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There is
a metaphysical connection
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to the most significant
technological breakthroughs.
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Ramanujan
describes how he was asleep
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and he saw these numbers
being written in front of him,
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and he had no idea
what this was all about.
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The meeting of
John von Neumann and Alan Turing
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changed history.
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Maybe Steve Jobs
was receiving information
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beyond the physical realm.
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Is it possible
that extraterrestrials
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are somehow guiding
certain people
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to bring them to their
higher levels of knowledge?
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It appears that these
beings are guiding humanity
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into a new age of super-advanced
technology that will ultimately
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allow us to interface
with the cosmos.
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Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited
its origins to gods
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and other visitors
from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help
to shape our history?
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And if so, could there
be a connection
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between aliens
and our greatest visionaries?
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Houston, Texas.
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July 20, 1969.
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At NASA Mission Control Center,
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the massive IBM System/360
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Model 75 computer,
which boasts processing power
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of 16.6 million
instructions per second
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and up to eight megabytes
of main memory,
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is employed to accomplish the
greatest feat in human history
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putting a man on the moon.
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Houston, uh,
Tranquility Base here.
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The Eagle has landed.
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People across the world
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marveled at this
technological achievement.
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But incredibly,
only six decades later,
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a handheld device weighing
less than half a pound
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dwarfs the total technology
NASA possessed in 1969.
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Today's smartphone contains
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a staggering one million times
the computing power
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used to carry out
the moon landing.
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What we had when they went
to the moon is like nothing
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compared to what an average
teenager carries around now.
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I mean, the kind
of computing power,
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the ability
to access information,
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the ability to reach people.
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An astonishing
technological achievement.
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You can only imagine
what's gonna happen
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in 30 years from now.
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What we think is so advanced
is gonna be so not advanced.
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How is it that
mankind's technology
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has advanced so rapidly?
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According to ancient
astronaut theorists,
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at specific points in history,
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extraterrestrials have
influenced certain individuals
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to allow humanity
to make major leaps forward,
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and they propose
that this has continued
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up until modern times.
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As evidence, they point
to the visionary
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who jump-started
the microcomputer revolution,
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Steve Jobs.
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San Francisco, California.
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January 9, 2007.
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Apple's annual Macworld
Conference and Expo.
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Thank you for coming.
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At the center
of a worldwide media frenzy,
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Apple cofounder and CEO,
Steve Jobs,
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takes the stage to announce
a revolutionary new product,
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the iPhone.
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What we want to do is make
a leapfrog product that is
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way smarter than any mobile
device has ever been
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and super easy to use.
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And we are calling it "iPhone."
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Steve Jobs was
one of the greatest visionaries
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in Silicon Valley.
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The idea of what he was doing
is how you popularize computing.
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A lot of people who were
early in computing
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didn't think about
people using them,
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and he managed to deliver
into the hands of consumers
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a device that was usable,
it was intuitive,
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it was easy to use,
it was easy to understand,
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and-and that is not
a small thing.
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In the simplicity
and the beauty of it,
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he made something
that was, um, just perfect.
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Steve Jobs and
his team of engineers at Apple
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harnessed technology that
connected society digitally
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and put all
the world's knowledge
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literally at
mankind's fingertips.
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But the seeds of this
technological revolution
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were planted in 1973,
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when the 19-year-old college
student dropped out of school.
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Jobs was attending Reed College
in Portland, Oregon,
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when he, along with one
of Apple's first employees,
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Daniel Kottke, made a decision
that would change
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not only the course
of their lives,
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but ultimately
the course of humanity.
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I met Steve
at Reed College the first month,
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but our friendship developed
because a week or two later,
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I must have been
walking around with a copy
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of Be Here Now, and I was
eager to talk about it,
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and Steve was familiar with it.
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That book quickly led to
Autobiography of a Yogi,
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and then led to
Ramakrishna and His Disciples.
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Like many of his generation,
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Jobs became caught up in the
spiritual enlightenment movement
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that was sweeping through
America in the 1970s.
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And according to those
who knew him best,
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he considered it
not just a passing interest
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but a calling.
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Steve got ahold of the book
Cosmic Consciousness.
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That's probably what
pushed him over the edge.
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It had chapters about
great geniuses through history
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and how they were enlightened,
and that was the whole thesis.
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That's how we ended up in India.
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Fueled by his desire
to find spiritual enlightenment,
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Steve Jobs traveled to India,
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with Daniel following
a few months later.
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Together they discovered
a Hindu guru
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known as Haidakhan Baba.
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He was discovered
at about the age of 18
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doing yoga in a cave.
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But there are legends going back
that the same figure
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had appeared all the way
back into the 1800s.
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Haidakhan Baba claimed
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that he had no mother or father.
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But who was this character
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who had no known history
before the age of 18
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and was said to have manifested
out of thin air?
