3 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,825 Robert Kennedy was shot in that ballroom. 4 00:01:32,249 --> 00:01:34,621 Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! 5 00:01:34,835 --> 00:01:37,622 A sniper has fired at President Kennedy. 6 00:01:44,928 --> 00:01:48,925 Or have you ever been a member of the Communist party? 7 00:01:53,102 --> 00:01:55,094 Hi-yo, Silver! 8 00:01:59,817 --> 00:02:01,441 ... 1941... 9 00:02:02,028 --> 00:02:05,194 ... a date which will live in infamy. 10 00:02:09,285 --> 00:02:13,448 We bring you the final edition of our Maxwell House Good News of 1939. 11 00:02:13,831 --> 00:02:17,199 Good evening, Mr. And Mrs. North America, and all the ships at sea. 12 00:02:22,131 --> 00:02:26,294 The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. 13 00:03:35,911 --> 00:03:37,025 CQ... 14 00:03:37,454 --> 00:03:39,446 ... this is W-9 GFO. 15 00:03:41,750 --> 00:03:45,035 CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back? 16 00:03:49,049 --> 00:03:50,211 CQ... 17 00:03:50,425 --> 00:03:53,046 ...this is W-9 GFO here. 18 00:03:53,929 --> 00:03:55,127 Come back? 19 00:03:59,059 --> 00:04:03,222 CQ, this is W-9 GFO. Is anybody out there? 20 00:04:04,231 --> 00:04:05,345 Not getting anything. 21 00:04:05,649 --> 00:04:07,143 Small moves, Ellie. 22 00:04:08,860 --> 00:04:09,974 Small moves. 23 00:04:12,614 --> 00:04:16,314 CQ, this is W-9 GFO here. Come back? 24 00:04:17,285 --> 00:04:18,944 Copy, W-9 GFO. 25 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:20,993 K- 4 WLD here. 26 00:04:21,456 --> 00:04:22,866 What do I say? 27 00:04:23,041 --> 00:04:24,535 Just be yourself. 28 00:04:25,001 --> 00:04:27,670 Where are you, K-4 WLD? Come back? 29 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:29,200 Pensacola. Over. 30 00:04:29,463 --> 00:04:31,005 Pensacola, where's Pensacola? 31 00:04:31,382 --> 00:04:32,840 I'll give you a hint. 32 00:04:33,509 --> 00:04:34,623 Orange juice. 33 00:04:37,471 --> 00:04:41,136 Copy that, K-4 WLD. How's the weather down there in Florida? 34 00:04:42,351 --> 00:04:44,308 Pensacola, Florida. 35 00:04:45,020 --> 00:04:46,893 I have to tell you, Sparks. 36 00:04:47,690 --> 00:04:50,015 1,116 miles. 37 00:04:51,527 --> 00:04:52,689 Pretty good. 38 00:04:53,028 --> 00:04:54,486 That's the farthest yet. 39 00:05:07,375 --> 00:05:09,201 Can we hear all the way to New York? 40 00:05:09,503 --> 00:05:10,665 Sure. 41 00:05:12,047 --> 00:05:14,039 Can we hear all the way to California? 42 00:05:14,341 --> 00:05:16,048 I don't see why not. 43 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:18,752 Can we hear all the way to Alaska? 44 00:05:19,179 --> 00:05:20,459 On a really clear day. 45 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,672 Can we hear all the way to China? 46 00:05:23,725 --> 00:05:26,215 On a really, really clear day. 47 00:05:28,062 --> 00:05:30,220 Could we talk to the moon? 48 00:05:30,898 --> 00:05:33,685 If it's a big enough radio, I don't see why not. 49 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,352 Could we talk to Jupiter? 50 00:05:36,571 --> 00:05:39,061 Or what's the one after that? 51 00:05:39,532 --> 00:05:40,907 Don't tell me. 52 00:05:43,244 --> 00:05:44,619 I'll give you a hint. 53 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:46,193 Hula-Hoops. 54 00:05:46,414 --> 00:05:48,406 Saturn! Could we talk to Saturn? 55 00:05:54,088 --> 00:05:56,578 Dad, could we talk to Mom? 56 00:06:02,262 --> 00:06:05,465 I don't think even the biggest radio could reach that far. 57 00:06:10,479 --> 00:06:12,305 All right, no more stalling. 58 00:06:17,277 --> 00:06:18,735 Pensacola! 59 00:06:26,578 --> 00:06:27,822 That's a beauty. 60 00:06:29,289 --> 00:06:30,747 Now get some sleep. 61 00:06:39,132 --> 00:06:40,412 Hey, Dad? 62 00:06:41,467 --> 00:06:44,136 Do you think there's people on other planets? 63 00:06:44,303 --> 00:06:46,010 I don't know, Sparks. 64 00:06:47,473 --> 00:06:49,132 But I guess I'd say... 65 00:06:49,642 --> 00:06:51,468 ...if it is just us... 66 00:06:53,145 --> 00:06:55,303 ...it seems like an awful waste of space. 67 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,325 CQ, this is W-9 GFO. 68 00:07:17,503 --> 00:07:20,172 Repeat. This is W-9 GFO. Come back? 69 00:07:28,180 --> 00:07:30,172 I'm going to need a bigger antenna. 70 00:07:57,208 --> 00:07:58,832 What do you think, Doc Arroway? 71 00:07:59,085 --> 00:08:00,543 Isn't she a beauty? 72 00:08:04,674 --> 00:08:05,788 Lt'll do. 73 00:08:06,050 --> 00:08:08,007 The village is five miles away. 74 00:08:08,386 --> 00:08:10,425 There's a general store in the cantina. 75 00:08:10,596 --> 00:08:12,718 They can order anything from San Juan. 76 00:08:12,890 --> 00:08:14,384 When can I get dish time? 77 00:08:14,558 --> 00:08:18,223 Dr. Clark said you couldn't wait. Your first shift is tonight. 78 00:09:14,283 --> 00:09:15,445 Go back. 79 00:09:17,411 --> 00:09:20,162 Try back a little bit. You had something there. 80 00:09:21,457 --> 00:09:22,452 There! 81 00:09:22,792 --> 00:09:25,995 - Right there? - You hear it? Right there, that's it. 82 00:09:26,295 --> 00:09:29,960 All right, 1221.46. That's well within the L-band. 83 00:09:30,299 --> 00:09:31,294 Check off-axis. 84 00:09:32,301 --> 00:09:33,380 On it. 85 00:09:35,345 --> 00:09:36,803 It's not in the neighborhood. 86 00:09:45,647 --> 00:09:47,639 Here it is. J-1741... 87 00:09:47,941 --> 00:09:49,600 ... 2748. 88 00:09:49,818 --> 00:09:52,984 Catalogued November 4, 1982. Pulsar. 89 00:09:55,657 --> 00:09:58,776 Must've been the glitch in the timing that threw me. 90 00:09:58,994 --> 00:10:00,653 Must've been a starquake. 91 00:10:01,996 --> 00:10:05,993 I think it's great that you listen. Most don't do that anymore. 92 00:10:06,167 --> 00:10:08,954 It's just an old habit. It makes it feel more real. 93 00:10:09,170 --> 00:10:10,083 Ellie. 94 00:10:10,338 --> 00:10:11,500 Kent Clark. 95 00:10:14,384 --> 00:10:15,961 They said you'd been... 96 00:10:16,177 --> 00:10:18,584 ...up at Owen's Valley working under Drumlin. 97 00:10:18,805 --> 00:10:20,180 How'd you like him? 98 00:10:23,392 --> 00:10:27,519 That much? About what I'd expect after what he had to say about you. 99 00:10:27,855 --> 00:10:29,514 And what was that? 100 00:10:30,024 --> 00:10:31,518 That you are brilliant... 101 00:10:31,817 --> 00:10:33,015 ...driven... 102 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:34,854 ...a major pain in the ass... 103 00:10:35,154 --> 00:10:38,024 ...and obsessed with a field of study he considers tantamount... 104 00:10:38,199 --> 00:10:39,657 ...to professional suicide. 105 00:10:40,409 --> 00:10:41,404 Anything else? 106 00:10:41,577 --> 00:10:43,368 Those were the highlights. 107 00:10:43,829 --> 00:10:46,366 David, Dr. Vernon. Dr. Arroway. 108 00:10:47,833 --> 00:10:52,044 Believe you've already met our tireless research assistant, Mr. Fisher... 109 00:10:52,713 --> 00:10:55,038 ...as well as his cologne. 110 00:10:55,674 --> 00:10:58,046 Brook's looking at the black hole in M-87. 111 00:10:58,218 --> 00:11:02,049 Ellie's studying Markarian 541, a major gamma ray source. 112 00:11:02,389 --> 00:11:07,015 Dr. Arroway will be spending her precious telescope time listening for... 113 00:11:07,769 --> 00:11:09,726 ...listening for... 114 00:11:09,938 --> 00:11:11,432 Little green men. 115 00:11:19,531 --> 00:11:20,811 One down... 116 00:11:21,407 --> 00:11:23,031 ...a couple billion to go. 117 00:11:39,842 --> 00:11:41,668 Arecibo, right? 118 00:11:42,887 --> 00:11:44,049 Does it show? 119 00:11:46,182 --> 00:11:47,296 Cracker Jack? 120 00:11:47,558 --> 00:11:48,304 No, thanks. 121 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:49,839 Mind if I sit down? 122 00:11:51,770 --> 00:11:55,684 I hear the locals, they call it "El Radar." 123 00:11:55,899 --> 00:11:58,520 Convinced it has some dark military purpose. 124 00:11:58,944 --> 00:12:00,319 I think we're harmless. 125 00:12:01,822 --> 00:12:02,936 Palmer Joss. 126 00:12:03,782 --> 00:12:06,237 - Ellie Arroway. - Nice to meet you, Ellie. 127 00:12:07,494 --> 00:12:10,245 What are you studying up there? 128 00:12:12,082 --> 00:12:13,457 The usual. 129 00:12:13,625 --> 00:12:17,456 Nebulae, quasars, pulsars, stuff like that. 130 00:12:17,796 --> 00:12:19,290 What are you writing? 131 00:12:19,631 --> 00:12:21,753 The usual. Nouns, adverbs... 132 00:12:22,008 --> 00:12:23,550 ...adjective here and there. 133 00:12:25,303 --> 00:12:26,797 I work on a project, SETI. 134 00:12:27,639 --> 00:12:29,631 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence? 135 00:12:31,809 --> 00:12:33,516 That is out there! 136 00:12:34,687 --> 00:12:37,012 Are you a student or something? 137 00:12:37,523 --> 00:12:39,645 I'm a writer. I'm writing a book. 138 00:12:40,151 --> 00:12:41,479 I'm here doing research... 139 00:12:41,652 --> 00:12:44,818 ...about how technology affects Third World cultures. 140 00:12:44,989 --> 00:12:47,658 I'm also looking for this guy, David Drumlin. 141 00:12:47,950 --> 00:12:52,030 He's head of the National Science Foundation. I want an interview. 142 00:12:53,330 --> 00:12:55,037 I take it you know him? 143 00:12:56,542 --> 00:12:58,000 You could say that. 144 00:12:59,336 --> 00:13:00,794 SETI. 145 00:13:01,005 --> 00:13:02,664 That's fringe! 146 00:13:03,132 --> 00:13:07,544 I've crossed paths with him. Something like that must really chap his ass. 147 00:13:10,514 --> 00:13:11,545 Compass. 148 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:14,839 That's for you. 149 00:13:19,690 --> 00:13:21,148 You better keep this. 150 00:13:22,359 --> 00:13:24,018 Might save your life someday. 151 00:13:28,823 --> 00:13:30,400 Have dinner with me tonight? 152 00:13:33,370 --> 00:13:36,703 I don't make a good research subject. I'm not quotable. 153 00:13:36,998 --> 00:13:39,323 No quotes. Scout's honor. 154 00:13:39,709 --> 00:13:41,037 Good meal, good company. 155 00:13:41,878 --> 00:13:43,206 I've got to go. 156 00:13:52,346 --> 00:13:54,172 Drumlin's coming in Tuesday. 157 00:14:03,065 --> 00:14:06,398 Now I remember why I took that desk job. 158 00:14:07,945 --> 00:14:09,937 Dr. Drumlin, how are you? 159 00:14:11,574 --> 00:14:13,068 Glad you could make it. 160 00:14:14,243 --> 00:14:17,196 If I'd known it took 3 planes, I might've reconsidered. 161 00:14:17,413 --> 00:14:18,741 How is that new office? 162 00:14:18,956 --> 00:14:23,664 Still settling in. They already want to give half my budget to the Pentagon. 163 00:14:24,419 --> 00:14:26,744 Still waiting for E.T. To call? 164 00:14:28,757 --> 00:14:30,416 Good to see you too! 165 00:14:30,926 --> 00:14:31,921 Asshole! 166 00:14:32,219 --> 00:14:34,377 Looks like it's going to be a long night. 167 00:14:34,638 --> 00:14:39,264 Science must be accountable to the people paying for it, the taxpayers. 168 00:14:39,434 --> 00:14:42,767 We must stop wasting money on pie-in-the-sky abstractions... 169 00:14:42,937 --> 00:14:45,772 ...and spend it on practical, measurable ways... 170 00:14:45,940 --> 00:14:48,644 ...to improve the lives of the people who are paying. 171 00:14:48,818 --> 00:14:51,984 Not unlike my L-band, globular clusters work. 172 00:14:52,238 --> 00:14:55,191 You want to do away with all pure research now? 173 00:14:55,408 --> 00:14:58,776 What's wrong with science being practical? Even profitable? 174 00:14:58,995 --> 00:15:01,117 Nothing, as long as your motive... 175 00:15:01,414 --> 00:15:05,281 ...is the search for truth. Which is what the pursuit of science is. 176 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,292 That's an interesting position from a man... 177 00:15:10,506 --> 00:15:13,127 ...on a crusade against the evils of technology... 178 00:15:13,426 --> 00:15:14,588 ...Father Joss. 179 00:15:15,261 --> 00:15:18,594 I'm not against technology, Doctor. I'm against... 180 00:15:18,806 --> 00:15:22,009 ...the men who deify it at the expense of human truth. 181 00:15:26,105 --> 00:15:29,473 Kent, I need to have a word with you. Over here, please. 182 00:15:35,155 --> 00:15:38,274 You think that hurt my chances with that interview? 183 00:15:38,909 --> 00:15:40,319 You're a priest? 184 00:15:42,245 --> 00:15:43,407 Not really. 185 00:15:44,164 --> 00:15:46,915 I got my Masters in Divinity... 186 00:15:47,417 --> 00:15:50,832 ...then left the seminary to do secular humanitarian work... 187 00:15:51,087 --> 00:15:53,494 ...coordinating Third World churches. 188 00:15:54,257 --> 00:15:56,332 I couldn't live with the celibacy thing. 189 00:16:00,930 --> 00:16:03,005 You could call me a man of the cloth... 190 00:16:04,267 --> 00:16:05,844 ...without the cloth. 191 00:16:09,188 --> 00:16:10,812 You want to get out of here? 192 00:16:12,817 --> 00:16:17,644 You see that large W-shaped constellation there? That's Cassiopeia. 193 00:16:18,030 --> 00:16:22,442 And Cassiopeia A gives off a whole lot of radio signals. 194 00:16:22,827 --> 00:16:24,451 I listen to them a lot. 195 00:16:24,745 --> 00:16:27,033 It's a remnant of a supernova. 196 00:16:27,998 --> 00:16:30,667 When did you know you wanted to be an astronomer? 197 00:16:33,003 --> 00:16:35,244 When I was about eight years old... 198 00:16:35,547 --> 00:16:37,206 ...watching the sunset... 199 00:16:38,258 --> 00:16:40,380 ...I asked Dad, "What's that bright star over there?" 200 00:16:43,889 --> 00:16:46,973 He said that it wasn 't a star. It was... 201 00:16:48,894 --> 00:16:51,301 ... a whole planet called Venus... 202 00:16:54,900 --> 00:16:58,150 ...which should be over there soon. 203 00:16:59,154 --> 00:17:01,526 He said, "You know why they called it Venus? 204 00:17:01,990 --> 00:17:05,240 Because they thought it was so beautiful and glowing. 205 00:17:05,493 --> 00:17:07,070 But they didn't know... 206 00:17:07,787 --> 00:17:10,360 ...that it's filled with... 207 00:17:11,583 --> 00:17:14,998 ...deadly gases and sulfuric acid rain." 208 00:17:16,337 --> 00:17:19,871 Wow, I thought, "This is it! I'm hooked!" 209 00:17:22,093 --> 00:17:25,793 There are four hundred billion stars out there... 210 00:17:26,013 --> 00:17:27,886 ...just in our galaxy alone. 211 00:17:28,891 --> 00:17:32,509 If only one out of a million of those had planets... 212 00:17:32,937 --> 00:17:36,021 ...if just one out of a million of those had life... 213 00:17:36,232 --> 00:17:40,395 ...and if just one out of a million of those had intelligent life... 214 00:17:41,195 --> 00:17:45,737 ...there would be literally millions of civilizations out there. 215 00:17:47,618 --> 00:17:49,195 If there wasn't... 216 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:52,278 ...it'd be an awful waste of space. 217 00:17:58,211 --> 00:17:59,373 Amen. 218 00:18:08,305 --> 00:18:12,302 So I was lying there, just looking at the sky. 219 00:18:16,229 --> 00:18:19,229 And then I felt something. I don't know. 220 00:18:20,567 --> 00:18:23,236 All I know is that I wasn't alone. 221 00:18:23,611 --> 00:18:27,857 For the first time in my life I wasn't scared of nothing... 222 00:18:28,783 --> 00:18:30,360 ...not even dying. 223 00:18:35,998 --> 00:18:37,871 It was God. 224 00:18:40,503 --> 00:18:42,495 And there's no chance that... 225 00:18:43,005 --> 00:18:47,251 ...you had this experience because some part of you needed to have it? 226 00:18:48,511 --> 00:18:52,010 I'm a reasonably intelligent guy, but this... 227 00:18:54,892 --> 00:18:58,510 My intellect couldn't even touch this. 228 00:18:59,021 --> 00:19:00,016 No. 229 00:19:02,524 --> 00:19:05,097 I've been to Sunday school a few times. 230 00:19:07,362 --> 00:19:08,227 And? 231 00:19:08,447 --> 00:19:12,989 I kept asking all these really annoying questions like... 232 00:19:13,910 --> 00:19:16,365 ..."Where did Mrs. Cain come from?" 233 00:19:18,290 --> 00:19:20,578 And pretty soon they asked my dad... 234 00:19:20,834 --> 00:19:23,538 ...if he wouldn't mind keeping me home from now on. 235 00:19:23,837 --> 00:19:25,117 Your dad... 236 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:28,382 Is it this guy? 237 00:19:28,550 --> 00:19:29,748 Yeah. 238 00:19:31,928 --> 00:19:33,920 You're close to him, aren't you? 239 00:19:35,223 --> 00:19:38,307 I was. He died when I was nine years old. 240 00:19:40,561 --> 00:19:42,553 I never got to know my mother. 