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0:00Hey everybody, my name is Richard and
0:02this is the message from deep space. It
0:05is an indie puzzle game about
0:07translating an alien language. So, it's
0:10science fiction. And a lot of people
0:12were suggesting this game to me uh
0:15lately. So, I thought, you know what,
0:17with GTA 6 coming up and, you know, WoW
0:19Forever and all that and my other long
0:21series, I figured it made sense to, you
0:24know, play something a little shorter,
0:25something uh short and sweet. So, let's
0:28see if this is indeed sweet or not. By
0:29the way, the reason I'm talking like
0:31this uh is because it's kind of late in
0:33the evening and I'm inside a closet
0:34right now. So, I actually have my whole
0:36PC in this like little closet and I have
0:40to be really quiet. Okay. Also, I lied.
0:43My name is not Richard. I'm Oliver.
0:46Hello. Nice to meet you. And I'm
0:48actually not in a closet either, but it
0:49is late at night. I don't know why I'm
0:50lying about this, but it is late at
0:52night. So, uh I'm a little tired. And uh
0:54yeah, let's just get going, shall we?
0:57Mission translator, what is your name?
1:00So, we need a last name.
1:02H
1:04I mean, part of me wants to put error
1:06away. [laughter]
1:08Uh,
1:11no, I'm just gonna I'll be Dr. David.
1:14Why not? Sounds good. Okay. The message
1:18from deep space. Okay. So, here we go.
1:23The Hubble Deep Field,
1:33man. That thing is hauling ass.
1:41Nice visuals.
1:44Never mind. I take it back slightly.
1:49>> [laughter]
1:52>> I'm in a silly mood today. Uh I don't
1:54know why. Um maybe it's just because I'm
1:57a little tired and it's kind of late,
1:58but let's see.
2:01I don't know what it is, but these
2:03graphics make me think that I'm playing
2:05a horror game, you know? I mean, this
2:08guy has no eyes. He truly looks like a
2:10demon that's going to jump at the screen
2:11at any moment and scare the be Jesus out
2:14of me. And I really hope it doesn't
2:16happen because this is not the time to
2:18be screaming here in the evening.
2:22I am Dr. Docless Doppler, head of
2:25material science for the American Space
2:27Agency. Okay, that's very uh very uh
2:31convenient. Doppler. Nice.
2:34>> I am joined by astronomer Dr. Acres,
2:38>> computer programmer Dr. Bautista,
2:41>> linguist Dr. Collins
2:44>> and translator Dr. David. That's me,
2:47baby.
2:49>> So, why are we here?
2:52>> This morning, May 13th, 1973.
2:56>> We begin the investigation of the
2:58world's first extraterrestrial contact.
3:01Nice.
3:03>> So, we're not alone.
3:06>> And we're the first to know. So, all
3:08these people are talking here at the
3:09same time.
3:1310 days ago, a meteor crashed down in
3:15Cape Espenberg, Alaska. Is that even a
3:18real place? I've never heard of Alaska.
3:22Huh?
3:25>> Though that is beyond my expertise.
3:26Meteors land quite often.
3:29>> What is the cause for investigation?
3:32>> This meteor has an antenna from which it
3:35is broadcasting a radio transmission.
3:37Okay, that is indeed very weird. Stop.
3:40Stop.
3:40>> A single signal lasting about,
3:43>> let me see here.
3:46>> 8066 seconds.
3:50>> Dude, these voices are hilarious. Then
3:52it pauses for just as long and repeats
3:54again.
3:57>> H. The antenna was not added after it
3:59was recovered.
4:00>> Nope.
4:02>> Geocismic stations detected the meteor's
4:04crash landing.
4:06Then a naval boat immediately picked up
4:08the unusual signal on its radio
4:11>> before the meteor was ever recovered.
4:14>> This is without a doubt the work of an
4:16extraterrestrial life form. I mean,
4:19let's not jump to conclusions here.
4:22>> An advanced one at that. All right.
4:26>> The signal transmits for 0.8066 seconds,
4:29then pauses, then resumes.
4:32your hypothesis.
4:34>> No,
4:35>> it's waiting for a response.
4:38Really? What if it's just like at the
4:42stress beacon or something? It was
4:44repeating, right?
4:47>> The signal. What frequency are we
4:48looking at?
4:50>> It's roughly 1.42 million kilhertz.
4:54>> Then we're lucky that a world-class
4:55astronomer like me is here.
4:58>> Dr. Acres, this mean something to you?
5:01It's the hydrogen line.
5:03Oh yeah.
5:06Oh yeah. 1420 MHz.
5:09I didn't even register that. True.
5:14>> Hydrogen atoms when their electron
5:15changes spin, they release
5:17electromagnetic radiation. Yeah.
5:19Hyperfine transition.
5:22>> And it's always at exactly that
5:23frequency. 1,420,45
5:27kHz.
5:27>> Yeah.
5:28That's beyond my expertise.
5:31>> Put simply, what is significant about
5:32that frequency?
5:35Well,
5:37where to start?
5:40Well, I guess the main reason why it's
5:41so significant is
5:44it's a tracer of hydrogen.
5:47Okay. And hydrogen is by far the most
5:51common element in the universe. Like, it
5:53is everywhere. Pretty much everything
5:55you see up there in the night sky when
5:56you see anything is pretty much
5:58hydrogen, right? So having a reliable
6:01way of figuring out where it is, being
6:02able to see it and measure the motion of
6:05it and other things is kind of a big
6:07deal.
6:08So so, so I know it as the 21 cm line,
6:11right? Because that's what you get if
6:13you convert it. Uh, but the point is 21
6:16centimeters is kind of a long
6:18wavelength, you know, like it's the size
6:20of a human hand. So, it's radio
6:23radiation, which means it's going to
6:25penetrate dust and stuff in the galaxy
6:27and everywhere else, you know? So, we
6:29can actually probe deeper into clouds of
6:32dust and we can see through all this
6:34obscuring [ __ ] that's in between us and
6:37the other side of the galaxy, for
6:38example, right? And if you, you know,
6:41look at 21 centimeters of other galaxies
6:43out there, you can, you know, infer the
6:44motions of it. You can make rotation
6:46curves. It's actually what allowed us to
6:48first predict the existence of dark
6:49matter. Um, oh, and by the way, fun
6:52fact, the transition itself is actually
6:54extremely rare. The chance for this even
6:57to happen is like I think it happens
6:59once every like 30, 50 million years,
7:02you know? So, it requires a tiny miracle
7:06for this spin flip to even take place.
7:08And then you may say, okay, but how is
7:10that even useful then? There's just so
7:11much freaking hydrogen out there, dude.
7:14There's so much hydrogen that even with
7:15this low probability of this transition
7:17happening, if you look at the sky in 21
7:20centimeters, it lights up like a
7:22freaking Christmas tree. I love it.
7:25Let's go.
7:26>> It's a universal constant. Also, I need
7:28to be more quiet. Actually,
7:31it's the same frequency every time.
7:33Every time, everywhere, no matter where
7:35you are in the universe.
7:38>> Looks like I built the right team with
7:40you four.
7:41>> Dr. Bautista, take them to the control
7:43room.
7:44>> Get the team set up on the computer
7:47>> and start broadcasting transmissions.
7:49>> What do we broadcast?
7:52>> That is up to Dr. David. Oh, well, in
7:55that case, I say we broadcast reruns of
7:58Cosmos with Carl Sean. Hell yeah.
8:04>> Figure out what it is the aliens want to
8:06say.
8:07uncover their message
8:10for all of humanity.
8:12>> That's your mission. Good luck. And he
8:15stands there like a drill sergeant. I
8:16like it. Okay.
8:19Kind of a quaint little break room they
8:21got there.
8:24Wow.
8:27Okay.
8:29Interesting.
8:31I was kind of expecting Oh, hold on.
8:35Whoa. Look at all this Meteor OS. That's
8:38kind of fitting.
8:42Okay.
8:44Oh, I can't even move the cursor.
8:46I can only move it in here. Uh, I was
8:48kind of expecting this to be like a
8:50message from deep space that we would be
8:53deciphering, but apparently it's like a
8:56thing that came from deep space, a
8:58meteor, and then landed on Earth, and
9:00it's emitting
9:02uh signals to us there. That's kind of
9:04weird. I guess
9:07but I guess you know it makes sense to
9:10do it that way otherwise uh it would
9:13take a long time to get a response if
9:14it's actually from the ultra hubble deep
9:16field you know that would take uh
9:18billions of years
9:20with uh with light you know so okay so
9:24what are we doing here what is actually
9:25going on so we have a
9:28computer set up there's tape recorders
9:30up there there's a sine wave doing
9:32sciency things.
9:35There's a counter in the bottom right.
9:36We got a keyboard.
9:39There's some kind of grid on the left
9:40that is doing things.
