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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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...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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...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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one thousand, one hundred
and sixteen 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?
68
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CQ, this is W-9 GFO. Come back?
69
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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.
75
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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 L-band.
83
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- Check off-axis.
- On it.
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It's... not in the neighborhood.
85
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Here it is. J1741 + 2748.
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Catalogued: November 4, 1982. Pulsar.
87
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Well, I don't know, it must've been--
T-the glitch in the timing is what threw me.
88
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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.
90
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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?
95
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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
99
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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.
105
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Brook's looking at the black hole
at the center of M-87.
106
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Eli's studying Markarian 541,
a major gamma-ray source.
107
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And Dr. Arroway will be spending her
precious telescope time listening for...
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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?
113
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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?
130
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I'm a writer. I'm writing a book.
131
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Down here doing research about how
technology affects Third World cultures.
132
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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.
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I'm trying to get an interview.
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I take it you know him?
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You could say that.
137
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SETI, man. That's fringe.
138
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I've crossed paths with this guy.
139
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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.
149
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But...
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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.
153
00:14:07,806 --> 00:14:09,891
Glad you could make it, David.
154
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If I'd known it was gonna take three planes,
I might've reconsidered.
155
00:14:13,770 --> 00:14:15,147
How is that new office?
156
00:14:15,313 --> 00:14:19,901
I'm still settling in. They already wanna take
half my budget and give it to the Pentagon.
157
00:14:20,068 --> 00:14:22,946
Ellie. Still waiting for E.T. to call?
158
00:14:23,113 --> 00:14:27,117
- Well, I understand we're having a little...
- Good to see you, too.
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Asshole.
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Looks like it's gonna be a long night.
161
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Science must first be accountable to the
people who are paying for it, the taxpayers.
162
00:14:35,584 --> 00:14:38,962
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.
166
00:14:48,597 --> 00:14:51,641
Wait, you're saying you wanna do away
with all pure research now?
167
00:14:51,808 --> 00:14:55,145
What's wrong with science being practical?
Even profitable?
168
00:14:55,353 --> 00:14:59,191
Nothing, as long as your motive
is the search for truth.
169
00:14:59,357 --> 00:15:02,486
Which is exactly what
the pursuit of science is.
170
00:15:04,029 --> 00:15:05,864
That's a rather interesting position,
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00:15:06,031 --> 00:15:09,701
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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00:15:14,164 --> 00:15:18,418
I'm against the men who deify it
at the expense of human truth.
175
00:15:22,255 --> 00:15:25,467
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?
178
00:15:35,268 --> 00:15:37,104
You're a priest?
179
00:15:38,605 --> 00:15:39,856
No, not really.
180
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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.
183
00:15:50,617 --> 00:15:53,286
I couldn't live with
the whole celibacy thing.
184
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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.
187
00:16:05,549 --> 00:16:07,217
You wanna get out of here?
188
00:16:09,136 --> 00:16:12,639
All right, you see that sort of large,
W-shaped constellation right there?
189
00:16:12,806 --> 00:16:14,266
That's Cassiopeia.
190
00:16:14,432 --> 00:16:18,979
And Cassiopeia A gives off
a whole lot of radio signals.
191
00:16:19,146 --> 00:16:23,650
I actually listen to them a lot.
It's a remnant of a supernova.
192
00:16:24,359 --> 00:16:27,237
When did you know
you wanted to be an astronomer?
193
00:16:27,737 --> 00:16:29,197
Well, when I...
194
00:16:29,364 --> 00:16:33,201
When I was about 8 years old,
I was watching the sunset,
195
00:16:33,368 --> 00:16:36,746
and I asked my dad,
"What's that bright star over there?"
196
00:16:36,913 --> 00:16:39,583
Dad, what's that star there?
197
00:16:40,167 --> 00:16:43,253
And he said that it wasn't
really a star at all. It was actually...
198
00:16:43,420 --> 00:16:45,088
That's not a star, it's a planet.
199
00:16:45,255 --> 00:16:46,882
...a whole planet called Venus...
200
00:16:47,048 --> 00:16:49,050
That's the planet Venus.
201
00:16:51,386 --> 00:16:55,348
...which should be over there soon.
202
00:16:55,515 --> 00:16:58,226
He said,
"You know why they called it Venus?
203
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"Because they thought
it was so beautiful and glowing.
204
00:17:01,855 --> 00:17:03,940
"But what they didn't know,
205
00:17:04,107 --> 00:17:06,735
"is that it's filled with...
206
00:17:07,944 --> 00:17:11,656
"deadly gases and sulfuric acid rain."
207
00:17:12,699 --> 00:17:16,912
"Wow," I thought,
"This is it! I'm hooked."
208
00:17:18,455 --> 00:17:22,459
You know, there are
four hundred billion stars out there
209
00:17:22,626 --> 00:17:24,878
just in our galaxy alone.
210
00:17:25,212 --> 00:17:29,132
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,
212
00:17:32,636 --> 00:17:37,265
and if just one out of a million
of those had intelligent life,
213
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there would be literally millions
of civilizations out there.
214
00:17:43,980 --> 00:17:46,066
Well, if there wasn't...
215
00:17:46,483 --> 00:17:48,985
it'd be an awful waste of space.
216
00:17:54,574 --> 00:17:56,326
Amen.
217
00:18:04,668 --> 00:18:09,673
So I was lying there,
just looking at the sky.
218
00:18:12,592 --> 00:18:16,429
And then I felt something. I don't know, I...
219
00:18:16,930 --> 00:18:19,808
All I know is that I wasn't alone.
220
00:18:19,975 --> 00:18:24,896
And for the first time in my life
I wasn't scared of nothing, you know?
221
00:18:25,063 --> 00:18:27,023
Not even dying.
222
00:18:32,362 --> 00:18:34,406
It was God.
223
00:18:36,866 --> 00:18:38,802
And there's no chance that...
224
00:18:39,369 --> 00:18:43,623
you had this experience because
some part of you needed to have it?
225
00:18:44,874 --> 00:18:48,378
I mean, I'm a reasonably intelligent guy,
but this...
226
00:18:51,214 --> 00:18:55,218
No, this... No, my intellect,
it couldn't even touch this.
227
00:18:55,385 --> 00:18:56,428
No.
228
00:18:58,888 --> 00:19:01,474
I've been to Sunday school a few times.
229
00:19:02,892 --> 00:19:04,644
Uh-huh. And?
230
00:19:04,811 --> 00:19:10,066
Well, I just kept asking all these
really annoying questions like:
231
00:19:10,233 --> 00:19:13,194
"All right, then where did Mrs. Cain
come from?"
232
00:19:14,487 --> 00:19:17,073
And pretty soon they called my dad
and they asked him,
233
00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,993
if he wouldn't mind just
keeping me home from now on.
234
00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,203
Your dad...
235
00:19:23,163 --> 00:19:26,374
- Is it this guy?
- Yeah.
236
00:19:28,251 --> 00:19:30,712
You're close to him, aren't you?
237
00:19:31,588 --> 00:19:35,050
Yeah, I was.
He died when I was 9 years old.
238
00:19:36,926 --> 00:19:38,928
I never got to know my mother.
239
00:19:40,513 --> 00:19:41,848
I'm sorry.
240
00:19:46,353 --> 00:19:48,271
That's gotta be tough.
241
00:19:50,482 --> 00:19:52,150
Yeah.
242
00:19:52,776 --> 00:19:54,778
Being alone.
243
00:20:03,286 --> 00:20:04,537
What do you say
244
00:20:04,746 --> 00:20:08,249
we pack a picnic tomorrow morning
and hike up to old Mount Arecibo?
245
00:20:09,125 --> 00:20:12,128
I don't think I can. I gotta work.
246
00:20:13,922 --> 00:20:17,550
All right, how about dinner, then,
tomorrow night? I know a great dive.
247
00:20:17,717 --> 00:20:19,677
I don't think so.
248
00:20:23,973 --> 00:20:27,143
- Ellie, did I miss something?
- Huh?
249
00:20:28,269 --> 00:20:31,481
No. Shit, I'm late.
250
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,027
I told Kent that I'd be there at 10:30.
251
00:20:37,987 --> 00:20:39,781
You know, I'm not trying to push you.
252
00:20:39,989 --> 00:20:42,409
No, no. I've wanted to look at
this sector for weeks.
253
00:20:42,575 --> 00:20:47,831
Just hang out and sleep in.
And there's a bunch of food in the fridge.
254
00:20:47,997 --> 00:20:49,165
Okay?
255
00:20:49,332 --> 00:20:51,167
How can I reach you?
256
00:20:51,835 --> 00:20:54,337
Just leave your number. I'll call you.
257
00:21:15,817 --> 00:21:16,860
Dad!
258
00:21:18,903 --> 00:21:21,906
Dad, it's starting, you're gonna miss it.
259
00:21:25,034 --> 00:21:27,328
Dad, there's another one. Hurry up.
260
00:21:27,495 --> 00:21:29,873
In a minute, Sparks. I'm almost done.
261
00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:32,876
There's another one.
Come on, hurry up, Dad!
262
00:21:38,214 --> 00:21:39,883
Dad?
263
00:21:51,644 --> 00:21:52,812
Dad?
264
00:22:02,947 --> 00:22:04,032
Daddy?
265
00:22:17,003 --> 00:22:18,546
Dad.
266
00:22:21,758 --> 00:22:23,384
Dad.
267
00:22:24,719 --> 00:22:26,429
Dad.
268
00:22:28,431 --> 00:22:30,350
I'll get the medicine.
269
00:23:45,925 --> 00:23:47,594
Ellie.
270
00:23:49,178 --> 00:23:51,848
I know it's hard to understand this now...
271
00:23:52,849 --> 00:23:57,353
but we aren't always meant to know
why things happen the way they do.
272
00:23:57,895 --> 00:24:02,233
Sometimes we just have to accept it
as God's will.
273
00:24:04,193 --> 00:24:07,864
I should have kept some medicine
in the downstairs bathroom.
274
00:24:08,031 --> 00:24:10,575
Then I could've gotten to it sooner.
275
00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:37,769
CQ...
276
00:24:38,603 --> 00:24:41,898
this is W-9 GFO. Do you copy?
277
00:24:45,068 --> 00:24:47,737
Dad, this is Ellie. Come back.
278
00:24:50,907 --> 00:24:52,950
This is Eleanor Arroway,
279
00:24:53,117 --> 00:24:56,704
transmitting on 14.2 megahertz.
280
00:24:59,207 --> 00:25:00,792
Dad.
281
00:25:02,835 --> 00:25:04,337
Are you there?
282
00:25:06,464 --> 00:25:07,924
Come back.
283
00:25:10,843 --> 00:25:12,261
Dad.
284
00:25:14,639 --> 00:25:16,099
Are you there?
285
00:25:17,141 --> 00:25:18,643
Dad, this is Ellie.
286
00:25:50,133 --> 00:25:51,426
Ellie.
287
00:25:51,592 --> 00:25:54,971
Hi, Kent. What are you doing
up so early, huh?
288
00:25:55,638 --> 00:25:56,973
I was thinking...
289
00:25:57,682 --> 00:25:59,225
we'd make a pretty good team.
290
00:25:59,392 --> 00:26:00,435
What?
291
00:26:00,601 --> 00:26:04,105
We could put together
a kick-ass ad-hoc SETI program.
292
00:26:04,313 --> 00:26:06,524
You know the Very Large Array
in New Mexico?
293
00:26:06,691 --> 00:26:09,152
It would be a dynamite place
to do serious SETI...
294
00:26:09,318 --> 00:26:11,988
What are you talking about, Kent?
295
00:26:13,448 --> 00:26:15,324
Drumlin pulled the plug.
296
00:26:15,950 --> 00:26:17,076
We're homeless.
297
00:26:27,670 --> 00:26:29,464
Hey, watch it.
298
00:26:31,215 --> 00:26:33,134
Is it true, huh? Did you pull the plug?
299
00:26:33,301 --> 00:26:35,678
You can't see it now,
but I'm doing you a favor.
300
00:26:35,845 --> 00:26:40,016
You are far too promising a scientist
to be wasting your gifts on this nonsense.
301
00:26:40,183 --> 00:26:42,185
Look, I don't consider what could be
302
00:26:42,393 --> 00:26:45,396
the most important discovery
of the human race nonsense, okay?
303
00:26:45,563 --> 00:26:46,981
There's 400 billion stars...
304
00:26:47,148 --> 00:26:50,026
And two probabilities.
One, there is intelligent life,
305
00:26:50,234 --> 00:26:53,237
but it's so far away,
you'll never contact it in your lifetime.
306
00:26:53,404 --> 00:26:55,715
- And two! Two!
- You're making a decision--
307
00:26:55,782 --> 00:27:00,203
There's nothing but noble gases and
carbon compounds, and you're wasting your time.
308
00:27:00,369 --> 00:27:03,456
In the meantime, you won't be published,
won't be taken seriously.
309
00:27:03,623 --> 00:27:05,333
And your career will be over.
310
00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:08,878
So what? It's my life.
311
00:27:45,915 --> 00:27:48,793
Hey, Kent. You were right.
312
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,672
Screw Drumlin. We're gonna raise the money.
We're going to New Mexico.
313
00:27:52,839 --> 00:27:55,383
Chicago has all the stuff,
but let me know how it goes.
314
00:27:55,550 --> 00:27:58,427
I've got some more corporate stops
on the East Coast for you.
315
00:27:58,594 --> 00:28:01,764
Hey, Fish, did that investor from Houston
ever get back to us?
316
00:28:01,931 --> 00:28:03,933
I'm gonna hit him up on my way to L.A.
317
00:28:04,141 --> 00:28:06,269
Try begging for some of that
Hollywood money.
318
00:28:06,477 --> 00:28:10,064
Why not? They've been making money
off of aliens for years, right?
319
00:28:10,231 --> 00:28:13,067
- Begging is good for the soul.
- We'll see about that.
320
00:28:13,234 --> 00:28:14,902
- Just do me a favor.
- Yeah.
321
00:28:15,069 --> 00:28:17,864
Try not to be too confrontational.
322
00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:20,491
Huh? Confrontational? Me?
What do you mean?
323
00:28:20,658 --> 00:28:22,285
I'm gonna see if I left anything.
324
00:28:55,651 --> 00:28:59,488
This is a unique time in our history,
in the history of any civilization.
325
00:28:59,655 --> 00:29:02,450
It's the moment
of the acquisition of technology.
326
00:29:02,658 --> 00:29:05,494
That's the moment
where contact becomes possible.
327
00:29:06,203 --> 00:29:11,042
The Very Large Array in New Mexico
is the key to our chances for success.
328
00:29:11,208 --> 00:29:13,461
With its 27 linked radio telescopes,
329
00:29:13,628 --> 00:29:17,006
we can search more accurately
than at any other conventional facility.
330
00:29:17,173 --> 00:29:22,345
Now, we've gotten approval
to buy the telescope time from the government.
331
00:29:22,845 --> 00:29:25,014
Now all we really need is the money.
332
00:29:25,806 --> 00:29:27,808
A nice presentation, doctor.
333
00:29:28,517 --> 00:29:33,022
But while our foundation arm has a mandate
to support experimental programs,
334
00:29:33,189 --> 00:29:37,151
we must confess that
your proposal seems less like science,
335
00:29:37,318 --> 00:29:39,028
and more like science fiction.
336
00:29:41,530 --> 00:29:42,990
Science fiction.
337
00:29:46,410 --> 00:29:48,204
You're right.
338
00:29:48,663 --> 00:29:50,247
It's crazy.
339
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,001
In fact, it's even worse than that: nuts.
340
00:29:55,544 --> 00:29:57,046
You wanna hear something nutty?
341
00:29:57,213 --> 00:29:59,882
A couple guys wanted to build
something called an airplane.
342
00:30:00,049 --> 00:30:03,219
You get people to go in it and fly like birds.
Ridiculous, right?
343
00:30:03,386 --> 00:30:05,346
Or what about
breaking the sound barrier,
344
00:30:05,513 --> 00:30:09,141
or rockets to the moon,
or atomic energy, or a mission to Mars?
345
00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:11,185
Science fiction, right?
346
00:30:11,352 --> 00:30:12,478
Look.
347
00:30:12,645 --> 00:30:16,899
All I'm asking is for you to
just have the tiniest bit of vision.
348
00:30:17,066 --> 00:30:20,653
You know, to just step back for one minute
and look at the big picture.
349
00:30:20,820 --> 00:30:22,279
To take a chance on something
350
00:30:22,446 --> 00:30:26,075
which might end up being
the most profoundly impactful moment
351
00:30:26,242 --> 00:30:30,413
for humanity, for the history...
of history.
352
00:30:33,624 --> 00:30:35,167
I'm sorry.
353
00:30:36,293 --> 00:30:37,920
I just spent the last 13 months
354
00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:41,924
coming into rooms like this
and talking to people like you.
355
00:30:42,341 --> 00:30:45,052
The truth is, you're my last chance, so...
356
00:30:45,219 --> 00:30:46,679
I'm sorry I wasted your time.
357
00:30:46,846 --> 00:30:48,139
Doctor.
358
00:30:48,305 --> 00:30:49,473
Yes, sir.
359
00:30:52,435 --> 00:30:54,478
Yes, sir.
360
00:30:57,732 --> 00:30:58,774
Yes, sir.
361
00:31:01,861 --> 00:31:03,070
You have your money.
362
00:31:06,115 --> 00:31:07,658
Thank you.
363
00:31:09,285 --> 00:31:10,911
Thank you.
364
00:31:57,458 --> 00:32:01,504
Oh! Perfect cast. Come on, fishy.
365
00:32:01,670 --> 00:32:05,341
Frank, look at the size
of that son of a bitch!
366
00:32:17,770 --> 00:32:19,855
Welcome back, Dr. C.
367
00:32:20,022 --> 00:32:21,524
How'd it go?
368
00:32:22,191 --> 00:32:25,444
- How was the trip?
- I've had better.