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He professed that he was
an immortal being
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known in Hinduism
as Mahavatar Babaji.
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Mahavatar means, uh,
"the great avatar."
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"The great incarnated being."
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Mahavatar is eternal, and he can
appear anytime, anywhere,
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taking forms
of another human being.
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So he was here to change
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the humanity, uh,
in-in a better path,
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in-in a path of understanding,
a path of greatness.
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Steve Jobs did spend
some time with him.
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Haidakhan Baba actually
gave him an initiation
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by giving him a spiritual name.
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This is a traditional
kind of initiation,
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so they were formally
initiated by this guru.
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Babaji had said
that he was a celestial being
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who had come to Earth
to help enlighten our planet
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and to advance us forward.
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And we have to wonder,
is it possible that Steven Jobs
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was being influenced
telepathically
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by an extraterrestrial
entity named Babaji?
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Haidakhan Baba claimed
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that he had "come to guide
humanity to a higher path"
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and referred to himself as the
"messenger of the revolution."
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Shortly after returning
to the United States,
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Steve Jobs embarked
on a revolution himself,
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the development
of the microcomputer,
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along with Apple cofounder
Steve Wozniak.
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Steve was not in it for money.
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He was in it for the mission
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of transforming the world.
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The Apple II was the first
mass-market personal computer.
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Woz of course was
the all-around genius
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who created the whole design
and all the software.
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But the thing that Steve
gets huge credit for
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is having enough passion for
what he saw the future bringing
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that he just did not give up.
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And the iPhone of course
is the computer now
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that is taking over
all our lives.
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Transformed everything,
everything.
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Steve Jobs continued
to practice meditation
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throughout the rest of his life,
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often finding refuge at
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
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in California's
Los Padres National Forest.
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It was here,
while deep in meditation,
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that Jobs thought he received
much of the inspiration
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that transformed
the modern world.
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Meditation does help
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to connect with a higher source,
a higher force,
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because then one becomes
one with the divine,
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so they could, you know,
in-in a sense, uh,
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download the knowledge,
wisdom directly from them.
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Is it possible that Steve Jobs
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received guidance
from an otherworldly source?
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And if so, could it be
that he was just one
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of a number of key visionaries
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who were chosen
by extraterrestrials
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to lead humanity
into the future,
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as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
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Perhaps further answers
can be found
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by examining
an Indian mathematician
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who was decades
ahead of his time.
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Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia.
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December 2012.
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After years of work,
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mathematician Ken Ono
and two of his former students
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come up with a groundbreaking
mathematical formula
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that will allow scientists
to study black holes
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in an entirely new way.
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Incredibly,
they achieved this feat
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by studying
a single paragraph written
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by an Indian mathematician
over nine decades earlier
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Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
was an Indian mathematician
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who is unlike any other genius
in world history.
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Ramanujan's work
has now formed the basis
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for superstring theory
and multidimensional physics.
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Some of the most advanced math
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that all the high-end scientists
are still using today
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is called "modular functions,"
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which could lead
to time travel, antigravity,
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limitless free energy, all of
this futuristic technology.
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He was able to take
a little that he knew
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farther than most mathematicians
would be able to take them.
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He had the vision
to see what was important.
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There are just so many
beautiful ideas that he had,
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some of which are just
waiting to be developed.
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Ramanujan made breakthroughs
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in integral calculus,
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which can be used to determine
the drag force buffeting a wing
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as it slides through the air
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or the gravitational
effects of the Earth
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on a man-made satellite.
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But perhaps
what is most noteworthy
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is that Ramanujan insisted
these baffling theorems
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were not simply the product
of his own genius.
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He claimed they were
communicated to him
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by an otherworldly being.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was born
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in Erode, India,
on December 22, 1887,
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and was considered
a miracle child
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because he was the only one
of his mother's four children
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to survive infancy.
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Even as a young boy,
he was obsessed with numbers.
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From a very early age,
just instinctively,
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he was thinking about numbers,
he was calculating.
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He was fascinated by numbers.
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Numbers, he said,
have personalities for him,
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that they had
a kind of life for him.
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There are a lot of stories
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about how he was so focused
on mathematics
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that he would ignore
a lot of his other subjects.
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Ramanujan grew up
in the town of Kumbakonam,
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in a house within view of the
impressive Sarangapani Temple.
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The mathematical prodigy
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spent much of his childhood
at the temple
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among thousands of carvings
of Hindu gods.
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According to Ramanujan's
childhood friend,
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he would often go to the temple
and work on mathematics.
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The friend had a memory
of coming into the temple
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and finding Ramanujan
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with all these inexplicable
figures surrounding him.
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The figures
that surrounded Ramanujan
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were in fact complex
mathematical equations
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that he had written in chalk
on the stone slabs
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of the temple floor.
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He would often say
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that they were communicated
to him in his dreams
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by the Hindu goddess
Namagiri Thayar.
