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00:01:26How are you still alive?
00:01:49How am I still alive?
00:01:57We're a flawed species
00:02:01Okay, are you ready to meet your little sister?
00:02:12We're impossibly fragile
00:02:17Do you think we should keep her?
00:02:21Yeah
00:02:28We're self-destructive
00:02:39We're self-destructive
00:02:41Superstitious
00:02:48Driven by fear
00:03:03Driven by fear
00:03:09Let alone in the endless black ocean of our universe
00:03:12Topunk!
00:03:18What's past the last planet?
00:03:22Infinity
00:03:22Infinity
00:03:26Everything
00:03:28Anything
00:03:33Nothing ever lasts
00:03:35How am I still alive?
00:03:42We need to let it go
00:03:45It needs to breathe
00:03:54One day
00:03:56We will die
00:04:01Hey, are you okay?
00:04:05Mom?
00:04:06Mom!
00:04:07Mom!
00:04:09We become dust
00:04:11I know what happened
00:04:12I know what happened
00:04:13I know what happened
00:04:17Oh my god
00:04:18I know what happened
00:04:19And our dust
00:04:19Joins all the other dust
00:04:22Of the universe
00:04:28And everything we love
00:04:34Goes away
00:04:40How am I still alive?
00:04:44How are any of us?
00:04:53What if biological life is just a state?
00:04:57What if we can evolve?
00:04:59So our future as a species is post-biological?
00:05:05Our present is post-biological.
00:05:08It took us 6,000 years to go from leeches to pacemakers.
00:05:12But from pacemakers to genetically modifying human embryos, it took just 60.
00:05:18So this isn't the future.
00:05:20The future is right now.
00:05:23Let me ask you this, though.
00:05:24So if our destiny is post-biological, is there other life in the universe as well?
00:05:30Oh, that's a stone-cold certainty.
00:05:34Okay, wait, wait.
00:05:35Here's what I want to know.
00:05:36Is there something you know that we don't?
00:05:41Look, people call me a tech visionary.
00:05:44That's just a bunch of horse shit.
00:05:46I'm just a fella that sees what's right in front of him.
00:05:50And it ain't no secret that I made my first billion from solar energy.
00:05:55But I did not invent the sun.
00:05:58I'm no visionary.
00:06:02Visionaries see things that no one else does.
00:06:08And that's rare.
00:06:11Okay, so who does Sam Houston consider a visionary?
00:06:18Well, you know what?
00:06:19We have one right here in this very room.
00:06:27Annika Kask.
00:06:31Annika Kask, would you please raise your hand?
00:06:36There she is.
00:06:39The first person to photograph dark matter.
00:06:50That's it.
00:06:51There you go.
00:06:52Thanks, Annika Kask.
00:06:52All right.
00:06:53Well, you bet.
00:06:54You bet.
00:06:54Thanks for having me.
00:06:56Appreciate it.
00:06:57That was really great.
00:06:58Nobody got hurt.
00:06:59Oh, uh, excuse me.
00:07:03Annika?
00:07:05I...
00:07:05Hey.
00:07:06Big fan.
00:07:08Big fan.
00:07:10I'm flattered.
00:07:12Well, uh, I have a confession to make.
00:07:16I didn't come here just to do a TED talk.
00:07:21I want to offer you a job.
00:07:27You know, most people, they look at the universe, and it's empty.
00:07:33And you, with one image, proved them all wrong.
00:07:37How'd you do it?
00:07:43Every time we'd try and image it, we'd get chaos.
00:07:47Couldn't find the right data set.
00:07:49What was the right set?
00:07:50All of them.
00:07:51At once.
00:07:53Overlapping.
00:07:54Like 3D glasses, except instead of just red and blue, we overlap 233 data sets.
00:08:00To find order in the chaos, and then you get that.
00:08:05Well, that's the how, but...
00:08:09Why?
00:08:13No one's ever asked me that before.
00:08:19I guess I just want to know what's out there.
00:08:23You want to know what's out there.
00:08:25Why not down here?
00:08:29It's a one-year contract.
00:08:31Small lab.
00:08:33On a remote island in the Caribbean.
00:08:36What lab?
00:08:36That's confidential.
00:08:39You need scientists to work on a secret project on a remote island in the Caribbean.
00:08:44Let me tell you something.
00:08:45Let me tell you something.
00:08:47There's more up there.
00:08:49And down here.
00:08:51Everywhere.
00:08:52Aliens.
00:08:59Look, Mr. Houston, I appreciate the offer.
00:09:02But I'm not the kind of scientist who hunts for aliens.
00:09:05We're not hunting.
00:09:08We're gathering.
00:09:10And we need your discovery to make sense of it.
00:09:16Look, you can forget about your little green men fishing for radio waves and hunting for
00:09:23a needle in a haystack, because I'm here to tell you that the whole haystack is made out
00:09:28of needles.
00:09:29We're not alone in the dark.
00:09:32In fact, the darkness has been our company all along.
00:09:39You're going to find out.
00:09:57I am an electronics engineer.
00:10:00Charlie Kaminsky.
00:10:03Sorry, it's just Charlie Kaminsky saying he's an electronics engineer is like Stephen Hawking
00:10:10saying he teaches math.
00:10:13Yeah.
00:10:13I'm the CTO of Gateway Labs.
00:10:16Sam hired me to check some new toys he's building.
00:10:19Where do you work, Annika?
00:10:20RIT.
00:10:22You're Annika Cass.
00:10:24Yeah.
00:10:25Wow.
00:10:25How did Sam land you?
00:10:27He promised me we weren't hunting for aliens.
00:10:30You?
00:10:32You promised me we were.
00:10:36Oh, wow.
00:10:39Wow.
00:11:05Welcome to the island.
00:11:08How many people are working out here right now?
00:11:11Nine or ten.
00:11:11Dr. Glassner likes to keep it small.
00:11:14Perry Glassner.
00:11:17Wow.
