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Clearly,
I've never been there, but...

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Usually the situation,
obviously a major malfunction.

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Whether or not
their president is a crook.

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Well, I'm not a crook.

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One small step for man,
one giant leap for...

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Robert Kennedy was shot
in that ballroom.

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Thank God almighty,
we are free at last.

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A sniper has fired
at President Kennedy.

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The Communist party...

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or have you ever been
a member of the Communist party?

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- Old soldiers never die.
- They just...

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Hi-yo, Silver!

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Something
never before experienced...

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MAN 13:1941,
a date which will live...

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And we continue this final edition
of our Maxwell House Good News of 1939.

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Good evening,
Mr. and Mrs. North America...

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and all the ships at sea.
Let's go to press.

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO.

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back?

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CQ.

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO here.

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Come back?

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CQ, CQ, this is W-9 GFO.
Is anybody out there?

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Not getting anything.

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Small moves, Ellie.

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Small moves.

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back?

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Copy, W-9 GFO. K-4 WLD here.

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- What do I say?
- Just be yourself.

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- Where are you, K-4 WLD? Come back?
- Pensacola. Over.

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Pensacola, where's Pensacola?

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I'll give you a hint.

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Orange juice.

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Copy that, K-4 WLD.
How's the weather down there in Florida?

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Pensacola, Florida.

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I have to tell you, Sparks...

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1116 miles.

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Pretty good. That's the farthest yet.

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- Can we hear all the way to New York?
- Sure.

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- Can we hear all the way to California?
- I don't see why not.

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- Can we hear all the way to Alaska?
- Yeah, on a really clear day.

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Can we hear all the way to China?

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On a really, really clear day.

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Could we talk to the moon?

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Well, if it's a big enough radio,
I don't see why not.

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Could we talk to Jupiter?

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Or what's the one after that?

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Don't tell me.

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I'll give you a hint.

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Hula-Hoops.

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- Saturn. Could we talk to Saturn?
- Mm-hm.

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Dad, could we talk to Mom?

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I don't think even the biggest radio
could reach that far.

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All right, no more stalling.

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Okay.

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Pensacola.

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Oh, Ellie, that's a beauty.

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Now get some sleep.

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- Hey, Dad?
- Yeah?

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Do you think there's people
on other planets?

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I don't know, Sparks.

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But I guess I'd say...

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if it is just us...

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it seems like an awful waste of space.

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CQ, CQ.

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO.

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Repeat. This is W-9 GFO. Come back?

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CQ, this is W-9 GFO. Come back?

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I'm gonna need a bigger antenna.

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What do you think, Doctor Arroway?

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Isn't she a beauty?

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It'll do.

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The village is five miles away.

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There's a general store in the cantina.
They can order anything from San Juan.

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And when can I get some dish time?

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Dr. Clark said you wouldn't
be able to wait. Your first shift is tonight.

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All right.

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Go back.

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Try back a little bit.
You had something there.

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There.

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- Right there?
- You hear it? Right there, that's it.

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All right, 1221.46.
That's well within the I band.

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- Check off-axis.
- Uh-huh. On it.

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It's not in the neighborhood.

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Ah.

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Here it is. J-1741 plus 2748.

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Catalogued November 4, 1982. Pulsar.

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Well, I don't know, it must've been...
The glitch in the timing is what threw me.

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Must've been a starquake.

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I think it's great that you listen.
Most people don't do that anymore.

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It's just an old habit.
You know, it makes it feel more real.

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- Ellie.
- Kent. Kent Clark.

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Hey.

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They said you've been up at Owens Valley
working under Drumlin.

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How did you like him?

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That much? And about what I'd expect
after what he had to say about you.

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What was that?

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That you are brilliant, driven...

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a major pain in the ass,
and obsessed with a field of study...

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that he considers tantamount
to professional suicide.

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- Anything else?
- Those were the highlights.

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Davio, Dr. Vernon. Dr. Arroway.

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- Hey. Hi there.
- How you doing?

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And I believe you've already met our
tireless research assistant, Mr. Fisher...

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- Here, I need you to sign...
- as well as his cologne.

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Brook's looking at the black hole
at the center of M-87.

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Eli's studying Markarian 541,
a major gamma-ray source.

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And Dr. Arroway will be spending her
precious telescope time listening for, um...

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Listening for...

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Little green men.

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One down, a couple billion to go.

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Arecibo, right?

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Does it show?

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Yeah.

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- Cracker Jack?
- No, thanks.

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- Mind if I sit down?
- Sure.

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I hear the locals, they call it El Radar.

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Convinced it has
some dark military purpose.

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I think we're pretty harmless.

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Palmer Joss.

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- Ellie Arroway.
- Nice to meet you, Ellie.

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What are you studying up there?

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The usual.

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You know. Nebulae, quasars, pulsars,
stuff like that.

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What are you...? What are you writing?

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The usual. Nouns, adverbs,
adjective here and there.

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I work on a project called SETI.

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Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

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Wow. Man, that is out there.

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Wait, are you a student or something?

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Mm-mm. I'm a writer. I'm writing a book.

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Down here doing research about how
technology affects Third World cultures.

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I'm also looking for this guy
David Drumlin.

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He's the new head of the National Science
Foundation. I'm trying to get an interview.

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- I take it you know him?
- Mm-hm.

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You could say that.

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SETI, man. That's fringe.

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I've crossed paths with this guy.

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Something like that
must really chap his ass, huh?

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Compass.

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For you, El.

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You better keep this.

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Might save your life someday.

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Will you have dinner with me tonight?

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I...

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I don't make a very good research subject.
I'm just not very quotable.

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No quotes. No quotes. Scout's honor.
Just a good meal, good company.

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I gotta go.

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But, uh...

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Drumlin's coming in this Tuesday.

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Now I remember why I took that desk job.

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- Dr. Drumlin, how are you?
- Dr. Drumlin.

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Glad you could make it, David.

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If I'd known it was gonna take
three planes, I might've reconsidered.

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How is that new office?

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I'm still settling in. They already wanna take
half my budget and give it to the Pentagon.

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Ellie. Still waiting for E.T. to call?

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- Well, I understand we're having a little...
- Good to see you too.

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Asshole.

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Uh-oh. Looks like
it's gonna be a long night.

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Science must first be accountable to the
people who are paying for it, the taxpayers.

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We need to stop wasting money
on pie-in-the-sky abstractions...

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and start spending it on practical,
measurable ways...

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to improve the lives of the people
who are footing the bill.

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Not unlike my L-band,
globular-clusters work.

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Wait, you're saying you wanna do away
with all pure research now?

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What's wrong with science being practical?
Even profitable?

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Nothing, as long as your motive
is the search for truth.

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Which is exactly what
the pursuit of science is.

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That's a rather interesting position...

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coming from a man on a crusade
against the evils of technology...

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Father Joss.

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I'm not against technology, doctor.

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I'm against the men who deify it
at the expense of human truth.

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Kent, I've been meaning to have
a word with you. Over here, please.

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Yeah, I'll just...

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I think that hurt my chances
with that interview. What do you think?

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You're a priest?

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No, not really.

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I got my Masters in Divinity...

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then dropped out of seminary to
do some secular humanitarian work...

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coordinating efforts
for Third World churches.

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I couldn't live with
the whole celibacy thing.

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You could...

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You could call me a man of the cloth...

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without the cloth.

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You wanna get out of here?

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All right, you see that sort of large,
W-shaped constellation right there?

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That's Cassiopeia.

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And Cassiopeia A gives off
a whole lot of radio signals.

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I actually listen to them a lot.
It's a remnant of a supernova.

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When did you know
you wanted to be an astronomer?

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Well, when I...

195
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When I was about 8 years old,
I was watching the sunset...

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and I asked my dad,
"What's that bright star over there?"

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Dad, what's that star there?

198
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And he said that it wasn't
really a star at all. It was actually...

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That's not a star, it's a planet.

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A whole planet called Venus...

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That's the planet Venus.

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Which should be over there soon.

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He said,
"You know why they called it Venus?

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Because they thought
it was so beautiful and glowing.

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But what they didn't know...

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is that it's filled with...

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deadly gases and sulfuric acid rain."

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"Wow," I thought,
"This is it! I'm hooked."

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You know, there are four hundred billion
stars out there...

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just in our galaxy alone.

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If only one out of a million
of those had planets...

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all right, and if just one
out of a million of those had life...

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and if just one out of a million
of those had intelligent life...

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there would be literally millions
of civilizations out there.

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Well, if there wasn't...

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it'd be an awful waste of space.

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Amen.

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So I was lying there,
just looking at the sky.

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And then I felt something. I don't know, I...

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All I know is that I wasn't alone.

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And for the first time in my life
I wasn't scared of nothing, you know?

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Not even dying.

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It was God.

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And there's no chance that...

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you had this experience because
some part of you needed to have it?

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I mean, I'm a reasonably intelligent guy,
but this...

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No, this... No, my intellect,
it couldn't even touch this.

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No.

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I've been to Sunday school a few times.

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Uh-huh. And?

231
00:19:04,811 --> 00:19:10,065
Well, I just kept asking all these
really annoying questions like:

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"All right, then where did Mrs. Cain
come from?"

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And pretty soon they called my dad
and they asked him...

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if he wouldn't mind just
keeping me home from now on.

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Your dad...

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- Is it this guy?
- Yeah.

237
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You're close to him, aren't you?

238
00:19:31,587 --> 00:19:35,048
Yeah, I was.
He died when I was 9 years old.

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I never got to know my mother.

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I'm sorry.

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That's gotta be tough.

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Yeah.

243
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Being alone.

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00:20:03,286 --> 00:20:04,536
What do you say...

245
00:20:04,745 --> 00:20:08,248
we pack a picnic tomorrow morning
and hike up to old Mount Arecibo?

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00:20:09,125 --> 00:20:12,127
I don't think I can. I gotta work.

247
00:20:13,921 --> 00:20:17,549
All right, how about dinner, then,
tomorrow night? I know a great dive.

248
00:20:17,717 --> 00:20:19,676
I don't think so.

249
00:20:23,973 --> 00:20:27,142
- Ellie, did I miss something?
- Huh?

250
00:20:28,269 --> 00:20:31,479
No. Shit, I'm late.

251
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,026
I told Kent that I'd be there at 10:30.

252
00:20:37,987 --> 00:20:39,779
You know, I'm not trying to push you.

253
00:20:39,989 --> 00:20:42,407
No, no. I've wanted to look at
this sector for weeks.

254
00:20:42,575 --> 00:20:47,829
Just hang out and sleep in.
And there's a bunch of food in the fridge.

255
00:20:47,997 --> 00:20:49,164
Okay?

256
00:20:49,332 --> 00:20:51,166
How can I reach you?

257
00:20:51,834 --> 00:20:54,336
Just leave your number. I'll call you.

258
00:21:15,816 --> 00:21:16,858
Dad!

259
00:21:18,903 --> 00:21:21,905
Dad, it's starting, you're gonna miss it.

260
00:21:25,034 --> 00:21:27,327
Dad, there's another one. Hurry up.

261
00:21:27,495 --> 00:21:29,871
In a minute, Sparks. I'm almost done.

262
00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:32,874
There's another one.
Come on, hurry up, Dad!

263
00:21:38,214 --> 00:21:46,214
Dad?

264
00:22:02,947 --> 00:22:04,030
Daddy?

265
00:22:17,003 --> 00:22:25,003
Dad.

266
00:22:28,431 --> 00:22:30,348
I'll get the medicine.

267
00:23:45,925 --> 00:23:47,592
Ellie.

268
00:23:49,178 --> 00:23:51,846
I know it's hard to understand this now...

269
00:23:52,848 --> 00:23:57,352
but we aren't always meant to know
why things happen the way they do.

270
00:23:57,895 --> 00:24:02,232
Sometimes we just have to accept it
as God's will.

271
00:24:04,193 --> 00:24:07,862
I should have kept some medicine
in the downstairs bathroom.

272
00:24:08,030 --> 00:24:10,573
Then I could've gotten to it sooner.

273
00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:37,767
CQ...

274
00:24:38,602 --> 00:24:41,896
this is W-9 GFO. Do you copy?

275
00:24:45,067 --> 00:24:47,735
Dad, this is Ellie. Come back.

276
00:24:50,906 --> 00:24:52,949
This is Eleanor Arroway...

277
00:24:53,117 --> 00:24:56,703
transmitting on 14.2 MHz.

278
00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:00,790
Dad.

279
00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:04,335
Are you there?

280
00:25:06,463 --> 00:25:07,922
Come back.

281
00:25:10,843 --> 00:25:12,260
Dad.

282
00:25:14,638 --> 00:25:16,097
Are you there?

283
00:25:17,141 --> 00:25:18,641
Dad, this is Ellie.

284
00:25:50,132 --> 00:25:51,424
Ellie.

285
00:25:51,592 --> 00:25:54,969
Hi, Kent. What are you doing
up so early, huh?

286
00:25:55,638 --> 00:25:56,971
I was thinking...

287
00:25:57,681 --> 00:25:59,224
we'd make a pretty good team.

288
00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:00,433
What?

289
00:26:00,601 --> 00:26:04,103
We could put together
a kick-ass ad-hoc SETI program.

290
00:26:04,313 --> 00:26:06,522
You know the Very Large Array
in New Mexico?

291
00:26:06,690 --> 00:26:09,150
It would be a dynamite place
to do serious SETI...

292
00:26:09,318 --> 00:26:11,986
What are you talking about, Kent?

293
00:26:13,447 --> 00:26:15,323
Drumlin pulled the plug.

294
00:26:15,950 --> 00:26:17,075
We're homeless.

295
00:26:27,670 --> 00:26:29,462
Hey, watch it.

296
00:26:31,215 --> 00:26:33,132
Is it true, huh? Did you pull the plug?

297
00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:35,677
You can't see it now,
but I'm doing you a favor.

298
00:26:35,844 --> 00:26:40,014
You are far too promising a scientist
to be wasting your gifts on this nonsense.

299
00:26:40,182 --> 00:26:42,183
Look, I don't consider what could be...

300
00:26:42,393 --> 00:26:45,395
the most important discovery
of the human race nonsense, okay?

301
00:26:45,562 --> 00:26:46,980
There's 400 billion stars...

302
00:26:47,147 --> 00:26:50,024
And two probabilities.
One, there is intelligent life...

303
00:26:50,234 --> 00:26:53,236
but it's so far away you'll
never contact it in your lifetime.

304
00:26:53,404 --> 00:26:55,613
- And two!
- You're making a decision...

305
00:26:55,781 --> 00:27:00,201
There's nothing but noble gases and carbon
compounds and you're wasting your time.

306
00:27:00,369 --> 00:27:03,454
In the meantime, you won't be published,
won't be taken seriously.

307
00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:05,331
And your career will be over.

308
00:27:05,499 --> 00:27:08,876
So what? It's my life.

309
00:27:45,914 --> 00:27:48,791
Hey, Kent. You were right.

310
00:27:48,959 --> 00:27:52,670
Screw Drumlin. We're gonna raise
the money. We're going to New Mexico.

311
00:27:52,838 --> 00:27:55,381
Chicago has all the stuff,
but let me know how it goes.

312
00:27:55,549 --> 00:27:58,426
I've got some more corporate stops
on the East Coast for you.

313
00:27:58,594 --> 00:28:01,763
Hey, Fish, did that investor from Houston
ever get back to us?

314
00:28:01,930 --> 00:28:03,931
I'm gonna hit him up on my way to L.A.

315
00:28:04,141 --> 00:28:06,267
Try begging for some of that
Hollywood money.

316
00:28:06,477 --> 00:28:10,063
Why not? They've been making money
off of aliens for years, right?

317
00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:13,066
- Begging is good for the soul.
- We'll see about that.

318
00:28:13,233 --> 00:28:14,901
- Just do me a favor.
- Yeah.

319
00:28:15,069 --> 00:28:17,862
Try not to be too confrontational.

320
00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:20,490
Huh? Confrontational? Me?
What do you mean?

321
00:28:20,657 --> 00:28:22,283
I'm gonna see if I left anything.

322
00:28:55,651 --> 00:28:59,487
This is a unique time in our history,
in the history of any civilization.

323
00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:02,448
It's the moment
of the acquisition of technology.

324
00:29:02,658 --> 00:29:05,493
That's the moment
where contact becomes possible.

325
00:29:06,203 --> 00:29:11,040
The Very Large Array in New Mexico
is the key to our chances for success.

326
00:29:11,208 --> 00:29:13,459
With its 27 linked radio telescopes...

327
00:29:13,627 --> 00:29:17,004
we can search more accurately
than at any other conventional facility.

328
00:29:17,172 --> 00:29:22,343
Now, we've gotten approval to buy
the telescope time from the government.

329
00:29:22,845 --> 00:29:25,012
Now all we really need is the money.

330
00:29:25,806 --> 00:29:27,807
A nice presentation, doctor.

331
00:29:28,517 --> 00:29:33,020
But while our foundation arm has a mandate
to support experimental programs...

332
00:29:33,188 --> 00:29:37,150
we must confess that
your proposal seems less like science...

333
00:29:37,317 --> 00:29:39,026
and more like science fiction.

334
00:29:41,530 --> 00:29:42,989
Science fiction.

335
00:29:46,410 --> 00:29:48,202
You're right.

336
00:29:48,662 --> 00:29:50,246
It's crazy.

337
00:29:51,039 --> 00:29:54,000
In fact, it's even worse than that: Nuts.

338
00:29:55,544 --> 00:29:57,044
You wanna hear something nutty?

339
00:29:57,212 --> 00:29:59,881
A couple guys wanted to build
something called an airplane.

340
00:30:00,048 --> 00:30:03,217
You get people to go in it and fly like birds.
Ridiculous, right?

341
00:30:03,385 --> 00:30:05,344
Or what about
breaking the sound barrier...

342
00:30:05,512 --> 00:30:09,140
or rockets to the moon,
or atomic energy or a mission to Mars?

