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We extend our best wishes to you,
inhabitants of another world.
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We hope to establish contact
with other civilized societies.
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We look forward to working with you
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to build a better life
in this vast universe.
005
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We extend our best wishes to you,
inhabitants of another world.
006
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How long have we been
transmitting our message?
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A few years.
008
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And the Americans? The Russians?
009
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Longer than that.
010
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It's the Fermi Paradox.
011
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It comes from a question that Enrico Fermi
asked his colleagues at Los Alamos.
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There are a hundred billion
stars in our galaxy.
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Many of these stars
must have planets similar to our own.
014
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And many of these planets
must have developed intelligent life.
015
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So where is everybody?
016
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Maybe there's no one out there.
017
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Our signal is too weak.
018
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25 megawatts is too weak?
019
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It's one of the most powerful
transmitters on the planet.
020
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Nobody will hear it.
021
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I need to contact the scientist
who wrote this article. Can you do that?
022
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Where is he?
023
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California.
024
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You want me to contact an American?
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If they find out they will question us.
026
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Then don't tell them about it.
027
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Any messages from outer space?
028
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I don't know how you do it.
029
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It's like listening
to the ocean for eight hours.
030
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I work out problems while I'm listening.
031
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What's this?
032
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Our secret?
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{\an8}EARTH
034
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On June 12th last year,
Dr. Peterson's team in California
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observed strong bursts
036
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of electromagnetic radiation from Jupiter.
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{\an8}JUPITER
038
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On the same day,
we detected an intense radio burst.
039
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So we detected the same thing as America?
040
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No. Our recordings picked up the burst
13 minutes after Mt. Wilson.
041
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And not from Jupiter.
042
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From the Sun.
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{\an8}SUN
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From Jupiter to the Earth,
it took 38 minutes.
045
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From Jupiter to the Sun,
it took 43 minutes.
046
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From the Sun to the Earth,
047
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8 minutes.
048
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43 plus 8 equals 51.
A difference of 13 minutes.
049
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I simplified the math for you.
050
00:10:25,708 --> 00:10:29,086
The Sun reflected
the radio waves from Jupiter?
051
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Not just reflected. It amplified them.
052
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The signal from the Sun was millions of
times stronger than the one from Jupiter.
053
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So we can use the Sun as a super-antenna?
054
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By aiming our signal at the Sun?
055
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Exactly.
056
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"We extend our best wishes to you,
inhabitants of another world."
057
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Ye Wenjie. This is genius.
058
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It could take us
many years to get a reply,
059
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but imagine China leading the world
in interstellar communication.
060
00:11:06,666 --> 00:11:08,751
I want to take it to Commissar Lei.
061
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Yes. We should.
062
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This is a radical idea, Comrade Yang.
063
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Yes.
I've been working on it for some time.
064
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It could take many years
to get a response, but…
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Enter.
066
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I want her to verify your work.
067
00:11:47,331 --> 00:11:51,877
Comrade Yang has devised a way to use
the Sun to amplify our transmission.
068
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His numbers are compelling.
069
00:11:59,677 --> 00:12:02,304
You believe his calculations
to be correct?
070
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They are correct.
071
00:12:10,104 --> 00:12:12,565
You want to aim
a super-powerful radio beam at the Sun.
072
00:12:12,815 --> 00:12:14,150
At the Red Sun?
073
00:12:14,233 --> 00:12:17,027
Have you thought about the
political symbolism of such an experiment?
074
00:12:17,111 --> 00:12:18,404
Well. Commissar, I…
075
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Who is the Red Sun
in the heart of the People?
076
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This is very disappointing from you,
Comrade Yang.
077
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And I would think, Comrade Ye Wenjie,
078
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that as the daughter of a class enemy
079
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you would have warned him
080
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how dangerous his ideas were.
081
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Sir.
Imagine our great Red Sun, our Chairman,
082
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amplifying the words of the People,
a hundred millionfold.
083
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Absolutely not. I forbid it.
084
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This could get us all executed.
085
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Test transmission in sixty seconds.
086
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Test transmission in thirty seconds.
087
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Test transmission in ten.
088
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Nine.
089
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Eight.
090
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Seven.
091
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Six.
092
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Five.
093
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Four.
094
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Three.
095
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Two.
096
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One.
097
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Begin test transmission.
098
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Message sent.
099
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Test transmission complete.
100
00:48:27,821 --> 00:48:29,656
No coffee,
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00:48:29,865 --> 00:48:31,742
sorry.
102
00:48:32,910 --> 00:48:33,827
No coffee,
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many years.
104
00:50:13,010 --> 00:50:14,678
What did he say?
105
00:50:14,761 --> 00:50:16,304
He understands.
