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Thank you.

This is my story.

Now this is my story.

I come from the outer reaches of Andromeda.

Imagine planet Earth, the solar system, the Milky Way, your galaxy.

I come from another galaxy, a blue one, way, way

beyond your world.

Where I come from is the wild blue young.

Our star was dying.

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

We had to move. We had to leave.

Whole armadas of spaceships set out. They all dispersed into the universe.

I don't know where they are.

I guess they're all lost.

A few made it to your planet, planet Earth.

A few of us arrived early.

It was a few minutes our time but on Earth time it was a hundred years too

early. They came in out of the sky and man were they greeted.

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

But it wasn't all great on this planet.

You got homesick and desperate.

One of us tried to commit suicide.

He was spared.

You know, our great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great

grandfathers were fine scientists, but the journey was long and boring, and

when we got here hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds

of years later, those of us who arrived here just sucked.

I came in with the third group, and we had a lot of... big plans. We knew we

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

that would rival DC.

This, this, this looked great because

two train lines converge right here. Over here we built this to

be the mall, the main shopping center, and over here was to be the Supreme

Court, and over here was to be Congress.

And down there, the Pentagon, and way, way, way at the end there was the great

Andromeda Memorial.

But the whole thing sucked.

Nobody came, nobody settled, nobody shopped.

Yep.

You see aliens as these technologically advanced super beings who destroy New

York City in two minutes flat.

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

Look.

We're failures.

Look. DC.

I guess we're just failures.

This whole thing makes me sad.

Really makes me sad.

The only success story was a man who used his knowledge of the sky and flying

machines.

He became chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee at the Pentagon.

In retrospect, it might be said that aviation itself has served a

very small part in the result.

of the World War I conflict.

However, it did prove itself.

That is, it was easier to recognize than with proper equipment.

At another later time, aviation might become a real

instrument of military warfare.

First, I thought I was going places as I was accepted into the CIA, but I found

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

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

I knew quite some things, but they wouldn't listen, and that made me very

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

I was involved in the Roswell recovery.

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

stashed it in some silo underground, and they kept lying that it was just some

media invention.

Now comes this.

50 years later, they dig it up, and they decide, with the help of advanced

technology, that they're going to take another look.

That was a big mistake. They should not have done that.

From the start, that convoy had a very ominous feel to it.

They shut out the world.

No press, no TV cameras, no photos. This film is the only

record which they made for their secret files.

What happened inside had far-reaching consequences and you don't even know

about it.

Everything was hermetically sealed.

Man, it was ultra clean in there. Toxic waste outfits for the men.

Even the truck was sealed in plastic.

They had a hunch that something dangerous might be lurking.

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

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

But there was microbic life attached to it, life that was unknown on planet

Earth.

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

was seeping out, invisible, secret, potentially lethal.

seeping into the few patches of bear skin, and these scientists would carry

it out into the world.

They scrambled to quarantine and then barely succeeded. There was panic, and

so they hatched a secret plot.

They sent out a group of astronauts.

Their mission?

Find a hospitable place out there for human habitation. Find something.

Anything that could be an alternative to Earth.

The astronauts were told that this mission would extend to the boundaries

of our solar system. But no one could have foretold of the larger, more

ominous voyage the Leigh had.

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

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

It has been kept locked away all these years.

As time dragged on, they were still cautiously orbiting planet Earth.

Their mission was going nowhere.

They needed a way to reach further.

The ground crew encouraged this, even though the spread of the alien microbes

turned out to be not such a big deal.

It was mostly contained.

Still, they wanted the astronauts to keep going, to find a safe haven just in

case.

They were in for a rude awakening.

They did not know how hostile it was out there.

The astronauts decided to send out a space probe to explore the outer fringes

of the solar system.

It could radio back images from the planets it encountered.

They named the probe Galileo.

They waited months, and then these images came back.

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

Thank you.

It was clear now that there was nothing nearby.