00:11:18Shit.
00:11:19Okay.
00:11:19Yeah.
00:11:19Super friends unite.
00:11:20I like it.
00:11:22We'll see to your luggage.
00:11:23Dr. Glassner is waiting for you in the main facility.
00:11:25Great.
00:11:28Oh, I'll catch up.
00:11:30Here, just be careful with it.
00:11:31Yeah.
00:11:31Just delicate.
00:11:32Thank you so much.
00:11:34Perfect.
00:11:36Oh, there we go.
00:11:37You can take that one for me.
00:11:38Thanks.
00:11:41Thanks.
00:11:45Thanks.
00:11:46Thanks.
00:11:50Thanks.
00:11:58Thanks.
00:11:59Thanks.
00:12:04Thanks.
00:12:51What's this?
00:12:53B12 methylphenidate immunobulcerin.
00:13:10You shatter a bone and it heals, but you bruise trust and it's fatal.
00:13:17What's your purpose?
00:13:20I'm Dr. Annika Kask.
00:13:22Well, that's a chair I can sit in and that's a door I can walk out of.
00:13:26So what is your purpose?
00:13:29Sam Houston sent me.
00:13:30Why would he do that?
00:13:34I'm a computer scientist.
00:13:35Oh, right.
00:13:37That's a shame.
00:13:40That's a shame.
00:13:41I thought you might have the salt to admit the truth that you've been sent here by Sam to spy
00:13:46on me.
00:13:47To be the bruise that kills me.
00:13:51Should I go?
00:13:53No, no, no, no, no.
00:13:55After all, I might need an algorithm.
00:13:59Oh, Dr. Glassner.
00:14:01Hi, I'm Charlie.
00:14:01I've got to tell you, man.
00:14:03From one scientist to another...
00:14:04Here we go.
00:14:05They're fucking multiplying.
00:14:09I blew it.
00:14:11My gosh.
00:14:13As per your NDA's communications are monitored, you will be watched.
00:14:17That feels like overkill.
00:14:19Yes, it's completely and utterly unnecessary.
00:14:21I should be doing this work on my own in my basement.
00:14:24But Sam would never allow that because this isn't really a lab.
00:14:27It's a shrine to one man's overwhelming hubris.
00:14:30You see, most billionaires buy yachts or football teams, but he wants to buy ideas or legacies to show the
00:14:35world he's somehow changed the course of human history.
00:14:38So that's what you do here?
00:14:43That's what we're about to do.
00:14:45Welcome to the TuneIn Lab.
00:14:49So you, you're up to speed.
00:14:53That dark matter algorithm you discovered, you'll need to apply it here.
00:14:58Is this what I think it is?
00:14:59Does it work?
00:14:59No, yes.
00:15:00And get the fuck away from me.
00:15:02Right, where to begin?
00:15:03Let's begin at the beginning in darkness.
00:15:06So let there be light and heat and bacteria, single-celled organisms, skip a few billion years, reptiles, monkeys, then
00:15:14us, apex predators.
00:15:16Petty, aren't we?
00:15:17Cruel.
00:15:19Prone to self-destruction.
00:15:21Hell bent on rage fucking our habitat out of existence.
00:15:24So now we turn our eyes away from Earth in search of other worlds to defy it.
00:15:28But there's a hitch because Mr. Drake's equation tells us that we're not alone.
00:15:32The universe is too vast, rich with resources, lightly swimming, with intelligent life competition.
00:15:38And most of that's going to be millions, if not billions of years ahead of us.
00:15:42So we come into this race far, far behind.
00:15:45Nevertheless, we do start looking with whatever crude tools are available.
00:15:49As you know, SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has been scanning, uh, what?
00:15:54Oh yeah, radio waves.
00:15:56That still only covers, what?
00:15:58One ten millionth of the night sky using hilariously outdated technology.
00:16:03It's like taking a little bowl of water out of the ocean and peering in and concluding that whales don't
00:16:07exist.
00:16:08No.
00:16:08Not radio.
00:16:09That's not how you communicate if you're an interplanetary intelligence, is it?
00:16:13You want to talk across space and time instantaneously.
00:16:17So let's do this.
00:16:18Take two photons, pair them, keep one here, send the other light years away, force one photon into a declared
00:16:24state,
00:16:24and the other responds in the very same moment across space and time.
00:16:29String a few billion of those together and you've got an FTL communicator.
00:16:33No, no, but quantum communication can't work.
00:16:35It breaks the laws of physics.
00:16:36No, no, it bends the laws that we know, and that's not what this is.
00:16:40No, if you force a quantum state change that breaks entanglement...
00:16:44This machine does not force a state change.
00:16:46It doesn't entangle or disentangle.
00:16:48It just hears when someone has.
00:16:50This simply listens.
00:16:52It's impossible.
00:16:53And yet here we have a machine that does exactly that,
00:16:56that I built six years ago in my basement on my own on amphetamines.
00:17:01So, take a look for yourself.
00:17:05What do you want us to do?
00:17:07Well, here's a hint.
00:17:09You've already done it.
00:17:14It says he's scanning the radius of a couple of feet.
00:17:17Right here.
00:17:18So, if he's listening for aliens, then it's...
00:17:21He's doing it right here.
00:17:22In this, in this room.
00:17:24But, what is it?
00:17:25I mean, like, these are just, it's, it's a ton of data points.
00:17:27It's, it's, it's like background noise of anywhere in the universe.
00:17:30There's no rhyme or reason behind it.
00:17:32It's...
00:17:32It's chaos.
00:17:33Yeah.
00:17:39Then we find order in the camps.
00:17:54Sort by data sets.
00:17:58Okay.
00:18:01It's the same algorithm.
00:18:04It's my algorithm.
00:18:09Sort by...
00:18:10It's poems.
00:18:13It's organizing.
00:18:17It's sort by primes.
00:18:19What, what, what, what is this?
00:18:23I can't believe this.