343
00:30:09,349 --> 00:30:11,184
Science fiction, right?

344
00:30:11,351 --> 00:30:12,477
Look.

345
00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:16,898
All I'm asking is for you to
just have the tiniest bit of vision.

346
00:30:17,065 --> 00:30:20,651
You know, to just step back for one minute
and look at the big picture.

347
00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:22,278
To take a chance on something...

348
00:30:22,446 --> 00:30:26,073
which might end up being
the most profoundly impactful moment...

349
00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:30,411
for humanity, for the history of history.

350
00:30:33,624 --> 00:30:35,166
I'm sorry.

351
00:30:36,293 --> 00:30:37,919
I just spent the last 13 months...

352
00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:41,923
coming into rooms like this
and talking to people like you.

353
00:30:42,341 --> 00:30:45,051
The truth is, you're my last chance, so...

354
00:30:45,219 --> 00:30:46,677
I'm sorry I wasted your time.

355
00:30:46,845 --> 00:30:48,137
Doctor.

356
00:30:48,305 --> 00:30:56,305
Yes, sir.

357
00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:03,069
You have your money.

358
00:31:06,114 --> 00:31:10,910
Thank you.

359
00:31:57,457 --> 00:32:01,502
Oh! Perfect cast. Come on, fishy.

360
00:32:01,670 --> 00:32:05,339
Frank, look at the size
of that son of a bitch!

361
00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:19,854
Welcome back, Dr. C.

362
00:32:20,022 --> 00:32:21,522
How'd it go?

363
00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:25,443
- How was the trip?
- I've had better.

364
00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:29,030
Drumlin. What is this?
This his personal vendetta now?

365
00:32:29,197 --> 00:32:33,117
It's not just Drumlin. There's been enormous
pressure from other scientists as well.

366
00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:36,537
It doesn't matter anyway,
Hadden's funding us for another two years.

367
00:32:36,705 --> 00:32:39,874
Uh... These are government-owned
telescopes, they can lease to whomever.

368
00:32:40,042 --> 00:32:43,836
And they don't want the high priestess
of the desert using them anymore.

369
00:32:44,671 --> 00:32:45,713
What?

370
00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:49,216
Staring at static on TV for hours,
listening to washing machines.

371
00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:51,761
Did you really think these stories
wouldn't get out?

372
00:32:51,928 --> 00:32:55,681
- I was looking for patterns in the chaos.
- Doesn't matter, we're a joke to them.

373
00:32:55,849 --> 00:32:57,391
They want us out.

374
00:32:58,852 --> 00:33:02,188
We've got three months
until the paperwork goes through.

375
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:08,069
Fine. I'll start looking for other funding.
I'll just start...

376
00:33:08,236 --> 00:33:12,740
Could you face reality, please?
Just this once, Ellie. We lost.

377
00:33:12,908 --> 00:33:14,575
It's over.

378
00:33:20,916 --> 00:33:22,583
Fine.

379
00:33:22,751 --> 00:33:24,752
But I'm not stopping.

380
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,922
If I have to go it alone, I'll go it alone.
I've done it before.

381
00:34:17,681 --> 00:34:21,434
My guest tonight is author
and theologian Palmer Joss.

382
00:34:21,601 --> 00:34:26,605
He's become a spiritual counselor of sorts
and a recent fixture at the White House.

383
00:34:26,773 --> 00:34:29,734
"God's Diplomat,"
according to The New York Times.

384
00:34:29,943 --> 00:34:33,612
His latest book, Losing Faith,
is currently number one...

385
00:34:33,822 --> 00:34:36,157
on that publication's bestseller list.

386
00:34:36,324 --> 00:34:37,825
Thanks for being with us, Palmer.

387
00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:40,786
You have had quite a ride
this last couple of years.

388
00:34:40,954 --> 00:34:43,414
Yeah, I sure have, Larry.

389
00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:46,083
You know, Fish, I was thinking.

390
00:34:46,251 --> 00:34:50,588
Who would make the best astronomers?
I mean, think about it.

391
00:34:50,756 --> 00:34:56,761
Who has the perfect synthesis
of career and lifestyle?

392
00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:59,847
- I give.
- Vampires!

393
00:35:00,015 --> 00:35:02,433
Are you anti-technology?
Are you anti-science?

394
00:35:02,601 --> 00:35:04,602
No, not at all.

395
00:35:04,770 --> 00:35:07,646
The question that I'm asking is this:

396
00:35:08,315 --> 00:35:11,025
Are we happier as a human race?

397
00:35:11,193 --> 00:35:16,113
Is the world fundamentally a better place
because of science and technology?

398
00:35:16,823 --> 00:35:19,283
We shop at home, we surf the Web...

399
00:35:19,493 --> 00:35:22,286
but at the same time we feel emptier...

400
00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:27,291
and more cut off from each other
than at any other time in human history.

401
00:35:27,459 --> 00:35:30,127
I mean, we're becoming
a synthesized society...

402
00:35:30,295 --> 00:35:33,631
in a great, big hurry
to get to the next...

403
00:35:47,020 --> 00:35:50,523
I think it's because we're looking
for the meaning. What is the meaning?

404
00:35:50,690 --> 00:35:53,400
We have mindless jobs,
we take frantic vacations.

405
00:35:53,819 --> 00:35:56,821
Deficit finance trips to the mall
to buy more things...

406
00:35:57,030 --> 00:36:00,699
that we think are gonna fill
these holes in our lives.

407
00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:03,410
Is it any wonder that we've lost
our sense of direction?

408
00:36:44,286 --> 00:36:45,953
Holy shit.

409
00:37:04,264 --> 00:37:10,311
Right ascension,
18 hours, 36 minutes, 56.2 seconds.

410
00:37:10,478 --> 00:37:15,482
Declination, plus 36 degrees,
46 minutes...

411
00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:18,819
56.2 seconds!

412
00:37:20,488 --> 00:37:21,989
Confirm!

413
00:37:22,157 --> 00:37:28,078
Right ascension, 18 hours, 36 minutes,
56.2 seconds!

414
00:37:28,246 --> 00:37:31,081
Hey, is anybody awake in there?
I'm moving the array!

415
00:37:32,167 --> 00:37:34,960
- Confirm!
- Boss has a bogey!

416
00:37:35,170 --> 00:37:40,299
Right ascension, 18 hours,
36 minutes, 56.2 seconds.

417
00:37:40,467 --> 00:37:42,718
- Fish!
- We're on it.

418
00:37:42,886 --> 00:37:47,222
Plus 36 hours,
47 minutes and 1 second.

419
00:37:47,390 --> 00:37:51,143
Strong possible pulse chain
on Sub-Array 4.

420
00:37:51,353 --> 00:37:54,688
I'm moving the rest of them now.
I need you to confirm the coordinates.

421
00:37:54,856 --> 00:37:56,857
Check the status of the array.

422
00:37:57,025 --> 00:38:00,903
- She's doing all the dishes.
- All systems nominal.

423
00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:07,117
Hello.

424
00:38:07,869 --> 00:38:09,620
I need a full systems check.

425
00:38:09,788 --> 00:38:12,623
Coordinates confirmed.
Willie's checking the system now.

426
00:38:12,791 --> 00:38:15,793
Stay on top of the systems diagnostics.

427
00:38:15,961 --> 00:38:17,670
Check the reference point offsets.

428
00:38:17,879 --> 00:38:21,882
And I want you off-axis on 27
the second we get there.

429
00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:24,551
And tell Willie to break out the big boy.

430
00:38:26,137 --> 00:38:28,472
Copy that. Willie...

431
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:29,890
Yeah. Go, Ellie.

432
00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:33,352
I can hear can it on the headphones.
We gotta be sure about this.

433
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,230
Give me another array status.

434
00:38:37,649 --> 00:38:40,567
Her four are online,
the rest are tracking in.

435
00:38:40,735 --> 00:38:43,487
Your four are online,
the rest are tracking in.

436
00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:46,031
But there's a bad drive on 16.

437
00:38:46,241 --> 00:38:48,742
Your four are online,
the rest are tracking in...

438
00:38:48,910 --> 00:38:51,745
but there's a bad drive on 16.
Copy that?

439
00:38:52,998 --> 00:38:55,290
What do you want me to do
about the source queue?

440
00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:57,543
Look, forget about it and hold the queue.

441
00:38:57,711 --> 00:39:01,880
Go get ready to set the target frequency
to manual the second we're aligned.

442
00:39:02,090 --> 00:39:06,427
Do you copy? I want you to go
off-axis on 27 the second we're there.

443
00:39:06,678 --> 00:39:09,513
And leave the LO frequency where it is.

444
00:39:09,681 --> 00:39:12,975
Stay on it, Fish, don't let it get away.
If you lose it, scan the band.

445
00:39:13,143 --> 00:39:16,437
Run every frequency you can think of.

446
00:39:21,026 --> 00:39:22,735
How you doing?

447
00:39:26,948 --> 00:39:28,073
Talk to me, guys.

448
00:39:28,283 --> 00:39:32,119
Partially polarized set of moving pulses,
amplitude modulated.

449
00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:35,956
We're locked. Systems check out, signal
across the board. What's the frequency?

450
00:39:36,124 --> 00:39:39,168
4.4623 GHz.

451
00:39:40,545 --> 00:39:43,797
Hydrogen times pi. Told you.

452
00:39:43,965 --> 00:39:45,758
Strong sucker too.

453
00:39:45,925 --> 00:39:48,260
I got it! I got it, I got it!
I'm patched in.

454
00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:50,637
All right, let me hear it.

455
00:39:55,685 --> 00:39:57,144
Listen to that.

456
00:39:59,397 --> 00:40:01,648
Make me a liar, Fish.

457
00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:04,485
It could be AWACS out of Kirtland
jamming us.

458
00:40:04,652 --> 00:40:06,028
But I'm doubting it.

459
00:40:06,196 --> 00:40:08,822
All right, let's see
if F.U.D.D.'s reading it too.

460
00:40:09,657 --> 00:40:12,993
Willie, patch it back
and give me the off-axis.

461
00:40:13,161 --> 00:40:14,828
- Are we recording?
- Never stopped.

462
00:40:16,915 --> 00:40:18,207
Thank you, Elmer.

463
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:20,334
AWACS status is negative.

464
00:40:20,502 --> 00:40:23,337
- White Sands?
- On this frequency? No.

465
00:40:23,505 --> 00:40:25,005
I'm gonna punch up the darks.

466
00:40:28,176 --> 00:40:31,845
How's the spying tonight, guys?
Come on.

467
00:40:34,182 --> 00:40:36,683
NORAD's not tracking
any snoops in this vector.

468
00:40:36,851 --> 00:40:38,435
Shuttle Endeavor is in sleep mode.

469
00:40:38,603 --> 00:40:41,105
Okay, point source confirmed.

470
00:40:41,272 --> 00:40:43,857
- Whatever it is, it ain't local.
- Position?

471
00:40:44,025 --> 00:40:46,693
- I checked interferometry.
- Somewhere in Lyra, I think.

472
00:40:46,861 --> 00:40:48,362
- Vega?
- Can't be.

473
00:40:48,530 --> 00:40:50,781
It's only 26 light years away.

474
00:40:50,949 --> 00:40:53,909
- What's the peak intensity?
- Coming up.

475
00:40:54,077 --> 00:40:55,327
Vega.

476
00:40:55,495 --> 00:40:59,456
Vega. I scanned it a bunch of times at
Arecibo. It was negative results, always.

477
00:40:59,666 --> 00:41:03,043
Got it. Reading over 100 janskys.

478
00:41:03,211 --> 00:41:05,587
Jesus. I could pick it up on my...

479
00:41:08,716 --> 00:41:09,716
No.

480
00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:44,084
Come on.

481
00:41:46,421 --> 00:41:48,505
All right, it's restarting.

482
00:41:48,965 --> 00:41:50,716
Wait a minute. Those are numbers.

483
00:41:50,925 --> 00:41:54,011
That was a three,
the one before it was a two.

484
00:41:54,179 --> 00:41:57,598
Base-10 numbers. Just start counting now,
see how far can we get.

485
00:41:57,765 --> 00:41:59,391
One.

486
00:42:04,939 --> 00:42:06,023
- Seven.
- Seven.

487
00:42:08,860 --> 00:42:10,444
Those are primes.

488
00:42:10,612 --> 00:42:13,197
2, 3, 5, 7, those are all
prime numbers.

489
00:42:13,364 --> 00:42:15,324
There's no way
that's a natural phenomenon.

490
00:42:15,491 --> 00:42:16,617
- Holy shit.
- Okay, okay.

491
00:42:16,784 --> 00:42:20,120
Let's just calm down
and pull up the star file on Vega.

492
00:42:20,663 --> 00:42:23,624
- It doesn't make any sense.
- The system is too young...

493
00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:25,792
so it can't have a planetary system...

494
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,379
let alone life
or a technological civilization.

495
00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:32,132
Maybe they didn't grow up there.
Maybe they're visiting.

496
00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:35,636
Spacecraft? This system is
full of debris. It would get clobbered.

497
00:42:35,803 --> 00:42:39,973
Well, not if they used their laser blasters
and photon torpedoes.

498
00:42:40,141 --> 00:42:43,560
- That's not funny.
- How else are we gonna explain it?

499
00:42:43,728 --> 00:42:46,939
Willie's right. If we go public with this
and we're wrong, that's it.

500
00:42:47,106 --> 00:42:49,608
It's over. We're cooked.

501
00:42:50,610 --> 00:42:53,195
God, I wish Kent was here.

502
00:42:53,363 --> 00:42:57,449
Whatever the signal is, we better
do something soon. Vega's gonna set.

503
00:42:57,992 --> 00:43:04,581
Position confirmed.
We've got 4.4623 GHz, confirmed.

504
00:43:04,749 --> 00:43:07,668
We've got 112 janskys.

505
00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:10,295
All right, do you have
a source location yet?

506
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,759
We put it right smack in the middle.

507
00:43:15,927 --> 00:43:17,511
Vega.

508
00:43:19,347 --> 00:43:22,349
Okay, thanks, Ian. Keep tracking
and we'll get back to you.

509
00:43:22,517 --> 00:43:24,184
Yeah, right-o.

510
00:43:34,362 --> 00:43:35,862
Okay, 101.

511
00:43:36,030 --> 00:43:40,784
The pulse sequenced through every
prime number between two and 101.

512
00:43:42,370 --> 00:43:44,371
Who are we gonna call now?

513
00:43:47,208 --> 00:43:48,292
Everybody.

514
00:43:56,050 --> 00:43:59,469
The rumors are flying,
the implications extraordinary.

515
00:43:59,637 --> 00:44:03,265
This morning's detection of an unidentified
radio source from deep space...

516
00:44:03,433 --> 00:44:06,059
can neither be confirmed nor denied.

517
00:44:06,227 --> 00:44:08,020
But the military presence arriving...

518
00:44:08,187 --> 00:44:12,065
Sources close to the VLA report
that the planet has been contacted...

519
00:44:12,233 --> 00:44:14,192
by some form of intelligent being...

520
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,863
living outside of our solar system.
Again, there is no confirmation...

521
00:44:18,031 --> 00:44:21,950
that the official IAU communiqué
was sent from this government facility.

522
00:44:22,118 --> 00:44:24,828
I want all of these people out of here.

523
00:44:24,996 --> 00:44:26,788
Where's the girl?

524
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,879
32 stations worldwide
now confirming the signal.

525
00:44:34,047 --> 00:44:35,839
Vega is currently below our horizon...

526
00:44:36,007 --> 00:44:38,467
so what you're hearing
is the signal from-

527
00:44:38,634 --> 00:44:42,429
Get decryption people in here now.
Lunacharsky is visiting at Cal Tech.

528
00:44:42,597 --> 00:44:44,056
Explain this to me.

529
00:44:44,265 --> 00:44:48,143
If the source of the signal is so
sophisticated, why the remedial math?

530
00:44:48,311 --> 00:44:50,103
Exactly, why don't they speak English?

531
00:44:50,271 --> 00:44:53,482
Maybe because %7O of the planet
speaks other languages.

532
00:44:53,649 --> 00:44:56,443
Mathematics is
the only truly universal language.

533
00:44:57,153 --> 00:44:59,738
It's no coincidence
that they're using primes.

534
00:44:59,947 --> 00:45:02,157
- I don't get it.
- Prime numbers.

535
00:45:02,325 --> 00:45:06,119
That would be integers that are
only divisible by themselves and one.

536
00:45:08,998 --> 00:45:12,626
We think this may be a beacon,
some kind of an announcement...

537
00:45:12,794 --> 00:45:13,919
to get our attention.

538
00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:17,798
If it's attention you want, you got that.
One thing: Vega.

539
00:45:18,007 --> 00:45:21,510
People have been looking at Vega for years
with no results.

540
00:45:21,677 --> 00:45:24,513
And now yesterday they start
broadcasting primes. Why?

541
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,558
Well, it's hardly yesterday, because the
signal has been transmitting for 26 years.

542
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:30,185
Dr. Arroway.

543
00:45:30,353 --> 00:45:34,564
- Excuse me, who are you?
- Michael Kitz, National Security Advisor.

544
00:45:34,732 --> 00:45:36,024
Let me first say that your reput...

545
00:45:36,192 --> 00:45:40,153
Actually, first, could you ask the gentlemen
with the firearms to wait outside?

546
00:45:40,321 --> 00:45:42,322
This is supposed to be a civilian facility.

547
00:45:48,788 --> 00:45:51,415
- Doctor, with all due respect to your...
- Excuse me.

548
00:45:51,791 --> 00:45:55,127
Hey, hey, hey.
Hi, I'm so glad you're back.

549
00:45:55,711 --> 00:45:58,922
- Come on, I got something for you to hear.
- Is this great?

550
00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:01,508
- Who are all these people?
- I have no idea.

