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♪Endless drifting♪
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♪To the end of the dark forest♪
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♪The wind is like a hand♪
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♪Trying to keep time♪
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♪Who is the hunter with a gun♪
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♪Trying to devour the entire universe♪
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♪The light is like an eye♪
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♪That penetrates dreams♪
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♪Don't answer♪
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♪Who is eager to fill his eyes
with the starry sky♪
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♪The earth is no longer rotating♪
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♪You gave me a small universe♪
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♪In the arms of the universe♪
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♪Calling humbly for
the vast space and time♪
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♪The world aches dully♪
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=Three-Body=
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=Episode 18=
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Wenjie, this is an official decision.
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From this day onwards, you'll be working
in the Monitoring Department.
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Now I'll explain the work
of the Monitoring Department to you.
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Simply put, the goal is to keep an eye
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on all enemy activities in space,
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including intercepting communications
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between enemy space vessels and the ground,
and between the space vessels themselves,
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track the orbits
of enemy space vessels,
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collaborate with our telemetry
and tracking centers,
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and provide data
for Red Coast's combat systems.
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In other words,
the eyes of Red Coast are here.
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Political Commissar Lei,
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I think you should reconsider
whether it's necessary to tell her this.
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Political Commissar Lei,
if it's too sensitive, then...
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No, Wenjie.
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Weining, like I said, work must be done.
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She needs all the information
in order to do her job.
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Fine.
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I'll report this to the high-ups.
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Sure.
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You have the right to do so.
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But I give you my word that
I'll take full responsibility for my action.
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Alright.
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I'll take your word for it.
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Don't mind him.
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That's just the way he is.
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He can be too cautious
to be openhanded at work.
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Wenjie, come here.
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Take a seat.
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Sit.
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Look, when we first brought you here,
the goal was simple.
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Red Coast's monitoring system
often had interference
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caused by electromagnetic radiation
from solar flares and sunspots.
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Then we came across your paper
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and believed that you were
an expert in solar activity.
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And your predictive model
was the most accurate.
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So we wanted to solicit your help
in solving this problem.
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After you came,
you demonstrated strong abilities,
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so I decided to entrust you
with more important work.
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You've worked in Transmission
for a while
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and gained an overview of Red Coast.
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Now that you're transferred,
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your assignment in Monitoring
will be discussed later.
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Of course, as you can see,
there's some resistance.
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But I trust you.
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Personally, I have faith in you.
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I hope you can keep up the good work
and earn the trust of the organization.
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Wenjie, honestly,
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I sincerely hope that someday,
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I'll be able to call you Comrade Ye.
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Don't let me down.
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Even though
Political Commissar Lei trusted me,
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my activities were severely restricted.
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I had access to the software
source code, but not the database.
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And I had to learn the software techniques
from scratch.
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That was far from being easy.
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(File Bag)
(According to the latest weather forecast,)
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(from 8:00 AM today
to 8:00 PM tomorrow,)
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(parts of the Northwest
will see light snow or sleet.)
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(The local high will be
9 degrees Celsius.)
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Report.
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Come in.
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Chief Engineer Yang,
after being deciphered by the computer,
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what we had received turned out to be
a few satellite photographs.
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GSD's Surveying and Mapping Bureau said
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they're images of
our important military targets,
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including the naval harbor at Qingdao
and several key factories
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of the Third Front program.
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Did we monitor their satellites?
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Analysis confirmed
that these images came from the KA-9
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Reconnaissance System of the West.
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The first KA-9 had just been launched.
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Although it mainly relied on recoverable
film capsules for intelligence gathering,
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it was also being used to test out
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the more advanced radio transmission
of digital images.
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As the...
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As the technology is undeveloped,
the satellite transmitted at a low frequency,
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which increased its range of reception
sufficiently for it to be intercepted by us.
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Abandon this target.
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Change the frequency.
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I'll let you know about the direction.
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We're having a rare opportunity to learn more
about the Western satellite reconnaissance system.
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Are you sure about letting it go?
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How many times do I have to tell you?
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Change the direction
and the frequency!
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Transmission has a machine down.
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Go and check it.
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Yes, sir.
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So, it was Yang Weining
who kept holding you back?