00:18:27Oh, really?
00:18:29Oh.
00:18:33It's, it's a signal.
00:18:38They're, they're, they're talking.
00:18:48Holy shit.
00:18:52Dr. Glassner?
00:18:57Dr. Glassner?
00:18:59He, he, he's only scanning one little area, but if it's quantum communication, then it's, it's all around us.
00:19:03Or there's another explanation or another phenomenon that we're not seeing, or...
00:19:06Oh, oh, Annika.
00:19:07Let's fuck to the S-Aliens.
00:19:08Dr. Glassner?
00:19:09I mean, we've been looking millions of light years away for, for smoke signals, but they were around us the
00:19:13entire time.
00:19:14It's...
00:19:15Is this real?
00:19:17You tell me.
00:19:18You're here to check my math.
00:19:19I mean, this, this, this means, this, this means...
00:19:21It means we're not alone, we're not the center of the universe, we're not special.
00:19:25It means they don't know anything about us, or they don't give a fuck.
00:19:28What are they saying?
00:19:29How could I possibly know?
00:19:31We'd have to ask them with that.
00:19:34What is that?
00:19:36Littlemouth.
00:19:37You're talking to them?
00:19:38Not yet.
00:19:39You, you, you actually, you, you built a quantum communication device.
00:19:42Can we, can we talk back?
00:19:43No, the hardware can't replicate quantum signatures.
00:19:47I, I can.
00:19:47I've already done it in my lab.
00:19:48I highly doubt it, but...
00:19:54I suppose we're going to find out.
00:19:59Okay, I need to...
00:20:03Oh, oh, wow.
00:20:15Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:20:24oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:20:25oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:20:25oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:20:25oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
00:20:25oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
00:21:13Good morning.
00:21:27Go to the ant, consider her ways and be wise.
00:21:30Do you know that?
00:21:39We learn a lot from ants, for example we study them to solve traffic problems, all sorts
00:21:55of things.
00:22:03I hear your schooling is going well.
00:22:14Good.
00:22:16Right.
00:22:17Good.
00:22:18Good.
00:22:22Good.
00:22:28Good.
00:22:30Good.
00:22:33Good.
00:22:41Good.
00:22:53It's real.
00:23:02Do you hear that?
00:23:07Scared.
00:23:09No.
00:23:13Yeah.
00:23:17Mom says there's no such a thing as monstrous.
00:23:25I'll go check it out.
00:23:26No!
00:23:29I can't lose you.
00:23:43No.
00:23:49So this is the transmitter.
00:23:52You can't turn it on for him.
00:23:55We don't know enough yet.
00:23:58I don't know.
00:23:59How else are we going to find out?
00:24:02They're not worried what they may be capable of.
00:24:08Are you inviting me to speculate about aliens?
00:24:11Because people often regret that.
00:24:14Yeah, I am.
00:24:14Yeah?
00:24:15Mm-hmm.
00:24:17Okay.
00:24:18So, the coolest project that I ever worked on called the Argus 2.
00:24:21It's this bionic eye that's like this machine that could send micro electrodes from the optic nerve to the brain.
00:24:25And then, praise Jesus, the blind doth see.
00:24:28And it just keeps getting better and better and better.
00:24:30They get the software update every year, and then every two years a hardware update.
00:24:34Have you ever seen a three-year-old see for the first time?
00:24:38No?
00:24:40It's, it's, it's everything.
00:24:43Anyways, next year, the Argus 5 is going to offer better vision than the perfectly healthy biological eye.
00:24:50It's, it's crazy, but why stop there?
00:24:52What about all the spectrums of light that we can't even see?
00:24:55Ultraviolet spectrum, the x-ray vision even, or thermal, whatever.
00:25:00That's just the beginning.
00:25:01We start with the eyes, and then we're going to move on and, and, and improve limbs beyond nature.
00:25:08Improve livers beyond nature, the heart beyond nature.
00:25:11And eventually, pass the Rubicon to the brain.
00:25:16We're going to take all of our thoughts, all of our reasoning, all of our intelligence,
00:25:20and we're going to put it into a more durable container.
00:25:22It could be cloud-based or a silicon chip, something that's unbreakable,
00:25:25that can exist inside of a black hole on the, on the tip of a, of a pin, or in
00:25:30the spaces in between.
00:25:31And that, that is the end game for homo sapiens.
00:25:36And I think that this is just another version of us further down the road.
00:25:43Okay, but what about pain?
00:25:45Sorrow, heartache, profound loss, regrets.
00:25:51What about them?
00:25:52I mean, why, why would eliminating that be bad?
00:25:55Because they shape who we are as people, I think, way more than pleasures do.
00:25:59I mean, so much of who I am and what I value came from, you know, painful experiences that happened
00:26:05in my life that I had to grow and learn from.
00:26:08And change.
00:26:10I get that.
00:26:11But humans suffering as a whole gone, can you see it?
00:26:14Yes, I see that.
00:26:15But I also see a sterile intelligence on a path with no interruptions.
00:26:19No purpose except to spread with no actual growth.
00:26:23And that, to me, is not evolution.
00:26:25That is just an equation.
00:26:31And as awesome as your bionic eye sounds, Charlie, I actually know a lot of those patients have had them
00:26:37removed.
00:26:38Some, and some people are weird.
00:26:40And some people value other things in scientific perfection.
00:26:45Some people accept the parts of them that other people might see as imperfect.
00:26:54So, we are our flaws?
00:26:57And our mistakes.
00:27:03Dr. Kask, you saw how unbalanced Glasner was.
00:27:07You saw the threat he posed.
00:27:10Why did you choose to stay?
00:27:13To help.
00:27:16First contact was possible.
00:27:20Would you leave it to an unbalanced Nihilist to handle the introduction?
00:27:25This sort of experiment with the taste of a female rabbit always gives birth to pairs.
00:27:31And each pair consists of one male and one female.
00:27:34Rabbits can't reach the teeth until they are at least one month old.
