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DAVID WILCOCK: There is
a metaphysical connection
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to the most significant
technological breakthroughs.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: 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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WILLIAM HENRY: 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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DAVID CHILDRESS: 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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HENRY: It appears that these
beings are guiding humanity
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into a new age of superâadvanced
technology that will ultimately
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allow us to interface
with the cosmos.
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NARRATOR:
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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âȘ âȘ
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âȘ âȘ
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NARRATOR:
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 historyââ
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putting a man on the moon.
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NEAL ARMSTRONG: Houston, uh,
Tranquility Base here.
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The Eagle has landed.
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NARRATOR:
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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NARRATOR: 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 jumpâstarted
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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NARRATOR: 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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(audience cheers, applauds)
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And we are calling it "iPhone."
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(audience cheers)
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KARA SWISHER: 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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andâand 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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NARRATOR: 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 19âyearâold 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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DANIEL KOTTKE: 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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NARRATOR:
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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NARRATOR: 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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LAYNE LITTLE: 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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NARRATOR:
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,
inâin a better path,
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inâin a path of understanding,
a path of greatness.
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LITTLE: 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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NARRATOR:
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
massâmarket personal computer.
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Woz of course was
the allâaround 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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NARRATOR: 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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DEEPAK SHIMKHADA:
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,
inâin a sense, uh,
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download the knowledge,
wisdom directly from them.
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NARRATOR:
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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NARRATOR: 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 earlierââ
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Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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WILCOCK: 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 highâend 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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NARRATOR:
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 manâmade 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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NARRATOR: 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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NARRATOR: 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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unâscrolling before him.
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NARRATOR: 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 reâderives 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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CHILDRESS:
For someone like Ramanujan,
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who grows up in a devout Hindu
family in southern India,
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everything thatâthat
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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WILCOCK:
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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NARRATOR:
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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NARRATOR:
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 singleâminded focus
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and thinks differently
from his peers.
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LEAVITT:
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
literalâmindedness.
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By taking things literally,
he was able to go places
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that people who were
less literalâminded
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would never be able to go.
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NARRATOR: In fact, Alan Turing
was so literalâminded
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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 topâsecret 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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LEAVITT: 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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NARRATOR:
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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PAUL CERUZZI: 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 operationsââ
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what we now call softwareââ
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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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NARRATOR: 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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CHILDRESS:
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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NARRATOR: 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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NARRATOR: 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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This technology was essential
to the success of the project,
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and it might never
have been realized
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had von Neumann not
crossed paths with Alan Turing.
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CERUZZI:
We know that Alan Turing,
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uh, met John von Neumann
at Princeton.
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Von Neumann was familiar with
Turing's theoretical papers.
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What we don't know
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is the substance
of their conversations.
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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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NARRATOR:
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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WILCOCK:
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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NARRATOR: 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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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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a rocket that would
reach the stars.
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NARRATOR:
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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highly speculative
and even farâfetched,
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considering the Wright Brothers
had just achieved
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the first powered flight
that same month.
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But many of the major points
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contained in
Tsiolkovsky's article,
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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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would be proven
to be incredibly accurate.
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ANDREW JENKS:
He's a fascinating character
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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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that put the first
dog into space,
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that launched Sputnik, the first
satellite, into space in 1957.
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NARRATOR: Tsiolkovsky's
main source of inspiration
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was his friend and mentor,
Nikolai Fyodorov,
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a Russian Orthodox
Christian philosopher.
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Fyodorov was one of
the founders of "cosmism,"
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which was a precursor
to ancient astronaut theory.
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JENKS: 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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and we would go back to
our origins from whence we came.
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NARRATOR:
Like Fyodorov,
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Tsiolkovsky came to be
a cosmist himself.
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And he not only inspired
Soviet rocket scientists
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but also the genius responsible
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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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After six years
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of the deadliest warfare
the world has ever seen,
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the Nazis surrender
to the Allied Powers.
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Germany's top rocket scientist,
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Wernher von Braun, predicted
the defeat months earlier
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and by deceiving his superiors
has managed
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to move his team of scientists
south into Austria
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to surrender
to the American forces.
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Acquiring von Braun
was considered
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a major coup
by the United States.
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His work in rocketry
was so important
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that the Soviets scoured
his former headquarters
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at Peenemunde Army
Research Center
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in search of any information
he may have left behind.
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What they discovered
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were the writings
of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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and found that almost every page
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was embellished by
von Braun's comments and notes.
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00:29:30,268 --> 00:29:31,687
WHITEHEAD:
Wernher von Braun
500
00:29:31,687 --> 00:29:34,564
was heavily influenced
by Tsiolkovsky.