369
00:32:25,945 --> 00:32:29,031
Drumlin. What is this?
This his personal vendetta now?
370
00:32:29,198 --> 00:32:33,119
It's not just Drumlin. There's been
enormous pressure from other scientists as well.
371
00:32:33,285 --> 00:32:36,539
It doesn't matter anyway,
Hadden's funding us for another two years.
372
00:32:36,905 --> 00:32:39,875
These are government-owned telescopes,
they can lease to whomever.
373
00:32:40,042 --> 00:32:43,838
And they don't want the high priestess
of the desert using them anymore.
374
00:32:44,672 --> 00:32:45,714
What?
375
00:32:45,881 --> 00:32:49,218
Staring at static on TV for hours,
listening to washing machines.
376
00:32:49,385 --> 00:32:51,762
Did you really think these stories
wouldn't get out?
377
00:32:51,929 --> 00:32:55,683
- I was looking for patterns in the chaos.
- Doesn't matter, we're a joke to them.
378
00:32:55,850 --> 00:32:57,393
They want us out.
379
00:32:58,853 --> 00:33:02,189
We've got three months
until the paperwork goes through.
380
00:33:04,900 --> 00:33:08,070
Fine. I'll start looking for other funding.
I'll just start--
381
00:33:08,237 --> 00:33:12,741
Could you face reality, please?
Just this once, Ellie. We lost.
382
00:33:12,908 --> 00:33:14,577
It's over.
383
00:33:20,916 --> 00:33:22,585
Fine.
384
00:33:22,751 --> 00:33:24,753
But I'm not stopping.
385
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,923
If I have to go it alone, I'll go it alone.
I've done it before.
386
00:34:17,681 --> 00:34:21,435
My guest tonight is
author and theologian Palmer Joss.
387
00:34:21,602 --> 00:34:26,607
He's become a spiritual counselor of sorts,
and a recent fixture at the White House.
388
00:34:26,774 --> 00:34:29,735
"God's Diplomat",
according to The New York Times.
389
00:34:29,944 --> 00:34:33,614
His latest book, "Losing Faith",
is currently number one
390
00:34:33,822 --> 00:34:36,158
on that publication's bestseller list.
391
00:34:36,325 --> 00:34:37,826
Thanks for being with us, Palmer.
392
00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:40,788
You have had quite a ride
this last couple of years.
393
00:34:40,955 --> 00:34:43,415
Yeah, I sure have, Larry.
394
00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:46,085
You know, Fish, I was thinking.
395
00:34:46,252 --> 00:34:50,589
Who would make the best astronomers?
I mean, think about it.
396
00:34:50,756 --> 00:34:56,762
Who has the perfect synthesis
of career and lifestyle?
397
00:34:56,929 --> 00:34:59,848
- I give.
- Vampires!
398
00:35:00,015 --> 00:35:02,434
Are you anti-technology?
Are you anti-science?
399
00:35:02,601 --> 00:35:04,603
No, not at all.
400
00:35:04,770 --> 00:35:07,648
The question that I'm asking
is this:
401
00:35:08,315 --> 00:35:11,026
Are we happier
as a human race?
402
00:35:11,193 --> 00:35:16,115
Is the world fundamentally a better place
because of science and technology?
403
00:35:16,824 --> 00:35:19,285
We shop at home, we surf the Web,
404
00:35:19,493 --> 00:35:22,288
but at the same time we feel emptier
405
00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:27,293
and more cut off from each other
than at any other time in human history.
406
00:35:27,459 --> 00:35:30,129
I mean, we're becoming
a synthesized society
407
00:35:30,296 --> 00:35:33,632
in a great, big hurry
to get to the next...
408
00:35:47,021 --> 00:35:50,524
I think it's because we're
looking for the meaning. What is the meaning?
409
00:35:50,691 --> 00:35:53,402
We have mindless jobs,
we take frantic vacations.
410
00:35:53,819 --> 00:35:56,822
Deficit finance trips to the mall
to buy more things
411
00:35:57,031 --> 00:36:00,701
that we think are gonna fill
these holes in our lives.
412
00:36:00,868 --> 00:36:03,412
Is it any wonder
that we've lost our sense of direction?
413
00:36:44,286 --> 00:36:45,954
Holy shit.
414
00:37:04,264 --> 00:37:10,312
Right ascension,
18 hours, 36 minutes, 56.2 seconds.
415
00:37:10,479 --> 00:37:15,484
Declination, plus 36 degrees,
46 minutes...
416
00:37:15,651 --> 00:37:18,821
56.2 seconds!
417
00:37:20,489 --> 00:37:21,990
Confirm!
418
00:37:22,157 --> 00:37:28,080
Right ascension, 18 hours, 36 minutes,
56.2 seconds!
419
00:37:28,247 --> 00:37:31,083
Hey, is anybody awake in there?
I'm moving the array!
420
00:37:32,167 --> 00:37:34,962
- Confirm!
- Boss has a bogey!
421
00:37:35,170 --> 00:37:40,300
Right ascension, 18 hours,
36 minutes, 56.2 seconds.
422
00:37:40,467 --> 00:37:42,719
- Fish!
- We're on it.
423
00:37:42,886 --> 00:37:47,224
Plus 36 hours,
47 minutes and 1 second.
424
00:37:47,391 --> 00:37:51,145
Strong possible pulse chain
on Sub-Array 4.
425
00:37:51,353 --> 00:37:54,690
I'm moving the rest of them now.
I need you to confirm the coordinates.
426
00:37:54,857 --> 00:37:56,859
Check the status of the array.
427
00:37:57,025 --> 00:38:00,904
- She's doing all the dishes.
- All systems nominal.
428
00:38:05,534 --> 00:38:07,119
Hello.
429
00:38:07,870 --> 00:38:09,621
I need a full systems check.
430
00:38:09,788 --> 00:38:12,624
Coordinates confirmed.
Willie's checking the system now.
431
00:38:12,791 --> 00:38:15,794
Stay on top of the systems diagnostics.
432
00:38:15,961 --> 00:38:17,671
Check the reference point offsets.
433
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,884
And I want you off-axis on 27
the second we get there.
434
00:38:22,050 --> 00:38:24,553
And tell Willie to break out the big boy.
435
00:38:26,138 --> 00:38:28,474
Copy that. Willie...
436
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:29,892
Yeah. Go, Ellie.
437
00:38:30,058 --> 00:38:33,353
I can hear can it on the headphones.
We gotta be sure about this.
438
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,231
Give me another array status.
439
00:38:37,649 --> 00:38:40,569
Her four are online,
the rest are tracking in.
440
00:38:40,736 --> 00:38:43,489
Your four are online,
the rest are tracking in.
441
00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:46,033
But there's a bad drive on 16.
442
00:38:46,241 --> 00:38:48,744
Your four are online,
the rest are tracking in...
443
00:38:48,911 --> 00:38:51,747
but there's a bad drive on 16.
Copy that?
444
00:38:52,998 --> 00:38:55,292
What do you want me to do
about the source queue?
445
00:38:55,459 --> 00:38:57,544
Look, forget about it,
and hold the queue.
446
00:38:57,711 --> 00:39:01,882
Go get ready to set the target frequency
to manual the second we're aligned.
447
00:39:02,090 --> 00:39:06,428
Do you copy? I want you to go
off-axis on 27 the second we're there.
448
00:39:06,678 --> 00:39:09,515
And leave the LO frequency where it is.
449
00:39:09,681 --> 00:39:12,976
Stay on it, Fish, don't let it get away.
If you lose it, scan the band.
450
00:39:13,143 --> 00:39:16,438
Run every frequency you can think of.
451
00:39:21,026 --> 00:39:22,736
How you doing?
452
00:39:26,949 --> 00:39:28,075
Talk to me, guys.
453
00:39:28,283 --> 00:39:32,120
Partially polarized set of moving pulses,
amplitude modulated.
454
00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:35,958
We're locked. Systems check out,
signal across the board. What's the frequency?
455
00:39:36,124 --> 00:39:39,169
4.46, 23 gigahertz.
456
00:39:40,546 --> 00:39:43,799
Hydrogen times pi. Told you.
457
00:39:43,966 --> 00:39:45,759
Strong sucker, too.
458
00:39:45,926 --> 00:39:48,462
I got it! I got it, I got it!
I'm patched in.
459
00:39:48,971 --> 00:39:50,639
All right, let me hear it.
460
00:39:55,686 --> 00:39:57,145
Listen to that.
461
00:39:59,398 --> 00:40:01,650
Make me a liar, Fish.
462
00:40:01,817 --> 00:40:04,486
It could be AWACS out of Kirtland
jamming us.
463
00:40:04,653 --> 00:40:06,029
But I'm doubting it.
464
00:40:06,196 --> 00:40:08,824
All right, let's see
if F.U.D.D.'s reading it too.
465
00:40:09,658 --> 00:40:12,995
Willie, patch it back
and give me the off-axis.
466
00:40:13,161 --> 00:40:14,830
- Are we recording?
- Never stopped.
467
00:40:16,915 --> 00:40:18,208
Thank you, Elmer.
468
00:40:18,417 --> 00:40:20,335
AWACS status is negative.
469
00:40:20,502 --> 00:40:23,338
- White Sands?
- On this frequency? No.
470
00:40:23,505 --> 00:40:25,007
I'm gonna punch up the darks.
471
00:40:28,176 --> 00:40:31,847
How's the spying tonight, guys?
Come on.
472
00:40:34,182 --> 00:40:36,685
NORAD's not tracking any snoops
in this vector.
473
00:40:36,852 --> 00:40:38,437
Shuttle Endeavor is in sleep mode.
474
00:40:38,604 --> 00:40:41,106
Okay, point source confirmed.
475
00:40:41,273 --> 00:40:43,859
- Whatever it is, it ain't local.
- Position?
476
00:40:44,026 --> 00:40:46,695
I checked interferometry.
Somewhere in Lyra, I think.
477
00:40:46,862 --> 00:40:48,363
- Vega?
- Can't be.
478
00:40:48,530 --> 00:40:50,782
It's only 26 light years away.
479
00:40:50,949 --> 00:40:53,910
- What's the peak intensity?
- Coming up.
480
00:40:54,077 --> 00:40:55,329
Vega.
481
00:40:55,495 --> 00:40:59,458
Vega. I scanned it a bunch of times at Arecibo.
It was negative results, always.
482
00:40:59,666 --> 00:41:03,045
Got it. Reading over 100 janskys.
483
00:41:03,211 --> 00:41:05,589
Jesus. I could pick it up on my...
484
00:41:08,717 --> 00:41:09,718
No.
485
00:41:43,043 --> 00:41:44,086
Come on.
486
00:41:46,421 --> 00:41:48,507
All right, it's restarting.
487
00:41:48,965 --> 00:41:50,717
Wait a minute. Those are numbers.
488
00:41:50,926 --> 00:41:54,012
That was a three,
the one before it was a two.
489
00:41:54,179 --> 00:41:57,599
Base-10 numbers. Just start counting now,
see how far can we get.
490
00:41:57,766 --> 00:41:59,393
One.
491
00:42:04,940 --> 00:42:06,024
- Seven.
- Seven.
492
00:42:08,860 --> 00:42:10,445
Those are primes.
493
00:42:10,612 --> 00:42:13,198
Two, three, five, seven,
those are all prime numbers.
494
00:42:13,365 --> 00:42:15,325
There's no way
that's a natural phenomenon.
495
00:42:15,492 --> 00:42:16,718
- Holy shit.
- Okay, okay.
496
00:42:16,785 --> 00:42:20,122
Let's just calm down
and pull up the star file on Vega.
497
00:42:20,664 --> 00:42:23,625
It doesn't make any sense.
The system is too young,
498
00:42:23,792 --> 00:42:25,794
so it can't have a planetary system,
499
00:42:25,961 --> 00:42:29,381
let alone life
or a technological civilization.
500
00:42:29,548 --> 00:42:32,134
Maybe they didn't grow up there.
Maybe they're visiting.
501
00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:35,637
Spacecraft? This system is full of debris.
It would get clobbered.
502
00:42:35,804 --> 00:42:39,975
Well, not if they used their laser blasters
and photon torpedoes.
503
00:42:40,142 --> 00:42:43,562
- That's not funny.
- How else are we gonna explain it?
504
00:42:43,729 --> 00:42:46,940
Willie's right. If we go public with this
and we're wrong, that's it.
505
00:42:47,107 --> 00:42:49,609
It's over. We're cooked.
506
00:42:50,610 --> 00:42:53,196
God, I wish Kent was here.
507
00:42:53,363 --> 00:42:57,451
Whatever the signal is, we better
do something soon. Vega's gonna set.
508
00:42:57,993 --> 00:43:04,583
Position confirmed.
We've got 4.4623 gigahertz, confirmed.
509
00:43:04,750 --> 00:43:07,669
We've got 112 janskys.
510
00:43:07,836 --> 00:43:10,297
All right, do you have
a source location yet?
511
00:43:12,841 --> 00:43:15,761
We put it right smack in the middle.
512
00:43:15,927 --> 00:43:17,512
Vega.
513
00:43:19,347 --> 00:43:22,350
Okay, thanks, Ian. Keep tracking
and we'll get back to you.
514
00:43:22,517 --> 00:43:24,186
Yeah, right-o.
515
00:43:34,362 --> 00:43:35,864
Okay, 101.
516
00:43:36,031 --> 00:43:40,786
The pulse sequenced through
every prime number between two and 101.
517
00:43:42,370 --> 00:43:44,372
Who are we gonna call now?
518
00:43:47,209 --> 00:43:48,293
Everybody.
519
00:43:56,051 --> 00:43:59,471
The rumors are flying,
the implications extraordinary.
520
00:43:59,638 --> 00:44:03,266
This morning's detection of an
unidentified radio source from deep space...
521
00:44:03,433 --> 00:44:06,061
can neither be confirmed nor denied.
522
00:44:06,228 --> 00:44:08,021
But the military presence arriving...
523
00:44:08,188 --> 00:44:12,067
Sources close to the VLA
report that the planet has been contacted
524
00:44:12,234 --> 00:44:14,194
by some form of intelligent being,
525
00:44:14,361 --> 00:44:17,864
living outside of our solar system.
Again, there is no confirmation
526
00:44:18,031 --> 00:44:21,952
that the official IAU communiqué
was sent from this government facility.
527
00:44:22,118 --> 00:44:24,830
I want all of these people out of here.
528
00:44:24,996 --> 00:44:26,790
Where's the girl?
529
00:44:30,961 --> 00:44:33,880
Twenty-two stations worldwide
now confirming the signal.
530
00:44:34,047 --> 00:44:35,841
Vega is currently below our horizon,
531
00:44:36,007 --> 00:44:38,468
so what you're hearing
is the signal from--
532
00:44:38,635 --> 00:44:42,430
Get decryption people in here now.
Lunacharsky is visiting at Cal Tech.
533
00:44:42,597 --> 00:44:44,057
Explain this to me.
534
00:44:44,266 --> 00:44:48,144
If the source of the signal is so sophisticated,
why the remedial math?
535
00:44:48,311 --> 00:44:50,105
Exactly, why don't they speak English?
536
00:44:50,272 --> 00:44:53,483
Maybe because 70 percent of the planet
speaks other languages.
537
00:44:53,650 --> 00:44:56,444
Mathematics is
the only truly universal language.
538
00:44:57,153 --> 00:44:59,739
It's no coincidence
that they're using primes.
539
00:44:59,948 --> 00:45:02,158
- I don't get it.
- Prime numbers.
540
00:45:02,325 --> 00:45:06,121
That would be integers that are
only divisible by themselves and one.
541
00:45:08,999 --> 00:45:12,627
We think this may be a beacon,
some kind of an announcement...
542
00:45:12,794 --> 00:45:13,920
to get our attention.
543
00:45:14,129 --> 00:45:17,799
If it's attention you want, you got that.
One thing: Vega.
544
00:45:18,008 --> 00:45:21,511
People have been looking at Vega for years
with no results.
545
00:45:21,678 --> 00:45:24,514
And now yesterday they start
broadcasting primes. Why?
546
00:45:24,681 --> 00:45:28,560
Well, it's hardly yesterday, because the
signal has been transmitting for 26 years.
547
00:45:28,727 --> 00:45:30,186
Dr. Arroway.
548
00:45:30,353 --> 00:45:34,566
- Excuse me, who are you?
- Michael Kitz, National Security Advisor.
549
00:45:34,733 --> 00:45:36,083
Let me first say that your repu--
550
00:45:36,192 --> 00:45:40,155
Actually, first, could you ask the
gentlemen with the firearms to wait outside?
551
00:45:40,322 --> 00:45:42,324
This is supposed to be a civilian facility.
552
00:45:48,788 --> 00:45:51,416
- Doctor, with all due respect to your--
- Excuse me.
553
00:45:51,791 --> 00:45:55,128
Hey, hey, hey.
Hi, I'm so glad you're back.
554
00:45:55,712 --> 00:45:58,924
Come on, I got something for you to hear.
Is this great?
555
00:45:59,090 --> 00:46:01,509
- Who are all these people?
- I have no idea.
556
00:46:01,718 --> 00:46:04,679
Sit down. And we could use some help
with the spectrum analysis.
557
00:46:04,846 --> 00:46:06,906
- Listen to that. I'll get on it.
- Headsets.
558
00:46:06,973 --> 00:46:09,059
So I'll just come right to the point,
shall I?
559
00:46:09,351 --> 00:46:13,355
Your having sent this all over the world
may constitute a breach of national security.
560
00:46:13,521 --> 00:46:15,190
This isn't a person-to-person call.
561
00:46:15,398 --> 00:46:19,903
You can't think that a civilization sending this
would intend it just for Americans.
562
00:46:20,070 --> 00:46:21,905
I'm saying you might have consulted us.
563
00:46:22,072 --> 00:46:25,867
- The contents could be extremely sensitive.
- You want to classify prime numbers?
564
00:46:26,034 --> 00:46:29,788
Mike, please. We're only in line with Vega
so many hours a day.