00:27:38She says she's very bright.
00:27:43Lucky for her.
00:27:45...
00:28:001, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 2, 1.
00:28:37So is Perry your husband?
00:28:39No, I'm a doctor.
00:28:41It's his daughter.
00:28:44How long have you been here?
00:28:46I haven't left the island in three years.
00:28:48It feels like 30.
00:28:52I don't know how you stay sane.
00:28:54What makes you think I have?
00:29:02Is he always so...
00:29:12Look, I'm not making an excuse for him.
00:29:15Because there's none.
00:29:19He lost his wife and son four years ago.
00:29:22And it was bad.
00:29:27He never really accepted what happened.
00:29:30What did happen?
00:29:33Well...
00:29:35There was a house fire.
00:29:37He was in his lab in an out building, 50 feet away.
00:29:41Self-medicated.
00:29:42Probably drunk.
00:29:45Lucy...
00:29:46She was at a sleepover.
00:29:49But his wife and son?
00:29:52Welcome to Little Mouth's signal room.
00:29:55Perry wasn't even aware there was a fire until the police woke him up.
00:30:02Is he dangerous?
00:30:06He knows humans matter in theory.
00:30:10But not in practice.
00:30:16Just ask Lucy.
00:30:19Lucy...
00:30:52Lucy, I want you to watch this.
00:30:55This is a little piece of forbidden magic that I learned in the bazaars of Morocco from wise men
00:31:04who knew how to turn steel into thin air so I want you to count to three and I
00:31:11want you to blow on the napkin. Okay, one, two, three, wait wait wait let me see how'd you do
00:31:22that?
00:31:22Go to bed. You've got school in the morning, go to bed. Thank you. Good night sweetheart. Good night.
00:31:37Good night Lucy. You didn't eat much. I've never had goat before. Okay, first impressions.
00:31:55Yeah right. Well I think it's completely legit. I mean I've gone through six months of his logs and
00:32:03every single time I tried to find some other explanation for it he'd already disproved it.
00:32:07I mean we're witnessing actual alien chatter. We need to report this. What? To who? The IAA has
00:32:14guidelines on post detection. Do you want to have about a dozen space agencies with all the bureaucrats
00:32:20down here clusterfucking this thing for the next decade? I mean Sam I totally get it and you're not
00:32:25wrong however Annika has a point. I mean we're not fucking around anymore. This is like a solid seven
00:32:31on the Rio scale. Oh for Christ's sakes Charlie. You built quantum satellites. What? I thought you of
00:32:37all people would just want to run with this thing. I do. Look we discovered it. It's ours.
00:32:44Come on that's fucked up. I mean what if I discovered Pluto I can just screw with it any way
00:32:48I want to?
00:32:49Billionaires they've taken over space exploration because they have more resources than entire nations
00:32:53and I'm not exactly a-okay with some galactic dick measuring contest where a few billionaires get to
00:32:59determine the fate of all of humanity. Sam listening is one thing but talking back the risks of that are
00:33:06mind-woggling. We don't know if they're peaceful or hostile and you're talking about sending a signal
00:33:13the way they do. They'll know we're here immediately from anywhere. You didn't say if you liked it.
00:33:24The goat.
00:33:28Yeah uh it was fine.
00:33:32Now we've spent six months trying to decipher it and we still don't know if they talk in calculus
00:33:38or interstellar sanskrit or swirls of color. Let me try. That kind of thing might take centuries to crack.
00:33:45Give me a week.
00:33:50A week. That's all I ask.
00:33:53I hate goats.
00:33:58You know they pair goats with thoroughbreds. They call them companion animals.
00:34:05You see horses don't like to be left on their own. They're herd animals and they uh well they get
00:34:09very lonely so the breeders will put a goat in the horse pen to keep it settled and manageable and
00:34:17docile but the uh the entire dynamic is it's very unnatural. First you've taken a horse out of its
00:34:26natural environment and then you paper over this perversion by forcing a companion on it. But some horses
00:34:35are different. They prefer solitude and they see the goat as an intruder. An invader. And so they'll do
00:34:46what any animal would do when it feels threatened. I mean horses don't even eat meat. But they will chew
00:34:57clean
00:34:57through a goat's neck. Imagine that. And you know what the owner does. Just buys another goat.
00:35:10All right I think that's fucking. We're not waiting. Not a week. Not a day. You fix my hardware. You
00:35:20fix my software. My schedule or I'm done.
00:35:30It's not the first time that he's threatened to take his ball and go home. He's an unstable man. Yeah
00:35:36well it's all
00:35:36we can do to keep him together with meds and duct tape. So I guess you realize the other reason
00:35:44you're
00:35:44both here. The moment that Perry is not functional. We get it. We're the replacements.
00:35:59So I will get to your week. Aniga. And I will smooth things over with Perry tomorrow. All right?
00:36:30I'm worried that Perry's right. I think the only thing that we can do is turn it on and let
00:36:37them know
00:36:37that we're listening and hope they help. And that is extremely dangerous.
00:36:45Maybe. But what would they want from us? Resources.
00:36:49Nope. This universe is crammed full of resources and you and I both know that
00:36:53our little tiny speck here of the Milky Way is kind of a resource desert. Keep going.
00:36:58They could see us as a threat. Nope. No. Look, you got the tech that they got.
00:37:03You think they give a shit about our stupid iPhones or our dumb smart bombs? Come on.
00:37:09Food. Us?
00:37:13I wouldn't touch me with a 10-foot fork.
00:37:20Whichever way I try to game this whole thing out,
00:37:24I can't find anything to be afraid of.
00:37:27I can think of so many. Life is fragile. Fear keeps us safe.
00:37:35All right.
00:37:39Anika, our job is to know the unknown. But now you don't want to embrace it?
00:37:44You can't have it both ways.
00:37:49Dr. Kask, why didn't you stop Mr. Kaminsky from initializing Little Mouth that evening?
