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SKY TRACKERS
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Episode 24
"WOW"
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This latest NASA project
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aims to search the cosmos using
radio telescopes around the globe.
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Using the latest
microchip technology
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computers will sift
through tens of millions
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of frequencies every second
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in all-sky search for
extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Cut.
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Maggie, is a red light flashing?
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Yep.
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The world famous
astrophysicist
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who'll be heading this program
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is Dr. Anthony Masters.
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Hello.
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Dr. Masters is devoted
more than 15 years...
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- Is that right?
- Yes.
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...more than 15 years to detecting
alien intelligence in deep space.
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And this is the screen here
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that would pick up
the first signals
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from another civilization.
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This is the screen right here.
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- Maggie!
- Sorry.
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The program is looking for
an anomaly within a random field.
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For the next 24 hours we'll be
keeping a close eye on the screen
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and returning to Dr. Masters
for the latest updates.
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Hang on.
Technical problem.
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Cut.
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Maggie, I have three days
to finish this project,
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not three years.
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It keeps on going blurry.
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Might help if you tried
the automatic focus.
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That's better.
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- Let's go again.
- Can't!
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I've got a cake to ice, remember?
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Um, thanks, Tony.
See ya for dinner.
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See ya.
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15 years...
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You saw 'em, didn't you?
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Saw what?
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The sandals!
Tony was wearing sandals.
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Yeah.
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Don't worry.
It might not mean a thing.
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? Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you! ?
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? Happy birthday dear Tony!
Happy birthday to you! ?
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Hip-hip-hooray!
Hip-hip-hooray!
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Hip-hip-hooray!
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Thanks, Mike.
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Blow out the candles!
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How it feels, birthday boy?
41 years old.
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I'm trying not to count, Frank.
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We have to bye
3 packets of candles.
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- Really?
- Yeah.
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41 is not that old.
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I mean most men
live to an average
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of early 70th at least,
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so you're only
two-thirds through.
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My dad and his brothers
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and their dad--
all died before 55.
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So tell us, Dad. What are you
gonna be when you grow up?
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You know...
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it's not 15 years I've been
researching deep space.
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It's... it's 18.
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ET hasn't run yet.
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Our technology is improving.
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We'll crack at one of these days.
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You'd better.
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10 million dollars a year
is a pretty big fine
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bill to pay in a world that can't
get it together to feed itself.
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What's your plan, Mike?
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We take the phone off the hook
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and plow the fields
for a few decades?
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What's the point of surviving
if no one rises above it?
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We need to know
what our role is.
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Well, you're not gonna find that
plugged into outer space.
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Maybe you're right.
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Hey?
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I think we'll find out one day.
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But maybe not in my lifetime,
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or maybe not for another
thousand years also.
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I'm sorry, I'm not much
in a mood for a party.
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Perhaps this is the
passing thing for Tony.
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We all have times when we feel
like nothing is working out.
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Yeah, like my video project.
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It doesn't matter that SETI
hasn't found anything yet.
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It's the searching and
dreaming that matters.
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I hope Tony hasn't lost his fire.
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Did you see what he was
wearing on his feet?
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Yeah. I was hoping you
wouldn't mention them.
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How old was Dad when...
you know when he first started?
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Your father was nearly 30 when
he started wearing sandals.
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He wasn't wearing them
when he came to see us.
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No. But I'm sure he still
wears 'em in France.
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That was the
beginning of the end.
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Well, that's an attractive sight.
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I fell asleep on the couch.
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About last night, Dad.
I didn't mean to have argued you.
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I mean I did.
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But I didn't expect
that you to listen.
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I did a lot of thinking
last night.
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Not just about our argument,
but... life I suppose.
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Why now?
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I'm not getting any younger.
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It's time I made a few decisions
before I... quietly fade away.
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How would you feel
if I'd quite my job?
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To do what?
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Um... another science job.
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But something
a little less speculative.
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What about Marie?
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Oh, it's hard to get
you through together.
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I'm not sure, Mike.
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Maybe I'm kidding myself.
She feels the same.
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There's only one way
to find out.
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It's obvious, Dad.
Ask her to marry you.
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Okay, Mike.
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When I say action, I want you
to move the paper slowly.