501
00:29:34,564 --> 00:29:36,566
Tsiolkovsky himself
had this concept
502
00:29:36,566 --> 00:29:39,945
of human beings being
birthed in the stars.
503
00:29:39,945 --> 00:29:42,364
And if you really
think about it,
504
00:29:42,364 --> 00:29:46,201
could it be that these
scientists coming out of Russia
505
00:29:46,201 --> 00:29:48,245
had some kind
of advanced knowledge?
506
00:29:48,245 --> 00:29:50,455
Could they have
been communicating
507
00:29:50,455 --> 00:29:53,291
with some form of advanced
extraterrestrial intelligence
508
00:29:53,291 --> 00:29:55,669
that was influencing
the space race
509
00:29:55,669 --> 00:29:57,045
and influencing this push
510
00:29:57,045 --> 00:29:59,006
to get humanity
to go back to the stars?
511
00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:05,303
NARRATOR: As a young boy,
Wernher von Braun was fascinated
512
00:30:05,303 --> 00:30:09,516
with the science fiction
of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells
513
00:30:09,516 --> 00:30:12,102
and was convinced
that he could make
514
00:30:12,102 --> 00:30:14,896
their visions
of space travel a reality,
515
00:30:14,896 --> 00:30:18,567
even going so far
as to tell his mother
516
00:30:18,567 --> 00:30:22,821
that he would build a machine
that would take man to the moon.
517
00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:24,698
(indistinct radio chatter)
518
00:30:24,698 --> 00:30:29,703
But when von Braun actually
achieved this in 1969,
519
00:30:29,703 --> 00:30:32,748
it was such an extraordinary
technological leap
520
00:30:32,748 --> 00:30:36,043
that some people believed,
like Tsiolkovsky,
521
00:30:36,043 --> 00:30:39,755
he too was guided
by extraterrestrial beings.
522
00:30:43,425 --> 00:30:44,843
WILCOCK:
Wernher von Braun
523
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:47,304
was utterly captivated
by the idea
524
00:30:47,304 --> 00:30:49,222
that we belong in the stars.
525
00:30:49,222 --> 00:30:52,601
It's as if the Earth is a seed,
526
00:30:52,601 --> 00:30:55,520
and if that seed
never germinates,
527
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,190
then it could just die.
528
00:30:58,190 --> 00:31:00,692
We need to go out into space.
529
00:31:00,692 --> 00:31:04,571
And that vision
of a new tomorrow
530
00:31:04,571 --> 00:31:08,700
is what fueled him to want
to succeed even further.
531
00:31:08,700 --> 00:31:12,079
That leads me to suggest
the possibility
532
00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:14,623
that some sort of
extraterrestrial contact
533
00:31:14,623 --> 00:31:16,583
might have happened
with Wernher von Braun.
534
00:31:16,583 --> 00:31:19,294
Something or someone
might have reached him
535
00:31:19,294 --> 00:31:23,131
and saw where we needed
to go as a civilization
536
00:31:23,131 --> 00:31:26,927
and gave him the tools
and the insights that he needed
537
00:31:26,927 --> 00:31:29,471
to be able to build
our way out into space.
538
00:31:31,556 --> 00:31:32,933
NARRATOR:
Is it possible,
539
00:31:32,933 --> 00:31:35,811
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
540
00:31:35,811 --> 00:31:40,273
that Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
and Wernher von Braun
541
00:31:40,273 --> 00:31:44,319
were aided
by extraterrestrial beings?
542
00:31:44,319 --> 00:31:47,656
And if so, why?
543
00:31:47,656 --> 00:31:51,284
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the predictions
544
00:31:51,284 --> 00:31:56,039
not of science
but of science fiction.
545
00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:04,506
MAN:
How far out can you get?
546
00:32:04,506 --> 00:32:06,925
That's the big question
in television today,
547
00:32:06,925 --> 00:32:08,969
and CBS has the big answer.
548
00:32:08,969 --> 00:32:12,347
Its fabulous new series,
Lost in Space.
549
00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:16,434
NARRATOR: In 1965,
the CBS network announced
550
00:32:16,434 --> 00:32:18,395
the debut of what would become
551
00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:22,899
television's first primeâtime
science fiction series.
552
00:32:22,899 --> 00:32:24,526
MAN: Wouldn't Dad like
to use this gadget
553
00:32:24,526 --> 00:32:26,695
to beat that thruway traffic?
554
00:32:26,695 --> 00:32:31,283
NARRATOR:
Set in the farâfuture of 1997,
555
00:32:31,283 --> 00:32:35,704
Lost in Space told the story
of a family of space colonists
556
00:32:35,704 --> 00:32:38,582
who become marooned
on an alien world.