00:37:55He never told me because he knew I'd try to stop him.
00:37:59He didn't consider the possibility that this alien intelligence might be hostile.
00:38:06Charlie doesn't believe intelligence can be hostile.
00:38:11For him, intelligence doesn't waste.
00:38:15It learns.
00:38:22From mistakes, from mutations, from curious expressions in nature.
00:38:30What do they want?
00:38:34What do we want when we observe an ant colony halfway around the world?
00:38:49So Charlie was always going to unlock Little Mouth.
00:38:57Initialize.
00:38:59Initializing.
00:39:00Because he believed no harm would come of it.
00:39:08Initiation sequence successful.
00:39:12But you didn't believe that.
00:39:14Did you, Doctor?
00:39:23Hey, Perry?
00:39:26Perry.
00:39:27Well, uh, Perry, you should, uh...
00:39:31You should know that I fixed it.
00:39:34We can talk back now.
00:39:44Welcome to Little Mouth's signal room.
00:40:03Get down here.
00:40:04Ten minutes.
00:40:06Lowest level.
00:40:13It's time to meet Little Mouth.
00:40:28You have reached the voicemail box of Sam Houston.
00:40:32Please leave a message.
00:40:36He said he'd wait.
00:40:42Level C.
00:40:47Take your time.
00:40:52Charlie, tell me you didn't.
00:41:03At 1.24 a.m., Little Mouth turns on.
00:41:08Perry, I object to this on so many levels.
00:41:10But you won't do anything about it, will you?
00:41:14So what you can do is check for data variations when we go live.
00:41:18Uh, what are you, uh, what are you gonna say?
00:41:21Hello?
00:41:24How?
00:41:31Of all the data points, one sequence repeated itself at a marginally greater rate.
00:41:37Little Mouth will repeat that sequence and send it between here and the antenna.
00:41:44But you don't even know what that sequence means.
00:41:46Well, does an infant have any idea what its first fumblings at language mean?
00:41:49No.
00:41:50No.
00:41:50But they simply mimic those more developed.
00:41:52Does the parent have any idea what the child means?
00:41:54No, but they know what the child is saying.
00:41:57They're saying, I'm alive and I'm listening.
00:42:04Yeah, though we babble, we do so mathematically.
00:42:08We will use two universal constants.
00:42:11The speed of light will be the unit of measurement.
00:42:15And primes, we will repeat the code ten times.
00:42:18The first interval will be two times the speed of light.
00:42:20And the final interval, therefore, will be the tenth prime.
00:42:23Twenty-nine times the speed of light.
00:42:27You're saying a lot more than just hello.
00:42:29Yes, we're saying we've heard you and we're logical.
00:42:34And we're here.
00:42:37Yes, that's the idea.
00:42:40By the way, Sam won't stop it.
00:42:44There's no kill switch and even if he could, he never would.
00:42:47He's blinded by hubris in one eye and glory in the other.
00:42:52Anything else from the little goats?
00:43:03Yeah, let's do it.
00:43:05What?
00:43:06I'm sorry, I gotta see this.
00:43:10Perry, you know, you should, uh, you should say something.
00:43:12Like, for, for a quote for posterity or something.
00:43:15More like one small step or I am become death destroyer of worlds.
00:43:19I mean, something, considering what's about to happen, it's...
00:43:23Nothing is about to happen, that's the entire point.
00:43:26There's no war of the worlds.
00:43:30There's no grand enlightenment.
00:43:34Just a thundering silence.
00:43:39This is about insignificance.
00:43:41This is about our smallness laid bare.
00:43:44There will be no response because we simply do not matter.
00:43:49Not our work, not our deeds, or our mistakes.
00:43:56So there's your fucking quote.
00:43:59If it doesn't matter, why built this?
00:44:03To prove it.
00:44:24Ta-da!
00:44:28There you go, nothing as predicted.
00:44:38So, when's it happening?
00:44:40Five minutes ago.
00:44:41Really?
00:44:42And?
00:44:42And I'm done.
00:44:43Whoa, Annika, uh, look down.
00:44:54Whoa.
00:44:56Whoa.
00:45:06Uh.
00:45:10Whoa.
00:45:14Backup power on.
00:45:25System offline.
00:45:32Uh, Perry, Perry, shut it off.
00:45:34Perry, shut it off.
00:45:36Shut it down.
00:45:57Shut it down.
00:46:02Annika, I got it.
00:46:03Why'd you turn it on, Charlie?
00:46:05Just hold on a second.
00:46:09You need to come see this.
00:46:14Officials have yet to offer an explanation for the six seconds that interrupted almost all global
00:46:19electronic and satellite communication.
00:46:21There are unconfirmed reports of loss of life, as hospitals, traffic signals, and aircraft have lost power.
00:46:28Well, we can't rule out.
00:46:30This is a military origin.
00:46:32A test of some kind, if you like.
00:46:34Yeah, the satellites are all down.
00:46:35These are just analog broadcasts.
00:46:38We at NASA, we're at a loss.
00:46:40Whatever it is, it extends beyond the Earth's atmosphere, because it's knocked out all high-orbit satellites.
00:46:46Is this possibly extraterrestrial?
00:46:50Mrs. Perry.
00:46:51The power went out for eight minutes and 19.48 seconds, but we'll continue to bring you the latest as
00:46:55it comes.
00:46:55The power went out for eight minutes and 19.48 seconds. What that means exactly, we don't know.
00:47:01Charlie, they talked back.
00:47:04What do you mean?
00:47:05The power goes out in exactly eight minutes, 19.48 seconds later, it comes back on.
00:47:10What do you think that means?
00:47:14Whoa.
00:47:15So what?
00:47:16That's the exact amount of time that it takes sunlight to get to Earth.
00:47:19They waited and they responded in a universal constant.
00:47:22We showed them we understand.
00:47:23Yep, the speed of light.
00:47:24They would know the sun is everything to us.