241 00:19:44,148 --> 00:19:45,476 I'm sorry. 242 00:19:50,029 --> 00:19:51,938 That's got to be tough. 243 00:19:56,410 --> 00:19:58,069 Being alone. 244 00:20:06,962 --> 00:20:08,160 What do you say... 245 00:20:08,380 --> 00:20:11,914 ...we pack a picnic tomorrow and hike up to Mount Arecibo? 246 00:20:12,759 --> 00:20:15,759 I don't think I can. I've got to work. 247 00:20:17,556 --> 00:20:20,971 How about dinner tomorrow night? I know a great dive. 248 00:20:21,351 --> 00:20:22,975 No, I don't think so. 249 00:20:27,607 --> 00:20:29,729 Ellie, did I miss something? 250 00:20:31,945 --> 00:20:33,059 No. 251 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,106 Shit, I'm late! 252 00:20:36,116 --> 00:20:38,986 I told Kent that I'd be there at 10:30. 253 00:20:41,621 --> 00:20:43,412 I'm not trying to push you. 254 00:20:43,623 --> 00:20:45,911 I've wanted to look at this sector for weeks. 255 00:20:46,125 --> 00:20:47,784 Just hang out... 256 00:20:48,127 --> 00:20:51,127 ...and sleep in. There's food in the fridge. 257 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:53,913 How can I reach you? 258 00:20:55,468 --> 00:20:57,793 Just leave your number. I'll call you. 259 00:21:19,533 --> 00:21:20,481 Dad! 260 00:21:22,536 --> 00:21:25,157 It's starting, you're going to miss it! 261 00:21:28,667 --> 00:21:30,873 Dad, there's another one! Hurry up! 262 00:21:31,128 --> 00:21:33,416 In a minute, Sparks! I'm almost done. 263 00:21:33,672 --> 00:21:36,162 There's another one. Come on, hurry up, Dad! 264 00:22:31,812 --> 00:22:33,010 I'll get the medicine. 265 00:23:52,724 --> 00:23:55,475 I know it's hard to understand this now... 266 00:23:56,395 --> 00:24:00,891 ...but we aren't always meant to know why things happen the way they do. 267 00:24:01,441 --> 00:24:03,729 Sometimes, we just have to accept it... 268 00:24:03,944 --> 00:24:05,770 ...as God's will. 269 00:24:07,739 --> 00:24:10,905 I should have kept medicine in the downstairs bathroom. 270 00:24:11,576 --> 00:24:13,817 Then I could've gotten to it sooner. 271 00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:40,973 CQ... 272 00:24:42,189 --> 00:24:45,225 ... this is W-9 GFO. Do you copy? 273 00:24:48,779 --> 00:24:51,067 Dad, this is Ellie. Come back. 274 00:24:54,451 --> 00:24:56,408 This is Eleanor Arroway... 275 00:24:56,662 --> 00:24:59,662 ...transmitting on 14.2 megahertz. 276 00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:07,874 Are you there? 277 00:25:10,008 --> 00:25:11,418 Come back. 278 00:25:18,224 --> 00:25:19,599 Are you there? 279 00:25:20,685 --> 00:25:22,558 Dad, this is Ellie. 280 00:25:55,135 --> 00:25:58,005 Hi, Kent. What are you doing up so early? 281 00:25:59,223 --> 00:26:00,503 I was thinking... 282 00:26:01,433 --> 00:26:03,425 ...we'd make a pretty good team. 283 00:26:04,061 --> 00:26:07,595 We could put together an ad hoc SETI program. 284 00:26:07,815 --> 00:26:10,140 You know the Very Large Array in New Mexico? 285 00:26:10,442 --> 00:26:12,648 It's a dynamite place to do SETI work... 286 00:26:12,903 --> 00:26:14,646 What are you talking about? 287 00:26:17,115 --> 00:26:18,858 Drumlin pulled the plug. 288 00:26:19,618 --> 00:26:20,613 We're homeless. 289 00:26:34,924 --> 00:26:36,548 It's true, you pulled the plug? 290 00:26:36,759 --> 00:26:39,332 You can't see it now, but I'm doing you a favor. 291 00:26:39,512 --> 00:26:43,509 You're too promising a scientist to waste your gifts on this nonsense. 292 00:26:43,725 --> 00:26:45,717 I don't consider what could be... 293 00:26:45,935 --> 00:26:48,770 ...the most important human discovery nonsense! 294 00:26:49,105 --> 00:26:50,480 400 billion stars... 295 00:26:50,648 --> 00:26:53,565 And two probabilities. One, there's intelligent life... 296 00:26:53,776 --> 00:26:56,266 ...but too far away to contact in your lifetime. 297 00:26:56,946 --> 00:26:58,855 - And two! - You're making a decision... 298 00:26:59,365 --> 00:27:02,401 There's nothing but gases and carbon compounds... 299 00:27:02,618 --> 00:27:03,649 ...and you're wasting your time! 300 00:27:03,953 --> 00:27:06,906 In the meantime, you won't be taken seriously. 301 00:27:07,122 --> 00:27:08,781 Your career will be over! 302 00:27:08,999 --> 00:27:10,161 So what? 303 00:27:10,501 --> 00:27:11,959 It's my life! 304 00:27:49,622 --> 00:27:52,112 Hey, Kent. You were right. 305 00:27:52,542 --> 00:27:56,207 Screw Drumlin. We'll raise the money ourselves. We'll go to New Mexico. 306 00:27:56,546 --> 00:27:58,787 Chicago's set. Let me know how it goes. 307 00:27:59,006 --> 00:28:01,923 I've got more corporate stops on the East Coast for you. 308 00:28:02,134 --> 00:28:05,253 Did that investor from Houston ever get back to us? 309 00:28:05,513 --> 00:28:07,505 I'll hit him up on my way to L.A. 310 00:28:07,682 --> 00:28:09,804 Beg for some of that Hollywood money! 311 00:28:10,017 --> 00:28:13,101 They've been making money off aliens for years. 312 00:28:13,729 --> 00:28:16,433 - Begging is good for the soul. - We'll see. 313 00:28:16,732 --> 00:28:18,439 Just do me a favor. 314 00:28:18,734 --> 00:28:21,224 Try not to be too... confrontational. 315 00:28:21,695 --> 00:28:24,020 Confrontational? Me? What do you mean? 316 00:28:24,239 --> 00:28:25,898 I'll see if I left anything. 317 00:28:59,190 --> 00:29:02,973 It's a unique time in our history, in the history of any civilization. 318 00:29:03,194 --> 00:29:05,945 It's the moment of the acquisition of technology. 319 00:29:06,155 --> 00:29:09,025 That's the moment where contact becomes possible. 320 00:29:09,784 --> 00:29:12,109 The Very Large Array in New Mexico... 321 00:29:12,286 --> 00:29:14,574 ...is the key to our chances for success. 322 00:29:14,747 --> 00:29:16,869 With its 27 linked radio telescopes... 323 00:29:17,083 --> 00:29:20,617 ...we can search more accurately than at any other facility. 324 00:29:20,836 --> 00:29:25,544 We've gotten approval to buy the telescope time from the government. 325 00:29:26,425 --> 00:29:28,631 Now all we really need is the money. 326 00:29:29,303 --> 00:29:31,295 A nice presentation, Doctor. 327 00:29:32,014 --> 00:29:35,014 But while our foundation arm has a mandate to support... 328 00:29:35,225 --> 00:29:38,344 ...experimental programs, your proposal... 329 00:29:38,604 --> 00:29:42,601 ...seems less like science, and more like science fiction. 330 00:29:45,068 --> 00:29:46,526 Science fiction. 331 00:29:49,948 --> 00:29:51,323 You're right. 332 00:29:52,159 --> 00:29:53,534 It's crazy. 333 00:29:54,619 --> 00:29:57,156 In fact, it's even worse than that: Nuts! 334 00:29:59,249 --> 00:30:00,707 Want to hear something nutty? 335 00:30:00,917 --> 00:30:03,454 Two guys wanted to build a thing called an airplane. 336 00:30:03,670 --> 00:30:06,706 People go in it and fly like birds. Ridiculous, right? 337 00:30:06,923 --> 00:30:08,714 What about breaking the sound barrier... 338 00:30:08,925 --> 00:30:12,673 ...or rockets to the moon, or atomic energy or a mission to Mars? 339 00:30:12,845 --> 00:30:14,552 Science fiction, right? 340 00:30:16,265 --> 00:30:20,476 All I'm asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. 341 00:30:20,770 --> 00:30:24,103 To step back and look at the big picture. 342 00:30:24,523 --> 00:30:29,564 Take a chance on something which could end up the most impactful moment... 343 00:30:29,779 --> 00:30:32,104 ...for humanity, for the history... 344 00:30:32,698 --> 00:30:34,026 ...of history. 345 00:30:37,786 --> 00:30:38,781 I'm sorry. 346 00:30:39,872 --> 00:30:41,531 I just spent 13 months... 347 00:30:42,124 --> 00:30:44,959 ...coming into rooms and talking to people like you. 348 00:30:45,878 --> 00:30:47,206 You're my last chance. 349 00:30:48,714 --> 00:30:50,256 Sorry I wasted your time. 350 00:30:50,507 --> 00:30:51,040 Doctor. 351 00:30:51,925 --> 00:30:53,004 Yes, sir. 352 00:31:05,397 --> 00:31:06,641 You have your money. 353 00:31:09,693 --> 00:31:10,807 Thank you. 354 00:31:12,904 --> 00:31:13,899 Thank you. 355 00:32:01,910 --> 00:32:04,910 Perfect cast! Come on, fishy! 356 00:32:05,163 --> 00:32:06,705 Frank, look at the size... 357 00:32:06,873 --> 00:32:08,865 ...of that son of a bitch! 358 00:32:21,304 --> 00:32:23,261 Welcome back, Dr. C. 359 00:32:23,515 --> 00:32:25,009 How'd it go? 360 00:32:25,725 --> 00:32:27,267 How was the trip? 361 00:32:27,477 --> 00:32:28,971 I've had better. 362 00:32:29,604 --> 00:32:32,640 Drumlin! Is this a personal vendetta now? 363 00:32:32,857 --> 00:32:36,724 There's been enormous pressure from other scientists as well. 364 00:32:36,903 --> 00:32:40,022 It doesn't matter. Hadden's funding us for 2 more years. 365 00:32:40,239 --> 00:32:44,781 The government doesn't want their telescopes used by the high priestess... 366 00:32:44,952 --> 00:32:46,944 ...of the desert anymore. 367 00:32:48,289 --> 00:32:49,237 What? 368 00:32:49,415 --> 00:32:52,783 Staring at TV static for hours, listening to washing machines. 369 00:32:53,002 --> 00:32:54,994 These stories get out! 370 00:32:55,212 --> 00:32:56,836 I was seeking patterns in the chaos! 371 00:32:57,047 --> 00:32:59,169 It doesn't matter, we're a joke to them. 372 00:32:59,341 --> 00:33:00,716 They want us out! 373 00:33:02,511 --> 00:33:05,381 We've got 3 months till the paperwork goes through. 374 00:33:09,226 --> 00:33:11,384 I'll start looking for other funding. 375 00:33:11,937 --> 00:33:15,720 Could you face reality? Just this once? We lost. 376 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:17,775 It's over. 377 00:33:24,407 --> 00:33:25,569 Fine. 378 00:33:26,243 --> 00:33:27,867 I'm not stopping. 379 00:33:28,411 --> 00:33:31,530 If I have to, I'll go it alone. I've done it before. 380 00:34:21,213 --> 00:34:24,913 My guest tonight is author and theologian Palmer Joss. 381 00:34:25,509 --> 00:34:28,379 He's become a spiritual counselor... 382 00:34:28,553 --> 00:34:29,963 ... and a recent fixture at the White House. 383 00:34:30,263 --> 00:34:33,263 "God's Diplomat," according to The New York Times. 384 00:34:33,433 --> 00:34:37,098 His latest book, "Losing Faith," is currently number one... 385 00:34:37,312 --> 00:34:39,600 ... on that publication 's bestseller list. 386 00:34:39,856 --> 00:34:42,809 Thanks for being here. You've had quite a ride... 387 00:34:42,984 --> 00:34:44,442 ... the last few years. 388 00:34:44,652 --> 00:34:46,311 Yeah, I sure have, Larry. 389 00:34:47,113 --> 00:34:49,319 Fish, I was thinking. 390 00:34:49,824 --> 00:34:54,117 Who would make the best astronomers? Think about it. 391 00:34:54,454 --> 00:34:59,281 Who has the perfect synthesis of career and lifestyle? 392 00:35:00,460 --> 00:35:01,408 I give. 393 00:35:01,627 --> 00:35:03,169 Vampires! 394 00:35:03,504 --> 00:35:06,041 Are you anti-technology and anti-science? 395 00:35:06,299 --> 00:35:07,958 No, not at all. 396 00:35:08,301 --> 00:35:11,136 The question that I'm asking is this: 397 00:35:11,846 --> 00:35:13,304 Are we happier... 398 00:35:13,973 --> 00:35:17,472 ... as a human race? Is the world fundamentally a better place... 399 00:35:17,643 --> 00:35:19,635 ... because of science and technology? 400 00:35:20,312 --> 00:35:22,802 We shop at home, we surf the Web... 401 00:35:22,982 --> 00:35:25,651 ... but at the same time we feel emptier... 402 00:35:27,027 --> 00:35:28,818 ... and more cut off from each other... 403 00:35:28,987 --> 00:35:30,778 ... than at any other time in human history. 404 00:35:30,989 --> 00:35:33,526 We're becoming a synthesized society... 405 00:35:33,867 --> 00:35:35,989 ... in a hurry to get to the... 406 00:35:50,675 --> 00:35:52,382 We're looking for the meaning. 407 00:35:52,677 --> 00:35:54,005 What is the meaning? 408 00:35:54,179 --> 00:35:56,930 We have mindless jobs, take frantic vacations. 409 00:35:57,348 --> 00:36:00,348 Deficit finance trips to the mall to buy things... 410 00:36:00,518 --> 00:36:04,100 ... that we think will fill these holes in our lives. 411 00:36:04,522 --> 00:36:07,012 Any wonder we've lost our sense of direction? 412 00:36:47,856 --> 00:36:49,480 Holy shit! 413 00:37:07,792 --> 00:37:08,740 Right ascension... 414 00:37:09,002 --> 00:37:12,869 ...18 hours, 36 minutes, 56.2 seconds! 415 00:37:14,007 --> 00:37:15,631 Declination... 416 00:37:15,967 --> 00:37:18,967 ... 36 degrees, 46 minutes... 417 00:37:19,303 --> 00:37:21,461 ... 56.2 seconds! 418 00:37:24,016 --> 00:37:25,426 Confirm! 419 00:37:25,643 --> 00:37:28,762 Right ascension, 18 hours, 36 minutes... 420 00:37:28,980 --> 00:37:31,102 ...56.2 seconds! 421 00:37:31,732 --> 00:37:34,602 Is anybody awake in there? I'm moving the array! 422 00:37:34,777 --> 00:37:36,769 Confirm! 423 00:37:37,029 --> 00:37:38,439 Boss has a bogey! 424 00:37:38,656 --> 00:37:40,981 Right ascension, 18 hours... 425 00:37:45,329 --> 00:37:46,573 We're on it! 426 00:37:46,789 --> 00:37:47,784 36 hours... 427 00:37:48,165 --> 00:37:50,122 ... 47 minutes and 1 second! 428 00:37:50,626 --> 00:37:51,954 Strong possible... 429 00:37:52,127 --> 00:37:54,617 ...pulse chain on sub-array four! 430 00:37:54,838 --> 00:37:57,375 I'm moving the rest. Confirm coordinates! 431 00:37:58,342 --> 00:38:00,168 Check the status of the array. 432 00:38:00,469 --> 00:38:01,844 She's doing all the dishes. 433 00:38:02,304 --> 00:38:03,169 Systems nominal. 434 00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:10,174 Hello. 435 00:38:11,396 --> 00:38:12,475 Full systems check! 436 00:38:13,315 --> 00:38:16,066 Coordinates confirmed. Willie's checking the system. 437 00:38:16,317 --> 00:38:19,152 Stay on top of the systems diagnostics! 438 00:38:19,446 --> 00:38:21,153 Check reference point offsets. 439 00:38:21,364 --> 00:38:25,361 And I want you off-axis on 27 the second we get there! 440 00:38:25,535 --> 00:38:28,072 And tell Willie to break out the big boy! 441 00:38:29,664 --> 00:38:30,695 Copy that. 442 00:38:32,166 --> 00:38:33,446 Yeah! Go, Ellie! 443 00:38:33,668 --> 00:38:36,834 I hear it on the headphones. We got to be sure about this. 444 00:38:37,171 --> 00:38:39,329 Give me another array status. 445 00:38:41,175 --> 00:38:44,674 Her four are online, the rest are tracking in. 446 00:38:47,181 --> 00:38:49,506 But there's a bad drive on 16. 447 00:38:49,725 --> 00:38:52,180 The four are online, the rest are tracking in. 448 00:38:52,436 --> 00:38:55,223 There's a bad drive on 16. Copy that? 449 00:38:56,690 --> 00:38:58,682 What shall I do about the source queue? 450 00:38:58,901 --> 00:39:00,858 Forget it and hold the queue. 451 00:39:01,195 --> 00:39:05,358 Get ready to set the target frequency to manual the second we're aligned. 452 00:39:05,574 --> 00:39:09,986 Do you copy? I want you to go off-axis on 27 the second we're there! 453 00:39:10,203 --> 00:39:12,872 And leave the LO frequency where it is! 454 00:39:13,206 --> 00:39:16,325 Don't let it get away! If you lose it, scan the band! 455 00:39:16,543 --> 00:39:19,212 Run every frequency you can think of. 456 00:39:24,551 --> 00:39:25,879 How you doing? 457 00:39:30,431 --> 00:39:31,545 Talk to me, guys. 458 00:39:31,766 --> 00:39:35,431 Partially polarized moving pulses, amplitude modulated. 459 00:39:35,645 --> 00:39:39,310 We're locked. Systems are fine. What's the frequency? 460 00:39:39,565 --> 00:39:40,560 4.46... 461 00:39:40,775 --> 00:39:42,269 ...23 gigahertz. 462 00:39:44,112 --> 00:39:45,736 Hydrogen times pi. 463 00:39:46,113 --> 00:39:47,227 Told you! 464 00:39:47,490 --> 00:39:49,197 Strong sucker too! 465 00:39:50,243 --> 00:39:51,785 I got it! I'm patched in! 466 00:39:52,495 --> 00:39:53,574 Let me hear. 467 00:39:59,251 --> 00:40:00,626 Listen to that. 468 00:40:02,922 --> 00:40:04,879 Make me a liar, Fish. 469 00:40:05,341 --> 00:40:08,128 It could be AWACS out of Kirkland jamming us. 470 00:40:08,302 --> 00:40:09,464 But I doubt it. 471 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:11,878 See if F.U.D.D.'s reading it too. 472 00:40:13,974 --> 00:40:16,096 Patch it back and give me the off-axis. 473 00:40:16,685 --> 00:40:18,344 - We recording? - Never stopped. 474 00:40:20,439 --> 00:40:21,719 Thank you, Elmer! 