On the ground, they knew they needed a bolder plan, a trip beyond our immediate

horizons. For the mathematicians, it was only a question of a different

trajectory. The potential energy doesn't change, that's just zero.

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

It just required the gravity assist from Venus and a flyby of Jupiter.

It looked doable.

If we look at our, you know, our standard, this VIVA equation here.

The key is going to be getting the right V infinity at Venus, so we're going to

need enough, we're going to still need enough performance from the spacecraft

so that we can go below the orbit of Venus enough so that the V infinity at

Venus is high enough that when we have to come up with the velocity needed to

get us on out to Jupiter, that will work. I guess we could use this to look

at leaving the solar system.

This is the sun, the earth going around it.

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

and the earth going around, let's just draw an axis and rotate the plane with

the earth. So now the earth looks like it's fixed.

Now we're working in a rotating system.

In this rotating system, if we have a little spacecraft with an antenna or

whatever, moving around, it's got some velocity in the rotating system,

and it's got potential energy with respect to Earth and potential energy

with respect to the Sun.

The Jacobi's constant is equal to 1 half

the rotating velocity squared.

And I believe by convention, it's all minused. So we get a negative sign on

the kinetic energy, and we have the gravitational constant of the sun

divided by our distance from the sun, and the gravitational constant of the

Earth divided by our distance from the Earth.

Whenever we come by the Earth, no matter which direction we go on it, what

direction we come in at or what direction we fly by, we're going to end

up with exactly the same velocity.

And the key then is to use other planets.

That's the wrong symbol.

That would be Mars, and it's in the wrong place. We'll use Venus.

Use other planets to change what the Jacobi's constant is to a new value.

It's playing games with the Jacobi's constant, and that's where the tour

starts to get interesting.

On board, however, the shifted trajectory was accepted as just an

extension of their flight plan.

Life carried on.

Day in, day out, drudgery set in.

But as you get further and further away, you don't have a sun.

You don't have a sunrise anymore.

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

There is no sense of being close to anything.

So you're truly an island.

You begin to accept a different life.

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

As if you could go to sleep, wake up on a sleeper train pulling into your

destination the next morning.

I could have told them. I know all about it.

Lord, we traveled all the way from the outreaches of

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

No, you don't.

Let's get this clear from the start.

closest star to this planet, or should I say speck of dust, is only four and a

half light years from here.

And may I say that Alpha Centauri is a couple of million degrees hot, which I

don't want to exaggerate, could be unpleasant.

Now, how fast is the speed of light?

Using conventional fuel, I mean rocket fuel,

to accelerate to 30% of the speed of light wouldn't take all the fuel tanks

on planet Earth or the equivalent to, say, the Rocky Mountains. It would take

all the mass in the universe visible to the naked eye.

That's the Earth, the Sun, the solar system, the Milky Way, all the stars in

your galaxy, all the stars in the surrounding galaxies.

Now, how fast have you gone so far?

Well, the fastest speed achieved to date was by your Voyager space probe, which

accelerated to about 55,000 miles per hour and is currently heading out of

your solar system into deep space. Now, let's suppose that that is a spaceship.

You are an astronaut on that ship, and you are headed toward Alpha Centauri,

which I will remind you is 4.5 light years from here.

Let's assume that you started your voyage 20,000 years ago. This is the

time of Cro-Magnon, man, Paleolithicum, cave paintings in the south of France.

You're hunting bison, rhino, woolly mammoths. And you're speeding along at

55,000 miles per hour for another 10,000 years. Now you're at Neolithicum.

Mankind begins agriculture, domesticating animals, sheep, goats,

horses, pigs.

And when I say pigs, I mean...

breeding domesticated pigs.

This was mankind's first-part sin. Why?

Because in order to breed animals, you have to become sedentary. This begat

settlements, which begat towns, which begat cities, which begat all the

problems that will be mankind's destruction.

Breeding dogs is not a sin because they'll go with you on your nomadic

hunts. But pigs? That was the sin.

I have diverted.

The ship continues on its way for another 6,000 years.

