Well, it’s finally happened. We’ve finally gotten to the arc of the Jeffrey Epstein narrative in which we learn the accused sex trafficker reportedly spent years telling scientists about his dream to “seed” the human race with his DNA and, separately, to have his brain and penis cryogenically frozen and brought back to life at a future time and place.

America’s paper of record, the New York Times, reports:

On multiple occasions starting in the early 2000s, Mr. Epstein told scientists and businessmen about his ambitions to use his New Mexico ranch as a base where women would be inseminated with his sperm and would give birth to his babies, according to two award-winning scientists and an adviser to large companies and wealthy individuals, all of whom Mr. Epstein told about it.

It was not a secret. The adviser, for example, said he was told about the plans not only by Mr. Epstein, at a gathering at his Manhattan townhouse, but also by at least one prominent member of the business community. One of the scientists said Mr. Epstein divulged his idea in 2001 at a dinner at the same townhouse; the other recalled Mr. Epstein discussing it with him at a 2006 conference that he hosted in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. (Lawyers for Epstein, who has pleaded not guilty, did not respond to the Times’s requests for comment.)

Incredibly, this highly disturbing dream, told to multiple people, did not raise any red flags. Scientist Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in the field of virtual reality, told the Times that at a dinner at Epstein’s townhouse, a NASA scientist mentioned that Epstein’s goal was to impregnate 20 women at a time, having “based his idea for a baby ranch on accounts of the Repository for Germinal Choice, which was to be stocked with the sperm of Nobel laureates who wanted to strengthen the human gene pool.” Lanier said that he got the impression that Epstein used his dinner parties, where guests included “attractive women with impressive academic credentials,” to screen potential candidates to knock up, like the sociopath he is. Epstein apparently attracted a host of prominent scientists, including Stephen Hawking, by dangling money for their projects and plying them with Dom Pérignon and invites to parties on his private island.