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Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.
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00:00:00Amen.
00:00:30Amen.
00:01:00Amen.
00:01:30Listen patiently.
00:02:00We who are the last men earnestly desire to communicate with you.
00:02:30I am speaking to you now from a period about 2,000 million terrestrial years in your future.
00:02:42Astronomers have made a startling discovery, which assigns a speedy end to humankind.
00:03:00We can help you.
00:03:22And we need your help.
00:03:30I am speaking to you now from a period of time.
00:03:42I am speaking to you now from a period of time.
00:03:52I am speaking to you now from a period of time.
00:04:04I am speaking to you now from a period of time.
00:04:14I am speaking to you now from a period of time.
00:04:18I am speaking to you now from a period of time.
00:04:40When your writers romance about the future, they imagine a progress towards some kind of utopia where beings like themselves live in unmitigated bliss.
00:04:54No such paradise existed through the eons that lie between your age and mine.
00:05:14Instead, we have watched huge fluctuations of joy and woe.
00:05:22The results of changes not only in humanity's environment, but also in its fluid nature.
00:05:36Human existence has been less like a mountain torrent than a great sluggish river, seldom broken by rapids.
00:06:00Human existence.
00:06:12Ages of dormancy.
00:06:14Often of stagnation.
00:06:16Filled with monotonous problems and toils of countless almost identical lives.
00:06:22Were punctuated by rare bursts.
00:06:30Human existence.
00:06:56Existence has always been precarious.
00:06:58At any stage of its career, humanity might have been exterminated by some slight alteration to its chemical environment.
00:07:08By a more than usually malignant microbe.
00:07:12By a radical change of climate.
00:07:15By the manifold effects of its own folly.
00:07:19Or by some celestial event.
00:07:29Or by some celestial event.
00:07:33of human beings.
00:07:45Or by some celestial event.
00:07:50And so it was that humanity detected a volume of nonluminous gas.
00:07:56Calculation showed that this object and the sun were approaching one another at a tangent
00:08:16and would collide.
00:08:26As a result of this, the sun would flare up and expand prodigiously.
00:08:54Life would be quite impossible on any of the planets, save, perhaps, Neptune.
00:09:02Some of our predecessors, realizing that they themselves could never live on the inhospitably
00:09:14remote planet, advocated an orgiastic celebration of pleasure until the end.
00:09:56But at length, our earlier species excelled itself in an almost unanimous resolve to devote
00:10:08its remaining centuries to the production of a new human species into a new world.
00:10:27PIANO PLAYS
00:10:39PIANO PLAYS
00:10:51PIANO CONTINUES
00:11:03PIANO CONTINUES
00:11:17Ten more species succeeded one another on the plains of Neptune.
00:11:21PIANO CONTINUES
00:11:33We, the Eighteenth, are the last men.
00:11:36PIANO CONTINUES
00:11:52PIANO CONTINUES
00:11:56PIANO CONTINUES
00:12:20PIANO CONTINUES
00:12:24If you could enter this world of the Last Men,
00:12:27you would find some things familiar
00:12:29and much that would seem strangely distorted and perverse.
00:12:36You would encounter creatures recognizably human,
00:12:41yet in your view, grotesque.
00:12:49Some of these fantastic beings you would find covered with fur
00:12:53or mole velvet, revealing the underlying muscles.
00:13:02Others display brown, yellow or ruddy skin,
00:13:07and yet others, a translucent ash green.
00:13:23You might call us fawn-like, ape-like, bear-like,
00:13:32or even elephantine.
00:13:35You might call us fawn-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-like, bear-
00:15:21Yet some characteristics are common to all of us.
00:15:24The upward-looking astronomical eye on the crown of the skull would shock you.
00:15:33This organ, when fully extended about a hand-breadth from its bony case,
00:15:56reveals the heavens in as much detail as your astronomical telescopes.
00:16:03The end of the skull would shock you, perhaps.
00:16:10The end of the skull would shock you, perhaps.