565
00:46:29,955 --> 00:46:34,417
The only way to monitor the signal
is to get the cooperation of other stations.
566
00:46:34,584 --> 00:46:38,964
If Dr. Arroway hadn't acted quickly,
we could have lost key elements.
567
00:46:39,130 --> 00:46:40,757
Okay, fine, they've got the primes.
568
00:46:40,924 --> 00:46:44,052
If you're right about there being
a more significant transmission...
569
00:46:44,219 --> 00:46:45,899
Which will need help
to receive and decode.
570
00:46:46,054 --> 00:46:48,014
Doctor, do you understand that my job
is to protect--
571
00:46:48,056 --> 00:46:49,849
- Shh!
- What?
572
00:46:50,016 --> 00:46:52,102
- Listen.
- I hear it.
573
00:46:52,268 --> 00:46:54,020
- Hear what?
- Harmonic.
574
00:46:54,187 --> 00:46:58,441
Bingo. I had Willie ask Rattan
to re-tune to 8.9247 gigahertz.
575
00:46:58,608 --> 00:47:00,110
There's a lot more here, folks.
576
00:47:00,276 --> 00:47:03,238
- Fish, let's get on the negative sideband.
- I'm already on it.
577
00:47:03,405 --> 00:47:05,090
- What is going on?
- Another signal.
578
00:47:05,156 --> 00:47:06,491
Another signal, look at that.
579
00:47:06,658 --> 00:47:09,786
A second signal at double the frequency.
It looks like a...
580
00:47:09,953 --> 00:47:11,329
Somebody get a TV monitor.
581
00:47:11,871 --> 00:47:13,957
Patch the recording
into the image processor.
582
00:47:14,124 --> 00:47:17,419
- You want the new data?
- Yeah, the new frequency we just recorded.
583
00:47:17,627 --> 00:47:19,546
David, explain this to me, please.
584
00:47:19,713 --> 00:47:22,841
With the prime there's another signal.
Looks like a TV transmission.
585
00:47:23,008 --> 00:47:24,175
We're hot.
586
00:47:24,342 --> 00:47:27,429
Do me a favor, go get the blinds.
There is a lot of glare.
587
00:47:27,595 --> 00:47:29,097
You're patched in.
588
00:47:29,264 --> 00:47:33,435
All right, it's definitely an image.
Let's try and stabilize it.
589
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:38,982
What do you make of that, Fish?
590
00:47:39,149 --> 00:47:42,569
It's two different interlaced frames.
I'm framing one.
591
00:47:45,947 --> 00:47:48,700
- It's just noise.
- Trying frame two.
592
00:47:49,451 --> 00:47:53,204
I've got an offset carrier here.
I think it's audio.
593
00:47:53,371 --> 00:47:54,622
Plug it in, plug it in.
594
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,253
Center that segment.
595
00:48:00,420 --> 00:48:01,963
Centering.
596
00:48:05,842 --> 00:48:09,003
- Can you clean it up any more than that?
- I'm working on it.
597
00:48:21,816 --> 00:48:23,151
What the hell...?
598
00:48:23,985 --> 00:48:25,153
Try zooming out.
599
00:48:29,032 --> 00:48:30,158
All right, freeze.
600
00:48:30,325 --> 00:48:31,659
Reverse values.
601
00:48:33,328 --> 00:48:35,455
Try zooming out again.
602
00:48:39,042 --> 00:48:41,169
Rotate 90 degrees counter-clock--
603
00:48:42,670 --> 00:48:44,631
My God.
604
00:48:49,677 --> 00:48:52,639
- Okay.
- What's going on?
605
00:48:52,806 --> 00:48:55,475
You're not gonna believe this.
606
00:49:08,905 --> 00:49:10,657
Does anybody speak German?
607
00:49:12,075 --> 00:49:14,494
"I declare the Games in Berlin...
608
00:49:15,578 --> 00:49:17,330
"at the celebration
609
00:49:17,539 --> 00:49:21,918
"of the first Olympics of the new era
as opened."
610
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:34,139
Get me the White House.
611
00:49:34,764 --> 00:49:37,475
Twenty million people died
defeating that son of a bitch,
612
00:49:37,642 --> 00:49:39,853
and he's our first ambassador
to outer space?
613
00:49:40,019 --> 00:49:42,455
- Actually, the Hitler broadc--
- The broadcast from the '36 Olympics
614
00:49:42,522 --> 00:49:45,525
was the first television transmission
that went into space.
615
00:49:45,692 --> 00:49:49,070
That they recorded it and sent it back
is saying, "Hello, we heard you."
616
00:49:49,237 --> 00:49:51,698
Or, "Sieg Heil, you're our kind of people."
617
00:49:51,906 --> 00:49:54,576
Wait. Hitler and his politics
have nothing to do with this.
618
00:49:54,742 --> 00:49:58,246
It's highly unlikely they would understand,
and people need to understand--
619
00:49:58,413 --> 00:50:00,582
The people are in very good hands,
Dr. Arroway.
620
00:50:00,748 --> 00:50:01,749
We'll take it from here.
621
00:50:01,916 --> 00:50:04,002
The White House has just released...
622
00:50:04,169 --> 00:50:05,253
Smile, folks. We're on.
623
00:50:05,420 --> 00:50:08,339
...a statement confirming a message
from deep space
624
00:50:08,506 --> 00:50:12,594
has been received by American scientists.
Claire Shipman is at the White House.
625
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,930
Donna, we've been told the president
will have only a few remarks
626
00:50:16,139 --> 00:50:17,599
about today's announcement,
627
00:50:17,765 --> 00:50:21,186
and that he won't be taking
any questions from the press.
628
00:50:26,149 --> 00:50:27,483
Good afternoon.
629
00:50:30,361 --> 00:50:34,574
I'm glad to be joined by my
science and technology advisor.
630
00:50:36,409 --> 00:50:39,245
This is the product
of years of exploration
631
00:50:39,454 --> 00:50:42,665
by some of the world's
most distinguished scientists.
632
00:50:42,874 --> 00:50:47,086
Like all discoveries, this one
will and should continue to be reviewed,
633
00:50:47,295 --> 00:50:50,048
examined and scrutinized.
634
00:50:50,256 --> 00:50:53,031
It must be confirmed by other scientists.
635
00:50:53,661 --> 00:50:54,943
But clearly,
636
00:50:55,090 --> 00:50:59,388
the fact that something of this magnitude
is being explored is another--
637
00:50:59,474 --> 00:51:03,353
Fish, what is the story over here?
I thought Ellie was supposed to be on.
638
00:51:03,561 --> 00:51:05,063
I don't know.
639
00:51:05,688 --> 00:51:08,450
Guys? Guys?
640
00:51:09,442 --> 00:51:12,278
You know those interlaced frames
that we thought were noise?
641
00:51:13,112 --> 00:51:15,782
This has structure. I'm hearing structure.
642
00:51:17,158 --> 00:51:19,410
If this discovery is confirmed,
643
00:51:19,619 --> 00:51:23,248
it will be one of the most stunning
insights into our universe
644
00:51:23,456 --> 00:51:25,500
that science has ever uncovered.
645
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:31,172
Its implications are as far-reaching
and awe-inspiring as can be imagined.
646
00:51:31,381 --> 00:51:34,842
Even as it promises answers
to some of our oldest questions,
647
00:51:35,051 --> 00:51:38,471
it poses still others,
even more fundamental.
648
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:42,308
We will continue to listen closely
to what it has to say,
649
00:51:42,517 --> 00:51:46,062
as we continue the search for answers,
and for knowledge
650
00:51:46,271 --> 00:51:51,943
that is as old as humanity itself,
but essential to our people's future.
651
00:51:52,277 --> 00:51:53,736
- Thank you.
- Sir...
652
00:51:53,903 --> 00:51:56,030
Is there a considerable
global security threat?
653
00:51:56,197 --> 00:51:59,325
I'll answer your questions at the end,
but first a few corrections.
654
00:51:59,492 --> 00:52:03,496
The message was received Friday morning,
6:31 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.
655
00:52:03,705 --> 00:52:08,293
It was largely mathematical, and, in spite of
reports you may have seen to the contrary,
656
00:52:08,459 --> 00:52:11,004
appears to be
completely benign in nature.
657
00:52:11,212 --> 00:52:14,966
Let me say that again.
The message is completely benign.
658
00:52:15,133 --> 00:52:18,636
The president has been in touch
with heads of state from around the world,
659
00:52:18,803 --> 00:52:21,556
and every possible security measure
is being taken.
660
00:52:21,723 --> 00:52:24,767
To better explain to you
the events of the last 48 hours,
661
00:52:24,976 --> 00:52:29,397
I'm turning you over to the leader of the team
that made this remarkable discovery,
662
00:52:29,564 --> 00:52:33,735
Dr. David Drumlin,
special science advisor to the president.
663
00:52:41,659 --> 00:52:44,495
Thank you, Rachel. Hello.
664
00:52:46,414 --> 00:52:48,875
In 1936,
a very faint television signal
665
00:52:49,083 --> 00:52:52,170
transmitted the opening ceremonies
of the Olympic Games
666
00:52:52,337 --> 00:52:56,007
as a show of
German superior technology.
667
00:52:57,091 --> 00:52:59,177
That signal left Earth
at the speed of light,
668
00:53:01,512 --> 00:53:05,350
and 26 years later arrived in the vicinity
of the star we call Vega.
669
00:53:06,267 --> 00:53:10,104
That signal has been sent back to us
hugely amplified,
670
00:53:10,271 --> 00:53:12,940
an unmistakable sign of intelligence.
671
00:53:13,107 --> 00:53:14,609
You're online, Kent, go ahead.
672
00:53:14,776 --> 00:53:18,988
The Adolf transmission used
25 frames per second, but we're receiving 50.
673
00:53:19,155 --> 00:53:23,117
So we canned the other 25
through a series of search algorithms.
674
00:53:23,284 --> 00:53:25,828
We found a series of markers
on the top of each frame.
675
00:53:25,995 --> 00:53:27,705
- Are you ready?
- Yeah, go ahead.
676
00:53:27,872 --> 00:53:31,125
- Send it, Willie.
- Okay, here it comes.
677
00:53:34,379 --> 00:53:35,713
It's digital,
678
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:40,134
massive amounts of data
which extend right to the higher harmonics.
679
00:53:40,802 --> 00:53:42,553
Jackpot.
680
00:53:43,471 --> 00:53:45,390
All right, as you'll see...
681
00:53:45,556 --> 00:53:48,851
interlaced with the frames
of the original Hitler image
682
00:53:49,018 --> 00:53:51,979
we found these sections.
683
00:53:52,146 --> 00:53:55,650
Now, we thought they were just noise,
but they're actually data,
684
00:53:55,817 --> 00:53:57,110
huge amounts of it.
685
00:53:57,276 --> 00:54:01,823
When we combine this with the data from
the amplification of the original signal,
686
00:54:01,989 --> 00:54:05,284
we get these encrypted pages of text.
687
00:54:05,493 --> 00:54:09,743
Now, no two are alike,
and we've uncovered over 10,000 already.
688
00:54:09,831 --> 00:54:12,250
What does it mean, doctor?
689
00:54:12,417 --> 00:54:14,752
Well, we have no idea.
It could be anything.
690
00:54:14,919 --> 00:54:17,630
It could be the first volume
of an Encyclopedia Galactica.
691
00:54:17,797 --> 00:54:20,716
Instructions to acquaint us
with their colonization procedures.
692
00:54:20,883 --> 00:54:22,844
Moses with a few billion
new commandments.
693
00:54:23,010 --> 00:54:25,304
How long will it take to decode it?
694
00:54:25,513 --> 00:54:28,850
It could take forever.
We really need a primer--
695
00:54:29,016 --> 00:54:32,103
We need to get
the best decryption people we have.
696
00:54:32,603 --> 00:54:36,858
I intend to use the VLA
as my command post.
697
00:54:37,024 --> 00:54:40,445
In the meantime, my office
has made out a preliminary budget.
698
00:54:40,611 --> 00:54:44,574
Wait a minute.
This is a privately-funded operation.
699
00:54:44,782 --> 00:54:47,076
We're only leasing dish time
from the government...
700
00:54:47,285 --> 00:54:50,371
If there's a more clear case
of eminent domain, I've never seen it.
701
00:54:50,538 --> 00:54:53,124
I'm going to recommend
we militarize this project.
702
00:54:53,291 --> 00:54:55,668
What? This is my project.
703
00:54:55,835 --> 00:54:59,213
Nobody knows more about these scenarios
than I do. David, tell them--
704
00:54:59,380 --> 00:55:02,758
Excuse me, could we calm down here?
705
00:55:02,967 --> 00:55:07,638
Now, I'm going to recommend that
Dr. Drumlin coordinate the decryption effort.
706
00:55:07,805 --> 00:55:11,184
However, in light of Dr. Arroway's
long experience in these matters,
707
00:55:11,350 --> 00:55:15,563
for the time being, she will continue
to direct operations at the VLA,
708
00:55:15,730 --> 00:55:20,401
understanding that future discoveries
will be kept in strictest confidence,
709
00:55:20,568 --> 00:55:22,487
until such time as the president
710
00:55:22,653 --> 00:55:26,657
can decide the most suitable
course of action. Understood?
711
00:55:26,824 --> 00:55:28,034
Yes.
712
00:55:28,326 --> 00:55:30,953
This is CNN Breaking News.
713
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,081
The president made a statement,
calling the message from Vega
714
00:55:34,290 --> 00:55:36,417
one of the most stunning insights
into our--
715
00:55:36,626 --> 00:55:41,631
Attendance at religious services has risen
a dramatic 39 percent in recent days.
716
00:55:41,797 --> 00:55:45,635
...as police in three German divisions
clashed with neo-Nazi protesters.
717
00:55:45,801 --> 00:55:47,929
So it turns out
there's life on other planets.
718
00:55:48,137 --> 00:55:51,766
Boy, this is really gonna change
the Miss Universe contest.
719
00:55:52,433 --> 00:55:56,771
Health officials from around the world
are concerned that the message from Vega
720
00:55:56,938 --> 00:55:59,565
might trigger a rash of mass suicides,
721
00:55:59,774 --> 00:56:02,401
not unlike the recent cult deaths
near San Diego--
722
00:56:02,610 --> 00:56:04,570
Even a scientist has to admit
723
00:56:04,779 --> 00:56:09,283
that there are some pretty serious
religious overtones to all this.
724
00:56:09,450 --> 00:56:11,619
Let's hear from someone
whose organization
725
00:56:11,727 --> 00:56:14,372
has been accused of conducting
its own inquisition:
726
00:56:14,539 --> 00:56:17,166
Richard Rank,
head of the Conservative coalition.
727
00:56:17,333 --> 00:56:18,417
Thank you.
728
00:56:18,584 --> 00:56:22,964
This is yet another example of science
intruding into matters of faith.
729
00:56:24,006 --> 00:56:27,301
This means they
have been reacting to TV signals
730
00:56:27,510 --> 00:56:30,429
they got from the 1930s.
They're just getting them.
731
00:56:30,638 --> 00:56:34,308
Imagine how disappointed
they're gonna be if they're Cubs fans.
732
00:56:34,475 --> 00:56:37,645
We now take you to Jeremy Roth,
who is reporting on events
733
00:56:37,853 --> 00:56:41,315
at the Very Large Array
near Socorro, New Mexico.
734
00:56:41,524 --> 00:56:43,359
Like a bolt from the blue it came.
735
00:56:43,526 --> 00:56:47,697
The message from Vega has caused
thousands of believers and non-believers
736
00:56:47,863 --> 00:56:51,784
to descend upon the VLA facility
here in the desert of New Mexico.
737
00:56:51,993 --> 00:56:54,495
Many have come to protest,
many to pray,
738
00:56:54,662 --> 00:56:59,500
but most have come to participate
in what has become the best show in town.
739
00:57:59,518 --> 00:58:05,399
That's right. I'll be there in Vega,
thank you very much.
740
00:58:08,402 --> 00:58:11,322
♪ Hail to Vega ♪
♪ Hail to Vega, Hail to Vega ♪
741
00:58:11,489 --> 00:58:14,742
♪ Hail to Vega ♪
742
00:58:16,077 --> 00:58:17,745
But they have failed!
743
00:58:18,329 --> 00:58:20,873
It's the same people who,
again and again,
744
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:23,459
have brought us
to the brink of destruction.
745
00:58:23,668 --> 00:58:27,713
Who've polluted our air,
who've poisoned our water.
746
00:58:28,923 --> 00:58:30,925
Now these scientists...
747
00:58:31,926 --> 00:58:33,761
have had their chance.
748
00:58:33,928 --> 00:58:37,348
Are these the kind of people
749
00:58:37,515 --> 00:58:40,643
that you want
talking to your God for you?
750
00:58:45,106 --> 00:58:47,191
Efforts continue around the clock.
751
00:58:47,525 --> 00:58:51,112
But for now, almost 2 full weeks
after the message's arrival,
752
00:58:51,278 --> 00:58:54,448
scientists here at the VLA
still have no answers,
753
00:58:54,615 --> 00:58:56,367
only more questions.
754
00:58:56,534 --> 00:59:00,246
Jeremy Roth, CNN,
Soccorro, New Mexico.
755
00:59:00,413 --> 00:59:03,749
More on the quest
for the message's meaning, after this.
756
00:59:06,585 --> 00:59:08,337
They gotta line up somehow.
757
00:59:08,504 --> 00:59:10,464
Yeah, well, this one doesn't fit, either.
758
00:59:10,631 --> 00:59:13,300
We've tried over a million permutations.
759
00:59:13,467 --> 00:59:16,971
Always, I can only get
three corners to fit.
760
00:59:17,972 --> 00:59:20,099
I don't understand their significance.
761
01:00:01,974 --> 01:00:04,685
What...? Somebody broke in...
762
01:00:11,025 --> 01:00:12,193
Hello?