9:43Output
9:45respond.
9:50Okay. Wait, what?
9:56The message from deep space.
10:00Wait. Version 1.21.
10:03Is that a coincidence or is that a
10:04reference to the 21 centimeter line? I
10:07feel like it's got to be a coincidence,
10:09right?
10:11Game by apples in my pants. Nice.
10:15Okay, guess we can save. Why not?
10:18Settings.
10:21Dude, I like this uh retro style here
10:23with the monitors. It looks nice.
10:29Okay.
10:31Well, okay then. So, what do I actually
10:34have to do? I'm kind of confused.
10:37So, I have to respond, I guess. So, what
10:39is this?
10:42Oh, that's the frequency. 1420 MHz
10:49respond.
10:52Uh,
10:55hello.
10:57Oh, I have to
11:01compilation failed. Not a number.
11:04>> Hello. That's smart.
11:07>> Starting off on the right foot with
11:08these aliens.
11:11>> Yes, but it is unlikely they know
11:12English
11:14>> or any human language for that matter.
11:16Is it though? I mean, if these guys came
11:19from, you know, freaking deep space,
11:22traveled billions of light years, you
11:24don't think they could, you know,
11:25analyze our language and talk to us in a
11:27way we would understand? Come on.
11:30But I guess there wouldn't be a game
11:31otherwise.
11:33>> Oh, right. Shucks.
11:36>> Guess we'll stick to numbers.
11:39Okay, so we got to put in a number
11:46before this log progresses. You can
11:47press tab to continue through dialogue.
11:50Okay, but why does it show a mouse right
11:53click then?
11:54>> In case right click on the mouse does
11:56not work. What? Why would it not work?
12:02>> Okay, they both work.
12:05>> Uhhuh.
12:07>> Anyways, uh computer guy, what's your
12:09name again?
12:10>> His name is Dr. Bautista and I'm Dr.
12:12Collins and the translator is Dr. David.
12:16Okay. So, we had there was a material
12:18science guy. We had an astronomer,
12:23computer guy, and linguist, right?
12:28And me.
12:30And Collins was
12:34I forgot. Bautista is computer guy.
12:37Okay, got it.
12:40>> Dr. Bautista, how do I control the
12:41computer? Okay, so Acres is not a
12:44computer guy.
12:46You do not. Dr. David does. Hell yeah, I
12:48do.
12:50>> Move the mouse cursor and click buttons.
12:52Okay, I think I know that much.
12:55>> The output window on the right shows the
12:56frequencies from the meteor.
13:00Right.
13:03>> The respond button will take you to an
13:04input page. Okay, that's where I am.
13:08>> And I take it that's where Dr. David
13:09will input frequencies to transmit back
13:11to the meteorite.
13:13>> Uh-huh.
13:15Type in there,
13:17>> then transmit the frequency.
13:19>> Thanks, computer guy.
13:24>> Huh. So, we got to type frequencies.
13:33I'm actually kind of lost right now. I'm
13:35not going to lie. Like, this is kind of
13:37weird. I don't understand what's
13:38happening. So, I got to I got to type a
13:40frequency. Like, what frequency? I'm I'm
13:42confused.
13:46this frequency.
13:50Why is there zero there?
13:54Respond. So, this is input.
13:59Um, I'm just going to type this
14:01frequency.
14:0314 20 40.
14:07Please tell me it saves. 5752. Okay, it
14:11does.
14:13Let's see. Okay, that works.
14:19And there's another one.
14:21>> Whoa, the signal changed.
14:24Wait, is that my arm?
14:29>> So, the meteor isn't just repeating.
14:32>> It really is waiting for someone to
14:34respond. Hold on a minute. These people
14:35are sitting next to me.
14:38We're all like huddled around these
14:39monitors together.
14:41I don't know why I'm so surprised. I
14:44guess I thought we were all like remote,
14:45you know, because of the microphone and
14:47all the names lighting up and stuff like
14:48that. This whole scenario with the arm
14:50coming in reminded me of that meme from
14:52the office with Dwight and Angela coming
14:54up behind him, you know, and he's like,
14:55"Fuck." All surprised. That's how I felt
14:58when the arm came in on the left.
15:01>> There really is something out there.
15:04>> I still can't believe the signal really
15:05changed.
15:07>> I can.
15:08>> Huh? I can believe it.
15:12>> We read the frequency and transmitted it
15:13back.
15:14>> Party pooper.
15:17>> Okay, I guess it kind of makes sense.
15:20You know, if they sent something to us
15:22and we don't know what it means. It
15:23could mean hello, you would send the
15:26same thing back, right?
15:30But am I just supposed to Can I copy
15:32this
15:34somehow? Am I just supposed to write it
15:36again?
15:391420
15:4340608.
15:49Okay. New signal detected.
15:55Yeah, it is different. But
16:01wait, this is so weird. What? I'm just
16:03putting in the same number.
16:0614 20 40 I guess that's always the same.
16:115752.
16:18Uh,
16:22okay.
16:23Ain't that splendid? Another new
16:25transmission.
16:27>> I wonder what this means.
16:29>> It means we can monkey see, monkey do,
16:32right? We can pair it.
16:35Acknowledgement is a first step to
16:36communication.
16:38>> Bautista's just a party pooper.
16:41I hate party poopers.
16:44All right.
16:46I mean, I'm just I'm just going to type
16:47the same thing again. Maybe the game
16:49wants me to type something else now.
16:5214 20 40 57 53
16:55uh 40 57 53.
17:01I mean, okay.
17:04Oo.
17:08Okay. So, they're all the same except
17:10the last digit.
17:122 3 4. So, it's five now. Or what?
17:161 420.
17:2040 57 55.
17:25No. Oh, it's at Okay, I guess it wasn't
17:29wrong. Now there's four.
17:32Hey, Bautista. I can't get over this
17:34[ __ ] hand appearing like that. Dr.
17:37David figured that one out.
17:39>> And it wasn't just repeating the inbound
17:41signal.
17:42>> No snarky comment. H.
17:45>> Congrats.
17:47>> What? That's all you have to say?
17:49>> No winning with you, party pooper. Dude.
17:54Okay. So, four, five, six, seven.
17:57I'm going to put in eight
18:0014 20
18:0240 57 58.
18:07Okay.
18:11It's a weird game, man.
18:14Huh? Oh my god, there's a lot now.
18:17>> Okay, computer updated.
18:20>> What are these new tabs on the left
18:22display?
18:25>> The update.
18:26>> Yeah. Allow me to reiterate what exactly
18:29is in these tabs.
18:30>> Okay,
18:31>> open them.
18:34Okay.
18:37History group one question marks.
18:47Oh, okay. Wait. Um.
18:53Oh, it's just a history. Okay.
18:59It looks like one's a history of all our
19:00transmissions.
19:02>> Oh, you even put our response
19:04transmission in there.
19:06>> And the other is just a history of the
19:08autolog.
19:11>> So everything we've said,
19:13>> so this will go in there, too.
19:15>> Uh-huh. So I can go blah blah blah blah
19:18blah blah blah.
19:20>> Stop clogging the log.
19:22>> Fine blah. [snorts]
19:25Okay.
19:26>> All right. I'm ending the recording.
19:29Okay, then. Log.
19:36Oh [ __ ] Okay. Oh, we get to see
19:39everything that's been said, even the
19:40beginning.
19:42Oo, we can even copy it. Why?
19:46Okay, I guess we have that now.
19:50Okay, so hold on. 1973.
19:54That's like four years after we landed
19:56on the moon. Maybe it's related in the
19:58story. I don't know. May 13th,
20:03the first extraterrestrial contact,
20:0810 days ago. Okay. So, it actually
20:09crashed on the 3rd of May.
20:14Okay.
20:16In Cape Espenberg, Alaska. Is that where
20:19we are now then?
20:21Or did they retrieve it and bring it to
20:23wherever we are now?
20:290.8066
20:31seconds.
20:34Okay.
20:36I mean, okay. Sure. Sure. Why are there
20:38two of these?
20:43Okay. So, one closes it fully. Got it.
20:45Okay. So, hold on a minute. We got a
20:48bunch of stuff over here now. So, these
20:50are all the same except for the last
20:52digit 2 03 04 05 06 07.
20:59We're playing a game of what comes next
21:031420
21:0757
21:1040 57
21:13and I guess we say 57,
21:17right? Five. Seven.
21:21Okay. Okay. Not bad.
21:27204608
21:321420
21:3440 57
21:3858.
21:42Nice.
21:44I mean, these are not that difficult, I
21:46guess. Oh, what's that now? That's
21:48weird. Okay, compiler updated.
21:52The what? How the radio signals compile
21:55to the screen. I have updated it.
21:59The incoming frequencies now display
22:01minus roughly 1.4 billion.