475 00:40:21,940 --> 00:40:23,766 AWACS status is negative. 476 00:40:23,942 --> 00:40:24,937 White Sands? 477 00:40:25,193 --> 00:40:26,770 On this frequency? No. 478 00:40:27,279 --> 00:40:28,559 I'll punch up the darks. 479 00:40:31,783 --> 00:40:32,945 How's spying tonight? 480 00:40:34,077 --> 00:40:35,357 Come on! 481 00:40:37,706 --> 00:40:40,161 NORAD's not tracking any snoops in this vector. 482 00:40:40,583 --> 00:40:41,958 Shuttle's in sleep mode. 483 00:40:42,293 --> 00:40:44,451 Okay, point source confirmed. 484 00:40:44,754 --> 00:40:46,331 Whatever it is, it ain't local. 485 00:40:46,547 --> 00:40:47,376 Position? 486 00:40:47,590 --> 00:40:50,080 I checked interferometry. Somewhere in Lyra. 487 00:40:50,301 --> 00:40:51,925 - Vega? - Can't be! 488 00:40:52,178 --> 00:40:54,170 It's only 26 light years away. 489 00:40:54,388 --> 00:40:56,297 - Peak intensity? - Coming up! 490 00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:58,299 Vega. 491 00:40:59,101 --> 00:41:02,968 Vega. I scanned it a bunch of times at Arecibo. It was always negative. 492 00:41:03,189 --> 00:41:04,137 Got it! 493 00:41:04,315 --> 00:41:06,188 Reading over 100 janskys. 494 00:41:06,901 --> 00:41:09,391 Jesus! I can pick it up on my... 495 00:41:12,323 --> 00:41:13,318 No! 496 00:41:46,606 --> 00:41:47,601 Come on! 497 00:41:49,859 --> 00:41:51,021 It's restarting. 498 00:41:52,487 --> 00:41:54,230 Wait a minute. Those are numbers. 499 00:41:54,405 --> 00:41:56,196 That was 3, before it was 2. 500 00:41:57,659 --> 00:42:00,232 Base 10 numbers. Count and see how far we get. 501 00:42:01,329 --> 00:42:01,862 One. 502 00:42:08,544 --> 00:42:09,539 Seven. 503 00:42:12,381 --> 00:42:13,923 Those are primes. 504 00:42:14,175 --> 00:42:17,341 2, 3, 5, 7 are all prime numbers. 505 00:42:17,803 --> 00:42:19,676 No way that's a natural phenomenon! 506 00:42:19,889 --> 00:42:22,724 Let's just calm down and pull up the star file on Vega. 507 00:42:24,226 --> 00:42:27,511 It doesn't make any sense. The system is too young. 508 00:42:27,730 --> 00:42:29,389 It can't have a planetary system... 509 00:42:29,565 --> 00:42:32,815 ...let alone life or a technological civilization. 510 00:42:33,068 --> 00:42:35,523 Maybe they're not from there, they're visiting. 511 00:42:35,737 --> 00:42:39,070 Spacecraft? This system's full of debris. It'd get clobbered. 512 00:42:39,491 --> 00:42:43,571 Not if they used their laser blasters and photon torpedoes. 513 00:42:43,829 --> 00:42:46,746 - That's not funny. - How else can we explain it! 514 00:42:47,290 --> 00:42:50,243 He's right. If we go public with this and we're wrong... 515 00:42:50,418 --> 00:42:52,659 ...it's over. We're cooked. 516 00:42:55,507 --> 00:42:56,882 I wish Kent was here. 517 00:42:57,092 --> 00:43:00,507 Whatever it is, let's do something. Vega will set. 518 00:43:03,932 --> 00:43:08,261 Position confirmed. We've got 4.4623 gigahertz, confirmed. 519 00:43:08,436 --> 00:43:11,306 We've got 112 janskys. 520 00:43:11,606 --> 00:43:13,812 Do you have a source location yet? 521 00:43:16,402 --> 00:43:18,774 We put it right smack in the middle. 522 00:43:19,447 --> 00:43:20,691 Vega. 523 00:43:22,867 --> 00:43:25,784 Thanks. Keep tracking and we'll get back to you. 524 00:43:26,037 --> 00:43:27,317 Right-o. 525 00:43:38,632 --> 00:43:40,375 101. The pulse sequenced... 526 00:43:40,551 --> 00:43:43,966 ...through every prime number between 2 and 101. 527 00:43:45,889 --> 00:43:47,548 Who do we call now? 528 00:43:50,811 --> 00:43:51,806 Everybody. 529 00:43:59,569 --> 00:44:03,103 The rumors are flying, the implications extraordinary. 530 00:44:03,323 --> 00:44:05,149 Detection of an unidentified... 531 00:44:05,408 --> 00:44:09,619 ... radio source from space can neither be confirmed nor denied. 532 00:44:09,871 --> 00:44:11,744 But the military arriving... 533 00:44:11,956 --> 00:44:15,538 Sources close to the VLA report they have been contacted... 534 00:44:15,752 --> 00:44:17,744 ...by some form of intelligent being... 535 00:44:17,962 --> 00:44:22,504 ...living outside our solar system. Again, there is no confirmation. 536 00:44:25,636 --> 00:44:27,711 I want all of these people out of here. 537 00:44:28,556 --> 00:44:29,884 Where's the girl? 538 00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:35,848 22 stations worldwide... 539 00:44:36,063 --> 00:44:37,473 ...now confirm the signal. 540 00:44:37,648 --> 00:44:39,307 Vega's now below our horizon. 541 00:44:39,525 --> 00:44:41,850 You're hearing the signal from the Russian... 542 00:44:42,069 --> 00:44:43,693 Get decryption people here. 543 00:44:43,904 --> 00:44:45,943 Lunacharsky's visiting at Cal Tech. 544 00:44:46,156 --> 00:44:47,531 Explain this to me. 545 00:44:47,741 --> 00:44:51,785 If the source of the signal is so sophisticated... why the remedial math? 546 00:44:51,995 --> 00:44:53,405 Why not just speak English? 547 00:44:53,580 --> 00:44:56,995 Maybe because 70%% of the planet speaks other languages. 548 00:44:57,167 --> 00:45:00,002 Mathematics is the only truly universal language. 549 00:45:00,671 --> 00:45:03,208 It's no coincidence that they're using primes. 550 00:45:03,465 --> 00:45:04,378 I don't get it. 551 00:45:04,675 --> 00:45:05,873 Prime numbers. 552 00:45:06,093 --> 00:45:09,592 Integers only divisible by themselves and 1. 553 00:45:12,557 --> 00:45:15,392 We think this may be a beacon, an announcement... 554 00:45:15,685 --> 00:45:17,428 ...to get our attention. 555 00:45:17,604 --> 00:45:21,352 If it's attention you want, you got that. One thing: Vega. 556 00:45:21,566 --> 00:45:25,017 People have looked at Vega for years, with no results. 557 00:45:25,195 --> 00:45:28,148 Yesterday they start broadcasting primes. Why? 558 00:45:28,406 --> 00:45:29,734 It's hardly yesterday. 559 00:45:29,949 --> 00:45:32,570 The signal's been transmitting for 26 years. 560 00:45:33,870 --> 00:45:35,364 Excuse me, who are you? 561 00:45:35,580 --> 00:45:37,987 Michael Kitz, National Security Advisor. 562 00:45:38,207 --> 00:45:39,535 Your reputation... 563 00:45:39,709 --> 00:45:43,124 First, ask the gentlemen with the guns to wait outside. 564 00:45:43,796 --> 00:45:45,871 This is a civilian facility. 565 00:45:52,429 --> 00:45:53,839 With all due respect... 566 00:45:54,056 --> 00:45:54,921 Excuse me. 567 00:45:56,433 --> 00:45:58,639 Hi! I'm so glad you're back! 568 00:45:59,228 --> 00:46:00,426 Come hear this. 569 00:46:01,146 --> 00:46:02,474 Is this great? 570 00:46:02,648 --> 00:46:05,020 - Who are all these people? - I have no idea. 571 00:46:05,234 --> 00:46:08,400 Sit down. We need help with the spectrum analysis. 572 00:46:08,612 --> 00:46:10,189 - I'll get on it. - Headsets. 573 00:46:10,447 --> 00:46:12,605 I'll just come right to the point. 574 00:46:12,824 --> 00:46:16,821 Announcing this all over the world may well be a breach of national security. 575 00:46:16,995 --> 00:46:18,702 It's not a person-to-person call. 576 00:46:18,914 --> 00:46:23,041 You think a civilization sending this message intends it just for Americans? 577 00:46:23,251 --> 00:46:25,077 You might have consulted us. 578 00:46:25,462 --> 00:46:29,459 - The contents could be very sensitive. - You want to classify prime numbers? 579 00:46:30,091 --> 00:46:33,424 Due to earth's rotation, we're in line with Vega only hours a day. 580 00:46:33,636 --> 00:46:37,965 The only way to monitor the signal is to cooperate with other stations. 581 00:46:38,182 --> 00:46:42,511 If Dr. Arroway hadn't acted quickly, we'd have lost key elements. 582 00:46:42,687 --> 00:46:44,229 Fine, they've got the primes. 583 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,231 But if a more significant transmission is to come... 584 00:46:47,483 --> 00:46:49,440 We need help to receive and decode. 585 00:46:49,652 --> 00:46:52,273 You understand that my job is to protect... 586 00:46:53,573 --> 00:46:55,482 - Listen. - I hear it. 587 00:46:55,783 --> 00:46:56,731 Hear what? 588 00:46:56,951 --> 00:46:57,899 Harmonic. 589 00:46:58,119 --> 00:47:01,950 Bingo! I had Willie ask Rattan to retune to 8.9247 gigahertz. 590 00:47:02,123 --> 00:47:03,747 There's a lot more here. 591 00:47:03,958 --> 00:47:06,627 - Get on the negative sideband. - I'm already on it. 592 00:47:06,794 --> 00:47:07,908 What is it? 593 00:47:08,128 --> 00:47:09,622 Another signal! 594 00:47:09,797 --> 00:47:12,667 A second signal at double the frequency. Looks like... 595 00:47:13,509 --> 00:47:14,837 Get a TV monitor! 596 00:47:15,594 --> 00:47:17,467 Patch it into the image processor. 597 00:47:17,679 --> 00:47:18,923 Want the new data? 598 00:47:19,139 --> 00:47:20,930 Yeah, the new one we just recorded. 599 00:47:21,141 --> 00:47:23,098 David, explain this to me, please. 600 00:47:23,310 --> 00:47:26,097 There's another signal. Looks like a TV transmission. 601 00:47:26,313 --> 00:47:27,261 We're hot. 602 00:47:27,522 --> 00:47:30,226 Go get the blinds. There is a lot of glare. 603 00:47:31,318 --> 00:47:32,728 You're patched in. 604 00:47:32,986 --> 00:47:36,401 It's definitely an image. Let's try and stabilize it. 605 00:47:41,161 --> 00:47:42,868 What do you make of that? 606 00:47:43,079 --> 00:47:46,079 It's two different interlaced frames. I'm framing one. 607 00:47:49,419 --> 00:47:52,170 - It's just noise. - Trying frame two. 608 00:47:53,381 --> 00:47:56,714 I've got an offset carrier. I think it's audio. 609 00:47:56,926 --> 00:47:58,170 Plug it in! 610 00:48:02,515 --> 00:48:03,759 Center that segment. 611 00:48:03,975 --> 00:48:05,089 Centering. 612 00:48:09,355 --> 00:48:10,683 Can you clean it up? 613 00:48:10,856 --> 00:48:12,350 I'm working on it. 614 00:48:25,287 --> 00:48:26,745 What the hell...? 615 00:48:27,456 --> 00:48:28,736 Try zooming out. 616 00:48:32,753 --> 00:48:33,701 Freeze! 617 00:48:33,879 --> 00:48:35,159 Reverse values. 618 00:48:36,798 --> 00:48:38,589 Try zooming out again. 619 00:48:42,596 --> 00:48:44,754 Rotate 90 degrees counterclock... 620 00:48:46,308 --> 00:48:47,885 My God! 621 00:48:54,607 --> 00:48:56,065 What's going on? 622 00:48:56,609 --> 00:48:58,981 You're not going to believe this. 623 00:49:12,416 --> 00:49:14,159 Does anybody speak German? 624 00:49:15,628 --> 00:49:18,000 "I declare the Games in Berlin... 625 00:49:19,090 --> 00:49:20,797 ...at the celebration... 626 00:49:21,008 --> 00:49:23,878 ...of the first Olympics of the New Era... 627 00:49:24,094 --> 00:49:25,422 ...as opened." 628 00:49:36,190 --> 00:49:37,648 Get me the White House. 629 00:49:38,442 --> 00:49:40,849 20 million people died defeating the bastard... 630 00:49:41,069 --> 00:49:43,856 ...and he's our first ambassador to outer space? 631 00:49:44,072 --> 00:49:47,357 The broadcast of the '36 Olympics was the first TV transmission... 632 00:49:47,617 --> 00:49:49,111 ...that went into space. 633 00:49:49,327 --> 00:49:52,695 Sending it back is a way of saying, "Hello, we heard you." 634 00:49:52,873 --> 00:49:55,161 Or, "Sieg Heil, you're our kind of people." 635 00:49:55,375 --> 00:49:57,865 Hitler's politics have nothing to do with this. 636 00:49:58,086 --> 00:50:01,751 It's unlikely they understood it. People must understand... 637 00:50:01,923 --> 00:50:04,248 The people are in very good hands, Doctor. 638 00:50:04,467 --> 00:50:06,210 We'll take it from here. 639 00:50:07,262 --> 00:50:09,254 Smile, folks. We're on. 640 00:50:09,556 --> 00:50:11,844 A message of unknown origin from deep space... 641 00:50:12,058 --> 00:50:15,723 ... was received by American scientists. Now to the White House. 642 00:50:16,187 --> 00:50:19,390 We're told the President will have only a few remarks... 643 00:50:19,690 --> 00:50:21,148 ... about today's extraordinary events... 644 00:50:21,359 --> 00:50:24,727 ... and that he won 't be taking any questions from the press. 645 00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:30,980 Good afternoon. 646 00:50:33,871 --> 00:50:36,029 I'm glad to be joined by my... 647 00:50:36,207 --> 00:50:38,116 ... Science and Technology Advisor. 648 00:50:39,877 --> 00:50:42,747 This is the product of years of exploration... 649 00:50:42,921 --> 00:50:46,171 ... by some of the world's most distinguished scientists. 650 00:50:46,383 --> 00:50:48,042 Like all discoveries... 651 00:50:48,218 --> 00:50:50,543 ... this one will continue to be reviewed... 652 00:50:50,804 --> 00:50:51,835 ... examined... 653 00:50:52,014 --> 00:50:53,556 ... and scrutinized. 654 00:50:53,765 --> 00:50:56,765 It must be confirmed by other scientists. 655 00:50:57,019 --> 00:50:58,181 But clearly... 656 00:50:58,770 --> 00:51:02,221 ... the fact that this is being explored is a vindication... 657 00:51:03,066 --> 00:51:06,897 Fish, what is the story over here? I thought Ellie was supposed to be on. 658 00:51:07,070 --> 00:51:08,564 I don't know. 659 00:51:09,197 --> 00:51:10,525 Guys? 660 00:51:12,909 --> 00:51:15,578 Those interlaced frames we thought were noise? 661 00:51:16,579 --> 00:51:19,248 This has structure. I'm hearing structure. 662 00:51:20,583 --> 00:51:22,908 If this discovery is confirmed... 663 00:51:23,086 --> 00:51:26,751 ... it will be one of the most stunning insights into our universe... 664 00:51:26,923 --> 00:51:28,962 ... that science has ever uncovered. 665 00:51:29,467 --> 00:51:31,839 Its implications are as far-reaching... 666 00:51:32,053 --> 00:51:34,626 ... and awe-inspiring as can be imagined. 667 00:51:34,931 --> 00:51:38,299 Even as it promises answers to some of our oldest questions... 668 00:51:38,559 --> 00:51:40,101 ... it poses still others... 669 00:51:40,311 --> 00:51:41,935 ... even more fundamental. 670 00:51:42,146 --> 00:51:44,055 We will continue to listen closely... 671 00:51:44,273 --> 00:51:45,815 ... to what it has to say... 672 00:51:45,983 --> 00:51:48,105 ... as we continue the search for answers... 673 00:51:48,319 --> 00:51:49,563 ... and for knowledge... 674 00:51:49,820 --> 00:51:52,108 ... that is as old as humanity itself... 675 00:51:52,323 --> 00:51:55,240 ... but essential to our people's future. 676 00:51:55,659 --> 00:51:56,358 Thank you. 677 00:51:56,577 --> 00:51:59,447 Is there a renewed assessment of security threat? 678 00:51:59,746 --> 00:52:02,782 I'll answer your questions after a few corrections. 679 00:52:02,958 --> 00:52:04,665 The message was received Friday... 680 00:52:04,918 --> 00:52:06,957 ... at 6:31 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. 681 00:52:07,170 --> 00:52:08,794 It was largely mathematical... 682 00:52:08,964 --> 00:52:11,668 ... and in spite of reports to the contrary... 683 00:52:11,967 --> 00:52:14,457 ... appears to be completely benign in nature. 684 00:52:14,678 --> 00:52:18,627 Let me say that again. The message is completely benign. 685 00:52:18,848 --> 00:52:21,967 The President has contacted the world's heads of state... 686 00:52:22,185 --> 00:52:24,972 ... and every security measure is being taken. 687 00:52:25,188 --> 00:52:28,272 To better explain the events of the last 48 hours... 688 00:52:28,483 --> 00:52:32,895 ... is the leader of the scientific team that made this remarkable discovery... 689 00:52:33,154 --> 00:52:37,151 ... Dr. David Drumlin, special Science Advisor to the President. 690 00:52:45,166 --> 00:52:46,541 Thank you, Rachel. 691 00:52:46,876 --> 00:52:47,990 Hello. 692 00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,327 In 1936, a very faint television signal... 693 00:52:52,548 --> 00:52:56,841 ... transmitted the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games as a show... 694 00:52:57,011 --> 00:52:59,501 ... of German superior technology. 695 00:53:00,556 --> 00:53:04,683 That signal left Earth at the speed of light and 26 years later... 696 00:53:04,935 --> 00:53:08,553 ... arrived in the vicinity of the star we call Vega. 697 00:53:09,731 --> 00:53:13,562 That signal has been sent back to us hugely amplified... 698 00:53:13,944 --> 00:53:16,897 ... an unmistakable sign of intelligence. 699 00:53:17,072 --> 00:53:18,151 Kent, go ahead. 700 00:53:18,365 --> 00:53:22,694 The Adolf transmission used 25 frames per second but we're receiving 50. 701 00:53:22,911 --> 00:53:26,742 So we put the other 25 through search algorithms. 