763
01:00:13,110 --> 01:00:16,530
Hey, listen, I don't know who you are,
but you broke into the database--
764
01:00:19,366 --> 01:00:21,076
What? Now?
765
01:00:23,537 --> 01:00:24,705
Where?
766
01:00:37,718 --> 01:00:39,136
I'll be there.
767
01:01:06,747 --> 01:01:08,082
You should feel fortunate.
768
01:01:08,833 --> 01:01:10,334
He hardly lands for anyone.
769
01:01:41,907 --> 01:01:43,868
Dr. Arroway...
770
01:01:47,788 --> 01:01:49,123
I presume?
771
01:01:50,416 --> 01:01:51,542
Mr. Hadden.
772
01:01:52,835 --> 01:01:56,088
I've had my eye on you
a long time, doctor.
773
01:01:56,881 --> 01:02:00,384
I consider you one of my
most valuable long-term investments.
774
01:02:02,261 --> 01:02:04,638
And when it comes to my investments...
775
01:02:06,432 --> 01:02:09,101
I always do my homework.
776
01:02:13,814 --> 01:02:15,566
Eleanor Ann Arroway,
777
01:02:15,774 --> 01:02:18,277
born 25th August, 1964,
778
01:02:18,485 --> 01:02:20,070
De Pere, Wisconsin.
779
01:02:20,279 --> 01:02:24,491
Mother, Joanna,
died from complications during childbirth.
780
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:27,912
Early testing indicated
high predisposition
781
01:02:28,078 --> 01:02:31,165
towards science and mathematics.
782
01:02:31,832 --> 01:02:33,000
Father, Theodore,
783
01:02:33,167 --> 01:02:36,712
advised to provide
enrichment activities along these lines,
784
01:02:36,921 --> 01:02:39,673
did so conscientiously
until his death
785
01:02:39,840 --> 01:02:44,511
from myocardial infarction,
November 10, 1974.
786
01:02:45,095 --> 01:02:48,349
You graduated from
high school in 1979,
787
01:02:48,515 --> 01:02:50,643
almost two full years early.
788
01:02:52,061 --> 01:02:56,440
Awarded full scholarship, M.I.T,
graduated magna cum laude.
789
01:02:57,399 --> 01:02:59,109
Doctoral work, Cal Tech,
790
01:02:59,318 --> 01:03:02,655
where you did breakthrough work
on the lanthanide-doped ruby maser,
791
01:03:02,821 --> 01:03:06,951
dramatically increasing
the sensitivity of radio telescopes.
792
01:03:07,284 --> 01:03:11,144
Subsequently offered a teaching position
at Harvard University,
793
01:03:11,205 --> 01:03:14,291
which you turned down
to pursue SETI work
794
01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:17,920
at the Arecibo Observatory
in Puerto Rico.
795
01:03:20,339 --> 01:03:26,595
Changes in NSF policy
gave rise to certain funding problems,
796
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:31,684
at which point
you came to my attention.
797
01:03:33,018 --> 01:03:35,229
You compromised our security codes.
798
01:03:37,690 --> 01:03:39,525
Once upon a time...
799
01:03:41,527 --> 01:03:43,779
I was a hell of an engineer.
800
01:03:43,946 --> 01:03:46,365
Please, sit, doctor.
801
01:03:46,532 --> 01:03:51,662
I have guests so rarely, it's important to me
that they feel welcome in my home.
802
01:03:52,246 --> 01:03:53,998
You live here?
803
01:03:55,207 --> 01:03:58,544
I find it convenient
to keep my interests...
804
01:03:59,712 --> 01:04:00,838
mobile.
805
01:04:03,424 --> 01:04:08,345
Anyway, I've had my fill
of life on the ground.
806
01:04:08,846 --> 01:04:10,973
Well, I... I guess I should...
807
01:04:11,432 --> 01:04:15,327
Well, I guess I should thank you for
having bailed me out all that time.
808
01:04:20,566 --> 01:04:22,693
I know a good bet when I see one.
809
01:04:25,070 --> 01:04:28,282
Earl Grey. No sugar, no milk, I believe.
810
01:04:31,243 --> 01:04:33,078
What am I doing here?
811
01:04:43,422 --> 01:04:46,550
The powers that be
have been very busy lately,
812
01:04:47,384 --> 01:04:52,723
falling over each other to position
themselves for the game of the millennium.
813
01:04:58,979 --> 01:05:01,774
Maybe I can help deal you back in.
814
01:05:03,025 --> 01:05:05,444
I didn't realize that I was out.
815
01:05:05,944 --> 01:05:08,238
No, maybe not out...
816
01:05:08,947 --> 01:05:11,241
but certainly being handed your hat.
817
01:05:16,663 --> 01:05:20,334
I've had a long time
to make enemies, doctor.
818
01:05:23,921 --> 01:05:27,758
And there are many governments,
business interests,
819
01:05:27,925 --> 01:05:31,929
even religious leaders that
would like to see me depart this earth.
820
01:05:33,388 --> 01:05:35,933
And I'll grant them their wish
soon enough.
821
01:05:36,475 --> 01:05:40,020
But before I do,
I wish to make a small contribution.
822
01:05:40,771 --> 01:05:45,359
A final gesture of goodwill to the
people of this little planet that have given...
823
01:05:48,153 --> 01:05:50,948
From whom I have taken so much.
824
01:05:54,409 --> 01:05:55,869
You found the primer.
825
01:05:58,288 --> 01:06:00,165
Clever girl.
826
01:06:00,332 --> 01:06:01,375
Lights.
827
01:06:09,967 --> 01:06:13,137
Pages and pages of data.
828
01:06:13,303 --> 01:06:16,431
Over 63,000 in all.
829
01:06:16,598 --> 01:06:18,684
And on the perimeter of each...
830
01:06:18,851 --> 01:06:22,479
Alignment symbols, a registration mark,
but they don't line up.
831
01:06:23,063 --> 01:06:26,233
They do, if you think like a Vegan.
832
01:06:27,151 --> 01:06:30,154
An alien intelligence
has got be more advanced,
833
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:34,408
and that means efficiency
functioning on multiple levels,
834
01:06:34,575 --> 01:06:38,412
and in multiple dimensions.
835
01:06:42,374 --> 01:06:44,793
Yes, of course!
836
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:46,003
Where's the primer?
837
01:06:46,503 --> 01:06:47,921
You'll see.
838
01:06:48,422 --> 01:06:52,885
Every three-dimensional page
contains a piece of the primer.
839
01:06:55,053 --> 01:06:58,557
There it was all the time,
staring you in the face.
840
01:06:59,641 --> 01:07:03,562
Buried within the message itself
is the key to decoding it.
841
01:07:03,729 --> 01:07:06,982
Within the layering of the matrix,
we have these basic equations:
842
01:07:08,942 --> 01:07:12,988
So, with this very elementary foundation,
they have given us a kind of
843
01:07:13,155 --> 01:07:15,741
general scientific vocabulary.
844
01:07:15,949 --> 01:07:18,243
We now have the symbols
for "true" and "false"--
845
01:07:18,452 --> 01:07:19,745
This was the key
846
01:07:19,912 --> 01:07:22,414
that allowed us
to decipher their language
847
01:07:22,623 --> 01:07:26,293
for physics, geometry, chemistry.
Next frame, Ellie.
848
01:07:27,502 --> 01:07:31,465
Yes, and when we apply this
to the rest of the message...
849
01:07:32,216 --> 01:07:33,300
we find this.
850
01:07:37,888 --> 01:07:40,807
Those look like engineering schematics,
almost like blueprints.
851
01:07:40,974 --> 01:07:42,601
Yeah.
852
01:07:42,768 --> 01:07:43,852
Yes.
853
01:07:44,019 --> 01:07:47,314
It is our belief that
the message contains instructions
854
01:07:47,522 --> 01:07:50,984
for building something,
some kind of machine.
855
01:07:51,151 --> 01:07:54,279
A machine? That does what, doctor?
856
01:07:54,446 --> 01:07:56,657
We don't know.
It might be some type...
857
01:07:57,616 --> 01:08:03,063
of advanced communication device.
Or a teaching machine of some kind. Or...
858
01:08:03,764 --> 01:08:07,059
it might turn out to be
some kind of a transport.
859
01:08:07,376 --> 01:08:09,836
- Transport?
- There's no proof of that.
860
01:08:10,003 --> 01:08:13,840
The fact is, you don't know what it does.
It could be anything.
861
01:08:14,007 --> 01:08:17,344
Could be a Trojan horse. We build it,
and out pours the entire Vegan army.
862
01:08:17,511 --> 01:08:20,180
Why bother risking the personnel?
It could be a weapon.
863
01:08:20,389 --> 01:08:22,683
Right. Some kind of a doomsday machine.
864
01:08:22,849 --> 01:08:25,352
Exactly. Every time they detect
a new civilization,
865
01:08:25,519 --> 01:08:27,980
they fax these construction documents
from space.
866
01:08:28,146 --> 01:08:31,775
We poor saps build whatever this is,
and blow ourselves to kingdom come.
867
01:08:31,942 --> 01:08:34,861
There's no reason to believe
that their intentions are hostile.
868
01:08:35,028 --> 01:08:39,366
Why is the default position of the egghead set
that aliens would always be benign?
869
01:08:39,533 --> 01:08:41,994
- Why is that, doctor?
- We pose no threat to them.
870
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:46,581
It would be like us going out of our way
to destroy microbes on an anthill in Africa.
871
01:08:46,748 --> 01:08:48,333
That's an interesting analogy.
872
01:08:48,750 --> 01:08:52,921
And how guilty would we feel if we
destroyed a few microbes on an anthill?
873
01:08:53,088 --> 01:08:55,465
I hope you're right, doctor. I really do.
874
01:08:55,632 --> 01:08:59,094
But right now my job is to protect
American lives from any threat.
875
01:08:59,261 --> 01:09:01,596
In that regard, I am obligated
to assume the worst.
876
01:09:01,847 --> 01:09:03,932
Well, yes, and I am forced
to agree with you.
877
01:09:04,099 --> 01:09:05,517
My problem is this:
878
01:09:06,143 --> 01:09:09,354
The content of that message
is morally ambiguous at best.
879
01:09:10,022 --> 01:09:13,567
Now, our internal numbers show
support for this is incredibly soft.
880
01:09:13,734 --> 01:09:16,403
If the president wishes
to stay this course,
881
01:09:16,570 --> 01:09:19,339
you're gonna find his numbers
going south like a duck in the winter.
882
01:09:19,406 --> 01:09:21,825
- This is nuts.
- Excuse me,
883
01:09:21,992 --> 01:09:23,410
miss.
884
01:09:23,577 --> 01:09:25,954
We know nothing
of these creatures' values.
885
01:09:26,121 --> 01:09:28,915
The fact is, we don't even know
whether they believe in God.
886
01:09:29,082 --> 01:09:32,836
- This doesn't make any sense. If you--
- Excuse me, Dr. Arroway.
887
01:09:33,045 --> 01:09:35,505
We won't be suppressing
any opinions here today.
888
01:09:36,381 --> 01:09:39,092
No, of course not. I understand.
889
01:09:39,509 --> 01:09:41,428
What I meant to say...
890
01:09:41,595 --> 01:09:45,057
is the message was written
in the language of science.
891
01:09:45,223 --> 01:09:48,602
Now, if it had been religious in nature,
it should have taken the form
892
01:09:48,769 --> 01:09:51,549
of a burning bush
or a booming voice from the sky.
893
01:09:51,605 --> 01:09:53,690
But a voice from the sky...
894
01:09:54,775 --> 01:09:57,611
is exactly what you found,
Doctor Arroway.
895
01:10:00,989 --> 01:10:02,949
I'm sorry I'm late, ma'am.
896
01:10:03,116 --> 01:10:08,330
Now, I agree with Mr. Rank
that there are unavoidable
897
01:10:08,538 --> 01:10:10,707
religious implications at stake here.
898
01:10:10,874 --> 01:10:13,293
But that doesn't justify
taking an alarmist position.
899
01:10:15,337 --> 01:10:18,090
My hope here is that we can find
a common ground,
900
01:10:18,256 --> 01:10:20,967
break through any obstacles
that may have kept us apart.
901
01:10:21,134 --> 01:10:24,554
- Well, perhaps--
- Listen, I need to make one thing very clear.
902
01:10:24,763 --> 01:10:29,393
Our organization will not be placated
with flowery New Age rhetoric...
903
01:10:30,394 --> 01:10:31,895
Mr. President.
904
01:10:33,355 --> 01:10:35,649
The President met
with his top advisors today,
905
01:10:35,816 --> 01:10:39,236
regarding the latest efforts
to decode the message.
906
01:10:39,403 --> 01:10:44,074
While there has been some progress,
the official line remains a cautious one.
907
01:10:44,241 --> 01:10:48,870
If you're asking when we'll find out
what the purpose of that machine is...
908
01:10:49,871 --> 01:10:52,582
maybe tomorrow,
maybe next year, maybe never.
909
01:10:57,003 --> 01:11:01,591
There he is. The man with his finger
on the spiritual pulse of the nation.
910
01:11:02,968 --> 01:11:06,388
- It's so good to see you, Ellie.
- You, too.
911
01:11:07,639 --> 01:11:11,601
Your discovery, all of this.
It must be a real vindication.
912
01:11:12,269 --> 01:11:13,937
I'm really happy for you.
913
01:11:14,563 --> 01:11:18,525
- Are you?
- Mr. Joss, the president is waiting.
914
01:11:19,901 --> 01:11:23,029
- Okay. Yeah.
- The president is waiting.
915
01:11:26,950 --> 01:11:30,829
- Ellie, see you at the reception tonight?
- Yeah, I wouldn't miss it.
916
01:11:30,996 --> 01:11:32,873
All right, great.
917
01:11:42,883 --> 01:11:45,218
Excuse me, Miss Constantine,
may I speak to you?
918
01:11:45,385 --> 01:11:46,803
Certainly.
919
01:11:48,555 --> 01:11:50,765
- I have a big problem.
- Yes?
920
01:11:52,601 --> 01:11:55,395
Do you know where I can find, like,
a really great dress?
921
01:12:12,078 --> 01:12:18,919
God created man in the form of himself,
not in the form of monkeys!
922
01:12:20,253 --> 01:12:22,422
- The Lord is God!
- Praise God.
923
01:12:22,589 --> 01:12:26,801
- Praise the Lord!
- You're wasting my tax dollars!
924
01:12:27,594 --> 01:12:31,223
Get a job.
Don't waste my tax dollars.
925
01:12:31,389 --> 01:12:33,141
You hear me?
926
01:12:52,118 --> 01:12:53,912
Wow.
927
01:12:56,456 --> 01:12:58,124
You look beautiful, Ellie.
928
01:12:59,793 --> 01:13:02,128
- So do you.
- You really do.
929
01:13:05,799 --> 01:13:07,259
I read your book.
930
01:13:08,218 --> 01:13:09,719
Here we go.
931
01:13:09,886 --> 01:13:11,972
Would you like me to quote you?
932
01:13:12,180 --> 01:13:13,316
"Ironically,
933
01:13:13,804 --> 01:13:17,180
"the thing that people are
most hungry for — meaning —
934
01:13:17,350 --> 01:13:20,687
"is the one thing that science
hasn't been able to give them."
935
01:13:20,814 --> 01:13:23,692
Yeah. Yeah.
936
01:13:24,317 --> 01:13:29,114
Come on. It's like you're saying
that science killed God.
937
01:13:29,281 --> 01:13:32,492
What if science simply revealed
938
01:13:32,659 --> 01:13:35,161
that he never existed
in the first place?
939
01:13:38,498 --> 01:13:41,668
- I think we're gonna need to get some air.
- What?
940
01:13:41,835 --> 01:13:43,670
And a few more of these.
941
01:13:45,088 --> 01:13:47,340
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
942
01:13:48,341 --> 01:13:51,511
- A little chilly out here.
- Yeah, this is nice.
943
01:13:51,678 --> 01:13:53,154
- I got one for you.
- What?
944
01:13:53,221 --> 01:13:54,973
Occam's razor. Ever heard of it?
945
01:13:55,181 --> 01:13:57,851
Hoccam's razor.
Sounds like some slasher movie.
946
01:13:58,018 --> 01:14:01,605
No, Occam's Razor.
It's a basic scientific principle. It says,
947
01:14:01,771 --> 01:14:05,358
"All things being equal, the simplest explanation
tends to be the right one."
948
01:14:05,525 --> 01:14:07,152
- Makes sense to me.
- All right.
949
01:14:07,319 --> 01:14:10,113
- So, what's more likely? Thank you.
- You're welcome.
950
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:12,907
An all-powerful, mysterious God
created the universe,
951
01:14:13,116 --> 01:14:15,952
and then decided not to give
any proof of his existence?
952
01:14:16,119 --> 01:14:19,199
Or that he simply doesn't exist at all,
953
01:14:19,529 --> 01:14:21,057
and that we created him
954
01:14:21,124 --> 01:14:23,627
so we wouldn't have to feel
so small and alone.
955
01:14:24,544 --> 01:14:25,795
I don't know.
956
01:14:25,962 --> 01:14:29,966
I couldn't imagine living in a world
where God didn't exist.
957
01:14:30,634 --> 01:14:32,302
I wouldn't want to.
958
01:14:32,969 --> 01:14:35,388
How do you know that
you're not deluding yourself?
959
01:14:36,056 --> 01:14:39,309
I mean, for me, I'd need proof.
960
01:14:40,143 --> 01:14:41,645
Proof?
961
01:14:44,522 --> 01:14:47,025
- Did you love your father?
- What?
962
01:14:47,192 --> 01:14:48,985
Your dad, did you love him?
963
01:14:49,986 --> 01:14:52,822
Yes. Very much.
964
01:14:55,659 --> 01:14:57,202
Prove it.
965
01:15:03,708 --> 01:15:04,751
Kent.
966
01:15:06,086 --> 01:15:09,089
- The White House.
- Mr. Joss.