557
00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:42,377
It underscored
America's growing acceptance
558
00:32:42,377 --> 00:32:46,548
that mankind's future
was not here on Earth
559
00:32:46,548 --> 00:32:49,426
but out in the vast reaches
of the galaxy.
560
00:32:49,426 --> 00:32:52,095
This trend continued
561
00:32:52,095 --> 00:32:56,057
when the following year
NBC premiered Star Trek,
562
00:32:56,057 --> 00:32:59,936
the epic saga
of a futuristic starship
563
00:32:59,936 --> 00:33:03,607
whose crew is charged
with exploring the galaxy,
564
00:33:03,607 --> 00:33:07,068
seeking out new life
and new civilizations,
565
00:33:07,068 --> 00:33:10,488
and going where no manââ
or womanââ
566
00:33:10,488 --> 00:33:12,782
had ever gone before.
567
00:33:12,782 --> 00:33:15,577
Interestingly,
both programs would appear
568
00:33:15,577 --> 00:33:17,954
in America's living rooms
569
00:33:17,954 --> 00:33:22,292
years before mankind would even
step foot on the moon.
570
00:33:22,292 --> 00:33:26,338
It is amazing that today
we are living in times
571
00:33:26,338 --> 00:33:29,090
where only 40, 50 years ago,
572
00:33:29,090 --> 00:33:31,593
people were fantasizing
about the future.
573
00:33:33,470 --> 00:33:37,557
And here we are experiencing
that said future.
574
00:33:37,557 --> 00:33:40,268
Not all of it, but many things.
575
00:33:40,268 --> 00:33:44,356
Where do we stand
50 years from now?
576
00:33:44,356 --> 00:33:48,610
I think science fiction
is a part of disclosure.
577
00:33:48,610 --> 00:33:53,448
Over time, science fiction
has become science fact.
578
00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:56,743
MAN:
Ignition sequence start.
579
00:33:56,743 --> 00:33:59,454
NARRATOR: Of course,
science fiction's role
580
00:33:59,454 --> 00:34:02,499
in preâenvisioning
what would ultimately become
581
00:34:02,499 --> 00:34:05,752
the world's "science fact"
was nothing new.
582
00:34:05,752 --> 00:34:10,423
Space stations,
intelligent robots,
583
00:34:10,423 --> 00:34:13,385
extraordinary
communication devices,
584
00:34:13,385 --> 00:34:16,304
Even Star Warsâtype
space weapons
585
00:34:16,304 --> 00:34:19,432
were all preâenvisioned
in the creative minds
586
00:34:19,432 --> 00:34:24,062
of authors like Jules Verne,
H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke,
587
00:34:24,062 --> 00:34:27,816
Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
588
00:34:27,816 --> 00:34:31,278
And their works later
formed the basis
589
00:34:31,278 --> 00:34:33,905
for countless films
and television series.
590
00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:39,369
Great innovation has come
from science fiction literature.
591
00:34:39,369 --> 00:34:43,707
Arthur C. Clarke imagined the
satellite before the engineers.
592
00:34:43,707 --> 00:34:46,668
They were reading
science fiction
593
00:34:46,668 --> 00:34:48,670
when they came up
with the idea to do that.
594
00:34:48,670 --> 00:34:51,506
This has happened repeatedly
where a creative artist
595
00:34:51,506 --> 00:34:54,342
will come up with a new idea
just to tell a story,
596
00:34:54,342 --> 00:34:57,429
but it's coming
from the unconscious.
597
00:34:57,429 --> 00:34:59,222
I mean, look at Jules Verne.
Go back and read Jules Verne.
598
00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:00,640
It's really interesting.
599
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,434
Like, a lot
of the stuff we made,
600
00:35:02,434 --> 00:35:04,644
like, he just thought it up.
601
00:35:04,644 --> 00:35:08,565
TSOUKALOS: And these ideas
sprung out of a man's mind,
602
00:35:08,565 --> 00:35:11,526
and it has become reality.
603
00:35:11,526 --> 00:35:13,486
And I think that
they've turned to reality
604
00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:16,698
because of young kids
reading these stories
605
00:35:16,698 --> 00:35:19,326
and eventually growing up
and realizing,
606
00:35:19,326 --> 00:35:20,869
"Wait a second.
607
00:35:20,869 --> 00:35:23,663
"We have all these
technological capabilities.
608
00:35:23,663 --> 00:35:25,415
"What if I can bring it
609
00:35:25,415 --> 00:35:27,792
to the next level
with a new invention?"
