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This is my story.
Now, this is my story.

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I come from the outer reaches of Andromeda.

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Imagine: planet Earth,
the Solar System, the Milky Way...

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your galaxy.

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I come from another galaxy.

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A blue one. Way, way beyond your world.

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Where I come from,
is the Wild Blue Yonder

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Our star was dying.
It was like an ice age, but much more severe.

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We had to move, we had to leave.

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Whole armade of spaceships set out
and they all dispersed into the universe.

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I don't know where they are.
I guess they're all lost.

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A few made it to your planet,
planet Earth.

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A few of us arrived earlier.
It was a few minutes of our time

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but on the Earth time it was a hundred years too early.
They came in out of the sky and man!

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Were they greeted!

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What happened to them after
that - I don't know.

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But it was not all great on this planet.

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We got homesick
and desperate.

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One of us tried to commit suicide.

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He was spared.

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You know, our great-great...-grandfathers

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were fine scientists.

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But the journey was long and boring.

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And when we got here
hundreds and hundreds of years later

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those of us who arrived here

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just sucked.

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I came in with the third group.
And we had a lot of big plans.

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We knew we had to make a big impression,
so we decided to build this capital city,

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one that would rival D.C.

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This...

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this looked great, because

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two train lines
converge right here.

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Over here, we made this to be the mall,
the main shopping center.

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And over here was to be the supreme court.

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And over here was to be congress.

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And down there the pentagon.

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And way way way at the end there...

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was the great Andromeda memorial.

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But the whole thing sucked.
Nobody came, nobody settled,

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nobody shopped.

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You see aliens as
these technologicaly advanced superbeings,

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who destroy NYC in two minutes flat.

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Well, I hate to say this,
but we, aliens, all

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suck.

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Look.

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The failures.

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Look. D.C.

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I guess we're just failures.

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This whole thing makes me sad.
Really makes me sad.

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Our only success story was the man who
used his knowledge of the sky

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and flying machines.

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He became chairman of the strategic
planning commitee at the pentagon.

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With great respect it might be said

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that aviation itself served very small part

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in the result of the WW I conflict.

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However, it then proved itself,

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that is, it was easily recognised

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that with proper equipment and another time

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aviation might become

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a real instrument of military warfare.

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First, I thought I was going places,
as I was accepted into CIA,

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but I found nothing there, but a bunch
of people only interested in their careers.

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I never got promoted. I kept trying to tell them, that
l knew some things, that I knew quite some things

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but they wouldn't listen.
And that made me very angry.

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So now, I stand before you,
ready to tell all.

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I was involved in the Rosswell recovery.

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When that thing landed 50 years ago,
they didn't know what it was

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so they stashed it in some silo
underground, and they kept lying

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that it was just some media invention.

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Now comes this.
50 years later they dig it up.

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And they decide, with the help of advanced technology,
that they are going to take another look.

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That was a big mistake.

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They should not have done that.
From the start, that convoy had a very ominous feel to it.

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They shut out the world.
No press, no tv cameras,

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no photos. This film is the only record
which they made for their secret files.

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What happened there had
a far reaching consequences

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and you don't even know about it.

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Everything was hermetically sealed.

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Man, it was ultra-clean in there,

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toxic waste outfits for the men,
even the truck was sealed in plastic.

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They had a hunch that something
dangerous might be lurking.

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What they didn't know was that it
came from our planet.

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It was one of our probes we sent
ahead of our armade.

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But there was microbic life
attached to it.

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Life that was unknown on planet Earth.

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And what they also didn't know
was that while they filmed this here

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something was seeping out.

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Invisible. Secret.
Potentionally lethal.

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Seeping into the few patches of bare skin.

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And these scientsts would
carry it out into the world.

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They scrambled the quarantine
and they barely succeeded

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And there was panic.
So they hatched the secret plot.

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They sent out a group of astronauts.

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Their mission: find a hospitable place
out there for human habitation.

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Like something, anything
that could be the alternative to Earth.

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The astronauts were told that
the mission would extend

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to the boundaries of our solar system.
But noone could have foretold them

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larger, more ominous voyage have they had.

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It would turn out to be some sort of
a one-way ticket.

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And this is the film record transmitted
back to Mission Control.

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It has been kept locked away
all these years.

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As time dragged on they were
still cautiously orbiting planet Earth

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The mission was going nowhere.
They needed a way to reach further.

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The ground crew encouraged this
even thought the spread

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of the alien microbes turned out
to be not such a big deal.

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It was mostly contained.

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Still. They wanted the
astronauts to keep going.

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To find the safe heaven
just in case.

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They were in for a rude awakening.

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They didn't know how
hostile it was out there.

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See, I could've told them.
I know all about it.

