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There is
a metaphysical connection
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to the most significant
technological breakthroughs.
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Ramanujan
describes how he was asleep
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and he saw these numbers
being written in front of him,
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and he had no idea
what this was all about.
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The meeting of
John von Neumann and Alan Turing
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changed history.
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Maybe Steve Jobs
was receiving information
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beyond the physical realm.
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Is it possible
that extraterrestrials
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are somehow guiding
certain people
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to bring them to their
higher levels of knowledge?
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It appears that these
beings are guiding humanity
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into a new age of super-advanced
technology that will ultimately
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allow us to interface
with the cosmos.
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Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited
its origins to gods
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and other visitors
from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help
to shape our history?
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And if so, could there
be a connection
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between aliens
and our greatest visionaries?
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Houston, Texas.
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July 20, 1969.
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At NASA Mission Control Center,
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the massive IBM System/360.
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Model 75 computer,
which boasts processing power
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of 16.6 million
instructions per second
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and up to eight megabytes
of main memory,
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is employed to accomplish the
greatest feat in human history...
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putting a man on the moon.
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Houston, uh,
Tranquility Base here.
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The Eagle has landed.
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People across the world
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marveled at this
technological achievement.
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But incredibly,
only six decades later,
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a handheld device weighing
less than half a pound
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dwarfs the total technology
NASA possessed in 1969.
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Today's smartphone contains
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a staggering one million times
the computing power
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used to carry out
the moon landing.
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What we had when they went
to the moon is like nothing
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compared to what an average
teenager carries around now.
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I mean, the kind
of computing power,
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the ability
to access information,
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the ability to reach people.
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An astonishing
technological achievement.
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You can only imagine
what's gonna happen
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in 30 years from now.
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What we think is so advanced
is gonna be so not advanced.
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How is it that
mankind's technology
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has advanced so rapidly?
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According to ancient
astronaut theorists,
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at specific points in history,
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extraterrestrials have
influenced certain individuals
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to allow humanity
to make major leaps forward,
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and they propose
that this has continued
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up until modern times.
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As evidence, they point
to the visionary
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who jump-started
the microcomputer revolution,
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Steve Jobs.
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San Francisco, California.
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January 9, 2007.
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Apple's annual Macworld
Conference and Expo.
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Thank you for coming.
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At the center
of a worldwide media frenzy,
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Apple cofounder and CEO,
Steve Jobs,
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takes the stage to announce
a revolutionary new product,
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the iPhone.
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What we want to do is make
a leapfrog product that is
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way smarter than any mobile
device has ever been
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and super easy to use.
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And we are calling it "iPhone."
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Steve Jobs was
one of the greatest visionaries
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in Silicon Valley.
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The idea of what he was doing
is how you popularize computing.
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A lot of people who were
early in computing
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didn't think about
people using them,
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and he managed to deliver
into the hands of consumers
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a device that was usable,
it was intuitive,
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it was easy to use,
it was easy to understand,
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and-and that is not
a small thing.
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In the simplicity
and the beauty of it,
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he made something
that was, um, just perfect.
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Steve Jobs and
his team of engineers at Apple
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harnessed technology that
connected society digitally
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and put all
the world's knowledge
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literally at
mankind's fingertips.
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But the seeds of this
technological revolution
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were planted in 1973,
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when the 19-year-old college
student dropped out of school.
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Jobs was attending Reed College
in Portland, Oregon,
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when he, along with one
of Apple's first employees,
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Daniel Kottke, made a decision
that would change
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not only the course
of their lives,
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but ultimately
the course of humanity.
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I met Steve
at Reed College the first month,
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but our friendship developed
because a week or two later,
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I must have been
walking around with a copy
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of Be Here Now, and I was
eager to talk about it,
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and Steve was familiar with it.
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That book quickly led to
Autobiography of a Yogi,
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and then led to
Ramakrishna and His Disciples.
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Like many of his generation,
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Jobs became caught up in the
spiritual enlightenment movement
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that was sweeping through
America in the 1970s.
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And according to those
who knew him best,
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he considered it
not just a passing interest
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but a calling.
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Steve got ahold of the book
Cosmic Consciousness.
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That's probably what
pushed him over the edge.
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It had chapters about
great geniuses through history
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and how they were enlightened,
and that was the whole thesis.
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That's how we ended up in India.
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Fueled by his desire
to find spiritual enlightenment,
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Steve Jobs traveled to India,
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with Daniel following
a few months later.
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Together they discovered
a Hindu guru
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known as Haidakhan Baba.
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He was discovered
at about the age of 18
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doing yoga in a cave.
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But there are legends going back
that the same figure
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had appeared all the way
back into the 1800s.
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Haidakhan Baba claimed
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that he had no mother or father.
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But who was this character
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who had no known history
before the age of 18
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and was said to have manifested
out of thin air?
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He professed that he was
an immortal being
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known in Hinduism
as Mahavatar Babaji.
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Mahavatar means, uh,
"the great avatar."
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"The great incarnated being."
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Mahavatar is eternal, and he can
appear anytime, anywhere,
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taking forms
of another human being.