00:47:26No energy, no power, no biological life.
00:47:28But what did they say?
00:47:29No idea.
00:47:30Bare minimum, they said that we hear you and we know where you are.
00:47:33It's still too soon to predict how high the death toll may grow, but it most certainly will.
00:47:45I'm going to kill Little Mouth.
00:47:48Annika, that's like the opposite of building really cool shit.
00:47:50Well, then go ask Perry nicely not to turn it back on, Charlie.
00:47:53I think Perry has enough humanity to-
00:47:54Kill it.
00:47:57You don't bank on Perry's humanity.
00:48:04Wait, what if we need Little Mouth again?
00:48:08No, look, look, hear me out, okay?
00:48:09Whatever they did out there, that was not a death ray.
00:48:12They just turned the lights off for eight minutes to tell us they hurt us.
00:48:16It's just too dangerous, Charlie.
00:48:18I don't think it's dangerous, Annika.
00:48:19Yeah, but we are.
00:48:23We're not a species that does well with massive paradigm ships.
00:48:26They don't need a death ray.
00:48:27They said hi, and look, we're going to do the rest.
00:48:29Yeah, but that's not their intentions.
00:48:31We don't know what their intentions are.
00:48:45Annika, you can't let fear decide, okay?
00:48:50It's safer than hope.
00:48:59I'm locked out.
00:49:02Is Perry using Little Mouth right now?
00:49:04No.
00:49:08He killed it himself.
00:49:12Let's meet at 1300 hours.
00:49:17Perhaps it's time to reassess.
00:49:27We opened a door.
00:49:30Little Mouth's signal.
00:49:35It told them we were here.
00:49:41Our place in the universe was about to change.
00:49:48Irreversibly.
00:49:52Forever.
00:50:06No.
00:50:09No.
00:50:20God.
00:50:20Come on.
00:50:22Oh.
00:50:26Let's go.
00:50:27Go, let us know.
00:50:29Let us know.
00:50:30Let us know.
00:50:31Let us know.
00:50:33Let us know.
00:50:35Let us know what to do.
00:50:48Oh, my God, Lucy!
00:50:53Lucy!
00:50:59Lucy!
00:51:00Lucy!
00:51:13Lucy!
00:51:14Lucy!
00:51:16Lucy!
00:51:18Lucy!
00:51:21Lucy!
00:51:25Lucy!
00:51:26Lucy!
00:51:28Lucy!
00:51:29Lucy!
00:51:32Lucy!
00:51:33Lucy!
00:51:34Lucy!
00:51:35Lucy!
00:51:36Lucy!
00:51:45Should we be afraid?
00:51:53Describe an alien.
00:51:58I wouldn't know where to begin.
00:52:02Most people would describe something like they know here on Earth.
00:52:08Biped, number of eyes, some form of brain or perhaps a variation of an insect or a squid or a
00:52:14computerized, artificially intelligent, pompous fucking robot.
00:52:18But almost always some sapiocentric extrapolation of what we know here on Earth.
00:52:26But the question is not, what does an alien look like?
00:52:34It's what does alien intelligence look like.
00:52:37Biped...
00:52:45Biped...
00:52:49Biped...
00:52:51C-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c...
00:52:59Hello, ma'am. Go with the other side.
00:53:05Haven't had my coffee yet.
00:53:07Oh, I grabbed one on the way in.
00:53:10How is it, Sam, that nearly every company on the planet
00:53:13went dark for eight minutes, 19 seconds,
00:53:15yet your operations didn't skip a beat?
00:53:18Does the sun still work?
00:53:21Then we still work.
00:53:22Mr. Houston, good morning.
00:53:24Now what you're about to see is classified.
00:53:26All right.
00:53:29That was taken two hours ago off the coast of Cuba.
00:53:34And the NSA thinks this has something to do with the power outage?
00:53:37Well, we don't know what to think.
00:53:39Most satellites are still down.
00:53:41Everything we're getting comes from one of our deep space satellites.
00:53:48This anomaly seems to be radiating from one central point,
00:53:53right above a private island owned by you.
00:53:57And this anomaly?
00:54:00It's growing.
00:54:01Exponentially.
00:54:02This morning, the anomaly was the size of a pinprick.
00:54:06In two days, it'll be visible from mainland Cuba.
00:54:10In a week?
00:54:12This is gonna cause mass panic.
00:54:15What's on the island, Sam?
00:54:20Solar Observatory.
00:54:21Solar Observatory.
00:54:29All right.
00:54:31Where exactly are you going?
00:54:35Well, you boys got me all riled up.
00:54:37I'm gonna go take a gander.
00:54:38You will go nowhere near whatever that is without military escort.
00:54:43Excuse me.
00:54:44Am I being charged with something?
00:54:48Then get the fuck out of my way.
00:54:53Wish in your luck, Sam.
00:54:54Yeah, well, it's served me well so far.
00:54:57Hello.
00:54:59Clouds here landing in five minutes.
00:55:12Come on.
00:55:36Come on.
00:56:19Come on.
00:56:24What the hell, Charlie?
00:56:26Haven't you done enough already?
00:56:27Anika, I'm telling you, this thing's safe.
00:56:29No, it's an alien phenomenon, and you want to stick your hand in it?
00:56:32Look, whatever this thing is, it's right here.
00:56:35Okay, we're exposed to it already.
00:56:37There's nothing between us, and it's just air.
00:56:39Look.
00:56:39Look at this.
00:56:40Read it.
00:56:43It's a column of air surrounded by a vacuum.
00:56:45You get past the first six inches, and it's just air.
00:57:01What if it's not just air?
00:57:04Hmm?
00:57:05Speech is just air.
00:57:07It's just how it's organized.
00:57:09Yeah.
00:57:10Well, what are you doing?
00:57:15What if it's just another data set?
00:57:19Yeah, but if it's just fucking air, then how do you collect that data?
00:57:24Watch me.
00:57:53This will work.