551
00:46:01,717 --> 00:46:04,678
Sit down. And we could use some help
with the spectrum analysis.

552
00:46:04,846 --> 00:46:06,805
- Listen to that. I'll get on it.
- Headsets.

553
00:46:06,973 --> 00:46:09,057
So I'll just come right to the point,
shall I?

554
00:46:09,350 --> 00:46:13,353
Your having sent this all over the world may
constitute a breach of national security.

555
00:46:13,521 --> 00:46:15,188
This isn't a person-to-person call.

556
00:46:15,398 --> 00:46:19,901
You can't think that a civilization sending
this would intend it just for Americans.

557
00:46:20,069 --> 00:46:21,903
I'm saying you might have consulted us.

558
00:46:22,071 --> 00:46:25,866
- The contents could be extremely sensitive.
- You want to classify prime numbers?

559
00:46:26,033 --> 00:46:29,786
Mike, please. We're only in line
with Vega so many hours a day.

560
00:46:29,954 --> 00:46:34,416
The only way to monitor the signal
is to get the cooperation of other stations.

561
00:46:34,584 --> 00:46:38,962
If Dr. Arroway hadn't acted quickly,
we could have lost key elements.

562
00:46:39,130 --> 00:46:40,755
Okay, fine, they've got the primes.

563
00:46:40,923 --> 00:46:44,050
If you're right about there being a more
significant transmission...

564
00:46:44,218 --> 00:46:45,886
Which will need help
to receive and decode.

565
00:46:46,053 --> 00:46:47,888
Doctor, do you understand that my job
is to protect...?

566
00:46:48,055 --> 00:46:49,848
- Shh!
- What?

567
00:46:50,016 --> 00:46:52,100
- Listen.
- I hear it.

568
00:46:52,268 --> 00:46:54,019
- Hear what?
- Harmonic.

569
00:46:54,187 --> 00:46:58,440
Bingo. I had Willie ask Rattan
to retune to 8.9247 GHz.

570
00:46:58,608 --> 00:47:00,108
There's a lot more here, folks.

571
00:47:00,276 --> 00:47:03,236
- Fish, let's get on the negative sideband.
- I'm already on it.

572
00:47:03,404 --> 00:47:04,988
- What is going on?
- Another signal.

573
00:47:05,156 --> 00:47:06,490
Another signal, look at that.

574
00:47:06,657 --> 00:47:09,784
A second signal at double the frequency.
It looks like a...

575
00:47:09,952 --> 00:47:11,328
Somebody get a TV monitor.

576
00:47:11,871 --> 00:47:13,955
Patch the recording
into the image processor.

577
00:47:14,123 --> 00:47:17,417
- You want the new data?
- Yeah, the new frequency we just recorded.

578
00:47:17,627 --> 00:47:19,544
David, explain this to me, please.

579
00:47:19,712 --> 00:47:22,839
With the prime there's another signal.
Looks like a TV transmission.

580
00:47:23,007 --> 00:47:24,174
We're hot.

581
00:47:24,342 --> 00:47:27,427
Do me a favor, go get the blinds.
There is a lot of glare.

582
00:47:27,595 --> 00:47:29,095
You're patched in.

583
00:47:29,263 --> 00:47:33,433
All right, it's definitely an image.
Let's try and stabilize it.

584
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:38,980
What do you make of that, Fish?

585
00:47:39,148 --> 00:47:42,567
It's two different interlaced frames.
I'm framing one.

586
00:47:45,947 --> 00:47:48,698
- It's just noise.
- Trying frame two.

587
00:47:49,450 --> 00:47:53,203
I've got an offset carrier here.
I think it's audio.

588
00:47:53,371 --> 00:47:54,621
Plug it in, plug it in.

589
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,252
Center that segment.

590
00:48:00,419 --> 00:48:01,962
Centering.

591
00:48:05,841 --> 00:48:08,802
- Can you clean it up any more than that?
- I'm working on it.

592
00:48:21,816 --> 00:48:23,149
What the hell...?

593
00:48:23,985 --> 00:48:25,151
Try zooming out.

594
00:48:29,031 --> 00:48:30,156
All right, freeze.

595
00:48:30,324 --> 00:48:31,658
Reverse values.

596
00:48:33,327 --> 00:48:35,453
Try zooming out again.

597
00:48:39,041 --> 00:48:41,167
Rotate 90 degrees counterclock...

598
00:48:42,670 --> 00:48:44,629
My God.

599
00:48:49,677 --> 00:48:52,637
- Okay.
- What's going on?

600
00:48:52,805 --> 00:48:55,473
You're not gonna believe this.

601
00:49:08,904 --> 00:49:10,655
Does anybody speak German?

602
00:49:12,074 --> 00:49:14,492
"I declare the Games in Berlin...

603
00:49:15,578 --> 00:49:17,329
at the celebration...

604
00:49:17,538 --> 00:49:21,916
of the first Olympics of the new era
has opened."

605
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:34,137
Get me the White House.

606
00:49:34,764 --> 00:49:37,474
20 million people died
defeating that son of a bitch...

607
00:49:37,642 --> 00:49:39,851
and he's our first ambassador
to outer space?

608
00:49:40,019 --> 00:49:42,354
- Actually...
- The broadcast from the '36 Olympics...

609
00:49:42,521 --> 00:49:45,523
was the first television transmission
that went into space.

610
00:49:45,691 --> 00:49:49,069
That they recorded it and sent it back
is saying, "Hello, we heard you."

611
00:49:49,236 --> 00:49:51,696
Or, "sieg Heil, you're our kind of people."

612
00:49:51,906 --> 00:49:54,574
Wait. Hitler and his politics
have nothing to do with this.

613
00:49:54,742 --> 00:49:58,244
It's highly unlikely they would understand,
and people need to understand...

614
00:49:58,412 --> 00:50:00,580
The people are in very good hands,
Dr. Arroway.

615
00:50:00,748 --> 00:50:01,748
We'll take it from here.

616
00:50:01,916 --> 00:50:04,000
The White House
has just released...

617
00:50:04,168 --> 00:50:05,251
Smile, folks. We're on.

618
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:08,338
A statement confirming a message
from deep space...

619
00:50:08,506 --> 00:50:12,592
has been received by American scientists.
Claire Shipman is at the White House.

620
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,929
Donna, we've been told the president
will have only a few remarks...

621
00:50:16,138 --> 00:50:17,597
about today's announcement...

622
00:50:17,765 --> 00:50:21,184
and that he won't be taking
any questions from the press.

623
00:50:26,148 --> 00:50:27,482
Good afternoon.

624
00:50:30,361 --> 00:50:34,572
I'm glad to be joined by my
science and technology advisor.

625
00:50:36,409 --> 00:50:39,244
This is the product
of years of exploration...

626
00:50:39,453 --> 00:50:42,664
by some of the world's
most distinguished scientists.

627
00:50:42,873 --> 00:50:47,085
Like all discoveries, this one
will and should continue to be reviewed...

628
00:50:47,294 --> 00:50:50,046
examined and scrutinized.

629
00:50:50,256 --> 00:50:53,341
It must be confirmed by other scientists.

630
00:50:53,509 --> 00:50:59,305
The fact that something of this magnitude
is being explored is another...

631
00:50:59,473 --> 00:51:03,351
Fish, what is the story over here?
I thought Ellie was supposed to be on.

632
00:51:03,561 --> 00:51:05,061
I don't know.

633
00:51:05,688 --> 00:51:08,648
Guys? Guys? Um...

634
00:51:09,442 --> 00:51:12,277
You know those interlaced frames
that we thought were noise?

635
00:51:13,112 --> 00:51:15,780
This has structure. I'm hearing structure.

636
00:51:17,158 --> 00:51:19,409
If this discovery is confirmed...

637
00:51:19,618 --> 00:51:23,246
it will be one of the most stunning
insights into our universe...

638
00:51:23,456 --> 00:51:25,498
that science has ever uncovered.

639
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:31,171
Its implications are as far-reaching
and awe-inspiring as can be imagined.

640
00:51:31,380 --> 00:51:34,841
Even as it promises answers
to some of our oldest questions...

641
00:51:35,050 --> 00:51:38,470
it poses still others,
even more fundamental.

642
00:51:38,679 --> 00:51:42,307
We will continue to listen closely
to what it has to say...

643
00:51:42,516 --> 00:51:46,060
as we continue the search for answers
and for knowledge...

644
00:51:46,270 --> 00:51:51,941
that is as old as humanity itself
but essential to our people's future.

645
00:51:52,276 --> 00:51:53,735
- Thank you.
- Sir...

646
00:51:53,903 --> 00:51:56,029
Is there a considerable
global security threat?

647
00:51:56,197 --> 00:51:59,324
I'll answer your questions at the end,
but first a few corrections.

648
00:51:59,492 --> 00:52:03,495
The message was received Friday morning,
6:31 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.

649
00:52:03,704 --> 00:52:08,291
It was largely mathematical, and in spite of
reports you may have seen to the contrary...

650
00:52:08,459 --> 00:52:11,002
appears to be completely benign
in nature.

651
00:52:11,212 --> 00:52:14,964
Let me say that again.
The message is completely benign.

652
00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:18,635
The president has been in touch
with heads of state from around the world...

653
00:52:18,803 --> 00:52:21,554
and every possible security measure
is being taken.

654
00:52:21,722 --> 00:52:24,766
To better explain to you
the events of the last 48 hours...

655
00:52:24,975 --> 00:52:29,395
I'm turning you over to the leader of the
team that made this remarkable discovery...

656
00:52:29,563 --> 00:52:33,733
Dr. David Drumlin,
special science advisor to the president.

657
00:52:41,659 --> 00:52:44,494
Thank you, Rachel. Hello.

658
00:52:46,413 --> 00:52:48,873
In 1936
a very faint television signal...

659
00:52:49,083 --> 00:52:52,168
transmitted the opening ceremonies
of the Olympic Games...

660
00:52:52,336 --> 00:52:56,005
as a show
of German superior technology.

661
00:52:57,091 --> 00:52:59,175
That signal left Earth
at the speed of light...

662
00:53:01,512 --> 00:53:05,348
And 26 years later arrived in the vicinity
of the star we call Vega.

663
00:53:06,267 --> 00:53:10,103
That signal has been sent back to us
hugely amplified...

664
00:53:10,271 --> 00:53:12,939
an unmistakable sign of intelligence.

665
00:53:13,107 --> 00:53:14,607
You're online, Kent, go ahead.

666
00:53:14,775 --> 00:53:18,987
The Adolf transmission used 25 frames
per second but we're receiving 50.

667
00:53:19,154 --> 00:53:23,116
So we canned the other 25
through a series of search algorithms.

668
00:53:23,284 --> 00:53:25,827
We found a series of markers
on the top of each frame.

669
00:53:25,995 --> 00:53:27,704
- Are you ready?
- Yeah, go ahead.

670
00:53:27,872 --> 00:53:31,124
- Send it, Willie.
- Okay, here it comes.

671
00:53:34,378 --> 00:53:35,712
It's digital...

672
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:40,133
massive amounts of data which
extend right to the higher harmonics.

673
00:53:40,801 --> 00:53:42,552
Jackpot.

674
00:53:43,470 --> 00:53:45,388
All right, as you'll see...

675
00:53:45,556 --> 00:53:48,850
interlaced with the frames
of the original Hitler image...

676
00:53:49,018 --> 00:53:51,978
we found these sections.

677
00:53:52,146 --> 00:53:55,648
Now, we thought they were just noise,
but they're actually data...

678
00:53:55,816 --> 00:53:57,108
huge amounts of it.

679
00:53:57,276 --> 00:54:01,821
When we combine this with the data from
the amplification of the original signal...

680
00:54:01,989 --> 00:54:05,283
we get these encrypted pages of text.

681
00:54:05,492 --> 00:54:09,662
Now, no two are alike and
we've uncovered over 10,000 already.

682
00:54:09,830 --> 00:54:12,248
What does it mean, doctor?

683
00:54:12,416 --> 00:54:14,751
Well, we have no idea.
It could be anything.

684
00:54:14,919 --> 00:54:17,629
It could be the first volume
of an Encyclopedia Galactica.

685
00:54:17,796 --> 00:54:20,715
Instructions to acquaint us
with their colonization procedures.

686
00:54:20,883 --> 00:54:22,842
Moses with a few billion
new commandments.

687
00:54:23,010 --> 00:54:25,303
How long will it take to decode it?

688
00:54:25,512 --> 00:54:28,848
It could take forever.
We really need a primer...

689
00:54:29,016 --> 00:54:32,101
We need to get the best
decryption people we have.

690
00:54:32,603 --> 00:54:36,856
I intend to use the VLA
as my command post.

691
00:54:37,024 --> 00:54:40,443
In the meantime, my office
has made out a preliminary budget.

692
00:54:40,611 --> 00:54:44,572
Wait a minute.
This is a privately-funded operation.

693
00:54:44,782 --> 00:54:47,075
We're only leasing dish time
from the government...

694
00:54:47,284 --> 00:54:50,370
If there's a more clear case
of eminent domain, I've never seen it.

695
00:54:50,537 --> 00:54:53,122
I'm going to recommend
we militarize this project.

696
00:54:53,290 --> 00:54:55,667
What? This is my project.

697
00:54:55,834 --> 00:54:59,212
Nobody knows more about these scenarios
than I do. David, tell them...

698
00:54:59,380 --> 00:55:02,757
Excuse me, could we calm down here?

699
00:55:02,967 --> 00:55:07,637
Now, I'm going to recommend that
Dr. Drumlin coordinate the decryption effort.

700
00:55:07,805 --> 00:55:11,182
However, in light of Dr. Arroway's
long experience in these matters...

701
00:55:11,350 --> 00:55:15,561
for the time being, she will continue
to direct operations at the VLA...

702
00:55:15,729 --> 00:55:20,400
understanding that future discoveries
will be kept in strictest confidence...

703
00:55:20,567 --> 00:55:22,485
until such time as the president...

704
00:55:22,653 --> 00:55:26,656
can decide the most suitable
course of action. Understood?

705
00:55:26,824 --> 00:55:28,032
Yes.

706
00:55:28,325 --> 00:55:30,952
This is CNN Breaking News.

707
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,080
The president made a statement,
calling the message from Vega...

708
00:55:34,289 --> 00:55:36,416
one of the most stunning insights
into our...

709
00:55:36,625 --> 00:55:41,629
Attendance at religious services has
risen a dramatic %39 in recent days.

710
00:55:41,797 --> 00:55:45,633
As police in three German divisions
clashed with neo-Nazi protesters.

711
00:55:45,801 --> 00:55:47,927
So it turns out
there's life on other planets.

712
00:55:48,137 --> 00:55:51,764
Boy, this is really gonna change
the Miss Universe contest.

713
00:55:52,433 --> 00:55:56,769
Health officials from around the world are
concerned that the message from Vega...

714
00:55:56,937 --> 00:55:59,564
might trigger a rash of mass suicides...

715
00:55:59,773 --> 00:56:02,400
not unlike the recent cult deaths
near San Diego...

716
00:56:02,609 --> 00:56:04,569
Even a scientist has to admit...

717
00:56:04,778 --> 00:56:09,282
that there are some pretty serious
religious overtones to all this.

718
00:56:09,450 --> 00:56:11,617
Let's hear from someone
whose organization...

719
00:56:11,827 --> 00:56:14,370
has been accused of conducting
its own inquisition:

720
00:56:14,538 --> 00:56:17,165
Richard Rank,
head of the Conservative coalition.

721
00:56:17,332 --> 00:56:18,416
Thank you.

722
00:56:18,584 --> 00:56:22,962
This is yet another example of science
intruding into matters of faith.

723
00:56:24,006 --> 00:56:27,300
This means they
have been reacting to TV signals...

724
00:56:27,509 --> 00:56:30,428
they got from the 1930s.
They're just getting them.

725
00:56:30,637 --> 00:56:34,307
Imagine how disappointed they're
gonna be if they're Cubs fans.

726
00:56:34,475 --> 00:56:37,643
We now take you to Jeremy Roth,
who is reporting on events...

727
00:56:37,853 --> 00:56:41,314
at the Very Large Array
near Socorro, New Mexico.

728
00:56:41,523 --> 00:56:43,357
Like a bolt from the blue it came.

729
00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:47,695
The message from Vega has caused
thousands of believers and non-believers...

730
00:56:47,863 --> 00:56:51,783
to descend upon the VLA facility
here in the desert of New Mexico.

731
00:56:51,992 --> 00:56:54,494
Many have come to protest,
many to pray...

732
00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:59,499
but most have come to participate
in what has become the best show in town.

733
00:57:59,518 --> 00:58:05,398
That's right. I'll be there in Vega,
thank you very much.

734
00:58:08,402 --> 00:58:11,320
Hail to Vega
Hail to Vega, Hail to Vega

735
00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:14,740
Hail to Vega

736
00:58:16,076 --> 00:58:17,743
But they have failed!

737
00:58:18,328 --> 00:58:20,872
It's the same people who,
again and again...

738
00:58:21,039 --> 00:58:23,457
have brought us
to the brink of destruction.

739
00:58:23,667 --> 00:58:27,712
Who've polluted our air,
who've poisoned our water.

740
00:58:28,922 --> 00:58:30,923
Now these scientists...

741
00:58:31,925 --> 00:58:33,759
have had their chance.

742
00:58:33,927 --> 00:58:37,346
Are these the kind of people...

743
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:40,641
that you want
talking to your God for you?

744
00:58:45,105 --> 00:58:47,190
Efforts continue around the clock.

745
00:58:47,524 --> 00:58:51,110
But for now, almost 2 full weeks
after the message's arrival...

746
00:58:51,278 --> 00:58:54,447
scientists here at the VLA
still have no answers...

747
00:58:54,615 --> 00:58:56,365
only more questions.

748
00:58:56,533 --> 00:59:00,244
Jeremy Roth, CNN,
Soccorro, New Mexico.