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He always insisted, and he was
very adamant about this,
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that the mathematical
discoveries he made
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came to him in dreams
and visions
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provided by
the goddess Namagiri.
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In these visions,
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he would see these fantastic,
beautiful mathematical formulae
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un-scrolling before him.
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Numerous times
throughout Ramanujan's youth,
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he would abruptly vanish
for days at a time,
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then return home
without explanation.
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His neighbors considered him
to be psychic.
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And he suggested
that numbers connect us
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to higher powers
in the universe.
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Could it be that
Ramanujan really was
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receiving information
from an otherworldly being?
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Ever since he was
a little child,
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he was having these visions
of the Hindu goddess Namagiri,
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and on his own,
in poverty in India,
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he re-derives over
a hundred years' worth
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of Western mathematics.
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But then the goddess Namagiri
is giving him
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all this other information
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that goes way beyond where
Western mathematics had gone.
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For someone like Ramanujan,
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who grows up in a devout Hindu
family in southern India,
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everything that-that
he experiences has to do
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with Hindu gods and goddesses.
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But is it possible
that it was really
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some kind of extraterrestrial
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who was helping him develop
these mathematical theorems?
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There is abundant evidence
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of extraterrestrial
intervention that is involved
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in many of the most significant
technological breakthroughs
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that we see in our world,
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and these could come
through the form of dreams
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or actual contacts with some
sort of intelligent beings.
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Could Srinivasa Ramanujan,
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who practiced meditation
and studied Hinduism,
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much like Steve Jobs,
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have received guidance
from otherworldly beings
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that have been directing
the course of humanity
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for thousands of years?
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Is this why he was able
to devise theorems so complex
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that the world's
greatest mathematicians
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are still struggling to
understand them 100 years later?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
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and suggest further evidence
can be found
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by examining the man
who helped bring about
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the end of World War II,
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Alan Turing.
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London, England.
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June 23, 1912.
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In the residential district
of Maida Vale,
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Alan Turing is born.
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By the age of six,
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his teachers identify him
as a genius.
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By 16, he is studying
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the most advanced work
of Albert Einstein.
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And much like
the Indian mathematical genius
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Srinivasa Ramanujan,
he has a single-minded focus
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and thinks differently
from his peers.
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Alan Turing was
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the other great mathematical
genius of the 20th century,
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but of a completely
different stripe
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than Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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His vision was born
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out of an extraordinary
literal-mindedness.
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By taking things literally,
he was able to go places
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that people who were
less literal-minded
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would never be able to go.
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In fact, Alan Turing
was so literal-minded
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that there has even
been speculation
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he had Asperger's syndrome.
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But some ancient astronaut
theorists propose
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his unique intellect may reveal
an otherworldly influence,
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one that intervened during
mankind's deadliest conflict.
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Milton Keynes,
Buckinghamshire, England.
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March 18, 1940.
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Six months into
the Second World War,
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British military intelligence
sets up
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a top-secret base
in Bletchley Park,
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50 miles northwest of London.
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Known as "Station X,"
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it is home to a handpicked team
of mathematicians
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led by Alan Turing
that work tirelessly to crack
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the infamous Nazi
encoding device
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called the Enigma machine.
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The Enigma machine
was an encryption machine
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that worked very simply,
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at least for the person
operating it.
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You would have
a message to convey,
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and you would type
the first letter.
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Its gears would turn.
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And then a light
would illuminate
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with another letter.
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And that letter
you would write down.
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The machine was putting
the letter
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through a huge range
of substitutions.
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In 1940, Turing accomplished
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what nearly every expert at
the time had deemed impossible.
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He solved the Enigma code.
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At Bletchley Park,
Turing conceived
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of a way of reverse engineering
an Enigma to run it backwards.
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It wasn't easy, but they built
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this very complicated machine
called the bombe.
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If you could separate
out the hardware
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from the sequences
of operations
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what we now call software
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you could create a machine
that could decode messages,
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but it could also do other
things, including mathematics,
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and I think that he realized
that this machine could be made
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into something that was quite,
uh, a bit more capable.
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In the process
of creating this machine,
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Turing also developed a
technology far more significant
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than anyone at the time
could have imagined:
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the world's first computer.
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It's particularly interesting
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how some of these visionaries
think differently,
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so you have to wonder
if these people
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are tapping into some kind
of universal mind,
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and even that somehow
telepathically
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extraterrestrials are
giving them information
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so that they can see
these universal truths.
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Curiously,
in one of his papers,
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Turing wrote that telekinesis
and extrasensory perception
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should be taken seriously
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and questioned
the existence of free will.
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Is it possible,
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as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
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that he wrote this because he
himself was somehow in contact
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with extraterrestrial
intelligence?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by examining
a meeting Turing had
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before the war with another
mathematical genius,
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John von Neumann.
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John von Neumann was
a Hungarian mathematician
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who emigrated
to the United States
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and took a position
at Princeton University.