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The astronauts decided
to send out a space probe

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to explore the outer fringes
of the solar system.

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It could radio back images
from the planets it encountered.

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They named the probe Galileo.

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They waited weeks.
They waited months.

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And then these images came back.

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Images that proved that there was no
hospitable place anywhere nearby.

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It was clear now that there
was nothing nearby.

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On the ground they knew they
needed a bolder plan

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a trip beyond our
immediate horizonts.

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For the mathematicians it was
only a question of a different trajectory.

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The potential energy doesn't
change, that is the zero.

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This velocity thing says that this
derivative comes out to be v*delta v.

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It just required the gravity assist from Venus

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and a fly-by of Jupiter.
It looked doable.

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If we look at our
standard v equation

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the key is going to be getting the right
v infinity of Venus.

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We are still going to need enough
performance from the spacecraft

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so that we can go below the orbit of Venus.

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And also that the v infinity of Venus is high enough
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to get us on up to Jupiter that that will work.

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I guess we could use this
to look at leaving the solar system.

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For example this is the Sun.

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The Earth is going around it.

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Instead of thinking of this being a fixed
plane with the Sun in the center

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and the Earth going around.
Let's just draw an axis

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and rotate the plane with the Earth

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so now the Earth looks like it is fixed.

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Now we are working in a rotating system.

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In this rotating system
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an intender or whatever.

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Moving around, it has got
some velocity in the rotating system.

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And it's got potentional energy with respect to Earth and
potentional energy with respect to the Sun.

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The Jacobi constant is equal to

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one half the rotating velocity squared,

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and I believe by convention it's all minused

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so we get a negative sign on a kinetic energy,

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and we have the gravitational constant of
the Sun divided by our distance from the Sun

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and the gravitational constant of
the Earth divided by our distance from the Earth.

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Whenever we come by the Earth, no matter which
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we are going to end up with exactly the same velocity.

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And the key then is to use other planets...

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That's the wrong symbol.
That would be Mars

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and it's in wrong place so we will
use Venus.... use other planets to

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change what the Jacobi
constant is to a new value.

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It's playing games with the Jacobi constant and
that's where the tour starts to get interesting.

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On board, however, the shifted trajectory was
accepted as just an extension of their flight-plan.

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The life carried on.
Day in, day out. Draggery set in.

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As you get further and further away
you don't have a sun

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you don't have a sunrise anymore

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there's nothing you can look at and see
other than points of light.

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There's no sense of being
close to anything.

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So you are truly an island.
You begin to accept

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the different life.

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Frankly speaking, my hunch is they
believed it wouldn't be that far.

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Because if you could go to sleep, wake up on
a sleeper train pulling into your destination the next morning.

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I could've told them.
I know all about it.

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We travelled all the way from
the outer reaches of the

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Andromeda Galaxy.
Do you have any clue of how far that is?

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No you don't.

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Let's get this clear from the start.

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The closest star to this planet,

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or should I say speck of dust,
is only 4.5 light years from here.

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And may I say that Alpha Centauri is

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a couple of million degrees hot

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which, i don't want to exaggerate, could be unpleasant.

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Now, how fast is the speed of light?

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Using conventional fuel,
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to accelerate to 30% of
the speed of light wouldn't take

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all the fuel tanks on the planet Earth, that are
equivalent to, say, the Rocky Mountains.

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It would take all the mass in
the Universe visible to the naked eye.

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That's the Earth, the Sun, the Solar system

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the Milky way, all the stars in your galaxy,
all the stars in the surrounding galaxies.

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Now, how fast have you gone so far?

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Fastest speed acheived to day was by
your Voyager space probe, which accelerated to

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about 55 000 miles per hour and is
currently heading our of your solar system

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into deep space. Now...

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let's suppose, that that is a spaceship,
you are an astronaut

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on that ship and you are headed
towards Alpha Centauri, which, I remind you

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is 4.5 light years from here.

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Now, let's assume you started your
voyage 20 thousand years ago

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this is the time of cromagnon man,
paleolithicum, cavepainting

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in the south of France. You're hunting
bison, rhino, wooly mamooths.

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And you're speeding along at 50 000 miles per hour

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for another ten thousand years.
Now you're in neolithicum, mankind

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begines agriculture, domesticating animals
sheep, goats, horses, pigs...

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Now, when I say pigs, i mean
breeding domesticated pigs.

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This was mankind's first heart sin. Why?

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Because in order to breed animals you have to become
sedentary, this begats settlements, which begat towns

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which begat cities, which begat all the
problems that will be mankind's destruction.

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Breeding dogs is not a sin because they all
go with you on your nomadic hunts.

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But pigs, that was the sin.