749
00:59:00,412 --> 00:59:03,748
More on the quest
for the message's meaning, after this.

750
00:59:06,585 --> 00:59:08,336
They gotta line up somehow.

751
00:59:08,503 --> 00:59:10,463
Yeah, well, this one doesn't fit, either.

752
00:59:10,631 --> 00:59:13,299
We've tried over a million permutations.

753
00:59:13,467 --> 00:59:16,969
Always, I can only get
three corners to fit.

754
00:59:17,971 --> 00:59:20,097
I don't understand their significance.

755
01:00:01,974 --> 01:00:04,684
What...? Somebody broke in...

756
01:00:11,024 --> 01:00:12,191
Hello?

757
01:00:13,110 --> 01:00:16,529
Hey, listen, I don't know who you are,
but you broke into the database...

758
01:00:19,366 --> 01:00:21,075
What? Now?

759
01:00:23,537 --> 01:00:24,704
Where?

760
01:00:37,718 --> 01:00:39,135
I'll be there.

761
01:01:06,747 --> 01:01:08,080
You should feel fortunate.

762
01:01:08,832 --> 01:01:10,333
He hardly lands for anyone.

763
01:01:41,907 --> 01:01:43,866
Dr. Arroway...

764
01:01:47,788 --> 01:01:49,121
I presume?

765
01:01:50,415 --> 01:01:51,540
Mr. Hadden.

766
01:01:52,834 --> 01:01:56,087
I've had my eye on you
a long time, doctor.

767
01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:00,383
I consider you one of my
most valuable long-term investments.

768
01:02:02,260 --> 01:02:04,637
And when it comes to my investments...

769
01:02:06,431 --> 01:02:09,100
I always do my homework.

770
01:02:13,814 --> 01:02:15,564
Eleanor Ann Arroway...

771
01:02:15,774 --> 01:02:18,275
born 25th August, 1964...

772
01:02:18,485 --> 01:02:20,069
De Pere, Wisconsin.

773
01:02:20,278 --> 01:02:24,490
Mother, Joanna, died
from complications during childbirth.

774
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,910
Early testing indicated
high predisposition...

775
01:02:28,078 --> 01:02:31,163
towards science and mathematics.

776
01:02:31,832 --> 01:02:32,998
Father, Theodore...

777
01:02:33,166 --> 01:02:36,710
advised to provide
enrichment activities along these lines...

778
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:39,672
did so conscientiously
until his death...

779
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:44,510
from myocardial infarction,
November 10, 1974.

780
01:02:45,095 --> 01:02:48,347
You graduated from
high school in 1979...

781
01:02:48,515 --> 01:02:50,641
almost two full years early.

782
01:02:52,060 --> 01:02:56,439
Awarded full scholarship, M.I.T,
graduated magna cum laude.

783
01:02:57,399 --> 01:02:59,108
Doctoral work, Cal Tech...

784
01:02:59,317 --> 01:03:02,653
where you did breakthrough work
on the lanthanide-doped ruby maser...

785
01:03:02,821 --> 01:03:06,949
dramatically increasing
the sensitivity of radio telescopes.

786
01:03:07,284 --> 01:03:10,995
Subsequently offered a teaching position
at Harvard University...

787
01:03:11,204 --> 01:03:14,290
which you turned down
to pursue SETI work...

788
01:03:14,499 --> 01:03:17,918
at the Arecibo Observatory
in Puerto Rico.

789
01:03:20,338 --> 01:03:26,594
Changes in NSF policy
gave rise to certain funding problems...

790
01:03:27,679 --> 01:03:31,682
at which point
you came to my attention.

791
01:03:33,018 --> 01:03:35,227
You compromised our security codes.

792
01:03:37,689 --> 01:03:39,523
Once upon a time...

793
01:03:41,526 --> 01:03:43,777
I was a hell of an engineer.

794
01:03:43,945 --> 01:03:46,363
Please, sit, doctor.

795
01:03:46,531 --> 01:03:51,660
I have guests so rarely, it's important to me
that they feel welcome in my home.

796
01:03:52,245 --> 01:03:53,996
You live here?

797
01:03:55,207 --> 01:03:58,542
I find it convenient
to keep my interests...

798
01:03:59,711 --> 01:04:00,836
mobile.

799
01:04:03,423 --> 01:04:08,344
Anyway, I've had my fill
of life on the ground.

800
01:04:08,845 --> 01:04:10,971
Well, I... I guess I should...

801
01:04:11,431 --> 01:04:15,226
Well, I guess I should thank you
for having bailed me out all that time.

802
01:04:20,565 --> 01:04:22,691
I know a good bet when I see one.

803
01:04:25,070 --> 01:04:28,280
Earl Grey. No sugar, no milk, I believe.

804
01:04:31,243 --> 01:04:33,077
What am I doing here?

805
01:04:43,421 --> 01:04:46,549
The powers that be
have been very busy lately...

806
01:04:47,384 --> 01:04:52,721
falling over each other to position
themselves for the game of the millennium.

807
01:04:58,979 --> 01:05:01,772
Maybe I can help deal you back in.

808
01:05:03,024 --> 01:05:05,442
I didn't realize that I was out.

809
01:05:05,944 --> 01:05:08,237
No, maybe not out...

810
01:05:08,947 --> 01:05:11,240
but certainly being handed your hat.

811
01:05:16,663 --> 01:05:20,332
I've had a long time
to make enemies, doctor.

812
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:27,756
And there are many governments,
business interests...

813
01:05:27,924 --> 01:05:31,927
even religious leaders that
would like to see me depart this earth.

814
01:05:33,388 --> 01:05:35,931
And I'll grant them their wish
soon enough.

815
01:05:36,474 --> 01:05:40,019
But before I do,
I wish to make a small contribution.

816
01:05:40,770 --> 01:05:45,357
A final gesture of goodwill to the
people of this little planet that have given...

817
01:05:48,153 --> 01:05:50,946
From whom I have taken so much.

818
01:05:54,409 --> 01:05:55,868
You found the primer.

819
01:05:58,288 --> 01:06:00,164
Clever girl.

820
01:06:00,332 --> 01:06:01,373
Lights.

821
01:06:09,966 --> 01:06:13,135
Pages and pages of data.

822
01:06:13,303 --> 01:06:16,430
Over 63,000 in all.

823
01:06:16,598 --> 01:06:18,682
And on the perimeter of each...

824
01:06:18,850 --> 01:06:22,478
Alignment symbols, a registration mark,
but they don't line up.

825
01:06:23,063 --> 01:06:26,231
They do, if you think like a Vegan.

826
01:06:27,150 --> 01:06:30,152
An alien intelligence
has got be more advanced...

827
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:34,406
and that means efficiency
functioning on multiple levels...

828
01:06:34,574 --> 01:06:38,410
and in multiple dimensions.

829
01:06:42,374 --> 01:06:44,792
Yes, of course!

830
01:06:44,959 --> 01:06:46,001
Where's the primer?

831
01:06:46,503 --> 01:06:47,920
You'll see.

832
01:06:48,421 --> 01:06:52,883
Every three-dimensional page
contains a piece of the primer.

833
01:06:55,053 --> 01:06:58,555
There it was all the time,
staring you in the face.

834
01:06:59,641 --> 01:07:03,560
Buried within the message itself
is the key to decoding it.

835
01:07:03,728 --> 01:07:06,980
Within the layering of the matrix,
we have these basic equations:

836
01:07:08,942 --> 01:07:12,986
So with this very elementary foundation,
they have given us a kind of...

837
01:07:13,154 --> 01:07:15,739
general scientific vocabulary.

838
01:07:15,949 --> 01:07:18,242
We now have the symbols
for true and false...

839
01:07:18,451 --> 01:07:19,743
This was the key...

840
01:07:19,911 --> 01:07:22,413
that allowed us
to decipher their language...

841
01:07:22,622 --> 01:07:26,291
for physics, geometry, chemistry.
Next frame, Ellie.

842
01:07:27,502 --> 01:07:31,463
Yes, and when we apply this
to the rest of the message...

843
01:07:32,215 --> 01:07:33,298
we find this.

844
01:07:37,887 --> 01:07:40,806
Those look like engineering schematics,
almost like blueprints.

845
01:07:40,974 --> 01:07:42,599
Yeah.

846
01:07:42,767 --> 01:07:43,851
Yes.

847
01:07:44,018 --> 01:07:47,312
It is our belief that
the message contains instructions...

848
01:07:47,522 --> 01:07:50,983
for building something,
some kind of machine.

849
01:07:51,151 --> 01:07:54,278
A machine? That does what, doctor?

850
01:07:54,446 --> 01:07:56,655
We don't know.
It might be some type...

851
01:07:57,615 --> 01:08:03,162
of advanced communication device,
or a teaching machine of some kind.

852
01:08:03,663 --> 01:08:06,957
Or it might turn out to be
some kind of a transport.

853
01:08:07,375 --> 01:08:09,835
- Transport?
- There's no proof of that.

854
01:08:10,003 --> 01:08:13,839
The fact is, you don't know what it does.
It could be anything.

855
01:08:14,007 --> 01:08:17,342
Could be a Trojan horse. We build it
and out pours the entire Vegan army.

856
01:08:17,510 --> 01:08:20,179
Why bother risking the personnel?
It could be a weapon.

857
01:08:20,388 --> 01:08:22,681
Right. Some kind of
a doomsday machine.

858
01:08:22,849 --> 01:08:25,350
Exactly. Every time they detect
a new civilization...

859
01:08:25,518 --> 01:08:27,978
they fax these construction documents
from space.

860
01:08:28,146 --> 01:08:31,774
We poor saps build whatever this is
and blow ourselves to kingdom come.

861
01:08:31,941 --> 01:08:34,860
There's no reason to believe
that their intentions are hostile.

862
01:08:35,028 --> 01:08:39,364
Why is the default position of the egghead
set that aliens would always be benign?

863
01:08:39,532 --> 01:08:41,992
- Why is that, doctor?
- We pose no threat to them.

864
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:46,580
It would be like us going out of our way
to destroy microbes on an anthill in Africa

865
01:08:46,748 --> 01:08:48,332
That's an interesting analogy.

866
01:08:48,750 --> 01:08:52,920
And how guilty would we feel if we
destroyed a few microbes on an anthill?

867
01:08:53,087 --> 01:08:55,464
I hope you're right, doctor. I really do.

868
01:08:55,632 --> 01:08:59,092
But right now my job is to protect
American lives from any threat.

869
01:08:59,260 --> 01:09:01,595
In that regard, I am obligated
to assume the worst.

870
01:09:01,846 --> 01:09:03,931
Well, yes, and I am forced
to agree with you.

871
01:09:04,098 --> 01:09:05,516
My problem is this:

872
01:09:06,142 --> 01:09:09,353
The content of that message
is morally ambiguous at best.

873
01:09:10,021 --> 01:09:13,565
Now, our internal numbers show
support for this is incredibly soft.

874
01:09:13,733 --> 01:09:16,401
If the president wishes
to stay this course...

875
01:09:16,569 --> 01:09:19,238
you're gonna find his numbers
going south like a duck.

876
01:09:19,405 --> 01:09:21,824
- This is nuts.
- Excuse me...

877
01:09:21,991 --> 01:09:23,408
miss.

878
01:09:23,576 --> 01:09:25,953
We know nothing
of these creatures' values.

879
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,914
The fact is, we don't even know
whether they believe in God.

880
01:09:29,082 --> 01:09:32,835
- This doesn't make any sense. If you...
- Excuse me, Dr. Arroway.

881
01:09:33,044 --> 01:09:35,504
We won't be suppressing
any opinions here today.

882
01:09:36,381 --> 01:09:39,091
No, of course not. I understand.

883
01:09:39,509 --> 01:09:41,426
What I meant to say...

884
01:09:41,594 --> 01:09:45,055
is the message was written
in the language of science.

885
01:09:45,223 --> 01:09:48,600
Now, if it had been religious in nature,
it should have taken the form...

886
01:09:48,768 --> 01:09:51,395
of a burning bush
or a booming voice from the sky.

887
01:09:51,604 --> 01:09:53,689
But a voice from the sky...

888
01:09:54,774 --> 01:09:57,609
is exactly what you found,
Doctor Arroway.

889
01:10:00,989 --> 01:10:02,948
I'm sorry I'm late, ma'am.

890
01:10:03,116 --> 01:10:08,328
Now, I agree with Mr. Rank
that there are unavoidable...

891
01:10:08,538 --> 01:10:10,706
religious implications at stake here.

892
01:10:10,874 --> 01:10:13,292
But that doesn't justify
taking an alarmist position.

893
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:18,088
My hope here is that we can find
a common ground...

894
01:10:18,256 --> 01:10:20,966
break through any obstacles
that may have kept us apart.

895
01:10:21,134 --> 01:10:24,553
- Well, perhaps...
- Listen, I need to make one thing very clear.

896
01:10:24,762 --> 01:10:29,391
Our organization will not be placated
with flowery New Age rhetoric...

897
01:10:30,393 --> 01:10:31,894
Mr. President.

898
01:10:33,354 --> 01:10:35,647
The President met
with his top advisors today...

899
01:10:35,815 --> 01:10:39,234
regarding the latest efforts
to decode the message.

900
01:10:39,402 --> 01:10:44,072
While there has been some progress,
the official line remains a cautious one.

901
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:48,869
If you're asking when we'll find out
what the purpose of that machine is...

902
01:10:49,871 --> 01:10:52,581
maybe tomorrow,
maybe next year, maybe never.

903
01:10:57,003 --> 01:11:01,590
There he is. The man with his finger
on the spiritual pulse of the nation.

904
01:11:02,967 --> 01:11:06,386
- It's so good to see you, Ellie.
- You too.

905
01:11:07,639 --> 01:11:11,600
Your discovery, all of this.
It must be a real vindication.

906
01:11:12,268 --> 01:11:13,936
I'm really happy for you.

907
01:11:14,562 --> 01:11:18,523
- Are you?
- Mr. Joss, the president is waiting.

908
01:11:19,901 --> 01:11:23,028
- Okay. Yeah.
- The president is waiting.

909
01:11:26,950 --> 01:11:30,827
- Ellie, see you at the reception tonight?
- Yeah, I wouldn't miss it.

910
01:11:30,995 --> 01:11:32,871
All right, great.

911
01:11:42,882 --> 01:11:45,217
Excuse me, Miss Constantine,
may I speak to you?

912
01:11:45,385 --> 01:11:46,802
Certainly.

913
01:11:48,554 --> 01:11:50,764
- I have a big problem.
- Yes?

914
01:11:50,932 --> 01:11:52,432
Um...

915
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:55,394
Do you know where I can find,
like, a really great dress?

916
01:12:12,078 --> 01:12:18,917
God created man in the form of himself,
not in the form of monkeys!

917
01:12:20,253 --> 01:12:22,421
- The Lord is God!
- Praise God.

918
01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:26,800
- Praise the Lord!
- You're wasting my tax dollars!

919
01:12:27,593 --> 01:12:31,221
Get a job.
Don't waste my tax dollars.

920
01:12:31,389 --> 01:12:33,140
You hear me?

921
01:12:52,118 --> 01:12:53,910
Wow.

922
01:12:56,456 --> 01:12:58,123
You look beautiful, Ellie.

923
01:12:59,792 --> 01:13:02,127
- So do you.
- You really do.

924
01:13:05,798 --> 01:13:07,257
I read your book.

925
01:13:08,217 --> 01:13:09,718
Here we go.

926
01:13:09,886 --> 01:13:11,970
Would you like me to quote you?

927
01:13:12,138 --> 01:13:17,142
"Ironically, the thing that people
are most hungry for, meaning...

928
01:13:17,310 --> 01:13:20,645
is the one thing that science
hasn't been able to give them."

929
01:13:20,813 --> 01:13:23,690
Yeah. Yeah.

930
01:13:24,317 --> 01:13:29,112
Come on. It's like you're saying
that science killed God.

931
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:32,491
What if science simply revealed...

932
01:13:32,658 --> 01:13:35,160
that he never existed
in the first place?

933
01:13:38,498 --> 01:13:41,666
- I think we're gonna need to get some air.
- What?

934
01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:43,668
And a few more of these.

935
01:13:45,088 --> 01:13:47,339
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.

936
01:13:48,341 --> 01:13:51,510
- A little chilly out here.
- Yeah, this is nice.

937
01:13:51,677 --> 01:13:53,053
- I got one for you.
- What?

938
01:13:53,221 --> 01:13:54,971
Occam's razor. Ever heard of it?

939
01:13:55,181 --> 01:13:57,849
Hoccam's razor.
Sounds like some slasher movie.

940
01:13:58,017 --> 01:14:01,603
No, Occam's Razor.
It's a basic scientific principle. It says...

941
01:14:01,771 --> 01:14:05,357
all things being equal, the simplest
explanation tends to be the right one.

942
01:14:05,525 --> 01:14:07,150
- Makes sense to me.
- All right.

943
01:14:07,318 --> 01:14:10,112
- So, what's more likely? Thank you.
- You're welcome.

944
01:14:10,279 --> 01:14:12,906
An all-powerful, mysterious God
created the universe...

945
01:14:13,116 --> 01:14:15,951
and then decided not to give
any proof of his existence?

946
01:14:16,119 --> 01:14:20,956
Or that he simply doesn't exist at all
and that we created him...

947
01:14:21,124 --> 01:14:23,625
so we wouldn't have to feel
so small and alone.

948
01:14:24,544 --> 01:14:25,794
I don't know.

949
01:14:25,962 --> 01:14:29,965
I couldn't imagine living in a world
where God didn't exist.

950
01:14:30,633 --> 01:14:32,300
I wouldn't want to.

951
01:14:32,969 --> 01:14:35,387
How do you know that
you're not deluding yourself?

952
01:14:36,055 --> 01:14:39,307
I mean, for me, I'd need proof.

953
01:14:40,143 --> 01:14:41,643
Proof?