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He had an incredible talent
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for mathematics and physics
in all kinds of fields.
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Like Turing, von
Neumann contributed to ending
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World War II through
the development of technology.
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He came up with a way
to use machine calculation
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to determine how to compress
plutonium for the atomic bomb.
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00:24:00,881 --> 00:24:04,616
This technology was essential
to the success of the project,
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00:24:04,651 --> 00:24:06,418
and it might never
have been realized
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00:24:06,453 --> 00:24:10,455
had von Neumann not
crossed paths with Alan Turing.
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We know that Alan Turing,
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uh, met John von Neumann
at Princeton.
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00:24:18,065 --> 00:24:21,032
Von Neumann was familiar with
Turing's theoretical papers.
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What we don't know
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00:24:22,602 --> 00:24:24,569
is the substance
of their conversations.
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00:24:24,604 --> 00:24:27,772
A lot of that was
very highly classified.
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Very, very little information
ever leaked out.
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It has been argued by
some historians of computing
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that John von Neumann absorbed
the fundamental idea
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of the universal machine
from Alan Turing.
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According to historians,
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Turing and von Neumann
were largely responsible
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for inventing
the first computers
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and accelerating the advancement
of technology exponentially.
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But is it possible the meeting
of these two geniuses
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was more than mere chance?
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It could very well be
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that extraterrestrial
intelligence was involved
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in making sure
that von Neumann and Turing
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met each other in 1935
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and steered their development
to ensure
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that the computer would be
brought out on schedule
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at the right time,
which is exactly what we see.
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00:25:30,737 --> 00:25:33,605
Is it possible
that extraterrestrials
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brought together
Turing and von Neumann
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to accelerate the development
of computer technology?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
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00:25:43,884 --> 00:25:46,718
and suggest that
at the same time
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aliens were helping mankind
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to develop another
important technology,
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00:25:52,626 --> 00:25:56,027
a rocket that would
reach the stars.
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00:26:00,709 --> 00:26:02,742
Kaluga, Russia.
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December, 1903.
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Russian scientist
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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publishes the article
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"Exploration of Outer Space
by Means of Rocket Devices."
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Most scientists
of the time consider
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the topic of space exploration
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00:26:22,931 --> 00:26:25,898
highly speculative
and even far-fetched,
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00:26:25,934 --> 00:26:29,936
considering the Wright Brothers
had just achieved
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00:26:29,971 --> 00:26:33,406
the first powered flight
that same month.
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00:26:35,276 --> 00:26:36,843
But many of the major points
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00:26:36,878 --> 00:26:39,879
contained in
Tsiolkovsky's article,
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00:26:39,914 --> 00:26:42,448
such as the proposal
that the speed required
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for orbit around the Earth
is five miles per second
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and that this could be achieved
by means of a multistage rocket,
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00:26:50,625 --> 00:26:54,093
would be proven
to be incredibly accurate.
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He's a fascinating character
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00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,366
and the father
of Soviet rocketry,
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who actually designed
the rockets
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that put the first man
into space,
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00:27:03,805 --> 00:27:05,972
that put the first
dog into space,
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00:27:06,007 --> 00:27:10,143
that launched Sputnik, the first
satellite, into space in 1957.
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00:27:12,514 --> 00:27:15,348
Tsiolkovsky's
main source of inspiration
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00:27:15,383 --> 00:27:19,052
was his friend and mentor,
Nikolai Fyodorov,
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00:27:19,087 --> 00:27:22,021
a Russian Orthodox
Christian philosopher.
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00:27:25,293 --> 00:27:28,928
Fyodorov was one of
the founders of "cosmism,"
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00:27:28,963 --> 00:27:32,832
which was a precursor
to ancient astronaut theory.
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00:27:35,036 --> 00:27:38,037
The cosmists began
with Nikolai Fyodorov
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in the 1870s and 1880s,
and they believed
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that human civilization actually
had origins, uh, in outer space
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and that it was our destiny
as human beings
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to move back into space,
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00:27:50,952 --> 00:27:53,853
and we would go back to
our origins from whence we came.
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00:27:57,959 --> 00:27:59,258
Like Fyodorov,
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Tsiolkovsky came to be
a cosmist himself.
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00:28:02,964 --> 00:28:06,899
And he not only inspired
Soviet rocket scientists
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but also the genius responsible
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00:28:09,504 --> 00:28:12,305
for putting the first man
on the moon,
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Wernher von Braun.
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Germany.
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May 1945.
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00:28:21,916 --> 00:28:24,117
After six years
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00:28:24,152 --> 00:28:27,520
of the deadliest warfare
the world has ever seen,
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00:28:27,555 --> 00:28:31,924
the Nazis surrender
to the Allied Powers.