702 00:53:26,957 --> 00:53:29,530 We found a series of markers on the top of each frame. 703 00:53:29,751 --> 00:53:31,494 - Are you ready? - Yeah, go ahead! 704 00:53:31,711 --> 00:53:32,909 Send it, Willie. 705 00:53:33,088 --> 00:53:34,582 Here it comes. 706 00:53:37,967 --> 00:53:39,211 It's digital... 707 00:53:39,427 --> 00:53:43,590 ... massive amounts of data which extend right to the higher harmonics. 708 00:53:44,265 --> 00:53:45,723 Jackpot! 709 00:53:46,976 --> 00:53:48,933 All right, as you'll see... 710 00:53:49,103 --> 00:53:52,518 ...interlaced with the frames of the original Hitler image... 711 00:53:52,732 --> 00:53:55,567 ...we found these sections. 712 00:53:55,776 --> 00:53:59,227 We thought they were noise, but they're actually data... 713 00:53:59,405 --> 00:54:00,733 ...huge amounts of it. 714 00:54:00,948 --> 00:54:05,277 When we combine this with the data from the original signal... 715 00:54:05,453 --> 00:54:08,738 ...we get these encrypted pages of text. 716 00:54:08,998 --> 00:54:13,125 No two are alike and we've uncovered over 10,000 already. 717 00:54:13,294 --> 00:54:15,452 What does it mean, Doctor? 718 00:54:15,963 --> 00:54:18,714 We have no idea. It could be anything. 719 00:54:18,966 --> 00:54:21,088 Volume 1 of an Encyclopedia Galactica. 720 00:54:21,260 --> 00:54:23,929 Instructions for us on their colonization procedures. 721 00:54:24,096 --> 00:54:26,421 Moses with a few billion new commandments. 722 00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:28,762 How long will it take to decode it? 723 00:54:29,017 --> 00:54:32,302 It could take forever. We really need a primer... 724 00:54:32,479 --> 00:54:35,598 We need to get the best decryption people we have. 725 00:54:36,274 --> 00:54:40,485 I intend to use the VLA as my command post. 726 00:54:40,654 --> 00:54:44,105 In the meantime, my office has made out a preliminary budget. 727 00:54:44,282 --> 00:54:45,562 Wait a minute. 728 00:54:45,784 --> 00:54:48,109 This is a privately-funded operation. 729 00:54:48,286 --> 00:54:50,574 We lease dish time from the government... 730 00:54:50,788 --> 00:54:53,457 This is a clear-cut case of eminent domain. 731 00:54:53,625 --> 00:54:56,791 I'm recommending to the President we militarize this project. 732 00:54:57,045 --> 00:54:59,500 What?! This is my project! 733 00:54:59,672 --> 00:55:03,005 Nobody knows more about this than I do. David, tell them... 734 00:55:03,176 --> 00:55:06,260 Excuse me! Could we calm down here? 735 00:55:06,679 --> 00:55:07,923 I'm going to recommend that... 736 00:55:08,097 --> 00:55:11,133 ...Dr. Drumlin coordinate the decryption effort. 737 00:55:11,308 --> 00:55:14,641 But in light of Dr. Arroway's long experience in these matters... 738 00:55:14,854 --> 00:55:19,017 ...for the time being, she will direct operations at the VLA... 739 00:55:19,191 --> 00:55:23,852 ...understanding that future discoveries will be kept in strict confidence... 740 00:55:24,071 --> 00:55:26,312 ...until such time as the President... 741 00:55:26,532 --> 00:55:30,363 ...can decide the most suitable course of action. Understood? 742 00:55:30,536 --> 00:55:31,531 Yes. 743 00:55:31,787 --> 00:55:34,075 This is CNN Breaking News. 744 00:55:34,623 --> 00:55:37,576 The President called the message from Vega... 745 00:55:37,793 --> 00:55:39,951 ..."a stunning insight into our universe..." 746 00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:45,045 Attendance at religious services has risen a dramatic 39% in recent days. 747 00:55:45,217 --> 00:55:49,084 ... as police clashed with neo-Nazi protesters. 748 00:55:49,304 --> 00:55:51,426 So, there's life on other planets. 749 00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,222 Boy, this will really change the Miss Universe contest. 750 00:55:55,894 --> 00:56:00,223 Health officials worldwide are concerned that the message from Vega... 751 00:56:00,398 --> 00:56:03,067 ... might trigger a rash of mass suicides... 752 00:56:03,234 --> 00:56:05,855 ... not unlike recent cult deaths near San Diego... 753 00:56:06,112 --> 00:56:08,069 Even a scientist must admit... 754 00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:12,651 ... there are some pretty serious religious overtones to all this. 755 00:56:12,910 --> 00:56:15,151 Here's someone whose organization... 756 00:56:15,329 --> 00:56:17,784 ... is accused of conducting its own inquisition: 757 00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:20,791 Richard Rank, head of the Conservative Coalition. 758 00:56:21,043 --> 00:56:22,074 Thank you. 759 00:56:22,253 --> 00:56:26,416 This is yet another example of science intruding into matters of faith. 760 00:56:27,508 --> 00:56:30,793 This means they have been reacting to TV signals... 761 00:56:31,053 --> 00:56:33,888 ... from the 1930s. They're just getting them. 762 00:56:34,139 --> 00:56:37,839 Imagine how disappointed they'll be if they're Cubs fans. 763 00:56:38,143 --> 00:56:41,179 We now go to Jeremy Roth, who is reporting... 764 00:56:41,355 --> 00:56:44,806 ... from the Very Large Array near Socorro, New Mexico. 765 00:56:45,067 --> 00:56:46,477 Like a bolt from the blue it came. 766 00:56:46,777 --> 00:56:48,734 "The Message from Vega" has caused... 767 00:56:48,945 --> 00:56:51,317 ... thousands of believers and non-believers... 768 00:56:51,531 --> 00:56:55,231 ... to descend upon the VLA facility here in the desert of New Mexico. 769 00:56:55,452 --> 00:56:58,121 Many have come to protest, many to pray... 770 00:56:58,288 --> 00:57:02,949 ... but most have come to participate in what's become the best show in town. 771 00:57:08,590 --> 00:57:11,127 Well, I saw the thing coming out of the sky 772 00:57:11,426 --> 00:57:14,592 It had one long horn and one big eye. 773 00:57:14,804 --> 00:57:17,473 I commenced to shaking and said, "Oo-ee!" 774 00:57:17,932 --> 00:57:20,932 "Looks like a Purple People Eater to me" 775 00:58:12,027 --> 00:58:13,521 Hail to Vega Hail to Vega 776 00:58:19,534 --> 00:58:21,325 But they have failed! 777 00:58:21,828 --> 00:58:24,615 It's the same people who, again and again... 778 00:58:24,831 --> 00:58:26,953 ...have brought us to the brink of destruction! 779 00:58:27,208 --> 00:58:30,873 Who've polluted our air, who've poisoned our water! 780 00:58:32,380 --> 00:58:34,502 Now these scientists... 781 00:58:35,383 --> 00:58:37,340 ...have had their chance. 782 00:58:37,552 --> 00:58:40,671 Are these the kind of people... 783 00:58:41,013 --> 00:58:44,844 ...that you want talking to your God for you? 784 00:58:48,729 --> 00:58:50,686 Efforts continue around the clock. 785 00:58:50,898 --> 00:58:54,563 But for now, almost 2 full weeks after the message's arrival... 786 00:58:54,735 --> 00:58:58,020 ... scientists here at the VLA still have no answers... 787 00:58:58,280 --> 00:58:59,987 ... only more questions. 788 00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,525 Jeremy Roth, CNN, Socorro, New Mexico. 789 00:59:03,869 --> 00:59:07,237 More on the quest for the message's meaning, after this. 790 00:59:10,042 --> 00:59:11,868 They have to line up somehow. 791 00:59:12,085 --> 00:59:13,994 This one doesn't fit, either. 792 00:59:14,254 --> 00:59:16,875 We've tried over a million permutations. 793 00:59:17,090 --> 00:59:20,423 Always, I can only get three corners to fit. 794 00:59:21,428 --> 00:59:23,586 I don't understand their significance. 795 01:00:07,014 --> 01:00:08,212 Somebody broke in... 796 01:00:14,605 --> 01:00:15,636 Hello? 797 01:00:16,607 --> 01:00:19,810 Whoever you are, you broke into the database... 798 01:00:22,821 --> 01:00:24,149 What? Now? 799 01:00:26,992 --> 01:00:28,154 Where? 800 01:00:41,172 --> 01:00:42,630 I'll be there. 801 01:01:10,201 --> 01:01:11,659 You should feel fortunate. 802 01:01:12,369 --> 01:01:13,827 He hardly lands for anyone. 803 01:01:45,527 --> 01:01:47,400 Dr. Arroway. 804 01:01:51,241 --> 01:01:52,569 I presume? 805 01:01:53,868 --> 01:01:55,030 Mr. Hadden. 806 01:01:56,371 --> 01:01:59,537 I've had my eye on you a long time, Doctor. 807 01:02:00,416 --> 01:02:03,867 I consider you one of my most valuable long-term investments. 808 01:02:05,713 --> 01:02:08,168 And when it comes to my investments... 809 01:02:09,884 --> 01:02:12,553 ...I always do my homework. 810 01:02:17,266 --> 01:02:19,057 Eleanor Ann Arroway... 811 01:02:19,226 --> 01:02:21,716 ...born 25th August, 1964... 812 01:02:21,937 --> 01:02:23,561 ...De Pere, Wisconsin. 813 01:02:23,731 --> 01:02:27,977 Mother, Joanna, died from complications during childbirth. 814 01:02:28,694 --> 01:02:31,398 Early testing indicated high predisposition... 815 01:02:31,572 --> 01:02:34,608 ...towards science and mathematics. 816 01:02:35,284 --> 01:02:36,482 Father, Theodore... 817 01:02:36,660 --> 01:02:40,194 ...advised to provide enrichment activities in these areas... 818 01:02:40,455 --> 01:02:43,076 ...did so conscientiously until his death... 819 01:02:43,250 --> 01:02:47,199 ...from myocardial infarction, November 10, 1974. 820 01:02:48,588 --> 01:02:51,921 You graduated from high school in 1979... 821 01:02:52,175 --> 01:02:54,132 ...almost two full years early. 822 01:02:55,595 --> 01:02:57,552 Awarded full scholarship, M.I. T... 823 01:02:57,722 --> 01:02:59,928 ...graduated magna cum laude. 824 01:03:00,892 --> 01:03:02,599 Doctoral work, Cal Tech... 825 01:03:02,769 --> 01:03:05,888 ...where you worked on the lanthanide-doped ruby maser... 826 01:03:06,105 --> 01:03:10,482 ...dramatically increasing the sensitivity of radio telescopes. 827 01:03:10,902 --> 01:03:14,484 Subsequently offered a teaching position at Harvard University... 828 01:03:14,655 --> 01:03:17,774 ...which you turned down to pursue SETI work... 829 01:03:17,950 --> 01:03:21,449 ...at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. 830 01:03:23,789 --> 01:03:26,279 Changes in N.S.F. Policy... 831 01:03:26,751 --> 01:03:30,084 ...gave rise to certain funding problems... 832 01:03:31,130 --> 01:03:32,624 ...at which point... 833 01:03:33,132 --> 01:03:35,124 ...you came to my attention. 834 01:03:36,510 --> 01:03:38,798 You compromised our security codes. 835 01:03:41,140 --> 01:03:42,966 Once upon a time... 836 01:03:44,977 --> 01:03:47,099 ...I was a hell of an engineer. 837 01:03:47,479 --> 01:03:49,471 Please, sit, Doctor. 838 01:03:50,107 --> 01:03:51,186 I have guests so rarely... 839 01:03:51,358 --> 01:03:54,643 ...it's important they feel welcome in my home. 840 01:03:55,695 --> 01:03:57,023 You live here? 841 01:03:58,657 --> 01:04:01,990 I find it convenient to keep my interests... 842 01:04:03,328 --> 01:04:04,323 ...mobile. 843 01:04:06,998 --> 01:04:11,161 Anyway, I've had my fill of life on the ground. 844 01:04:12,962 --> 01:04:14,504 I guess I should... 845 01:04:15,131 --> 01:04:18,665 I guess I should thank you for having bailed me out all that time. 846 01:04:24,015 --> 01:04:26,173 I know a good bet when I see one. 847 01:04:28,561 --> 01:04:31,348 Earl Grey. No sugar, no milk, I believe. 848 01:04:34,692 --> 01:04:36,565 What am I doing here? 849 01:04:46,870 --> 01:04:50,036 The powers that be have been very busy lately... 850 01:04:50,874 --> 01:04:52,700 ...positioning themselves... 851 01:04:52,918 --> 01:04:55,705 ...for the game of the millennium. 852 01:05:02,552 --> 01:05:05,173 Maybe I can help deal you back in. 853 01:05:06,556 --> 01:05:08,844 I didn't realize that I was out. 854 01:05:09,392 --> 01:05:11,218 No. Maybe not out... 855 01:05:12,395 --> 01:05:14,720 ...but certainly being handed your hat. 856 01:05:20,111 --> 01:05:23,859 I've had a long time to make enemies, Doctor. 857 01:05:27,410 --> 01:05:29,034 There are many governments... 858 01:05:29,245 --> 01:05:30,787 ...business interests... 859 01:05:31,414 --> 01:05:35,411 ...even religious leaders that would like to see me depart this earth. 860 01:05:36,919 --> 01:05:39,409 And I'll grant them their wish soon enough. 861 01:05:39,922 --> 01:05:43,587 But before I do, I wish to make a small contribution. 862 01:05:44,427 --> 01:05:48,923 A final gesture of goodwill to the people of this planet who have given... 863 01:05:51,767 --> 01:05:54,436 ...from whom I have taken so much. 864 01:05:57,898 --> 01:05:59,392 You found the primer. 865 01:06:01,777 --> 01:06:02,939 Clever girl! 866 01:06:04,071 --> 01:06:04,853 Lights. 867 01:06:13,455 --> 01:06:16,159 Pages and pages of data. 868 01:06:16,792 --> 01:06:19,792 Over 63,000 in all. 869 01:06:20,086 --> 01:06:22,244 And on the perimeter of each... 870 01:06:22,464 --> 01:06:25,998 Alignment symbols, registration marks, but they don't line up. 871 01:06:26,509 --> 01:06:27,707 They do... 872 01:06:28,011 --> 01:06:29,754 ...if you think like a Vegan. 873 01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,633 An alien intelligence has got be more advanced... 874 01:06:33,808 --> 01:06:37,805 ...and that means efficiency functioning on multiple levels... 875 01:06:38,021 --> 01:06:39,847 ...and in multiple... 876 01:06:40,064 --> 01:06:41,890 ...dimensions. 877 01:06:45,820 --> 01:06:47,812 Yes, of course! 878 01:06:48,447 --> 01:06:49,478 Where's the primer? 879 01:06:49,991 --> 01:06:51,319 You'll see. 880 01:06:51,826 --> 01:06:56,322 Every three-dimensional page contains a piece of the primer. 881 01:06:58,499 --> 01:07:01,998 There it was all the time, staring you in the face. 882 01:07:03,129 --> 01:07:07,173 Buried within the message itself is the key to decoding it. 883 01:07:07,466 --> 01:07:10,834 Within the layering of the matrix, we have these basic equations: 884 01:07:12,554 --> 01:07:16,551 So with this very elementary foundation, they have given us a kind of... 885 01:07:16,850 --> 01:07:19,175 ...general scientific vocabulary. 886 01:07:19,394 --> 01:07:21,719 We now have the symbols for true and false... 887 01:07:21,897 --> 01:07:23,177 This was the key... 888 01:07:23,398 --> 01:07:25,853 ...that allowed us to decipher their language... 889 01:07:26,068 --> 01:07:29,816 ...for physics, geometry, chemistry. Next frame, Ellie. 890 01:07:31,156 --> 01:07:34,939 Yes, and when we apply this to the rest of the message... 891 01:07:35,869 --> 01:07:36,864 ...we find this. 892 01:07:41,374 --> 01:07:44,825 Those look like engineering schematics, almost like blueprints. 893 01:07:46,212 --> 01:07:47,207 Yes. 894 01:07:47,505 --> 01:07:50,790 It is our belief that the message contains instructions... 895 01:07:51,009 --> 01:07:54,460 ...for building something, some kind of machine. 896 01:07:54,887 --> 01:07:57,556 A machine? That does what, Doctor? 897 01:07:57,890 --> 01:08:00,131 We don't know. It might be some type... 898 01:08:01,060 --> 01:08:05,721 ...of advanced communication device, or a teaching machine of some kind. 899 01:08:07,108 --> 01:08:08,436 Or it might be... 900 01:08:08,776 --> 01:08:10,435 ...some kind of a transport. 901 01:08:10,903 --> 01:08:13,393 - Transport? - There's no proof of that. 902 01:08:13,614 --> 01:08:17,196 The fact is you don't know what it does. It could be anything. 903 01:08:17,534 --> 01:08:20,902 A Trojan Horse. We build it and out pours the entire Vegan army. 904 01:08:21,205 --> 01:08:23,695 Why risk the personnel? It could be a weapon. 905 01:08:23,916 --> 01:08:26,241 Right. Some kind of a Doomsday Machine. 906 01:08:26,418 --> 01:08:28,825 Every time they detect a new civilization... 907 01:08:29,004 --> 01:08:31,376 ...they fax construction plans from space. 908 01:08:31,590 --> 01:08:35,208 We poor saps build this thing and blow ourselves to kingdom come. 909 01:08:35,427 --> 01:08:39,045 There's no reason to believe their intentions are hostile. 910 01:08:39,431 --> 01:08:42,930 Why is it the egghead position that aliens are always benign? 911 01:08:43,852 --> 01:08:45,394 We pose no threat to them. 912 01:08:45,604 --> 01:08:48,141 It'd be like us going out of our way... 913 01:08:48,440 --> 01:08:50,099 ...to destroy microbes on an anthill. 914 01:08:50,316 --> 01:08:51,810 Interesting analogy. 915 01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:53,355 How guilty would we feel... 916 01:08:53,570 --> 01:08:56,321 ...if we destroyed a few microbes on an anthill? 917 01:08:56,573 --> 01:08:57,735 I hope you're right. 