610
00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:34,007
So science fiction can serve
as a direct path to science
611
00:35:34,007 --> 00:35:38,386
that has been
inspired by fantasy.
612
00:35:38,386 --> 00:35:42,974
NARRATOR: But are many
of today's scientific wonders
613
00:35:42,974 --> 00:35:47,395
merely the product of fertile
minds and wild imaginations?
614
00:35:47,395 --> 00:35:51,316
Or do they have
their origins elsewhere,
615
00:35:51,316 --> 00:35:53,860
possibly lightâyears away?
616
00:35:56,071 --> 00:35:57,864
REDFERN:
There's an interesting theory,
617
00:35:57,864 --> 00:36:02,494
the idea that certain profound
science fiction writers
618
00:36:02,494 --> 00:36:04,913
may not have just simply
come up with the ideas
619
00:36:04,913 --> 00:36:08,375
for their stories on their own,
albeit they may have thought
620
00:36:08,375 --> 00:36:10,210
they came up with
the ideas on their own.
621
00:36:10,210 --> 00:36:13,338
Perhaps there was
an outside force
622
00:36:13,338 --> 00:36:15,340
presenting it to them.
623
00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:18,760
Have science fiction
authors and writers
624
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,513
been inspired
by extraterrestrials?
625
00:36:25,934 --> 00:36:27,936
NARRATOR: Could
extraterrestrials have given
626
00:36:27,936 --> 00:36:32,816
humanity glimpses of its own
future through science fiction?
627
00:36:32,816 --> 00:36:36,236
And if the creative minds
of the past
628
00:36:36,236 --> 00:36:38,363
have been able to preâenvision
629
00:36:38,363 --> 00:36:41,658
the incredible technologies
of the present day,
630
00:36:41,658 --> 00:36:45,620
then should we also regard
the science fiction of today
631
00:36:45,620 --> 00:36:50,208
as a guide to where mankind
is headed next?
632
00:36:50,208 --> 00:36:53,378
Where do we stand
50 years from now?
633
00:36:53,378 --> 00:36:56,172
And if we're talking
about science fiction today,
634
00:36:56,172 --> 00:37:00,427
one recurring theme
is what happens
635
00:37:00,427 --> 00:37:03,221
if we gain the ability
to upload our consciousness
636
00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:05,598
to some type of a computer?
637
00:37:05,598 --> 00:37:10,186
Is it possible that our future
may lie in a digital realm?
638
00:37:10,186 --> 00:37:14,649
I would not want my thoughts
to be uploaded to a computer,
639
00:37:14,649 --> 00:37:17,986
because then
we really become glass.
640
00:37:17,986 --> 00:37:21,740
This planet will cease to exist
within two seconds
641
00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:23,783
if we all know
each other's thoughts.
642
00:37:23,783 --> 00:37:27,829
So there's a fine line
we have to walk
643
00:37:27,829 --> 00:37:31,875
between what can
and will ensure our future
644
00:37:31,875 --> 00:37:36,087
and what can and will be
our assured annihilation.
645
00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:43,261
NARRATOR: According to many
ancient astronaut theorists,
646
00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:45,805
the visions of a bleak futureââ
647
00:37:45,805 --> 00:37:48,808
as depicted in today's
science fictionââ
648
00:37:48,808 --> 00:37:52,270
could, if realized,
prove as perilous
649
00:37:52,270 --> 00:37:54,814
as they once seemed profound.
650
00:37:54,814 --> 00:37:56,900
But they also suggest
651
00:37:56,900 --> 00:38:00,612
that the messages that mankind's
visionaries receive
652
00:38:00,612 --> 00:38:05,325
may not be dire predictions
as much as they are warnings.
653
00:38:05,325 --> 00:38:09,746
Warnings intended
to help mankind
654
00:38:09,746 --> 00:38:11,498
avoid annihilation.
655
00:38:18,922 --> 00:38:23,468
NARRATOR: Today the theorems
of Srinivasa Ramanujan
656
00:38:23,468 --> 00:38:26,554
are being applied in branches
of physics that may allow us
657
00:38:26,554 --> 00:38:29,766
to unlock the greatest mysteries
of the cosmos.
658
00:38:32,644 --> 00:38:34,395
The computer models
659
00:38:34,395 --> 00:38:37,482
established by Alan Turing
and John von Neumann
660
00:38:37,482 --> 00:38:41,903
have advanced human technology
by leaps and bounds.
661
00:38:41,903 --> 00:38:44,531
The advances in rocketry
662
00:38:44,531 --> 00:38:48,743
made by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
and Wernher von Braun
663
00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:53,790
have allowed for
greater exploration of space.
