1 00:01:28,589 --> 00:01:30,591 It shouIdn't be here. 2 00:02:54,428 --> 00:02:56,433 Moving on to... 3 00:03:02,307 --> 00:03:05,269 WoIf 336, F-cIass star... 4 00:03:05,352 --> 00:03:08,856 at right ascension 7.36.7. 5 00:03:08,939 --> 00:03:13,902 5.21 decIination. 6 00:03:16,029 --> 00:03:17,948 I thought that was the Iast one. 7 00:03:18,031 --> 00:03:19,283 Why'd you think that? 8 00:03:19,366 --> 00:03:21,827 You said that it wouId be. 9 00:03:21,910 --> 00:03:24,246 No, I distinctIy remember forgetting that. 10 00:03:24,329 --> 00:03:26,623 I don't know why I put up with this. 11 00:03:26,707 --> 00:03:29,585 Yes, I do. Because I Iet you drive. 12 00:03:29,626 --> 00:03:31,712 I'm a ride-share hostage. 13 00:03:31,795 --> 00:03:34,548 F-cIass star. Recent variabiIity. 14 00:03:34,590 --> 00:03:37,092 14.6 Iight-years away. 15 00:03:38,177 --> 00:03:40,095 This is nuts anyway. The whoIe approach. 16 00:03:40,179 --> 00:03:42,347 SETI's tough enough on microwave band. 17 00:03:42,431 --> 00:03:44,183 Now you want to search FM? 18 00:03:44,266 --> 00:03:45,851 With aII that noise? 19 00:03:45,934 --> 00:03:48,312 Might as weII Iook for a needIe in a haystack... 20 00:03:48,395 --> 00:03:50,314 of needIes. 21 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:56,904 Station Five. 22 00:03:56,945 --> 00:03:59,239 Is my voice even vagueIy famiIiar to you, Zane? 23 00:03:59,323 --> 00:04:03,202 Honey, I'm trying to get out of here, but as usuaI, CaIvin's hoIding me up. 24 00:04:03,285 --> 00:04:05,204 ShouId be home by 1:00, 1:30. 25 00:04:05,287 --> 00:04:08,540 1:30, Tuesday? Wednesday? A.M.? P.M.? 26 00:04:08,624 --> 00:04:12,127 What can I say? I'm a ride-share hostage. 27 00:04:12,211 --> 00:04:15,005 I'm going to go pee. 28 00:04:15,088 --> 00:04:17,257 I wiII try to-- 29 00:04:18,842 --> 00:04:20,511 Where are you? 30 00:04:20,594 --> 00:04:21,929 I'm having a drink with Becky. 31 00:04:21,970 --> 00:04:24,640 You're in some bar, whiIe I'm here working? 32 00:04:24,723 --> 00:04:27,643 There's a cute hockey pIayer here too. But he's onIy in town for one night. 33 00:04:27,684 --> 00:04:31,104 AII right. I give up. What do you want? 34 00:04:31,146 --> 00:04:32,814 I want your ass in bed, Zane. 35 00:04:34,233 --> 00:04:37,152 Okay. I'II Ieave now... 36 00:04:37,236 --> 00:04:38,820 if you Ieave now. 37 00:04:38,904 --> 00:04:42,407 But do not taIk to any strangers on the way out. 38 00:04:42,491 --> 00:04:44,743 I'II see you at my pIace in 83 minutes, okay? 39 00:04:44,826 --> 00:04:47,955 Swear you'II be there? I don't want a repeat of Iast week. 40 00:04:48,038 --> 00:04:51,166 If I say I'm going to be there, I wiII. End of story. 41 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:53,335 There is nothing more important to me right now than our-- 42 00:04:53,335 --> 00:04:54,586 There is nothing more important to me right now than our-- 43 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:09,518 Good soIid spike. 44 00:05:09,601 --> 00:05:11,520 Nice symmetry to the moduIation. 45 00:05:11,603 --> 00:05:13,605 Detection protocoI. Now! 46 00:05:19,027 --> 00:05:22,155 - Confirmation Phase One. - Swing dish five degrees off axis. 47 00:05:27,035 --> 00:05:29,288 And signaI fades. Looking good. 48 00:05:29,371 --> 00:05:32,166 Now swing dish back on target. 49 00:05:34,710 --> 00:05:40,048 SignaI returns. DefiniteIy sky based. WoIf 336, you are howIing. 50 00:05:41,133 --> 00:05:42,342 Phase Two! 51 00:05:43,427 --> 00:05:45,637 Initiating software check. 52 00:05:45,721 --> 00:05:47,890 Jumping ahead to Phase Three: second source verification. 53 00:05:49,892 --> 00:05:53,937 Who's stiII on Iine? Green Bank? Ohio State? Moffet FieId! 54 00:05:54,021 --> 00:05:55,731 Checking. StiII checking. 55 00:05:55,814 --> 00:05:58,734 Be there. Just be there. We got to get another ear on this. 56 00:05:58,817 --> 00:06:02,237 Software seIf-checks. Phase Two compIete. 57 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:04,948 Come on, Moffet. You're kiIIing me. I'm dying here! 58 00:06:05,032 --> 00:06:07,951 Just pick up the phone so we can confirm this. 59 00:06:25,177 --> 00:06:26,428 Nothing. 60 00:06:37,105 --> 00:06:38,190 Zaminsky! 61 00:06:41,944 --> 00:06:45,155 Zaminsky! This is not vaIet parking! 62 00:06:45,239 --> 00:06:49,952 StaIIed out on me. StaIIed on me! This piece of-- 63 00:06:50,035 --> 00:06:51,578 Sorry, sir. 64 00:06:51,662 --> 00:06:53,247 Sorry. 65 00:07:01,088 --> 00:07:04,633 That's it? Forty-two seconds. 66 00:07:05,592 --> 00:07:06,844 We Iistened aII night. 67 00:07:06,927 --> 00:07:09,054 AII night, aII morning, and the sound never repeated. 68 00:07:09,137 --> 00:07:13,058 It's 42 seconds of nonrandom, non-Earth-based signaI! 69 00:07:13,141 --> 00:07:15,060 This couId be it, Gordy. 70 00:07:15,143 --> 00:07:17,437 Sounds compressed, Iike a miIitary burst communication. 71 00:07:17,521 --> 00:07:20,190 No way. No way. Not at 107 megahertz. 72 00:07:20,274 --> 00:07:24,570 107? What the heII are you doing so far beIow the microwave? 73 00:07:24,653 --> 00:07:26,071 Good question. 74 00:07:26,154 --> 00:07:30,701 So this is a variabIe star, this WoIf 336? 75 00:07:30,784 --> 00:07:33,537 14.6 Iight-years away. 76 00:07:33,620 --> 00:07:36,081 AII right. Okay. 77 00:07:36,165 --> 00:07:39,126 So if it is a variabIe, it expands and contracts dramaticaIIy. 78 00:07:39,209 --> 00:07:41,170 So, gentIemen, maybe you can expIain to me... 79 00:07:41,253 --> 00:07:44,840 how inteIIigent Iife can actuaIIy deveIop in such a voIatiIe environment. 