918 01:08:58,032 --> 01:08:59,063 I really do. 919 01:08:59,284 --> 01:09:02,783 But my job is to protect American lives from any threat... 920 01:09:02,954 --> 01:09:05,076 ...so I am obligated to assume the worst. 921 01:09:05,289 --> 01:09:07,281 Yes, and I am forced to agree with you. 922 01:09:07,500 --> 01:09:08,958 My problem is this: 923 01:09:09,627 --> 01:09:12,830 The content of that message is morally ambiguous at best. 924 01:09:13,464 --> 01:09:16,963 Our internal numbers show support for this is incredibly soft. 925 01:09:17,176 --> 01:09:19,845 If the President stays this course... 926 01:09:20,012 --> 01:09:22,799 ...his numbers will be going south like ducks in winter. 927 01:09:23,098 --> 01:09:24,129 This is nuts! 928 01:09:24,308 --> 01:09:25,303 Excuse me... 929 01:09:25,518 --> 01:09:26,513 ...Miss. 930 01:09:27,019 --> 01:09:29,509 We know nothing of these creatures' values. 931 01:09:29,855 --> 01:09:32,262 We don't even know whether they believe in God. 932 01:09:32,483 --> 01:09:34,309 This doesn't make any sense. If... 933 01:09:34,485 --> 01:09:36,311 Excuse me, Dr. Arroway. 934 01:09:36,487 --> 01:09:38,977 We won't be suppressing any opinions here today. 935 01:09:39,865 --> 01:09:41,987 No, of course not. I understand. 936 01:09:42,993 --> 01:09:44,451 What I meant to say... 937 01:09:45,037 --> 01:09:48,203 ...is the message was written in the language of science. 938 01:09:48,665 --> 01:09:51,998 If it was religious in nature, it should have taken the form... 939 01:09:52,169 --> 01:09:54,873 ...of a burning bush or a voice from the sky. 940 01:09:55,046 --> 01:09:57,168 But a voice from the sky... 941 01:09:58,258 --> 01:10:00,831 ...is exactly what you found, Doctor Arroway. 942 01:10:04,514 --> 01:10:06,221 I'm sorry I'm late, ma'am. 943 01:10:08,017 --> 01:10:11,848 I agree with Mr. Rank that there are unavoidable... 944 01:10:12,021 --> 01:10:14,179 ...religious implications at stake. 945 01:10:14,357 --> 01:10:16,764 But that doesn't justify being an alarmist. 946 01:10:18,736 --> 01:10:21,061 I hope that we can find a common ground... 947 01:10:21,531 --> 01:10:24,567 ...break through obstacles that may have kept us apart. 948 01:10:25,534 --> 01:10:27,906 Listen, I need to make one thing very clear. 949 01:10:28,162 --> 01:10:32,870 Our organization will not be placated with flowery New Age rhetoric... 950 01:10:33,584 --> 01:10:34,413 Mr. President! 951 01:10:37,004 --> 01:10:39,079 The President met with top advisors... 952 01:10:39,298 --> 01:10:42,583 ... regarding the latest efforts to decode the message. 953 01:10:42,843 --> 01:10:47,421 While there has been some progress, the official line remains cautious. 954 01:10:47,639 --> 01:10:49,714 If you're asking when we'll find out... 955 01:10:49,975 --> 01:10:52,300 ... what the purpose of that Machine is... 956 01:10:53,312 --> 01:10:56,016 ... maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, maybe never. 957 01:11:00,444 --> 01:11:05,022 There he is. The man with his finger on the nation's spiritual pulse. 958 01:11:06,366 --> 01:11:08,025 It's so good to see you. 959 01:11:08,285 --> 01:11:09,364 You too. 960 01:11:11,037 --> 01:11:15,034 Your discovery, all of this. It must be a real vindication. 961 01:11:15,708 --> 01:11:17,367 I'm really happy for you. 962 01:11:18,044 --> 01:11:19,039 Are you? 963 01:11:19,212 --> 01:11:21,619 Mr. Joss, the President's waiting. 964 01:11:24,509 --> 01:11:26,051 The President's waiting. 965 01:11:30,389 --> 01:11:31,931 See you at the reception? 966 01:11:32,558 --> 01:11:34,217 Yeah, I wouldn't miss it. 967 01:11:46,322 --> 01:11:48,610 Miss Constantine, may I speak to you? 968 01:11:48,866 --> 01:11:50,241 Certainly. 969 01:11:52,036 --> 01:11:53,660 I have a big problem. 970 01:11:56,081 --> 01:11:58,618 Do you know where I can find a really great dress? 971 01:12:18,311 --> 01:12:22,308 God created man in the form of Himself, not in the form of monkeys! 972 01:12:31,032 --> 01:12:33,439 Get a job! Don't waste my tax dollars! 973 01:12:59,935 --> 01:13:01,559 You look beautiful, Ellie. 974 01:13:03,230 --> 01:13:05,518 - So do you. - You really do. 975 01:13:09,236 --> 01:13:10,646 I read your book. 976 01:13:11,655 --> 01:13:12,853 Here we go. 977 01:13:13,323 --> 01:13:14,865 You want me to quote you? 978 01:13:15,575 --> 01:13:16,950 "Ironically... 979 01:13:17,202 --> 01:13:19,194 ...the thing people are most hungry for... 980 01:13:19,413 --> 01:13:20,657 ...meaning... 981 01:13:20,872 --> 01:13:24,157 ...is the one thing science hasn't been able to give them." 982 01:13:24,376 --> 01:13:25,371 Yeah. 983 01:13:27,712 --> 01:13:29,704 It's like you're saying that... 984 01:13:30,048 --> 01:13:32,336 ...science killed God. 985 01:13:32,717 --> 01:13:35,552 What if science simply revealed... 986 01:13:36,137 --> 01:13:38,592 ...that He never existed in the first place? 987 01:13:42,060 --> 01:13:44,218 I think we need to get some air. 988 01:13:45,229 --> 01:13:47,055 And a few more of these. 989 01:13:48,608 --> 01:13:49,770 Thank you. 990 01:13:51,736 --> 01:13:53,278 A little chilly out here. 991 01:13:53,529 --> 01:13:54,987 Yeah, this is nice. 992 01:13:55,281 --> 01:13:56,479 I got one for you. 993 01:13:56,699 --> 01:13:58,358 Occam's Razor. Ever heard of it? 994 01:13:58,576 --> 01:14:01,245 Hoccam's Razor. Sounds like some slasher movie. 995 01:14:01,454 --> 01:14:05,154 No, Occam's Razor is a basic scientific principle which says: 996 01:14:05,416 --> 01:14:08,749 Things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be right. 997 01:14:09,086 --> 01:14:10,248 Makes sense to me. 998 01:14:10,754 --> 01:14:11,868 So what's more likely? 999 01:14:12,131 --> 01:14:13,126 Thank you. 1000 01:14:13,716 --> 01:14:16,337 An all-powerful God created the universe... 1001 01:14:16,552 --> 01:14:19,505 ...then decided not to give any proof of His existence? 1002 01:14:19,721 --> 01:14:20,800 Or... 1003 01:14:21,098 --> 01:14:24,301 ...that He doesn't exist at all and that we created Him... 1004 01:14:24,560 --> 01:14:27,097 ...so we wouldn't feel so small and alone. 1005 01:14:28,021 --> 01:14:29,183 I don't know. 1006 01:14:29,398 --> 01:14:33,395 I couldn't imagine living in a world where God didn't exist. 1007 01:14:34,236 --> 01:14:35,730 I wouldn't want to. 1008 01:14:36,404 --> 01:14:38,729 How do you know you're not deluding yourself? 1009 01:14:39,574 --> 01:14:40,736 I mean, for me... 1010 01:14:40,909 --> 01:14:42,735 ...I'd need proof. 1011 01:14:43,745 --> 01:14:44,740 Proof? 1012 01:14:47,957 --> 01:14:49,616 Did you love your father? 1013 01:14:50,752 --> 01:14:52,411 Your dad, did you love him? 1014 01:14:53,588 --> 01:14:55,746 Yes. Very much. 1015 01:14:59,260 --> 01:15:00,422 Prove it. 1016 01:15:07,518 --> 01:15:08,597 Kent. 1017 01:15:09,312 --> 01:15:10,770 The White House. 1018 01:15:13,774 --> 01:15:17,771 No excuses. Whoever's responsible, I want their head on a platter. 1019 01:15:18,154 --> 01:15:19,352 What happened? 1020 01:15:19,947 --> 01:15:21,441 You were right all along. 1021 01:15:21,782 --> 01:15:24,569 The team at the VLA has worked around the clock... 1022 01:15:24,785 --> 01:15:27,275 ... and the hard work has finally paid off. 1023 01:15:27,830 --> 01:15:31,613 This key section uncovered tonight, and obtained exclusively by CNN... 1024 01:15:31,792 --> 01:15:34,365 ... shows an illustration of a human figure... 1025 01:15:34,628 --> 01:15:37,463 ... inside a geometric structure of some kind. 1026 01:15:37,631 --> 01:15:39,457 This and other contextual clues... 1027 01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,717 ... now lead scientists to believe the message is, in fact... 1028 01:15:42,969 --> 01:15:44,760 President called an emergency meeting. 1029 01:15:44,930 --> 01:15:46,507 I imagined he would. 1030 01:15:46,681 --> 01:15:49,800 ... designed to take a single human occupant into space... 1031 01:15:50,226 --> 01:15:52,514 ... presumably to the star Vega. 1032 01:16:16,210 --> 01:16:17,324 Tell me. 1033 01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:18,999 They will build it. 1034 01:16:19,213 --> 01:16:19,995 Who goes? 1035 01:16:20,256 --> 01:16:23,707 The President's gone international to spread the risk and cost... 1036 01:16:23,926 --> 01:16:24,839 Who goes? 1037 01:16:25,636 --> 01:16:27,295 Well, it's complicated. 1038 01:16:28,681 --> 01:16:32,180 They have formed a group of international candidates. 1039 01:16:32,351 --> 01:16:34,343 Now, it's your discovery. 1040 01:16:34,853 --> 01:16:38,518 They understand that. You're at the top of a very short list. 1041 01:16:38,857 --> 01:16:41,430 But they're also forming a selection committee. 1042 01:16:41,652 --> 01:16:45,815 It's made of scholars, theologians, scientists, philosophers... 1043 01:16:46,031 --> 01:16:47,026 You're on it. 1044 01:16:48,241 --> 01:16:49,439 I've been asked, yes. 1045 01:16:52,370 --> 01:16:54,029 I guess that means... 1046 01:16:54,664 --> 01:16:57,499 ...that you're a selector, I'm a selectee and we can't... 1047 01:16:57,709 --> 01:16:58,823 Yeah. 1048 01:16:59,044 --> 01:17:01,369 What you don't understand, Ellie, is... 1049 01:17:01,671 --> 01:17:02,869 I understand. 1050 01:17:04,382 --> 01:17:08,379 I want you to know, whatever happens, as far as I'm concerned... 1051 01:17:12,015 --> 01:17:13,259 Good luck. 1052 01:17:17,562 --> 01:17:21,061 Whatever you do, make sure he doesn't monopolize the committee. 1053 01:17:21,399 --> 01:17:23,391 He is not on the committee, Ellie. 1054 01:17:27,405 --> 01:17:30,405 He just resigned. He wants to be the one to go. 1055 01:17:32,535 --> 01:17:35,820 The President is already feeling the financial pinch. 1056 01:17:36,122 --> 01:17:39,241 Sources say the cost of the project is spiraling... 1057 01:17:39,416 --> 01:17:42,203 ... to more than a third of a trillion dollars... 1058 01:17:42,419 --> 01:17:45,752 ... making this perhaps the most expensive single project... 1059 01:17:45,923 --> 01:17:47,832 ... in all of human history. 1060 01:17:48,050 --> 01:17:50,007 Months of debate finally reached... 1061 01:17:50,260 --> 01:17:54,720 ... a conclusion last week as 10 candidates were selected by the I.M. C... 1062 01:17:55,098 --> 01:17:58,763 ... representing a cross section of political and religious views. 1063 01:17:58,977 --> 01:18:01,598 Many are the same experts who have consulted... 1064 01:18:01,813 --> 01:18:04,101 ... on the Machine's design and function. 1065 01:18:04,316 --> 01:18:08,527 They will actively participate on-site, during the construction process. 1066 01:18:08,987 --> 01:18:12,106 The choice of these 10 candidates has been controversial. 1067 01:18:12,365 --> 01:18:15,116 One-third of the candidates are American. 1068 01:18:15,368 --> 01:18:18,119 And many international observers ask why. 1069 01:18:18,621 --> 01:18:21,290 The U. S. Is shouldering a large part of the cost... 1070 01:18:21,457 --> 01:18:24,457 Isn 't it true that contractors, like Hadden Industries... 1071 01:18:24,627 --> 01:18:27,960 ... are making contributions in exchange for technology rights? 1072 01:18:28,131 --> 01:18:31,665 Different nations are being compensated in different ways. 1073 01:18:31,926 --> 01:18:36,468 Japan made headlines by opting to forego candidate representation... 1074 01:18:36,764 --> 01:18:39,800 ... in exchange for the systems integration subcontract. 1075 01:18:40,101 --> 01:18:41,808 On what basis do you choose... 1076 01:18:41,978 --> 01:18:44,895 ... a human being to represent humanity? 1077 01:18:45,106 --> 01:18:46,268 Good question, Larry. 1078 01:18:46,482 --> 01:18:48,141 If nothing else... 1079 01:18:48,609 --> 01:18:52,606 ... it should be somebody fluent in the language the message was given in. 1080 01:18:52,780 --> 01:18:53,978 Science, in this case. 1081 01:18:54,615 --> 01:18:56,987 Despite your obvious enthusiasm... 1082 01:18:57,201 --> 01:18:59,489 ... there's been a lot of criticism... 1083 01:18:59,661 --> 01:19:02,330 ... that this endeavor is simply too dangerous. 1084 01:19:02,498 --> 01:19:04,953 Some of that criticism from scientists. 1085 01:19:05,167 --> 01:19:07,954 One Nobel Prize winner noted, his words: 1086 01:19:08,712 --> 01:19:10,503 "There is every indication... 1087 01:19:10,672 --> 01:19:14,503 ... that this is beyond our capabilities, that this endeavor will fail... 1088 01:19:14,676 --> 01:19:18,175 ... and that the Machine's occupant will pay for it with his life. " 1089 01:19:18,388 --> 01:19:20,131 How do you respond? 1090 01:19:20,390 --> 01:19:23,675 This message is from a civilization that may be anywhere... 1091 01:19:23,893 --> 01:19:27,641 ... from hundreds to millions and millions of years ahead of us. 1092 01:19:27,856 --> 01:19:31,022 I have to believe that an intelligence that advanced... 1093 01:19:31,693 --> 01:19:33,400 ... knows what they're doing. 1094 01:19:34,821 --> 01:19:38,154 Now all it requires on our part is... 1095 01:19:38,783 --> 01:19:39,778 Faith? 1096 01:19:42,870 --> 01:19:44,945 I was going to say, a sense of adventure. 1097 01:19:45,164 --> 01:19:46,574 And in breaking news... 1098 01:19:46,916 --> 01:19:48,196 ... astronaut John Russell... 1099 01:19:48,459 --> 01:19:52,326 ... considered to be the leading American candidate for the Machine seat... 1100 01:19:52,546 --> 01:19:54,787 ... has dropped out of the running. 1101 01:19:55,216 --> 01:19:58,252 Russell met with reporters today at his Houston home. 1102 01:19:58,677 --> 01:20:00,716 I told my dad I didn 't want him... 1103 01:20:01,555 --> 01:20:02,550 ... to go. 1104 01:20:02,765 --> 01:20:04,259 Daddy, don 't go. 1105 01:20:07,186 --> 01:20:08,893 Nothing would give me more pride... 1106 01:20:09,104 --> 01:20:10,218 ... than to... 1107 01:20:10,898 --> 01:20:12,890 ... represent my country. 1108 01:20:13,233 --> 01:20:14,940 But what can I say to this? 1109 01:20:15,903 --> 01:20:19,651 Consortium officials had no comment, but inside sources... 1110 01:20:19,865 --> 01:20:21,822 ... have disclosed that Dr. Arroway... 1111 01:20:22,034 --> 01:20:26,031 ... appears to now be the front-runner for the Machine seat. 1112 01:20:27,122 --> 01:20:29,577 "Meet me at noon. Must talk." 1113 01:20:29,875 --> 01:20:32,081 I didn't expect a message like this from you. 1114 01:20:32,294 --> 01:20:33,622 Thanks for coming. 1115 01:20:33,878 --> 01:20:36,795 Is this kosher? Fraternizing with the enemy? 1116 01:20:37,006 --> 01:20:40,172 Selectors and selectees mingling around? 1117 01:20:40,718 --> 01:20:42,509 Can we talk about Einstein? 1118 01:20:43,054 --> 01:20:44,631 Yeah, sure. 1119 01:20:45,306 --> 01:20:48,591 Special relativity. This Machine... 1120 01:20:50,103 --> 01:20:54,183 ...if it works, and you travel to Vega at the speed of light... 1121 01:20:54,440 --> 01:20:56,562 ...when you come back... - lf you come back. 1122 01:20:58,903 --> 01:21:00,610 If you come back... 1123 01:21:01,072 --> 01:21:05,365 ...you'll be 4 years older, but over 50 years will have passed here on Earth. 1124 01:21:05,534 --> 01:21:06,909 Basically. 1125 01:21:07,745 --> 01:21:10,200 And everybody that you care about... 1126 01:21:11,165 --> 01:21:13,572 ...will be gone, dead and buried. 1127 01:21:14,418 --> 01:21:18,000 If you came back, if you survived at all... 1128 01:21:19,673 --> 01:21:23,504 Look, Palmer, nobody's saying this isn't dangerous. 1129 01:21:23,677 --> 01:21:27,804 The rest of the candidates and myself understand the risks we're taking. 1130 01:21:28,015 --> 01:21:29,010 Why? 1131 01:21:29,308 --> 01:21:31,977 It's a historic opportunity. The world needs... 1132 01:21:32,185 --> 01:21:34,854 You, Ellie. You! You personally. 1133 01:21:35,856 --> 01:21:38,643 By doing this, you're willing to give your life. 1134 01:21:38,859 --> 01:21:41,017 You're willing to die for it. 1135 01:21:42,862 --> 01:21:44,106 Why? 1136 01:21:47,867 --> 01:21:51,650 From as long as I can remember, I've been searching for... 1137 01:21:52,205 --> 01:21:53,912 ...something... 1138 01:21:54,123 --> 01:21:57,871 ...some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we? 1139 01:21:58,878 --> 01:22:02,792 If this is a chance to find out even a part of that answer... 