00:16:21I don't know.
00:16:51I don't know.
00:17:21Scattered about the green plains of our colonized planet, you would notice many buildings.
00:17:28These buildings would seem like geometrical mountains to you.
00:17:43In many cases, the whole fabric is translucent or transparent, so that at night, with internal
00:17:57illumination, it appears as an edifice of light.
00:18:01I don't know.
00:18:03I don't know.
00:18:05I don't know.
00:18:06I don't know.
00:23:46You may wonder how we permit ourselves to have any children at all.
00:23:50Our policy is to produce new individuals of a higher order than ourselves.
00:24:05As a result, we need a continuous supply of children.
00:24:14The fetus is carried for 20 years.
00:24:27Infancy lasts for about a century when the foundations of body and mind are slowly laid.
00:25:05Okay.
00:25:06Multi-likation of the 1990s.
00:25:07When our children obtain physical adolescence, nearly a thousand years after birth.
00:25:11They leave the safe paths of childhood to spend another thousand years in one of the
00:25:17polar continents known as the land of the young.
00:25:23There, our young people live the half-primitive, half-sophisticated life that suits their nature.
00:25:40Love and hate.
00:26:10Love and hate.
00:26:40Love and hate.
00:27:10Love and hate.
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00:28:10Love and hate.
00:28:40Love and hate.
00:29:10Love and hate.
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00:30:01Love and hate.
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00:30:08Love and hate.
00:30:09Love and hate.
00:30:10Love and hate.
00:30:11Love and hate.
00:30:12Love and hate.
00:30:13Love and hate.
00:30:14Love and hate.
00:30:15Love and hate.
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00:30:20Love and hate.
00:30:21When these individuals join in simultaneous mental unity,
00:30:51the entire past of the species appears as a personal memory.
00:31:21They are able to enter into past mines.
00:31:51They are able to enter into past mines.
00:31:58They are able to enter into past mines.
00:32:04They are able to enter into past mines.
00:32:09They are able to enter into past mines.
00:32:18Away from those contented to remain on the planet's surface
00:32:23are the Navigators, who embody humanity's proud mastery of interstellar space.
00:32:30The Navigators mentally form a unique class among us
00:32:39because they spend so much of their time in the empty regions
00:32:43beyond the range of telepathic communication.
00:32:49They are a hardy, simple, and modest folk.
00:33:02The Navigators mentally form a unique experience.
00:33:05They are able to enter into the desert pages?
00:33:09They are able to enter into past mines.
00:33:12They are able to enter into past mines in the past mines.
00:33:15They are able to enter into past mines.
00:33:17They are able to find out to them inside them as a roaster as a human soul.
00:34:22Half the crew had died.
00:34:28The survivors were emaciated
00:34:30and mentally unbalanced.
00:34:35Throughout the voyage, an unexpected alteration taking place in a neighboring star was observed.
00:34:46It began to change from white to violet and increase in brightness.
00:34:55When the ship returned, the crew flung open the ports and staggered blubbering into the arms of the crowd.
00:35:10These poor human wrecks have shown a phobia of the stars and of all that is not human.
00:35:24They dare not go out at night.
00:35:31They cannot find companionship.
00:35:34They cling piteously to the sweets of individual life.
00:35:43A mere defense against reality.
00:35:49They do not see you in a part of the sea.
00:35:52They are com أن they're taken to the sky.
00:35:54They have sepulchized by the stars and the stars from the sky.
00:38:00The navigators have made a startling discovery.
00:38:04It is something unprecedented.
00:38:09A normal star suffering from a fantastic acceleration of its vital process.
00:38:17We hoped that our sun might prove too distant to be seriously influenced.
00:38:26But this hope had to be abandoned.
00:38:31Within 30,000 years, life will be impossible anywhere within a vast radius of the sun.
00:38:39So vast a radius that it is quite impossible to propel our planet away fast enough to escape.
00:41:35There was nothing left for us to do, but to crowd as much as possible into our remaining
00:41:53life and meet our end in the noblest manner.