954
01:14:44,522 --> 01:14:47,023
- Did you love your father?
- What?

955
01:14:47,191 --> 01:14:48,984
Your dad, did you love him?

956
01:14:49,986 --> 01:14:52,821
Yes. Very much.

957
01:14:55,658 --> 01:14:57,200
Prove it.

958
01:15:03,708 --> 01:15:04,749
Kent.

959
01:15:06,085 --> 01:15:09,087
- The White House.
- Mr. Joss.

960
01:15:10,256 --> 01:15:13,216
- I don't want excuses.
- Whoever is responsible, I want their head.

961
01:15:13,384 --> 01:15:16,344
- Ellie?
- What happened?

962
01:15:16,512 --> 01:15:17,929
You were right all along.

963
01:15:18,097 --> 01:15:21,224
The decryption team at the VLA
has been working around the clock...

964
01:15:21,392 --> 01:15:24,102
and the hard work has finally paid off.

965
01:15:24,270 --> 01:15:28,231
This key section, uncovered tonight
and obtained exclusively by CNN...

966
01:15:28,399 --> 01:15:31,026
shows an illustration
of what is of a human figure...

967
01:15:31,194 --> 01:15:34,029
inside a geometric structure
of some kind.

968
01:15:34,197 --> 01:15:36,031
This and other contextual clues...

969
01:15:36,199 --> 01:15:39,284
now lead scientists to believe
that the message is, in fact...

970
01:15:39,452 --> 01:15:42,996
- President called an emergency meeting.
- Yeah, I imagine he would.

971
01:15:43,164 --> 01:15:46,291
Designed to take a single
human occupant into space...

972
01:15:46,459 --> 01:15:49,127
presumably to the star Vega.

973
01:16:07,647 --> 01:16:09,606
I'm gonna miss
my mother's birthday party.

974
01:16:09,774 --> 01:16:12,651
Call her in the morning,
tell her why you didn't show up.

975
01:16:12,818 --> 01:16:14,319
Tell me.

976
01:16:14,487 --> 01:16:15,612
They're gonna build it.

977
01:16:15,780 --> 01:16:16,821
Who gets to go?

978
01:16:16,989 --> 01:16:20,325
The president's just gone international
to spread the risk and cost...

979
01:16:20,493 --> 01:16:22,035
Who gets to go, though?

980
01:16:22,203 --> 01:16:23,828
Well, it's complicated, Ellie.

981
01:16:24,747 --> 01:16:25,789
What?

982
01:16:25,957 --> 01:16:28,792
They have formed a group
of international candidates.

983
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:31,002
Now, it's your discovery.

984
01:16:31,420 --> 01:16:35,298
Okay, they understand that.
You're at the top of a very short list.

985
01:16:35,466 --> 01:16:38,009
But they're also putting together
a selection committee.

986
01:16:38,177 --> 01:16:42,347
It's made of scholars, theologians,
scientists, philosophers...

987
01:16:42,515 --> 01:16:43,515
You're on it.

988
01:16:44,725 --> 01:16:46,017
I've been asked, yes.

989
01:16:48,980 --> 01:16:50,647
I guess that means...

990
01:16:51,232 --> 01:16:53,984
that you're a selector,
I'm a selectee and we can't...

991
01:16:54,151 --> 01:16:55,485
Yeah.

992
01:16:55,653 --> 01:16:58,071
What you don't understand, Ellie, is...

993
01:16:58,239 --> 01:17:00,365
- I understand.
- Ellie...

994
01:17:00,992 --> 01:17:05,328
I want you to know, whatever happens,
as far as I'm concerned...

995
01:17:05,913 --> 01:17:07,414
Well...

996
01:17:08,582 --> 01:17:10,166
good luck.

997
01:17:14,171 --> 01:17:17,632
Well, whatever you do, make sure
he doesn't monopolize the committee.

998
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:19,884
He is not on the committee, Ellie.

999
01:17:21,637 --> 01:17:23,054
What?

1000
01:17:23,848 --> 01:17:26,891
He just resigned as science advisor.
He wants to be the one to go.

1001
01:17:29,103 --> 01:17:32,397
The president is already
beginning to feel the financial pinch.

1002
01:17:32,690 --> 01:17:34,774
Sources say the cost of the project...

1003
01:17:34,942 --> 01:17:38,570
is spiraling
to more than a third of a trillion dollars...

1004
01:17:38,738 --> 01:17:42,324
making this what may be
the most expensive single project...

1005
01:17:42,533 --> 01:17:44,409
in all of human history.

1006
01:17:44,618 --> 01:17:47,954
Meanwhile, months of debate finally
reached a conclusion last week...

1007
01:17:48,122 --> 01:17:51,249
as 10 candidates
were selected by the IMC...

1008
01:17:51,417 --> 01:17:55,378
representing a cross section of
political, philosophical and religious views.

1009
01:17:55,588 --> 01:17:58,465
Many of these are the same experts
who have been consulting...

1010
01:17:58,632 --> 01:18:00,675
on the Machine's design and function.

1011
01:18:00,885 --> 01:18:05,096
They will be actively participating on-site
during the construction process.

1012
01:18:05,264 --> 01:18:08,600
But the choice of these 10 candidates
has not been without controversy.

1013
01:18:08,768 --> 01:18:11,603
Fully one-third of the candidates
are American.

1014
01:18:11,771 --> 01:18:14,522
Many international observers
are asking why.

1015
01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:17,817
The U.S. is shouldering an
enormous percentage of the financial...

1016
01:18:18,027 --> 01:18:20,987
Isn't it true that the contractors,
like Hadden Industries...

1017
01:18:21,197 --> 01:18:24,532
are making those contributions
in exchange for technology rights?

1018
01:18:24,742 --> 01:18:28,244
Different nations are being compensated
in different ways. For example...

1019
01:18:28,412 --> 01:18:32,957
Japan made headlines when it announced it
would forgo candidate representation...

1020
01:18:33,125 --> 01:18:36,336
in exchange for the systems integration
subcontract.

1021
01:18:36,504 --> 01:18:41,466
On what basis do you choose
a human being to represent humanity?

1022
01:18:41,675 --> 01:18:42,884
Good question, Larry.

1023
01:18:43,052 --> 01:18:45,011
Yes, well, if nothing else...

1024
01:18:45,179 --> 01:18:49,182
it should be somebody who is fluent in
the language the message was given in.

1025
01:18:49,350 --> 01:18:50,558
Science, in this case.

1026
01:18:51,185 --> 01:18:53,603
Doctor Arroway,
despite your obvious enthusiasm...

1027
01:18:53,813 --> 01:18:56,022
there's been a lot of criticism of late...

1028
01:18:56,273 --> 01:18:58,775
that this whole endeavor
is simply too dangerous.

1029
01:18:58,943 --> 01:19:01,528
Some of that criticism from scientists.

1030
01:19:01,737 --> 01:19:04,531
One Nobel Prize winner recently noted,
his words:

1031
01:19:05,324 --> 01:19:07,033
"There is every indication...

1032
01:19:07,243 --> 01:19:11,037
that this is simply beyond our capabilities,
that this endeavor will fail...

1033
01:19:11,247 --> 01:19:14,874
and that the Machine's occupant
will pay for that failure with their life."

1034
01:19:15,042 --> 01:19:16,709
How do you respond to that?

1035
01:19:16,919 --> 01:19:20,296
Well, this message is from
a civilization that may be anywhere...

1036
01:19:20,506 --> 01:19:24,217
from hundreds to millions
and millions of years ahead of us.

1037
01:19:24,468 --> 01:19:27,637
I have to believe that
an intelligence that advanced...

1038
01:19:28,264 --> 01:19:30,265
knows what they're doing.

1039
01:19:31,183 --> 01:19:35,145
Now all it requires on our part is...

1040
01:19:35,312 --> 01:19:36,354
Faith?

1041
01:19:39,442 --> 01:19:41,526
I was gonna say a sense of adventure.

1042
01:19:41,735 --> 01:19:42,944
And in breaking news...

1043
01:19:43,529 --> 01:19:44,821
a former astronaut...

1044
01:19:45,030 --> 01:19:48,867
considered to be the leading American
candidate for the Machine seat...

1045
01:19:49,076 --> 01:19:51,369
has unexpectedly dropped out
of the running.

1046
01:19:51,787 --> 01:19:54,873
Russell met with reporters this afternoon
at his Houston home.

1047
01:19:55,207 --> 01:19:59,169
I told my dad
that I didn't want him to go.

1048
01:19:59,378 --> 01:20:01,087
Daddy, don't go.

1049
01:20:03,757 --> 01:20:06,843
Nothing would give me more pride
than to...

1050
01:20:07,511 --> 01:20:09,512
represent my country.

1051
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:11,890
But what can I say to this?

1052
01:20:12,475 --> 01:20:16,311
Consortium officials had no comment,
but sources within the delegation...

1053
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:18,480
have disclosed that Dr. Arroway...

1054
01:20:18,647 --> 01:20:22,734
appears to now be the front-runner
for the Machine seat.

1055
01:20:23,569 --> 01:20:25,945
"Meet me at noon. Must talk."

1056
01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:28,865
I didn't expect to be getting
a message like this from you.

1057
01:20:29,033 --> 01:20:30,241
Thanks for coming.

1058
01:20:30,451 --> 01:20:33,411
So is this kosher?
Fraternizing with the enemy?

1059
01:20:33,579 --> 01:20:37,081
Selectors and selectees mingling around?

1060
01:20:37,249 --> 01:20:39,417
Can we talk about Einstein?

1061
01:20:39,585 --> 01:20:41,753
Yeah, sure. Okay.

1062
01:20:41,921 --> 01:20:43,338
- Special relativity.
- Yeah.

1063
01:20:43,506 --> 01:20:45,131
This machine...

1064
01:20:45,716 --> 01:20:50,637
now, if it works, and you travel to Vega
at even close to the speed of light...

1065
01:20:50,804 --> 01:20:53,306
- when you come back...
- If you come back.

1066
01:20:55,476 --> 01:20:57,477
If you come back...

1067
01:20:57,645 --> 01:21:01,940
you'll only be 4 years older, but over
50 years would have passed here on Earth.

1068
01:21:02,107 --> 01:21:03,816
Basically, yeah.

1069
01:21:04,318 --> 01:21:06,903
And everybody that you care about...

1070
01:21:07,780 --> 01:21:10,114
will be gone, dead and buried.

1071
01:21:10,950 --> 01:21:14,953
If you came back,
if you survived at all, which...

1072
01:21:16,288 --> 01:21:19,999
Look, Palmer, nobody's saying
this isn't dangerous, all right?

1073
01:21:20,167 --> 01:21:24,295
The rest of the candidates and myself,
we fully understand the risks we're taking.

1074
01:21:24,463 --> 01:21:25,713
Why?

1075
01:21:25,881 --> 01:21:28,591
Because it's a historic opportunity.
The world needs...

1076
01:21:28,801 --> 01:21:31,427
No, you, Ellie. You. You personally.

1077
01:21:32,471 --> 01:21:35,265
By doing this,
you're willing to give your life.

1078
01:21:35,474 --> 01:21:37,642
You're willing to die for it.

1079
01:21:39,478 --> 01:21:40,770
Why?

1080
01:21:44,483 --> 01:21:48,194
From as long as I can remember,
I've been searching for...

1081
01:21:48,821 --> 01:21:50,488
something...

1082
01:21:50,698 --> 01:21:54,492
some reason why we're here.
What are we doing here? Who are we?

1083
01:21:55,494 --> 01:21:59,372
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...

1084
01:22:00,874 --> 01:22:03,876
I don't know,
I think it's worth a human life.

1085
01:22:04,545 --> 01:22:06,087
Don't you?

1086
01:22:12,595 --> 01:22:15,221
You're an incredibly brave woman, Ellie.

1087
01:22:18,017 --> 01:22:20,143
Or incredibly nuts.

1088
01:22:42,207 --> 01:22:43,708
Palmer...

1089
01:22:49,423 --> 01:22:51,507
I'm really confused.

1090
01:22:52,801 --> 01:22:54,052
So am I.

1091
01:22:55,304 --> 01:22:58,890
I think I speak for us all
when I thank you for your patience.

1092
01:22:59,099 --> 01:23:02,560
Myself, I have one final question,
Dr. Arroway.

1093
01:23:04,063 --> 01:23:06,397
If you should meet these Vegans...

1094
01:23:06,607 --> 01:23:10,902
and were permitted only
one question to ask of them...

1095
01:23:11,070 --> 01:23:12,737
what would it be?

1096
01:23:14,198 --> 01:23:16,240
Well, I suppose it would be:

1097
01:23:16,408 --> 01:23:18,076
"How did you do it?

1098
01:23:18,619 --> 01:23:23,081
How did you evolve? How did you
survive this technological adolescence...

1099
01:23:23,248 --> 01:23:25,166
without destroying yourself?"

1100
01:23:25,918 --> 01:23:30,797
That more than any other question is one
I personally would like to have answered.

1101
01:23:31,131 --> 01:23:32,965
Not too bad, Mike.

1102
01:23:33,634 --> 01:23:34,926
I join Dr. Bergeron...

1103
01:23:35,094 --> 01:23:38,554
in expressing thanks for
your patience, Dr. Arroway.

1104
01:23:38,764 --> 01:23:41,265
We've all been most impressed
with your candor...

1105
01:23:41,433 --> 01:23:43,476
and your stamina.

1106
01:23:43,644 --> 01:23:46,813
I believe we are ready to move on
to your final statement.

1107
01:23:46,980 --> 01:23:48,898
Madam Chairman,
I have one more question.

1108
01:23:49,066 --> 01:23:50,817
Yes, Mr. Joss.

1109
01:23:51,443 --> 01:23:53,444
Dr. Arroway...

1110
01:23:54,822 --> 01:23:57,156
Would you consider yourself...

1111
01:23:57,658 --> 01:24:00,284
a spiritual person?

1112
01:24:02,955 --> 01:24:04,706
Uh...

1113
01:24:05,457 --> 01:24:08,793
I don't really understand
the point of the question.

1114
01:24:08,961 --> 01:24:11,838
I consider myself a moral person.

1115
01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:13,965
I'm sure we all agree that is the case...

1116
01:24:14,133 --> 01:24:16,634
but I think what Mr. Joss
is in fact asking...

1117
01:24:16,802 --> 01:24:18,636
Do you believe in God...

1118
01:24:20,639 --> 01:24:22,640
Dr. Arroway?

1119
01:24:27,146 --> 01:24:29,564
As a scientist...

1120
01:24:29,732 --> 01:24:33,192
I rely on empirical evidence,
and in this matter...

1121
01:24:33,360 --> 01:24:37,071
I don't believe
that there is data either way.

1122
01:24:37,656 --> 01:24:42,076
So your answer would in fact be
that you don't believe in God.

1123
01:24:45,497 --> 01:24:48,541
I don't understand the relevance
of the question.

1124
01:24:49,251 --> 01:24:54,380
Dr. Arroway,
%95 of the world's population...

1125
01:24:54,548 --> 01:24:58,509
believes in a supreme being
in one form or another.

1126
01:24:59,678 --> 01:25:02,889
I believe that makes the question
more than relevant.

1127
01:25:05,559 --> 01:25:07,268
Dr. Arroway?

1128
01:25:17,196 --> 01:25:19,197
I believe, um...

1129
01:25:23,202 --> 01:25:25,703
I believe I've already
answered that question.

1130
01:25:29,750 --> 01:25:33,252
I'm proud of what
we've achieved as a species...

1131
01:25:33,420 --> 01:25:35,421
and as a civilization.

1132
01:25:37,090 --> 01:25:39,592
I would hate to see
everything we stand for...

1133
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:43,679
all that we have fought for
for a thousand generations...

1134
01:25:43,889 --> 01:25:46,224
all that God has blessed us with...

1135
01:25:47,559 --> 01:25:49,101
betrayed...

1136
01:25:50,062 --> 01:25:54,649
in the final hour because we chose to
send a representative who did not put our...

1137
01:25:55,150 --> 01:25:57,944
most cherished beliefs first.

1138
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:02,406
Thank you.

1139
01:26:35,649 --> 01:26:36,941
Why did you do it?

1140
01:26:41,530 --> 01:26:45,700
Our job was to select someone
to speak for everybody.

1141
01:26:48,996 --> 01:26:52,456
I just couldn't in good conscience
vote for a person...

1142
01:26:52,624 --> 01:26:54,625
who doesn't believe in God.

1143
01:26:56,670 --> 01:26:58,045
Someone who...

1144
01:26:58,213 --> 01:27:01,632
honestly thinks
the other %95 of us...

1145
01:27:01,842 --> 01:27:04,802
suffer from some form
of mass delusion.

1146
01:27:07,973 --> 01:27:10,057
I told the truth up there.

1147
01:27:11,351 --> 01:27:14,854
And Drumlin told you exactly
what you wanted to hear.

1148
01:27:50,015 --> 01:27:52,600
With full humility and utmost gratitude...

1149
01:27:52,768 --> 01:27:54,977
I accept this great honor...

1150
01:27:55,187 --> 01:27:59,231
and I promise I will do my best
to represent my nation...

1151
01:27:59,399 --> 01:28:04,528
my planet and my God
on this historic journey.

1152
01:28:04,696 --> 01:28:07,031
I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

1153
01:28:49,616 --> 01:28:52,576
There's a carnival
atmosphere at Cape Canaveral...

1154
01:28:52,744 --> 01:28:54,787
as the International
Machine Consortium...

1155
01:28:54,955 --> 01:28:58,416
hosts as much a media event
as a systems test.

1156
01:28:58,917 --> 01:29:02,586
David Drumlin is supervising
the on-site portion of the test.

1157
01:29:02,796 --> 01:29:04,588
We spoke with him earlier today.

1158
01:29:04,756 --> 01:29:07,258
We'll be able to monitor
the stresses and effects...

1159
01:29:07,426 --> 01:29:09,760
using the robot passenger...