1140 01:22:04,300 --> 01:22:07,300 I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. 1141 01:22:07,970 --> 01:22:09,132 Don't you? 1142 01:22:16,020 --> 01:22:18,689 You're an incredibly brave woman, Ellie. 1143 01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:23,309 Or incredibly nuts. 1144 01:22:53,014 --> 01:22:54,840 I'm really confused. 1145 01:22:56,226 --> 01:22:57,506 So am I. 1146 01:22:58,686 --> 01:23:02,304 I think I speak for us all when I thank you for your patience. 1147 01:23:02,565 --> 01:23:05,933 Myself, I have one final question, Dr. Arroway. 1148 01:23:07,528 --> 01:23:09,816 If you should meet these Vegans... 1149 01:23:10,031 --> 01:23:14,277 ...and were permitted only one question to ask of them... 1150 01:23:14,452 --> 01:23:16,111 ...what would it be? 1151 01:23:17,747 --> 01:23:19,620 I suppose it would be: 1152 01:23:19,790 --> 01:23:21,449 "How did you do it? 1153 01:23:22,043 --> 01:23:26,455 How did you evolve? How did you survive technological adolescence... 1154 01:23:26,672 --> 01:23:28,664 ...without destroying yourself?" 1155 01:23:29,300 --> 01:23:34,211 That more than any other question is one I personally would like answered. 1156 01:23:34,597 --> 01:23:36,388 Not too bad, Mike. 1157 01:23:37,057 --> 01:23:38,337 I join Dr. Bergeron... 1158 01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:41,933 ...in expressing thanks for your patience, Dr. Arroway. 1159 01:23:42,146 --> 01:23:44,719 We're all impressed with your candor... 1160 01:23:45,065 --> 01:23:46,607 ...and your stamina. 1161 01:23:47,067 --> 01:23:50,400 I think we're ready to move on to your final statement. 1162 01:23:50,612 --> 01:23:52,438 I have one more question. 1163 01:23:52,698 --> 01:23:54,240 Yes, Mr. Joss. 1164 01:23:58,245 --> 01:24:00,617 Would you consider yourself... 1165 01:24:01,081 --> 01:24:03,406 ...a spiritual person? 1166 01:24:08,838 --> 01:24:11,079 I don't understand the point of the question. 1167 01:24:12,425 --> 01:24:15,176 I consider myself a moral person. 1168 01:24:15,428 --> 01:24:20,006 We're sure that's the case, but what Mr. Joss is in fact asking... 1169 01:24:20,183 --> 01:24:22,009 Do you believe in God? 1170 01:24:30,526 --> 01:24:32,732 As a scientist... 1171 01:24:33,112 --> 01:24:36,527 ...I rely on empirical evidence, and in this matter... 1172 01:24:36,866 --> 01:24:40,199 ...I don't believe that there's data either way. 1173 01:24:41,036 --> 01:24:45,033 So your answer would in fact be that you don't believe in God. 1174 01:24:48,877 --> 01:24:51,961 I don't understand the relevance of the question. 1175 01:24:54,883 --> 01:24:57,919 95% of the world's population... 1176 01:24:58,136 --> 01:25:01,884 ...believes in a Supreme Being in one form or another. 1177 01:25:03,058 --> 01:25:06,308 I believe that makes the question more than relevant. 1178 01:25:20,700 --> 01:25:22,242 I believe... 1179 01:25:26,581 --> 01:25:29,154 I believe I've already answered that question. 1180 01:25:33,171 --> 01:25:36,586 I'm proud of what we've achieved as a species... 1181 01:25:36,883 --> 01:25:38,875 ... and as a civilization. 1182 01:25:40,511 --> 01:25:43,132 I would hate to see everything we stand for... 1183 01:25:43,347 --> 01:25:47,047 ... all that we have fought for for a thousand generations... 1184 01:25:47,268 --> 01:25:49,675 ... all that God has blessed us with... 1185 01:25:51,021 --> 01:25:52,515 ...betrayed... 1186 01:25:53,440 --> 01:25:58,101 ...in the final hour because we sent a representative who did not put our... 1187 01:25:58,612 --> 01:26:01,363 ... most cherished beliefs first. 1188 01:26:04,618 --> 01:26:05,816 Thank you. 1189 01:26:39,068 --> 01:26:40,396 Why'd you do it? 1190 01:26:44,991 --> 01:26:49,118 Our job was to select someone to speak for everybody. 1191 01:26:52,498 --> 01:26:55,783 I couldn't in good conscience vote for a person... 1192 01:26:56,002 --> 01:26:58,041 ...who doesn't believe in God. 1193 01:27:00,089 --> 01:27:01,464 Someone who... 1194 01:27:01,966 --> 01:27:05,050 ...honestly thinks the other 95%% of us... 1195 01:27:05,261 --> 01:27:08,012 ...suffer from some form of mass delusion. 1196 01:27:11,433 --> 01:27:13,472 I told the truth up there. 1197 01:27:14,812 --> 01:27:18,263 Drumlin told you exactly what you wanted to hear. 1198 01:27:53,391 --> 01:27:56,012 With full humility and utmost gratitude... 1199 01:27:56,227 --> 01:27:58,349 ... I accept this great honor... 1200 01:27:58,563 --> 01:28:02,643 ... and I promise I will do my best to represent my nation... 1201 01:28:02,858 --> 01:28:06,309 ... my planet and my God on this historic... 1202 01:28:06,487 --> 01:28:07,566 ... journey. 1203 01:28:08,072 --> 01:28:10,397 I thank you from the bottom of my heart. 1204 01:28:53,074 --> 01:28:56,027 There's a carnival atmosphere at Cape Canaveral... 1205 01:28:56,202 --> 01:28:58,324 ... as the International Machine Consortium... 1206 01:28:58,538 --> 01:29:01,871 ... hosts as much a media event as a systems test. 1207 01:29:02,292 --> 01:29:06,040 David Drumlin is supervising the on-site portion of the test. 1208 01:29:06,212 --> 01:29:08,085 We spoke with him earlier today. 1209 01:29:08,297 --> 01:29:10,040 We'll be able to monitor the stresses and effects... 1210 01:29:10,258 --> 01:29:13,175 ... using the robot passenger... 1211 01:29:13,636 --> 01:29:16,008 ... who we lovingly call Elmer. 1212 01:29:21,769 --> 01:29:24,224 The press wants to ask you a few questions... 1213 01:29:24,438 --> 01:29:27,107 ...as soon as they're done with Dr. Drumlin. 1214 01:29:29,693 --> 01:29:31,519 When we release the pod... 1215 01:29:31,904 --> 01:29:34,359 ...a substantial amount of energy will be generated. 1216 01:29:35,115 --> 01:29:37,784 We'll be able to monitor the stresses and effects... 1217 01:29:37,993 --> 01:29:40,365 ...using our robot passenger, who we... 1218 01:29:40,621 --> 01:29:42,696 ...Iovingly call Elmer. 1219 01:29:43,290 --> 01:29:44,321 Thank you. 1220 01:29:44,541 --> 01:29:45,785 You're welcome. 1221 01:29:47,252 --> 01:29:49,493 They're ready for you out at the site. 1222 01:29:50,172 --> 01:29:51,796 Yeah, just a minute. 1223 01:29:57,929 --> 01:30:00,217 - Congratulations. - Glad you could come. 1224 01:30:01,516 --> 01:30:03,971 Didn't expect to see you here. 1225 01:30:04,727 --> 01:30:06,553 Well, I'm still... 1226 01:30:06,938 --> 01:30:09,559 ...Crew Ops at the Control Center. 1227 01:30:10,233 --> 01:30:14,313 I suppose the fact that I discovered the message means I have PR value. 1228 01:30:14,529 --> 01:30:15,939 Of course. 1229 01:30:17,657 --> 01:30:20,823 I know you must think this is all very unfair. 1230 01:30:21,410 --> 01:30:23,402 And maybe that's an understatement. 1231 01:30:24,830 --> 01:30:27,155 What you don't know is, I agree. 1232 01:30:27,750 --> 01:30:31,000 I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line... 1233 01:30:31,170 --> 01:30:34,503 ...where the idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded... 1234 01:30:34,715 --> 01:30:36,837 ...not taken advantage of. 1235 01:30:38,594 --> 01:30:41,429 Unfortunately, we don't live in that world. 1236 01:30:43,766 --> 01:30:44,845 Funny... 1237 01:30:46,310 --> 01:30:49,429 ...I always believed the world is what we make of it. 1238 01:30:51,440 --> 01:30:52,269 Excuse me! 1239 01:30:56,194 --> 01:30:57,771 Good luck on the test. 1240 01:30:58,488 --> 01:30:59,650 Thank you. 1241 01:31:08,206 --> 01:31:09,237 Test director... 1242 01:31:09,457 --> 01:31:11,698 ... everything looks good. Ready to go. 1243 01:31:12,210 --> 01:31:15,246 I want things double and triple-checked here. 1244 01:31:15,463 --> 01:31:18,666 We only get one shot at this. Let's get it right. 1245 01:31:19,217 --> 01:31:22,217 Ladies and gentlemen, we are ready for start-up. 1246 01:31:22,428 --> 01:31:25,761 All controllers, I need a go-no-go for test initiation. 1247 01:31:26,015 --> 01:31:26,928 - Mechanical? - Go. 1248 01:31:27,183 --> 01:31:28,131 Electrical? 1249 01:31:28,309 --> 01:31:29,340 Dynamics? 1250 01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:30,758 Communications? 1251 01:31:31,020 --> 01:31:32,134 Pod systems? 1252 01:31:32,313 --> 01:31:33,475 Safety? 1253 01:31:33,940 --> 01:31:36,775 Crew Ops, verify all pre-test procedures are complete. 1254 01:31:37,068 --> 01:31:38,443 Yes, verified. I'm go. 1255 01:31:38,653 --> 01:31:41,143 Pad Leader, is everything okay with you? 1256 01:31:41,322 --> 01:31:43,895 Roger. The pad is a go. 1257 01:31:44,200 --> 01:31:46,904 Test initiation, on my mark. 1258 01:31:47,411 --> 01:31:48,655 5... 1259 01:31:49,038 --> 01:31:50,200 ...4... 1260 01:31:50,581 --> 01:31:51,743 ...3... 1261 01:31:52,041 --> 01:31:53,036 ...2... 1262 01:31:53,584 --> 01:31:54,663 ...1. 1263 01:31:55,210 --> 01:31:56,324 Mark. 1264 01:31:56,837 --> 01:31:58,628 - Test start. - Rings are unlocked. 1265 01:31:58,839 --> 01:32:00,416 Power levels show a good start. 1266 01:32:00,591 --> 01:32:02,417 We've begun the test of... 1267 01:32:02,593 --> 01:32:07,171 ... earth 's first system built by sharing knowledge with a neighbor in space. 1268 01:32:07,347 --> 01:32:09,588 All power sources on core induction bus. 1269 01:32:09,766 --> 01:32:11,509 IPV power transfer. 1270 01:32:11,726 --> 01:32:14,892 Ring motion detect. Alpha, Bravo, Charlie. 1271 01:32:16,439 --> 01:32:19,523 - Gerry, how are we looking? - Looks good. We're underway. 1272 01:32:19,693 --> 01:32:21,484 Looks like a normal start-up. 1273 01:32:21,695 --> 01:32:24,067 Roger, David. It's looking good here. 1274 01:32:29,619 --> 01:32:32,987 We are moments away from the initiation of the drop sequence. 1275 01:32:33,247 --> 01:32:34,954 All systems are go. 1276 01:32:37,960 --> 01:32:39,786 - Mechanical, you still happy? - Roger. 1277 01:32:39,962 --> 01:32:41,290 It's very exciting... 1278 01:32:41,464 --> 01:32:43,088 ... from up here. 1279 01:32:45,426 --> 01:32:47,169 We've got 4%. 1280 01:32:47,345 --> 01:32:49,171 We're confirming 4%. 1281 01:32:50,389 --> 01:32:53,093 Frequency 9.85. 1282 01:32:54,101 --> 01:32:56,093 Harmonics in the green. 1283 01:32:56,312 --> 01:32:58,600 G- level 1. 1. 1284 01:32:59,773 --> 01:33:03,141 - 5%% . - Confirmed. We are at 5%% . 1285 01:33:03,319 --> 01:33:04,943 David, how's it looking to you? 1286 01:33:05,237 --> 01:33:08,190 Okay. I'm going to take a look and show you what we got. 1287 01:33:08,365 --> 01:33:10,191 Instrumentation looks good. 1288 01:33:10,367 --> 01:33:13,866 We have a good picture from Dr. Drumlin's PRD. 1289 01:33:14,413 --> 01:33:16,820 Hope you guys are seeing what I'm seeing. 1290 01:33:17,374 --> 01:33:19,200 All systems are go. 1291 01:33:20,752 --> 01:33:22,329 This is really something! 1292 01:33:22,504 --> 01:33:24,128 For purposes of this test... 1293 01:33:24,339 --> 01:33:28,632 ... Dr. Drumlin will be on top of the Gantry crane that's over the Machine. 1294 01:33:28,843 --> 01:33:30,882 We've got some video animation... 1295 01:33:31,137 --> 01:33:34,552 ... to show just how this Machine... it is thought... will work. 1296 01:33:34,766 --> 01:33:36,425 The passenger pod will release. 1297 01:33:36,643 --> 01:33:38,968 It will come down through the center of the rings... 1298 01:33:39,187 --> 01:33:41,013 ... and into the Machine's core. 1299 01:33:41,231 --> 01:33:43,519 The question everyone here is asking is... 1300 01:33:43,775 --> 01:33:45,269 ... what happens then? 1301 01:33:45,485 --> 01:33:47,109 Some believe the rings function... 1302 01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:50,273 ... as some sort of an accelerator or something... 1303 01:33:51,032 --> 01:33:53,190 ... sending its energy into the pod... 1304 01:33:53,367 --> 01:33:55,857 ... making it rocket away at near light speed. 1305 01:33:56,078 --> 01:34:00,574 Others believe it might open up a doorway to some other dimension. 1306 01:34:00,875 --> 01:34:01,870 Who 's right? 1307 01:34:02,168 --> 01:34:04,540 That's what today's test is all about. 1308 01:34:05,004 --> 01:34:07,162 - 35%% . - Subsystems ready? 1309 01:34:07,381 --> 01:34:09,290 40%% normal acceleration. 1310 01:34:09,466 --> 01:34:10,794 Confirm 40%. 1311 01:34:11,010 --> 01:34:13,963 Controllers stand by to initiate drop sequence... 1312 01:34:14,221 --> 01:34:15,715 ...on my mark. 1313 01:34:15,931 --> 01:34:18,089 All systems ready for drop sequence. 1314 01:34:18,392 --> 01:34:19,934 45%% . 1315 01:34:20,853 --> 01:34:23,011 We're in 45%. 1316 01:34:23,939 --> 01:34:26,014 Verify closure. 1317 01:34:27,317 --> 01:34:28,597 46. 1318 01:34:29,027 --> 01:34:33,688 All controllers stand by to initiate IPV drop sequence. On my mark. 1319 01:34:34,366 --> 01:34:35,741 48%% . 1320 01:34:36,993 --> 01:34:39,151 I'm feeling a very strange vibration. 1321 01:34:39,621 --> 01:34:42,657 - Are you feeling it down there? - Gerry, can you confirm? 1322 01:34:43,249 --> 01:34:44,493 Everything looks good. 1323 01:34:45,251 --> 01:34:46,164 Crew Ops? 1324 01:34:46,419 --> 01:34:47,332 Nothing wrong. 1325 01:34:47,504 --> 01:34:49,128 We see nothing abnormal here. 1326 01:34:49,339 --> 01:34:52,174 No good. Hold sequence. I'll take a direct reading. 1327 01:34:52,634 --> 01:34:54,044 What's he talking about? 1328 01:34:54,302 --> 01:34:55,926 Can anyone say grandstanding? 1329 01:34:56,262 --> 01:34:58,254 He sure knows he's on TV! 1330 01:34:58,473 --> 01:35:01,426 Back home that's what we call an overcooked ham. 1331 01:35:01,809 --> 01:35:03,967 I'm reading 10 kilohertz! 1332 01:35:04,353 --> 01:35:07,140 What do you read on the first and second order G-levels? 1333 01:35:07,356 --> 01:35:08,980 G-levels are right on! 1334 01:35:10,818 --> 01:35:13,735 We confirm Drumlin 's readings. All normal. We're go. 1335 01:35:14,989 --> 01:35:17,658 I think we're okay, but we'll let him finish. 1336 01:35:18,993 --> 01:35:22,361 - Mechanical, you still okay? - Roger. Right on the money. 1337 01:35:22,788 --> 01:35:23,986 Security problem! 1338 01:35:25,374 --> 01:35:26,998 Ellie, are you sure? 1339 01:35:27,668 --> 01:35:29,292 He shouldn't be there. I know him. 1340 01:35:29,503 --> 01:35:32,290 Gerry, execute the rapid shutdown sequence. 1341 01:35:32,548 --> 01:35:35,714 Security, move emergency response team into position. 1342 01:35:35,968 --> 01:35:37,794 Get Drumlin on a secure loop. 1343 01:35:38,053 --> 01:35:39,428 You got him. 1344 01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:42,135 - Can you hear me? - Yes, I hear. 1345 01:35:42,557 --> 01:35:44,679 We've got a security breach here. 1346 01:35:45,060 --> 01:35:46,055 Behind you. 1347 01:35:46,311 --> 01:35:47,176 The tall guy. 1348 01:35:47,604 --> 01:35:48,932 The technician. 1349 01:35:49,314 --> 01:35:50,393 See him? 1350 01:35:52,859 --> 01:35:54,103 He shouldn't be there. 1351 01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:01,658 Something's in his hand! 1352 01:36:02,785 --> 01:36:05,655 Him! Take him! Security breach! 1353 01:36:05,955 --> 01:36:06,784 A bomb! 1354 01:36:07,081 --> 01:36:10,449 I want that emergency response team up on the gantry. Now! 1355 01:36:10,793 --> 01:36:11,741 Stage One Alert! 1356 01:36:11,961 --> 01:36:14,712 Move all fire and rescue personnel into position one. 1357 01:36:53,001 --> 01:36:55,123 All right, back to your stations. 1358 01:36:55,378 --> 01:36:58,462 I need you to be professional. Settle down! 1359 01:36:58,632 --> 01:37:01,087 Pad Leader, do you copy? 1360 01:37:19,027 --> 01:37:21,600 The scene earlier today, when David Drumlin... 1361 01:37:21,779 --> 01:37:23,688 ... advisor to two Presidents... 1362 01:37:23,865 --> 01:37:27,732 ... and winner of the National Academy of Sciences lifetime award... 1363 01:37:28,035 --> 01:37:31,700 ... was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. 1364 01:37:35,543 --> 01:37:37,286 In a related story... 1365 01:37:37,503 --> 01:37:38,783 Can I help you? 1366 01:37:40,798 --> 01:37:42,755 I've got some mail for you. 1367 01:37:43,133 --> 01:37:47,711 ... the apparent suicide note of the terrorist now believed responsible... 1368 01:37:47,888 --> 01:37:50,805 ... for the explosion in Florida this week. 1369 01:37:51,141 --> 01:37:52,765 What we do... 1370 01:37:53,060 --> 01:37:55,977 ... we do for the goodness of all mankind. 