22:06Oh, that's smart. Nice.
22:09>> So, the real frequency of the latest
22:10signals are these numbers plus about 1.4
22:12billion.
22:13>> Yes.
22:15And we can input those smaller adjusted
22:17numbers than two.
22:18>> Mhm.
22:20>> So input a signal of uh that input zero.
22:25That makes sense.
22:27>> So that means no more memorizing a bunch
22:29of digits. God damn it. I actually just
22:31memorized it
22:33>> before flipping between screens due to
22:35well your poor programming skills.
22:39I update the computer and I'm thanked
22:41with an insult.
22:43Maybe you will see less improvements in
22:45your workstation.
22:47>> Hey, don't catch me in the crossfire
22:48here.
22:49>> Sorry, Dr. Collins.
22:52>> It's kind of cool how they're like
22:54talking to each other next to me.
22:55There's just something about that. Okay,
22:58so
23:00um what's going on here? So, this is
23:03actually like the hydrogen line plus
23:05six,
23:07right? And this is the hydrogen line
23:09minus two.
23:146 - 2 5 - 2 4 - 2 3 - 2 2 - 2 or I guess
23:19just one number. So two
23:23nice.
23:26All right.
23:28Wait, what's happening?
23:32System offline.
23:36Okay.
23:38Wait, there's a poster behind him now.
23:39That wasn't there before, I'm pretty
23:40sure.
23:42Right. Sine waves, one wavelength, one
23:44cycle. Amplitude.
23:48Oh, they even have the frequency there.
23:501,420,000 [music] I mean mil. Sorry, 1
23:53billion420,45,752
23:57hertz. Sick. Welcome. Welcome. Dr.
24:01Rakers, Bautista, Collins, Dr. David.
24:04I've been looking forward to this all
24:06week. What do you have? We've received
24:09new transmissions
24:11>> and the frequencies changed a lot. Also,
24:14isn't this music like extremely loud?
24:17Suddenly, there was music out of nowhere
24:19and it's like really loud. I can barely
24:21hear the characters. I mean, not that
24:23they're saying real words, but you know
24:26what I mean. Like, I can barely hear
24:27myself think.
24:30Oh, really? That's fantastic.
24:33So, what did the meteor say?
24:36The meteor has established a
24:37communication protocol. They've started
24:39a call and response game. Explain. They
24:43send a transmission, leaving a gap for
24:45us to fill in. If Dr. David fills it
24:48with the frequency they are expecting,
24:50we are treated to a new transmission.
24:53Interesting. They're towing us along.
24:56So, what are these new frequencies?
24:58Anything special?
25:00The signal frequencies have been as high
25:01as seven [music] hertz above the
25:02hydrogen line
25:04>> and as low as two hertz below.
25:06>> Sorry, seven hertz. Could you articulate
25:09on that?
25:10>> Well, you're in luck that I'm here. Get
25:13on with it. The electromagnetic waves
25:16that the meteorite is broadcasting
25:17oscillate at a given frequency. The
25:20meteorites spewing out a wave of energy
25:22and that energy goes up and down and our
25:24antenna basically counts how many times
25:26that wave cycles up and down per second.
25:29And that gives us the frequency which we
25:30measure in cycles per second or hertz. I
25:34also just noticed they all have like
25:36different fonts when they speak. [music]
25:37That's kind of a nice touch. And if I'm
25:39not mistaken, this font is comic sets,
25:42which is kind of funny, I guess.
25:46>> So, if the frequency we see is seven
25:47hertz above the hydrogen line,
25:50>> we're counting seven more cycles in the
25:51wave per second.
25:53>> Right on. H
25:56though. Why is it seven hertz higher?
25:59Hertz is a unit based on the second. A
26:01human created time unit.
26:04That's a good point. There's nothing
26:06particularly special about the second.
26:08No reason that other alien civilizations
26:10would use it, right?
26:13I'm cheating.
26:15Oh.
26:17>> Hey, Bautista. Probably shouldn't tell
26:18your boss that hertz is a misnomer.
26:22Since each signal is transmitted for
26:2408066 seconds, I use that as the
26:27denominator.
26:28>> So, it's not really Hertz. Oh, okay. He
26:31uh normalized it.
26:33>> You're measuring in alien hertz.
26:35>> Mhm. The baseline is the hydrogen line
26:38in hertz, while the offset frequencies
26:40are offset by alien hertz.
26:43>> And you're using their alien second
26:44unit. You're not half bad, Bautista. H.
26:48Our antenna is detecting differences in
26:50frequency at 08066 [music]
26:52seconds. I was unaware such extreme
26:55narrowband radio receivers existed. Me
26:58too until about a week ago. Our antenna
27:00reliably records down to 0.1 hertz.
27:03>> Then these aliens are really pushing it.
27:06>> We can't perceive much smaller divisions
27:08in wavelength. And it's a good thing
27:10we've got one of the highest precision
27:11radio receivers and transmitters in the
27:13world. He looks so proud. That's a lot
27:16of pressure.
27:18Yep. But maybe that's something to keep
27:19in mind. Everyone wants to know what
27:22humanity's first alien contact has to
27:24say.
27:25>> Everyone wants to know what they're
27:26like. Okay. So, it's widespread
27:28knowledge here that we are communicating
27:30with these guys. Like, it's not
27:32something that is kept secret at all.
27:34It's common knowledge.
27:37The whole world's counting on you for.
27:39Damn. No pressure.
27:41>> So, do your best. Remember that. We'll
27:44do, Dr. Doppler.
27:46>> You know we will. Uh-huh.
27:49This guy like to say uh-huh a lot.
27:53I mean, I'm intrigued, I guess. I'm
27:56curious to see what the aliens want.
27:59Like, why is this thing here? You know,
28:02that's so intriguing.
28:04Week one, transmissions nine. Words
28:06zero.
28:09Okay. Words named no new words. Oo.
28:14Hello world.
28:17Allen's journal. Who the hell is Allen?
28:21>> Oh, is that the uh the astronomer?
28:25>> I can tell by the comic sense status
28:28hopeful. I think this mission might just
28:30be the right place for me. I already
28:32caught on to the hydrogen line frequency
28:34even when nobody else did. That's pretty
28:36swell if I might add.
28:38>> Bautista's log. This computer system
28:40rocks.
28:42Said no computer guy ever.
28:45Car's diary.
28:47>> Okay, so her name is Carrie Collins.
28:50>> Dear diary, I think I'm still in
28:52disbelief. An alien encounter in my
28:54lifetime, and I'm the linguist acting in
28:57an advisory role. I will make the most
28:59of this experience. I will serve this
29:01mission to the best of my duties.
29:04And Doppler's report. The team is off to
29:06a good start. I definitely picked the
29:08right four for this mission.
29:10David's thoughts. Ooh. Um,
29:14I don't know.
29:18This is unbelievable.
29:21I cannot believe
29:24that I get to be part of first contact.
29:30This is something I have always dreamed
29:34of.
29:40Nice.
29:41Act zero complete. First contact. 1973
29:46mission. The message from deep space.
29:49Act one begins. Ooh. Okay.
29:54Exciting.
30:01Oh my god, that's a lot of numbers.
30:03Jesus Christ.
30:070 minus two idea available.
30:14Okay,
30:19>> the update worked. Yay.
30:22>> You updated the computer and didn't tell
30:24anyone?
30:26>> There was a popup for Dr. David.
30:28>> Good grief. What is that sound?
30:33Oh, it's music. I was like, what is
30:35that? Okay. Okay. Okay.
30:39This way we will not interrupt their
30:40train of thought.
30:42>> We can just say we have an idea.
30:44>> Is this what you were working on all
30:46night?
30:47>> Oh yes. New log already.
30:52Another update is in progress. [music]
30:55>> I respect your dedication, Dr. Bautista.
30:58Yeah, good job, Dr. Bautista.
31:01There's more.
31:04>> Good golly. I'm just realizing this is
31:06one hefty message.
31:0840 signals,8066 [music] seconds each.
31:13>> So half a minute of signals then, huh?
31:15>> Uh-huh. Quite hefty. Jesus Christ, that
31:18music is loud.
31:21Can we like not
31:27[music]
31:28Jesus,
31:33why is the music so loud? That's crazy.
31:37Okay, sorry about that. I'm going to
31:40have to probably uh turn down the music
31:42in the previous section down in post cuz
31:45it was extremely loud for me and I don't
31:47even know if you can hear my voice
31:49there. So, I'll probably have to fix
31:50that. Okay. Um, this is the perfect
31:53volume now.
31:56So, we got 0 minus That's a lot. 0 - 2 1
32:00- 2 [music] - 2 3 - 2 Okay. Okay. Okay.
32:044 5 6 7
32:071 Z [music]
32:101 1 2 1 3 1 4 5 1 6 1 7
32:181 18
32:24No,
32:28why Not.