1160
01:29:10,262 --> 01:29:12,555
who we lovingly call Elmer.

1161
01:29:12,723 --> 01:29:15,850
We are coming up
on T-minus two hours and counting.

1162
01:29:16,018 --> 01:29:18,060
All Machine systems are go.

1163
01:29:18,228 --> 01:29:21,105
Dr. Arroway, the press would like to
ask you a few questions...

1164
01:29:21,273 --> 01:29:23,941
as soon as they're done
with Dr. Drumlin.

1165
01:29:25,235 --> 01:29:27,486
Now, at the moment
where we release the pod...

1166
01:29:27,654 --> 01:29:31,240
there will be a substantial
amount of energy generated at the core.

1167
01:29:31,742 --> 01:29:34,118
We'll be able to monitor
the stresses and effects...

1168
01:29:34,286 --> 01:29:38,456
using our robot passenger,
who we lovingly call Elmer.

1169
01:29:39,958 --> 01:29:41,584
- Thank you.
- Welcome.

1170
01:29:41,752 --> 01:29:43,669
The test area is clear and go.

1171
01:29:43,837 --> 01:29:46,630
Sir, they're ready for you out at the site.

1172
01:29:46,798 --> 01:29:48,424
Yeah, just a minute.

1173
01:29:49,468 --> 01:29:52,762
The test director has issued a go
to enter the final countdown phase.

1174
01:29:52,929 --> 01:29:54,263
Ellie.

1175
01:29:54,431 --> 01:29:56,807
- Congratulations, David.
- Glad you could come.

1176
01:29:58,143 --> 01:30:00,603
Didn't, uh, expect to see you here.

1177
01:30:01,313 --> 01:30:06,150
Well, I'm still, you know,
Crew Ops at the Control Center.

1178
01:30:06,818 --> 01:30:10,821
And I suppose the fact that I discovered
the message means that I have PR value.

1179
01:30:10,989 --> 01:30:12,656
Of course.

1180
01:30:14,159 --> 01:30:17,328
Ellie, I know you must think
this is all very unfair.

1181
01:30:17,996 --> 01:30:20,289
And maybe that's an understatement.

1182
01:30:21,374 --> 01:30:23,751
What you don't know is, I agree.

1183
01:30:24,336 --> 01:30:27,630
I wish the world was a place
where fair was the bottom line.

1184
01:30:27,798 --> 01:30:31,008
Where the kind of idealism you showed
at the hearing was rewarded...

1185
01:30:31,176 --> 01:30:33,469
not taken advantage of.

1186
01:30:35,180 --> 01:30:38,307
Unfortunately,
we don't live in that world.

1187
01:30:40,352 --> 01:30:41,852
Funny...

1188
01:30:42,896 --> 01:30:46,357
I always believed that the world
is what we make of it.

1189
01:30:48,026 --> 01:30:51,195
Excuse me, Dr. Drumlin, sir?

1190
01:30:52,823 --> 01:30:54,365
Good luck on the test.

1191
01:30:54,616 --> 01:30:56,951
- The pad leader has issued the order...
- Thank you.

1192
01:30:57,119 --> 01:31:00,287
- To clear the pad of all nonessential...
- Right this way, sir.

1193
01:31:04,793 --> 01:31:08,671
Test director, everything looks good
up here. We're ready to go.

1194
01:31:08,839 --> 01:31:11,841
All right, people, I want
things double and triple checked here.

1195
01:31:12,008 --> 01:31:15,594
We only get one shot at this.
Let's get it right.

1196
01:31:15,762 --> 01:31:18,848
Ladies and gentlemen,
we are ready for startup.

1197
01:31:19,057 --> 01:31:22,393
All controllers, I need a go-no-go
for test initiation.

1198
01:31:22,561 --> 01:31:23,561
- Mechanical?
- Go.

1199
01:31:23,728 --> 01:31:24,770
- Electrical?
- Go.

1200
01:31:24,938 --> 01:31:26,021
- Dynamics?
- Go.

1201
01:31:26,189 --> 01:31:27,481
- Communications?
- Go.

1202
01:31:27,649 --> 01:31:28,691
- Pod systems?
- Go

1203
01:31:28,859 --> 01:31:30,401
- Safety?
- Go.

1204
01:31:30,569 --> 01:31:33,487
Crew Ops, verify all pre-test
procedures are complete.

1205
01:31:33,655 --> 01:31:35,072
Yes, verified. I'm go.

1206
01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:37,741
Pad leader, we are good.
Is everything okay with you?

1207
01:31:37,909 --> 01:31:40,578
Roger. The pad is a go.

1208
01:31:40,745 --> 01:31:43,581
Test initiation, on my mark.

1209
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:45,416
Five...

1210
01:31:45,584 --> 01:31:46,834
four...

1211
01:31:47,002 --> 01:31:48,294
three...

1212
01:31:48,461 --> 01:31:49,670
two...

1213
01:31:50,088 --> 01:31:51,589
one.

1214
01:31:51,756 --> 01:31:53,174
Mark.

1215
01:31:53,341 --> 01:31:55,092
- Test start.
- Rings are unlocked.

1216
01:31:55,260 --> 01:31:57,011
Power levels indicate a good start.

1217
01:31:57,179 --> 01:32:00,055
We have begun the full-scale
test of Earth's first system...

1218
01:32:00,223 --> 01:32:03,767
built by the sharing of knowledge
with a neighbor in our universe.

1219
01:32:03,935 --> 01:32:06,187
All power sources on core induction bus.

1220
01:32:06,354 --> 01:32:07,980
IPV power transfer.

1221
01:32:08,148 --> 01:32:11,901
- Ring motion detect.
- Alpha, Bravo, Charlie.

1222
01:32:12,944 --> 01:32:15,988
- Gerry, how are we looking?
- Looks good. We're underway.

1223
01:32:16,156 --> 01:32:17,907
Looks like
we have a normal startup.

1224
01:32:18,074 --> 01:32:20,618
Roger, David. It's looking good here.

1225
01:32:26,249 --> 01:32:29,376
We are moments away
from the initiation of the drop sequence.

1226
01:32:29,544 --> 01:32:31,545
All systems are go.

1227
01:32:33,673 --> 01:32:36,300
- Mechanical, you still happy?
- Roger that.

1228
01:32:36,468 --> 01:32:39,929
I'll tell you, this is
very exciting from up here.

1229
01:32:42,098 --> 01:32:45,726
- We've got %4.
- We're confirming %4.

1230
01:32:46,978 --> 01:32:50,314
Frequency 9.85.

1231
01:32:50,482 --> 01:32:56,237
Harmonics in the green. G-level 1.1.

1232
01:32:56,404 --> 01:32:59,740
- %5.
- Confirmed. We are at %5.

1233
01:32:59,908 --> 01:33:01,659
David, how's it looking to you?

1234
01:33:01,826 --> 01:33:04,662
Okay. I'm gonna take a look
and show you what we got.

1235
01:33:04,829 --> 01:33:06,997
All test-subject instrumentation
looks good.

1236
01:33:07,165 --> 01:33:10,834
Confirmed, we have a good picture
from Dr. Drumlin's PRD.

1237
01:33:11,002 --> 01:33:13,462
Hope you guys
are seeing what I'm seeing.

1238
01:33:13,838 --> 01:33:15,756
All systems are go.

1239
01:33:17,342 --> 01:33:18,926
This is really something.

1240
01:33:19,135 --> 01:33:20,803
For purposes of this test...

1241
01:33:20,971 --> 01:33:25,182
Dr. Drumlin will be on top of
the gantry crane that's over the Machine.

1242
01:33:25,350 --> 01:33:27,518
We've got some video animation...

1243
01:33:27,686 --> 01:33:31,188
to show you just how this machine,
it is thought, will work.

1244
01:33:31,356 --> 01:33:33,023
The passenger pod will be released.

1245
01:33:33,233 --> 01:33:37,569
It will come down through the center of
the rings and into the Machine's core.

1246
01:33:37,737 --> 01:33:41,824
The big question everyone here is asking is,
of course, what happens then?

1247
01:33:41,992 --> 01:33:46,829
Some believe that the rings function as
some sort of an accelerator or something...

1248
01:33:46,997 --> 01:33:49,623
sending its energy
into this passenger pod...

1249
01:33:49,791 --> 01:33:52,501
making it rocket away
at near the speed of light.

1250
01:33:52,711 --> 01:33:57,339
Other people believe it might open up
a doorway to some other dimension.

1251
01:33:57,507 --> 01:34:00,968
Who's right?
Well, that's what today's test is all about.

1252
01:34:01,594 --> 01:34:04,054
- %25.
- Subsystems, are you ready?

1253
01:34:04,222 --> 01:34:07,391
- %40 normal acceleration.
- Roger, confirm %40.

1254
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:10,561
All controllers stand by
to initiate drop sequence...

1255
01:34:10,729 --> 01:34:12,313
on my mark.

1256
01:34:12,480 --> 01:34:14,815
All systems ready for drop sequence.

1257
01:34:14,983 --> 01:34:17,234
%45.

1258
01:34:17,402 --> 01:34:19,570
We're reading %45.

1259
01:34:20,572 --> 01:34:22,573
Can you verify closure?

1260
01:34:23,867 --> 01:34:25,409
46.

1261
01:34:25,577 --> 01:34:30,247
All controllers stand by
to initiate IPV drop sequence. On my mark.

1262
01:34:30,915 --> 01:34:32,666
%48.

1263
01:34:33,293 --> 01:34:35,711
Test director,
I'm feeling a very strange vibration.

1264
01:34:35,879 --> 01:34:37,087
Are you feeling it down there?

1265
01:34:37,255 --> 01:34:39,214
Gerry, can you confirm any vibration?

1266
01:34:39,758 --> 01:34:41,592
Negative, everything looks good here.

1267
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:43,761
- Crew Ops?
- Nothing wrong with Elmer.

1268
01:34:43,928 --> 01:34:45,763
We're not seeing anything abnormal.

1269
01:34:45,930 --> 01:34:48,724
- No good. Hold the sequence.
- I'm gonna take a direct reading.

1270
01:34:49,225 --> 01:34:52,603
- What the hell is he talking about?
- Can anyone say grandstanding?

1271
01:34:52,771 --> 01:34:54,772
He sure knows he's on TV!

1272
01:34:54,939 --> 01:34:58,067
Back home that's what we call
an overcooked ham.

1273
01:34:58,234 --> 01:35:00,736
I'm reading 10 kHz!

1274
01:35:00,904 --> 01:35:03,697
What's your reading on the first
and second order G-levels?

1275
01:35:03,907 --> 01:35:05,783
G-levels are right on.

1276
01:35:06,284 --> 01:35:09,787
We confirm Drumlin's readings
and they're all normal. We're go.

1277
01:35:09,954 --> 01:35:11,455
Copy that, Dynamics.

1278
01:35:11,623 --> 01:35:14,375
I think we're okay,
but we'll let him finish.

1279
01:35:15,585 --> 01:35:17,628
- Mechanical, you still okay?
- Roger, chief.

1280
01:35:17,796 --> 01:35:19,129
We're right on the money.

1281
01:35:19,297 --> 01:35:21,590
We've got a security problem here.

1282
01:35:21,758 --> 01:35:23,342
Ellie, are you sure?

1283
01:35:23,510 --> 01:35:25,803
Yeah. This guy, he shouldn't be there.
I know him.

1284
01:35:25,970 --> 01:35:28,931
Gerry, execute the
rapid shutdown sequence.

1285
01:35:29,099 --> 01:35:32,393
Security, move emergency
response team into position one.

1286
01:35:32,560 --> 01:35:35,145
- Get me Drumlin on a secure loop, please.
- You got him.

1287
01:35:35,313 --> 01:35:38,816
- David, can you hear me?
- Yes, I hear.

1288
01:35:38,983 --> 01:35:41,276
All right, we've got
a security breach here.

1289
01:35:41,653 --> 01:35:43,654
Right behind you. The tall guy.

1290
01:35:44,155 --> 01:35:47,408
The technician. See him?

1291
01:35:49,452 --> 01:35:51,829
He's not supposed to be there.

1292
01:35:56,501 --> 01:35:59,169
David, he's got something in his hand!

1293
01:35:59,337 --> 01:36:01,880
Him! Take him! Security breach!

1294
01:36:02,549 --> 01:36:03,674
He's got a bomb!

1295
01:36:03,842 --> 01:36:06,468
I want that emergency-response
team up on the gantry now.

1296
01:36:06,636 --> 01:36:08,303
Security, stage one alert.

1297
01:36:08,471 --> 01:36:12,975
By God, move all the fire and
rescue personnel into position one.

1298
01:36:49,554 --> 01:36:51,680
All right,
all right, back to your stations.

1299
01:36:51,848 --> 01:36:54,975
I need you to be professional, people.
Settle down.

1300
01:36:55,185 --> 01:36:58,061
Pad leader, pad leader, do you copy?

1301
01:37:15,497 --> 01:37:18,165
The scene earlier today,
when David Drumlin...

1302
01:37:18,374 --> 01:37:20,083
advisor to two presidents...

1303
01:37:20,251 --> 01:37:24,254
and winner of the National Academy
of Sciences lifetime award...

1304
01:37:24,422 --> 01:37:28,217
was laid to rest
at Arlington National Cemetery.

1305
01:37:31,930 --> 01:37:33,847
In a related story, last night's raid...

1306
01:37:34,015 --> 01:37:35,557
Can I help you?

1307
01:37:35,725 --> 01:37:39,770
- Oh, you're... I've got some mail for you.
- Resulted in the discovery of this video.

1308
01:37:39,938 --> 01:37:44,650
The suicide note of the leader of the
terrorist group now believed responsible...

1309
01:37:44,817 --> 01:37:47,361
for the explosion in Florida this week.

1310
01:37:47,529 --> 01:37:52,533
What we do, we do
for the goodness of all mankind.

1311
01:37:53,201 --> 01:37:56,119
This won't be understood, not now...

1312
01:37:56,287 --> 01:37:58,247
but the apocalypse to come...

1313
01:37:59,415 --> 01:38:01,583
will vindicate our faith.

1314
01:38:25,900 --> 01:38:27,734
Welcome home.

1315
01:39:33,509 --> 01:39:35,886
Oh, Comrade Arroway...

1316
01:39:36,054 --> 01:39:39,348
he has been expecting your call.
One moment, please.

1317
01:39:49,108 --> 01:39:50,317
Mr. Hadden?

1318
01:39:50,943 --> 01:39:52,277
Doctor.

1319
01:39:53,404 --> 01:39:55,197
How kind of you to call.

1320
01:39:55,907 --> 01:39:58,325
Mr. Hadden, where are you?

1321
01:40:00,036 --> 01:40:04,706
The Russian government was kind enough
to give me accommodations on Mir.

1322
01:40:05,541 --> 01:40:07,417
You're living on a space station?

1323
01:40:08,920 --> 01:40:11,254
It's quite simple, really.

1324
01:40:12,298 --> 01:40:15,884
The low-oxygen,
zero-gravity environment...

1325
01:40:16,052 --> 01:40:20,764
is the only thing keeping
the cancer from eating me alive.

1326
01:40:22,308 --> 01:40:25,018
Actually, I quite like it up here.

1327
01:40:25,478 --> 01:40:29,272
My little room has one hell of a view.

1328
01:40:36,447 --> 01:40:38,949
I wanna show you something.

1329
01:40:43,121 --> 01:40:45,580
Hokkaido Island.

1330
01:40:46,499 --> 01:40:48,875
The systems integration site.

1331
01:40:49,877 --> 01:40:52,129
Look closer.

1332
01:40:59,762 --> 01:41:03,390
First rule in government spending:

1333
01:41:03,558 --> 01:41:07,477
Why build one when you can have
two at twice the price?

1334
01:41:07,645 --> 01:41:11,440
Only, this one can be kept secret.

1335
01:41:11,607 --> 01:41:13,650
Controlled by Americans...

1336
01:41:13,818 --> 01:41:17,446
built by the Japanese subcontractors...

1337
01:41:18,156 --> 01:41:21,742
who also happen to be...

1338
01:41:21,909 --> 01:41:23,994
recently acquired...

1339
01:41:24,162 --> 01:41:27,289
wholly-owned subsidiaries...

1340
01:41:27,457 --> 01:41:29,833
- of Hadden Industries.
- Of Hadden Industries.

1341
01:41:33,004 --> 01:41:36,173
They still want
an American to go, doctor.

1342
01:41:39,802 --> 01:41:42,137
Wanna take a ride?

1343
01:42:24,263 --> 01:42:28,558
And augmenting our restraint and
communications console subsystem...

1344
01:42:28,726 --> 01:42:30,727
we have your personal recording unit.

1345
01:42:30,895 --> 01:42:35,023
Normal, infrared and ultraviolet lenses.

1346
01:42:35,191 --> 01:42:39,236
Digital microchip good for
thousands of hours of recording.

1347
01:42:40,446 --> 01:42:42,531
Okay, look, I understand...

1348
01:42:42,698 --> 01:42:46,117
the reason for recording
and documenting the mission.

1349
01:42:46,285 --> 01:42:49,120
But I just... I wanna go on record
one more time.

1350
01:42:49,288 --> 01:42:52,791
The transmitted specs
never said anything about any chair...

1351
01:42:53,042 --> 01:42:57,546
or a restraining harness or survival gear.

1352
01:42:57,713 --> 01:42:59,548
Why can't we just trust the original...?

1353
01:42:59,715 --> 01:43:03,844
Doctor, both the IMC Board
and the SI team reviewed the matter...

1354
01:43:04,053 --> 01:43:07,806
and concluded that
the design impact is negligible.

1355
01:43:07,974 --> 01:43:09,683
Bottom line is...

1356
01:43:09,851 --> 01:43:12,185
we're not putting anybody
aboard this machine...

1357
01:43:12,395 --> 01:43:15,397
unless there is
some sort of minimal protection.