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00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,061
Germany's top rocket scientist,
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Wernher von Braun, predicted
the defeat months earlier
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00:28:38,867 --> 00:28:42,235
and by deceiving his superiors
has managed
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00:28:42,270 --> 00:28:45,471
to move his team of scientists
south into Austria
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00:28:45,507 --> 00:28:48,274
to surrender
to the American forces.
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00:28:50,845 --> 00:28:54,213
Acquiring von Braun
was considered
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a major coup
by the United States.
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00:28:57,452 --> 00:29:01,220
His work in rocketry
was so important
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00:29:01,256 --> 00:29:04,257
that the Soviets scoured
his former headquarters
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00:29:04,292 --> 00:29:07,059
at Peenemunde Army
Research Center
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00:29:07,095 --> 00:29:11,397
in search of any information
he may have left behind.
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00:29:11,432 --> 00:29:13,332
What they discovered
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00:29:13,368 --> 00:29:16,269
were the writings
of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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00:29:16,304 --> 00:29:19,138
and found that almost every page
494
00:29:19,174 --> 00:29:24,110
was embellished by
von Braun's comments and notes.
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00:29:24,145 --> 00:29:25,478
Wernher von Braun
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00:29:25,513 --> 00:29:28,314
was heavily influenced
by Tsiolkovsky.
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00:29:28,349 --> 00:29:30,316
Tsiolkovsky himself
had this concept
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00:29:30,351 --> 00:29:33,719
of human beings being
birthed in the stars.
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And if you really
think about it,
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could it be that these
scientists coming out of Russia
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00:29:40,061 --> 00:29:42,028
had some kind
of advanced knowledge?
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00:29:42,063 --> 00:29:44,163
Could they have
been communicating
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00:29:44,199 --> 00:29:47,033
with some form of advanced
extraterrestrial intelligence
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00:29:47,068 --> 00:29:49,502
that was influencing
the space race
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00:29:49,537 --> 00:29:50,870
and influencing this push
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00:29:50,905 --> 00:29:53,005
to get humanity
to go back to the stars?
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00:29:55,410 --> 00:29:59,045
As a young boy,
Wernher von Braun was fascinated
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00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,316
with the science fiction
of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells
509
00:30:03,351 --> 00:30:05,918
and was convinced
that he could make
510
00:30:05,954 --> 00:30:08,721
their visions
of space travel a reality,
511
00:30:08,756 --> 00:30:12,258
even going so far
as to tell his mother
512
00:30:12,293 --> 00:30:16,662
that he would build a machine
that would take man to the moon.
513
00:30:18,466 --> 00:30:23,436
But when von Braun actually
achieved this in 1969,
514
00:30:23,471 --> 00:30:26,439
it was such an extraordinary
technological leap
515
00:30:26,474 --> 00:30:29,775
that some people believed,
like Tsiolkovsky,
516
00:30:29,811 --> 00:30:33,813
he too was guided
by extraterrestrial beings.
517
00:30:37,285 --> 00:30:38,651
Wernher von Braun
518
00:30:38,686 --> 00:30:41,153
was utterly captivated
by the idea
519
00:30:41,189 --> 00:30:43,055
that we belong in the stars.
520
00:30:43,091 --> 00:30:46,392
It's as if the Earth is a seed,
521
00:30:46,427 --> 00:30:49,328
and if that seed
never germinates,
522
00:30:49,364 --> 00:30:51,964
then it could just die.
523
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,467
We need to go out into space.
524
00:30:54,502 --> 00:30:58,271
And that vision
of a new tomorrow
525
00:30:58,306 --> 00:31:02,475
is what fueled him to want
to succeed even further.
526
00:31:02,510 --> 00:31:05,845
That leads me to suggest
the possibility
527
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,314
that some sort of
extraterrestrial contact
528
00:31:08,349 --> 00:31:10,283
might have happened
with Wernher von Braun.
529
00:31:10,318 --> 00:31:13,052
Something or someone
might have reached him
530
00:31:13,087 --> 00:31:16,856
and saw where we needed
to go as a civilization
531
00:31:16,891 --> 00:31:20,660
and gave him the tools
and the insights that he needed
532
00:31:20,695 --> 00:31:23,529
to be able to build
our way out into space.
533
00:31:25,433 --> 00:31:26,766
Is it possible,
534
00:31:26,801 --> 00:31:29,568
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
535
00:31:29,604 --> 00:31:34,040
that Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
and Wernher von Braun
536
00:31:34,075 --> 00:31:38,177
were aided
by extraterrestrial beings?
537
00:31:38,212 --> 00:31:41,380
And if so, why?
538
00:31:41,416 --> 00:31:45,151
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the predictions
539
00:31:45,186 --> 00:31:50,089
not of science
but of science fiction.
540
00:31:53,453 --> 00:31:56,587
How far out can you get?
541
00:31:56,623 --> 00:31:59,057
That's the big question
in television today,
542
00:31:59,092 --> 00:32:00,992
and CBS has the big answer.