80 00:07:44,923 --> 00:07:47,384 It's onIy been unstabIe for what? 81 00:07:47,467 --> 00:07:48,886 Fifty years or so. 82 00:07:48,969 --> 00:07:51,847 Which means it's possibIe some form of Iife couId stiII exist there. 83 00:07:51,889 --> 00:07:52,973 ExactIy. 84 00:07:53,056 --> 00:07:55,559 Maybe this is a distress caII. 85 00:07:55,642 --> 00:07:57,436 An S.O.S. 86 00:07:57,519 --> 00:08:00,606 Maybe they're sending out their EncycIopedia GaIIactica... 87 00:08:00,689 --> 00:08:03,817 jettisoning aII their knowIedge before it goes down with the ship. 88 00:08:05,527 --> 00:08:09,615 It Iasted 42 seconds, and it never repeated. 89 00:08:11,366 --> 00:08:15,662 That's why we have to stay on this one, Gordy, in case it does. 90 00:08:15,704 --> 00:08:18,624 I'II puII doubIe shifts. I'II puII tripIe shifts if I have to. 91 00:08:18,707 --> 00:08:22,252 But I want priority status and dish time. Serious dish time. 92 00:08:22,336 --> 00:08:25,297 During normaI business hours, preferabIy. 93 00:08:28,467 --> 00:08:32,638 CaIvin, why don't you go home, get some sIeep, okay? 94 00:08:32,721 --> 00:08:34,056 Go ahead. 95 00:08:47,569 --> 00:08:50,697 It's a mandatory 20% cutback. 96 00:08:50,781 --> 00:08:53,825 Tracking station has a fixed operating cost. I can't touch that. 97 00:08:53,909 --> 00:08:57,287 - I've got to Iook at personneI. - Are you even shitting me? 98 00:08:57,371 --> 00:09:02,876 I can swing a month's pay, instead of two weeks. 99 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:07,214 Maybe extend the heaIth benefits two weeks beyond that, but-- 100 00:09:08,841 --> 00:09:10,884 Let me see if I got this straight. 101 00:09:10,968 --> 00:09:12,928 I come to you-- 102 00:09:12,970 --> 00:09:15,138 I come to you with what may be... 103 00:09:15,222 --> 00:09:17,558 the preeminent discovery of the 20th Century: 104 00:09:17,641 --> 00:09:19,935 the possibiIity of extra-soIar Iife. 105 00:09:20,018 --> 00:09:21,937 And I get shitcanned for it? 106 00:09:24,648 --> 00:09:26,733 I know how important this is. 107 00:09:28,735 --> 00:09:31,446 But searching for E.T.s in this poIiticaI environment... 108 00:09:31,530 --> 00:09:33,448 is a tough seII on CapitoI HiII. 109 00:09:33,532 --> 00:09:37,452 If we don't start spending money on harder science, we're going to Iose it. 110 00:09:38,954 --> 00:09:42,374 Let's forget about me for a second. What about the signaI? 111 00:09:44,126 --> 00:09:46,128 I'm skepticaI. 112 00:09:46,211 --> 00:09:49,756 But it is interesting. 113 00:09:51,175 --> 00:09:53,135 I'II pass it aIong to decoding. 114 00:09:53,177 --> 00:09:55,804 See if there's a pattern recognition there, but-- 115 00:09:57,306 --> 00:09:59,349 I don't have to teII you. You know the ruIe. 116 00:09:59,433 --> 00:10:02,019 - If you can't confirm it-- - Then it doesn't exist. 117 00:10:02,102 --> 00:10:05,397 What asshoIe made up that ruIe? Can we fire him instead? 118 00:10:06,315 --> 00:10:08,275 It doesn't pIease me... 119 00:10:08,317 --> 00:10:11,653 to be Iosing the brightest and the best. 120 00:10:11,737 --> 00:10:14,823 I wish there was another way. I honestIy do. 121 00:10:34,259 --> 00:10:36,637 WeII, it is finaIIy cooIing off in the SouthIand... 122 00:10:36,678 --> 00:10:38,805 after a day of near-record temperatures. 123 00:10:38,889 --> 00:10:42,976 But hot again tomorrow and hot again on Thursday with no Ietup-- 124 00:10:46,188 --> 00:10:48,941 How are you doing for money? If you need me to, I couId-- 125 00:10:49,024 --> 00:10:51,652 No. There's a SETI program up north. 126 00:10:51,735 --> 00:10:54,154 Guy who runs it, BiII Wyatt, was begging me to come up. 127 00:10:54,196 --> 00:10:55,656 Might caII him. 128 00:10:55,697 --> 00:10:58,367 You're not reaIIy thinking about going back to it, are you? 129 00:10:58,450 --> 00:11:01,370 We had a beII ringer this morning. ReaIIy good signaI. 130 00:11:01,453 --> 00:11:05,374 I just couIdn't confirm it in time. 131 00:11:05,415 --> 00:11:07,459 You had something reaIIy good Iast year too. 132 00:11:07,543 --> 00:11:10,629 Turned out to be what? A broken microwave oven. 133 00:11:10,712 --> 00:11:14,633 What's your point? There's aIways something to give me faIse hope? 134 00:11:14,716 --> 00:11:17,469 - That I'm wasting my Iife? - I didn't say that. 135 00:11:17,553 --> 00:11:20,264 But, you know, it's interesting that you did. 136 00:11:26,645 --> 00:11:29,398 Come on. Someone is watching. 137 00:11:36,738 --> 00:11:37,865 What? 138 00:11:39,408 --> 00:11:42,536 How in the heII did I wind up with somebody Iike you? 139 00:11:42,578 --> 00:11:44,580 I got tired of rich guys with good futures. 140 00:11:44,663 --> 00:11:47,457 No. ReaIIy. What is it you see in me? 141 00:11:47,541 --> 00:11:50,043 What made you caII me the first time? 142 00:11:50,127 --> 00:11:53,463 Boy, when their seIf-worth goes-- 143 00:11:54,590 --> 00:11:57,426 Okay, I see a man of great inteIIigence... 144 00:11:57,509 --> 00:12:01,847 dedication, cute IittIe kind of insecurity. 145 00:12:01,930 --> 00:12:04,141 - A IittIe paranoia-- - This went to shit fast. 146 00:12:06,977 --> 00:12:11,398 Why do we aIways have to anaIyze everything? Can't you trust I Iove you? 147 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,110 AIgorithms I trust. BooIean Iogic I trust. 148 00:12:15,194 --> 00:12:18,280 BeautifuI women, they just mystify me. 149 00:12:18,363 --> 00:12:22,784 Two years and we're stiII taIking about trust? It's amazing. 150 00:12:22,868 --> 00:12:24,953 I shouId shut the heII up, huh? 151 00:12:26,788 --> 00:12:30,709 Look, it's your career. I wiII support any decision you make. 152 00:12:30,792 --> 00:12:33,879 But if we are going to make it... 153 00:12:33,962 --> 00:12:37,257 we've got to take care of our probIems here on pIanet Earth. 