00:57:58Oh, shit, okay.
00:58:05Oh, shit, okay.
00:58:44You say they speak in thoughts and visions, and why not speak plainly?
00:58:49Why not tell us what's a stick?
00:58:53Is it possible that a post-biological intelligence could figure out a better way to communicate
00:58:58with us than English?
00:59:05You can go now.
00:59:08Hasn't you been through enough for one day?
00:59:10You can go now.
00:59:39You can go now.
00:59:44All children, except one, grow up.
00:59:47They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this.
00:59:53One day, when she was two years old, she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another
00:59:59flower and ran with it to her mother.
01:00:02I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried,
01:00:10Oh, why can't you remain like this forever?
01:00:18Wendy knew that she must grow up.
01:00:22You always know after you are two.
01:00:25Two is the beginning of the end.
01:00:59Safety's on, unless a clear, hostile act or intent presents itself.
01:01:04We're going to breach, clear, and control.
01:01:09Now, there's no clear-sat recon, so we're going in blind here, folks.
01:01:15...debated emergency protocols, including curfews and emergency powers.
01:01:20Officials insist it's necessary to ensure the panic that has ensued,
01:01:24it doesn't spin out of control.
01:01:26In places where martial law has yet to be declared...
01:01:29The United States military is going to be here within hours, knocking down doors.
01:01:35So we need to have some answers.
01:01:37All right, look, I have an actual theory.
01:01:39Look, Sam.
01:01:41So this pillar, right, it's nothing.
01:01:44It's just air and light.
01:01:47Anything that passes through it, that's benign.
01:01:50Now, what is the most commonly used Morse code signal?
01:01:59A distress call.
01:02:01Right.
01:02:02So, what if, what if the message that we sent using Little Mouth,
01:02:06the most commonly repeated sequence that we saw, was actually an SOS?
01:02:10Or it could mean absolutely nothing at all.
01:02:13All I'm saying is that maybe this is their way of trying to help us.
01:02:18What if these anomalies are like a cloak?
01:02:21I think they're trying to hide us from harm, or communicate, or protect us, or...
01:02:26Protect us from what?
01:02:28Sam, I don't know.
01:02:32But did you know what we might have needed protection from?
01:02:34I don't know.
01:02:36The universe is infinite.
01:02:41And therefore full of infinite dangers.
01:02:48There's only one pillar there replying to its soul.
01:02:53It needs to breathe.
01:03:03It needs to breathe.
01:03:06It needs to breathe.
01:03:06What are they talking about?
01:03:07It's to breathe.
01:03:08I'm here!
01:03:11I'm here!
01:03:11I'm here!
01:03:12I'm here!
01:03:12I'm here!
01:03:13I'm here!
01:03:13I'm here!
01:03:16I'm here!
01:03:29Annika, where are you going?
01:03:45Annika?
01:03:47You all right?
01:03:58We can talk to them.
01:04:01How?
01:04:03In there.
01:04:04Eight minutes and 19.43 seconds.
01:04:07It was a scan.
01:04:08They waited.
01:04:09They scanned us.
01:04:10What did they see?
01:04:11What did they learn about us?
01:04:14They saw a planet covered in air.
01:04:17What does that tell them about us?
01:04:20Well, I mean, that would tell them that whatever biological life lives down there survives completely surrounded by air.
01:04:26So what's the safest way to engage with us?
01:04:30Air.
01:04:32We don't talk in language, we talk in air.
01:04:35Molecules bent into shapes that mean something.
01:04:38So we go in, breathe in, and have a conversation.
01:04:42Yeah, this whole time we've been so worried about trying to figure out the best way to communicate with them.
01:04:46We didn't think that maybe this hyper-advanced intelligence would find the best way to communicate with us.
01:04:51We have to go in.
01:04:52What in, that pillar?
01:04:53Yes.
01:04:54Now, wait a minute.
01:04:54Now, that's a hell of a leap of faith, Annika.
01:04:58This is not an invasion.
01:05:02It's an invitation.
01:05:08So who's going in?
01:05:10I mean, you'll almost definitely suffocate.
01:05:14Sam, you wanna go cement your legacy?
01:05:20Been there. Done that.
01:05:22No.
01:05:30Yeah.
01:05:32Okay.
01:05:32I'll do it.
01:05:38Whoa.
01:05:44Put your hands on it.
01:05:45Okay.
01:05:46Okay.
01:05:47Okay.
01:05:57How human of us to see this and be afraid.
01:06:04How human of us not to see the hope in it.
01:06:11How human.
01:06:18How human.
01:06:34We're past the edge of the earth.
01:06:37There is no protocol, no policy for whatever this is.
01:06:42No laws cover what you've done.
01:06:46No putting the genie back in this bottle.
01:06:48We can fix it.
01:06:53Iran's mobilized their entire southern fleet in Bonder Abbas.
01:06:57Shots are already fired in Kashmir.
01:06:59Half of America is convinced it's the rapture.
01:07:03And I don't even want to begin to tell you what Russia's up to,
01:07:06but hint, it's fucking bad.
01:07:08You can fix all that, Sam?
01:07:10Humanity couldn't handle a global blackout.
01:07:12What's gonna happen when they see this anomaly hanging over New York?
01:07:16There is something that we can do.
01:07:18Yeah. I heard it. Air. Sure.
01:07:21But it's not my call, thank Christ.
01:07:23New orders just came in.
01:07:25Look, you should let me just try it.
01:07:28Let me go in.
01:07:32You will be confined to your quarters under armed guard
01:07:35until arrangements can be made for secondary detainment.
01:07:39You will be compelled to fully disclose anything and everything you know
01:07:42about the activities on this island when asked.
01:07:49They don't trust me.
01:07:51They know that I'd try to go in.
01:07:57Annika, you have to find a way.
01:08:02How?
01:08:05I don't know.
01:08:09We don't even know if going in there and talking to them will stop the anomaly from growing.
