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(upbeat techno music)

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(fast flute music)

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(quick playful music)

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- Mr. Cassini, my measurements
show the world's a sphere.

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It bulges slightly at
the equator like this

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and flattens at the
poles, precisely as Newton

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the great English scientist said.

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- Mr. Richard, you're
wrong, it is quite contrary,

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the earth is a sphere that
is bulging at the poles

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and flatter at the equator.

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- My dear sir, much
flatter around the poles,

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more like a potato.

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- A potato? How dare you say such a thing?

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(crowd murmuring)

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- My measurements, my measurements.

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- I'm the one to wanted
measurements to be made.

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They're not the ones I wanted.

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- But these are the correct ones.

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- Then I must call you
a traitor, a hypocrite,

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a cuckoo, a squibbler!
(crowd murmuring)

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- [Mr. Richard] You see
this theory's correct,

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really a potato.

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- Yes a potato, precisely Newton's law.

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- Oh yes.

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- A potato?
(crowd murmuring)

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- At the poles, flatly a question.

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- My dear sir.

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- I don't understand!

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- Your opinion Mr. Voltaire?

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Like a pear?

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- No.

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No monsieur Condamine.

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The theory is correct.

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The Earth is more like a...

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- Potato!

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- Monsieur Bernard le
Bovier de Fontenelle,

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permanent secretary of
the Academy of Sciences.

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(murmurs)

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(sniffling)

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(sneezing)

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Monsieur, may I remind you the dignity

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of our Academy is inconsistent

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with such emotional exuberance.

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Surely we alone can resolve this question,

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reason based on research.

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Therefore, with the consent

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of our gracious sovereign Louis the 15th,

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one expedition to the equator

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will determine the shape of the Earth.

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Another expedition to the
North pole will do the same.

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Hm...

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Where is that pear?

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(chewing)

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Delicious!

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They're even better when you peal 'em.

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Anyway, is the Earth like a pear?

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- Or more potato like?

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- More like an apple.

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- But the Earth.

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- Well, it's round.

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- Like a ball, right?

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- Let's see...

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A ball, yes, but not so perfectly round.

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Sir Isaac Newton, the
great English scientist

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calculated that the rotation
of the Earth would make it

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bulge out at the equator, like this.

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It never does work when...

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Ah, it works fine.

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Yes, it works.

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But the French astronomer,
Cassini, believed the contrary.

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The bulges would be at the poles.

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The only way to measure
the bulges is to go there.

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Monsieur De Maupertuis makes
measurements in Lapland,

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Monsieur Condamine at the Equator.

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He has also offered to assist
in financing the expedition.

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A most timely gesture:
100,000 pounds sterling.

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(birds chirping)

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(speaking French)

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And our captain, sir.

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May I present captain of the royal fleet.

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(speaking French)

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- French scientists with
authorization the king of Spain.

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Come to the town hall.

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Quito, the ancient
capital of Peru, is here,

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to the northwest, but
the route is difficult,

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as well as dangerous.

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It would be better to travel south by boat

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to Guayaquil.

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From there, there's a good road to Quito.

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- Explore the land to the equator.

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Quite an interesting plan.

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- It would be very difficult.

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- You take the boat, then, and
I'll explore the shoreline.

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- Alone?

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You would be the first
to reach the equator.

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I am going with you.

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- I'm sure you're very welcome.

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(laughing)

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(wind)

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(scream)

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Thanks goodness, the mosquitoes are gone.

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We'll camp here.

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The southern cross.

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We must be very near the equator.

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I'll take a few measurements.

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- I can't hear you.

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What did you say?

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- I said that we're very near the equator.

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You're not looking well, Mr. Bouguer.

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- I'm freezing.

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- Oh.

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- I hear horses.

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(speaking foreign language)

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(speaking Spanish)

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- You've heard of me.

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And you know my name?

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- [Pedro] Your reputation
has preceded you.

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I can guide you to Quito,
but your friend looks too ill

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to go with us.

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- What can we do to help?

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- He should go with the others by ship.

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(shivering)

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- You'll be all right aboard ship,

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and I'll see you again in Quito.

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- Don't take any measurements, now.

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I want to be the first one.

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(mumbling)

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(shouting)

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- Curious, they look like Africans.

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- Yes, a slave ship sank near
here, about 50 years ago.

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The survivors founded a
village on this river,

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the Esperalda, and they are happy.

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Look at them.

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We'll take my boat, and
go up the Esperalda.

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- This jungle is unbelievable.

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- It's really a tropical rain forest.