543
00:32:01,027 --> 00:32:04,362
Its fabulous new series,
Lost in Space.
544
00:32:04,397 --> 00:32:08,533
In 1965,
the CBS network announced
545
00:32:08,568 --> 00:32:10,335
the debut of what would become
546
00:32:10,370 --> 00:32:14,939
television's first prime-time
science fiction series.
547
00:32:14,975 --> 00:32:16,641
Wouldn't Dad like
to use this gadget
548
00:32:16,676 --> 00:32:18,676
to beat that thruway traffic?
549
00:32:18,712 --> 00:32:23,247
Set in the far-future of 1997,
550
00:32:23,283 --> 00:32:27,685
Lost in Space told the story
of a family of space colonists
551
00:32:27,721 --> 00:32:30,588
who become marooned
on an alien world.
552
00:32:30,623 --> 00:32:34,425
It underscored
America's growing acceptance
553
00:32:34,461 --> 00:32:38,596
that mankind's future
was not here on Earth
554
00:32:38,631 --> 00:32:41,566
but out in the vast reaches
of the galaxy.
555
00:32:41,601 --> 00:32:44,168
This trend continued
556
00:32:44,204 --> 00:32:48,039
when the following year
NBC premiered Star Trek,
557
00:32:48,074 --> 00:32:51,909
the epic saga
of a futuristic starship
558
00:32:51,945 --> 00:32:55,580
whose crew is charged
with exploring the galaxy,
559
00:32:55,615 --> 00:32:59,050
seeking out new life
and new civilizations,
560
00:32:59,085 --> 00:33:02,553
and going where no man
or woman
561
00:33:02,589 --> 00:33:04,856
had ever gone before.
562
00:33:04,891 --> 00:33:07,725
Interestingly,
both programs would appear
563
00:33:07,761 --> 00:33:09,894
in America's living rooms
564
00:33:09,929 --> 00:33:14,298
years before mankind would even
step foot on the moon.
565
00:33:14,334 --> 00:33:18,369
It is amazing that today
we are living in times
566
00:33:18,405 --> 00:33:21,139
where only 40, 50 years ago,
567
00:33:21,174 --> 00:33:23,808
people were fantasizing
about the future.
568
00:33:25,578 --> 00:33:29,647
And here we are experiencing
that said future.
569
00:33:29,682 --> 00:33:32,316
Not all of it, but many things.
570
00:33:32,352 --> 00:33:36,387
Where do we stand
50 years from now?
571
00:33:36,423 --> 00:33:40,591
I think science fiction
is a part of disclosure.
572
00:33:40,627 --> 00:33:45,530
Over time, science fiction
has become science fact.
573
00:33:45,565 --> 00:33:48,766
Ignition sequence start.
574
00:33:48,802 --> 00:33:51,502
Of course,
science fiction's role
575
00:33:51,538 --> 00:33:54,505
in pre-envisioning
what would ultimately become
576
00:33:54,541 --> 00:33:57,875
the world's "science fact"
was nothing new.
577
00:33:57,911 --> 00:34:02,447
Space stations,
intelligent robots,
578
00:34:02,482 --> 00:34:05,483
extraordinary
communication devices,
579
00:34:05,518 --> 00:34:08,286
Even Star Wars-type
space weapons
580
00:34:08,321 --> 00:34:11,422
were all pre-envisioned
in the creative minds
581
00:34:11,458 --> 00:34:16,227
of authors like Jules Verne,
H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke,
582
00:34:16,262 --> 00:34:19,831
Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
583
00:34:19,866 --> 00:34:23,267
And their works later
formed the basis
584
00:34:23,303 --> 00:34:26,204
for countless films
and television series.
585
00:34:27,774 --> 00:34:31,309
Great innovation has come
from science fiction literature.
586
00:34:31,344 --> 00:34:35,713
Arthur C. Clarke imagined the
satellite before the engineers.
587
00:34:35,748 --> 00:34:38,683
They were reading
science fiction
588
00:34:38,718 --> 00:34:40,685
when they came up
with the idea to do that.
589
00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:43,521
This has happened repeatedly
where a creative artist
590
00:34:43,556 --> 00:34:46,390
will come up with a new idea
just to tell a story,
591
00:34:46,426 --> 00:34:49,427
but it's coming
from the unconscious.
592
00:34:49,462 --> 00:34:51,329
I mean, look at Jules Verne.
Go back and read Jules Verne.
593
00:34:51,364 --> 00:34:52,663
It's really interesting.
594
00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:54,565
Like, a lot
of the stuff we made,
595
00:34:54,601 --> 00:34:56,634
like, he just thought it up.
596
00:34:56,669 --> 00:35:00,605
And these ideas
sprung out of a man's mind,
597
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,508
and it has become reality.