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So it looks like it's coming
out of the printer.
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Okay.
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When is he gonna ask her?
Today?
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Maybe he will take her
out to a restaurant.
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Do you think he'll get
down on his knees?
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That's fairy-tale stuff.
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Mike, what makes you so
sure my mum will say yes?
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Because it's my dad.
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Hasn't it cured you she might
not want to get married?
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Women can survive
without men, you know.
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We'll see.
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Personally I think she'd be
be taken on a lot of trouble.
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Why?
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Your dad's having
a midlife crisis.
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We've seen it before.
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Our dad.
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He started wearing sandals and...
ran off with another woman.
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I thought he did that because
he didn't love Mum anymore?
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Well, yeah.
He flipped out.
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Well, my dad hasn't flipped out.
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Probably for the first time he
knows exactly what he's doing.
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I still think he'd be lucky.
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- Can we get on with this?
- You don't need me.
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Like you said before: women
can survive without men.
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Well, are you still
gonna do the music?
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Learn how play yourself.
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- I'm gonna snoop on them.
- Maggie!
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Fantastic.
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This has got nothing to do with
your career. It's Helen, isn't it?
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How do you know?
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How long have we been friends?
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Look, I thought I let her go.
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But last night, the card, Marie--
Helen is still there.
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Why shouldn't she be?
You loved her.
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Yeah, but how can I
marry Marie now?
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Marring again is not replacing
Helen, it's moving forward.
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Running away is not going
to do you any good.
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I watched you do that
8 years ago.
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And I wouldn't like
to see you do it again.
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- Hi.
- Hi.
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I was just looking for
an excuse to start working.
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I, uh, think we should
have a talk, Marie.
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Okay, come in.
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<i>Contact with a more
advanced civilization</i>
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<i>will enable us to ask questions
far beyond our own knowledge.</i>
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<i>Questions about fusion,
environmental problems,</i>
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<i>and what to do about
our increasing population.</i>
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<i>We'll greet the aliens with:
"How do you do it?"</i>
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Nikki!
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Don't even speak to me.
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- He came to see her!
- Who?
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Tony!
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I couldn't hear all if it,
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but I don't think it
went very well,
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because she's locked
herself in her bedroom.
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Mum, are you all right?
What're you doing?
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Proving my moral.
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How'd it go?
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What do you think of Ethiopia?
Community Aid Abroad.
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There must be some
practical things
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scientists can do in Africa,
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the educational for ya.
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She turned you down?
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I explained why I wanted
to leave, and she was
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very understanding,
she was so understanding.
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She wished me luck
for the future,
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asked me to send
her the odd postcard.
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Yeah, Dad. But did you
ask her to marry you?
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Just can't do.
It's about me going.
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Anyway she's got her own
career to worry about.
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I don't know why I though she'd
marry me in the first place.
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All right. I admit it.
I liked him too.
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Before the sandal business.
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I though we had some sort of
commitment to each other.
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But I understand his reasons.
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And I wouldn't do anything
to try and stop him.
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Because of pride?
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No, because he says he has
some problems to work out.
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And I don't want to end up mothering
another man with problems.
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I have enough of my own.
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Told you, Maggie.
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And anyway, I don't know if I want
all these men-trouble again:
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shaving stubble in the sink,
toilet seat always up,
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smelly socks, wet towels
on the bathroom floor.
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No, no, no. Not for me.
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Well, what about SETI?
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Do you think he believes
in that anymore?
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I don't think he knows
what he believes in anymore.
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We can greet the aliens with:
"How do you do it?"
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Cut.
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- Here is the soundtrack.
- Thanks.
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Besides, I thought we
should do something
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about your mum and my dad.
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- They're behaving like kids.
- Worse.
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Well, does your mum
want him to leave?
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- Well...
- No.
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Dad doesn't want
to leave her either.
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If we don't think fast,
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I'm gonna end up
playing my guitar in Africa.
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Any ideas?
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It's pretty clear.
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We like him, you like him,
and he likes you.
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How can you let him
slip throw your fingers?
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Well, I was certainly
not going to cling
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like some desperate woman.
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Maggie.
That's not what we mean.
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We just think you should
come clean about how you feel.