967
01:15:10,256 --> 01:15:13,218
I don't want excuses.
Whoever is responsible, I want their head.
968
01:15:13,385 --> 01:15:16,346
- Ellie?
- What happened?
969
01:15:16,513 --> 01:15:17,931
You were right all along.
970
01:15:18,098 --> 01:15:21,226
The decryption team at the VLA
has been working around the clock,
971
01:15:21,393 --> 01:15:24,104
and the hard work has finally paid off.
972
01:15:24,270 --> 01:15:28,233
This key section, uncovered tonight,
and obtained exclusively by CNN,
973
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:31,027
shows an illustration
of what is of a human figure
974
01:15:31,194 --> 01:15:34,030
inside a geometric structure
of some kind.
975
01:15:34,197 --> 01:15:36,032
This and other contextual clues
976
01:15:36,199 --> 01:15:39,285
now lead scientists to believe
that the message is, in fact...
977
01:15:39,452 --> 01:15:42,997
- President called an emergency meeting.
- Yeah, I imagine he would.
978
01:15:43,164 --> 01:15:46,292
...designed to take
a single human occupant into space,
979
01:15:46,459 --> 01:15:49,129
presumably to the star Vega.
980
01:16:07,647 --> 01:16:09,607
I'm gonna miss
my mother's birthday party.
981
01:16:09,774 --> 01:16:12,652
Call her in the morning,
tell her why you didn't show up.
982
01:16:12,819 --> 01:16:14,320
Tell me.
983
01:16:14,487 --> 01:16:15,613
They're gonna build it.
984
01:16:15,780 --> 01:16:16,823
Who gets to go?
985
01:16:16,990 --> 01:16:20,326
The president's just gone international
to spread the risk and cost...
986
01:16:20,493 --> 01:16:22,036
Who gets to go, though?
987
01:16:22,203 --> 01:16:23,830
Well, it's complicated, Ellie.
988
01:16:24,748 --> 01:16:25,790
What?
989
01:16:25,957 --> 01:16:28,793
They have formed
a group of international candidates.
990
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:31,004
Now, it's your discovery.
991
01:16:31,421 --> 01:16:35,300
Okay, they understand that.
You're at the top of a very short list.
992
01:16:35,467 --> 01:16:38,011
But they're also putting together
a selection committee.
993
01:16:38,178 --> 01:16:42,348
It's made of scholars, theologians,
scientists, philosophers...
994
01:16:42,515 --> 01:16:43,516
You're on it.
995
01:16:44,726 --> 01:16:46,019
I've been asked, yes.
996
01:16:48,980 --> 01:16:50,648
I guess that means...
997
01:16:51,232 --> 01:16:53,985
that you're a selector,
I'm a selectee and we can't...
998
01:16:54,152 --> 01:16:55,487
Yeah.
999
01:16:55,653 --> 01:16:58,072
What you don't understand, Ellie, is...
1000
01:16:58,239 --> 01:17:00,366
- I understand.
- Ellie...
1001
01:17:00,992 --> 01:17:05,330
I want you to know, whatever happens,
as far as I'm concerned...
1002
01:17:05,914 --> 01:17:07,415
Well...
1003
01:17:08,583 --> 01:17:10,168
good luck.
1004
01:17:14,172 --> 01:17:17,634
Well, whatever you do, make sure
he doesn't monopolize the committee.
1005
01:17:17,801 --> 01:17:19,886
He is not on the committee, Ellie.
1006
01:17:21,638 --> 01:17:23,056
What?
1007
01:17:23,848 --> 01:17:26,893
He just resigned as science advisor.
He wants to be the one to go.
1008
01:17:29,103 --> 01:17:32,398
The president is already
beginning to feel the financial pinch.
1009
01:17:32,690 --> 01:17:34,776
Sources say the cost of the project
1010
01:17:34,943 --> 01:17:38,571
is spiraling to
more than a third of a trillion dollars,
1011
01:17:38,738 --> 01:17:42,325
making this what may be
the most expensive single project
1012
01:17:42,534 --> 01:17:44,410
in all of human history.
1013
01:17:44,619 --> 01:17:47,956
Meanwhile, months of debate
finally reached a conclusion last week,
1014
01:17:48,122 --> 01:17:51,251
as 10 candidates
were selected by the IMC,
1015
01:17:51,417 --> 01:17:55,380
representing a cross section of
political, philosophical and religious views.
1016
01:17:55,588 --> 01:17:58,466
Many of these are the same experts
who have been consulting
1017
01:17:58,633 --> 01:18:00,677
on the Machine's design and function.
1018
01:18:00,885 --> 01:18:05,098
They will be actively participating on-site
during the construction process.
1019
01:18:05,265 --> 01:18:08,601
But the choice of these 10 candidates
has not been without controversy.
1020
01:18:08,768 --> 01:18:11,604
Fully one-third of the candidates
are American.
1021
01:18:11,771 --> 01:18:14,524
Many international observers
are asking why.
1022
01:18:14,691 --> 01:18:17,819
The U.S. is shouldering an
enormous percentage of the financial--
1023
01:18:18,027 --> 01:18:20,989
Isn't it true that the contractors,
like Hadden Industries,
1024
01:18:21,197 --> 01:18:24,534
are making those contributions
in exchange for technology rights?
1025
01:18:24,742 --> 01:18:28,246
Different nations are being compensated
in different ways. For example,
1026
01:18:28,413 --> 01:18:32,959
Japan made headlines when it announced
it would forego candidate representation
1027
01:18:33,126 --> 01:18:36,337
in exchange for the
systems integration subcontract.
1028
01:18:36,504 --> 01:18:41,467
On what basis do you choose a human being
to represent humanity?
1029
01:18:41,676 --> 01:18:42,886
Good question, Larry.
1030
01:18:43,052 --> 01:18:45,013
Yes, well, if nothing else,
1031
01:18:45,179 --> 01:18:49,283
it should be somebody who is fluent in
the language the message was given in.
1032
01:18:49,350 --> 01:18:50,760
Science, in this case.
1033
01:18:51,185 --> 01:18:53,605
Doctor Arroway,
despite your obvious enthusiasm,
1034
01:18:53,813 --> 01:18:56,024
there's been a lot of criticism of late,
1035
01:18:56,274 --> 01:18:58,776
that this whole endeavor
is simply too dangerous.
1036
01:18:58,943 --> 01:19:01,529
Some of that criticism from scientists.
1037
01:19:01,738 --> 01:19:04,532
One Nobel Prize winner recently noted,
his words:
1038
01:19:05,325 --> 01:19:07,035
"There is every indication
1039
01:19:07,243 --> 01:19:11,039
"that this is simply beyond our capabilities,
that this endeavor will fail,
1040
01:19:11,247 --> 01:19:14,876
"and that the Machine's occupant
will pay for that failure with their life."
1041
01:19:15,043 --> 01:19:16,711
How do you respond to that?
1042
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:20,298
Well, this message is from
a civilization that may be anywhere
1043
01:19:20,506 --> 01:19:24,218
from hundreds to
millions and millions of years ahead of us.
1044
01:19:24,469 --> 01:19:27,639
I have to believe that
an intelligence that advanced...
1045
01:19:28,264 --> 01:19:30,266
knows what they're doing.
1046
01:19:31,184 --> 01:19:35,146
Now all it requires on our part is...
1047
01:19:35,313 --> 01:19:36,356
Faith?
1048
01:19:39,442 --> 01:19:41,527
I was gonna say
a sense of adventure.
1049
01:19:41,736 --> 01:19:42,946
And in breaking news...
1050
01:19:43,529 --> 01:19:44,822
a former astronaut,
1051
01:19:45,031 --> 01:19:48,868
considered to be the leading
American candidate for the Machine seat,
1052
01:19:49,077 --> 01:19:51,371
has unexpectedly dropped out
of the running.
1053
01:19:51,788 --> 01:19:54,874
Russell met with reporters this afternoon
at his Houston home.
1054
01:19:55,208 --> 01:19:59,170
I told my dad that I...
didn't want him to go.
1055
01:19:59,379 --> 01:20:01,089
Daddy, don't go.
1056
01:20:03,758 --> 01:20:06,844
Nothing would give me more pride
than to...
1057
01:20:07,512 --> 01:20:09,514
represent my country.
1058
01:20:09,681 --> 01:20:11,891
But what can I say to this?
1059
01:20:12,475 --> 01:20:16,312
Consortium officials had no comment,
but sources within the delegation
1060
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:18,481
have disclosed that Dr. Arroway
1061
01:20:18,648 --> 01:20:22,735
appears to now be the front-runner
for the Machine seat.
1062
01:20:23,569 --> 01:20:25,947
"Meet me at noon. Must talk."
1063
01:20:26,114 --> 01:20:28,866
I didn't expect to be getting
a message like this from you.
1064
01:20:29,033 --> 01:20:30,243
Thanks for coming.
1065
01:20:30,451 --> 01:20:33,413
So is this kosher?
Fraternizing with the enemy?
1066
01:20:33,579 --> 01:20:37,083
Selectors and selectees mingling around?
1067
01:20:37,250 --> 01:20:39,419
Can we talk about Einstein?
1068
01:20:39,585 --> 01:20:41,754
Yeah, sure. Okay.
1069
01:20:41,921 --> 01:20:43,339
- Special relativity.
- Yeah.
1070
01:20:43,506 --> 01:20:45,133
This machine...
1071
01:20:45,717 --> 01:20:50,638
now, if it works, and you travel to Vega
at even close to the speed of light,
1072
01:20:50,805 --> 01:20:53,307
- when you come back--
- If you come back.
1073
01:20:55,476 --> 01:20:57,478
If you come back,
1074
01:20:57,645 --> 01:21:01,941
you'll only be 4 years older, but over 50 years
would have passed here on Earth.
1075
01:21:02,108 --> 01:21:03,718
Basically, yeah.
1076
01:21:04,318 --> 01:21:06,904
And everybody that you care about...
1077
01:21:07,780 --> 01:21:10,116
will be gone, dead and buried.
1078
01:21:10,950 --> 01:21:14,954
If you came back,
if you survived at all, which...
1079
01:21:16,289 --> 01:21:20,001
Look, Palmer, nobody's saying
this isn't dangerous, all right?
1080
01:21:20,168 --> 01:21:24,297
The rest of the candidates and myself,
we fully understand the risks we're taking.
1081
01:21:24,464 --> 01:21:25,715
Why?
1082
01:21:25,882 --> 01:21:28,593
Because it's a historic opportunity.
The world needs...
1083
01:21:28,801 --> 01:21:31,429
No, you, Ellie. You. You personally.
1084
01:21:32,472 --> 01:21:35,266
By doing this,
you're willing to give your life.
1085
01:21:35,475 --> 01:21:37,643
You're willing to die for it.
1086
01:21:39,479 --> 01:21:40,772
Why?
1087
01:21:44,484 --> 01:21:48,196
From as long as I can remember,
I've been searching for...
1088
01:21:48,921 --> 01:21:50,490
something... some
1089
01:21:50,698 --> 01:21:54,494
reason why we're here.
What are we doing here? Who are we?
1090
01:21:55,495 --> 01:21:59,373
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
1091
01:22:00,875 --> 01:22:03,878
I don't know,
I think it's worth a human life.
1092
01:22:04,545 --> 01:22:06,089
Don't you?
1093
01:22:12,595 --> 01:22:15,223
You're an incredibly brave woman, Ellie.
1094
01:22:18,017 --> 01:22:20,144
Or incredibly nuts.
1095
01:22:42,208 --> 01:22:43,709
Palmer...
1096
01:22:49,423 --> 01:22:51,509
I'm really confused.
1097
01:22:52,802 --> 01:22:54,053
So am I.
1098
01:22:55,304 --> 01:22:58,891
I think I speak for us all
when I thank you for your patience.
1099
01:22:59,100 --> 01:23:02,562
Myself, I have one final question,
Dr. Arroway.
1100
01:23:04,063 --> 01:23:06,399
If you should meet these Vegans,
1101
01:23:06,607 --> 01:23:10,903
and were permitted only
one question to ask of them,
1102
01:23:11,070 --> 01:23:12,738
what would it be?
1103
01:23:14,198 --> 01:23:16,242
Well, I suppose it would be:
1104
01:23:16,409 --> 01:23:18,077
"How did you do it?
1105
01:23:18,619 --> 01:23:23,082
"How did you evolve? How did you survive
this technological adolescence
1106
01:23:23,249 --> 01:23:25,168
"without destroying yourself?"
1107
01:23:25,918 --> 01:23:30,798
That more than any other question
is one I personally would like to have answered.
1108
01:23:31,132 --> 01:23:32,967
Not too bad, Mike.
1109
01:23:33,634 --> 01:23:35,027
I join Dr. Bergeron
1110
01:23:35,094 --> 01:23:38,556
in expressing thanks for
your patience, Dr. Arroway.
1111
01:23:38,764 --> 01:23:41,267
We've all been most impressed
with your candor
1112
01:23:41,434 --> 01:23:43,477
and your stamina.
1113
01:23:43,644 --> 01:23:46,814
I believe we are ready to move on
to your final statement.
1114
01:23:46,981 --> 01:23:48,900
Madam Chairman,
I have one more question.
1115
01:23:49,066 --> 01:23:50,818
Yes, Mr. Joss.
1116
01:23:51,444 --> 01:23:53,446
Dr. Arroway...
1117
01:23:54,822 --> 01:23:57,158
Would you consider yourself a...
1118
01:23:57,658 --> 01:24:00,286
spiritual person?
1119
01:24:05,458 --> 01:24:08,794
I don't really understand
the point of the question.
1120
01:24:08,961 --> 01:24:11,839
I consider myself a moral person.
1121
01:24:12,006 --> 01:24:13,966
I'm sure we all agree that is the case,
1122
01:24:14,133 --> 01:24:16,636
but I think what Mr. Joss
is in fact asking--
1123
01:24:16,802 --> 01:24:18,638
Do you believe in God...
1124
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:22,642
Dr. Arroway?
1125
01:24:27,146 --> 01:24:29,565
As a scientist,
1126
01:24:29,732 --> 01:24:33,194
I rely on empirical evidence,
and in this matter,
1127
01:24:33,361 --> 01:24:37,073
I don't believe
that there is data either way.
1128
01:24:37,657 --> 01:24:42,078
So your answer would in fact be
that you don't believe in God.
1129
01:24:45,798 --> 01:24:48,642
I don't understand the relevance
of the question.
1130
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:50,708
Dr. Arroway,
1131
01:24:51,420 --> 01:24:54,453
95 percent of the world's population
1132
01:24:54,548 --> 01:24:58,511
believes in a supreme being
in one form or another.
1133
01:24:59,679 --> 01:25:02,890
I believe that makes the question
more than relevant.
1134
01:25:05,559 --> 01:25:07,270
Dr. Arroway?
1135
01:25:17,196 --> 01:25:19,198
I believe...
1136
01:25:23,202 --> 01:25:25,705
I believe I've already
answered that question.
1137
01:25:29,750 --> 01:25:33,254
I'm proud of what
we've achieved as a species,
1138
01:25:33,421 --> 01:25:35,423
and as a civilization.
1139
01:25:37,091 --> 01:25:39,593
I would hate to see
everything we stand for,
1140
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:43,681
all that we have fought for
for a thousand generations,
1141
01:25:43,889 --> 01:25:46,225
all that God has blessed us with...
1142
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:49,103
betrayed...
1143
01:25:50,062 --> 01:25:54,650
in the final hour because we chose to
send a representative who did not put our...
1144
01:25:55,151 --> 01:25:57,945
most cherished beliefs first.
1145
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:02,408
Thank you.
1146
01:26:35,649 --> 01:26:36,942
Why did you do it?
1147
01:26:41,530 --> 01:26:45,701
Our job was to select someone
to speak for everybody.
1148
01:26:48,996 --> 01:26:52,458
I just couldn't in good conscience
vote for a person
1149
01:26:52,625 --> 01:26:54,627
who doesn't believe in God.
1150
01:26:56,670 --> 01:26:58,047
Someone who
1151
01:26:58,214 --> 01:27:01,634
honestly thinks
the other 95 percent of us
1152
01:27:01,842 --> 01:27:04,804
suffer from some form
of mass delusion.
1153
01:27:07,973 --> 01:27:10,359
I told the truth up there. And...
1154
01:27:11,352 --> 01:27:14,855
Drumlin told you exactly
what you wanted to hear.
1155
01:27:50,015 --> 01:27:52,601
With full humility and utmost gratitude,
1156
01:27:52,768 --> 01:27:54,979
I accept this great honor,
1157
01:27:55,187 --> 01:27:59,233
and I promise I will do my best
to represent my nation,
1158
01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:04,530
my planet and my God
on this historic journey.
1159
01:28:04,697 --> 01:28:07,032
I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
1160
01:28:49,617 --> 01:28:52,578
There's a carnival atmosphere
at Cape Canaveral
1161
01:28:52,745 --> 01:28:54,788
as the International Machine Consortium
1162
01:28:54,955 --> 01:28:58,417
hosts as much a media event
as a systems test.
1163
01:28:58,918 --> 01:29:02,588
David Drumlin is supervising
the on-site portion of the test.
1164
01:29:02,796 --> 01:29:04,590
We spoke with him earlier today.
1165
01:29:04,757 --> 01:29:07,259
We'll be able to monitor
the stresses and effects
1166
01:29:07,426 --> 01:29:09,762
using the robot passenger...
1167
01:29:10,262 --> 01:29:12,556
who we lovingly call Elmer.
1168
01:29:12,723 --> 01:29:15,851
We are coming up
on T-minus two hours and counting.
1169
01:29:16,018 --> 01:29:18,062
All Machine systems are go.
1170
01:29:18,229 --> 01:29:21,106
Dr. Arroway, the press would like to
ask you a few questions
1171
01:29:21,273 --> 01:29:23,943
as soon as they're done
with Dr. Drumlin.
1172
01:29:25,236 --> 01:29:27,488
Now, at the moment
where we release the pod,
1173
01:29:27,655 --> 01:29:31,242
there will be a substantial
amount of energy generated at the core.