32:34Okay, hold on. So, we're still doing
32:35what comes next, right?
32:390 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and then it starts to
32:44change [music] cuz they kind of skip
32:46some numbers. They go from 7 to 10. So,
32:48they increment by three.
32:55Huh.
33:03Wait, I'm actually kind of lost.
33:06What am I supposed to put in here?
33:110 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
33:16Is it 10 or is it one zero?
33:23Also, these minus two
33:25everywhere are confusing me.
33:32So, there's a minus2 in between every
33:34number here
33:38and then down here it becomes two digits
33:42and they both fit inside
33:45one bracket so to speak of minus2.
33:51So they go from incrementing by one to
33:54incrementing by three
33:57and then they keep incrementing by one.
33:58So maybe every
34:01seven we increment by three. So here
34:05we're going to say
34:07oh yeah yeah of course. So they go from
34:10seven to 10, right? So seven here
34:13becomes a 10. So it's 1 zero.
34:21It's not okay. Idea available.
34:25They're like notifications.
34:29H.
34:31I suspect we need to enter the next
34:33signal or signals in the sequence.
34:36They're counting up by one each time.
34:39Agreed. But the increment appears
34:41inconsistent. I like how they're saying
34:43exactly what I just said. It's kind of
34:45funny.
34:46>> We add one each time until eight.
34:50purposefully avoiding the numbers eight
34:52and nine.
34:54Why?
34:56Maybe because seven, eight, nine, and
34:58they're afraid of it. I don't know.
35:00That's so stupid.
35:02Uh,
35:04okay. Wait, what? So, they purposefully
35:07avoid 8 and 9. Also, we have to remember
35:10everything we're seeing on the screen
35:12right now are actually still
35:14frequencies, right? This up here is the
35:16hydrogen line. This is the hydrogen line
35:19minus 2 hertz and so on and so forth. So
35:23we are actually still seeing a bunch of
35:25frequencies here.
35:31Uh man, I'm actually dude I don't know
35:33what to do. I am already kind of lost.
35:39So they Hold on. They avoid eight and
35:41nine.
35:43So that's why I couldn't do one eight or
35:46what?
35:53So if they avoid eight and nine.
35:57Yeah. How is this not 1 one zero then?
36:01Just logically.
36:05So they start from zero and they count
36:07all the way up to seven
36:10and then they say 10 or 1 zero.
36:15Actually they do say zero 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
36:18just like we have here just with the one
36:21up top.
36:26Oh so when they reach seven and they
36:28want to keep going they increment
36:31the tens
36:33I guess if you look at you know ones
36:36tens and you know so on and so forth.
36:40So here it would be um two zero.
36:50Nice. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sick.
36:5575 minus 2
36:5976 - 2 77.
37:04Okay. But check it out. So if this is
37:07ones, this is tense.
37:11And this is hundreds
37:15and they avoid eight and nine. Well, I
37:16guess it wouldn't be tens then.
37:20It would be sevens, I guess.
37:24So, this would be So, this one
37:27turns that. Wait, hold on.
37:30So, this becomes Yeah, it's like one
37:32zero zero then, right? because we have
37:35uh reached the end of the line for the
37:38ones and the tens so to speak.
37:42So it's one because we have 100 or it's
37:45not 100 but you know what I mean. We
37:47have zero tens and zero ones.
37:56Yeah. Okay.
38:03Signal minus two. It doesn't seem to
38:04function like a number.
38:07>> Dr. Acres, Dr. Bautista, Dr. David
38:10theories.
38:12>> Not a number, huh?
38:15>> H update coming soon.
38:18What? What does that mean?
38:22Update coming soon.
38:27Okay. 1 2 4
38:3010.
38:3820 40. Okay, so they are doubling
38:431 2 4. It would be eight, but since they
38:45skip eight and nine, they go straight to
38:4810, right?
38:53They cross over seven and they increment
38:55the next one by one.
39:00And then they say, "Oh, but then we
39:03double this one, so it becomes two
39:05zero."
39:07That makes sense, actually. And then 40.
39:09And then because if you were to double
39:11this one now, it would be eight. So
39:15that's crossing over seven. And they
39:17skip eight and nine.
39:21So it's 100. So the next one would be
39:25200.
39:2820 0.
39:31Okay, nice.
39:37Okay, we have a bunch of numbers now.
39:40There's 2 - 2 here.
39:451 2 3 4 - 2 - 2
39:541 4 7
40:02Wait, I am so confused right now. What
40:04the hell is happening?
40:12Okay, so we still just got to put the
40:15next one in here, right? Predict the
40:18next number.
40:2364. I mean, I would say two.
40:27But I feel like I'm then not looking at
40:30any of the other evidence up here. You
40:31know
40:35what does this mean? Why are there two
40:37minus twos in a row?
40:41Why are there any minus two at all?
40:451 2 3 4
40:49- 2 - 2
40:541 4 7. So they increment by three here
40:5912.
41:01But that makes sense, right? So if they
41:03skip eight and 9, they say 7
41:07+ 1 skip 8 and 9. So that's uh 10 11 12.
41:13So that makes sense. Incrementing by
41:14three
41:21minus 2 minus 2.
41:24So 10 is going to be
41:28it's right after crossing over seven,
41:30right? So they have to increment. So it
41:33is actually eight which fits 8 6 4. The
41:38answer is two here.
41:42I'm just trying to understand the whole
41:44point of these
41:46minus twos.
41:54It's like going up and then going down.
41:58Going up.
42:00Oh, but now it's going up again.
42:05Maybe they're like saying,
42:08"Okay, so hold on. minus two is really
42:10just something to tell me that
42:14this is a number, right?
42:16So, for example, we had that one example
42:18like this one. So, this one contains two
42:21numbers.
42:24And if they were to put a minus two in
42:25between, you could, you know,
42:27misunderstand that as one and two, but
42:30this is actually 12.
42:33So if there's two minus twos,
42:38it's like saying all of this is like one
42:40thing, if you know what I mean.
42:43It's like talking on the walkie-talkie.
42:44You know, you know how you say uh or you
42:46say your message and you go over? So
42:48minus two is over and then minus 2 minus
42:52two is over and out, right?
42:55Full stop.
42:58Yeah, cuz these make sense, right?
42:59Incrementing by one every time. over and
43:02out.
43:04Incrementing by three every time. Over
43:06and out.
43:09And then uh
43:11decreasing by two every time cuz
43:14remember this is eight.
43:198 642. It's got to be two.
43:24Beautiful.
43:26Okay.
43:28Oh my god. What is that?
43:31Okay. New compiler update.
43:34>> You mind explaining?
43:36>> We can name signals
43:39>> the subzero signals.
43:42>> Yes. Anything below zero is marked as a
43:44word.
43:47Wait, why?
43:50>> They didn't seem to function as numbers,
43:55right?
43:58>> Uh-huh. You can input the words as well
44:00and it will convert to numerical
44:01signals.
44:04>> Wait, what?
44:06>> I'm assuming that means if we name
44:07signal minus2 apple
44:10>> then if we type apple into the console,
44:13>> it'll convert to a minus2 frequency. Got
44:16it.
44:17>> Yep.
44:19>> Thank you, Dr. Bautista.
44:21Uh-huh.
44:25Right.
44:29Wait, what?
44:33At minus2_un
44:35undefined.
44:38Recompile name signal
44:412.
44:45I don't know. Am I supposed to name it
44:47something specific?
44:54Uh, I'm so confused right now.
44:58Do I just type apple? I guess. Uh,
45:00probably not, right?
45:06Can I like not type anything? Cuz I
45:09don't want to type anything.
45:12Okay, but it's gone now. Oh god.
45:17Hopefully it didn't [ __ ] anything up.
45:18So, wait, what am I actually looking at
45:19here?
45:22zero
45:24and then this undefined
45:29zero
45:32undefined zero undefined zero
45:35Oh, wait a minute. These are the minus
45:37twos.
45:40It's just written in a weird way now
45:44because there's two of them here. This
45:45is over and out.
45:480 0 0 over and out
45:52one three five seven
45:56incrementing by two right I know the
45:57answer here but I'm confused about
46:00this thing right here okay whatever
46:04just type it in
46:09okay
46:11zero
46:16man this is actually more confusing Oh,
46:18I feel like it was better before
46:24zero
46:281 1 2 3 5 10.
46:33Okay.
46:36So, what's the rule? We increment by one
46:40and then zero and then one and then one
46:45and then two
46:50and then to uh so 10 is not 10.
46:55Uh 10 is when you cross over seven
47:00you skip eight and nine right?
47:04So it's not seven otherwise it would say
47:06seven. So it's actually eight,
47:10right?
47:13Yeah.
47:14Which makes sense, I guess.
