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00:09The oldest cultures
00:10are not human.
00:15They're from the ocean.
00:1840 million
00:20years ago, before we
00:21walked upright, before
00:23we sparked fire,
00:26whales evolved to build
00:27relationships in the
00:29dark.
00:33I'm trying to start a conversation
00:35is the most basic
00:37way you can say it.
00:41I'm trying
00:41to put a speaker in the ocean and
00:43talk to a whale and hope it talks back.
00:46Starting playback.
00:48If this work is successful,
00:50it will be the first experiment
00:52where we have engaged in a dialogue
00:54with a humpback whale.
00:58People have been studying
00:59pumpback song for 40,
01:0150 years.
01:03And still, no one
01:05really knows why
01:07they sing.
01:12Something different
01:13is happening here.
01:18The study has a high probability
01:21of failure.
01:23We have only a month
01:25to survey at least 30 whales.
01:29It is so hard to interpret
01:31the language of the natural world.
01:34To listen and understand
01:36and understand
01:39what it's saying
01:40to itself.
01:42That is of the same proportion
01:44as pointing all of our satellites
01:47skyward and listening for a sign
01:49from outer space.
01:50That's pretty cool.
01:52We're talking back to you.
01:54We're talking back to you.
02:06Studying whale culture
02:08might be more about
02:10glimpsing something of ourselves.
02:14How we can connect differently
02:17a million years from now.
02:19to the future.
02:28To be continued...
02:33To be continued...
02:36To be continued...
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