00:41:57And there again came upon us the rare experience
00:42:09of a unified mind among the species.
00:42:13For a whole year, every individual entered a trance in which we resolved many ancient mysteries.
00:42:53And in consequence of this, we found ourselves faced with two tasks that had not yet been contemplated.
00:43:12First, we have set about the forlorn task of disseminating the seeds of a new humanity among the stars.
00:43:26We have devised minute electromagnetic wave systems individually capable of sailing forward toward the most promising regions of the galaxy.
00:43:48These units are so cunningly interrelated that they combine to form spores of life.
00:44:06We shall project these particles in immense quantities.
00:44:24But the chance that any of them will survive to find a suitable environment is small.
00:44:30It is clear to us that the work will not be completed until the disintegration of our community has begun.
00:44:42The second task that occupies us relates to the past.
00:44:59We need your help.
00:45:12We have long been able to enter and part of the planet,
00:45:33and we are all in front of the planet.
00:45:37We have long been able to enter and participate in the experiences of past minds as passive spectators.
00:45:48But recently, we have discovered the power of influencing the past.
00:45:54This may seem to be an impossibility. A past event is what it is.
00:46:01But in certain cases, some feature of a past event may depend on an event in the far future.
00:46:18In certain rare cases, mental events far separated in time determine one another directly.
00:46:31The past can help us learn once again that supreme achievement of the human spirit.
00:46:50The loyalty to the forces of life embattled against death.
00:47:01THE END
00:47:28But what is it that we seek to contribute to the past?
00:47:36We want to help the past make the best of itself.
00:47:43We seek to direct the attention of past individuals
00:47:47to truths which would otherwise be overlooked.
00:47:51Those of us who still care for the life of the mind
00:47:58attempted to regret that humankind did not choose decent suicide
00:48:03before the degeneration began.
00:48:08But this could not be.
00:48:11The mission we undertook had to be completed.
00:48:17This is the last office of humanity.
00:48:21This is, as a today with physical training,
00:48:26not to dermat facetail.
00:48:27It's love's enjoyment.
00:48:30The solution's not made by this machine.
00:48:35You may our stand in an удив opener soon.
00:48:42Maybe you'd end up later.
00:48:46Nothing, nobody…
00:48:49To be continued...
00:49:19...in your future.
00:49:25It has become very difficult to reach you.
00:49:35And still more difficult to speak to you.
00:49:49It has become very difficult to reach you.
00:50:19It has become very difficult to reach you.
00:50:49It has become very difficult to reach you.
00:51:18It has become very difficult to reach you.
00:51:20It has become very difficult to reach you.
00:51:22It has become very difficult to reach you.
00:51:26The deluge of solar radiation has had a disastrous effect on the human organism.
00:51:36We are the wreckage of our former selves.
00:51:42We are the wreckage of our former selves.
00:51:46We are the wreckage of our former selves.
00:51:56We are the wreckage of our former selves.
00:51:58We are the wreckage of our hemos Mullis.
00:52:00We are the wreckage of our fellow probably.
00:52:02We are the wreckage of our other parts for our
00:52:28I don't know.
00:52:58The full power of telepathic communication is now so unreliable that we have been compelled to fall back upon the archaic practice of vocal symbolism.
00:53:28The full power of telepathic communication is now so unreliable that we have been able to do so.
00:53:43Away from the sun's destructive heat, we are forcing our planet outward from its old orbit in an ever-widening spiral.
00:54:13But we have not been able to prevent the climate from becoming more and more deadly.
00:54:23Even at the poles where we have migrated, the intervening regions have all been deserted.
00:54:32Evaporation of the oceans has thrown the whole atmosphere into tumult.
00:54:44The wind is taking place in the mountains.
00:54:50The wind is coming out.
00:54:54The wind is falling apart.
00:54:59The wind is falling apart.
00:55:03The wind is falling apart.
00:55:06The wind is falling apart.
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