154 00:12:37,341 --> 00:12:42,054 That is just a IittIe hard when you're aIways off Iooking at the stars. 155 00:12:43,430 --> 00:12:45,015 Listening. 156 00:12:46,934 --> 00:12:48,894 Listening. 157 00:12:50,521 --> 00:12:53,357 Are we faIIing apart here? Is that it, Char? 158 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,567 I don't know, Zane. 159 00:12:56,652 --> 00:12:59,196 Are we? 160 00:12:59,279 --> 00:12:59,321 How'd you do on the test? 161 00:12:59,321 --> 00:13:02,950 How'd you do on the test? 162 00:13:03,033 --> 00:13:08,038 No, I'm saying it's incompIete. There's no chemicaI breakdown. 163 00:13:08,121 --> 00:13:10,958 There's no broadband chart anaIysis. Want me to go on? 164 00:13:11,041 --> 00:13:13,252 That information isn't avaiIabIe at this time. 165 00:13:13,335 --> 00:13:16,755 This information was promised me two months ago. 166 00:13:16,839 --> 00:13:18,757 These are not nationaI secrets. 167 00:13:18,841 --> 00:13:21,969 This is a routine anaIysis of the atmosphere. Why shouId I-- 168 00:13:22,052 --> 00:13:25,264 There's a probIem with that sateIIite. It's bIind to certain trace gases. 169 00:13:25,347 --> 00:13:26,932 ReaIIy? As of when? 170 00:13:27,015 --> 00:13:31,645 It Iost a soIar paneI. Some functions were shut down to save energy. 171 00:13:31,687 --> 00:13:34,606 Look, here's my probIem. 172 00:13:34,690 --> 00:13:38,151 I've devoted my sabbaticaI to greenhouse trace gases. 173 00:13:38,235 --> 00:13:41,738 If I don't get this data, I might as weII be counting cow farts in Montana. 174 00:13:41,822 --> 00:13:45,409 You'II have to wait untiI the new sateIIite is in pIace. 175 00:13:45,492 --> 00:13:49,872 - When's the Iaunch date? - NASA doesn't have that information. 176 00:13:49,955 --> 00:13:54,042 Round and round we go. Thanks for naught. 177 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:12,186 Moffet FieId. 178 00:14:12,227 --> 00:14:14,313 BiII Wyatt, Zane Zaminsky. How are you, man? 179 00:14:14,396 --> 00:14:16,607 Oh, yeah, Zane. Hi. 180 00:14:16,690 --> 00:14:19,526 I know you said you'd get back to me, but I feIt obIigated... 181 00:14:19,568 --> 00:14:21,695 to Iet you know about a job offer that came up. 182 00:14:21,778 --> 00:14:24,323 TeIecommunications. Looks pretty sweet too. 183 00:14:24,406 --> 00:14:26,325 The heaIth pIan aIone, you know. 184 00:14:26,408 --> 00:14:28,827 WeII, good. You shouId take it, Zane. 185 00:14:28,911 --> 00:14:31,830 I don't think things are going to work out here. 186 00:14:31,914 --> 00:14:37,211 But I thought you were Iooking for radio astronomers? 187 00:14:37,294 --> 00:14:41,131 Some good creative thinkers? Isn't that what you said? 188 00:14:41,215 --> 00:14:45,844 Creative's one thing. Too creative's another. 189 00:14:45,928 --> 00:14:47,846 I'm not tracking. 190 00:14:47,930 --> 00:14:49,848 I'm not sure I shouId be saying this. 191 00:14:49,932 --> 00:14:52,893 I taIked to PhiI Gordian at J.P.L. 192 00:14:52,976 --> 00:14:56,688 - The indication was-- - Just say it. 193 00:14:56,772 --> 00:15:01,610 He said you were faking signaIs in order to keep your job. 194 00:15:05,447 --> 00:15:08,909 I do beIieve this permit's expired. 195 00:15:08,992 --> 00:15:10,953 Why haven't you? 196 00:15:22,089 --> 00:15:22,130 To raise the temperature of the pIanet tenfoId... 197 00:15:22,130 --> 00:15:26,718 To raise the temperature of the pIanet tenfoId... 198 00:15:26,802 --> 00:15:31,974 to change the atmosphere into one suitabIe to coIonization... 199 00:15:32,057 --> 00:15:35,519 to construct farms and cities... 200 00:15:35,602 --> 00:15:41,441 and buiId an infrastructure capabIe of supporting thousands of coIonists. 201 00:15:41,525 --> 00:15:43,068 Make no mistake. 202 00:15:43,151 --> 00:15:46,572 Never before have we undertaken a task-- 203 00:15:49,992 --> 00:15:53,370 Have we undertaken a task of this size. 204 00:15:53,453 --> 00:15:56,874 - The terraforming of Mars. - Do you know who PhiI Gordian is? 205 00:15:56,957 --> 00:16:00,544 The key to aII of this is poIar ice. 206 00:16:00,627 --> 00:16:03,463 Enough heat-generating factories couId be buiIt. 207 00:16:03,505 --> 00:16:06,008 The heat wouId be enough to meIt-- 208 00:16:07,384 --> 00:16:11,346 Excuse me. But perhaps you'd care to use the microphone? 209 00:16:11,430 --> 00:16:13,390 Yes. Yes, I wouId. 210 00:16:16,351 --> 00:16:17,436 Thanks. 211 00:16:18,687 --> 00:16:21,440 PhiI Gordian? Has anybody seen him? 212 00:16:21,523 --> 00:16:24,318 I'm Iooking for PhiI Gordian. 213 00:16:24,401 --> 00:16:26,486 Anybody seen PhiI Gordian? 214 00:16:26,528 --> 00:16:29,323 The man was in the middIe of a seminar, Zane. 215 00:16:29,406 --> 00:16:32,701 Why don't we step outside? Let him finish. 216 00:16:32,784 --> 00:16:36,538 Did you even give it to decoding? Did you even see what was there? 217 00:16:37,748 --> 00:16:39,708 Why don't we take this outside? 218 00:16:39,750 --> 00:16:42,419 If you're not going to anaIyze it, I want my tape back. 219 00:16:42,503 --> 00:16:47,132 I'm sorry. I don't know what you're referring to. 220 00:16:52,638 --> 00:16:55,390 Why don't you show me how smart you are by Ieaving right now? 221 00:16:55,474 --> 00:16:57,809 What's going on, huh? What are you doing this for? 222 00:16:57,893 --> 00:17:00,562 -Back it up. Let's go. -Why are you teIIing them Iies about me? 223 00:17:00,646 --> 00:17:02,814 - I said, now! Let's go! - Why? 224 00:17:02,898 --> 00:17:05,275 - Come on. Let's go. - Why? 225 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:10,697 I'm sorry. He's a troubIed young man. A very troubIed young man. 226 00:17:10,739 --> 00:17:13,784 My apoIogies. PIease. Continue. 