1358
01:43:15,565 --> 01:43:17,440
End of story.

1359
01:43:19,861 --> 01:43:23,113
- Okay.
- Ellie...

1360
01:43:23,990 --> 01:43:28,076
we've been giving these to the astronauts
since the beginning of the space program.

1361
01:43:29,412 --> 01:43:31,705
It's never been made public, of course.

1362
01:43:31,914 --> 01:43:33,999
It's fast and it's painless.

1363
01:43:36,752 --> 01:43:39,629
I'm gonna travel 26 light years
to commit suicide?

1364
01:43:39,797 --> 01:43:42,007
Something may go wrong.

1365
01:43:42,174 --> 01:43:44,926
There may be
an unforeseen mechanical failure.

1366
01:43:45,678 --> 01:43:48,763
You could be marooned, unable to return.

1367
01:43:49,932 --> 01:43:53,059
There are a thousand reasons
we can think of for you to have this...

1368
01:43:53,269 --> 01:43:56,438
but mostly it's for the reasons
we can't think of.

1369
01:44:22,715 --> 01:44:23,840
Come in.

1370
01:44:25,384 --> 01:44:29,387
- Dr. Arroway, time to get ready.
- Thank you.

1371
01:44:40,066 --> 01:44:41,775
I know you don't have much time.

1372
01:44:41,943 --> 01:44:45,028
As soon as I found out about the Machine,
I called the president.

1373
01:44:45,237 --> 01:44:47,322
I came with Kitz.

1374
01:44:47,490 --> 01:44:49,783
I had to see you one more time.

1375
01:44:49,951 --> 01:44:51,701
- Oh, God, I'm sorry.
- It's okay.

1376
01:44:51,869 --> 01:44:53,745
No, I'm glad you came.

1377
01:44:53,913 --> 01:44:56,790
There's something I gotta say to you.

1378
01:44:57,667 --> 01:45:01,920
The reason I didn't vote for you to go was
a good reason, but it wasn't the real one.

1379
01:45:03,005 --> 01:45:05,006
I didn't vote for you to go...

1380
01:45:06,550 --> 01:45:08,718
because I don't wanna lose you.

1381
01:45:09,762 --> 01:45:12,597
You find your way home, all right?

1382
01:45:28,990 --> 01:45:30,407
33 hours ago...

1383
01:45:30,574 --> 01:45:34,619
the world was stunned by the
announcement of a second Machine...

1384
01:45:34,787 --> 01:45:37,914
and its passenger,
Eleanor Ann Arroway.

1385
01:45:38,124 --> 01:45:41,710
Now the question
that's on everyone's mind:

1386
01:45:41,877 --> 01:45:43,878
Will history repeat itself?

1387
01:45:44,046 --> 01:45:46,339
With a piece of engineering
this complex...

1388
01:45:46,507 --> 01:45:50,593
with so many unknowns,
could the unthinkable occur?

1389
01:45:50,761 --> 01:45:54,222
The security in Hokkaido
has been incredibly tight.

1390
01:45:54,390 --> 01:45:57,726
No reporters whatsoever
have been allowed near the site.

1391
01:48:19,702 --> 01:48:21,703
Thanks.

1392
01:48:38,262 --> 01:48:41,264
- Magnetic restraint is secure.
- All life support functions normal.

1393
01:48:41,473 --> 01:48:44,642
Roger that.
Ellie, this is Control. Do you copy?

1394
01:48:44,810 --> 01:48:47,145
Ellie to Control, reading you five-by-five.

1395
01:48:47,313 --> 01:48:51,399
- Comm 1, Give me Ellie's PRD.
- Video unit recording and transmitting.

1396
01:48:52,359 --> 01:48:54,903
- Are you reading me?
- That's affirmative.

1397
01:48:55,070 --> 01:48:57,363
Video looks good.

1398
01:48:57,531 --> 01:49:00,074
- Copy that, Control.
- Okay.

1399
01:49:00,242 --> 01:49:03,119
Ellie, we're gonna proceed
to button you up.

1400
01:49:03,287 --> 01:49:05,955
Roger, Control. I'm ready.

1401
01:49:09,376 --> 01:49:11,753
- Dynamics...
- I can confirm the walkway retraction.

1402
01:49:11,921 --> 01:49:12,921
- Systems?
- Go.

1403
01:49:13,088 --> 01:49:14,464
- Communications?
- Go.

1404
01:49:14,632 --> 01:49:16,299
- Life support?
- Go.

1405
01:49:16,467 --> 01:49:18,760
Ellie, we are go for closure.

1406
01:49:20,221 --> 01:49:22,096
I'm go here.

1407
01:49:22,973 --> 01:49:26,476
Mechanical, initiate
IPV closure sequence.

1408
01:49:28,103 --> 01:49:30,313
Hold on, let me get you a chair.

1409
01:49:31,023 --> 01:49:32,065
I'm go.

1410
01:49:32,233 --> 01:49:36,110
- It's nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz.
- You too.

1411
01:49:36,278 --> 01:49:38,112
Wouldn't peg him as a Polo man.

1412
01:49:47,665 --> 01:49:48,998
I got a visual on the door.

1413
01:49:49,166 --> 01:49:51,125
IPV escape system is armed.

1414
01:49:51,293 --> 01:49:53,294
Door is looking good.

1415
01:49:58,509 --> 01:50:00,176
Door alignment looks good.

1416
01:50:28,789 --> 01:50:30,873
Ellie, we are showing green
across the board.

1417
01:50:31,041 --> 01:50:34,377
Copy that, Control. IPV is secure.

1418
01:50:41,510 --> 01:50:43,511
We are at %30.

1419
01:50:43,679 --> 01:50:44,971
Copy that, %30.

1420
01:50:49,852 --> 01:50:52,520
- How you doing in there, El?
- Kent?

1421
01:50:53,272 --> 01:50:56,065
- Is that you?
- That's a big affirmative.

1422
01:50:56,984 --> 01:50:58,568
Who let you in there, huh?

1423
01:50:58,736 --> 01:51:00,862
A higher power intervened.

1424
01:51:02,906 --> 01:51:04,240
Well, I'm glad you came.

1425
01:51:08,996 --> 01:51:10,163
%35.

1426
01:51:10,914 --> 01:51:12,415
Copy that, %35.

1427
01:51:12,583 --> 01:51:13,916
- Mechanical?
- We're good.

1428
01:51:14,084 --> 01:51:15,418
%40.

1429
01:51:19,048 --> 01:51:20,923
I'm picking up a moderate vibration here.

1430
01:51:22,092 --> 01:51:25,720
- Dynamics, can you confirm vibration?
- Everything looks good here.

1431
01:51:25,929 --> 01:51:29,182
She's feeling the same thing
they felt at the Cape at this point.

1432
01:51:29,350 --> 01:51:30,933
Ellie, the vibration is normal.

1433
01:51:31,101 --> 01:51:33,603
- We are at %50.
- All systems nominal.

1434
01:51:33,771 --> 01:51:35,772
Copy that, %50.

1435
01:51:40,944 --> 01:51:42,945
Vibration is getting a little stronger now.

1436
01:51:43,113 --> 01:51:45,948
We're picking up
some low-frequency noise.

1437
01:51:46,325 --> 01:51:49,410
- Mechanical, can you confirm?
- It looks fine to me.

1438
01:51:49,578 --> 01:51:52,955
- Roger. Gerry, what do you think?
- I'm still go.

1439
01:51:53,123 --> 01:51:54,749
People, we are still go.

1440
01:51:56,502 --> 01:51:58,961
What...?
Something's happening.

1441
01:52:00,214 --> 01:52:02,882
I'm...
There's...

1442
01:52:03,050 --> 01:52:05,885
There's a light. Do you see that?
I'm seeing some...

1443
01:52:06,637 --> 01:52:09,097
Something, some...

1444
01:52:09,264 --> 01:52:11,808
I can't tell whether it's daylight or not.

1445
01:52:11,975 --> 01:52:14,894
There it is again.
It's coming from the bottom.

1446
01:52:15,938 --> 01:52:17,480
Here, let me show you. See that?

1447
01:52:17,648 --> 01:52:19,565
Negative. Ellie, you're breaking up.

1448
01:52:19,733 --> 01:52:22,568
- Comm 1, can we boost her signal?
- Already at maximum.

1449
01:52:22,736 --> 01:52:24,278
%65.

1450
01:52:24,446 --> 01:52:26,155
The material is changing.

1451
01:52:26,323 --> 01:52:29,826
It's bordering on translucence.
But the system is intact.

1452
01:52:33,122 --> 01:52:37,500
It's gotta be some kind
of electromagnetic field.

1453
01:52:37,668 --> 01:52:40,670
- Are you reading this?
- Negative, we're seeing only interference.

1454
01:52:40,838 --> 01:52:46,175
It's becoming completely translucent.
I can't describe it. I can't even explain it.

1455
01:52:48,637 --> 01:52:49,679
%70.

1456
01:52:49,847 --> 01:52:52,181
People, we have intermittent comm,
but we are go.

1457
01:52:52,349 --> 01:52:56,811
- Initiate secondary drive systems.
- Initiating auxiliary booster sequence.

1458
01:52:57,020 --> 01:52:58,855
We're go for ignition.

1459
01:53:05,904 --> 01:53:08,364
We have auxiliary booster ignition.

1460
01:53:14,037 --> 01:53:15,538
Life support, how is she doing?

1461
01:53:15,706 --> 01:53:18,958
We still have data. Heart and respiration
are high but within limits.

1462
01:53:19,126 --> 01:53:20,209
Ellie, do you copy?

1463
01:53:20,419 --> 01:53:23,421
If you could hear,
I am okay to go.

1464
01:53:27,217 --> 01:53:29,010
If you could hear me...

1465
01:53:32,097 --> 01:53:33,473
%80.

1466
01:53:33,640 --> 01:53:36,476
All vibration and G-levels are in the green.

1467
01:53:41,899 --> 01:53:44,233
Control, if you're reading me...

1468
01:53:44,401 --> 01:53:46,736
I am okay to go. Okay to go,

1469
01:53:46,904 --> 01:53:50,698
- %85.
- All bearing tips are on the profile.

1470
01:53:51,575 --> 01:53:54,660
%90. We're detecting
some structural instability.

1471
01:53:54,828 --> 01:53:58,748
- Confirmed. Is she holding?
- We're within limits, barely.

1472
01:54:00,250 --> 01:54:06,172
I'm okay to go.

1473
01:54:12,095 --> 01:54:13,554
My God!

1474
01:54:24,608 --> 01:54:27,109
Okay to go. I'm okay.

1475
01:54:27,528 --> 01:54:29,028
%100 target velocity.

1476
01:54:29,196 --> 01:54:30,404
Steve?

1477
01:54:30,572 --> 01:54:34,951
Tremendous EMI levels around the Machine.
All field measurements are off-scale.

1478
01:54:35,118 --> 01:54:37,578
Steve, we're approaching our abort limits.

1479
01:54:39,957 --> 01:54:41,040
Okay to go.

1480
01:54:46,255 --> 01:54:47,463
I hear her!

1481
01:54:47,631 --> 01:54:50,466
I hear her. Barely, but she's there.

1482
01:54:50,634 --> 01:54:53,636
- Okay to go.
- She says she's okay to go.

1483
01:54:56,640 --> 01:54:58,766
Steve, we're real close.

1484
01:54:58,934 --> 01:55:01,811
- Electrical, reading in the core?
- Internal environment normal.

1485
01:55:01,979 --> 01:55:04,981
Inside the core, the weather's beautiful.

1486
01:55:09,069 --> 01:55:10,319
I'm okay to go.

1487
01:55:10,821 --> 01:55:14,282
Okay to go. I'm okay to go.

1488
01:55:14,866 --> 01:55:17,201
Initiate drop sequence.

1489
01:55:19,788 --> 01:55:21,497
On my mark.

1490
01:55:22,207 --> 01:55:24,750
Ten, nine...

1491
01:55:25,836 --> 01:55:27,837
eight...

1492
01:55:28,171 --> 01:55:31,173
seven, six...

1493
01:55:31,341 --> 01:55:33,968
five, four...

1494
01:55:34,136 --> 01:55:36,804
three, two...

1495
01:55:36,972 --> 01:55:38,347
I'm okay to go.

1496
01:55:42,311 --> 01:55:44,103
Oh, God!

1497
01:55:53,363 --> 01:55:55,031
Ellie to Control.

1498
01:55:55,699 --> 01:56:03,699
Ellie to Control, do you read me?

1499
01:56:11,506 --> 01:56:14,925
I'm gonna try to keep recording.

1500
01:56:15,677 --> 01:56:20,222
I'm going through
some kind of a tunnel.

1501
01:56:34,905 --> 01:56:36,447
There's a light source ahead.

1502
01:56:36,948 --> 01:56:40,159
Brilliant and blue-white.

1503
01:56:41,370 --> 01:56:42,995
Residual radiation?

1504
01:56:54,758 --> 01:56:56,050
It's a star.

1505
01:56:56,635 --> 01:57:00,054
I must have gone through a wormhole.

1506
01:57:05,102 --> 01:57:06,519
It's Vega.

1507
01:57:17,739 --> 01:57:19,281
I'm in another wormhole now.

1508
01:57:22,953 --> 01:57:24,078
I had no idea.

1509
01:57:24,246 --> 01:57:26,038
A series of them.

1510
01:57:29,042 --> 01:57:30,292
They're alive.

1511
01:57:30,460 --> 01:57:34,422
It's like some kind of a transit system.

1512
01:57:35,424 --> 01:57:36,799
It's a subway.

1513
01:57:42,139 --> 01:57:43,931
Okay.

1514
01:57:44,099 --> 01:57:46,392
Okay, I've gotta keep talking.

1515
01:57:48,937 --> 01:57:52,815
It's a triple... No, quadruple system.

1516
01:57:53,233 --> 01:57:54,483
It's beautiful.

1517
01:57:57,821 --> 01:57:59,238
They're alive.

1518
01:58:07,414 --> 01:58:09,081
Another wormhole!

1519
01:58:09,416 --> 01:58:11,250
This one is much more violent!

1520
01:59:44,678 --> 01:59:46,345
Some...

1521
01:59:46,805 --> 01:59:49,139
celestial event...

1522
01:59:50,392 --> 01:59:52,101
No...

1523
01:59:52,269 --> 01:59:55,938
No words. No words...

1524
01:59:57,607 --> 01:59:59,817
to describe it.

1525
02:00:01,236 --> 02:00:03,112
Poetry.

1526
02:00:04,281 --> 02:00:07,783
They should have sent a poet.

1527
02:00:08,076 --> 02:00:10,661
It's so beautiful.

1528
02:00:10,829 --> 02:00:12,288
Beautiful.

1529
02:00:14,124 --> 02:00:19,420
So beautiful.

1530
02:00:20,297 --> 02:00:26,886
I had no idea.

1531
02:00:28,138 --> 02:00:31,473
I had no...

1532
02:00:32,767 --> 02:00:36,061
I had no idea.

1533
02:00:37,397 --> 02:00:44,403
I had no idea. I had no idea.

1534
02:03:02,375 --> 02:03:03,751
Hi, Sparks.

1535
02:03:05,628 --> 02:03:07,129
Dad?

1536
02:03:14,596 --> 02:03:16,472
I missed you.

1537
02:03:22,103 --> 02:03:23,270
Aren't you...?

1538
02:03:23,480 --> 02:03:26,690
I'm sorry I couldn't
be there for you, sweetheart.

1539
02:03:36,493 --> 02:03:38,160
You're not real.

1540
02:03:39,662 --> 02:03:41,163
None of this is real.

1541
02:03:41,331 --> 02:03:43,499
That's my scientist.

1542
02:03:44,584 --> 02:03:48,962
When I was unconscious, you downloaded
my thoughts, my memory even.

1543
02:03:49,798 --> 02:03:51,840
Pensacola.

1544
02:03:54,344 --> 02:03:57,304
We thought this might
make things easier for you.

1545
02:04:10,819 --> 02:04:14,446
- Why did you contact us?
- You contacted us.

1546
02:04:14,614 --> 02:04:16,281
We were just listening.

1547
02:04:17,158 --> 02:04:18,450
And there are others?

1548
02:04:18,618 --> 02:04:20,244
Many others.

1549
02:04:25,083 --> 02:04:26,583
They all...

1550
02:04:26,751 --> 02:04:29,878
travel here through that
transit system that you built?

1551
02:04:30,421 --> 02:04:31,922
We didn't build it.

1552
02:04:33,091 --> 02:04:34,591
We don't know who did.

1553
02:04:36,678 --> 02:04:39,638
No, they were gone
long before we ever got here.

1554
02:04:40,265 --> 02:04:42,099
Maybe someday they'll come back.

1555
02:04:42,934 --> 02:04:45,644
All the other civilizations that you find,
they come here?

1556
02:04:45,854 --> 02:04:47,062
Not all.

1557
02:04:48,857 --> 02:04:52,025
- Is this some test?
- No, no tests.

1558
02:04:54,946 --> 02:04:56,530
You have your mother's hands.

1559
02:05:06,708 --> 02:05:08,876
You're an interesting species...

1560
02:05:09,544 --> 02:05:11,503
an interesting mix.

1561
02:05:12,422 --> 02:05:15,215
You're capable of
such beautiful dreams...

1562
02:05:16,259 --> 02:05:18,719
and such horrible nightmares.

1563
02:05:19,888 --> 02:05:21,722
You feel so lost...

1564
02:05:22,307 --> 02:05:25,267
so cut off, so alone.

1565
02:05:26,728 --> 02:05:28,478
Only you're not.

1566
02:05:30,565 --> 02:05:32,107
See...

1567
02:05:32,567 --> 02:05:34,193
In all our searching...

1568
02:05:34,402 --> 02:05:37,905
the only thing we've found
that makes the emptiness bearable...