47:19This one increases by two. This one
47:20increases by three. Then this one
47:22increases by one. So it's like a steady
47:24increase.
47:27One. Ah, but there's a zero here.
47:32What is the rule?
47:35I'm actually so lost right now. I can't
47:37see the pattern.
47:45So, the last one before this was five
47:47and then 10.
47:50Maybe we have to say 10 10. Maybe we
47:53repeat somehow.
47:59Well, I guess the rule is that it's
48:01going up, you know. It's not going down
48:02at any time.
48:04So maybe any number bigger than this
48:06will work.
48:09Let me try one. One.
48:15No. Okay. Idea available also. What's
48:18that dictionary?
48:22Oh, okay.
48:28Oh. Uh, I'm going to call it
48:32I don't know.
48:35I guess it was not a number, right? So,
48:36what about nan? Not a number.
48:43Okay.
48:45What's that
48:49ID minus 2 introduced seven
48:52word nan translators notes?
48:57Oh.
48:59Okay. Um,
49:02I think it means
49:05something along the lines
49:08of over and over and out when there's
49:15two of them.
49:20Also, dude, this music right here is
49:22kind of slapping.
49:24Holy [ __ ] Listen to this.
49:29Oh yeah.
49:32Oh, I'm feeling that.
49:35Sweet.
49:37Okay, hold on. Ideas.
49:40Let's see.
49:44This one's got me scratching my head.
49:46Bautista Collins. Dude, I am vibing
49:50right now. Huh? I'll take a look.
49:53>> You weren't looking before.
49:55I was programming improvements to our
49:57workstation.
49:59Sorry, it will never happen again.
50:02>> Right. Sorry, Dr. Bautista.
50:05>> Don't apologize to that moody man. What
50:07an attitude.
50:09>> Anyways, this is another sequence,
50:13right?
50:16>> It's nonlinear though. Yeah, actually
50:18true.
50:20>> So, what's the pattern?
50:22We go zero then one 1 2 3 5 then 10
50:29>> not 10. It is 10 in base eight.
50:33Oh,
50:36of course
50:39right. Oh, that makes so much sense.
50:43>> Which is what in base 10?
50:45>> Eight.
50:47>> I suspect we are supposed to solve what
50:49comes next.
50:51But I can't figure out what interval we
50:53jump by next.
50:55>> And that's our problem.
50:57>> Any ideas, Dr. David? Uh uh. No.
51:02Okay. [ __ ]
51:05Okay. So, hold on. It jumps by one here.
51:09Zero.
51:10One.
51:12One.
51:15Two.
51:18Five.
51:19Well, actually not five, it's three,
51:22right? Cuz this is eight.
51:26So, what comes after that? It's
51:28obviously a number that's higher. And it
51:31it's not necessarily the same increment
51:33as before, although it could be
51:37since it's nonlinear.
51:42Dude, I am not seeing a pattern here.
51:53I feel like the key is here somewhere.
51:55The fact that it's from one to one is
51:57kind of curious.
52:00None of the others have that, you know.
52:05So, it goes from zero to one.
52:09And why does it go from one to one now?
52:19So this is one here,
52:22one here,
52:25two.
52:28Oh, wait a minute.
52:33Oh my god. Check this out. So it goes
52:35from zero to one. From one to one, which
52:39is an increment of zero,
52:41which is here. We have to look at three
52:43in a row, not just two.
52:47Oh, that's smart. Okay. So,
52:51the number before is telling us how much
52:53to increment by,
52:56right? Since we don't see a number up
52:57here, it's just going to be one here, I
52:59guess. And then, uh, from here to here,
53:02it's zero. From here to here, it's one.
53:05From here to here, it's one.
53:08From here to here, it's two. Right? from
53:10five to eight is three. So from
53:16uh
53:188
53:20to
53:22uh we got to increment by five now. So 8
53:25+ 5 is 13,
53:30right?
53:34No. H.
53:37Okay. Another idea.
53:39If you're trying to transmit 13, don't
53:42forget to reformat it for their number
53:43system. Oh [ __ ] Okay.
53:48Right.
53:50>> Ah, I'm still getting used to that too,
53:52Dr. David.
53:54Okay. So, hold on. So 8 + 5
54:00in their system. So they're using base
54:028, right?
54:05So what is the special thing about base
54:078 that you have
54:10you have ones you have eights right or
54:13you have eights you know what I mean so
54:15you actually have 8 to the zero 8 to the
54:181 8 to the 2
54:2164
54:24and the next one would be 8 to the 3
54:26which is I don't know something 64 * 8
54:29whatever that is what is that that's
54:338 x * 60.
54:36So
54:38560 and then 4 * 8 is 32.
54:44So that's 90
54:47592.
54:50That seems too much
54:52size. Oh, it's 480. Okay. So 480
54:5732. Dude, I can't I No.
55:02Should I bring out a [ __ ] calculator
55:04for this? I swear to God, I can't do
55:06math in my head. Okay, I never could.
55:08I'm not going to sit here and pretend to
55:09be able to do that. Anyway, um so we
55:12have to do it in base 8 is what I'm
55:14saying. So, we have to ask ourselves if
55:17we say 10, sorry, 8 + 5,
55:21right? That means we've already crossed
55:23over the threshold of seven. So, uh we
55:28increment the eight counter, right?
55:31So, that's going to be 1 eight and how
55:33many ones? It's going to be two.
55:37Uh, wait, what did I just say? I said 5
55:40+ 8, right?
55:44It's uh 13.
55:46So, how many eights are in 13? There's
55:48one
55:50and then five once.
55:54So, it's 15.
55:59Yeah. Okay, I feel like I over uh
56:01thought that one a little bit at the end
56:03there.
56:04Transmissions grouped
56:09format numbers.
56:15Oh yeah, look nan.
56:18That's funny. Not a number.
56:23Okay, so these are all the ones.
56:27That's the last one.
56:30Oh, so it actually retroactively goes
56:32back and changes all these two. Idea
56:35available.
56:38I have two ideas.
56:40Let's see.
56:43Fibonacci.
56:45>> Huh?
56:47>> It is Fibonacci sequence.
56:49>> Start with zero and one. Then each new
56:51term is the sum of the previous terms.
56:54>> Oh, is that Fibonacci? I didn't know
56:56that. Like I know what Fibonacci is.
56:58I've seen it before, but I didn't
56:59actually know that.
57:02>> 0 1 1 2 3 5 10 which is actually eight.
57:06Then we enter the next term.
57:10I feel really stupid now. I feel like I
57:11should have seen that somehow, but I
57:12just didn't know that.
57:15>> So it would be 5 + 8 formatted in their
57:17goofy base 8. Yeah. So 1 eight and five
57:20ones, right? which is five or 15.
57:25>> Which means we've got to skip over
57:26digits eight and nine.
57:29>> Excellent analysis, Dr. Bautista.
57:31>> Mhm.
57:33>> It's numbers. He's supposed to be good
57:34at that, right?
57:37Okay. They're talking about the other
57:39one that we just had.
57:42Yeah. You can even see here.
57:43Transmission 16. So, this is
57:46Which one did I just have? Was that 15?
57:49It was. Oh, wait. It says down in the
57:51bottom right that's 16. Okay, so the
57:53current transmission is the number in
57:55the bottom right.
57:57Got it. Hold on. Uh ideas.
58:05We have another subzero frequency.
58:08This one five alien hertz below the
58:10hydrogen thing.
58:12>> Hydrogen line.
58:14>> Okay.
58:15>> And the transmission is doubling up on
58:17the minus two signal. Yeah. which it
58:20which is actually nan now right
58:23these negative signals do not seem to
58:25function as numbers
58:27it seems they have definitions of their
58:29own
58:31from previous transmissions and now I
58:34suspect the minus2 is acting as a
58:35partition of sorts right that makes
58:38sense
58:40here it divides the transmission into
58:41three separate sections
58:44>> so what's minus 5 mean not sure yet
58:47that's up to Dr. David. Oh [ __ ] Okay.
58:50Okay. So, wait. Three separate sections.
58:55What are we looking at?
59:00Nan nan nan nan.
59:05Yeah, I guess so. So, if this is one
59:07section, this is another section and
59:09this is the third section, right? So,
59:11over and out.
59:14Na na.
59:16Okay. But uh 2 nan 3
59:21at -5 undefined is five.
59:30Okay.
59:336 1
59:36undefined. Seven
59:41one four undefined.
59:44And I guess I need the next one in the
59:47in the pattern
59:49name signal five. So what is this
59:54two? So it increments by one and then
59:57two
59:59and then over and out.
1:00:04It goes from six to one and then to
1:00:06seven.
1:00:13And now it increments by three.
1:00:16I mean, is it not just seven down here
1:00:19then?
1:00:21I don't know what these are, but I feel
1:00:23like it's just seven.