Ancient Egypt, pharaohs, pyramids, a few thousand years more, past ancient

Greece, ancient Rome, and into the Middle Ages, and more are seen.

An Italian poet decides it would be a good idea to climb a mountain just for

the fun of it.

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

English men made them.

And then they robbed the mountains of their dignity.

That was a sin.

The ship moves on.

Declaration of Independence, World War I, Communism, World War II, Marilyn

Monroe, Elvis Presley to the present day. Now, how far have you gone?

You have accomplished just 15% of your journey to Alpha

Centauri.

You have...

in procreating gone through 500 generations.

How could you have avoided inbreeding, rebellions, murders?

Would you not just become grotesquely mal-deformed freaks with no idea of

where you came from or why you began the journey to begin with?

And might I add...

that the closest star which might be considered non-lethal is not 4.5 light

years from here. It's more like 200,000.

the spaceship was surrounded by deep black space.

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

astronauts, trying to prevent that devised a way to read each other's mind.

Like this, they were able to maintain their equilibrium.

Order had to be enforced.

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

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

reverse.

Now these images came much later from the ship.

Battery power was running low, and the first signs of chaos became visible.

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

There was a rogue mathematician who kept the secret of a breakthrough invention

to himself.

You just want to keep it to yourself for a while because for a while you're the

only person on earth who knows something.

And that little secret is just so exciting.

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

it. It was something that was kind of hard to grasp and believe because I've

been looking for them for so long and all of a sudden it happened.

And moreover...

Then, you know, the theory just really started rolling, looking at asteroids,

comets, and how all the whole solar system is controlled in many ways by

these chaotic tunnels.

And this is how the chaotic transport can occur.

And so here in this particular image is an artist's conception of some of these

gravitational tunnels that are in...

in our solar system that connects our solar system.

And this is a step forward from the Copernican view of

the solar system, where in this image you can see that the orbits of the

planets all around the sun, except that they're all separated. They're all in

this very classical conception of the solar system.

And now 500 years later,

picture of the solar system is slightly different and I'm using an image from

the Chathra Cathedral's floor and actually has even more antiquity origin

of the labyrinth which shows that the whole solar system is really integrated

and this integration even though in this picture of course is very nice and even

but actually these are generated by chaotic orbits and it's what I call

chaotic transport that was first really discovered mathematically by Poincaré.

And so let me show you how these tunnels are generated.

So you start off looking from the Sun towards the Earth, and here's the Moon's

orbit. And one of these very large orbits that's actually larger than the

Moon's orbit is what we call a halo orbit around the L2 Lagrange point of

the Earth.

is a gateway that's invisible.

So each time you look at the sun or you look at the moon, you actually are

looking at these gateways that are invisible.

And they provide these free transport through these huge, huge tunnels.

Now, this little animation will show you how the tubes of the Earth and the tubes

of the Moon interact to provide these low-energy transports so that we can

actually conceive of putting a space station around the Moon's Lagrange

points in either L1 or L2, where it's very easy for astronauts to get to the

Moon and also come back to Earth.

But at the same time, they can service missions deep in space.

So, for example, in this case, we're going to look at how from the L1, the

lunar L1,

station there go to send a spacecraft to the Sun Earth L2 which is one and a half

million kilometers and from there you could actually deploy it and have it go

to Mars and so on so this yellow dot represents one of these space stations

and and so as we pan out You can see that the moon's tubes, the red tubes

are like the off-ramps that allow you to leave, and the blue tubes allow you to

get on to the next gateway at L2. And then here, it extends out to space.

And here's the Earth's on-ramp, Earth going to L2.

And so that when these tubes intersect, that's when you get these free

transport. But from here, you could also deploy to the other parts of the solar

system. And so that this offers opportunities that we don't have from

just looking at Keplerian orbits.

In the same way, in the future, using string theory, we're going to have much

more powerful tunnels, tunnels that will allow us to perhaps go through space

-time. And that then is the possibility of going to the stars and to the

galaxies.

Now, let me jump. And so here's the conception, like an artist's conception.