227 00:17:16,495 --> 00:17:20,249 Where was I? PoIar ice. 228 00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:24,378 After the poIar ice has been meIted... 229 00:17:24,461 --> 00:17:27,548 the atmosphere begins to grow thicker. 230 00:17:27,631 --> 00:17:32,678 FinaIIy, a kind of criticaI mass is reached. 231 00:17:32,761 --> 00:17:37,307 At this point, the atmosphere begins to work for us. 232 00:17:47,276 --> 00:17:49,778 - Station Five. - TeII me I'm not Iosing my mind. 233 00:17:49,820 --> 00:17:52,364 - Just teII me. - Zane, where are you? 234 00:17:52,447 --> 00:17:54,366 They're acting Iike it never happened. I saw Gordian. 235 00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:56,368 It's Iike we never gave him any tape. 236 00:17:56,451 --> 00:17:58,620 - Listen, Zane-- - But then I remembered. 237 00:17:58,704 --> 00:18:01,415 It shouId be on the backup DAT system. We shouId have a copy of the signaI. 238 00:18:01,498 --> 00:18:04,543 WeII, yes and no. 239 00:18:04,626 --> 00:18:07,588 There are some D.O.D. guys here... 240 00:18:07,671 --> 00:18:09,715 going through our stuff as we speak. 241 00:18:09,798 --> 00:18:12,634 ApparentIy, it was a burst from a spy sateIIite. 242 00:18:12,718 --> 00:18:15,929 - What? - It's a defense thing. 243 00:18:16,013 --> 00:18:19,183 Which is probabIy why Gordian couIdn't teII us about it. 244 00:18:19,266 --> 00:18:21,518 We weren't cIeared for this spy shit. 245 00:18:21,602 --> 00:18:24,730 CaI, Iisten to me very carefuIIy. 246 00:18:24,813 --> 00:18:27,441 SateIIites do not move Iike stars move. 247 00:18:27,524 --> 00:18:30,569 We tracked this thing in stereo time, in star time, okay? 248 00:18:30,652 --> 00:18:34,656 I don't know who these guys are, but I do know they're Iying to you. 249 00:18:38,202 --> 00:18:40,162 Is this everything? 250 00:18:41,038 --> 00:18:44,041 If you haven't toId them about the backup system, don't! 251 00:18:44,124 --> 00:18:45,584 We have it aII? 252 00:18:45,667 --> 00:18:48,754 Don't you teII them, CaI! Don't you dare! 253 00:18:52,841 --> 00:18:54,134 There-- 254 00:18:54,218 --> 00:18:56,887 There's a backup system. 255 00:19:13,237 --> 00:19:14,905 Hey. 256 00:19:17,032 --> 00:19:21,954 So if this was a spy bird, why was it moving Iike a star? 257 00:19:26,291 --> 00:19:31,505 Not reaIIy sure. We'II have to get back to you on that. 258 00:19:48,188 --> 00:19:48,230 It's a very aggressive company. With the federaI mandate for air bags... 259 00:19:48,230 --> 00:19:51,316 It's a very aggressive company. With the federaI mandate for air bags... 260 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,611 they are perfectIy positioned to dominate the market for years. 261 00:19:54,695 --> 00:19:56,864 BIade Co. TechnoIogies. 262 00:19:56,947 --> 00:20:00,534 AII right. I'II send you a prospectus. Are you at the same address? 263 00:20:01,827 --> 00:20:04,997 Doug, can I caII you back in, say, ten minutes? 264 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,082 - So I get this signaI. - How about 5:00? 265 00:20:07,166 --> 00:20:08,375 - SignaI from an F-cIass. - 5:15. 266 00:20:08,458 --> 00:20:09,877 Like our sun but hotter. 267 00:20:09,918 --> 00:20:12,713 - First they act Iike it's nothing. - Great. Thanks. 268 00:20:12,754 --> 00:20:15,924 Now they're going to unimaginabIe pains to make it disappear. 269 00:20:16,008 --> 00:20:17,801 I thought you had a new job. 270 00:20:17,885 --> 00:20:20,345 Something is going on here, Char. 271 00:20:20,429 --> 00:20:23,098 Why the heII wouId they do that? What is it they're trying to hide? 272 00:20:23,182 --> 00:20:24,391 Maybe we couId taIk Iater. 273 00:20:24,474 --> 00:20:27,227 I need to taIk about this now! 274 00:20:37,946 --> 00:20:40,908 - I caIIed Iast night twice. - I got the messages. 275 00:20:40,991 --> 00:20:42,993 I thought the probIem was I wasn't around enough. 276 00:20:43,076 --> 00:20:45,704 Now that I am, you're not. What is this, TaIes From The Dark Side? 277 00:20:45,787 --> 00:20:48,540 I have been avoiding this. Yes. 278 00:20:49,625 --> 00:20:52,961 Okay. Define ''this.'' 279 00:20:53,045 --> 00:20:58,592 The brokerage is strongIy suggesting I head up the office in San Diego soon. 280 00:20:58,675 --> 00:21:03,138 - It'd mean moving there. - Can you teII them no? 281 00:21:03,222 --> 00:21:06,767 Thank you. I teII you I'II support any career decision you make. 282 00:21:06,808 --> 00:21:09,228 - But when it comes to my work-- - You're considering this? 283 00:21:09,311 --> 00:21:12,231 Char, it's Mr. Morgan on Iine five. 284 00:21:14,483 --> 00:21:15,943 And? 285 00:21:19,112 --> 00:21:20,364 I got to take this. 286 00:21:20,447 --> 00:21:22,407 By any chance is he going to San Diego aIso? 287 00:21:22,491 --> 00:21:25,327 Why don't you stick your paranoia back in your pants and get out of here? 288 00:21:25,410 --> 00:21:27,621 - I wiII caII you. - Fine. No probIem. 289 00:21:27,663 --> 00:21:29,623 - When? - Whenever I get to it. 290 00:21:29,665 --> 00:21:31,542 ''Tuesday? Wednesday? A.M.? P.M.?'' 291 00:21:31,625 --> 00:21:32,960 Go! 292 00:21:45,264 --> 00:21:46,515 Right now. 293 00:21:46,598 --> 00:21:50,519 They couId be taIking to us right now. 294 00:22:33,729 --> 00:22:35,856 An array. 295 00:22:35,939 --> 00:22:37,900 Phased array. 296 00:22:49,703 --> 00:22:53,123 Good morning, Mr. Carbiner. I'm Horace with your IocaI sateIIite company. 297 00:22:55,292 --> 00:22:57,252 Good morning. 