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He was acting weird,
always lashing out at me for no reason.
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But I didn't mind.
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What mattered to me
was those unexplainable matters at work.
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They made me realize
that Red Coast was
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far more complex than I had imagined.
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(The 299th transmission
of Red Coast Project is finished.)
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(Shutting down transmission system.)
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(Red Coast entering monitoring mode.)
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(Monitoring frequency range:
1,000 MHz to 40,000 MHz.)
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(Monitoring frequency range:
1,000 MHz to 40,000 MHz.)
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(Monitoring channels: 15,000.)
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(Monitoring channels: 15,000.)
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(Key frequencies to monitor:
Hydrogen atom frequency at 1,420 MHz.)
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(Hydroxyl radical radiation frequency
at 1,667 MHz.)
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(Water molecule radiation frequency
at 22,000 MHz.)
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(Repeat.)
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(Key frequencies to monitor:
Hydrogen atom frequency at 1,420 MHz...)
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The designated frequencies
for the three transmissions
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were lower than microwave range
and couldn't result in
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any heating effect in the target.
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Both Yang Weining's strange attitude
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and those abnormal cases
said one thing.
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That is, the real purpose of Red Coast
was top-secret.
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(Calling Wang Miao End Call)
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(Chang)
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Chang, it's me.
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We're in Qijiatun.
I've checked with the village committee.
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(Red Coast File Bag)
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That red ginseng factory checks out.
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The locals can get paid
by working there.
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Where are we on declassifying the files?
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You've promised me. I need them today.
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I've got them.
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What's inside
is way beyond imagination.
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Don't keep me guessing, OK?
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What on earth is Red Coast for?
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Their research
is indeed the most confidential.
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(Troubleshooting
of Magnetic Core Memory is complete.)
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(Clear fault codes.)
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Hello?
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Ye Wenjie, come to my office now.
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Yes, sir.
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(A routine work meeting
will be held at 3:00 PM.)
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(Please be prepared.)
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(Department heads
are to attend on time.)
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Report.
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Come in.
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Ye Wenjie, come here.
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I assumed Political Commissar Lei
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was being punished for promoting me.
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I told myself that no matter what,
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I couldn't drag him down
even if I had to lie.
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(Ye Wenjie Experience)
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Ye Wenjie, first, let me be clear
that I disagree with all this.
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The decision was made
by Chief Engineer Yang
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after seeking the high-ups' permission.
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He alone will take all the consequences.
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To better utilize your skills,
he talked to the superiors repeatedly.
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Army Political Department
did their investigation, too.
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Now, we've been authorized
to disclose the true nature
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of the Red Coast Project to you.
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I hope you'll treasure this opportunity
and work hard to redeem your sins.
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From now on, you must behave
with the utmost propriety.
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Any transgression
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will receive the harshest punishment.
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Understood?
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Yes, sir.
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It wasn't until then that I realized
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everything Lei Zhicheng had told me
was a lie.
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Red Coast
was neither a powerful weapon
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nor a monitor on enemy space vessels.
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All his care, promotion, and protection
were all an act.
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That's why Yang Weining
tried to stop him.
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Yang Weining was a good man.
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When the leaders
doubted me for my background,
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he stood up for me.
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And it was also he
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who told me the truth about Red Coast.
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If you want to quit,
it's not too late now.
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I'll do it.
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Are you sure?
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Once you said yes, the last ray of hope
of leaving Radar Peak would be gone.
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You'd spend the rest of your life here.
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Yes, I'll do it.
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The truth was an incredible fairy tale
for the ages.
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It's a lot.
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Read it yourself.
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(A Question Largely Ignored by Trends
in Fundamental World Scientific Research)
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(Space Science and Technology)
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This file talks about
two ways to convert the results
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of fundamental scientific research
into practical applications:
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gradualistic mode and saltatory mode.
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That's right.
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Gradualistic mode refers to
theoretical, fundamental results
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being gradually applied to technology
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such as the development and application
of space technology.
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Saltatory mode means
theoretical, fundamental results
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rapidly become applied technology,
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(Nuclear Weapons)
leading to a technological leap.
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Examples include nuclear weapons.
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Yes.