First off, just the gravitational tunnels that we're working with. But

eventually, instead of planets, it will be tunnels between galaxies.

By utilizing chaotic transport, the astronauts found a shortcut.

The direct route to my planet.

It makes me angry.

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

Soon they would be at the doorstep of the wild blue yonder.

It was already in their sights.

There it lay.

covered by a crust of ice.

They made preparations for landing.

What makes my planet so different and beautiful is the sky there.

The sky is frozen.

Just thinking about it makes me homesick.

Leaving the ship behind, they cut through the ice and found themselves

descending into an atmosphere of liquid helium.

And what makes it even worse for me is to be so far away watching human beings

exploring my world.

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

camera.

And I can hear the sound of the wild blue yonder.

This was home to me.

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

is its wildlife.

The creatures would always speak to you. They'd try to make contact.

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

Thank you.

Mm.

Mm.

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

or did not treat them with respect.

The Farafleet, the Farafleet, the Farafleet.

The FNAF.

Oh, my God.

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

on this planet.

Sure, it looked inhospitable, but compared to what they saw from the

Galileo space probe, it seemed to be a reasonable solution.

What would a colony look like?

Digging tunnels or caverns underground, building a big...

some sort of protection from the chaotic flow of particles?

Oh, well, in all these systems, it turns out that if you look around us, the

universe, chaos is not a negative thing. It actually allows us to

conserve energy in many ways.

And so in this particular The Interplanetary Superhighway concept,

chaos, is extremely important because that's what generates these very free

and inexpensive transports.

Part and parcel with space travel is really the colonization of space.

And in the mid-20th century, our concept of how that would happen might be we

would build a large force field, a dome of some type, over some planet or some

floating island, underneath which would be a giant Amazon-type

forest, a jungle of some sort.

But the jungle is not really where human beings, at least not humans today, want

to live in.

So the ideal environment might be something like a shopping

mall in space, because you have everything from stores that you can shop

at, places to go gym and aerobics, bars, entertainment.

You could shop all day long, or there'll be working places.

So this might be, for the future, the perfect.

space colonization paradigm.

Shopping mall?

I could have told them. We had a similar plan, but you saw it didn't work.

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

Makes me so sad to think of all that merchandise sitting there unsold.

And what makes me even more sad is that my planet started to die hundreds of

years ago. And here they are, seeing this as a potential replacement for

Earth.

They begin to map out specific, suitable locations.

On the second day, they ventured down into the low ceiling basements of my

planet. They hoped to find the ideal place to install sewer pipes, electric

cables, and an air supply system.

And after they were done with the sailors, they consulted their compasses,

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

And this area we used to call the cathedral.

The blue cathedral.

It was time to return home, back to planet Earth.

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

was a difficult process and it took patience.

each astronaut would, in turn, have to pass through this tunnel, and by doing

so, have to dissolve into particles, and subsequently into pure light.

Back in their world, it took time for the astronauts to reassemble and morph

back into human form.

They believed that they were somehow back on Earth and that they were only 15

years older.

But their existence back here was just an illusion.

What really happened was this.

They had not been out there for 15 years. They had moved so fast through

the tunnel of time that it had actually become a different, a parallel voyage,

and on Earth, 820 years had passed.

They began to see their planet in a different light with different

possibilities.

We envision the day when a lot of humanity will be living outside of

planet Earth.

They will be working in other places, maybe Mars, and maybe they'll be working

on asteroids. We will have already moved to the vicinity of Earth so that we can

mine them and we can take care of their resources.

And then the Earth will become more of a protected

national park of sorts of humanity.

Humanity will preserve our planet as a pristine protected area

for humans to come perhaps to spend vacation.

You spend six months working in some other place and after...

you gather enough money, you could come and spend some vacation in a nice beach

on planet Earth.

And when they made it back 820 years later, this Earth had no people left.

It was waiting there as a national park.

This plateau was the landing site as there were no more airfields, no towns,

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

It had returned to its pristine beauty.

It was prehistoric again.

And this is what it looks like.