1174
01:29:31,742 --> 01:29:34,119
We'll be able to monitor
the stresses and effects
1175
01:29:34,286 --> 01:29:38,457
using our robot passenger,
who we lovingly call Elmer.
1176
01:29:39,959 --> 01:29:41,585
- Thank you.
- Welcome.
1177
01:29:41,752 --> 01:29:43,671
...the test area is clear and go.
1178
01:29:43,837 --> 01:29:46,632
Sir, they're ready for you out at the site.
1179
01:29:46,799 --> 01:29:48,425
Yeah, just a minute.
1180
01:29:49,468 --> 01:29:52,763
The test director has issued a go
to enter the final countdown phase.
1181
01:29:52,930 --> 01:29:54,265
Ellie.
1182
01:29:54,431 --> 01:29:56,809
- Congratulations, David.
- Glad you could come.
1183
01:29:58,143 --> 01:30:00,604
Didn't... expect to see you here.
1184
01:30:01,313 --> 01:30:06,151
Well, I'm still, you know,
Crew Ops at the Control Center.
1185
01:30:06,819 --> 01:30:10,823
And I suppose the fact that I discovered
the message means that I have PR value.
1186
01:30:10,990 --> 01:30:12,658
Of course.
1187
01:30:14,159 --> 01:30:17,329
Ellie, I know you must think
this is all very unfair.
1188
01:30:17,997 --> 01:30:20,291
And maybe that's an understatement.
1189
01:30:21,375 --> 01:30:23,752
What you don't know is, I agree.
1190
01:30:24,336 --> 01:30:27,631
I wish the world was a place
where fair was the bottom line.
1191
01:30:27,798 --> 01:30:31,010
Where the kind of idealism you showed
at the hearing was rewarded,
1192
01:30:31,176 --> 01:30:33,470
not taken advantage of.
1193
01:30:35,180 --> 01:30:38,309
Unfortunately,
we don't live in that world.
1194
01:30:40,352 --> 01:30:41,854
Funny...
1195
01:30:42,896 --> 01:30:46,358
I always believed that the world
is what we make of it.
1196
01:30:48,027 --> 01:30:51,196
Excuse me, Dr. Drumlin, sir?
1197
01:30:52,823 --> 01:30:54,366
Good luck on the test.
1198
01:30:54,617 --> 01:30:56,952
- The pad leader has issued the order...
- Thank you.
1199
01:30:57,119 --> 01:31:00,289
- ...to clear the pad of all nonessential...
- Right this way, sir.
1200
01:31:04,793 --> 01:31:08,672
Test director, everything looks good up here.
We're ready to go.
1201
01:31:08,839 --> 01:31:11,842
All right, people, I want things
double and triple checked here.
1202
01:31:12,009 --> 01:31:15,596
We only get one shot at this.
Let's get it right.
1203
01:31:15,763 --> 01:31:18,849
Ladies and gentlemen,
we are ready for startup.
1204
01:31:19,058 --> 01:31:22,394
All controllers, I need a go-no-go
for test initiation.
1205
01:31:22,561 --> 01:31:23,562
- Mechanical?
- Go.
1206
01:31:23,729 --> 01:31:24,772
- Electrical?
- Go.
1207
01:31:24,938 --> 01:31:26,023
- Dynamics?
- Go.
1208
01:31:26,190 --> 01:31:27,483
- Communications?
- Go.
1209
01:31:27,650 --> 01:31:28,692
- Pod systems?
- Go.
1210
01:31:28,859 --> 01:31:30,402
- Safety?
- Go.
1211
01:31:30,569 --> 01:31:33,489
Crew Ops, verify all pre-test procedures
are complete.
1212
01:31:33,656 --> 01:31:35,074
Yes, verified. I'm go.
1213
01:31:35,240 --> 01:31:37,743
Pad leader, we are good.
Is everything okay with you?
1214
01:31:37,910 --> 01:31:40,579
Roger. The pad is a go.
1215
01:31:40,746 --> 01:31:43,582
Test initiation, on my mark.
1216
01:31:44,041 --> 01:31:45,417
Five,
1217
01:31:45,584 --> 01:31:46,835
four,
1218
01:31:47,002 --> 01:31:48,295
three,
1219
01:31:48,462 --> 01:31:49,672
two,
1220
01:31:50,089 --> 01:31:51,590
one.
1221
01:31:51,757 --> 01:31:53,175
Mark.
1222
01:31:53,342 --> 01:31:55,094
- Test start.
- Rings are unlocked.
1223
01:31:55,260 --> 01:31:57,012
Power levels indicate a good start.
1224
01:31:57,179 --> 01:32:00,057
We have begun the full-scale test
of Earth's first system
1225
01:32:00,224 --> 01:32:03,769
built by the sharing of knowledge
with a neighbor in our universe.
1226
01:32:03,936 --> 01:32:06,188
All power sources on core induction bus.
1227
01:32:06,355 --> 01:32:07,981
IPV power transfer.
1228
01:32:08,148 --> 01:32:11,902
Ring motion detect.
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie.
1229
01:32:12,945 --> 01:32:15,989
- Gerry, how are we looking?
- Looks good. We're underway.
1230
01:32:16,156 --> 01:32:17,908
Looks like we have a normal startup.
1231
01:32:18,075 --> 01:32:20,619
Roger, David. It's looking good here.
1232
01:32:26,250 --> 01:32:29,378
We are moments away from
the initiation of the drop sequence.
1233
01:32:29,545 --> 01:32:31,547
All systems are go.
1234
01:32:33,674 --> 01:32:36,301
- Mechanical, you still happy?
- Roger that.
1235
01:32:36,468 --> 01:32:39,930
I'll tell you, this is very exciting
from up here.
1236
01:32:42,099 --> 01:32:45,728
- We've got 4 percent.
- We're confirming 4 percent.
1237
01:32:46,979 --> 01:32:50,315
Frequency 9.85.
1238
01:32:50,482 --> 01:32:56,238
Harmonics in the green. G-level 1.1.
1239
01:32:56,405 --> 01:32:59,742
- Five percent.
- Confirmed. We are at 5 percent.
1240
01:32:59,908 --> 01:33:01,660
David, how's it looking to you?
1241
01:33:01,827 --> 01:33:04,663
Okay. I'm gonna take a look
and show you what we got.
1242
01:33:04,830 --> 01:33:06,999
All test-subject instrumentation
looks good.
1243
01:33:07,166 --> 01:33:10,836
Confirmed, we have a good picture
from Dr. Drumlin's PRD.
1244
01:33:11,003 --> 01:33:13,464
Hope you guys are seeing
what I'm seeing.
1245
01:33:13,839 --> 01:33:15,758
All systems are go.
1246
01:33:17,342 --> 01:33:18,927
This is really something.
1247
01:33:19,136 --> 01:33:20,804
For purposes of this test,
1248
01:33:20,971 --> 01:33:25,184
Dr. Drumlin will be on top of
the gantry crane that's over the Machine.
1249
01:33:25,350 --> 01:33:27,519
We've got some video animation
1250
01:33:27,686 --> 01:33:31,190
to show you just how this machine,
it is thought, will work.
1251
01:33:31,356 --> 01:33:33,025
The passenger pod will be released.
1252
01:33:33,233 --> 01:33:37,571
It will come down through the center of
the rings and into the Machine's core.
1253
01:33:37,738 --> 01:33:41,825
The big question everyone here is asking is,
of course, what happens then?
1254
01:33:41,992 --> 01:33:46,830
Some believe that the rings function
as some sort of an accelerator or something,
1255
01:33:46,997 --> 01:33:49,625
sending its energy
into this passenger pod,
1256
01:33:49,792 --> 01:33:52,503
making it rocket away
at near the speed of light.
1257
01:33:52,711 --> 01:33:57,341
Other people believe it might open up
a doorway to some other dimension.
1258
01:33:57,508 --> 01:34:00,969
Who's right?
Well, that's what today's test is all about.
1259
01:34:01,595 --> 01:34:04,056
- Thirty-five percent.
- Subsystems, are you ready?
1260
01:34:04,223 --> 01:34:07,392
- Forty percent normal acceleration.
- Roger, confirm 40 percent.
1261
01:34:07,601 --> 01:34:10,562
All controllers stand by
to initiate drop sequence
1262
01:34:10,729 --> 01:34:12,314
on my mark.
1263
01:34:12,481 --> 01:34:14,817
All systems ready for drop sequence.
1264
01:34:14,983 --> 01:34:17,236
Forty-five percent.
1265
01:34:17,402 --> 01:34:19,571
We're reading 45 percent.
1266
01:34:20,572 --> 01:34:22,574
Can you verify closure?
1267
01:34:23,867 --> 01:34:25,410
Forty-six.
1268
01:34:25,577 --> 01:34:30,249
All controllers stand by
to initiate IPV drop sequence. On my mark.
1269
01:34:30,916 --> 01:34:32,668
Forty-eight percent.
1270
01:34:33,293 --> 01:34:35,712
Test director,
I'm feeling a very strange vibration.
1271
01:34:35,879 --> 01:34:37,089
Are you feeling it down there?
1272
01:34:37,256 --> 01:34:39,216
Gerry, can you confirm any vibration?
1273
01:34:39,758 --> 01:34:41,593
Negative, everything looks good here.
1274
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:43,762
- Crew Ops?
- Nothing wrong with Elmer.
1275
01:34:43,929 --> 01:34:45,764
We're not seeing anything abnormal.
1276
01:34:45,931 --> 01:34:48,725
No good. Hold the sequence.
I'm gonna take a direct reading.
1277
01:34:49,226 --> 01:34:52,604
- What the hell is he talking about?
- Can anyone say grandstanding?
1278
01:34:52,771 --> 01:34:54,773
He sure knows he's on TV!
1279
01:34:54,940 --> 01:34:58,068
Back home that's what we call
an overcooked ham.
1280
01:34:58,235 --> 01:35:00,737
I'm reading 10 kilohertz!
1281
01:35:00,904 --> 01:35:03,699
What's your reading on the
first and second order G-levels?
1282
01:35:03,907 --> 01:35:05,784
G-levels are right on.
1283
01:35:06,285 --> 01:35:09,788
We confirm Drumlin's readings
and they're all normal. We're go.
1284
01:35:09,955 --> 01:35:11,456
Copy that, Dynamics.
1285
01:35:11,623 --> 01:35:14,376
I think we're okay,
but we'll let him finish.
1286
01:35:15,586 --> 01:35:17,629
- Mechanical, you still okay?
- Roger, chief.
1287
01:35:17,796 --> 01:35:19,131
We're right on the money.
1288
01:35:19,298 --> 01:35:21,592
We've got a security problem here.
1289
01:35:21,758 --> 01:35:23,343
Ellie, are you sure?
1290
01:35:23,510 --> 01:35:25,804
Yeah. This guy, he shouldn't be there.
I know him.
1291
01:35:25,971 --> 01:35:28,932
Gerry, execute the
rapid shutdown sequence.
1292
01:35:29,099 --> 01:35:32,394
Security, move emergency response team
into position one.
1293
01:35:32,561 --> 01:35:35,247
- Get me Drumlin on a secure loop, please.
- You got him.
1294
01:35:35,314 --> 01:35:38,817
- David, can you hear me?
- Yes, I hear.
1295
01:35:38,984 --> 01:35:41,278
All right, we've got
a security breach here.
1296
01:35:41,653 --> 01:35:43,655
Right behind you. The tall guy.
1297
01:35:44,156 --> 01:35:47,409
The technician. See him?
1298
01:35:49,453 --> 01:35:51,830
He's not supposed to be there.
1299
01:35:56,501 --> 01:35:59,171
David, he's got something in his hand!
1300
01:35:59,338 --> 01:36:01,882
Him! Take him! Security breach!
1301
01:36:02,549 --> 01:36:03,675
He's got a bomb!
1302
01:36:03,842 --> 01:36:06,470
I want that emergency-response team
up on the gantry now.
1303
01:36:06,637 --> 01:36:08,305
Security, stage one alert.
1304
01:36:08,472 --> 01:36:12,976
By God, move all the fire and rescue personnel
into position one.
1305
01:36:49,554 --> 01:36:51,682
All right, all right, back to your stations.
1306
01:36:51,848 --> 01:36:54,977
I need you to be professional, people.
Settle down.
1307
01:36:55,185 --> 01:36:58,063
Pad leader, pad leader, do you copy?
1308
01:37:15,497 --> 01:37:18,166
The scene earlier today,
when David Drumlin —
1309
01:37:18,375 --> 01:37:20,085
advisor to two presidents,
1310
01:37:20,252 --> 01:37:24,256
and winner of the
National Academy of Sciences lifetime award —
1311
01:37:24,423 --> 01:37:28,218
was laid to rest
at Arlington National Cemetery.
1312
01:37:31,930 --> 01:37:33,849
In a related story, last night's raid...
1313
01:37:34,016 --> 01:37:35,559
Can I help you?
1314
01:37:35,726 --> 01:37:39,771
- Oh, you're-- I've got some mail for you.
- ...resulted in the discovery of this video.
1315
01:37:39,938 --> 01:37:44,651
The suicide note of the leader of the
terrorist group now believed responsible
1316
01:37:44,818 --> 01:37:47,362
for the explosion in Florida this week.
1317
01:37:47,529 --> 01:37:52,534
What we do,
we do for the goodness of all mankind.
1318
01:37:53,201 --> 01:37:56,121
This won't be understood, not now,
1319
01:37:56,288 --> 01:37:58,248
but the apocalypse to come
1320
01:37:59,416 --> 01:38:01,585
will vindicate our faith.
1321
01:38:25,901 --> 01:38:27,736
Welcome home.
1322
01:39:33,510 --> 01:39:35,887
Oh, Comrade Arroway,
1323
01:39:36,054 --> 01:39:39,349
he has been expecting your call.
One moment, please.
1324
01:39:49,109 --> 01:39:50,318
Mr. Hadden?
1325
01:39:50,944 --> 01:39:52,279
Doctor.
1326
01:39:53,405 --> 01:39:55,198
How kind of you to call.
1327
01:39:55,907 --> 01:39:58,326
Mr. Hadden, where are you?
1328
01:40:00,036 --> 01:40:04,708
The Russian government was kind enough
to give me accommodations on Mir.
1329
01:40:05,542 --> 01:40:07,419
You're living on a space station?
1330
01:40:08,920 --> 01:40:11,256
It's quite simple, really.
1331
01:40:12,299 --> 01:40:15,886
The low-oxygen,
zero-gravity environment
1332
01:40:16,052 --> 01:40:20,765
is the only thing keeping
the cancer from eating me alive.
1333
01:40:22,309 --> 01:40:25,020
Actually, I quite like it up here.
1334
01:40:25,478 --> 01:40:29,274
My little room has one hell of a view.
1335
01:40:36,448 --> 01:40:38,950
I wanna show you something.
1336
01:40:43,121 --> 01:40:45,582
Hokkaido Island.
1337
01:40:46,499 --> 01:40:48,877
The systems integration site.
1338
01:40:49,878 --> 01:40:52,130
Look closer.
1339
01:40:59,763 --> 01:41:03,391
First rule in government spending:
1340
01:41:03,558 --> 01:41:07,479
Why build one when you can have
two at twice the price?
1341
01:41:07,646 --> 01:41:11,441
Only, this one can be kept secret.
1342
01:41:11,608 --> 01:41:13,652
Controlled by Americans,
1343
01:41:13,818 --> 01:41:17,447
built by the Japanese subcontractors...
1344
01:41:18,156 --> 01:41:21,743
who also happen to be
1345
01:41:21,910 --> 01:41:23,995
recently acquired
1346
01:41:24,162 --> 01:41:27,290
wholly-owned subsidiaries
1347
01:41:27,457 --> 01:41:29,834
- of Hadden Industries.
- Of Hadden Industries.
1348
01:41:33,004 --> 01:41:36,174
They still want
an American to go, doctor.
1349
01:41:39,803 --> 01:41:42,138
Wanna take a ride?
1350
01:42:24,305 --> 01:42:26,365
And augmenting our restraint and
1351
01:42:26,427 --> 01:42:28,560
communications console subsystem,
1352
01:42:28,727 --> 01:42:30,729
we have your personal recording unit.
1353
01:42:30,895 --> 01:42:35,025
Normal, infrared, and ultraviolet lenses.
1354
01:42:35,191 --> 01:42:39,237
Digital microchip
good for thousands of hours of recording.
1355
01:42:40,447 --> 01:42:42,532
Okay, look, I understand
1356
01:42:42,699 --> 01:42:46,119
the reason for recording
and documenting the mission.
1357
01:42:46,286 --> 01:42:49,122
But I just... I wanna go on record
one more time.
1358
01:42:49,289 --> 01:42:52,792
The transmitted specs
never said anything about any chair
1359
01:42:53,043 --> 01:42:57,547
or a restraining harness or survival gear.
1360
01:42:57,714 --> 01:42:59,549
Why can't we just trust the original...?
1361
01:42:59,716 --> 01:43:03,845
Doctor, both the IMC Board and the SI team
reviewed the matter...
1362
01:43:04,054 --> 01:43:07,807
and concluded that
the design impact is negligible.
1363
01:43:07,974 --> 01:43:09,684
Bottom line is,
1364
01:43:09,851 --> 01:43:12,187
we're not putting anybody
aboard this machine,
1365
01:43:12,395 --> 01:43:15,398
unless there is
some sort of minimal protection.
1366
01:43:15,565 --> 01:43:17,442
End of story.
1367
01:43:19,861 --> 01:43:23,114
- Okay.
- Ellie...
1368
01:43:23,990 --> 01:43:28,078
we've been giving these to the astronauts
since the beginning of the space program.
1369
01:43:29,412 --> 01:43:31,706
It's never been made public, of course.
1370
01:43:31,915 --> 01:43:34,000
It's fast and it's painless.