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(stirring music)

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It's through the flora and fauna, here.

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- Look at those monkeys.

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Look at those giant mushrooms.

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They're enormous.

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- Watch it, we're being watched.

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(exotic drums)

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- What is that?

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- That's latex.

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They heat it and use it.

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It stretches.

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(laughing)

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- It's waterproof.

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Gives me a good idea.

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- There we are.

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- What is it?

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- My instruments, in this waterproof sack,

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they're protected from humidity.

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See? Simple.

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- Very soon.

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This is my port.

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This is as far as the boat will go.

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(speaking foreign language)

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They fear the Indians.

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They're returning home.

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(frantic music)

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- What do we do now?

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- Nothing to worry about.

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Tomorrow morning, you'll see.

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Try this, it's delicious.

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(crickets chirping)

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- Morning, Pedro.

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- Did you see?

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Look there.

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There, behind those trees.

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(curious music)

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(shouting)

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Si, si amigo, si amigos.

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(laughing)

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Now, you look better to them.

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As we go higher, it will be
very difficult to breathe.

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- But all this is just rope.

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- It's safe.

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They just rebuilt it. Go on.

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(jazzy music)

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Dizziness.

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If you mustn't look down,
keep looking further ahead.

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Go on, I'm right behind you.

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- What am I doing here?

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- You'll be glad you come,
when you see how beautiful

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it is.

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There.

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Just look at that.

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(speaking Spanish)

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There, you see?

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Quito, magnificent capital, there.

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- Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.

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- Are you the French scientist?

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- Yes, we have the king's authorization.

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- The governor wants to see you.

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- [Man] Yes, of course.

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- I'd better change.

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I hate to take them off.

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- Measure the length of a great arc.

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Study the curvature of the earth.

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They travel so far, and with so many,

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just to prove that the earth is round?

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- That's the point, Your Excellency,

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the earth is not round.

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- Why are you really here?

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Would it be gold, perhaps,
or the platinum mines

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you're after?

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I understand.

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You're no more than English spies.

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- But, we're not English.

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Sir, we are French.

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- Really? Oh, just one moment.

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You wouldn't by chance have come here

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to find the Inca treasure?

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Be warned, I've got my eye on you.

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All of you.

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You're under my jurisdiction.

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- Your Excellency.

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- This is my Uncle Juan.

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He's offered to help.

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- To measure the earth
is why you have come?

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- That's it.

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To begin, we'll need
cartographic data, a map.

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- Yes, I have one.

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- Splendid, that's just what we need.

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- We'll check to see it's accurate.

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We'll form three groups, to
go there, there, and there.

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- It's your fault.

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Hasn't anybody told you,
never bother a llama

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when he drinks?

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- [Narrator] At last, it
appeared that the scientists

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could begin serious work,
but a series of misfortunes

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was the plague the expedition.

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(tender strings)

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- It's malaria.

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The fever could kill him.

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(speaking Spanish)

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(shouting)

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- How dare you?

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- En garde.

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- It is the bulls that we come.

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- Not to see a duel.

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(shouting)

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- They should never have come.

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- My dear sir, may I ask your help?

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I want to know the distance
between those windows.

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- My pleasure.

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(perplexing music)

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- Extraordinary, it really is.

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Such splendid original specimens.

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A remarkable collection
for the king, and now,

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we'll go back.

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Oh, no!

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My whole collection!

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All gone down the stream.

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Row, row, row your boat, down the stream.

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My collection, down the stream.

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- My dear sir, what is it?

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Is something wrong?

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Have you been hurt?

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- I have been struck in the heart.

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Sir, will you give me your daughter's hand

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in marriage?

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- I now pronounce you man and wife.

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- Well, there we are, my friends.

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Our work will soon be completed.

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I, that is, I'm, as it happens,
I've been offered a post

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as an astronomer in
Lima, in Peru, and then,

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I will, no doubt, go
to Cadaques, in Spain.

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I'll be on my way, monsieur.

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- Well.

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- [Narrator] And that
was that, my friends.

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And this is all that's left

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of our original expedition.

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(exciting music)

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- Well, there we are.

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Now, we have proof the earth isn't round.

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- And now, amigo, you go homes.

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- I'll give the academy my result,

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as soon as I'm home.

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- If you like, we'll do it
together, Monsieur Bouguer.

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- Oh, yes, of course.

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But I will be in Paris,
first, ahead of him.

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- Come in, my friend. Come in.

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You want to go down the Amazon.

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My son, 200 years ago,
a Spaniard, Oralano,

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went down that great river.