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Now, both NATO and the Warsaw Pact
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are intensely active
in fundamental research
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and investing heavily in it.
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At this rate,
technological leaps may occur anytime.
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That will pose a major threat
to our strategic planning.
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Here it lists the fields
where such leaps are most likely:
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physics, biology, computer science.
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(SETI)
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The Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
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If a leap occurs in this field,
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its impact will exceed the sum of that
in the other three.
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That's what I'm talking about.
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Several NATO states
have already prioritized SETI.
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For example,
they launched Project Ozma
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(Green Bank Telescope at NRAO)
and built NRAO.
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(Concise Star Chart)
The project examined the stars
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Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani
and planned to broaden
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the frequency range in 1972.
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The Pioneer 10 and 11 probes
would be launched,
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each carrying a metal plaque
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with information about
civilization on Earth.
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And in 1977, they'd launch
the Voyager 1 and 2 probes,
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each with a metal audio record.
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This is the Arecibo Observatory.
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It's ready to use
and extremely powerful.
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Its effective energy collection area
is about 20 acres,
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greater than that of all the others
in the world combined.
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Together with the computer system,
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it can simultaneously monitor
65,000 channels,
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and it's capable of
ultrahigh energy transmissions.
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Look.
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This is in Europe.
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They've also made huge investments.
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The entire world is working on SETI.
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That's true.
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Except for us
who are paying little attention to it.
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You should know, if any country
gets in touch with extraterrestrials,
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it'll overturn the global landscape,
especially those superpowers.
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If they beat us to it,
we'll no longer have a chance.
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As a major socialist power,
we cannot fall behind.
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This unknown area must be conquered
for strategic importance.
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There's a long way ahead of us.
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Ye Wenjie, from this moment on,
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your job is to develop the Red Coast
Self-Interpreting Code System.
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Precisely,
using universal, basic mathematical,
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and physical laws to construct
an elemental linguistic code
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that can be understood by any civilization
that has mastered basic algebra,
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Euclidean geometry,
and the laws of nonrelativistic physics.
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Building on that,
create a brand-new linguistic system
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including Chinese and Esperanto.
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Do you get it?
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Yes, sir.
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So, the mysterious Red Coast Project
was established for SETI,
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and you alone created the Red Coast
Self-Interpreting Code System.
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At that time,
the Cold War was at its height.
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The insanity of the human race
had reached its historical zenith.
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Nuclear submarines and nuclear weapons
lurking in the corners
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could be launched at a moment's notice.
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Once they were let go,
hundreds of cities would be leveled,
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killing hundreds of millions of people.
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With such technical leaps in sight,
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an intense sense of crisis
was shared all over the world.
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Professor Ye, you're an astrophysicist.
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Do you really think astronomy
will be taking a technological leap?
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As destructive as nukes are, the universe
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is harboring even more terrible forces
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such as black holes and anti-matter.
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Compared with them, a nuclear bomb
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is nothing but a tiny candle.
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There used to be a waveform monitor.
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It was to display the waves
that Red Coast picked up from space.
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My daily work was to
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monitor and record that curve,
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waiting to hear from
the extraterrestrials.
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Over there, we had a radio receiver,
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quite sophisticated.
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A ruby-based traveling-wave maser
amplified the signals received by
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the gigantic antenna.
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But there was interference.
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Wouldn't it affect the accuracy?
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Wang, you're underestimating Red Coast.
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As immature as the technology was,
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it could do more than you think.
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The core of the reception system
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was immersed in
liquid helium at -269 degrees Celsius.
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A helicopter came to resupply
liquid helium regularly.
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The reception system was thus
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capable of picking up faint signals.
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Back then,
our monitoring range was
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within a radius of 1,000 light years,
containing some 20 million stars.
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Other than searching for and monitoring
possible extraterrestrial intelligence,
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we also tried to
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(20 Million Stars)
send messages to the universe
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to establish contact and communication.
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So did you really make such attempts?
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We did.
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♪In the blue sky float white clouds♪
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♪Below the white clouds run horses♪
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♪I swing my horsewhip
and the crack travels far and wide♪
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Ye Wenjie and I
have redrafted the letter.
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Ye Wenjie, read it.
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(PLA Letter Paper)
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"We extend our best wishes to you,
inhabitants of another world.