1371
01:43:36,753 --> 01:43:39,631
I'm gonna travel 26 light years
to commit suicide?
1372
01:43:39,798 --> 01:43:42,008
Something may go wrong.
1373
01:43:42,175 --> 01:43:44,928
There may be
an unforeseen mechanical failure.
1374
01:43:45,678 --> 01:43:48,765
You could be marooned, unable to return.
1375
01:43:49,933 --> 01:43:53,061
There are a thousand reasons
we can think of for you to have this,
1376
01:43:53,269 --> 01:43:56,439
but mostly it's for the reasons
we can't think of.
1377
01:44:22,715 --> 01:44:23,842
Come in.
1378
01:44:25,385 --> 01:44:29,389
- Dr. Arroway, time to get ready.
- Thank you.
1379
01:44:40,066 --> 01:44:41,776
I know you don't have much time.
1380
01:44:41,943 --> 01:44:45,029
As soon as I found out about the Machine,
I called the president.
1381
01:44:45,238 --> 01:44:47,323
I came with Kitz.
1382
01:44:47,490 --> 01:44:49,784
I had to see you one more time.
1383
01:44:49,951 --> 01:44:51,703
- Oh, God, I'm sorry.
- It's okay.
1384
01:44:51,870 --> 01:44:53,746
No, I'm glad you came.
1385
01:44:53,913 --> 01:44:56,791
There's something I gotta say to you.
1386
01:44:57,667 --> 01:45:01,921
The reason I didn't vote for you to go
was a good reason, but it wasn't the real one.
1387
01:45:03,006 --> 01:45:05,008
I didn't vote for you to go...
1388
01:45:06,551 --> 01:45:08,720
because I don't wanna lose you.
1389
01:45:09,762 --> 01:45:12,599
You find your way home, all right?
1390
01:45:28,990 --> 01:45:30,408
Twenty-three hours ago,
1391
01:45:30,575 --> 01:45:34,621
the world was stunned by the
announcement of a second Machine...
1392
01:45:34,787 --> 01:45:37,916
and its passenger, Eleanor Ann Arroway.
1393
01:45:38,124 --> 01:45:41,711
Now the question
that's on everyone's mind:
1394
01:45:41,878 --> 01:45:43,880
Will history repeat itself?
1395
01:45:44,047 --> 01:45:46,341
With a piece of engineering
this complex,
1396
01:45:46,508 --> 01:45:50,595
with so many unknowns,
could the unthinkable occur?
1397
01:45:50,762 --> 01:45:54,224
The security in Hokkaido
has been incredibly tight.
1398
01:45:54,390 --> 01:45:57,727
No reporters whatsoever
have been allowed near the site.
1399
01:48:19,702 --> 01:48:21,704
Thanks.
1400
01:48:38,262 --> 01:48:39,807
Magnetic restraint is secure.
1401
01:48:39,859 --> 01:48:42,429
- All life support functions normal.
- Roger that. Ellie,
1402
01:48:42,474 --> 01:48:44,659
this is Control. Do you copy?
1403
01:48:44,811 --> 01:48:47,146
Ellie to Control, reading you five-by-five.
1404
01:48:47,313 --> 01:48:51,401
- Comm 1, Give me Ellie's PRD.
- Video unit recording and transmitting.
1405
01:48:52,360 --> 01:48:54,904
- Are you reading me?
- That's affirmative.
1406
01:48:55,071 --> 01:48:57,365
Video looks good.
1407
01:48:57,532 --> 01:49:00,076
- Copy that, Control.
- Okay.
1408
01:49:00,243 --> 01:49:03,121
Ellie, we're gonna proceed
to button you up.
1409
01:49:03,287 --> 01:49:05,957
Roger, Control. I'm ready.
1410
01:49:09,377 --> 01:49:11,754
- Dynamics--
- I can confirm the walkway retraction.
1411
01:49:11,921 --> 01:49:12,922
- Systems?
- Go.
1412
01:49:12,975 --> 01:49:14,351
- Communications?
- Go.
1413
01:49:14,432 --> 01:49:16,100
- Life support?
- Go.
1414
01:49:16,467 --> 01:49:18,761
Ellie, we are go for closure.
1415
01:49:20,221 --> 01:49:22,098
I'm go... here.
1416
01:49:22,974 --> 01:49:26,477
Mechanical, initiate
IPV closure sequence.
1417
01:49:28,104 --> 01:49:30,314
Hold on, let me get you a chair.
1418
01:49:31,023 --> 01:49:32,066
I'm go.
1419
01:49:32,233 --> 01:49:36,112
- It's nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz.
- You, too.
1420
01:49:36,279 --> 01:49:38,114
Wouldn't peg him as a Polo man.
1421
01:49:47,665 --> 01:49:49,100
I got a visual on the door.
1422
01:49:49,167 --> 01:49:51,127
IPV escape system is armed.
1423
01:49:51,294 --> 01:49:53,296
Door is looking good.
1424
01:49:58,509 --> 01:50:00,178
Door alignment looks good.
1425
01:50:28,790 --> 01:50:30,875
Ellie, we are showing green
across the board.
1426
01:50:31,042 --> 01:50:34,378
Copy that, Control. IPV is secure.
1427
01:50:41,511 --> 01:50:43,513
We are at 30 percent.
1428
01:50:43,679 --> 01:50:44,972
Copy that, 30 percent.
1429
01:50:49,852 --> 01:50:52,522
- How you doing in there, El?
- Kent?
1430
01:50:53,272 --> 01:50:56,067
- Is that you?
- That's a big affirmative.
1431
01:50:56,984 --> 01:50:58,569
Who let you in there, huh?
1432
01:50:58,736 --> 01:51:00,863
A higher power intervened.
1433
01:51:02,907 --> 01:51:04,242
Well, I'm glad you came.
1434
01:51:08,996 --> 01:51:10,164
Thirty-five percent.
1435
01:51:10,915 --> 01:51:12,416
Copy that, 35 percent.
1436
01:51:12,583 --> 01:51:13,918
- Mechanical?
- We're good.
1437
01:51:14,085 --> 01:51:15,419
Forty percent.
1438
01:51:19,048 --> 01:51:20,925
I'm picking up a moderate vibration here.
1439
01:51:22,093 --> 01:51:25,721
- Dynamics, can you confirm vibration?
- Everything looks good here.
1440
01:51:25,930 --> 01:51:29,183
She's feeling the same thing
they felt at the Cape at this point.
1441
01:51:29,350 --> 01:51:30,935
Ellie, the vibration is normal.
1442
01:51:31,102 --> 01:51:33,604
We are at 50 percent.
All systems nominal.
1443
01:51:33,771 --> 01:51:35,773
Copy that, 50 percent.
1444
01:51:40,945 --> 01:51:42,947
Vibration is getting a little stronger now.
1445
01:51:43,114 --> 01:51:45,950
We're picking up
some low-frequency noise.
1446
01:51:46,325 --> 01:51:49,412
- Mechanical, can you confirm?
- It looks fine to me.
1447
01:51:49,579 --> 01:51:52,957
- Roger. Gerry, what do you think?
- I'm still go.
1448
01:51:53,124 --> 01:51:54,750
People, we are still go.
1449
01:51:56,502 --> 01:51:58,963
What...? Something's happening.
1450
01:52:00,214 --> 01:52:02,884
I'm... There's...
1451
01:52:03,050 --> 01:52:05,887
There's a light. Do you see that?
I'm seeing some...
1452
01:52:06,637 --> 01:52:09,098
Something, some...
1453
01:52:09,265 --> 01:52:11,809
I can't tell whether it's daylight or not.
1454
01:52:11,976 --> 01:52:14,896
There it is again.
It's coming from the bottom.
1455
01:52:15,938 --> 01:52:17,481
Here, let me show you. See that?
1456
01:52:17,648 --> 01:52:19,567
Negative. Ellie, you're breaking up.
1457
01:52:19,734 --> 01:52:22,570
- Comm 1, can we boost her signal?
- Already at maximum.
1458
01:52:22,737 --> 01:52:24,280
Sixty-five percent.
1459
01:52:24,447 --> 01:52:26,157
The material is changing.
1460
01:52:26,324 --> 01:52:29,827
It's bordering on translucence.
But the system is intact.
1461
01:52:33,122 --> 01:52:37,501
It's gotta be some kind
of electromagnetic field.
1462
01:52:37,668 --> 01:52:40,671
- Are you reading this?
- Negative, we're seeing only interference.
1463
01:52:40,838 --> 01:52:46,177
It's becoming completely translucent.
I can't describe it. I can't even explain it.
1464
01:52:48,638 --> 01:52:49,680
Seventy percent.
1465
01:52:49,847 --> 01:52:52,183
People, we have intermittent comm,
but we are go.
1466
01:52:52,350 --> 01:52:56,812
- Initiate secondary drive systems.
- Initiating auxiliary booster sequence.
1467
01:52:57,021 --> 01:52:58,856
We're go for ignition.
1468
01:53:05,905 --> 01:53:08,366
We have auxiliary booster ignition.
1469
01:53:14,038 --> 01:53:15,539
Life support, how is she doing?
1470
01:53:15,706 --> 01:53:18,960
We still have data. Heart and respiration
are high, but within limits.
1471
01:53:19,126 --> 01:53:20,211
Ellie, do you copy?
1472
01:53:20,419 --> 01:53:23,422
If you could hear, I am okay to go.
1473
01:53:27,218 --> 01:53:29,011
If you could hear me...
1474
01:53:32,098 --> 01:53:33,474
Eighty percent.
1475
01:53:33,641 --> 01:53:36,477
All vibration and G-levels are in the green.
1476
01:53:41,899 --> 01:53:44,235
Control, if you're reading me...
1477
01:53:44,402 --> 01:53:46,737
I am okay to go. Okay to go,
1478
01:53:46,904 --> 01:53:50,700
- Eighty-five percent.
- All bearing tips are on the profile.
1479
01:53:51,575 --> 01:53:54,662
Ninety percent. We're detecting
some structural instability.
1480
01:53:54,829 --> 01:53:58,749
- Confirmed. Is she holding?
- We're within limits, barely.
1481
01:54:00,251 --> 01:54:02,253
I'm okay to go.
1482
01:54:03,754 --> 01:54:06,173
I'm okay to go.
1483
01:54:12,096 --> 01:54:13,556
My God!
1484
01:54:24,608 --> 01:54:27,111
Okay to go. I'm okay.
1485
01:54:27,528 --> 01:54:29,030
Hundred percent target velocity.
1486
01:54:29,196 --> 01:54:30,406
Steve?
1487
01:54:30,573 --> 01:54:34,952
Tremendous EMI levels around the Machine.
All field measurements are off-scale.
1488
01:54:35,119 --> 01:54:37,580
Steve, we're approaching our abort limits.
1489
01:54:39,957 --> 01:54:41,042
Okay to go.
1490
01:54:46,255 --> 01:54:47,465
I hear her!
1491
01:54:47,631 --> 01:54:50,468
I hear her. Barely, but she's there.
1492
01:54:50,634 --> 01:54:53,637
- Okay to go.
- She says she's okay to go.
1493
01:54:56,640 --> 01:54:58,768
Steve, we're real close.
1494
01:54:58,934 --> 01:55:01,812
- Electrical, reading in the core?
- Internal environment normal.
1495
01:55:01,979 --> 01:55:04,982
Inside the core, the weather's beautiful.
1496
01:55:09,070 --> 01:55:10,321
I'm okay to go.
1497
01:55:10,821 --> 01:55:14,283
Okay to go. I'm okay to go.
1498
01:55:14,867 --> 01:55:17,203
Initiate drop sequence.
1499
01:55:19,789 --> 01:55:21,499
On my mark.
1500
01:55:22,208 --> 01:55:24,752
Ten, nine...
1501
01:55:25,836 --> 01:55:27,838
eight,
1502
01:55:28,172 --> 01:55:31,175
seven, six,
1503
01:55:31,342 --> 01:55:33,969
five, four,
1504
01:55:34,136 --> 01:55:36,806
three, two...
1505
01:55:36,972 --> 01:55:38,349
I'm okay to go.
1506
01:55:42,311 --> 01:55:44,105
Oh, God!
1507
01:55:53,364 --> 01:55:55,032
Ellie to Control.
1508
01:55:55,699 --> 01:55:58,619
Ellie to Control, do you read me?
1509
01:56:03,040 --> 01:56:05,751
Ellie to Control, do you read me?
1510
01:56:11,507 --> 01:56:14,927
I'm gonna try to keep recording.
1511
01:56:15,678 --> 01:56:20,224
I'm going through
some kind of a tunnel.
1512
01:56:34,905 --> 01:56:36,448
There's a light source ahead.
1513
01:56:36,949 --> 01:56:40,161
Brilliant and blue-white.
1514
01:56:41,370 --> 01:56:42,997
Residual radiation?
1515
01:56:54,758 --> 01:56:56,051
It's a star.
1516
01:56:56,635 --> 01:56:57,880
I must have...
1517
01:56:58,500 --> 01:57:00,090
gone through a wormhole.
1518
01:57:05,102 --> 01:57:06,520
It's Vega.
1519
01:57:17,740 --> 01:57:19,283
I'm in another wormhole now.
1520
01:57:22,953 --> 01:57:24,079
I had no idea.
1521
01:57:24,246 --> 01:57:26,040
A series of them.
1522
01:57:29,043 --> 01:57:30,294
They're alive.
1523
01:57:30,461 --> 01:57:34,423
It's like some kind of a transit system.
1524
01:57:35,424 --> 01:57:36,800
It's a subway.
1525
01:57:42,139 --> 01:57:43,933
Okay.
1526
01:57:44,099 --> 01:57:46,393
Okay, I've gotta keep talking.
1527
01:57:48,938 --> 01:57:51,011
It's a triple... no...
1528
01:57:51,441 --> 01:57:52,841
quadruple system.
1529
01:57:53,234 --> 01:57:54,485
It's beautiful.
1530
01:57:57,821 --> 01:57:59,240
They're alive.
1531
01:58:07,414 --> 01:58:09,083
Another wormhole!
1532
01:58:09,416 --> 01:58:11,252
This one is much more violent!
1533
01:59:44,678 --> 01:59:46,347
Some...
1534
01:59:46,805 --> 01:59:49,141
celestial event...
1535
01:59:50,392 --> 01:59:52,102
No...
1536
01:59:52,269 --> 01:59:55,939
No words. No words...
1537
01:59:57,608 --> 01:59:59,818
to describe it.
1538
02:00:01,236 --> 02:00:03,113
Poetry.
1539
02:00:04,281 --> 02:00:05,869
They should have sent...
1540
02:00:06,699 --> 02:00:07,985
a poet.
1541
02:00:08,077 --> 02:00:10,662
It's so beautiful.
1542
02:00:10,829 --> 02:00:12,289
Beautiful.
1543
02:00:14,124 --> 02:00:15,959
So beautiful.
1544
02:00:17,002 --> 02:00:19,421
So beautiful.
1545
02:00:20,297 --> 02:00:23,801
I had no idea.
1546
02:00:23,967 --> 02:00:26,887
I had no idea.
1547
02:00:28,138 --> 02:00:31,475
I had no...
1548
02:00:32,768 --> 02:00:36,063
I had no idea.
1549
02:00:37,398 --> 02:00:44,405
I had no idea. I had no idea.
1550
02:03:02,376 --> 02:03:03,752
Hi, Sparks.
1551
02:03:05,629 --> 02:03:07,130
Dad?
1552
02:03:14,596 --> 02:03:16,473
I missed you.
1553
02:03:22,104 --> 02:03:23,272
Aren't you...?
1554
02:03:23,480 --> 02:03:26,692
I'm sorry I couldn't
be there for you, sweetheart.
1555
02:03:36,493 --> 02:03:38,161
You're not real.
1556
02:03:39,663 --> 02:03:41,164
None of this is real.
1557
02:03:41,331 --> 02:03:43,500
That's my scientist.
1558
02:03:44,585 --> 02:03:48,964
When I was unconscious, you downloaded
my thoughts, my memory even.
1559
02:03:49,798 --> 02:03:51,842
Pensacola.
1560
02:03:54,344 --> 02:03:57,306
We thought this might
make things easier for you.
1561
02:04:10,819 --> 02:04:14,448
- Why did you contact us?
- You contacted us.
1562
02:04:14,615 --> 02:04:16,283
We were just listening.
1563
02:04:17,159 --> 02:04:18,452
And there are others?
1564
02:04:18,619 --> 02:04:20,245
Many others.
1565
02:04:25,083 --> 02:04:26,585
They all...
1566
02:04:26,752 --> 02:04:29,880
travel here through that
transit system that you built?
1567
02:04:30,422 --> 02:04:31,923
We didn't build it.
1568
02:04:33,091 --> 02:04:34,593
We don't know who did.
1569
02:04:36,678 --> 02:04:39,640
No, they were gone
long before we ever got here.
1570
02:04:40,265 --> 02:04:42,100
Maybe someday they'll come back.
1571
02:04:42,934 --> 02:04:45,646
All the other civilizations that you find,
they come here?
1572
02:04:45,854 --> 02:04:47,064
Not all.
1573
02:04:48,857 --> 02:04:52,027
- Is this some test?
- No, no tests.
1574
02:04:54,946 --> 02:04:56,531
You have your mother's hands.
1575
02:05:06,708 --> 02:05:08,877
You're an interesting species...
1576
02:05:09,544 --> 02:05:11,505
an interesting mix.
1577
02:05:12,422 --> 02:05:15,217
You're capable of
such beautiful dreams...
1578
02:05:16,259 --> 02:05:18,720
and such horrible nightmares.
1579
02:05:19,888 --> 02:05:21,723
You feel so lost...
1580
02:05:22,307 --> 02:05:25,268
so cut off, so alone.
1581
02:05:26,728 --> 02:05:28,480
Only you're not.
1582
02:05:30,565 --> 02:05:32,109
See...
1583
02:05:32,567 --> 02:05:34,194
In all our searching,
1584
02:05:34,403 --> 02:05:37,906
the only thing we've found
that makes the emptiness bearable...