1:00:29No, I mean, I also don't want to just
1:00:31guess, right?
1:00:33>> They're teaching us by example.
1:00:36>> What do you mean?
1:00:38>> They're demonstrating the function of
1:00:39this new minus 5 signal.
1:00:42And what exactly is that function?
1:00:44>> Not sure. But the first example relates
1:00:46the numbers 2, three, and five.
1:00:49>> Example one relates 61 and seven.
1:00:53>> And example two, we have to supply the
1:00:55answer ourselves.
1:00:59Okay.
1:01:07Oh, 2 + 3 is 5. Is that what it is?
1:01:116 + 1 is seven. That works. 1 + 4 is
1:01:14five.
1:01:18Is this addition?
1:01:22Call it add.
1:01:28>> Add or maybe add previous.
1:01:32>> Collins. What do you figure?
1:01:34>> I figure add works just fine. Wait, did
1:01:37they just react to me writing that
1:01:38specific word or was that like a
1:01:40coincidence just now?
1:01:43>> Adding the previous number seems to be
1:01:45how the meteor formats mathematical
1:01:47expressions. Okay, so it's not a
1:01:48coincidence.
1:01:50>> So add previous may be redundant. Just
1:01:53their grammar at work is all.
1:01:56>> Huh. I see. Add previous just gels
1:01:59better in my lobes.
1:02:03Okay, so it means add previous.
1:02:07But why isn't it showing the
1:02:10thing? Do I need to recompile?
1:02:14Oh, okay.
1:02:17Oh, yeah. Look.
1:02:202 nan 3
1:02:23add previous. So 2 + 3 is five. Makes
1:02:27sense.
1:02:30Six
1:02:32one at previous is seven. That makes
1:02:36sense. Yeah. Yeah. Oh no. I have a bad
1:02:39feeling about this, man. It's going to
1:02:40be another blueprints situation, isn't
1:02:42it? Not to spoil too much, but let's
1:02:46just say there was something about
1:02:47numbers and colors and stuff and trying
1:02:50to, you know, make math look different
1:02:54but function the same. And that [ __ ]
1:02:56breaks my brain. I can't handle it. You
1:02:59know, like give me normal math on a
1:03:01piece of paper any day of the week. I
1:03:03love it. But when you start to mess with
1:03:07like the way you write it and stuff,
1:03:09like suddenly we're doing vertical stuff
1:03:11here and adding previous. Oh no, I'm not
1:03:15going to be able to keep this in my
1:03:16head. I swear to God.
1:03:21Okay. One nan 4 add previous is five. So
1:03:25we just add five, right? or type five.
1:03:30Okay, good.
1:03:34We got more.
1:03:36>> How's the dictionary compiler thing
1:03:37work? Could you clarify?
1:03:40>> Just in case Collins or Dr. David are
1:03:42confused.
1:03:43>> I'm not confused. Dr. David, are you
1:03:45confused?
1:03:47>> Uh, no.
1:03:51>> I think
1:03:53>> sounds like they understand just fine.
1:03:56Are these words coming from the
1:03:57meteorite?
1:03:59>> No,
1:04:00>> I suspect the extraterrestrials speak no
1:04:02human language.
1:04:05>> We're just receiving the radio waves
1:04:06from the meteor, each at different
1:04:08frequencies.
1:04:10>> The dictionary just helps us define the
1:04:12signals on our end
1:04:14>> for when we find consistent
1:04:15non-numerical uses for a signal.
1:04:18>> Makes sense. Glad I clarified for
1:04:20everyone.
1:04:21>> For everyone, right?
1:04:25I mean, honestly, I love the people that
1:04:28are not afraid to ask questions. That is
1:04:31the beautiful thing, you know, like we
1:04:33want to see stuff like that.
1:04:35And chances are, if you're in class or
1:04:37whatever and you [music] ask the stupid
1:04:40question or whatever, you know, I say
1:04:41with uh quotation marks,
1:04:44um, a lot of people are going to be
1:04:46happy that you did. They were just
1:04:48afraid to ask, you know, so it's good. I
1:04:51was that guy asking stupid questions all
1:04:53the time. I was probably annoying after
1:04:56a while, but that's how it is. That's
1:04:57how you learn.
1:05:00Okay, so what do we got here? We got a
1:05:02signal minus 4 now.
1:05:05So wait, five nan 2 add previous is
1:05:09seven, which makes sense.
1:05:12But what about this?
1:05:16Okay, so this is a new one. So two nan 3
1:05:22add previous like I have to wrap my head
1:05:25around this formatting here. It is
1:05:26[ __ ] with me.
1:05:29Five right.
1:05:32This nan is still confusing me a little
1:05:33bit.
1:05:423 1 add previous is four. I mean I know
1:05:45the answer is four.
1:05:48Five nan. Why is there a nan in between
1:05:51these?
1:05:56Okay, I guess I understand. It's just to
1:05:58separate the numbers, right?
1:06:01There's nothing else to it.
1:06:04It's just weird that there's no nan here
1:06:05in between add and this or between two
1:06:08and add.
1:06:11You know what I mean?
1:06:14Unless it's only there to show or to
1:06:17separate numbers and nothing else.
1:06:20But then we would have a nan here,
1:06:22right?
1:06:24Unless again it's only there to separate
1:06:26two numbers
1:06:30if there are more than one, right?
1:06:33Five nan 2 add previous
1:06:39equals 7 maybe.
1:06:43That would make sense. 2 nan 3 add
1:06:47previous
1:06:49equals 5.
1:06:52That makes too much sense not to be the
1:06:54case, right?
1:07:00Um, wait. So, this is just four.
1:07:03If this is actually four,
1:07:07okay, I think I'm going to put it down
1:07:09as equals then.
1:07:12But let's see. Let's see if I'm right.
1:07:14If this is equals,
1:07:16it says five equals
1:07:203 nan 2 add previous. Oh, that makes
1:07:24sense. That actually works.
1:07:284 nan 4 add previous is 8 equals 8. It's
1:07:33definitely equals.
1:07:37Is it equal or equals?
1:07:40I think it's equals.
1:07:43Yeah,
1:07:46>> equals. I like it.
1:07:50>> As to why. It's been consistent so far.
1:07:52So, wait a minute. Did they just confirm
1:07:54that I got it right? Because they
1:07:55started speaking.
1:07:58>> You could shorten it to just equals if
1:08:00you desire.
1:08:02>> Some symbols are permitted in the
1:08:03dictionary.
1:08:04>> Thank you, Dr. Bautista.
1:08:08>> Okay.
1:08:12Why not?
1:08:18Look at that.
1:08:20>> Dude, this is almost like uh Chance of
1:08:22Sonar, you know, where if you put in the
1:08:26right answer, the game will sort of
1:08:28confirm it for you.
1:08:30Clean, simple. Use the equal sign. Nice
1:08:34and simple. And I'm a big fan of simple.
1:08:37>> What a surprise. The simpleton prefers
1:08:39simple. Dude, what an [ __ ] this guy
1:08:41is.
1:08:43>> Sorry, what was that? I didn't catch
1:08:44that, but it sounded sassy.
1:08:47>> It was not.
1:08:49>> It was pretty sassy.
1:08:51>> Thanks for keeping him honest, Collins.
1:08:53Hell yeah. Let's gang up on this guy.
1:08:55He's an [ __ ]
1:09:00Let me uh just put this on plus then.
1:09:05And they're commenting on it.
1:09:08Huh? A plus sign. Clean.
1:09:11Okay.
1:09:14Recompile.
1:09:18Okay. So, let's see. 5= 3
1:09:22nan 2 plus. Oh my god. The way they're
1:09:25writing this,
1:09:27it makes sense, I guess. So, we have to
1:09:29remember this plus is add previous,
1:09:33right? So, 2 + 3.
1:09:36And then they say over and out. So a
1:09:38whole new message 4 nan 4 plus no add
1:09:43previous
1:09:46is eight. But we cannot type eight
1:09:51because we you know we roll over from
1:09:53seven.
1:09:55So if you have one eight you have one
1:09:58eight and zero once.
1:10:00So it's one zero.
1:10:05Yeah.
1:10:11>> Sweet.
1:10:12>> Hey, Collins, you seem like you're
1:10:14mulling something over.
1:10:16>> What's on your mind?
1:10:18>> The whole no eights or nines rule.
1:10:21>> It's arbitrary, right?
1:10:24>> It's just how the extraterrestrials are
1:10:26choosing to form numbers,
1:10:28>> right? So why
1:10:31>> why did they settle on zero through
1:10:33seven?
1:10:35Well, why did we settle on zero through
1:10:37nine?
1:10:39>> Interesting. I'll join you on the
1:10:41mullen.
1:10:42Okay. And then it just leaves or doesn't
1:10:46say anything else. Weird.