1371 01:37:56,772 --> 01:37:59,607 This won 't be understood, not now... 1372 01:37:59,983 --> 01:38:01,726 ... but the Apocalypse to come... 1373 01:38:02,819 --> 01:38:04,977 ... will vindicate our faith. 1374 01:38:29,345 --> 01:38:30,174 Welcome home. 1375 01:39:36,911 --> 01:39:38,453 Comrade Arroway... 1376 01:39:39,455 --> 01:39:42,823 ... we have been expecting your call. One moment, please. 1377 01:39:52,593 --> 01:39:53,791 Mr. Hadden? 1378 01:39:54,387 --> 01:39:55,762 Doctor! 1379 01:39:56,847 --> 01:39:58,673 How kind of you to call. 1380 01:39:59,308 --> 01:40:01,300 Mr. Hadden, where are you? 1381 01:40:03,520 --> 01:40:04,551 The Russian government... 1382 01:40:04,730 --> 01:40:08,098 ... was kind enough to give me accommodations on Mir. 1383 01:40:09,109 --> 01:40:10,935 You're living on a space station? 1384 01:40:12,321 --> 01:40:14,313 It's quite simple, really. 1385 01:40:15,782 --> 01:40:19,233 The low oxygen, zero gravity environment... 1386 01:40:19,453 --> 01:40:24,114 ... is the only thing keeping the cancer from eating me alive. 1387 01:40:25,792 --> 01:40:28,413 Actually, I quite like it up here. 1388 01:40:28,962 --> 01:40:32,128 My little room has one hell of a view. 1389 01:40:40,265 --> 01:40:42,091 I want to show you something. 1390 01:40:46,813 --> 01:40:48,805 Hokkaido Island. 1391 01:40:50,108 --> 01:40:52,314 The systems integration site. 1392 01:40:53,444 --> 01:40:54,986 Look closer. 1393 01:41:03,329 --> 01:41:06,164 First rule in government spending: 1394 01:41:07,166 --> 01:41:10,997 Why build one when you can have two at twice the price? 1395 01:41:11,337 --> 01:41:14,337 Only, this one can be kept secret. 1396 01:41:15,007 --> 01:41:17,046 Controlled by Americans... 1397 01:41:17,468 --> 01:41:20,836 ... built by Japanese subcontractors... 1398 01:41:21,764 --> 01:41:24,385 ... who also happen to be... 1399 01:41:25,350 --> 01:41:27,009 ... recently acquired... 1400 01:41:27,561 --> 01:41:30,051 ... wholly-owned subsidiaries... 1401 01:41:30,897 --> 01:41:32,889 ...of Hadden Industries. 1402 01:41:36,528 --> 01:41:39,731 They still want an American to go, Doctor. 1403 01:41:43,493 --> 01:41:45,035 Want to take a ride? 1404 01:42:27,745 --> 01:42:29,737 Augmenting our restraint and... 1405 01:42:29,955 --> 01:42:32,077 ...communications console subsystem... 1406 01:42:32,249 --> 01:42:34,241 ...is your personal recording unit. 1407 01:42:34,543 --> 01:42:38,077 Normal, infrared and ultraviolet lenses. 1408 01:42:38,755 --> 01:42:42,622 Digital microchip good for thousands of hours of recording. 1409 01:42:43,969 --> 01:42:46,127 Okay, look, I understand... 1410 01:42:46,388 --> 01:42:49,756 ...the reason for recording and documenting the mission. 1411 01:42:49,975 --> 01:42:52,465 But I just want to go on record one more time. 1412 01:42:52,769 --> 01:42:56,220 The transmitted specs never said anything about any chair... 1413 01:42:56,439 --> 01:42:58,348 ...or a restraining harness... 1414 01:42:58,566 --> 01:43:00,558 ...or survival gear. 1415 01:43:01,277 --> 01:43:03,103 Why can't we just trust the original... 1416 01:43:03,279 --> 01:43:07,276 Doctor, both the IMC Board and the SI team reviewed the matter... 1417 01:43:07,450 --> 01:43:11,032 ...and concluded that the design impact is negligible. 1418 01:43:11,412 --> 01:43:12,954 Bottom line is... 1419 01:43:13,456 --> 01:43:15,614 ...we're not putting anyone aboard this Machine... 1420 01:43:15,833 --> 01:43:18,833 ...unless there is some sort of minimal protection. 1421 01:43:19,128 --> 01:43:20,456 End of story. 1422 01:43:27,470 --> 01:43:31,467 We've given these to the astronauts since the start of the space program. 1423 01:43:32,850 --> 01:43:35,138 It's never been made public, of course. 1424 01:43:35,311 --> 01:43:37,433 It's fast and it's painless. 1425 01:43:40,149 --> 01:43:43,149 I'm going to travel 26 light years to commit suicide? 1426 01:43:43,444 --> 01:43:45,151 Something may go wrong. 1427 01:43:45,654 --> 01:43:48,323 There may be an unforeseen mechanical failure. 1428 01:43:49,157 --> 01:43:52,157 You could be marooned, unable to return. 1429 01:43:53,328 --> 01:43:56,494 There are 1,000 reasons we can think of to have this... 1430 01:43:56,665 --> 01:43:59,618 ...but mostly it's for the reasons we can't think of. 1431 01:44:26,194 --> 01:44:27,308 Come in. 1432 01:44:28,863 --> 01:44:31,188 Dr. Arroway, time to get ready. 1433 01:44:31,365 --> 01:44:32,360 Thank you. 1434 01:44:43,502 --> 01:44:45,209 I know there's not much time. 1435 01:44:45,379 --> 01:44:48,463 As soon as I found out about it, I called the President. 1436 01:44:48,674 --> 01:44:50,333 I came with Kitz. 1437 01:44:50,926 --> 01:44:53,214 I had to see you one more time. 1438 01:44:53,387 --> 01:44:55,094 Oh, God, I'm sorry. 1439 01:44:55,514 --> 01:44:57,221 No, I'm glad you came. 1440 01:44:57,516 --> 01:44:59,722 There's something I got to say to you. 1441 01:45:01,103 --> 01:45:05,349 The reason I didn't vote for you was a good one, but not the real one. 1442 01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:08,392 I didn't vote for you to go... 1443 01:45:10,278 --> 01:45:12,151 ...because I don't want to lose you. 1444 01:45:13,240 --> 01:45:15,398 Now you find your way home, all right? 1445 01:45:32,425 --> 01:45:33,883 23 hours ago, the world... 1446 01:45:34,093 --> 01:45:38,220 ... was stunned by the announcement of the existence of another Machine... 1447 01:45:38,389 --> 01:45:41,342 ... and its passenger, Eleanor Ann Arroway. 1448 01:45:41,559 --> 01:45:42,139 Now... 1449 01:45:42,768 --> 01:45:45,223 ... the question that's on everyone's mind: 1450 01:45:45,396 --> 01:45:47,139 Will history repeat itself? 1451 01:45:47,565 --> 01:45:49,890 With a piece of engineering this complex... 1452 01:45:50,109 --> 01:45:54,106 ... with so many unknowns, could the unthinkable occur? 1453 01:45:54,280 --> 01:45:57,613 The security in Hokkaido has been incredibly tight. 1454 01:45:57,783 --> 01:46:01,198 No reporters whatsoever have been allowed near the site. 1455 01:48:41,693 --> 01:48:44,693 Restraint secure. Life support functions normal. 1456 01:48:44,905 --> 01:48:45,770 Roger. 1457 01:48:45,947 --> 01:48:47,986 This is Control. Do you copy? 1458 01:48:48,283 --> 01:48:49,658 Reading you five-by-five. 1459 01:48:50,744 --> 01:48:52,238 Give me Ellie's PRD. 1460 01:48:52,454 --> 01:48:54,446 Video unit recording and transmitting. 1461 01:48:55,790 --> 01:48:58,411 - Are you reading me? - That's affirmative. 1462 01:48:58,585 --> 01:49:00,292 Video looks good. 1463 01:49:01,129 --> 01:49:02,243 Copy, Control. 1464 01:49:03,631 --> 01:49:06,466 Ellie, we're going to proceed to button you up. 1465 01:49:08,344 --> 01:49:09,458 I'm ready. 1466 01:49:13,349 --> 01:49:15,175 Confirming walkway retraction. 1467 01:49:15,893 --> 01:49:17,303 - Communications? - Go. 1468 01:49:17,478 --> 01:49:19,470 - Life support? - Go. 1469 01:49:19,814 --> 01:49:21,224 We are go for closure. 1470 01:49:23,651 --> 01:49:25,358 I'm go here. 1471 01:49:26,403 --> 01:49:29,854 Mechanical, initiate IPV closure sequence. 1472 01:49:31,492 --> 01:49:33,235 Let me get you a chair. 1473 01:49:35,662 --> 01:49:38,995 - It's nice to smell you again, Mr. Kitz. - You too. 1474 01:49:39,708 --> 01:49:41,534 Wouldn't peg him as a Polo man. 1475 01:49:50,927 --> 01:49:52,421 I got a visual on the door. 1476 01:49:54,848 --> 01:49:56,674 The door is looking good. 1477 01:50:01,938 --> 01:50:03,597 Door alignment looks good. 1478 01:50:32,843 --> 01:50:34,337 We're green across the board. 1479 01:50:34,553 --> 01:50:37,043 Copy that, Control. IPV is secure. 1480 01:50:44,897 --> 01:50:46,556 We are at 30%. 1481 01:50:47,065 --> 01:50:48,440 Copy that, 30%% . 1482 01:50:53,280 --> 01:50:54,738 How you doing in there? 1483 01:50:55,282 --> 01:50:55,898 Kent? 1484 01:50:56,825 --> 01:50:57,571 Is that you? 1485 01:50:57,993 --> 01:50:59,570 That's a big affirmative. 1486 01:51:00,454 --> 01:51:01,948 Who let you in there? 1487 01:51:02,289 --> 01:51:04,281 A higher power intervened. 1488 01:51:06,334 --> 01:51:07,744 I'm glad you came. 1489 01:51:12,424 --> 01:51:13,586 35%% . 1490 01:51:14,384 --> 01:51:15,712 Copy that, 35%% . 1491 01:51:15,969 --> 01:51:17,427 - Mechanical? - We're good. 1492 01:51:17,595 --> 01:51:18,970 40%% . 1493 01:51:22,475 --> 01:51:24,467 I'm picking up a moderate vibration. 1494 01:51:25,645 --> 01:51:27,684 Dynamics, can you confirm vibration? 1495 01:51:27,897 --> 01:51:29,095 It looks good here. 1496 01:51:29,357 --> 01:51:32,560 She's feeling the same thing they felt at the Cape. 1497 01:51:32,735 --> 01:51:33,814 Vibration's normal. 1498 01:51:34,570 --> 01:51:36,942 We are at 50%. All systems nominal. 1499 01:51:37,239 --> 01:51:39,030 Copy that, 50%% . 1500 01:51:44,497 --> 01:51:46,406 Vibration's a little stronger now. 1501 01:51:46,707 --> 01:51:48,995 We're picking up some low frequency noise. 1502 01:51:49,835 --> 01:51:51,377 Mechanical, confirm? 1503 01:51:51,587 --> 01:51:52,962 It looks fine to me. 1504 01:51:53,172 --> 01:51:55,330 Roger. Jerry, what do you think? 1505 01:51:55,549 --> 01:51:56,414 I'm still go. 1506 01:51:56,633 --> 01:51:58,175 People, we are still go. 1507 01:52:00,971 --> 01:52:02,513 Something's happening. 1508 01:52:06,601 --> 01:52:08,011 You see that light? 1509 01:52:08,270 --> 01:52:09,384 I'm seeing... 1510 01:52:12,649 --> 01:52:14,606 I can't tell if it's daylight. 1511 01:52:15,402 --> 01:52:17,892 There it is again. It's coming from the bottom. 1512 01:52:19,364 --> 01:52:20,941 Let me show you. See that? 1513 01:52:21,157 --> 01:52:23,363 Negative. You're breaking up. 1514 01:52:23,701 --> 01:52:25,859 - Can we boost signal? - It's at maximum. 1515 01:52:26,371 --> 01:52:27,651 65%% . 1516 01:52:27,831 --> 01:52:29,538 The material is changing. 1517 01:52:29,707 --> 01:52:33,206 It's bordering on translucence. The system's intact. 1518 01:52:36,547 --> 01:52:38,089 It has to be... 1519 01:52:38,341 --> 01:52:40,796 ...some kind of electromagnetic field. 1520 01:52:41,052 --> 01:52:42,131 Do you read this? 1521 01:52:42,386 --> 01:52:43,963 We see only interference. 1522 01:52:44,138 --> 01:52:45,929 It's becoming translucent. 1523 01:52:46,807 --> 01:52:49,344 I can't describe it. I can't even explain it! 1524 01:52:52,063 --> 01:52:53,011 70%% . 1525 01:52:53,230 --> 01:52:55,602 We have intermittent comm, but we are go! 1526 01:52:55,941 --> 01:52:57,933 Initiate secondary drive systems. 1527 01:52:58,152 --> 01:53:00,191 Initiating auxiliary booster sequence. 1528 01:53:00,446 --> 01:53:01,988 We're go for ignition. 1529 01:53:09,371 --> 01:53:10,865 We have auxiliary ignition. 1530 01:53:17,462 --> 01:53:18,920 Life support, how is she? 1531 01:53:19,131 --> 01:53:21,966 Heart and respiration are high but within limits. 1532 01:53:22,342 --> 01:53:23,670 Ellie, do you copy? 1533 01:53:23,844 --> 01:53:24,757 If you hear... 1534 01:53:24,970 --> 01:53:26,843 ...I am okay to go. 1535 01:53:35,563 --> 01:53:36,761 80%% . 1536 01:53:37,065 --> 01:53:39,900 All vibration and G-levels are in the green. 1537 01:53:45,281 --> 01:53:47,569 Control, if you're reading me... 1538 01:53:47,784 --> 01:53:50,025 ...I am okay to go! Okay to go! 1539 01:53:50,286 --> 01:53:51,234 85%% . 1540 01:53:51,496 --> 01:53:52,906 All tips are on the profile. 1541 01:53:55,082 --> 01:53:58,082 90%. We're detecting some structural instability. 1542 01:53:59,253 --> 01:54:02,170 - Is she holding? - We're within limits, barely. 1543 01:54:03,674 --> 01:54:05,666 I'm okay to go! 1544 01:54:07,636 --> 01:54:09,260 I'm okay to go! 1545 01:54:15,561 --> 01:54:16,971 My God! 1546 01:54:28,031 --> 01:54:29,441 Okay to go! 1547 01:54:29,658 --> 01:54:30,689 I'm okay! 1548 01:54:30,951 --> 01:54:32,445 100%% target velocity. 1549 01:54:33,954 --> 01:54:38,283 Tremendous EMI levels around Machine! Field measurements are off-scale. 1550 01:54:38,541 --> 01:54:40,829 We're approaching our abort limits. 1551 01:54:43,338 --> 01:54:44,536 Okay to go. 1552 01:54:49,677 --> 01:54:50,506 I hear her! 1553 01:54:51,054 --> 01:54:53,971 I hear her. Barely, but she's there. 1554 01:54:54,223 --> 01:54:55,421 Okay to go. 1555 01:54:55,725 --> 01:54:57,135 Says she's okay to go. 1556 01:55:00,146 --> 01:55:01,972 Steve, we're real close. 1557 01:55:02,315 --> 01:55:05,315 - Your core reading? - Internal environment looks normal. 1558 01:55:05,735 --> 01:55:08,439 Inside the core, the weather's beautiful. 1559 01:55:12,533 --> 01:55:13,813 I'm okay to go. 1560 01:55:16,287 --> 01:55:17,829 I'm okay to go. 1561 01:55:18,289 --> 01:55:19,699 Initiate drop sequence. 1562 01:55:23,168 --> 01:55:24,959 On my mark. 1563 01:55:25,671 --> 01:55:26,666 10... 1564 01:55:27,131 --> 01:55:28,162 ...9... 1565 01:55:29,174 --> 01:55:30,169 ... 8... 1566 01:55:31,718 --> 01:55:32,713 ... 7... 1567 01:55:33,136 --> 01:55:34,131 ... 6... 1568 01:55:34,721 --> 01:55:35,716 ...5... 1569 01:55:36,014 --> 01:55:37,009 ...4... 1570 01:55:37,557 --> 01:55:38,173 ...3... 1571 01:55:39,142 --> 01:55:40,090 ... 2... 1572 01:55:40,310 --> 01:55:41,341 I'm okay to go. 1573 01:55:45,690 --> 01:55:47,314 Oh, God! 1574 01:55:56,868 --> 01:55:58,527 Ellie to Control. 1575 01:55:59,204 --> 01:56:01,741 Ellie to Control, do you read me! 1576 01:56:06,377 --> 01:56:08,749 Ellie to Control, do you read me! 1577 01:56:14,886 --> 01:56:16,048 I'll try... 1578 01:56:16,888 --> 01:56:18,346 ...to keep recording! 1579 01:56:19,056 --> 01:56:20,715 I'm going through... 1580 01:56:20,891 --> 01:56:22,883 ...some kind of a tunnel! 1581 01:56:38,367 --> 01:56:39,909 There's a light source ahead! 1582 01:56:40,577 --> 01:56:41,691 Brilliant... 1583 01:56:41,912 --> 01:56:43,192 ...blue-white. 1584 01:56:44,915 --> 01:56:46,409 Residual radiation? 1585 01:56:58,136 --> 01:56:59,464 It's a star. 1586 01:57:00,055 --> 01:57:01,217 I must have... 1587 01:57:01,931 --> 01:57:03,425 ...gone through a wormhole. 1588 01:57:08,646 --> 01:57:09,926 It's Vega! 1589 01:57:21,117 --> 01:57:22,943 I'm in another wormhole now! 1590 01:57:26,622 --> 01:57:27,736 I had no idea! 1591 01:57:27,957 --> 01:57:29,451 A series of them! 1592 01:57:32,461 --> 01:57:33,659 They're alive. 1593 01:57:33,879 --> 01:57:34,993 It's like... 1594 01:57:35,423 --> 01:57:37,830 ...some kind of a transit system. 1595 01:57:38,843 --> 01:57:40,218 A subway! 1596 01:57:40,427 --> 01:57:41,802 Oh, God! 1597 01:57:47,476 --> 01:57:49,433 I have to keep talking. 1598 01:57:52,481 --> 01:57:53,809 It's a triple... 1599 01:57:53,982 --> 01:57:56,270 ...no, a quadruple system. 1600 01:57:56,860 --> 01:57:57,939 Beautiful! 1601 01:58:01,198 --> 01:58:02,478 They're alive! 1602 01:58:10,874 --> 01:58:12,498 Another wormhole! 1603 01:58:12,876 --> 01:58:14,702 This one's much more violent! 1604 01:59:48,261 --> 01:59:49,256 Some... 1605 01:59:50,638 --> 01:59:52,345 ...celestial event... 1606 01:59:53,808 --> 01:59:54,803 No! 1607 01:59:55,726 --> 01:59:57,268 No words! 1608 01:59:57,728 --> 01:59:59,352 No words... 1609 02:00:01,065 --> 02:00:02,724 ...to describe it! 1610 02:00:04,818 --> 02:00:06,276 Poetry! 1611 02:00:07,821 --> 02:00:09,363 They should have sent... 1612 02:00:10,074 --> 02:00:11,188 ...a poet. 1613 02:00:11,742 --> 02:00:13,200 It's so beautiful! 1614 02:00:14,453 --> 02:00:15,733 Beautiful! 1615 02:00:17,539 --> 02:00:19,365 So beautiful. 1616 02:00:23,920 --> 02:00:26,375 I had no idea. 1617 02:03:05,912 --> 02:03:07,192 Hi, Sparks. 1618 02:03:09,082 --> 02:03:10,077 Dad? 1619 02:03:18,090 --> 02:03:19,632 I missed you. 1620 02:03:25,639 --> 02:03:26,634 Aren't you...? 1621 02:03:26,849 --> 02:03:29,719 I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you, sweetheart. 1622 02:03:39,945 --> 02:03:41,273 You're not real. 1623 02:03:43,282 --> 02:03:44,692 None of this is real! 1624 02:03:44,950 --> 02:03:46,657 That's my scientist. 1625 02:03:48,036 --> 02:03:52,329 When I was unconscious, you downloaded my thoughts, my memories. 1626 02:03:53,333 --> 02:03:54,661 Pensacola! 1627 02:03:57,963 --> 02:04:00,418 We thought it might make things easier for you. 1628 02:04:14,229 --> 02:04:15,687 Why did you contact us? 1629 02:04:15,855 --> 02:04:17,514 You contacted us. 1630 02:04:18,066 --> 02:04:19,690 We were just listening. 