1569
02:05:38,072 --> 02:05:39,698
is each other.

1570
02:05:43,453 --> 02:05:45,370
What happens now?

1571
02:05:46,414 --> 02:05:47,915
Now?

1572
02:05:48,833 --> 02:05:50,626
You go home.

1573
02:05:50,793 --> 02:05:52,211
Home?

1574
02:05:52,378 --> 02:05:55,464
But I have so many questions.

1575
02:05:55,632 --> 02:05:57,758
Do we get to come back?

1576
02:05:58,635 --> 02:06:00,886
This was just a first step.

1577
02:06:01,054 --> 02:06:02,804
In time, you'll take another.

1578
02:06:04,390 --> 02:06:06,767
But other people need to see
what I've seen...

1579
02:06:06,935 --> 02:06:09,978
This is the way it's been done
for billions of years.

1580
02:06:11,981 --> 02:06:14,608
- But I...
- Small moves, Ellie.

1581
02:06:16,069 --> 02:06:17,986
Small moves.

1582
02:07:01,072 --> 02:07:02,864
We've got video on Ellie.
Five-by-five.

1583
02:07:03,074 --> 02:07:04,950
She's through! She is in the net.

1584
02:07:05,118 --> 02:07:08,120
She's alive. Get the White House.
Get the president on the phone.

1585
02:07:08,288 --> 02:07:10,664
What's going on, Steve?
How is she?

1586
02:07:10,832 --> 02:07:12,541
Ellie, this is Control. Do you copy?

1587
02:07:12,709 --> 02:07:14,751
- What's going on?
- I don't know. Hang on.

1588
02:07:14,919 --> 02:07:16,545
- She is alive.
- Put her on the PA.

1589
02:07:16,713 --> 02:07:18,297
Ellie, just hold on tight.

1590
02:07:18,923 --> 02:07:22,217
We're still trying to determine
the nature of the malfunction...

1591
02:07:22,385 --> 02:07:24,886
but the important thing is you're okay.

1592
02:07:25,054 --> 02:07:26,221
What?

1593
02:07:26,389 --> 02:07:30,183
It's all right, Ellie.
The important thing is that you're safe.

1594
02:07:31,144 --> 02:07:33,437
What malfunction?

1595
02:07:34,772 --> 02:07:36,231
What...?

1596
02:07:37,400 --> 02:07:39,026
What happened?

1597
02:07:40,361 --> 02:07:42,029
What day is this?

1598
02:07:42,697 --> 02:07:45,699
I'm sorry, Ellie,
did you say what day?

1599
02:07:46,784 --> 02:07:49,036
How long was I gone?

1600
02:07:50,788 --> 02:07:55,584
Ellie, the IPV dropped
straight through the Machine.

1601
02:07:55,752 --> 02:07:57,419
You didn't go anywhere.

1602
02:07:58,296 --> 02:08:01,631
But I did. I did go.

1603
02:08:01,799 --> 02:08:04,176
That's what I've been trying
to tell everyone.

1604
02:08:08,639 --> 02:08:11,725
But the headset
didn't record a single image?

1605
02:08:11,893 --> 02:08:14,519
Just this. Static.

1606
02:08:14,729 --> 02:08:15,771
Thank you.

1607
02:08:15,938 --> 02:08:19,358
Now, doctor, let me show you
what we saw.

1608
02:08:28,826 --> 02:08:32,662
43 separate remote cameras
show exactly the same event.

1609
02:08:32,830 --> 02:08:34,373
The IPV dropped straight through.

1610
02:08:34,540 --> 02:08:38,126
Everyone who watched
saw exactly the same thing.

1611
02:08:38,294 --> 02:08:40,128
Nothing happened.

1612
02:08:41,464 --> 02:08:43,757
How do you explain this, doctor?

1613
02:08:45,760 --> 02:08:46,885
I can't.

1614
02:08:47,095 --> 02:08:48,553
I would encourage you...

1615
02:08:50,348 --> 02:08:54,518
not to inflame this situation
beyond the facts.

1616
02:08:54,685 --> 02:08:58,105
Let us deal with this on the facts.

1617
02:08:58,272 --> 02:09:01,149
We are monitoring
what has actually happened.

1618
02:09:01,317 --> 02:09:06,655
We are taking what we believe
is factually appropriate steps.

1619
02:09:06,823 --> 02:09:10,033
Amid a flurry of accusations
and counter-accusations...

1620
02:09:10,243 --> 02:09:12,828
by the nations representing
the Machine Consortium...

1621
02:09:12,995 --> 02:09:15,914
the president has ordered
a special inquiry.

1622
02:09:16,124 --> 02:09:18,917
However, the appointment
to the committee of Michael Kitz...

1623
02:09:19,127 --> 02:09:21,962
who has recently resigned
as National Security Advisor...

1624
02:09:22,130 --> 02:09:24,464
has raised a number of eyebrows
on Capitol Hill.

1625
02:09:24,632 --> 02:09:28,427
I have made no decision to run for
Congress, I have announced no candidacy.

1626
02:09:28,594 --> 02:09:31,179
The fact that I resigned
as National Security Advisor...

1627
02:09:31,347 --> 02:09:33,056
has nothing to do with anything...

1628
02:09:33,224 --> 02:09:36,393
other than I want to devote
all of my energy to this inquiry.

1629
02:09:37,145 --> 02:09:41,815
The people of the world have a right
to know what really happened.

1630
02:09:42,650 --> 02:09:45,152
And yet every scientific
instrument confirms...

1631
02:09:45,319 --> 02:09:49,489
the IPV was out of contact
for only a fraction of a second.

1632
02:09:49,657 --> 02:09:51,700
Isn't that correct, doctor?

1633
02:09:53,411 --> 02:09:55,704
A fraction of a second Earth time, yes.

1634
02:09:56,581 --> 02:09:57,831
Earth time?

1635
02:09:57,999 --> 02:10:01,626
Senator, I believe that the Machine
opened up a wormhole...

1636
02:10:01,794 --> 02:10:06,756
a tunnel through the fabric of space-time,
also known as an Einstein-Rosen Bridge.

1637
02:10:06,924 --> 02:10:11,052
Now, because of the effects of general
relativity, what I experienced as 18 hours...

1638
02:10:11,220 --> 02:10:13,472
passed instantaneously on Earth.

1639
02:10:13,639 --> 02:10:17,976
Isn't it true that these wormholes you
speak of are merely theoretical predictions?

1640
02:10:18,144 --> 02:10:20,896
There is no evidence
they actually exist, is there?

1641
02:10:21,063 --> 02:10:22,772
There is no direct evidence, no.

1642
02:10:22,940 --> 02:10:24,691
Tell me something, doctor...

1643
02:10:24,859 --> 02:10:27,986
why do you think these aliens
would go to all this trouble?

1644
02:10:28,154 --> 02:10:32,365
Bring you tens of thousands of light years
and then send you home without proof?

1645
02:10:33,034 --> 02:10:35,744
They said that's how it's been done
for billions of years.

1646
02:10:36,120 --> 02:10:39,706
That's very neat. You have no proof
because they didn't want you to have any.

1647
02:10:39,874 --> 02:10:44,628
A phenomenon known in psychiatric circles,
I believe, as a self-reinforcing delusion.

1648
02:10:45,213 --> 02:10:46,838
Is that what you think? Delusional?

1649
02:10:47,006 --> 02:10:51,134
Well, I do think you may have suffered
some kind of an episode. Yeah, I do.

1650
02:10:51,302 --> 02:10:54,179
Doctor, I'd like to propose
an alternate hypothesis...

1651
02:10:54,388 --> 02:10:58,058
and I'd like you to bring
your scientific expertise to bear on it.

1652
02:10:58,226 --> 02:11:01,436
To fake a signal from Vega...

1653
02:11:02,104 --> 02:11:03,688
what would you need?

1654
02:11:05,399 --> 02:11:09,194
You would need a satellite to transmit
the signal, but it would be impossible to...

1655
02:11:09,362 --> 02:11:13,281
You'd need a satellite and need launch
capabilities to put the satellite into orbit.

1656
02:11:13,449 --> 02:11:16,660
And the message itself.
To put something like this together...

1657
02:11:16,827 --> 02:11:19,120
so complex,
drawing on many disciplines...

1658
02:11:19,288 --> 02:11:21,248
- Would be impossible.
- Impossible?

1659
02:11:22,542 --> 02:11:24,459
Impossible?

1660
02:11:24,627 --> 02:11:28,255
Is there anyone who might
have been up to the challenge?

1661
02:11:28,422 --> 02:11:30,882
Someone with extraordinary
technical expertise...

1662
02:11:31,050 --> 02:11:33,260
enormous financial resources...

1663
02:11:33,427 --> 02:11:37,806
someone perverse enough,
eccentric enough to come up with the idea?

1664
02:11:39,183 --> 02:11:40,225
Hadden?

1665
02:11:41,185 --> 02:11:43,645
S. R. Hadden.

1666
02:11:47,942 --> 02:11:50,986
You're implying that this was
all some kind of a hoax?

1667
02:11:51,153 --> 02:11:52,404
That he engineered this?

1668
02:11:52,572 --> 02:11:53,822
S. R. Hadden...

1669
02:11:53,990 --> 02:11:58,868
a legendary power broker and manipulator
in perhaps his final bid for immortality.

1670
02:11:59,036 --> 02:12:01,705
Maybe he wanted to explore
and exploit new technologies...

1671
02:12:01,872 --> 02:12:04,082
and get the governments
to pick up the tab.

1672
02:12:04,292 --> 02:12:07,043
Perhaps this was his
final altruistic gesture...

1673
02:12:07,295 --> 02:12:11,006
to unite the world in some common goal.
Maybe all of the above.

1674
02:12:11,173 --> 02:12:16,094
S. R. Hadden, a brilliant
and complicated man.

1675
02:12:18,639 --> 02:12:22,892
Doctor, are you familiar
with the scientific precept...

1676
02:12:23,060 --> 02:12:25,186
known as Occam's razor?

1677
02:12:31,402 --> 02:12:32,569
Yes.

1678
02:12:34,572 --> 02:12:36,656
It means that all things being equal...

1679
02:12:36,824 --> 02:12:39,326
the simplest explanation
tends to be the right one.

1680
02:12:39,493 --> 02:12:41,036
Exactly.

1681
02:12:41,203 --> 02:12:43,663
Now, you tell me.
What is more likely here?

1682
02:12:43,831 --> 02:12:47,292
That a message from aliens
results in a magical machine...

1683
02:12:47,460 --> 02:12:50,170
that whisks you away
to the center of the galaxy...

1684
02:12:50,379 --> 02:12:53,256
to go windsurfing with your dad
and a split second later...

1685
02:12:53,424 --> 02:12:56,885
returns you home
without a single shred of proof?

1686
02:12:57,053 --> 02:13:00,847
Or that your experience
is the result of being...

1687
02:13:01,015 --> 02:13:05,477
the unwitting star in the farewell
performance of one S.R. Hadden?

1688
02:13:05,645 --> 02:13:09,439
A man with the means, motive and
opportunity to play you and the rest of us...

1689
02:13:09,690 --> 02:13:13,902
as pawns in the biggest, most elaborate,
most expensive hoax of all time?

1690
02:13:15,196 --> 02:13:17,113
Dr. Arroway.

1691
02:13:18,991 --> 02:13:23,370
You come to us with no evidence,
no record...

1692
02:13:23,537 --> 02:13:25,330
no artifacts.

1693
02:13:25,498 --> 02:13:29,668
Only a story that, to put it mildly,
strains credibility.

1694
02:13:30,795 --> 02:13:33,922
Over half a trillion dollars were spent.

1695
02:13:34,090 --> 02:13:37,092
Dozens of lives were lost.

1696
02:13:37,718 --> 02:13:42,430
Are you really gonna sit there
and tell us we should just take this all...

1697
02:13:43,182 --> 02:13:44,724
on faith?

1698
02:13:48,729 --> 02:13:50,939
Please answer the question, doctor.

1699
02:13:54,860 --> 02:13:56,945
Is it possible that it didn't happen?

1700
02:13:57,113 --> 02:13:58,279
Yes.

1701
02:14:01,158 --> 02:14:04,285
As a scientist I must concede that.
I must volunteer that.

1702
02:14:08,624 --> 02:14:10,542
Wait a minute,
let me get this straight.

1703
02:14:10,710 --> 02:14:14,587
You admit you have absolutely no
physical evidence to back up your story?

1704
02:14:14,922 --> 02:14:15,964
Yes.

1705
02:14:16,132 --> 02:14:19,175
You admit that you very well may have
hallucinated this whole thing?

1706
02:14:19,343 --> 02:14:20,030
Yes.

1707
02:14:20,054 --> 02:14:22,137
You admit that if you
were in our position...

1708
02:14:22,304 --> 02:14:26,057
you would respond with exactly the same
degree of incredulity and skepticism?

1709
02:14:26,225 --> 02:14:27,475
Yes.

1710
02:14:27,643 --> 02:14:30,603
Then why don't you simply withdraw
your testimony and concede...

1711
02:14:30,771 --> 02:14:35,942
that this journey to the center of
the galaxy in fact never took place?

1712
02:14:38,946 --> 02:14:40,947
Because I can't.

1713
02:14:47,496 --> 02:14:51,166
I had an experience.

1714
02:14:52,835 --> 02:14:55,420
I can't prove it. I can't even explain it.

1715
02:14:55,588 --> 02:14:58,673
But everything that I know as
a human being, everything I am...

1716
02:14:58,841 --> 02:15:00,967
tells me it was real.

1717
02:15:03,012 --> 02:15:06,890
I was given something wonderful,
something that changed me forever.

1718
02:15:07,057 --> 02:15:08,600
A vision...

1719
02:15:08,768 --> 02:15:10,852
of the universe...

1720
02:15:11,020 --> 02:15:13,688
that tells us undeniably...

1721
02:15:13,856 --> 02:15:16,107
how tiny and insignificant...

1722
02:15:16,275 --> 02:15:19,986
and how rare and precious we all are.

1723
02:15:21,155 --> 02:15:23,573
A vision that tells us
that we belong to something...

1724
02:15:23,741 --> 02:15:29,412
that is greater than ourselves,
that we are not... That none of us are alone.

1725
02:15:34,043 --> 02:15:38,046
I wish I could share that.

1726
02:15:40,549 --> 02:15:41,716
I wish...

1727
02:15:43,177 --> 02:15:47,222
that everyone,
if even for one moment...

1728
02:15:47,389 --> 02:15:53,144
could feel that awe
and humility and hope.

1729
02:15:53,562 --> 02:15:55,563
But...

1730
02:16:01,737 --> 02:16:04,030
That continues to be my wish.

1731
02:16:45,197 --> 02:16:48,533
- Dr. Arroway, get a picture, please?
- Get a photo over here?

1732
02:16:50,160 --> 02:16:51,786
Here comes Ellie.

1733
02:17:28,073 --> 02:17:30,992
Reverend Joss! Reverend Joss!

1734
02:17:31,160 --> 02:17:34,537
Reverend Joss, what do you
believe? What do you believe?

1735
02:17:38,792 --> 02:17:42,795
As a person of faith, I'm bound by
a different covenant than Dr. Arroway.

1736
02:17:44,548 --> 02:17:46,799
But our goal is one and the same.

1737
02:17:47,301 --> 02:17:48,927
The pursuit of truth.

1738
02:17:52,473 --> 02:17:53,765
I, for one, believe her.

1739
02:18:17,331 --> 02:18:20,208
So, what happens now?
We give her a medal?

1740
02:18:20,376 --> 02:18:23,252
I'd say at least a healthy grant.

1741
02:18:23,420 --> 02:18:26,881
I assume you read the confidential report
from the investigating committee?

1742
02:18:27,091 --> 02:18:28,841
I flipped through it.

1743
02:18:29,009 --> 02:18:33,221
I was especially interested
in the section on Arroway's video unit.

1744
02:18:34,014 --> 02:18:36,349
The one that recorded the static.

1745
02:18:37,601 --> 02:18:39,310
Continue.

1746
02:18:39,937 --> 02:18:43,773
The fact that it recorded static
isn't what interests me.

1747
02:18:48,612 --> 02:18:49,988
Continue.

1748
02:18:50,864 --> 02:18:52,699
What interests me...

1749
02:18:52,866 --> 02:18:56,703
is that it recorded
approximately 18 hours of it.

1750
02:19:01,959 --> 02:19:03,876
That is interesting, isn't it?

1751
02:19:10,551 --> 02:19:14,387
You can see over there,
we're building 45 brand-new dishes.

1752
02:19:14,555 --> 02:19:18,516
And that means when you put them
together with all the radio telescopes...

1753
02:19:18,684 --> 02:19:20,184
all over the world...

1754
02:19:20,352 --> 02:19:25,023
then we get to hear farther into space
than anybody has ever heard before.

1755
02:19:25,190 --> 02:19:26,232
Yeah.

1756
02:19:26,400 --> 02:19:29,235
Are there other people
out there in the universe?

1757
02:19:30,279 --> 02:19:33,031
That's a good question.
What do you think, huh?

1758
02:19:33,615 --> 02:19:36,951
- I don't know.
- That's a good answer.

1759
02:19:37,828 --> 02:19:38,870
Skeptic, huh?

1760
02:19:40,164 --> 02:19:45,043
The important thing is that you all
keep searching for your own answers.

1761
02:19:45,210 --> 02:19:48,046
I'll tell you one thing
about the universe, though.

1762
02:19:48,213 --> 02:19:52,091
The universe is a pretty big place.

1763
02:19:53,093 --> 02:19:58,598
It's bigger than anything
anyone has ever dreamed of before.

1764
02:20:00,184 --> 02:20:01,851
So if it's just us...

1765
02:20:03,479 --> 02:20:06,272
it seems like an awful waste of space.

1766
02:20:07,775 --> 02:20:09,150
Right?

1766
02:20:10,305 --> 02:21:10,304
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