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He thinks you don't care.
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But what about me?
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He can't care about me if he
can just take off like that.
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But he does!
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He just can't say it.
You know what he's like.
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- Yes, hopeless.
- Like his son.
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Well, someone's got
to make the first move.
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Well?
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Well, get out you two.
Come on.
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I've got to finish this.
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I thought you might like
some company.
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Thanks.
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So far, so good.
She's sitting beside him.
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Oh great, they're
practically engaged.
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What you said earlier about
there be nothing to keep you here...
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I think you might be wrong.
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- I was thinking that perhaps...
- Hang on.
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- It can't be.
- What is it?
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- I can't believe this.
- What?
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The data.
There's the definite signal.
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It's reoccurred.
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What's he doing?
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Let's see.
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Why are you taking
her off source?
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I'm seeing if it's a fault
on the equipment.
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It's gone.
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Okay. Okay.
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Now I'm going to...
re-orientate the dish.
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It's there!
That's a definite signal.
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What is it?
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I don't know, it's something
from the Great Unknown.
255
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Okay.
256
00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:01,580
- There it is!
- Yeah!
257
00:15:01,620 --> 00:15:02,647
Wow!
258
00:15:02,687 --> 00:15:04,270
Yeah. Wow!
259
00:15:05,340 --> 00:15:08,475
Code name "WOW".
260
00:15:08,515 --> 00:15:10,178
I have filtered out
261
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the possibility
of technical interference.
262
00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:14,495
And I've just went a top offset.
263
00:15:14,535 --> 00:15:17,921
So far it seems to be responding
like the genuine article.
264
00:15:17,961 --> 00:15:21,196
Okay. Let's not get
carried away yet.
265
00:15:21,236 --> 00:15:25,037
We'll run another test tomorrow
night to confirm the signal.
266
00:15:25,077 --> 00:15:28,889
But if it still positive,
we'll tell the other stations.
267
00:15:28,929 --> 00:15:31,563
Okay.
268
00:15:31,603 --> 00:15:33,363
Testing on a second night
we'll confirm
269
00:15:33,403 --> 00:15:36,230
whether the signal comes
from a genuine star source.
270
00:15:36,273 --> 00:15:39,217
As the stars rise a the different
part of the sky edge night
271
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receiving the signal must
happen 4 minutes earlier.
272
00:15:42,333 --> 00:15:43,258
Cut.
273
00:15:43,298 --> 00:15:44,717
How was that?
274
00:15:44,757 --> 00:15:47,100
Wasn't it just a rehearsal?
275
00:15:47,140 --> 00:15:49,760
- Mike!
- Not bad.
276
00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,870
Hey Nik, if this signal
turns out to be real
277
00:15:52,917 --> 00:15:55,700
the aliens will know where
to find us, won't they?
278
00:15:55,740 --> 00:15:57,657
Yeah. That'll be fantastic.
279
00:15:57,697 --> 00:15:59,460
But it could be dangerous.
280
00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:01,537
Look how the British
colonised Australia.
281
00:16:01,577 --> 00:16:03,518
They spread disease
amongst the natives.
282
00:16:03,558 --> 00:16:05,857
Stole their wealth and
practically wiped them out.
283
00:16:05,897 --> 00:16:08,659
What makes you think aliens
would treat us any better?
284
00:16:08,699 --> 00:16:10,819
They're not gonna kill us,
are they, Nikki?
285
00:16:10,859 --> 00:16:12,708
No, of course not.
286
00:16:12,748 --> 00:16:14,553
Maybe they'll freeze us
287
00:16:14,593 --> 00:16:17,840
and use us for
scientific experiments.
288
00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,746
Or sent us
onto their own planet
289
00:16:19,786 --> 00:16:23,755
and we'll never see
our families again!
290
00:16:23,795 --> 00:16:28,580
What if we all die
from an outer space virus?
291
00:16:28,620 --> 00:16:31,970
Maggie, there's a big difference
between radio signals
292
00:16:32,010 --> 00:16:34,598
and spacecraft actually
landing here.
293
00:16:34,638 --> 00:16:37,120
According to Einstein's
Theory of Relativity
294
00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,888
no one can travel faster
than the speed of light.