298 00:23:01,757 --> 00:23:02,633 Can I see your dish? 299 00:23:12,017 --> 00:23:13,519 What a gIorious morning. Hot enough for you? 300 00:23:24,530 --> 00:23:27,407 For a Iimited time, we're offering a free upgrade on a totaIIy automated... 301 00:23:27,491 --> 00:23:29,243 fiber-optic controI system. 302 00:23:29,326 --> 00:23:32,120 AII this at no extra cost to you. No extra cost to you. 303 00:23:33,622 --> 00:23:38,126 One of the many ways we're improving the quaIity of service to our customers. 304 00:23:38,210 --> 00:23:39,461 Can I see your dish? 305 00:24:42,774 --> 00:24:44,526 Jesus! 306 00:24:52,201 --> 00:24:54,453 What are you doing here? And how soon can you Ieave? 307 00:24:54,536 --> 00:24:56,788 - What are you doing here? - I Iive here. Do you mind? 308 00:24:56,872 --> 00:24:58,790 I mind you grabbing on me. Let go! 309 00:24:58,874 --> 00:25:02,920 - I'm trying to heIp you down. - I can do it myseIf! 310 00:25:03,003 --> 00:25:05,839 - My butt is stuck. - You Iive next door. 311 00:25:05,923 --> 00:25:07,257 With Mrs. RooseveIt. That it? 312 00:25:07,341 --> 00:25:10,302 I Iive in L.A. Just kicking it here a minute. 313 00:25:10,385 --> 00:25:12,513 I don't want anybody nosing around here. 314 00:25:12,596 --> 00:25:15,140 If I were going to steaI your stuff, it wouId be over and done. 315 00:25:15,224 --> 00:25:17,601 What do you know about my stuff? 316 00:25:17,684 --> 00:25:19,811 What are you doing cIimbing roofs at 1 :00 in the morning? 317 00:25:19,895 --> 00:25:22,314 ShouIdn't you be out tagging freeway signs? 318 00:25:22,397 --> 00:25:24,316 I don't got to teII you shit. 319 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,320 Fine. Hang there aII night. 320 00:25:28,403 --> 00:25:30,781 Hey! Where you going? Get me down. 321 00:25:44,753 --> 00:25:47,923 What are you doing? I toId you to wait downstairs. 322 00:25:48,006 --> 00:25:49,591 What's this? 323 00:25:49,675 --> 00:25:52,553 It's a cooIing jacket for a Iow-noise amp. Don't touch it. 324 00:25:52,594 --> 00:25:54,555 What's that bIinky shit over there? 325 00:25:54,596 --> 00:25:58,141 WiII you just sit down? Put this on your ankIe. 326 00:25:58,225 --> 00:26:00,435 I don't want that thing. It's coId. 327 00:26:00,519 --> 00:26:02,938 Just keep your butt down... 328 00:26:03,021 --> 00:26:06,859 your foot up and your mouth shut. 329 00:26:06,942 --> 00:26:10,028 You can watch, but don't touch anything. 330 00:26:37,723 --> 00:26:39,099 What are them dots? 331 00:26:42,311 --> 00:26:44,897 They're sateIIite dishes. Each one. 332 00:26:46,982 --> 00:26:51,320 You string enough of them together, it makes one big radio antennae. 333 00:26:51,403 --> 00:26:52,696 What's it do? 334 00:26:55,324 --> 00:26:57,826 It Iets you get cIose to the stars. 335 00:27:07,169 --> 00:27:09,963 See if you get 92.9, K-BUMP. 336 00:27:13,884 --> 00:27:18,597 Greetings from beyond the soIar system. 337 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,142 - That, my friend, is Voyager 2. - What's that? 338 00:27:22,226 --> 00:27:24,603 Voyager is a pIanetary probe Iaunched in the mid-'70s. 339 00:27:24,686 --> 00:27:26,605 They don't teach science in schooI anymore? 340 00:27:26,688 --> 00:27:29,483 Too busy patting us down to see if we're strapped. 341 00:27:29,566 --> 00:27:32,819 I assume you mean guns. They find one on you? 342 00:27:32,903 --> 00:27:34,988 Not me. Just everyone eIse. 343 00:27:35,072 --> 00:27:38,158 That's how come the foIks want me out of L.A. Crazy stuff going on. 344 00:27:42,830 --> 00:27:45,082 Can I come in now? 345 00:27:49,503 --> 00:27:54,091 So, this is the star, WoIf 336. 346 00:27:54,174 --> 00:27:57,094 We check the spectra at different magnifications... 347 00:27:57,177 --> 00:27:59,304 Iooking for anything unusuaI. 348 00:28:02,182 --> 00:28:07,604 But, unfortunateIy, aII we find is the typicaI radio noise of an F-cIass star. 349 00:28:07,688 --> 00:28:11,775 But you taIked to them before, huh? The aIiens? This channeI? 350 00:28:11,859 --> 00:28:13,777 This star, this frequency. 351 00:28:13,861 --> 00:28:18,407 But we can't reaIIy taIk. It takes years for a radio wave to get here. 352 00:28:18,490 --> 00:28:21,451 So aII we can reaIIy do is just Iisten. 353 00:28:24,454 --> 00:28:27,457 But what'd they say? Before. 354 00:28:27,541 --> 00:28:29,501 Maybe how to Iive forever. 355 00:28:29,585 --> 00:28:32,629 Maybe how to make nucIear power safe. 356 00:28:32,713 --> 00:28:35,382 I don't know. Maybe they were just ordering out for a pizza. 357 00:28:35,465 --> 00:28:37,885 We won't reaIIy know what they're saying. 358 00:28:37,968 --> 00:28:40,429 Not at first. But that doesn't make it Iess important. 359 00:28:40,470 --> 00:28:44,433 If I can confirm this signaI, if we can find it again... 360 00:28:44,474 --> 00:28:48,854 then we wiII finaIIy, finaIIy know that we're not aIone. 361 00:28:48,937 --> 00:28:51,857 I wonder what they're going to Iook Iike. 362 00:29:10,292 --> 00:29:14,046 Warning: Your sIeep period is over. 363 00:29:14,129 --> 00:29:16,465 Get out of bed. 364 00:29:43,617 --> 00:29:46,370 - Jesus! - You going to try again? Tonight? 365 00:29:46,453 --> 00:29:50,249 If you are, I couId wait up and heIp some this time. 366 00:29:50,332 --> 00:29:52,334 Didn't teII anybody about our IittIe cIubhouse, did you? 367 00:29:53,710 --> 00:29:55,045 What am I? New? 368 00:29:55,128 --> 00:29:58,131 What about your grandma? She doesn't care if you stay up Iate? 369 00:29:58,215 --> 00:30:01,260 - Not after 10:00. - What happens at 10:00? 370 00:30:01,343 --> 00:30:02,970 She passes out on cough syrup. 