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I've diverted.

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The ship continues on it's way for another
6000 years. Ancient Egypt, pharaohs, pyramids

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few thousand years more
past ancient Greece, ancient Rome

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and into the middle ages and more
heart sin. An italian poet decides

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it would be a good idea to climb
a mountain just for the fun of it.

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The Swiss didn't do it, the sherpas
didn't do it, until bored 19th century

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english man paid them. And they
robbed the mountains of their dignity.

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That was a sin.

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The ship moves on...

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Declaration of Independence

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World War I, communism,
World War Il, Marylin Monroe

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Elvis Presley, to the present day.

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Now, how far have you gone?

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You have accomplished just 15%
of your journey to the Alpha Centauri.

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You have in procreating gone
through 500 generations.

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How could you have avoided
inbreeding, rebellions, murders?

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Would you not just became grotesquely
maldeformed freaks

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with no idea of where you came from or

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why you began the journey to begin with.

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And might I add, that the closest star

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which might be considered non-lethal
is not 4.5 light years from here.

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It's more like 200 000.

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By now the spaceship was
surrounded by deep black space.

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And knowing that, as I said, madness,
rebellion and murder might set in our astronauts,

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trying to prevent that, devised a way

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to read each other's mind.

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Like this, they were able to
maintain their equilibrium.

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Order had to be enforced. And that's
what we had to do as well.

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And now here they are, doing
the very same voyage we had done

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only in reverse.

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Now, these images came much later from the ship.

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Battery power was running low.

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And the first signs of chaos became visible.

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Something had to be done to drastically
increase the speed of their voyage.

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It was a rogue mathematician who kept
the secret of a breakthrough invention to himself.

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You just want to keep it to yourself for a while
because for a while you are the only

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person on Earth who knows something.

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And that little secret is just so exciting.

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But then, of course, you want people to
know and you want people to start using it.

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It was something that was kind of
hard to grasp, I believe, because

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I've been looking for them for so long
and all of the sudden, it happened.

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And moreover, the theory just really
started rolling, looking at asteroids

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comets and how all the solar system is
controlled in many ways by these chaotic tunnels.

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And this is how the chaotic transport can occur.

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So in this particular image is an artist
conception of some of these gravitational tunnels

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that are in our Solar system,
that connects our Solar system.

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And this is a step forward from the Copernican
view of the Solar system, where

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in this image you can see that the orbits of the planets all
around the Sun, except they are all separated

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they are all in this very classical
conception of the Solar system.

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And now, 500 years later, our picture
of the Solar system is

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slightly different. I'm using an image from the
Shatrian cathedral's floor,

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actually it has even more antiquity
origin of erm, erm, the labyrinth,

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which shows that the whole Solar system is
really integrated. And this integration

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even though this picture, of course, is very nice and even,
but actually, these are generated by chaotic orbits.

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That is what I call a chaotic transport.

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And I was the first, really, to discover
mathematically by Poincare.

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So let me show you how are these tunnels generated.

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So you start off looking from the Sun

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towards the Earth, and here is the Moon's orbit.

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And one of these large orbits, it
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what we call halo orbit around

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the L2 Lagrange point of the Earth.

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And it is the gateway that is invisible,

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so each time you look at the Sun
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you're actually looking at these gateways.
They're invisible and they provide

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this free transport through
these huge huge tunnels.

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Now, this little animation will show you
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and tubes of the Moon interact
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transport. So that we can actually conceive

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of putting a space station around the
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or L2, where it is very easy for astronauts
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and also to come back to the Earth.

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But at the same time, they can service missions deep
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in this case we're going to look at how 
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station go to the center spacecraft to the Sun-Earth L2
which is 1.5 million kilometres.

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And from there you can actually deploy
and have it go to Mars and so on.

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So the yellow dot represents
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And so, as we pan out, we see that the Moon's
tubes, the red tubes, are like the offrames

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that allow you to leave and the blue tubes
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And here it extends out to space.
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onwrap, the Earth going to L2 and when these
tubes intersect that is when you get the free transport.

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But from here you can also deploy to the other
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and so this offers opportunities
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just looking at Keplerian orbits.
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using string theory, we are going to have
much more powerful tunnels,

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tunnels that will allow us to, perhaps,
go through the spacetime.

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And that then, is the possibility of going to
the stars and to the galaxies.

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Now, let me jump.
And so here is the conception,

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like an artist conception, first of just
a gravitational tunnels that we're working with

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but eventually, instead of planets
it will be tunnels

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between galaxies.

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By utilising chaotic transport,
the astronauts found a shortcut.

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The direct route to my planet.

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It makes me angry.

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Or I should rather say upset that
we didn't even know about this.

