speech in Britain, held together by a single recurring theme - why intelligent people keep shutting things down before they have done the work. The Filippo Biondi situation is live as they record. George's frustration is not with mainstream sceptics but with members of the alternative community dismissing Biondi's second Sphinx findings without visiting his website or engaging with his methodology. He made a public $100 wager with a prominent figure who put the odds of Biondi's research at 100 to 1. The wager was declined. George calls it the Presbyterian and Methodist problem - factionalism within a community is often more hostile than anything directed outward. He also revisits the Malcolm Bendall thunderstorm generator - a clean energy device he tested extensively that has since grown to an industrial-scale installation in Australia. He remains comfortable with ambiguity, but notes someone is spending serious money on something that had better work. Daniel brings the conversation to Britain - 12,000 social media arrests in a year, a mother jailed for two and a half years for a tweet while grooming gang members walked free with two years, and a writer detained by seven armed police at Heathrow for a joke on X. Both men land in the same place: staying genuinely curious, resisting the urge to decide before you understand, is rarer and more valuable than either side of any argument tends to acknowledge. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Z5KZ2cui8WDjyF6gJ/some-thoughts-on-toby-ord-s-existential-risk-estimates https://cosmictusk.com/wally-broecker-says-a-cosmic-impact-caused-the-younger-dryas/ https://www.carolinajournal.com/opinion/uncovered-risks-no-oversight-of-uncs-extreme-virology/ Enjoy this conversation? Catch more here: https://youtu.be/wULC5AJ3mqI?si=ryd5CW5X_SAgOpsW

Few conversations in the alternative history space cover as much ground as this one. George Howard sits down with Timothy Hogan - 33rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar and 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason - for a wide-ranging discussion that moves from the bones of the Holy Family to the founding of the United States, from Gnostic Christianity to Napoleon's initiation in the Great Pyramid. Timothy opens with a revelation he describes as never having shared publicly before. The Templar Order holds three surviving vaults containing artefacts from the pre-flood civilisation - two in the United States and one in Istanbul. The Istanbul vault, stored in a diorite box of the kind found at the Serapeum, contains what Timothy identifies as possible non-human technology recovered from the object known as the Palladium - the artefact the Trojan War was fought over. The Vatican located this vault, rented a hotel room nearby, tunnelled toward it, and attempted to break in with jackhammers before Turkish antiquities authorities detected the vibrations and shut the operation down. From there the conversation opens into Gnostic theology - the tradition Timothy argues the Templar Order has always preserved and that differs fundamentally from orthodox Christianity at almost every point. The divine spark exists within every human being. Jesus was not the Saviour but the great exemplar - here to remind humanity of what it already is. The resurrection was not a physical event but an initiation - the Greek word anastasis simply means to wake up. The God of the Old Testament was the Demiurge, a lesser being created by Sophia outside the Pleroma, not the true God of light and love. Reincarnation was a core early Christian teaching. Born again meant literally born again. The Templar mission, Timothy explains, was always civilisational. The Order was founded to locate surviving pockets of pre-flood knowledge, recover the artefacts and technologies of what he calls the root civilisation - Atlantis - and use them to rebuild. That effort produced the Renaissance. When Europe proved too controlled by church and monarchy to sustain the project, the Templars redirected it to a new territory. The United States was established as the New Atlantis - a Templar state built on the Gnostic principle that the divine spark within every human being is the foundation of freedom, democracy, and inalienable rights. Napoleon, Timothy reveals, was a Templar - his grandfather was Bonnie Prince Charlie and his personal physician was the underground Grand Master of the Order, Bernard Raymond Faber. Napoleon's Egyptian campaign was not military adventurism. It was a Templar mission to recover knowledge. He was initiated in the Great Pyramid in a ceremony Timothy's lineage still performs today - and when asked what happened inside, Napoleon replied that no one would believe him anyway. The earliest Masonic documents - the Gothic manuscripts - describe Freemasonry not as a Templar institution but as the Noahite tradition: the knowledge that survived the flood, traced back through Egypt to the pre-cataclysm civilisation. The Templars found that knowledge in Egypt. Freemasonry was how they preserved and transmitted it after the Order was suppressed in 1307.

Aaron Hines and Cody McDonald are self-described pajama scientists - two independent researchers with day jobs, families, and an obsession with the deep past that has taken them from the highlands of Peru to the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula. The centrepiece of this conversation is Cody's three-year research project that led them both into the southern Yucatan jungle to investigate undocumented ruins. Working from satellite imagery showing right-angle features in the jungle canopy - cross-referenced against a US Geological Survey geomagnetic anomaly map - Cody identified a location that appeared on no archaeological literature, only marked with an unlabelled star on the Gran Museo del Mundo Maya's comprehensive site map. They parked on a jungle track, hacked over a kilometre through dense vegetation, and found four rectangular stone structures sitting on elevated ground - the first people, as far as they know, to ever film them. The discovery came at a cost: Cody severed a tendon on his machete within two minutes of arrival, inadvertently delivering the Mayan blood offering he had spent months researching how to perform correctly on the blood moon eclipse that night. Beyond the expedition, the conversation opens into the broader research frameworks each brings to the field. Aaron's primary focus is tracking pre-Younger Dryas megalithic remnants - the precision stonework attributed to the Inca but built from andesite and diorite using tools that a Bronze Age culture should not have possessed - found not only in Peru but at sites across Mexico, Japan, India, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, and the Americas. He is looking for the physical signature of the civilisation the Younger Dryas wiped out. Cody's interests run parallel but through a different lens - ancient occult knowledge and the Maya specifically, whom he views as having been spiritually connected to the planet in a way that sets them apart from other ancient societies. Both researchers arrived at this work through the internet, met online, and ended up in a jungle in Mexico together. That trajectory, George Howard argues, is the great weaving - the self-organising network of intensely motivated independent researchers who, collectively, may know more about the deep past than the credentialed institutions tasked with studying it.

Dr. Filippo Biondi is a satellite radar specialist who has spent more than three years scanning the Giza Plateau using synthetic aperture radar data from multiple commercial satellite systems. His work on the plateau has already produced significant subsurface findings. In the last month, working with independent researcher Damiano Pieracci who identified the candidate location, Biondi turned his processing capabilities toward a mound in the Western Cemetery at Giza - and what he found stopped him. The geometric case he presents is precise. Working from the known position of the existing Sphinx, he established a series of line segments connecting it to the proposed second location. What emerged was a set of relationships that should not exist by chance - parallel lines, proportional segments, and equivalent areas that only hold if the proposed location is correct. Move the second point by even a small distance in any direction and every relationship collapses simultaneously. His working hypothesis, shared with around 80% confidence while processing is still ongoing, is that the two structures face in opposite directions - one oriented toward the sunrise, one toward the sunset. The candidate site is a compressed sand mound in the Western Cemetery, a part of the plateau that receives very little research attention. Biondi has scans of the location that he is not yet ready to release pending completion of the analysis, which he intends to present in full at a conference in Bologna in June 2026.