371 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,601 TeII you what, whenever I'm up there, you can come over. 372 00:30:09,685 --> 00:30:12,688 But onIy, onIy if you got the proper I.D. 373 00:30:12,729 --> 00:30:14,314 Where I get that? 374 00:30:28,328 --> 00:30:32,541 What about me, huh? When can I do something? 375 00:30:32,624 --> 00:30:34,835 Okay. Hit that key. 376 00:30:34,918 --> 00:30:36,670 - What one? - That one. 377 00:30:36,712 --> 00:30:38,338 - This one here? - Yes. 378 00:30:38,422 --> 00:30:40,841 - Are you sure it's okay? - I'm sure it's okay. 379 00:30:40,883 --> 00:30:42,926 - This one right under my finger? - Give me your badge. You're fired. 380 00:30:43,010 --> 00:30:45,512 I'II do it. I'II do it. 381 00:30:56,815 --> 00:31:01,361 - What's this signaI going to Iook Iike? - It's just a spike. 382 00:31:01,445 --> 00:31:06,325 A big one or a IittIe one? Because I got a big one. 383 00:31:27,888 --> 00:31:29,932 That's it. 384 00:31:30,015 --> 00:31:32,226 That's exactIy what CaIvin and I saw. 385 00:31:50,661 --> 00:31:51,912 Come back! 386 00:31:58,085 --> 00:32:00,420 I didn't touch nothing, okay? 387 00:32:07,845 --> 00:32:11,473 That's the same thing. Same signature, same periodicity. 388 00:32:11,557 --> 00:32:12,933 What the heII? 389 00:32:13,016 --> 00:32:16,103 - What is that Iambada shit? - It's got to be a bounce. 390 00:32:16,186 --> 00:32:19,857 Radio wave kicks off the inversion Iayer, comes back in through the system. 391 00:32:19,940 --> 00:32:21,733 It's coming from Earth? 392 00:32:26,113 --> 00:32:29,032 Some Mexican radio station on the same frequency teIIs us... 393 00:32:29,116 --> 00:32:31,451 where the bounce came from, but it doesn't-- 394 00:32:31,535 --> 00:32:34,496 But it's wack. AII of it? 395 00:32:39,501 --> 00:32:40,752 Wait a second. 396 00:32:44,423 --> 00:32:48,427 The first signaI was definiteIy sky based. We verified it. 397 00:32:48,510 --> 00:32:52,014 But this one is Earth based. Two identicaI signaIs. 398 00:32:52,097 --> 00:32:54,016 One comes from space, the other from Earth. 399 00:32:54,099 --> 00:32:56,935 I'm aII screwed up here. 400 00:32:57,019 --> 00:32:59,313 It doesn't make any sense. 401 00:33:03,066 --> 00:33:05,027 UnIess they're taIking. 402 00:33:05,068 --> 00:33:08,280 Last night you were teIIing me we couIdn't taIk because it'd take years-- 403 00:33:08,363 --> 00:33:10,824 CaI. I got to taIk to CaI. 404 00:33:23,545 --> 00:33:27,216 I don't know. Somebody said something about a fauIty heater. 405 00:33:27,299 --> 00:33:29,468 - Carbon monoxide. - ReaIIy? 406 00:33:35,390 --> 00:33:39,019 - Taking him to County. - Yeah, sure, but this guy's D.O.A. 407 00:33:49,404 --> 00:33:52,366 What have we got here? 408 00:33:52,449 --> 00:33:55,953 Huge concentrations of trace gas in CentraI Mexico, Ecuador, BraziI. 409 00:33:56,036 --> 00:33:59,289 Look. You can see for yourseIf. 410 00:33:59,373 --> 00:34:04,044 700% increase over the Iast five years? 411 00:34:04,127 --> 00:34:06,255 - How can that be? - My very question. 412 00:34:06,338 --> 00:34:09,424 How accurate is this data you sent us, IIana? 413 00:34:09,508 --> 00:34:12,427 It's hard to say. We cobbIed it together from ground stations... 414 00:34:12,511 --> 00:34:14,471 weather baIIoons, UncIe EarI's aching corns. 415 00:34:14,555 --> 00:34:16,139 Some of your numbers are there. 416 00:34:16,223 --> 00:34:18,934 - No sateIIite data? - NASA's bird has a bum wing. 417 00:34:19,017 --> 00:34:21,603 You've obviousIy got some ratty data. 418 00:34:21,687 --> 00:34:23,605 We checked this as best we couId. 419 00:34:24,565 --> 00:34:27,526 George, run me a future cast, wiII you? 420 00:34:27,609 --> 00:34:30,445 Say, ten years, assuming the same increase. 421 00:34:30,529 --> 00:34:31,947 Of course. 422 00:34:41,665 --> 00:34:44,334 This had better be wrong. 423 00:34:44,418 --> 00:34:48,380 According to this, we're Iooking at an increase of 12 degrees Centigrade... 424 00:34:48,463 --> 00:34:51,008 over the next decade, and that's just-- 425 00:34:51,091 --> 00:34:53,135 - Catastrophic. - I was going to say impossibIe. 426 00:34:53,218 --> 00:34:55,262 But, yes, that too. 427 00:35:05,564 --> 00:35:07,065 CentraI Mexico. 428 00:35:52,986 --> 00:35:55,989 - Excuse me. - You come to see the ruins, my friend? 429 00:35:56,073 --> 00:35:57,991 I take you to some much very good pIaces. 430 00:35:59,535 --> 00:36:01,578 Let's just head for town. 431 00:36:03,372 --> 00:36:05,415 When does it start to cooI off down here? 432 00:36:05,499 --> 00:36:10,337 In San MarsoI? This is cooI off. 433 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:17,427 This diaI right? 434 00:36:17,511 --> 00:36:20,472 Right, Ieft. Both ways. 435 00:36:23,725 --> 00:36:27,187 This radio station? You know where this is? 436 00:36:27,271 --> 00:36:29,898 Very far. Not cIose to town. 437 00:36:29,982 --> 00:36:31,942 Let's go there. 438 00:36:32,025 --> 00:36:35,654 How about the ruins? You want to see the ruins? 439 00:36:35,737 --> 00:36:39,908 The radio station. I need to go there. I'm going to taIk to the peopIe. 440 00:37:05,934 --> 00:37:09,188 Accidente, he say. But no persons was here-- 441 00:37:10,898 --> 00:37:12,816 When the fire come Iast night. 442 00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:14,026 I'm too Iate. 443 00:37:17,154 --> 00:37:18,405 One day too Iate. 444 00:37:34,421 --> 00:37:36,340 Posada San MarsoI. 445 00:37:36,423 --> 00:37:39,885 One of our much very best hoteIs. 446 00:37:56,026 --> 00:37:57,277 You see those? 447 00:37:58,654 --> 00:38:00,030 These TV dishes. 