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Soon, they would be at the doorstep
of the Wild Blue Yonder.

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It was already in their sights.

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There it lay - covered by
a crust of ice.

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They made preparations for landing.

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What makes my planet
so different and beautiful

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is the sky there.
The sky is frozen.

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Just thinking about it makes me homesick.

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Leaving the ship behind, they cut through the ice.

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And found themselves descending into
an atmosphere of liquid helium.

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And what makes it even worse for me

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is to be so far away, watching human
beings exploring my world.

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And I could take in these images raw
just as they were recorded by the camera.

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And I can hear the sound of
the Wild Blue Yonder.

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This was home to me.

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I should also tell you that the other thing
that makes my planet so beautiful

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is its wild life.

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The creatures would always speak to you.

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They try to make contact.

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And now they're sad,
because they're left alone.

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And here I see that your astronauts either
ignored them or rejected them

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or did not treat them with respect.

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After the first day of the exploration
they began to warm up to the idea

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of a colony on this planet.

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Sure it looked inhospitable.

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But compared to what they saw
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it seemed to be
a reasonable solution.

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But what would the colony look like?

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Digging tunnels or caverns underground,

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building a big dome, some sort of protection
from the chaotic flow of particles?

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Oh well, in all these systems, it turns out

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that if you look around us, the Universe,

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chaos is not a negative thing.

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It actually allows us to conserve
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And so, in this particular...

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in the superhighway concept, chaos
is extremely important, because

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that is what generates this very free
and inexpensive transport.

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Part of the puzzle with space travel is really
the colonisation of space.

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And in the mid 20th century our concept of
how that would happen

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might be that we would build a large force field,
a dome of some type, over some planet

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or some floating island, underneath which
would be giant amazon-type forest.

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A jungle of some sort.

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But the jungle is not really where human beings,
at least not humans today, want to live in.

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So the ideal environment might be

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something like

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a shopping mall in space.

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Because you have everything from stores
you can shop at, places to go gym and aerobics,

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bars, entertainment.

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You could shop all day long
or there would be working places.

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So this might be, for the future, the perfect

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space colonization paradigm.

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A shopping mall?!?

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I could've told them.

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We had a similar plan,
but you saw it didn't work.

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Where are the shoppers, if I may ask?
Where are they?

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It makes me so sad thinking of all that merchandise

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sitting there unsold.

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And what makes me even more sad

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is that my planet started dying
hundreds of years ago

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and here they are: seeing this as
a potentional replacement for Earth?

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They began to map out
specific suitable locations.

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On the second day they ventured down into
the low-ceiling basements of my planet.

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They hoped to find the ideal place to install sewer pipes,

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electric cables

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and an air supply system.

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And after they were done with the cellars
they consulted their compasses

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which led them to explore
our big valley and the sky above it.

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And this area we used to call the Cathedral.

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The Blue Cathedral.

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Now, it was time to return home.

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Back to planet Earth.

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What they knew was that they can
use this portal as a tunnel of time.

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This was a difficult process and it took patience.

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Each astronaut would, in turn

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have to pass through this tunnel.
And by doing so, have to dissolve

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into particles and subsequently, into pure light.

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Now, back in their world,

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it took time for the
astronauts to reassemble

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and morph back into human form.

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They believed that they were somehow
back on Earth.

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And that they were only 15 years older.

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But their existence back here

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was just an illusion. What really
happened was this: they had not been out

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there for 15 years. They
had moved so fast through

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the tunnel of time that it actually became a different,
a parallel voyage and on Earth 820 years had passed.

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They began to see their planet in a different light

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with a different possibilities.

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We had an ambition that then,
when lot of humanity will be living

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outside of planet Earth,
they would be working

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in other places, maybe Mars, maybe
they will be working on asteroids,

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that we will have already moved to the vicinity of Earth,
so we can mine them and we can take care of their resources.

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And then the Earth will become more of

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a protected national park, of sorts, of humanity.

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Humanity will preserve our planet
as a pristine protected area

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for humans to come,
perhaps to spend vacation.

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You spend 6 months working in some other place

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and after you gather enough money
you could come and spend some vacation

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on a nice beach on planet Earth.

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And when they made it
back 820 years later

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this Earth had no people left.

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It was waiting there as a national park.

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This plateau was their landing site
as there were no more airfields

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no towns, no bridges, no dams,
no money, no banks, no time and no breath.

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It had returned to its pristine beauty.
It was prehistoric again.

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And this is what it looks like.

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Using timing from polish subtitles by gw1azdeczka (baja9a@o2.pl)

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English transcript and corrections by
Cmelaj (at gmail) and Likkle Lucy

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Thanks to Greg from Voku squat, Berlin, for showing us this film.