1:10:49Okay. Let's see here. So, one nan zero
1:10:53add previous. Oh, wait. There's multiple
1:11:00one
1:11:02nan zero
1:11:05add previous. So that is one.
1:11:10So do we consume this plus then?
1:11:17It's been consumed now. So now we can't
1:11:18add it to three anymore.
1:11:24Oh wait, there's a plus here and this
1:11:25means previous. So
1:11:29this right here actually this whole
1:11:31thing all this means is 1 + 0 right
1:11:36is one. So we just replace all of this
1:11:41by one.
1:11:45So it's going to be one and three. Add
1:11:47previous is going to be four. Right?
1:11:49That makes sense.
1:11:51Okay.
1:11:54Okay.
1:11:56I'm going to be honest. I am really
1:11:58thinking hard right now to get this
1:12:00going. You know, like
1:12:04this takes a lot out of me to
1:12:07think in this weird abstract way when
1:12:09I'm so used to doing this in a different
1:12:11way. You know what I mean?
1:12:14Okay, so over and out
1:12:17one. I'm still confused by this nan.
1:12:19Like, why is there not a nan in between
1:12:21these somewhere?
1:12:24It's so weird.
1:12:28Like check this out. So this plus right
1:12:30here says add previous, right? Add the
1:12:33previous two numbers, which in this case
1:12:36is three and one. But it almost feels
1:12:39like this one is not part of this deal
1:12:40down here because it's before the nan.
1:12:44Meanwhile, I have to do addition down
1:12:46here, but there's no nans. So what the
1:12:48[ __ ]
1:12:52It's so confusing. Do I have to
1:12:55maybe I have to assume that this nan
1:12:57doesn't go away and I say one nan three
1:13:00plus previous. So add previous is four.
1:13:05So the three and plus get consumed and
1:13:07the four gets put up here. So it
1:13:09actually says four nan
1:13:13five now plus.
1:13:16You know what I mean by this?
1:13:18Wait, I can actually write it. So hold
1:13:20on, I need to understand this. So it
1:13:23says 1 nan
1:13:273 + 5 +
1:13:32So the way I'm thinking is that 1 nan 3
1:13:36plus means 1 + 3. What does that equal?
1:13:40Four. So now these two are consumed
1:13:44and this becomes a four. So what we have
1:13:46left now is four nan five add previous
1:13:50is
1:13:52nine. So these two get consumed
1:13:58and we have a nine up here now.
1:14:02Except we cannot have a nine because
1:14:04we're in base 8.
1:14:07So really what we have is 1 8 and 1. So
1:14:11it's actually one one.
1:14:16Yeah, exactly. Look. One one. Okay.
1:14:20Sweet, man.
1:14:22Nan nan
1:14:25one nan two. I sound crazy when I say
1:14:29this out loud. I go like nan one nan two
1:14:32[laughter]
1:14:33one nan 2 plus. So that's going to be
1:14:36three
1:14:38nan 3 plus is six
1:14:43nan 4
1:14:45is 10
1:14:50right it's 10 and 10 is 1 8 and two ones
1:14:55so it's one two
1:14:57so it is actually
1:14:59one two
1:15:02[ __ ] yeah dude Nice.
1:15:06Okay, we got a transcript. Why do they
1:15:10do addition backwards? Right.
1:15:13>> They put a dent addend operation then
1:15:15result.
1:15:16>> It's backwards.
1:15:18>> Remember Dr. Acres, what's backwards for
1:15:20you may be normal to something else. But
1:15:23math is universal. It's the same
1:15:25everywhere.
1:15:26The math is the same, not the syntax.
1:15:29Exactly. I guess. But it's still going
1:15:32to need some getting used to. Yep, I
1:15:34agree.
1:15:37Okay, so signal minus 6 now is new.
1:15:42Oh my god, I love this track. [ __ ]
1:15:44hell, I'm vibing to this. This is great.
1:15:47So two and three something equals six.
1:15:53It's got to be times, right?
1:15:56Probably times previous.
1:15:592 * 3 is 6. Let's see if it works.
1:16:022 nan 1 - 6 = 2 that works
1:16:101 n 5
1:16:12times I think the answer is five here
1:16:15this is times I'm just going to write it
1:16:17times
1:16:18actually I'm going to write star
1:16:22ah I triggered conversation
1:16:26>> the star sign clean I approve
1:16:29I guess if I get really stuck I could
1:16:31always, you know, slightly brute force
1:16:33it with some qualified guesses and see
1:16:36if they're going to, you know, respond
1:16:37to it. That's always an option.
1:16:41Okay. Uh, I need to recompile.
1:16:45So, now we have to read this as 2 nan 3
1:16:50multiply previous 2 * 3 equals 6. Hell
1:16:55yeah.
1:16:582 * 1 is 2. 1* 5 is five.
1:17:03Why does it say h and then it's correct
1:17:05anyway? I feel like the sounds are not
1:17:08uh corresponding with the visuals here.
1:17:11Okay, so two and five times is 10. But
1:17:1410 is really 18 and zero ones,
1:17:20right?
1:17:22But I guess it is just 10.
1:17:25No, it's 1 eight and two ones.
1:17:30Yeah. So 12.
1:17:35Yeah, dude. Yeah. Nice. I'm having fun
1:17:38with this, man. This is great.
1:17:41>> Especially when this music is on. I have
1:17:42a thought.
1:17:44>> Glad to hear. Now, what is it?
1:17:47>> About the aliens base 8 number system.
1:17:50A few years back, psychologist George
1:17:52Miller, wait, you mean the guy that
1:17:54directed Mad Max,
1:17:57>> researched what humans can cognitively
1:17:59handle,
1:18:00>> asking how many objects can we mentally
1:18:02juggle simultaneously.
1:18:04>> He found a magic number.
1:18:06>> And that magic number is eight.
1:18:08>> Nope.
1:18:09>> It's seven, more or less.
1:18:12>> So much for your theory.
1:18:14>> Sorry, Collins.
1:18:15>> No, no, the number seven applies to
1:18:17humans.
1:18:19You're thinking that rule applies to
1:18:20these aliens, but for the number eight.
1:18:23>> Exactly.
1:18:24>> Perhaps they can conceptualize eight
1:18:26concepts at once.
1:18:28>> So, they made the assumption that
1:18:30whoever or whatever would receive this
1:18:32message would process information
1:18:34similarly.
1:18:37Hey, you know what? I didn't think about
1:18:38that. Actually, not what she just said,
1:18:40but I just had a thought. Of course, you
1:18:42wouldn't know that, but let me explain.
1:18:44So there's a meteorite that landed on
1:18:47Earth, right, with an antenna. It's
1:18:50emitting frequencies and when we answer
1:18:53with a specific frequency,
1:18:56it continues on with the next sort of
1:18:58instructions, right? Almost like the
1:19:01whole thing is pre-programmed.
1:19:03Maybe we're not actually having a live
1:19:05conversation with another alien. Maybe
1:19:08what we have right now is a conversation
1:19:10with a program
1:19:12that was programmed by aliens, you know,
1:19:17maybe they sent like millions of these
1:19:19asteroids or meteors out there, you
1:19:21know, and one of these just happened to
1:19:22hit the Earth.
1:19:26And who knows, maybe if we um go through
1:19:29their training here or whatever it is,
1:19:32you know, we go through all these
1:19:33exercises, then they deem us worthy of
1:19:37whatever, you know, and then they beam
1:19:39all the good tech down to us, you know,
1:19:42teleporters, photon torpedoes, black
1:19:45hole generators, whatever the [ __ ] you
1:19:47know, faster than light travel. Who
1:19:50knows? Basically, I'm channeling contact
1:19:53right now. you know, the the book by
1:19:56Carl Sean. Also, it's a great movie. In
1:19:59fact, the movie is even better than the
1:20:00book. You got to go watch that. It's one
1:20:02of my favorite movies of all time. It's
1:20:04so good.
1:20:06In fact, I hope there's more like lore
1:20:08around these aliens coming cuz so far
1:20:11it's been like really dense with puzzle
1:20:13just like boom boom boom boom boom, you
1:20:15know, with almost no pauses in between.
1:20:17It's just like damn, my brain is
1:20:19overwhelmed
1:20:21and I want some lore. Right. Okay. Uh,
1:20:24so what do we got? Two,
1:20:27nan three.
1:20:30Oh my god. Hold on. Are we going to do
1:20:32order of operations here?
1:20:35There's times two. So we have to do
1:20:392 * 1
1:20:42plus one time. Wait.
1:20:46No, wait. We can't do that. This is not
1:20:482 * 1. Times means multiply previous,
1:20:51right?
1:20:53Oh god. Wait, hold on. How does this
1:20:54work then?
1:20:57Do they even have order of operations?