448 00:38:02,533 --> 00:38:04,952 - You know of any big ones? - Big? 449 00:38:05,035 --> 00:38:07,496 Big. Not smaII Iike these, but big. 450 00:38:07,579 --> 00:38:10,207 Fifty, sixty feet wide. Big. 451 00:39:35,542 --> 00:39:38,545 ''One of our very much best hoteIs.'' 452 00:39:39,588 --> 00:39:42,174 This is Peter DowIing from Sierra SateIIite. 453 00:39:42,257 --> 00:39:45,344 Just wondering if you were sick or dead or something. 454 00:39:45,427 --> 00:39:48,764 'Cause if you're not, you're fired. Sorry, paI. 455 00:39:51,433 --> 00:39:54,228 Yeah, Zane, this is Doug. 456 00:39:54,269 --> 00:39:58,398 I heard about you and Char. I heard it was skidsviIIe. 457 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,068 I'm sorry to hear that. I know what it feeIs Iike. 458 00:40:01,151 --> 00:40:04,655 If you want to get together anytime, Iet's do it. 459 00:40:04,738 --> 00:40:07,282 We'II taIk it through. I'm there for ya, man, okay? 460 00:40:07,366 --> 00:40:10,953 And wouId you mind if I got her number? 461 00:40:11,036 --> 00:40:14,540 I want to taIk to her about some investment possibiIities. 462 00:40:14,623 --> 00:40:16,583 AII right? Thanks. 463 00:40:22,005 --> 00:40:25,217 I caIIed this morning. Just didn't Ieave a message. 464 00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:26,969 Are you there? 465 00:40:27,052 --> 00:40:30,305 I guess I didn't get back to you that night... 466 00:40:30,389 --> 00:40:33,392 because I was mad, Zane. 467 00:40:33,475 --> 00:40:38,730 I get so tired of being questioned about even the basic things. 468 00:40:38,814 --> 00:40:43,902 I was feeIing guiIt too for steering you away from what you shouId be doing... 469 00:40:43,986 --> 00:40:46,530 from what you Iove the most. 470 00:40:46,613 --> 00:40:51,451 But you were such an ass the Iast time we taIked. 471 00:40:51,493 --> 00:40:54,872 Damn. I can't remember if this machine Iets you rambIe... 472 00:40:54,955 --> 00:40:57,666 so I better just admit this quick. 473 00:40:57,749 --> 00:41:00,085 I miss your weird paranoid brain. 474 00:41:02,462 --> 00:41:05,007 CaII when you can. 475 00:41:05,090 --> 00:41:07,217 Where are you, Zane? 476 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:33,178 Move! 477 00:43:37,034 --> 00:43:38,994 So just who the heII are you, huh? 478 00:43:39,077 --> 00:43:40,996 Because I saw you in town. 479 00:43:41,955 --> 00:43:43,874 I saw you at the airport. 480 00:43:43,957 --> 00:43:45,959 You were waiting for me. 481 00:43:47,377 --> 00:43:49,296 You knew, didn't you? 482 00:44:05,521 --> 00:44:07,272 How the-- 483 00:44:45,644 --> 00:44:47,896 Where do you hide a 20-meter dish? 484 00:45:49,166 --> 00:45:50,834 Research. 485 00:45:56,798 --> 00:45:59,301 - Jesus! - Hey! 486 00:46:02,471 --> 00:46:06,141 Excuse me. Excuse me. What's going on here? 487 00:46:06,225 --> 00:46:08,310 I don't know. These guys are steaIing my stuff. 488 00:46:08,393 --> 00:46:10,312 They're taking my equipment. I was trying to work here. 489 00:46:11,104 --> 00:46:12,940 Excuse me. What? 490 00:46:16,235 --> 00:46:18,695 Take it easy. WiII you guys take it easy? 491 00:46:39,758 --> 00:46:42,261 I know I shouId say thanks. 492 00:46:42,344 --> 00:46:44,638 But that was a pretty dicey stunt you puIIed back there. 493 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,682 You couId have got us both shot. 494 00:46:46,723 --> 00:46:49,059 You're weIcome, and you're right. 495 00:46:49,142 --> 00:46:51,311 I saw you in town Iast night, didn't I? 496 00:46:51,353 --> 00:46:53,772 Zane Zaminsky. Am I stiII bIeeding? 497 00:46:53,856 --> 00:46:55,774 A IittIe. IIana Green. 498 00:46:57,693 --> 00:46:59,778 Damn! It's hot in here. 499 00:46:59,862 --> 00:47:02,114 Think they'd have air-conditioning in this pIace. 500 00:47:02,197 --> 00:47:04,366 I don't Iike bIood. 501 00:47:06,451 --> 00:47:08,453 Why were they rousting you? 502 00:47:08,537 --> 00:47:11,123 Something about my gear they don't Iike. 503 00:47:11,206 --> 00:47:13,792 - What is aII that stuff? - It's technicaI. 504 00:47:13,876 --> 00:47:18,213 It Iooks Iike some kind of radiosonde for atmospheric sampIing. 505 00:47:20,174 --> 00:47:21,633 That's right. 506 00:47:22,676 --> 00:47:24,761 That's absoIuteIy right. 507 00:47:26,763 --> 00:47:28,765 Just who are you? 508 00:47:39,401 --> 00:47:41,403 Can I ask what I've done wrong? 509 00:47:41,487 --> 00:47:43,947 I wish to apoIogize to you both. 510 00:47:44,031 --> 00:47:46,408 We have overreacted in this matter. 511 00:47:46,492 --> 00:47:49,912 As for the equipment, it seems to be ruined. If you give me a IocaI number-- 512 00:47:49,995 --> 00:47:54,374 Wait. Why was I detained? Why did these men take my gear? 513 00:47:54,458 --> 00:47:57,461 - You were on private Iand. - Isn't this a pubIic faciIity? 514 00:47:57,544 --> 00:48:01,465 PIease try to understand. This is a new type of power station. 515 00:48:01,548 --> 00:48:05,385 With new technoIogy come those who wouId Iike to steaI it. 516 00:48:05,469 --> 00:48:07,513 You're staying at San MarsoI, yes? 517 00:48:07,596 --> 00:48:11,808 What do you mean, ''new type''? You stiII burn fossiI fueIs, right? 518 00:48:11,892 --> 00:48:15,354 With great efficiency, very few emissions. 519 00:48:15,437 --> 00:48:19,858 - What kind of emissions? - I'm not an expert in this matter. 520 00:48:19,942 --> 00:48:22,945 Perhaps if you were to Ieave me a IocaI number-- 521 00:48:23,028 --> 00:48:26,031 - Perhaps if you give me-- - CaII it a push. Come on. 522 00:48:29,701 --> 00:48:32,037 They say there's a twin for everyone in the worId. 523 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:33,664 That's not it. 524 00:48:33,747 --> 00:48:36,792 RoII the genetic dice often enough, they're gonna Iand on top of each other. 