106
00:51:16,281 --> 00:51:18,575
Ye Wenjie,
we have discussed it,
107
00:51:18,658 --> 00:51:19,659
Commissar Lei and I…
108
00:51:19,743 --> 00:51:22,329
Site 1 fits all the parameters.
109
00:51:22,412 --> 00:51:23,455
Minimal electromagnetic interference,
110
00:51:23,538 --> 00:51:24,498
access to good roads for construction--
111
00:51:24,581 --> 00:51:26,166
That's true of Site 2 as well.
112
00:51:26,333 --> 00:51:28,043
The villagers at Site 2--
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Are desperate for work.
114
00:51:29,961 --> 00:51:31,505
Too desperate.
115
00:51:31,588 --> 00:51:34,800
They'll see the lab
as a piece of meat to take bites from.
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00:51:35,675 --> 00:51:39,012
Commissar Lei and I have decided,
together, that Site 2 is better.
117
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,100
I know you're disappointed.
118
00:51:44,476 --> 00:51:48,855
You're sure it's not because
you're trying to help the American?
119
00:51:48,939 --> 00:51:53,860
You've been doing good work
for eight years. Don't throw it away.
120
00:51:57,322 --> 00:51:59,157
There is something I can do for you.
121
00:52:00,283 --> 00:52:03,120
The Commissar gave me
the names and records
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00:52:03,203 --> 00:52:05,413
of the new arrivals
at the work camp in Qiqihar.
123
00:52:05,497 --> 00:52:07,916
In case there's anyone
who could be useful for us.
124
00:52:08,959 --> 00:52:13,130
No scientists, unfortunately.
But there's a woman called Tang Hongjing.
125
00:52:13,213 --> 00:52:15,632
She used to be a Red Guard.
126
00:52:15,715 --> 00:52:19,845
During a struggle session
at Tsinghua University in 1966,
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she dealt a fatal blow to a professor
128
00:52:24,474 --> 00:52:26,309
called Ye Zhetai.
129
00:53:16,401 --> 00:53:20,405
This is a new era. The past is finished.
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00:53:20,488 --> 00:53:23,200
The past is not finished.
131
00:53:23,283 --> 00:53:25,911
You want me to repent?
132
00:53:25,994 --> 00:53:27,996
You don't think you should?
133
00:53:28,079 --> 00:53:30,457
Then who will repent for me?
134
00:53:30,540 --> 00:53:33,501
Who will atone for what I have lost?
135
00:53:34,127 --> 00:53:38,298
The Party sent me to Shaanxi
to work the wheat fields.
136
00:53:38,381 --> 00:53:40,175
After a day's work,
137
00:53:40,258 --> 00:53:42,719
I didn't even have the energy
to wash my clothes.
138
00:53:42,802 --> 00:53:47,307
We slept on the ground at night.
Listening to the sound of wolves.
139
00:53:47,390 --> 00:53:52,437
My arm was infected with gangrene.
140
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,273
The guards pinned me down…
141
00:53:57,442 --> 00:54:00,445
and cut it off me.
142
00:54:05,909 --> 00:54:08,703
I was just a kid.
143
00:54:09,454 --> 00:54:15,126
I was just a kid when I watched you
144
00:54:17,087 --> 00:54:21,967
break my father's skull with a belt.
145
00:54:23,885 --> 00:54:26,888
They told me you're clever.
146
00:54:27,180 --> 00:54:29,516
And you should be.
147
00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:32,602
Daughter of an academic.
148
00:54:32,811 --> 00:54:35,021
I was not clever.
149
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,275
I had no utility.
150
00:54:38,358 --> 00:54:41,278
Your mind spared you.
151
00:54:41,361 --> 00:54:45,448
Otherwise you would have ended up
the same as me.
152
00:54:46,074 --> 00:54:51,246
My father's mind did not spare him.
153
00:54:51,329 --> 00:54:54,207
Even now
154
00:54:56,293 --> 00:55:00,463
I would scythe him like wheat.
155
00:55:04,050 --> 00:55:06,886
You will not repent?
156
00:55:11,599 --> 00:55:16,521
No one repents.
157
00:56:11,368 --> 00:56:13,578
Signal coherence rating: AAAAA
158
00:56:55,537 --> 00:56:59,207
Do not answer. Do not answer.
Do not answer.
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00:57:03,545 --> 00:57:07,924
I am a pacifist in this world.
160
00:57:08,007 --> 00:57:12,387
You are lucky that I am
the first to receive your message.
161
00:57:14,931 --> 00:57:18,101
I am warning you: do not answer.
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00:57:18,184 --> 00:57:21,396
If you respond, we will come.
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00:57:21,479 --> 00:57:25,525
Your world will be conquered.
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00:57:29,612 --> 00:57:31,781
Do not answer.
165
00:59:05,500 --> 00:59:09,921
Come. We cannot save ourselves.
166
00:59:10,004 --> 00:59:15,009
I will help you conquer this world.