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00:10The oldest cultures
00:12are not human.
00:16They're from
00:18the ocean.
00:19Forty million years ago
00:21before we walked upright
00:23before we sparked fire
00:26whales evolved
00:28to build relationships
00:30in the dark.
00:34I'm trying to start a
00:36conversation is the most
00:38basic way you can say it.
00:42I'm trying to put a speaker in
00:44the ocean and talk to a whale and hope it talks
00:46back. Starting playback.
00:49If this work
00:50is successful, it will be the first
00:52experiment where we have engaged
00:54in a dialogue with a humpback whale.
00:59People have been studying
01:01humpback song for
01:02forty, fifty years.
01:04And still
01:05no one really knows
01:07why they sing.
01:13Something different
01:14is happening here.
01:19The study has a high probability
01:22of failure.
01:24We have only a month
01:26to survey at least 30 whales.
01:30It is so hard to interpret
01:32the language of the natural world.
01:35To listen and understand
01:40what it's saying
01:41what it's saying
01:42to itself.
01:43That is of the same proportion
01:45as pointing all of our satellites
01:48skyward and listening for a sign
01:50from outer space.
01:51That's pretty cool.
01:53We're talking back to you.
01:55and we're talking back to you.
01:57We're talking back to you.
02:06Studying whale culture
02:08might be more about
02:11glimpsing something of ourselves.
02:15How we can connect differently
02:18a million years from now.
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