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His voyage was terrible, a nightmare.

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He almost starved to death,
attacked by wild Indians,

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and once by an army of
women, that's right.

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Dangerous women.

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- Look, over there, you see what I see?

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There are too many of them.

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Back to the boats.

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- 50 years ago, a priest, Father Fritz,

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went on an expedition,
also to explore the Amazon.

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Here's the map he left.

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My nephew, Pedro Maldonado, will go too.

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Be careful.

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I'm told that the man who
killed Dr. Seneras, Don Lyon,

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is going to be ambushing you.

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(perplexing music)

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- [Narrator] Then, there were only three.

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- They arrived.

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- Once and for all, get rid of the French.

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- Hombre is wait to cancel, Senor.

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- Maybe don't want lie,
and wait in the riverbank.

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The Indians will help us avoid his trap.

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- They ought to be here.

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They disappear, where are they?

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- Chief, they are in the
forest over there, Senor.

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- You backward peasant.

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You reminded him!

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Where are the boats?

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Get them, go on!

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(laughing)

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- I have an idea.

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(shouting)

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- We got him!

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Sneaky foreigners, you'll pay for this!

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(shouting)

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- My notes, there!

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All my clothes!

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Ah, it doesn't matter.

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All my notes are safe.

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(snoring)

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It's very strange.

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I mean, curare is a deadly poison,

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but we can consume animals killed with it,

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and there is no danger.

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(snoring)

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(shouting)

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- From now on, we will sleep in the boats.

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Much more intelligent.

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- Hey, what's that?

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- A dwarf monkey.

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Called the boxer.

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Put out your hand, you'll see why.

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(laughing)

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Take a look at him.

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He spends his whole life upside down.

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He hardly ever moves, and when he does,

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he's very slow.

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We call him a sloth.

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- [Condamine] Can it walk?

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- No, it crawls.

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Watch, I'll show you.

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- Something for lunch?

353
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- No, we use in fishing.

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He'll show you.

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- I'm learning enough for a lifetime.

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I want to find out all about it.

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The Rio Negro from the north is full

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of rotting plant matter.

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The Amazon carries along
a more light colored tint.

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How strange?

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Two rivers flowing down the same riverbed.

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- We are coming to Manaus.

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What is that stone you have?

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- It's a sacred stone.

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It's from the tribe of woman warriors.

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- The Amazons, that's interesting,

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but do these women exist?

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- They could exist, but
then again, who knows?

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- [Condamine] Where did
you get that green stone?

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- Haven't got a green stone.

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What made you think I did.

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But nobody can stop you from
looking for one, if you want.

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May be that way, it's
called an Amazon stone.

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- I spot 'em!

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Come back!

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- Ah, look, there's an arrow
here, and lot of footprints

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made all around it.

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Let's.

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(squawking)

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- Yes, gentlemen, and
thus, I have demonstrated

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the world is not round.

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I have entirely mapped
Peru, I've discovered lands.

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- Mr. Bouguer, on this
expedition, you weren't alone.

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Monsieur La Condamine went with you.

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Traveled down the Amazon,
and explored unknown regions,

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new lands, we could say.

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He has even brought back samples

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of most curious substances,
and I would say,

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this one is most amusing.

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- Oh, yes, of course.

391
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Monsieur La Condemine was an
excellent assistant, colleague,

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but what substance were you speaking of?

393
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- Oh, there are many.

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The poison curare, useful in medicine,

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powerful insecticides,
and rubber, it stretches.

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- [Bouguer] Rubber, what?

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- You can see, this is it.

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- Oh, that.

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Yeah, well, it stretches,
it's for, it's uses,

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it's useless.

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- [Narrator] A few
months later at the same

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Academy of Sciences.

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- This substance is
produced in a liquid state,

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by a tropical tree named Hevea.

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When it is processed, using
heat, it can be molded

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into any shape.

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It cools and hardens,
retaining that shape,

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as well as high degree of
elasticity, as demonstrated.

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Also, rubber is totally waterproof.

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Imagine how many useful
objects could be made

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of rubber, unbreakable, elastic,
and completely waterproof.

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- Condamine knew Amazonia,
especially the Amazon,

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from its source, down
to the sea, 4,000 miles.

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A giant of a river, 200
thousand cubic meters of water,

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every second, and deposits
sediment hundreds of miles

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out on the ocean.

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He drew very good maps of the whole area.

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He studied and collected
the remarkable flora

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and fauna, the plants and animals.

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He revealed a new world that till then,

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was totally unknown.

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(orchestra music)