1585
02:05:38,073 --> 02:05:39,700
is each other.
1586
02:05:43,453 --> 02:05:45,372
What happens now?
1587
02:05:46,415 --> 02:05:47,916
Now?
1588
02:05:48,834 --> 02:05:50,627
You go home.
1589
02:05:50,794 --> 02:05:52,212
Home?
1590
02:05:52,379 --> 02:05:55,465
But I have so many questions.
1591
02:05:55,632 --> 02:05:57,759
Do we get to come back?
1592
02:05:58,635 --> 02:06:00,887
This was just a first step.
1593
02:06:01,054 --> 02:06:02,806
In time, you'll take another.
1594
02:06:04,391 --> 02:06:06,768
But other people need to see
what I've seen...
1595
02:06:06,935 --> 02:06:09,980
This is the way it's been done
for billions of years.
1596
02:06:11,982 --> 02:06:14,609
- But I...
- Small moves, Ellie.
1597
02:06:16,069 --> 02:06:17,988
Small moves.
1598
02:07:01,072 --> 02:07:02,866
We've got video on Ellie.
Five-by-five.
1599
02:07:03,074 --> 02:07:04,951
She's through! She is in the net.
1600
02:07:05,118 --> 02:07:08,121
She's alive. Get the White House.
Get the president on the phone.
1601
02:07:08,288 --> 02:07:10,665
What's going on, Steve? How is she?
How is she?
1602
02:07:10,832 --> 02:07:12,542
Ellie, this is Control. Do you copy?
1603
02:07:12,709 --> 02:07:14,753
- What's going on?
- I don't know. Hang on.
1604
02:07:14,920 --> 02:07:16,646
- She is alive.
- Put her on the PA.
1605
02:07:16,713 --> 02:07:18,298
Ellie, just hold on tight.
1606
02:07:18,924 --> 02:07:22,219
We're still trying to determine
the nature of the malfunction,
1607
02:07:22,385 --> 02:07:24,888
but the important thing is you're okay.
1608
02:07:25,055 --> 02:07:26,223
What?
1609
02:07:26,389 --> 02:07:30,185
It's all right, Ellie.
The important thing is that you're safe.
1610
02:07:31,144 --> 02:07:33,438
What malfunction?
1611
02:07:34,773 --> 02:07:36,233
What...?
1612
02:07:37,400 --> 02:07:39,027
What happened?
1613
02:07:40,362 --> 02:07:42,030
What day is this?
1614
02:07:42,697 --> 02:07:45,700
I'm sorry, Ellie,
did you say "what day"?
1615
02:07:46,785 --> 02:07:49,037
How long was I gone?
1616
02:07:50,789 --> 02:07:55,585
Ellie, the IPV dropped
straight through the Machine.
1617
02:07:55,752 --> 02:07:57,420
You didn't go anywhere.
1618
02:07:58,296 --> 02:08:01,633
But I did. I did go.
1619
02:08:01,800 --> 02:08:04,177
That's what I've been trying
to tell everyone.
1620
02:08:08,640 --> 02:08:11,726
But the headset
didn't record a single image?
1621
02:08:11,893 --> 02:08:14,521
Just this. Static.
1622
02:08:14,729 --> 02:08:15,772
Thank you.
1623
02:08:15,939 --> 02:08:19,359
Now, doctor, let me show you
what we saw.
1624
02:08:28,827 --> 02:08:32,664
Forty-three separate remote cameras
show exactly the same event.
1625
02:08:32,831 --> 02:08:34,374
The IPV dropped straight through.
1626
02:08:34,541 --> 02:08:38,128
Everyone who watched
saw exactly the same thing.
1627
02:08:38,295 --> 02:08:40,130
Nothing happened.
1628
02:08:41,464 --> 02:08:43,758
How do you explain this, doctor?
1629
02:08:45,760 --> 02:08:46,887
I can't.
1630
02:08:47,095 --> 02:08:48,555
I would encourage you...
1631
02:08:50,348 --> 02:08:54,519
not to inflame this situation
beyond the facts.
1632
02:08:54,686 --> 02:08:58,106
Let us deal with this on the facts.
1633
02:08:58,273 --> 02:09:01,151
We are monitoring
what has actually happened.
1634
02:09:01,318 --> 02:09:06,656
We are taking what we believe
is factually appropriate steps.
1635
02:09:06,823 --> 02:09:10,035
Amid a flurry of accusations
and counter-accusations
1636
02:09:10,243 --> 02:09:12,829
by the nations representing
the Machine Consortium,
1637
02:09:12,996 --> 02:09:15,916
the president has ordered
a special inquiry.
1638
02:09:16,124 --> 02:09:18,919
However, the appointment
to the committee of Michael Kitz,
1639
02:09:19,127 --> 02:09:21,963
who has recently resigned
as National Security Advisor,
1640
02:09:22,130 --> 02:09:24,466
has raised a number of eyebrows
on Capitol Hill.
1641
02:09:24,633 --> 02:09:28,428
I have made no decision to run for
Congress, I have announced no candidacy.
1642
02:09:28,595 --> 02:09:31,181
The fact that I resigned
as National Security Advisor
1643
02:09:31,348 --> 02:09:33,058
has nothing to do with anything,
1644
02:09:33,224 --> 02:09:36,394
other than I want to devote
all of my energy to this inquiry.
1645
02:09:37,145 --> 02:09:41,816
The people of the world have a right
to know what really happened.
1646
02:09:42,651 --> 02:09:45,153
And yet
every scientific instrument confirms
1647
02:09:45,320 --> 02:09:49,491
the IPV was out of contact
for only a fraction of a second.
1648
02:09:49,658 --> 02:09:51,701
Isn't that correct, doctor?
1649
02:09:53,411 --> 02:09:55,705
A fraction of a second Earth time, yes.
1650
02:09:56,581 --> 02:09:57,832
Earth time?
1651
02:09:57,999 --> 02:10:01,628
Senator, I believe that the Machine
opened up a wormhole,
1652
02:10:01,795 --> 02:10:06,758
a tunnel through the fabric of space-time,
also known as an Einstein-Rosen Bridge.
1653
02:10:06,900 --> 02:10:08,815
Now, because of the
effects of general relativity,
1654
02:10:08,850 --> 02:10:11,027
what I experienced as 18 hours,
1655
02:10:11,221 --> 02:10:13,573
passed instantaneously on Earth.
1656
02:10:13,740 --> 02:10:17,978
Isn't it true that these wormholes you speak of
are merely theoretical predictions?
1657
02:10:18,144 --> 02:10:20,897
There is no evidence
they actually exist, is there?
1658
02:10:21,064 --> 02:10:22,774
There is no direct evidence, no.
1659
02:10:22,941 --> 02:10:24,693
Tell me something, doctor,
1660
02:10:24,859 --> 02:10:27,988
why do you think these aliens
would go to all this trouble?
1661
02:10:28,154 --> 02:10:32,367
Bring you tens of thousands of light years,
and then send you home without proof?
1662
02:10:33,034 --> 02:10:35,745
They said that's how it's been done
for billions of years.
1663
02:10:36,121 --> 02:10:39,708
That's very neat. You have no proof
because they didn't want you to have any.
1664
02:10:39,874 --> 02:10:44,629
A phenomenon known in psychiatric circles,
I believe, as a self-reinforcing delusion.
1665
02:10:45,213 --> 02:10:46,840
Is that what you think? Delusional?
1666
02:10:47,007 --> 02:10:51,136
Well, I do think you may have suffered
some kind of an episode. Yeah, I do.
1667
02:10:51,302 --> 02:10:54,180
Doctor, I'd like to propose
an alternate hypothesis,
1668
02:10:54,389 --> 02:10:58,059
and I'd like you to bring
your scientific expertise to bear on it.
1669
02:10:58,226 --> 02:11:01,438
To fake a signal from Vega...
1670
02:11:02,105 --> 02:11:03,690
what would you need?
1671
02:11:05,400 --> 02:11:09,195
You would need a satellite to transmit
the signal, but it would be impossible to--
1672
02:11:09,362 --> 02:11:13,283
You'd need a satellite and launch capabilities
to put the satellite into orbit.
1673
02:11:13,450 --> 02:11:16,661
And the message itself.
To put something like this together,
1674
02:11:16,828 --> 02:11:19,122
so complex,
drawing on many disciplines...
1675
02:11:19,289 --> 02:11:21,249
- Would be impossible.
- Impossible?
1676
02:11:22,542 --> 02:11:24,461
Impossible?
1677
02:11:24,627 --> 02:11:28,256
Is there anyone who might
have been up to the challenge?
1678
02:11:28,423 --> 02:11:30,884
Someone with extraordinary
technical expertise,
1679
02:11:31,051 --> 02:11:33,261
enormous financial resources,
1680
02:11:33,428 --> 02:11:37,807
someone perverse enough,
eccentric enough to come up with the idea?
1681
02:11:39,184 --> 02:11:40,226
Hadden?
1682
02:11:41,186 --> 02:11:43,646
S.R. Hadden.
1683
02:11:47,942 --> 02:11:50,987
You're implying that this was
all some kind of a hoax?
1684
02:11:51,154 --> 02:11:52,405
That he engineered this?
1685
02:11:52,572 --> 02:11:53,823
S.R. Hadden,
1686
02:11:53,990 --> 02:11:58,870
a legendary power broker and manipulator
in perhaps his final bid for immortality.
1687
02:11:59,037 --> 02:12:01,706
Maybe he wanted to
explore and exploit new technologies,
1688
02:12:01,873 --> 02:12:04,084
and get the governments
to pick up the tab.
1689
02:12:04,292 --> 02:12:07,045
Perhaps this was his
final altruistic gesture
1690
02:12:07,295 --> 02:12:11,007
to unite the world in some common goal.
Maybe all of the above.
1691
02:12:11,174 --> 02:12:16,096
S.R. Hadden,
a brilliant and complicated man.
1692
02:12:18,640 --> 02:12:22,894
Doctor, are you familiar
with the scientific precept
1693
02:12:23,061 --> 02:12:25,188
known as Occam's razor?
1694
02:12:31,402 --> 02:12:32,570
Yes.
1695
02:12:34,572 --> 02:12:36,658
It means that, all things being equal,
1696
02:12:36,825 --> 02:12:39,327
the simplest explanation
tends to be the right one.
1697
02:12:39,494 --> 02:12:41,037
Exactly.
1698
02:12:41,204 --> 02:12:43,665
Now, you tell me.
What is more likely here?
1699
02:12:43,832 --> 02:12:47,293
That a message from aliens
results in a magical machine
1700
02:12:47,460 --> 02:12:50,305
that whisks you away
to the center of the galaxy to go
1701
02:12:50,450 --> 02:12:53,328
windsurfing with your dad,
and a split second later
1702
02:12:53,424 --> 02:12:56,886
returns you home
without a single shred of proof?
1703
02:12:57,053 --> 02:13:00,849
Or, that your experience
is the result of being
1704
02:13:01,015 --> 02:13:05,478
the unwitting star in the farewell performance
of one S.R. Hadden?
1705
02:13:05,645 --> 02:13:09,440
A man with the means, motive and opportunity
to play you and the rest of us
1706
02:13:09,691 --> 02:13:13,903
as pawns in the biggest, most elaborate,
most expensive hoax of all time?
1707
02:13:15,196 --> 02:13:17,115
Dr. Arroway.
1708
02:13:18,992 --> 02:13:23,371
You come to us with no evidence,
no record,
1709
02:13:23,538 --> 02:13:25,331
no artifacts.
1710
02:13:25,498 --> 02:13:29,669
Only a story that, to put it mildly,
strains credibility.
1711
02:13:30,795 --> 02:13:33,923
Over half a trillion dollars were spent.
1712
02:13:34,090 --> 02:13:37,093
Dozens of lives were lost.
1713
02:13:37,719 --> 02:13:42,432
Are you really gonna sit there
and tell us we should just take this all...
1714
02:13:43,183 --> 02:13:44,726
on faith?
1715
02:13:48,730 --> 02:13:50,940
Please answer the question, doctor.
1716
02:13:54,861 --> 02:13:56,946
Is it possible that it didn't happen?
1717
02:13:57,113 --> 02:13:58,281
Yes.
1718
02:14:01,159 --> 02:14:04,287
As a scientist I must concede that.
I must volunteer that.
1719
02:14:08,625 --> 02:14:10,543
Wait a minute, let me get this straight.
1720
02:14:10,710 --> 02:14:14,589
You admit you have absolutely no
physical evidence to back up your story?
1721
02:14:14,923 --> 02:14:15,965
Yes.
1722
02:14:16,132 --> 02:14:19,177
You admit that you very well may have
hallucinated this whole thing?
1723
02:14:19,344 --> 02:14:21,784
- Yes.
- You admit that if you were in our position,
1724
02:14:21,850 --> 02:14:26,004
you would respond with exactly the same
degree of incredulity and skepticism?
1725
02:14:26,826 --> 02:14:27,877
Yes.
1726
02:14:27,944 --> 02:14:30,705
Then why don't you simply withdraw
your testimony, and concede
1727
02:14:30,772 --> 02:14:35,944
that this journey to the center of
the galaxy in fact never took place?
1728
02:14:38,947 --> 02:14:40,949
Because I can't.
1729
02:14:47,497 --> 02:14:48,500
I...
1730
02:14:48,930 --> 02:14:50,668
had an experience.
1731
02:14:52,835 --> 02:14:55,421
I can't prove it. I can't even explain it.
1732
02:14:55,588 --> 02:14:58,675
But everything that I know
as a human being, everything I am,
1733
02:14:58,841 --> 02:15:00,969
tells me that it was real.
1734
02:15:03,012 --> 02:15:06,891
I was given something wonderful,
something that changed me forever.
1735
02:15:07,058 --> 02:15:08,601
A vision
1736
02:15:08,768 --> 02:15:10,853
of the universe
1737
02:15:11,020 --> 02:15:13,690
that tells us undeniably
1738
02:15:13,890 --> 02:15:16,143
how tiny and insignificant and
1739
02:15:16,300 --> 02:15:20,012
how rare and precious we all are.
1740
02:15:21,155 --> 02:15:23,574
A vision that tells us
that we belong to something
1741
02:15:23,741 --> 02:15:29,414
that is greater than ourselves,
that we are not... That none of us are alone.
1742
02:15:34,043 --> 02:15:38,047
I wish I could share that.
1743
02:15:40,550 --> 02:15:41,718
I wish...
1744
02:15:43,177 --> 02:15:47,223
that everyone,
if even for one moment,
1745
02:15:47,390 --> 02:15:53,146
could feel that awe
and humility and hope.
1746
02:15:53,563 --> 02:15:55,565
But...
1747
02:16:01,738 --> 02:16:04,032
That continues to be my wish.
1748
02:16:45,198 --> 02:16:48,534
Dr. Arroway, get a picture, please?
Get a photo over here?
1749
02:16:50,161 --> 02:16:51,788
Here comes Ellie.
1750
02:17:28,074 --> 02:17:30,993
Reverend Joss! Reverend Joss!
1751
02:17:31,160 --> 02:17:34,539
Reverend Joss, what do you believe?
What do you believe?
1752
02:17:38,793 --> 02:17:42,797
As a person of faith, I'm bound by
a different covenant than Dr. Arroway.
1753
02:17:44,549 --> 02:17:46,801
But our goal is one and the same.
1754
02:17:47,301 --> 02:17:48,928
The pursuit of truth.
1755
02:17:52,473 --> 02:17:53,766
I, for one, believe her.
1756
02:18:17,331 --> 02:18:20,209
So, what happens now?
We give her a medal?
1757
02:18:20,376 --> 02:18:23,254
I'd say, at least a healthy grant.
1758
02:18:23,421 --> 02:18:26,883
I assume you read the confidential report
from the investigating committee?
1759
02:18:27,091 --> 02:18:28,843
I flipped through it.
1760
02:18:29,010 --> 02:18:33,222
I was especially interested
in the section on Arroway's video unit.
1761
02:18:34,015 --> 02:18:36,350
The one that recorded the static.
1762
02:18:37,602 --> 02:18:39,312
Continue.
1763
02:18:39,937 --> 02:18:43,774
The fact that it recorded static
isn't what interests me.
1764
02:18:48,613 --> 02:18:49,989
Continue.
1765
02:18:50,865 --> 02:18:52,700
What interests me
1766
02:18:52,867 --> 02:18:56,704
is that it recorded
approximately 18 hours of it.
1767
02:19:01,959 --> 02:19:03,878
That is interesting, isn't it?
1768
02:19:10,551 --> 02:19:14,388
You can see over there,
we're building 45 brand-new dishes.
1769
02:19:14,555 --> 02:19:18,518
And that means when you put them together
with all the radio telescopes
1770
02:19:18,684 --> 02:19:20,186
all over the world...
1771
02:19:20,353 --> 02:19:25,024
then we get to hear farther into space
than anybody has ever heard before.
1772
02:19:25,191 --> 02:19:26,234
Yeah.
1773
02:19:26,400 --> 02:19:29,237
Are there other people
out there in the universe?
1774
02:19:30,279 --> 02:19:33,032
That's a good question.
What do you think, huh?
1775
02:19:33,616 --> 02:19:36,953
- I don't know.
- That's a good answer.
1776
02:19:37,828 --> 02:19:38,871
Skeptic, huh?
1777
02:19:40,164 --> 02:19:45,044
The important thing is that you all
keep searching for your own answers.
1778
02:19:45,211 --> 02:19:48,047
I'll tell you one thing
about the universe, though.
1779
02:19:48,214 --> 02:19:52,093
The universe is a pretty big place.
1780
02:19:53,094 --> 02:19:58,599
It's bigger than anything
anyone has ever dreamed of before.
1781
02:20:00,184 --> 02:20:01,852
So if it's just us...
1782
02:20:03,479 --> 02:20:06,274
it seems like an awful waste of space.
1783
02:20:07,775 --> 02:20:09,151
Right?