598
00:35:03,543 --> 00:35:05,476
And I think that
they've turned to reality
599
00:35:05,512 --> 00:35:08,713
because of young kids
reading these stories
600
00:35:08,748 --> 00:35:11,415
and eventually growing up
and realizing,
601
00:35:11,451 --> 00:35:12,917
"Wait a second.
602
00:35:12,952 --> 00:35:15,820
"We have all these
technological capabilities.
603
00:35:15,855 --> 00:35:17,355
"What if I can bring it
604
00:35:17,390 --> 00:35:19,790
to the next level
with a new invention?"
605
00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:26,030
So science fiction can serve
as a direct path to science
606
00:35:26,065 --> 00:35:30,334
that has been
inspired by fantasy.
607
00:35:30,370 --> 00:35:35,006
But are many
of today's scientific wonders
608
00:35:35,041 --> 00:35:39,510
merely the product of fertile
minds and wild imaginations?
609
00:35:39,546 --> 00:35:43,414
Or do they have
their origins elsewhere,
610
00:35:43,449 --> 00:35:46,083
possibly light-years away?
611
00:35:48,154 --> 00:35:49,887
There's an interesting theory,
612
00:35:49,923 --> 00:35:54,525
the idea that certain profound
science fiction writers
613
00:35:54,561 --> 00:35:56,894
may not have just simply
come up with the ideas
614
00:35:56,930 --> 00:36:00,398
for their stories on their own,
albeit they may have thought
615
00:36:00,433 --> 00:36:02,266
they came up with
the ideas on their own.
616
00:36:02,302 --> 00:36:05,469
Perhaps there was
an outside force
617
00:36:05,505 --> 00:36:07,371
presenting it to them.
618
00:36:07,407 --> 00:36:10,808
Have science fiction
authors and writers
619
00:36:10,843 --> 00:36:13,811
been inspired
by extraterrestrials?
620
00:36:18,017 --> 00:36:19,917
Could
extraterrestrials have given
621
00:36:19,953 --> 00:36:24,789
humanity glimpses of its own
future through science fiction?
622
00:36:24,824 --> 00:36:28,292
And if the creative minds
of the past
623
00:36:28,328 --> 00:36:30,394
have been able to pre-envision
624
00:36:30,430 --> 00:36:33,664
the incredible technologies
of the present day,
625
00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:37,702
then should we also regard
the science fiction of today
626
00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:42,206
as a guide to where mankind
is headed next?
627
00:36:42,242 --> 00:36:45,376
Where do we stand
50 years from now?
628
00:36:45,411 --> 00:36:48,212
And if we're talking
about science fiction today,
629
00:36:48,248 --> 00:36:52,383
one recurring theme
is what happens
630
00:36:52,418 --> 00:36:55,319
if we gain the ability
to upload our consciousness
631
00:36:55,355 --> 00:36:57,588
to some type of a computer?
632
00:36:57,624 --> 00:37:02,126
Is it possible that our future
may lie in a digital realm?
633
00:37:02,161 --> 00:37:06,631
I would not want my thoughts
to be uploaded to a computer,
634
00:37:06,666 --> 00:37:09,934
because then
we really become glass.
635
00:37:09,969 --> 00:37:13,804
This planet will cease to exist
within two seconds
636
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,873
if we all know
each other's thoughts.
637
00:37:15,908 --> 00:37:19,844
So there's a fine line
we have to walk
638
00:37:19,879 --> 00:37:23,881
between what can
and will ensure our future
639
00:37:23,916 --> 00:37:28,386
and what can and will be
our assured annihilation.
640
00:37:31,824 --> 00:37:35,326
According to many
ancient astronaut theorists,
641
00:37:35,361 --> 00:37:37,828
the visions of a bleak future
642
00:37:37,864 --> 00:37:40,831
as depicted in today's
science fiction
643
00:37:40,867 --> 00:37:44,335
could, if realized,
prove as perilous
644
00:37:44,370 --> 00:37:46,937
as they once seemed profound.
645
00:37:46,973 --> 00:37:48,873
But they also suggest
646
00:37:48,908 --> 00:37:52,643
that the messages that mankind's
visionaries receive
647
00:37:52,679 --> 00:37:57,381
may not be dire predictions
as much as they are warnings.
648
00:37:57,417 --> 00:38:01,886
Warnings intended
to help mankind
649
00:38:01,921 --> 00:38:03,788
avoid annihilation.
650
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:13,523
Today the theorems
of Srinivasa Ramanujan
651
00:38:13,558 --> 00:38:16,659
are being applied in branches
of physics that may allow us
652
00:38:16,695 --> 00:38:20,096
to unlock the greatest mysteries
of the cosmos.
653
00:38:22,867 --> 00:38:24,500
The computer models
654
00:38:24,536 --> 00:38:27,537
established by Alan Turing
and John von Neumann
655
00:38:27,572 --> 00:38:32,041
have advanced human technology
by leaps and bounds.