1:21:01Am I just going to assume
1:21:04that there's no order and I'm just going
1:21:06to go naively from top to bottom? Let's
1:21:08try. So 2 nan 3
1:21:12add previous is five. Consume these
1:21:17five nan 2 multiply previous
1:21:22is 10
1:21:26but it's really eight
1:21:30right
1:21:32so we say 8 nan
1:21:361 +
1:21:38is nine wait that doesn't make sense
1:21:40what I'm doing
1:21:44let me just naively do it exactly as
1:21:46it's written. So 2 + 3 is 5
1:21:53* 2 is 10 * 1 is 10 + 1 is 11
1:22:00[ __ ] there's a times here. Oh no.
1:22:04Wait, hold on. Two,
1:22:07three. Add previous is five. Consume the
1:22:11plus. 5 2 times is 10.
1:22:16Consume 10 and 1 + is 11.
1:22:2111 and 1 times is 11,
1:22:26right? and 11
1:22:30in base 8 is going to be 1 eight and
1:22:34three ones, right? Because 8 + 3 is 11,
1:22:39so it's 13.
1:22:41It's 1 eight and three ones.
1:22:45Okay, it works. Okay, so I guess [ __ ]
1:22:48order of operations here.
1:22:50two nan 3 at previous is five.
1:22:57Oh, they want me to Okay, so it's going
1:22:58to be one nan 4 plus
1:23:02we got to make the equation true.
1:23:07Nice. Okay, sweet.
1:23:123 93 + is 6
1:23:15=
1:23:172 * 3.
1:23:23Dude, I'm rolling through these now.
1:23:24Holy [ __ ] man. Oh my god, this great.
1:23:29Okay,
1:23:36let's see here. Oh, there's more stuff
1:23:39here now. Lost cat poster.
1:23:42Oh [ __ ] Whose cat got lost? That's so
1:23:46sad.
1:23:48Was it your cat, Doppler? Where's
1:23:50Bautista?
1:23:52>> Being a square, I reckon. He's working
1:23:55on the computer programming something.
1:23:58Sounds like him. Anyways, where are we?
1:24:00It's been our second week of decoding.
1:24:03We're moving along with this thing. We
1:24:05learned why they sent this. Do they have
1:24:07any technology to share? Tell me you
1:24:10have something.
1:24:11>> Yes, sir. We do. Quite a large
1:24:13breakthrough already.
1:24:15>> I'm all ears, Dr. Collins.
1:24:17>> We have established how to write
1:24:18numbers.
1:24:20>> Oh, that's all right.
1:24:24>> I'll adjust my expectations moving
1:24:25forward.
1:24:27No, no, this is much more exciting than
1:24:29you realize. They format numbers in base
1:24:328. Oh, yeah. Nothing more exciting than
1:24:34that.
1:24:36Base eight.
1:24:37They count 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and then 10.
1:24:42>> But 10 isn't really 10.
1:24:45>> 10 represents the value of eight, right?
1:24:48Cuz it's 1 eight and zero ones.
1:24:50Annoying.
1:24:52>> I don't understand it that well myself,
1:24:54but the implications are what inspire
1:24:55me. I'm listening.
1:24:58>> Why do the aliens use base 8 to
1:25:00represent numbers?
1:25:01>> What does that say about their species?
1:25:04>> Huh? I'll have to think on that. Great
1:25:07work, you four. It's been another good
1:25:10week of progress. Head home, get some
1:25:12sleep, and that goes for Batista, too.
1:25:15Tell them it's in order.
1:25:17>> Got it. I look forward to all the
1:25:19progress. And uh one last thing, Do I've
1:25:23got a request.
1:25:25Your team is investigating the meteorite
1:25:26itself, correct?
1:25:28Do you think you could per chance take a
1:25:30look at
1:25:32take a look at what
1:25:36I want to know?
1:25:38Why did I get cut off? It's a mystery.
1:25:40Oh my god. What's happening?
1:25:42Week two. 15 transmissions. Four words.
1:25:46Words named nan plus equals times. I'm
1:25:49not a fan of nan.
1:25:52I feel like I can do better on that.
1:25:55Groups completed. Format numbers. Math
1:25:57operations. Nice.
1:26:01>> Alan's journal status. Great. It's a
1:26:03weird project. Haven't been a part of
1:26:05anything like it, but I think I'm
1:26:07getting by and pulling my weight.
1:26:09And Bautista, I only wish the computer
1:26:12interfaces supported color. Oh well.
1:26:16You know, I don't actually mind. They
1:26:17don't. I kind of like this old style.
1:26:21>> Dear diary, I have organized the two
1:26:22dozen transmissions we've encountered
1:26:24into three groups of interest. an
1:26:26introduction. Dr. Bautista insisted I
1:26:28title this as hello world. I imagine it
1:26:31is the alien saying hello to our world.
1:26:33No, it's something else, but nice try.
1:26:36Formatting numbers and arithmetic
1:26:37operations. I can already see this will
1:26:39be unlike any linguistic analysis I've
1:26:41conducted before. And Doppler's report.
1:26:44Two weeks in and I'm expecting the
1:26:46translation teams crack their language.
1:26:48It's best I bury myself in the material
1:26:50side of the investigation. And that Dr.
1:26:52Acres, gee, he's a funny one. He's
1:26:55already put in for a favor. Asking if I
1:26:57could grab a fragment of the meteorite
1:26:59for him. I suppose it's the least I
1:27:02could do. This team may have a long
1:27:04journey ahead of them.
1:27:06Wow, he's just going to give it out like
1:27:08that for free.
1:27:11That's crazy. I would have imagined this
1:27:13thing would be under a lock and key
1:27:16studied by so many people, you know.
1:27:18Okay, my thoughts.
1:27:22I still can't believe this is happening.
1:27:27What do the aliens want?
1:27:32Why are they here?
1:27:34Are they here willingly
1:27:38accidentally
1:27:41purpose? Oh, wait. I can't Oh, I can't
1:27:44write anymore. Okay, that's fine.
1:27:50Your colleagues have some ideas for what
1:27:52these signals mean.
1:27:56View the hypothesis inside each entry in
1:27:58the dictionary. Dictionary entry notes.
1:28:01Hypothesis.
1:28:03Okay.
1:28:06I'm intrigued.
1:28:10Let's see here. Also, it's past midnight
1:28:13now for me. I really got to go to bed
1:28:14soon. Uh I'm going to quickly check out
1:28:16this thing that I just got. So
1:28:18dictionary
1:28:20I guess it would be probably this one.
1:28:23Hypothesis.
1:28:26Oh, look at this. Add one.
1:28:30Bautista sequence Collins gap.
1:28:35Yo, that's a really cool system.
1:28:40So my friends here are actually going to
1:28:41give their own take on what these mean
1:28:43or could mean.
1:28:45This is definitely wrong though. This is
1:28:46not at one. That's crazy. Acres, are you
1:28:50insane?
1:28:57I guess I kind of like sequence idea
1:29:00available. Hold on.
1:29:07>> Hey, Bautista, what number is 10 and the
1:29:09alien again?
1:29:11>> Eight.
1:29:12>> Thanks. Maybe this one will start to
1:29:14finally click for me.
1:29:17Okay, wait a minute though.
1:29:22Let me call this
1:29:26sequence.
1:29:29Oh, they didn't comment on it. Okay, so
1:29:32I guess I still got it wrong.
1:29:36Well, what could it be? Uh, one of them
1:29:38said gap.
1:29:41No.
1:29:46H
1:29:51I mean, okay, I guess I'll just call it
1:29:52sequence. That's fine.
1:29:57Let me see what the others have said
1:29:58about this.
1:30:02Add pre nice
1:30:04plus and sum. I like sum. Actually,
1:30:09I actually like sum a lot because it
1:30:11sort of uh implicitly means It's adding
1:30:13what came before it, you know.
1:30:17But this one is also very easy to read.
1:30:19Add previous.
1:30:24That's actually really nice.
1:30:29What about equals?
1:30:32Compute result is
1:30:37And it just says equal sign.
1:30:42Okay. Well, I like equal sign times
1:30:47multiply previous times product. Nice.
1:30:52What a great system. I really dig that.
1:30:56So, if I'm stuck later, they're going to
1:30:58give me suggestions on it. And some of
1:31:00them may not be good, you know, because
1:31:02one of these said add one. That's crazy.
1:31:05That's definitely not what this is.
1:31:09Wild.
1:31:10Okay, guys. I'm going to take a break
1:31:12here. Actually, I'm going to go to bed.
1:31:15It's really late. It's like uh 7 past
1:31:17midnight right now, and I'm getting a
1:31:20little excited, actually, about this
1:31:21game. So, I don't want to be, you know,
1:31:23too loud. So, I'm going to continue
1:31:25tomorrow. Thank you for watching, and
1:31:28have a lovely day. Bye-bye.

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