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Hello.

Hello.

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I don't I don't think I don't think so.

I don't I'm not sure.

>> It's fine. So, I have a few hours to

figure it out.

As soon as you can I can check cuz it's

roughly the same hallway shape.

So, it might it might actually be

>> I know. We can check.

10 minutes since I've seen an electrical

look over there.

Any lights or switches or signs?

Anything back there?

>> No, not what I'm seeing.

That's just across the way.

It's more of the same.

Whoa. Huh?

>> Huh?

>> What? What's up?

>> Uh, come back, guys. Go ahead. Come and

take a look at this.

>> It's not that purple table again, is it?

I hate that table.

>> That was a desk, not a table.

>> Yeah. Well,

>> it's not a table. Look at this. Look at

this.

>> Wa.

>> What the

>> is it? It's signs. It's uh it's got

writing. It's got what is it? Everything

must go. Uh is it entire store on sale?

This is new. Right. This is this is a

new structure, right?

This is looking at

the [clears throat]

W. This is brilliant. Look at Look at

how it's intersecting.

Oh This is brilliant.

Oh, this is

I looked over everything from the day

and obviously the the signs were really

treated as the highlight. Um and Dr.

McCarthy in particular was was eager to

see them in person. He uh would of

course end up accompanying us in the

place of Dr. Ring. The following

morning, uh, June 19th at around 11:00,

we assembled our mobile toolkit and

entered the complex. It was a slow start

as it was our intention to make it to

the new outpost following our return to

the sign room. And uh, Narin had had to

gather some startup prerequisite

materials for a few of the machines,

which which he carried with him

throughout the duration of our

exploration.

So upon arrival, no meaningful change in

the room uh or the science was apparent.

And our our general overall focus was

really on the instancing question or or

rather I I'd say the question of whether

or not a meaningful relationship existed

between the [music] three structures.

All right.

Quarter short test walk through. Just

stay out of my way if you can. Sure.

No, that's right.

You see it kind of goes straight through

the material

there and there. No one's going into the

frame.

This is obviously intersecting with the

carpet

which is supported by

cement or concrete or

it's pretty stuck in there. You yank on

it doesn't do much.

It'll crease or or probably tear easily.

But um it's the same same with this one.

The smaller they are, the thinner they

are. So, we're being careful not to

disturb the material.

At at a glance, there's what appears to

be a a clear sequence taking place

across the room where where scale and

height are are both decreasing as they

near the back wall. So, firstly, we did

what we could to measure all three signs

corner to corner.

Sign one came in at 1.44. 44 by 1.44 m.

Uh hanging clear of the floor. Uh lowest

corner about.3 m up. Sign 2 was uh 1.13

uh by 1.13 proportional. Uh those are

above uh those are the above floor

dimensions. Uh the 1.13 vertical figure

was measured along the the sign's upper

edge on the side that remains clear of

the floor. That number may or may not

reflect the sign's true uh full height.

uh we are unable to gauge how much if

anything continued below the surface.

Sign 3 had a width of 66 m. Uh we have

no reliable height figure as as just

under half the structure was submerged

and we had no way to determine the true

vertical extent without uh destructive

investigation we weren't prepared to

perform at that stage. The spacing

between signs 1 and 2 was 3.47 m between

2 and 3 uh 3.26 26 m. Width was uh the

only dimension we could take reliably

across all three. So that's what we

worked with. Uh the consecutive ratios

were 785 and.584.

So no constant multiplicative

relationship. The arithmetic differences

were were.31 and47 m also not equal and

increasing rather than decreasing. So no

constant difference either. Uh the

spacing ratio was 3.26 over 3.47. So 94

was close enough to suggest some

regularity, but but we couldn't say

whether it's related to the scale

progression or coincidental at that

sample size. Uh Ronald spent some time

with the data while Naron and I moved on

to the Matcom survey. We took a sample

from each sign corugated polyropylene uh

substrate throughout. So, uh, the

surface ink appeared to be screen

printed. All pretty consistent from what

I understand with standard retail

production. Uh, the the hanging wire was

steel. Uh, so so across the board really

uh nothing abnormal to note, at least

nothing we found with the equipment that

we had on hand. We then made a

horizontal cut along the floor plane at

the base of sign 2, uh, freeing the

upper portion. What remained in the

floor was a flush silhouette of the

science continuing material visible at

the surface level with with the the the

the ground material, the carpet and the

concrete. Probing it, the m the material

becomes indistinguishable from the

concrete itself within uh about a

centimeter of the surface. Whatever

whatever the transition looks like below

that point, we we couldn't determine

with what we had. Uh the question we

were ultimately working through at that

point was whether the three signs were

instances of the same structure or or

independent objects that that happened

to share a manufactured design. Uh a

shared design would would mean the print

the the text layout the the color all

reproducible from a template and not

particularly novel. um what we were

looking for and and found quite quickly

were features a template couldn't

account for. Every physical object is

going to accumulate microscale

imperfections, [music] minor surface

scratches, tooling marks, small

inconsistencies in the substrate where

the extrusion process wasn't uniform.