664
00:38:53,790 --> 00:38:59,003
And Steve Jobs' contributions
to the microcomputer revolution
665
00:38:59,003 --> 00:39:01,631
have put all of the world's
collective knowledge
666
00:39:01,631 --> 00:39:03,424
at our fingertips.
667
00:39:07,512 --> 00:39:10,974
But has the work of
these visionaries and others
668
00:39:10,974 --> 00:39:14,894
really been directed by an
extraterrestrial intelligence?
669
00:39:14,894 --> 00:39:18,982
And if so, to what end?
670
00:39:23,820 --> 00:39:27,782
We have been the experiment of,
I believe, extraterrestrials.
671
00:39:27,782 --> 00:39:32,036
I think they have nurtured us
to see how we develop.
672
00:39:32,036 --> 00:39:34,747
And they're probably saying,
673
00:39:34,747 --> 00:39:37,667
"Gosh, look at these humans,
look how fast they can advance."
674
00:39:37,667 --> 00:39:39,627
And we're getting better
and better and better
675
00:39:39,627 --> 00:39:41,629
with technology.
676
00:39:41,629 --> 00:39:45,633
But Elon Musk from Tesla
and physicist Stephen Hawking
677
00:39:45,633 --> 00:39:49,429
all warn us, "Be careful
of artificial intelligence.
678
00:39:49,429 --> 00:39:51,014
It could go too far."
679
00:39:51,014 --> 00:39:53,474
I agree with them.
We need to be careful.
680
00:39:55,768 --> 00:39:58,646
CHILDRESS:
Something too that comes out
681
00:39:58,646 --> 00:40:01,441
of a lot of the UFO literature
of the '50s and '60s,
682
00:40:01,441 --> 00:40:04,444
that extraterrestrials were
683
00:40:04,444 --> 00:40:07,488
allegedly contacting
certain people
684
00:40:07,488 --> 00:40:10,658
and warning them of the dangers
of nuclear power
685
00:40:10,658 --> 00:40:15,371
and that what we were doing
with our atomic weapons
686
00:40:15,371 --> 00:40:17,832
was very destructive
687
00:40:17,832 --> 00:40:21,502
and that we could destroy our
own planet with this technology
688
00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:23,588
and that the extraterrestrials
themselves
689
00:40:23,588 --> 00:40:24,923
were very concerned about this.
690
00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:31,471
And so, in many ways,
we must be very careful
691
00:40:31,471 --> 00:40:35,892
of how we use
our own technology.
692
00:40:35,892 --> 00:40:40,521
TSOUKALOS: There's a reason
why we are where we are today.
693
00:40:40,521 --> 00:40:43,483
We have made
these advances in technology
694
00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:45,818
for one and one reason only...
695
00:40:49,072 --> 00:40:52,158
...to return to the stars,
696
00:40:52,158 --> 00:40:53,910
because that's where
we came from.
697
00:40:57,580 --> 00:40:59,040
And now the question is:
698
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,752
are we going to fulfill
our destiny or not?
699
00:41:02,752 --> 00:41:05,171
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
700
00:41:05,171 --> 00:41:07,507
that humanity's
greatest visionaries
701
00:41:07,507 --> 00:41:10,343
have been unknowingly
carrying out
702
00:41:10,343 --> 00:41:13,680
some sort of extraterrestrial
master plan?
703
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,016
One intended to prepare mankind
704
00:41:17,016 --> 00:41:19,102
for the ultimate
"close encounter"?
705
00:41:19,102 --> 00:41:22,772
And if so, does this mean
706
00:41:22,772 --> 00:41:26,693
that our future has been
somehow predetermined?
707
00:41:26,693 --> 00:41:30,697
Or are we simply being
given the tools
708
00:41:30,697 --> 00:41:33,741
with which to shape
our own destiny?
709
00:41:33,741 --> 00:41:35,952
Perhaps the answer can be found
710
00:41:35,952 --> 00:41:39,747
in the pages
of a science fiction book,
711
00:41:39,747 --> 00:41:44,377
in the palm of our hand
within a simple cell phone,
712
00:41:44,377 --> 00:41:49,298
or in the latest
robotic technology.
713
00:41:49,298 --> 00:41:52,218
Perhaps it is carved
on the stone walls
714
00:41:52,218 --> 00:41:54,971
of an asâyetâundiscovered tomb.
715
00:41:54,971 --> 00:41:58,516
Or even as we sit,
716
00:41:58,516 --> 00:42:01,519
right before our eyes.
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