295
00:16:39,928 --> 00:16:43,770
So how would anyone get here
in less than a few thousand years?
296
00:16:43,810 --> 00:16:47,975
Well, maybe Einstein was wrong.
297
00:16:48,015 --> 00:16:49,995
Okay, make sure
there's a backup.
298
00:16:50,035 --> 00:16:52,639
And hit the cryogenic stuff
over this point.
299
00:16:52,679 --> 00:16:55,225
You git it, yeah.
300
00:16:56,660 --> 00:16:58,427
Is it ET?
301
00:16:58,467 --> 00:17:00,256
ET can't cook like me.
302
00:17:00,296 --> 00:17:01,520
Come and have some dinner.
303
00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:03,418
You're hardly stopped
since last night.
304
00:17:03,458 --> 00:17:05,840
I don't think I can.
I'm running on adrenaline.
305
00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,197
You look happy for a change.
306
00:17:09,237 --> 00:17:14,939
I remember the last time we're
this close. It was in '77 in Ohio.
307
00:17:14,979 --> 00:17:18,085
One and a half hours
we're on top of the world.
308
00:17:18,125 --> 00:17:20,351
Almost forgot it was like.
309
00:17:20,391 --> 00:17:24,469
Something you shouldn't
let go off so easily.
310
00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:30,175
Looking good.
311
00:17:30,215 --> 00:17:33,190
I recon everything
hinges on tonight.
312
00:17:33,237 --> 00:17:35,370
It says here
that if you travelled
313
00:17:35,410 --> 00:17:38,042
faster than the speed
of light on the bicycle
314
00:17:38,082 --> 00:17:41,053
everything would disappear
into a telescopic hole
315
00:17:41,093 --> 00:17:43,652
and you would get to places
before you saw them.
316
00:17:43,692 --> 00:17:46,421
It's all theory.
Nobody's done it.
317
00:17:46,461 --> 00:17:48,000
Nobody on Earth.
318
00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,441
But the aliens might
do that all the time.
319
00:17:50,481 --> 00:17:53,521
It might be like going around
to the corner shop for them.
320
00:17:53,561 --> 00:17:55,736
Maggie, haven't you got
any homework to do?
321
00:17:55,776 --> 00:18:00,390
I hope they're never it back.
I hope it was a wrong number.
322
00:18:01,055 --> 00:18:04,560
Have you checked
the coordinates again?
323
00:18:04,604 --> 00:18:06,944
It was sky frame 438.
324
00:18:06,984 --> 00:18:09,695
The third time everything's
been checked.
325
00:18:09,735 --> 00:18:12,380
Okay. How long to go now?
326
00:18:12,420 --> 00:18:13,973
23 minutes.
327
00:18:14,013 --> 00:18:16,680
You get my best side
with that thing.
328
00:18:18,970 --> 00:18:21,664
Okay. Ready to roll.
329
00:18:24,210 --> 00:18:29,503
11:20.
5 minutes overdue.
330
00:18:29,543 --> 00:18:32,236
Are you sure
there was nothing though?
331
00:18:32,276 --> 00:18:35,350
Not even faint signal
we could have missed?
332
00:18:35,390 --> 00:18:37,965
Nope.
333
00:18:39,425 --> 00:18:42,630
Maybe it was nothing.
334
00:18:42,676 --> 00:18:47,011
Maybe it's a beacon and
they stopped transmitting.
335
00:18:47,051 --> 00:18:50,645
400 million other stars
out there like our Sun.
336
00:18:50,685 --> 00:18:54,010
There has to be a life somewhere
in the Universe. It's only logical.
337
00:18:54,052 --> 00:18:58,883
You're talking numbers.
What about time? It's endless.
338
00:18:58,923 --> 00:19:01,248
Why should we think
that life exists anywhere else
339
00:19:01,288 --> 00:19:04,038
at the same time
life exists on Earth?
340
00:19:04,078 --> 00:19:07,566
Compare to infinity our
four billion years is...
341
00:19:07,606 --> 00:19:09,730
a blink of an eyelid.
342
00:19:09,770 --> 00:19:12,867
Does that mean
you are staying here?
343
00:19:12,907 --> 00:19:15,973
I'm not sure, Nikki.