So, we found that the same micro

imperfections appeared across all three

signs at proportional positions,

indicating that they weren't printed

from the same template, but were

instances of the same physical object.

We had just about packed everything up

[music] in time to move along. When Dr.

McCarthy. Uh well, he went and retrieved

a power saw from our cart, seeking to

dissect a portion of the back wall. He

reasoned that given the visible trend

line and an average spacing between

signs, it wasn't out of the question

that a fourth sign may sit just inside

or beyond the wall.

>> I don't have a good grip on it. Do you

got it?

>> There we go. It's about There we go. All

right. Grab that top.

So, slowly dropping much.

>> Great. Great.

>> Not really anything, is it?

>> Yes. Right there. Right there.

>> What? What? Really?

>> No way. [laughter]

No way.

>> I told you.

>> That's great.

>> I told you. There it is. Okay. It's the

elevator then cuz cuz this is down below

the So, just be barely above the carpet.

>> All right. Well, let me get the uh get

out of the way. Move. Get the camera in

there. All right. Wow. Would you get out

of the way? Get out of the light.

>> Sure.

>> Okay. Okay.

>> All right. Wow.

Okay. Oh, this one's quite a bit smaller

than the other ones.

Behind schedule. Let's just come back

and take a sample on the next trip. Just

let me have this. Give it 5 minutes. I'm

not going to take a sample now anyway.

I'm just just want to see is the width.

Yeah, it is. Yeah, look at that.

>> What the is that?

>> Wait, what? What? What? What's

>> there? Right there. What the is

that?

>> What?

>> Get the Get the Okay, just get the

>> What is it? What is I I can't see

anything. What is it? What are you

seeing?

>> Uh

oh.

>> What is it?

>> Nope. Nope. Nope. No. No. No. That's a

hand. That's That's a hand.

>> Okay. All right. So, uh we're late. So,

let's go. Let's go. Let's go to the

outpost. We can circle back uh with the

others and then

hold on. We're trying to look at this.

Okay.

>> We're like 20 minutes behind. Okay. We

have to keep moving.

We can circle back with the others. Just

drop off our stuff and then we can come

back with like 5, 10, 20 people.

This is stupid. You know this is stupid,

right? Ninja's not going to care how

late we are. This is This is worth

doing.

Okay,

>> we just didn't lock this. This isn't on

the box.

>> You're locking it now. Look, you're

recording.

>> Oh, yeah. I guess I'm vlogging it now,

but

I can't see

What the was that? Is that son or

Jesus?

>> What was that?

>> Okay. Oh my god. All right. Well, that's

uh All right. Yeah. Okay. That's a It's

a mannequin.

>> So, it's it's a mannequin. It's like a

It's like a mannequin and a a steering

wheel. Like what? Like a ship steering

wheel, though.

It feels more like um

feels different here. Um

>> Yeah, I know what you mean. Did you get

the signs show?

>> Yeah, more signs.

It looks like pretty much the same

scale.

Actually, might be [clears throat]

slightly smaller.

or is it like

the sequence back to

there's a few more signs over here the

same

wants to go where it's going to go

what's I'm really wondering

obviously

>> and we see these uh previously coat

hangers um

>> look like boxes or Um,

it's clothing or fabric. I can't tell.

Um,

you guys done over in that area. There's

nothing. There's nothing more back

there.

>> Yeah, it's

>> Maybe we can use those.

Is

>> that lawn furniture? Yeah,

>> that's like

>> there's like some lawn furniture and um

>> Yeah,

there's like a

>> whole bunch of new rooms over there,

guys.

>> Yeah, right.

>> I don't I feel like we should be going

back now, right?

>> This is like This is like This is easy.

>> Yeah, I'm just trying to keep an

inventory. There's like more to

>> What the is that sound?

Do you hear that?

>> Yeah. Yeah, I heard that.

>> Let's go check it out.

>> Ron, I don't really want to check it out

if I'm being honest.

>> But look look, you can see there's a

light up there. You see that? What is

that?

>> Yeah, but it's it's obviously a light,

man. I don't know.

>> But if this isn't conflated at all, we

can go right back.

>> I know, Ron. [music] I know. I just I

don't think

>> there's another one.

You should check the scale.

is that?

>> The scale will be different with the

science.

>> Yeah. Well, that Well, that we can do

next time. [clears throat]

>> Mom, can you stay with us, please?

>> Cuz it's dark and

>> Yeah. Sorry. It's just a It's a

TV.

Oh my god.

This just keeps getting better and

better. [music]

What was that sound?

What was that sound?

Guys, we have to go. Let's just go.

I don't know.

It's coming from above. Careful. Is it

coming from above? Just be quiet.

>> I don't really care, man. Jesus. What

the [music]