1631 02:04:20,526 --> 02:04:21,854 There are others? 1632 02:04:22,195 --> 02:04:23,357 Many others. 1633 02:04:28,493 --> 02:04:29,691 They all... 1634 02:04:30,203 --> 02:04:33,369 ...travel here through that transit system you built? 1635 02:04:33,831 --> 02:04:35,373 We didn't build it. 1636 02:04:36,500 --> 02:04:38,042 We don't know who did. 1637 02:04:40,087 --> 02:04:42,708 They were gone long before we ever got here. 1638 02:04:43,674 --> 02:04:45,500 Maybe someday they'll come back. 1639 02:04:46,510 --> 02:04:49,083 All the civilizations you find come here? 1640 02:04:49,263 --> 02:04:50,507 Not all. 1641 02:04:52,266 --> 02:04:55,385 - Is this some test? - No, no test. 1642 02:04:58,397 --> 02:04:59,891 You have your mother's hands. 1643 02:05:10,116 --> 02:05:12,274 You're an interesting species... 1644 02:05:12,911 --> 02:05:14,570 ...an interesting mix. 1645 02:05:15,872 --> 02:05:18,576 You're capable of such beautiful dreams... 1646 02:05:19,626 --> 02:05:21,748 ...and such horrible nightmares. 1647 02:05:23,296 --> 02:05:25,122 You feel so lost... 1648 02:05:25,882 --> 02:05:28,419 ...so cut off, so alone. 1649 02:05:30,136 --> 02:05:31,416 Only you're not. 1650 02:05:35,933 --> 02:05:37,592 In all our searching... 1651 02:05:37,768 --> 02:05:40,721 ...all we've found that makes the emptiness bearable... 1652 02:05:41,439 --> 02:05:42,897 ...is each other. 1653 02:05:46,819 --> 02:05:48,443 What happens now? 1654 02:05:49,780 --> 02:05:50,894 Now? 1655 02:05:52,283 --> 02:05:53,741 You go home. 1656 02:05:54,285 --> 02:05:55,316 Home? 1657 02:05:55,786 --> 02:05:56,900 But... 1658 02:05:57,454 --> 02:05:58,864 ...I have so many questions. 1659 02:05:59,289 --> 02:06:00,913 Do we get to come back? 1660 02:06:02,000 --> 02:06:03,826 This was just a first step. 1661 02:06:04,461 --> 02:06:06,252 In time, you'll take another. 1662 02:06:07,798 --> 02:06:10,335 But other people need to see what I've seen... 1663 02:06:10,509 --> 02:06:13,545 This is the way it's been done for billions of years. 1664 02:06:15,931 --> 02:06:17,590 Small moves, Ellie. 1665 02:06:19,476 --> 02:06:21,135 Small moves. 1666 02:07:04,645 --> 02:07:06,304 We've got video on Ellie! 1667 02:07:06,522 --> 02:07:08,479 She's through! She is in the net. 1668 02:07:08,649 --> 02:07:11,021 She's alive. Get the President on the phone! 1669 02:07:11,860 --> 02:07:13,402 What's going on? How is she? 1670 02:07:14,238 --> 02:07:15,945 Ellie, this is Control. You copy? 1671 02:07:16,198 --> 02:07:17,608 - What's going on? - I don't know. 1672 02:07:18,367 --> 02:07:19,944 - She's alive. - Put her on P.A. 1673 02:07:20,202 --> 02:07:21,696 Ellie, hold on tight. 1674 02:07:22,371 --> 02:07:25,656 We're still trying to determine the nature of the malfunction... 1675 02:07:25,874 --> 02:07:28,411 ...but the important thing is you're okay. 1676 02:07:28,668 --> 02:07:29,663 What? 1677 02:07:30,003 --> 02:07:31,461 It's all right. 1678 02:07:31,671 --> 02:07:33,544 The important thing is you're safe. 1679 02:07:34,549 --> 02:07:36,375 What malfunction? 1680 02:07:40,764 --> 02:07:42,092 What happened? 1681 02:07:43,725 --> 02:07:45,267 What day is this? 1682 02:07:46,060 --> 02:07:47,055 I'm sorry. 1683 02:07:47,270 --> 02:07:48,728 Did you say what day? 1684 02:07:50,398 --> 02:07:51,892 How long was I gone? 1685 02:07:54,235 --> 02:07:58,398 The IPV dropped straight through the Machine. 1686 02:07:59,282 --> 02:08:01,025 You didn't go anywhere. 1687 02:08:01,742 --> 02:08:03,070 But I did. 1688 02:08:03,411 --> 02:08:04,691 I did go. 1689 02:08:05,246 --> 02:08:07,404 That's what I've tried to tell everyone. 1690 02:08:12,044 --> 02:08:14,581 But the headset didn't record a single image? 1691 02:08:15,297 --> 02:08:16,577 Just this. 1692 02:08:16,882 --> 02:08:17,913 Static. 1693 02:08:18,092 --> 02:08:19,087 Thank you. 1694 02:08:20,594 --> 02:08:22,301 Let me show you what we saw. 1695 02:08:32,314 --> 02:08:35,932 43 separate remote cameras show exactly the same event. 1696 02:08:36,276 --> 02:08:39,727 The IPV dropped straight through. Everyone saw exactly... 1697 02:08:40,071 --> 02:08:41,446 ...the same thing. 1698 02:08:41,781 --> 02:08:43,275 Nothing happened. 1699 02:08:44,910 --> 02:08:46,902 How do you explain this, Doctor? 1700 02:08:49,122 --> 02:08:50,320 I can't. 1701 02:08:50,498 --> 02:08:51,956 I'd encourage you... 1702 02:08:53,751 --> 02:08:55,957 ... not to inflame this situation... 1703 02:08:56,129 --> 02:08:57,955 ... beyond the facts. 1704 02:08:58,131 --> 02:09:01,334 Let us deal with this on the facts. 1705 02:09:01,634 --> 02:09:04,634 We are monitoring what has actually happened. 1706 02:09:04,804 --> 02:09:07,888 We are taking what we believe are factually... 1707 02:09:08,099 --> 02:09:10,091 ... appropriate steps. 1708 02:09:10,393 --> 02:09:13,477 Amid a flurry of accusations and counter-accusations... 1709 02:09:13,646 --> 02:09:16,315 ... by the nations representing the Machine Consortium... 1710 02:09:16,524 --> 02:09:19,359 ... the President has ordered a special inquiry. 1711 02:09:19,527 --> 02:09:22,362 But the appointment to the committee of Michael Kitz... 1712 02:09:22,530 --> 02:09:25,365 ... who has resigned as National Security Advisor... 1713 02:09:25,574 --> 02:09:27,981 ... has raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill. 1714 02:09:28,202 --> 02:09:31,867 I have made no decision to run for Congress, announced no candidacy. 1715 02:09:32,122 --> 02:09:35,455 I resigned as National Security Advisor... 1716 02:09:35,667 --> 02:09:39,794 ... in order to devote all of my energy to this inquiry. 1717 02:09:40,547 --> 02:09:45,173 The people of the world have a right to know what really happened. 1718 02:09:46,011 --> 02:09:48,680 Yet every scientific instrument confirms... 1719 02:09:48,847 --> 02:09:52,844 ...the IPV was out of contact for only a fraction of a second. 1720 02:09:53,018 --> 02:09:54,844 Isn't that correct, Doctor? 1721 02:09:56,813 --> 02:09:59,138 A fraction of a second Earth time, yes. 1722 02:09:59,983 --> 02:10:01,358 Earth time? 1723 02:10:01,568 --> 02:10:05,019 Senator, I believe that the Machine opened up a wormhole... 1724 02:10:05,405 --> 02:10:10,031 ...a tunnel through space-time, also known as an Einstein-Rossen Bridge. 1725 02:10:10,368 --> 02:10:14,531 Due to the effect of general relativity, what I experienced as 18 hours... 1726 02:10:14,706 --> 02:10:16,994 ...passed instantaneously on Earth. 1727 02:10:17,208 --> 02:10:21,335 Isn't it true these wormholes are merely theoretical predictions? 1728 02:10:21,712 --> 02:10:24,333 There is no evidence they actually exist? 1729 02:10:24,548 --> 02:10:26,207 There is no direct evidence, no. 1730 02:10:26,550 --> 02:10:27,712 Tell me... 1731 02:10:28,177 --> 02:10:31,130 ...why would these aliens go to all this trouble? 1732 02:10:31,722 --> 02:10:35,766 Bring you thousands of light years, then send you home without proof? 1733 02:10:36,435 --> 02:10:39,186 They said it's how it's been done for billions of years. 1734 02:10:39,730 --> 02:10:43,015 You have no proof because they didn 't want you to have any. 1735 02:10:43,400 --> 02:10:45,357 A phenomenon known in psychiatric circles... 1736 02:10:45,527 --> 02:10:47,899 ... as a self-reinforcing delusion. 1737 02:10:48,739 --> 02:10:50,197 You think I was delusional? 1738 02:10:50,449 --> 02:10:54,576 I do think you may have suffered some kind of an episode. Yes, I do. 1739 02:10:54,745 --> 02:10:57,580 I'd like to propose an alternate hypothesis... 1740 02:10:57,748 --> 02:11:01,448 ... and I'd like you to bring your scientific expertise to bear on it. 1741 02:11:01,751 --> 02:11:04,751 To fake a signal from Vega... 1742 02:11:05,547 --> 02:11:06,827 ...what would you need? 1743 02:11:08,758 --> 02:11:12,541 You'd need a satellite to transmit it, but it would be impossible to... 1744 02:11:12,762 --> 02:11:16,711 You'd need a satellite and launch capabilities to orbit it. 1745 02:11:16,891 --> 02:11:20,141 And the message itself. To put something like this together... 1746 02:11:20,395 --> 02:11:22,683 ...so complex, drawing on many disciplines... 1747 02:11:22,855 --> 02:11:24,183 Would be impossible. 1748 02:11:26,025 --> 02:11:27,567 Impossible? 1749 02:11:28,027 --> 02:11:30,944 Is there anyone who might have been up to the challenge? 1750 02:11:31,864 --> 02:11:34,401 Someone with extraordinary technical expertise... 1751 02:11:34,659 --> 02:11:36,651 ...enormous financial resources... 1752 02:11:37,119 --> 02:11:41,199 ...someone perverse enough, eccentric enough to come up with the idea? 1753 02:11:42,917 --> 02:11:43,663 Hadden? 1754 02:11:44,794 --> 02:11:46,786 S. R. Hadden. 1755 02:11:51,300 --> 02:11:52,959 You're implying that this was... 1756 02:11:53,177 --> 02:11:55,750 ...some kind of a hoax? That he engineered this? 1757 02:11:55,929 --> 02:11:57,257 S. R. Hadden... 1758 02:11:57,639 --> 02:12:02,135 ... a legendary power broker in perhaps his final bid for immortality. 1759 02:12:02,477 --> 02:12:05,146 Maybe he wanted to exploit new technologies... 1760 02:12:05,314 --> 02:12:07,520 ... having world governments pick up the tab. 1761 02:12:07,691 --> 02:12:10,478 Perhaps this was his final altruistic gesture... 1762 02:12:10,694 --> 02:12:14,312 ... to unite the world in some common goal. Maybe all of the above. 1763 02:12:14,698 --> 02:12:16,820 S. R. Hadden, a brilliant... 1764 02:12:17,492 --> 02:12:19,151 ... and complicated man. 1765 02:12:21,996 --> 02:12:25,827 Doctor, are you familiar with the scientific precept... 1766 02:12:26,501 --> 02:12:28,576 ...known as Occam's Razor? 1767 02:12:34,842 --> 02:12:35,956 Yes. 1768 02:12:37,970 --> 02:12:42,678 It means the simplest explanation generally tends to be the right one. 1769 02:12:42,850 --> 02:12:43,845 Exactly. 1770 02:12:44,602 --> 02:12:47,092 You tell me. What is more likely here? 1771 02:12:47,313 --> 02:12:50,681 A message from aliens results in a magical machine... 1772 02:12:50,858 --> 02:12:53,562 ...that whisks you to the center of the galaxy... 1773 02:12:53,778 --> 02:12:56,613 ...to windsurf with Dad and a split second later... 1774 02:12:56,822 --> 02:13:00,321 ...returns you home without a single shred of proof? 1775 02:13:00,743 --> 02:13:04,194 Or that your experience is the result of being... 1776 02:13:04,371 --> 02:13:07,822 ...the unwitting star in the farewell performance of one... 1777 02:13:08,000 --> 02:13:08,948 ...S.R. Hadden? 1778 02:13:09,168 --> 02:13:12,868 A man with the means and motive to play you and all of us... 1779 02:13:13,046 --> 02:13:17,375 ...as pawns in the most elaborate, most expensive hoax of all time? 1780 02:13:22,389 --> 02:13:26,054 You come to us with no evidence, no records... 1781 02:13:26,810 --> 02:13:28,553 ...no artifacts... 1782 02:13:28,895 --> 02:13:33,058 ...only a story that, to put it mildly, strains credibility. 1783 02:13:34,359 --> 02:13:37,359 Over half a trillion dollars were spent. 1784 02:13:37,695 --> 02:13:40,150 Dozens of lives were lost. 1785 02:13:41,241 --> 02:13:45,618 Are you going to sit there and tell us we should just take this all... 1786 02:13:46,704 --> 02:13:48,114 ...on faith? 1787 02:13:52,168 --> 02:13:54,160 Please answer the question, Doctor. 1788 02:13:58,049 --> 02:14:00,207 Is it possible that it didn't happen? 1789 02:14:00,468 --> 02:14:01,582 Yes. 1790 02:14:04,430 --> 02:14:07,596 As a scientist I must concede that. I must volunteer that. 1791 02:14:12,062 --> 02:14:13,437 Let me get this straight. 1792 02:14:13,772 --> 02:14:17,769 You admit you have no physical evidence to back up your story? 1793 02:14:18,360 --> 02:14:19,189 Yes. 1794 02:14:19,445 --> 02:14:22,481 You admit you may have hallucinated this whole thing? 1795 02:14:23,407 --> 02:14:25,732 You admit if you were in our position... 1796 02:14:25,909 --> 02:14:29,443 ...you would be as incredulous and skeptical as we? 1797 02:14:30,956 --> 02:14:34,953 Then why don't you simply withdraw your testimony and concede... 1798 02:14:35,252 --> 02:14:39,332 ...that this journey to the center of the galaxy never took place? 1799 02:14:42,300 --> 02:14:44,126 Because I can't. 1800 02:14:51,100 --> 02:14:53,804 I had an experience. 1801 02:14:56,147 --> 02:14:58,816 I can't prove it. I can't even explain it. 1802 02:14:58,983 --> 02:15:01,983 But everything I know as a human being, everything I am... 1803 02:15:02,153 --> 02:15:04,311 ...tells me it was real. 1804 02:15:06,782 --> 02:15:10,233 I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever. 1805 02:15:10,578 --> 02:15:11,657 A vision... 1806 02:15:12,204 --> 02:15:13,828 ...of the universe... 1807 02:15:14,582 --> 02:15:16,740 ...that tells us undeniably... 1808 02:15:17,209 --> 02:15:19,581 ...how tiny and insignificant... 1809 02:15:19,753 --> 02:15:23,287 ...and how rare and precious we all are. 1810 02:15:24,466 --> 02:15:27,585 A vision that tells us that we belong to something... 1811 02:15:27,845 --> 02:15:32,471 ...that is greater than ourselves, that none of us are alone. 1812 02:15:37,396 --> 02:15:40,396 I wish I could share that. 1813 02:15:43,944 --> 02:15:45,058 I wish... 1814 02:15:46,696 --> 02:15:49,151 ...that everyone, if even for one... 1815 02:15:49,491 --> 02:15:50,689 ...moment... 1816 02:15:50,951 --> 02:15:52,231 ...could feel... 1817 02:15:52,702 --> 02:15:55,702 ...that awe and humility and hope. 1818 02:16:05,089 --> 02:16:07,330 That continues to be my wish. 1819 02:16:48,548 --> 02:16:51,169 Dr. Arroway, can I get a picture, please. 1820 02:17:33,217 --> 02:17:34,331 Reverend Joss! 1821 02:17:34,552 --> 02:17:36,176 What do you believe?! 1822 02:17:42,059 --> 02:17:46,056 As a person of faith, I'm bound by a different covenant than Dr. Arroway. 1823 02:17:47,898 --> 02:17:50,056 But our goal is one and the same. 1824 02:17:50,567 --> 02:17:52,226 The pursuit of truth. 1825 02:17:55,781 --> 02:17:57,061 I, for one, believe her. 1826 02:18:20,597 --> 02:18:23,550 So what happens now? We give her a medal? 1827 02:18:23,975 --> 02:18:26,382 I'd say at least a healthy grant. 1828 02:18:26,769 --> 02:18:30,184 You read the confidential report from the investigating committee? 1829 02:18:30,398 --> 02:18:31,808 I flipped through it. 1830 02:18:32,275 --> 02:18:36,568 I was very interested in the section on Arroway's video unit. 1831 02:18:37,280 --> 02:18:39,605 The one that recorded the static. 1832 02:18:40,950 --> 02:18:42,230 Continue. 1833 02:18:43,244 --> 02:18:46,612 The fact that it recorded static isn't what interests me. 1834 02:18:51,961 --> 02:18:53,241 Continue. 1835 02:18:54,129 --> 02:18:56,002 What interests me... 1836 02:18:56,298 --> 02:18:59,998 ...is that it recorded approximately 18 hours of it. 1837 02:19:05,265 --> 02:19:07,138 That is interesting, isn 't it? 1838 02:19:13,857 --> 02:19:17,806 And you can see over there, we're building 45 brand new dishes. 1839 02:19:18,069 --> 02:19:21,900 That means when you put them together with all the radio telescopes... 1840 02:19:22,115 --> 02:19:23,490 ...all over the world... 1841 02:19:23,700 --> 02:19:28,077 ...we'll hear farther into space than anyone has ever heard before. 1842 02:19:29,622 --> 02:19:32,539 Are there other people out there in the universe? 1843 02:19:33,501 --> 02:19:34,911 That's a good question. 1844 02:19:35,169 --> 02:19:36,283 What do you think? 1845 02:19:36,921 --> 02:19:37,916 I don't know. 1846 02:19:38,381 --> 02:19:39,923 That's a good answer. 1847 02:19:41,175 --> 02:19:42,170 Skeptic, huh? 1848 02:19:43,469 --> 02:19:48,011 The important thing is that you all keep searching for your own answers. 1849 02:19:48,516 --> 02:19:50,555 One thing about the universe, though. 1850 02:19:51,519 --> 02:19:52,681 The universe... 1851 02:19:53,187 --> 02:19:55,345 ...is a pretty big place. 1852 02:19:56,357 --> 02:19:58,682 It's bigger than anything... 1853 02:19:59,068 --> 02:20:01,903 ...anyone has ever dreamed of before. 1854 02:20:03,489 --> 02:20:05,196 So if it's just us... 1855 02:20:07,034 --> 02:20:09,192 ...it seems like an awful waste of space. 1856 02:20:11,080 --> 02:20:12,075 Right?