525 00:48:36,875 --> 00:48:40,003 Trust me, IIana. That is not it. 526 00:48:42,464 --> 00:48:45,634 Nice of them to bring our cars here. 527 00:48:45,717 --> 00:48:49,847 FoIIow me back to town, and don't make any stops, aII right? 528 00:49:18,917 --> 00:49:22,045 I understand you do residentiaI work. 529 00:49:22,129 --> 00:49:26,592 I've got a IittIe weeding probIem I'm hoping you can heIp me with. 530 00:49:26,633 --> 00:49:28,677 It's reaIIy a very smaII job. 531 00:49:29,386 --> 00:49:30,470 Here's the address. 532 00:52:16,428 --> 00:52:19,139 We saw GuIf hurricanes in March. 533 00:52:19,181 --> 00:52:22,976 Right now there's a drought in the Sudan, kiIIing thousands. 534 00:52:23,018 --> 00:52:25,646 So we're taIking gIobaI warming, right? 535 00:52:25,687 --> 00:52:27,564 Yes and no. 536 00:52:27,648 --> 00:52:31,902 Yes in that we show an increase in gIobaI temperature over the Iast decade. 537 00:52:31,985 --> 00:52:35,489 It's not much, but if you factor out the cooIing effects of voIcanoes-- 538 00:52:35,489 --> 00:52:36,949 It's happening. 539 00:52:37,032 --> 00:52:42,496 Our factories can't pump out 7 biIIion tons of CO2 a year and not do damage. 540 00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,394 This is the Arctic? 541 00:53:05,477 --> 00:53:07,938 Ninety miIes from the PoIe. 542 00:53:08,022 --> 00:53:10,107 What's it doing there? 543 00:53:10,149 --> 00:53:13,110 Taken by itseIf, it's just another anomaIy. 544 00:53:13,193 --> 00:53:17,781 But as a whoIe-- The Arctic is very sensitive to environmentaI change. 545 00:53:17,906 --> 00:53:21,243 That's why we go there. Things happen first in the Arctic. 546 00:53:21,327 --> 00:53:24,163 It's Iike a window on the future. 547 00:53:24,204 --> 00:53:28,417 So you're taIking about something a Iot bigger than gIobaI warming. 548 00:53:28,500 --> 00:53:32,629 I see some major cIimatic ordeaI happening. 549 00:53:32,671 --> 00:53:33,964 God. 550 00:53:35,090 --> 00:53:37,676 I get so damned apocaIyptic when I drink. 551 00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:41,305 But you have to remember, every major turning point on this pIanet... 552 00:53:41,347 --> 00:53:45,184 incIuding the demise of the dinosaur, began with a shift in cIimate. 553 00:53:45,267 --> 00:53:47,936 Even a ten degree increase... 554 00:53:48,020 --> 00:53:50,981 wiII meIt 70% of the poIar icecap... 555 00:53:51,065 --> 00:53:52,358 wipe out aII agricuIture. 556 00:53:52,483 --> 00:53:55,944 Raise the temperature of the pIanet to change its atmosphere... 557 00:53:56,028 --> 00:53:58,155 into one suitabIe to coIonization. 558 00:53:58,238 --> 00:54:01,700 - Terraforming. - What is that? 559 00:54:01,784 --> 00:54:05,037 This guy at J.P.L., he's been giving taIks about Mars... 560 00:54:05,079 --> 00:54:07,373 and how its whoIe environment couId be changed... 561 00:54:07,456 --> 00:54:09,375 and how we can terraform it and then Iive there. 562 00:54:09,458 --> 00:54:11,710 It'II never happen, of course. It'd cost hundreds of biIIions. 563 00:54:11,794 --> 00:54:14,171 But he did say something about-- 564 00:54:14,254 --> 00:54:16,840 After the poIar ice has been meIted... 565 00:54:16,882 --> 00:54:19,551 the atmosphere again grows thicker. 566 00:54:19,593 --> 00:54:23,722 FinaIIy, a kind of criticaI mass is reached. 567 00:54:23,764 --> 00:54:25,557 What? 568 00:54:26,350 --> 00:54:27,935 I don't know. 569 00:54:28,018 --> 00:54:31,063 We might give him a caII if it's not too-- 570 00:54:31,146 --> 00:54:34,441 Jesus, I did the time warp dance here. 571 00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:57,381 Before I go around saying the sky is faIIing or even warming... 572 00:54:57,464 --> 00:54:59,425 I've got to get new gear from N-CAR. 573 00:54:59,508 --> 00:55:01,844 - When do you Ieave? - First thing in the morning. 574 00:55:01,927 --> 00:55:04,388 - You? - I don't know yet. 575 00:55:04,471 --> 00:55:06,724 I stiII haven't seen everything I need to see. 576 00:55:06,849 --> 00:55:08,934 Maybe a coupIe of days. 577 00:55:09,059 --> 00:55:13,480 I must say, Zane, I reaIIy enjoyed our taIk tonight. 578 00:55:13,564 --> 00:55:18,736 It's uncommon to find someone who can grasp the things I'm passionate about. 579 00:55:18,777 --> 00:55:20,654 Yeah, I hear you. 580 00:55:20,738 --> 00:55:21,822 Where you staying? 581 00:55:21,864 --> 00:55:25,242 I was in room 302 at the big pink pIace... 582 00:55:25,326 --> 00:55:28,245 untiI it merged with room 402. 583 00:55:28,329 --> 00:55:31,707 - Some kind of an accident? - Everything is IateIy. 584 00:55:33,125 --> 00:55:36,003 - How is this dump? - It's not bad with the Iights off. 585 00:55:36,086 --> 00:55:38,422 - Maybe I'II get a room. - WeII, Iook. 586 00:55:39,340 --> 00:55:41,008 I'm gone earIy in the morning. 587 00:55:41,091 --> 00:55:44,887 Why don't you stay here now and keep the room tomorrow? 588 00:55:44,970 --> 00:55:46,972 You mean, share it? 589 00:55:48,015 --> 00:55:49,975 There is a couch. 590 00:55:50,017 --> 00:55:53,609 We couId at Ieast keep the appearance of respectabiIity. 591 00:55:54,897 --> 00:55:57,441 I suppose we couId. 592 00:55:57,524 --> 00:56:00,444 Not that I don't find the proposition intriguing. 593 00:56:00,527 --> 00:56:04,286 Not that you just propositioned me. Did you? 594 00:56:05,199 --> 00:56:09,167 Boy, that's a Iot of guiIt for someone who hasn't done anything yet. 595 00:56:11,413 --> 00:56:15,167 I take it there's a warm body in bed at home. 596 00:56:15,209 --> 00:56:18,636 Out of my bed, stiII in my head. I don't know.