344
00:19:42,145 --> 00:19:44,230
Good morning!
345
00:19:44,270 --> 00:19:46,710
Hi, Mike.
346
00:19:47,780 --> 00:19:49,835
Girls.
347
00:19:49,875 --> 00:19:51,738
Hi.
348
00:19:51,778 --> 00:19:55,138
I gotta get going.
See ya at school.
349
00:19:55,178 --> 00:19:56,702
Uh, Mike, hang on a minute.
350
00:19:56,742 --> 00:20:00,595
There's something that
Marie and I want to explain.
351
00:20:00,635 --> 00:20:02,590
Oh, to all of you too.
352
00:20:02,630 --> 00:20:04,749
I know the facts of life, Dad.
353
00:20:04,789 --> 00:20:06,780
We'd like to ask your opinion
354
00:20:06,820 --> 00:20:09,701
on something what we've
been tossing around.
355
00:20:13,835 --> 00:20:16,720
Well, we've decided--
356
00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,980
that's if both families
have no objections--
357
00:20:21,020 --> 00:20:23,250
we'd like to get married.
358
00:20:23,299 --> 00:20:26,822
I knew it, I knew it!
Can I be a your flower girl?
359
00:20:26,862 --> 00:20:28,353
Yes.
360
00:20:28,393 --> 00:20:31,381
So you're gonna be my sister
and I'm your brother.
361
00:20:31,421 --> 00:20:32,680
Oh, brother.
362
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,208
What about all that stuff
363
00:20:34,248 --> 00:20:36,697
about shaving stubble
and toilet seats?
364
00:20:36,737 --> 00:20:39,487
Yeah, and who is gonna dig all
the irrigation channels in Africa?
365
00:20:39,527 --> 00:20:41,806
I know what I said
and I meant it.
366
00:20:41,846 --> 00:20:44,730
And I meant it about
reassessing my career.
367
00:20:44,770 --> 00:20:46,497
And I think I have one.
368
00:20:46,537 --> 00:20:48,376
And basically getting married
369
00:20:48,416 --> 00:20:51,930
is a stupid and
irrational decision,
370
00:20:51,970 --> 00:20:54,166
no basis in common sense.
371
00:20:54,206 --> 00:20:57,495
So our only excuse
is that, uh...
372
00:20:57,535 --> 00:21:00,825
passion and romance
have triumphed over
373
00:21:00,865 --> 00:21:03,948
extraordinary intelligence.
374
00:21:03,988 --> 00:21:06,535
Oh, there's one more thing.
375
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,327
See these, children?
376
00:21:13,367 --> 00:21:15,628
They are no more.
377
00:21:15,668 --> 00:21:17,640
What?
378
00:21:20,746 --> 00:21:21,938
So the search
379
00:21:21,978 --> 00:21:24,320
for extraterrestrial
intelligence continues.
380
00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,297
With no guaranties of success
381
00:21:26,337 --> 00:21:28,877
and no absolute justification
in a world beset by problems.
382
00:21:28,917 --> 00:21:31,220
These scientists are driven
by the same thing
383
00:21:31,260 --> 00:21:33,610
that is driven humankind
since the beginning of time:
384
00:21:33,650 --> 00:21:36,538
the quest for significance
in a mysterious cosmos.
385
00:21:36,578 --> 00:21:37,620
Cut.
386
00:21:39,210 --> 00:21:41,935
Well done.
387
00:21:41,975 --> 00:21:44,301
You've made the right move.
388
00:21:44,341 --> 00:21:46,820
Oh, not without your help, Frank.
389
00:21:46,860 --> 00:21:48,117
Well, that's my ending.
390
00:21:48,157 --> 00:21:51,640
Not as much punch as real spite,
but what do you think?
391
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,166
I think you hit
the nail on the head.
392
00:21:54,206 --> 00:21:56,410
And you still want
to be an astrophysicist.
393
00:21:56,450 --> 00:21:57,220
Yep.
394
00:21:57,260 --> 00:21:58,944
Some people never learn.
395
00:22:09,025 --> 00:22:12,140
Here we go again.
396
00:22:12,180 --> 00:22:14,880
Our first wedding guests.
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