01:08:16We have no idea.
01:08:18We have to try.
01:08:20You have to try.
01:08:23Charlie, I can't.
01:08:25I wouldn't.
01:08:27There are just...
01:08:28There are just too many unknown factors.
01:08:34I'm sorry. I'm just scared.
01:08:40Annika, you can't let fear decide.
01:08:55You didn't become a scientist because you're afraid of the unknown.
01:09:02You did it to learn.
01:09:07To help people.
01:09:11Think about saving one life.
01:09:17I'll go check it out.
01:09:18No!
01:09:20You can't risk it.
01:09:23Stay.
01:09:24Now, think about saving them all.
01:09:35Charlie, I have an idea.
01:09:42Of course.
01:09:45They're not going to understand a single word you say, so...
01:09:48Say a lot of them.
01:09:50Wish me luck.
01:09:52Good luck.
01:09:53Yes.
01:09:56Run away.
01:10:05Dr. Kask.
01:10:06What's the origin?
01:10:07In oversight?
01:10:09Perry is still running an FTL signal from the tech tent by the pillar.
01:10:14It's a repeating quant signature that we picked out when we originally...
01:10:17Dumb it down.
01:10:19Please.
01:10:20I believe that it's contributing to the growth.
01:10:25Okay.
01:10:27Tell me how to shut it off.
01:10:29Do any of your troops know how to run Python?
01:10:31Or any other quant-friendly computing languages?
01:10:34Our scientists won't be here for another two days.
01:10:36So can you just tell me how to unplug it?
01:10:38It's not like pulling a plug.
01:10:39It's a complicated system.
01:10:40We have servers running on clouds, so...
01:10:42Okay, enough.
01:10:42I get it.
01:10:43I just need five minutes.
01:10:45Five minutes.
01:10:50Okay.
01:10:53Try anything, someone gets shot.
01:10:54It's not a threat.
01:10:55It's just where we're at.
01:11:14Who else has seen the raw data, sir?
01:11:17Ellis...
01:11:19Haltman at MIT.
01:11:20We've got bogeys approaching the wind pillar.
01:11:24Six o'clock.
01:11:25Over.
01:11:25Come on.
01:11:55And it isn't fair, I would say with my last breath.
01:11:58It isn't fair, said Michael coldly.
01:12:02Father's a cowardly custard.
01:12:05So are you a cowardly custard?
01:12:08Dad, what's a custard?
01:12:11Oh?
01:12:13It's a pudding, a yellow pudding.
01:12:15It wobbles and shakes.
01:12:18Like when someone's afraid.
01:12:19Go ahead.
01:12:44Hey!
01:12:46Hey!
01:12:46Hey, come here!
01:12:48Over here!
01:12:48Over here!
01:12:50Hey, over here!
01:12:52Hey!
01:12:53Stop her!
01:12:55No!
01:13:00Oh!
01:13:01Go off!
01:13:13Hey!
01:13:16I don't know.
01:13:48I don't know.
01:14:16I don't know.
01:14:24Where am I?
01:14:34Are you inside my head?
01:14:41Through the air inside you now?
01:14:46Clara?
01:14:48No.
01:14:51How are you talking to me?
01:14:55Through memory.
01:14:57Or thought.
01:15:00Light.
01:15:01Speech.
01:15:03On a molecular level.
01:15:06In any way you prefer.
01:15:11Shall we stop?
01:15:14No.
01:15:25Who are you?
01:15:30No longer biological.
01:15:33No longer machine.
01:15:41Like physics itself.
01:15:46We don't create.
01:15:49Or destroy.
01:15:53We learn.
01:16:07You reorganize.
01:16:15Everything is transformed.
01:16:25Why are you here?
01:16:26No longer.
01:16:36You called us.
01:16:43You asked for help.
01:16:47Charlie was right.
01:16:49You were hiding us from...
01:16:52What?
01:16:54From the universe.
01:17:00You are far from alone.
01:17:10Are we in danger?
01:17:15Yes.
01:17:19You revealed yourselves.
01:17:21And those that reveal themselves.
01:17:24Cease to exist.
01:17:27Others will come.
01:17:30Many are watching.
01:17:33In silence.
01:17:37Hidden.
01:17:39For now.
01:17:43Some civilizations hide.
01:17:45In fear.
01:17:47Others hunt.
01:17:48Out of fear.
01:17:51Who are you then?
01:17:54Predator?
01:17:56Prey?
01:17:58You do not hide.
01:18:02Or hunt.
01:18:11Not anymore.
01:18:13We protect.
01:18:18We learn.
01:18:22We have evolved.
01:18:26Evolved.
01:18:28Into the universe itself.
01:18:31One day.
01:18:33You may as well.
01:18:36But that is your choice to make.
01:18:46Get back.
01:18:47Get back.
01:18:48Do not cross the perimeter.
01:18:49Get back.
01:18:59You can hide.
01:19:05I don't know if we're ready.
01:19:10If I'm ready.
01:19:11If I'm ready.
01:19:17What's past the last planet?
01:19:20Infinity.
01:19:22We'll never be the same again.
01:19:27You have to let go of what was.
01:19:33To be ready.
01:19:35For what is to come.
01:20:00In that place.
01:20:05For what is to come.
01:20:07In that space.
01:20:21Yes.
01:20:28Normally.
01:20:29You have to make up.
01:20:30I don't know.
01:21:07I don't know.
01:21:30I don't know.
01:21:34I don't know.
01:22:04I don't know.
01:22:05They don't have a face we can confront.
01:22:08They don't have a world we can destroy.
01:22:13They expand their intelligence.
01:22:17But not us.
01:22:23We're a flawed species.
01:22:27Superstitious.
01:22:32Self-destructive.
01:22:38Safe from the universe.
01:22:48But not ourselves.
01:22:52Doctor, will they come back?
01:22:59What makes you think they left?
01:23:03What's going on?
01:23:07The world.
01:23:10The world.
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