656
00:38:32,077 --> 00:38:34,577
The advances in rocketry
657
00:38:34,612 --> 00:38:38,715
made by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
and Wernher von Braun
658
00:38:38,750 --> 00:38:43,753
have allowed for
greater exploration of space.
659
00:38:43,788 --> 00:38:49,058
And Steve Jobs' contributions
to the microcomputer revolution
660
00:38:49,094 --> 00:38:51,828
have put all of the world's
collective knowledge
661
00:38:51,863 --> 00:38:53,696
at our fingertips.
662
00:38:57,569 --> 00:39:00,970
But has the work of
these visionaries and others
663
00:39:01,006 --> 00:39:05,041
really been directed by an
extraterrestrial intelligence?
664
00:39:05,076 --> 00:39:09,212
And if so, to what end?
665
00:39:13,852 --> 00:39:17,820
We have been the experiment of,
I believe, extraterrestrials.
666
00:39:17,856 --> 00:39:22,158
I think they have nurtured us
to see how we develop.
667
00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:24,761
And they're probably saying,
668
00:39:24,796 --> 00:39:27,630
"Gosh, look at these humans,
look how fast they can advance."
669
00:39:27,665 --> 00:39:29,732
And we're getting better
and better and better
670
00:39:29,768 --> 00:39:31,634
with technology.
671
00:39:31,669 --> 00:39:35,671
But Elon Musk from Tesla
and physicist Stephen Hawking
672
00:39:35,707 --> 00:39:39,575
all warn us, "Be careful
of artificial intelligence.
673
00:39:39,611 --> 00:39:41,077
It could go too far."
674
00:39:41,112 --> 00:39:43,746
I agree with them.
We need to be careful.
675
00:39:45,884 --> 00:39:48,651
Something too that comes out
676
00:39:48,686 --> 00:39:51,521
of a lot of the UFO literature
of the '50s and '60s,
677
00:39:51,556 --> 00:39:54,524
that extraterrestrials were
678
00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:57,593
allegedly contacting
certain people
679
00:39:57,629 --> 00:40:00,663
and warning them of the dangers
of nuclear power
680
00:40:00,698 --> 00:40:05,568
and that what we were doing
with our atomic weapons
681
00:40:05,603 --> 00:40:07,770
was very destructive
682
00:40:07,806 --> 00:40:11,641
and that we could destroy our
own planet with this technology
683
00:40:11,676 --> 00:40:13,676
and that the extraterrestrials
themselves
684
00:40:13,711 --> 00:40:15,244
were very concerned about this.
685
00:40:17,715 --> 00:40:21,551
And so, in many ways,
we must be very careful
686
00:40:21,586 --> 00:40:25,922
of how we use
our own technology.
687
00:40:25,957 --> 00:40:30,526
There's a reason
why we are where we are today.
688
00:40:30,562 --> 00:40:33,563
We have made
these advances in technology
689
00:40:33,598 --> 00:40:36,132
for one and one reason only...
690
00:40:39,237 --> 00:40:42,238
...to return to the stars,
691
00:40:42,273 --> 00:40:44,240
because that's where
we came from.
692
00:40:47,745 --> 00:40:49,011
And now the question is:
693
00:40:49,047 --> 00:40:52,882
are we going to fulfill
our destiny or not?
694
00:40:52,917 --> 00:40:55,251
Is it possible
695
00:40:55,286 --> 00:40:57,620
that humanity's
greatest visionaries
696
00:40:57,655 --> 00:41:00,356
have been unknowingly
carrying out
697
00:41:00,391 --> 00:41:03,860
some sort of extraterrestrial
master plan?
698
00:41:03,895 --> 00:41:07,130
One intended to prepare mankind
699
00:41:07,165 --> 00:41:09,232
for the ultimate
"close encounter"?
700
00:41:09,267 --> 00:41:12,735
And if so, does this mean
701
00:41:12,770 --> 00:41:16,806
that our future has been
somehow predetermined?
702
00:41:16,841 --> 00:41:20,810
Or are we simply being
given the tools
703
00:41:20,845 --> 00:41:23,846
with which to shape
our own destiny?
704
00:41:23,882 --> 00:41:26,048
Perhaps the answer can be found
705
00:41:26,084 --> 00:41:29,752
in the pages
of a science fiction book,
706
00:41:29,787 --> 00:41:34,524
in the palm of our hand
within a simple cell phone,
707
00:41:34,559 --> 00:41:39,362
or in the latest
robotic technology.
708
00:41:39,397 --> 00:41:42,331
Perhaps it is carved
on the stone walls
709
00:41:42,367 --> 00:41:45,101
of an as-yet-undiscovered tomb.
710
00:41:45,136 --> 00:41:48,671
Or even as we sit,
711
00:41:48,706 --> 00:41:51,841
right before our eyes.
712
00:41:54,312 --> 00:41:58,047
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