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After reading the following message,
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you should have a basic understanding
of civilization on Earth.
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By dint of long toil and creativity,
the human race
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has built a splendid civilization,
blossoming with diverse cultures.
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We're also getting to know the laws of nature
and the development of human societies.
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We cherish all that we've accomplished.
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But our world is still flawed.
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Hate exists, as do prejudice and war.
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Contradictive productive forces
and relations
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are causing extremely
uneven distribution of wealth.
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And large portions of humanity
are living in poverty and misery.
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Human societies are working hard
to resolve the difficulties they face,
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striving to create a better future
for Earth civilization.
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The country that sent this message
is also engaged in this effort.
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We are dedicated to
building an ideal society
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where the labor and value of every human
are fully respected,
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and everyone's material
and spiritual needs are fully met
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so that civilization on Earth
may become more perfect.
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With the best of intentions,
we look forward to establishing contact
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with other civilized societies
in the universe.
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We look forward to working with you
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to build a better life in this vast universe."
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This letter of humans' best wishes
was sent to the universe.
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Enclosed was an overview of Earth,
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life on Earth,
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and human society
as well as basic world history.
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All that was sent after transmitting
the Self-interpreting Code System.
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Red Coast is a great project, no doubt.
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When sending messages to the universe,
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how did you ensure our security?
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It was carefully vetted
to ensure that it didn't give away
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the Earth's coordinates
relative to the Milky Way.
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At the 2,280 MHz, 12,000 MHz,
and 22,000 MHz channels,
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the transmission times
of the message were
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31 minutes, 7.5 minutes,
and 3.5 minutes respectively.
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Transmission at the higher-frequency
12,000 MHz
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and 22,000 MHz channels was minimized
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in case our location was exposed.
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Back in those days, SETI at Red Coast
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was marginalized research.
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But why such a high security rating?
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They asked the same question
at the very beginning of the Project
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and it was asked until the very end.
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But now,
you should have the answer.
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We can only marvel at the foresight
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of the top decision-maker of the Project.
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Had Red Coast succeeded,
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the world would be utterly different.
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Well, it's still too soon to tell
whether it succeeded or not.
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The radio waves sent out
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haven't gone too far in the universe yet.
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The farther the signals travel,
the weaker they become,
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and the less likely that any extraterrestrial
civilization will receive them.
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In order for extraterrestrials to detect
our signals,
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we broadcast at a power level equal to
the energy output of a mid-sized star.
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Soviet astrophysicist
Nicolai Kardashev once proposed
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that we could divide civilizations
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based on the power they could command
for communication purposes,
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He divided them into three types:
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A Type I civilization
can muster an amount of energy equal to
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the total output of the Earth.
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A Type II civilization
can marshal the energy equal to
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the output of a typical star.
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A Type III civilization
can utilize its communication energy
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equal to the energy output of a galaxy.
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Civilization on Earth is currently
not even a full Type I.
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And the transmissions from Red Coast
used only about one ten-thousandth
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of the power the Earth could muster.
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Our call wasn't any louder
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than the buzzing of a mosquito.
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No one could hear it.
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But the Type II and III civilizations
Kardashev proposed do exist,
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we should be able to hear them by now.
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In this case, our efforts seem to
have only proven one thing
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that in the vast universe,
only the Earth has intelligent life.
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Theoretically, there might never be
a definitive answer to that question.
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But emotionally, I and everyone else
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who went through Red Coast all believed so.
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Too bad the Project was decommissioned.
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It was there already
and should've kept going.
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It was a great cause worth fighting for.
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In the late 70s,
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there was a large-scale renovation.
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The transmission system was automated.
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Data processing of monitoring
became far more advanced.
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40,000 channels
could be monitored simultaneously.
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The more people knew, the clearer they became
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about the difficulty of SETI.
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00:32:38,790 --> 00:32:45,350
And the leadership
lost interest in Red Coast.
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After the renovation,
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the first change we experienced
was lowered security rating.
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The security detail was reduced to
a group of five guards.
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Salute!
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Red Coast remained within
the Second Artillery Corps,
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00:33:05,830 --> 00:33:07,790
but management
of its scientific activities
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was turned over to the Astronomy Institute
of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:17,960
and it took on some research projects
that had nothing to do with SETI.
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00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:23,830
I believe you achieved
most of your accomplishments then.
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At the time,
we had China's largest radio telescope.
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Following all those changes, we first took on
some radio astronomy projects.
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Later, more and more
such observatories were built,
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and Red Coast shifted to the observation and
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analysis of solar electromagnetic activity
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with an added solar telescope.
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00:33:55,350 --> 00:33:58,720
I bet practical applications were a ton.
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00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,270
Correct.
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00:34:00,270 --> 00:34:04,640
The mathematical model we built
for solar electromagnetic activity
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was state-of-the-art.
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00:34:08,670 --> 00:34:12,550
With such fruition,
the large investment in Red Coast
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saw a little bit of return.
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00:34:15,670 --> 00:34:22,110
Actually, much of the credit
should go to Political Commissar Lei,
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although he did have his own agenda, too.
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00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:29,390
Political Commissar Lei?
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Wasn't he a political officer
in that technical unit?
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Before enlisting,
he had studied astrophysics as well.
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Research projects we took on
outside of SETI were all due to his efforts.
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It wasn't easy
to return to technical work.
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Without Lei,
Red Coast would've been long gone.
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When it was converted for civil use,
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00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,840
the military basically abandoned it.
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00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:14,150
Chinese Academy of Sciences
could no longer keep the base running.
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Inevitably, it was shut down.
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In the dead of the night, when I was alone
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in the empty monitoring room,
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00:36:07,510 --> 00:36:10,030
I could hear in my headphones
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the lifeless noise of the universe.
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It was faint but continuous,
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more eternal than the stars.
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00:36:24,630 --> 00:36:30,200
Sometimes I thought it sounded like
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the endless cold winds of Radar Peak.
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I was chilled to the bone.
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00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,610
There weren't enough words
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00:36:43,660 --> 00:36:46,960
to describe such loneliness.
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SETI is quite a unique discipline.
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It can shape researchers' perspectives
on life.
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It occurred to me repeatedly
that life was truly an accident
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00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:13,280
among all the accidents in the universe.
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00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:18,900
And the universe was an empty palace
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in which humankind was the only ant.
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This kind of thinking made me live
a conflicted life since.
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Sometimes I thought life was precious
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and more important than anything.
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But other times,
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I found humans so insignificant
that nothing was worthwhile.
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00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:25,030
Anyway, despite such internal conflicts,
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my life slipped away,
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and before I knew it,
I was already old.
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I'm not getting any younger
or healthier.
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00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,320
I can't predict the future.
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00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:58,800
All I can do is live my life as it is.
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♪I've seen things
you people won't believe♪
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♪Soon our planet will vanish♪
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00:39:55,820 --> 00:40:02,180
♪I've known the future
you people won't think of♪
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00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:09,340
♪Soon your planet will be punished♪
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00:40:10,420 --> 00:40:17,140
♪I've seen things
you people won't believe♪
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00:40:17,860 --> 00:40:23,780
♪Soon our planet will vanish♪
467
00:40:25,220 --> 00:40:31,340
♪I've known the future
you people won't think of♪
468
00:40:32,620 --> 00:40:38,660
♪Soon your planet will be punished♪
469
00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:46,660
♪I've seen things
you people won't believe♪
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00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:53,660
♪Soon our planet will vanish♪
471
00:40:54,820 --> 00:41:01,380
♪I've known the future
you people won't think of♪
472
00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:08,500
♪Soon your planet will be punished♪
473
00:41:09,460 --> 00:41:16,380
♪I've seen things
you people won't believe♪
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00:41:16,900 --> 00:41:22,740
♪Soon our planet will vanish♪
475
00:41:24,220 --> 00:41:30,820
♪I've known the future
you people won't think of♪
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00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:37,580
♪Soon your planet will be punished♪
477
00:41:39,060 --> 00:41:45,740
♪I've seen things
you people won't believe♪
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00:41:46,460 --> 00:41:52,260
♪Soon our planet will vanish♪
479
00:41:53,690 --> 00:42:00,820
♪I've known the future
you people won't think of♪
480
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,180
♪Soon your planet will be punished♪
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