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So he was here to change
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the humanity, uh,
in-in a better path,
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in-in a path of understanding,
a path of greatness.
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Steve Jobs did spend
some time with him.
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Haidakhan Baba actually
gave him an initiation
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by giving him a spiritual name.
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This is a traditional
kind of initiation,
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so they were formally
initiated by this guru.
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Babaji had said
that he was a celestial being
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who had come to Earth
to help enlighten our planet
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and to advance us forward.
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And we have to wonder,
is it possible that Steven Jobs
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was being influenced
telepathically
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by an extraterrestrial
entity named Babaji?
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Haidakhan Baba claimed
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that he had "come to guide
humanity to a higher path"
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and referred to himself as the
"messenger of the revolution."
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Shortly after returning
to the United States,
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Steve Jobs embarked
on a revolution himself,
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the development
of the microcomputer,
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along with Apple cofounder
Steve Wozniak.
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Steve was not in it for money.
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He was in it for the mission
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of transforming the world.
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The Apple II was the first
mass-market personal computer.
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Woz of course was
the all-around genius
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who created the whole design
and all the software.
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But the thing that Steve
gets huge credit for
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is having enough passion for
what he saw the future bringing
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that he just did not give up.
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And the iPhone of course
is the computer now
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that is taking over
all our lives.
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Transformed everything,
everything.
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Steve Jobs continued
to practice meditation
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throughout the rest of his life,
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often finding refuge at
Tassajara Zen Mountain Center
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in California's
Los Padres National Forest.
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It was here,
while deep in meditation,
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that Jobs thought he received
much of the inspiration
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that transformed
the modern world.
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Meditation does help
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to connect with a higher source,
a higher force,
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because then one becomes
one with the divine,
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so they could, you know,
in-in a sense, uh,
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download the knowledge,
wisdom directly from them.
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Is it possible that Steve Jobs
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received guidance
from an otherworldly source?
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And if so, could it be
that he was just one
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of a number of key visionaries
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who were chosen
by extraterrestrials
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to lead humanity
into the future,
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as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
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Perhaps further answers
can be found
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by examining
an Indian mathematician
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who was decades
ahead of his time.
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Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia.
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December 2012.
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After years of work,
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mathematician Ken Ono
and two of his former students
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come up with a groundbreaking
mathematical formula
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that will allow scientists
to study black holes
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in an entirely new way.
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Incredibly,
they achieved this feat
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by studying
a single paragraph written
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by an Indian mathematician
over nine decades earlier...
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Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
was an Indian mathematician
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who is unlike any other genius
in world history.
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Ramanujan's work
has now formed the basis
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for superstring theory
and multidimensional physics.
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Some of the most advanced math
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that all the high-end scientists
are still using today
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is called "modular functions,"
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which could lead
to time travel, antigravity,
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limitless free energy, all of
this futuristic technology.
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He was able to take
a little that he knew
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farther than most mathematicians
would be able to take them.
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He had the vision
to see what was important.
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There are just so many
beautiful ideas that he had,
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some of which are just
waiting to be developed.
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Ramanujan made breakthroughs
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in integral calculus,
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which can be used to determine
the drag force buffeting a wing
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as it slides through the air
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or the gravitational
effects of the Earth
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on a man-made satellite.
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But perhaps
what is most noteworthy
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is that Ramanujan insisted
these baffling theorems
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were not simply the product
of his own genius.
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He claimed they were
communicated to him
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by an otherworldly being.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan was born
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in Erode, India,
on December 22, 1887,
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and was considered
a miracle child
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because he was the only one
of his mother's four children
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to survive infancy.
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Even as a young boy,
he was obsessed with numbers.
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From a very early age,
just instinctively,
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he was thinking about numbers,
he was calculating.
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He was fascinated by numbers.
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Numbers, he said,
have personalities for him,
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that they had
a kind of life for him.
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There are a lot of stories
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about how he was so focused
on mathematics
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that he would ignore
a lot of his other subjects.
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Ramanujan grew up
in the town of Kumbakonam,
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in a house within view of the
impressive Sarangapani Temple.
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The mathematical prodigy
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spent much of his childhood
at the temple
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among thousands of carvings
of Hindu gods.
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According to Ramanujan's
childhood friend,
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he would often go to the temple
and work on mathematics.
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The friend had a memory
of coming into the temple
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and finding Ramanujan
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with all these inexplicable
figures surrounding him.
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The figures
that surrounded Ramanujan
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were in fact complex
mathematical equations
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that he had written in chalk
on the stone slabs
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of the temple floor.
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He would often say
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that they were communicated
to him in his dreams
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by the Hindu goddess
Namagiri Thayar.
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He always insisted, and he was
very adamant about this,
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that the mathematical
discoveries he made
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came to him in dreams
and visions
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provided by
the goddess Namagiri.
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In these visions,
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he would see these fantastic,
beautiful mathematical formulae
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un-scrolling before him.
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Numerous times
throughout Ramanujan's youth,
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he would abruptly vanish
for days at a time,
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then return home
without explanation.
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His neighbors considered him
to be psychic.
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And he suggested
that numbers connect us
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to higher powers
in the universe.
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Could it be that
Ramanujan really was
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receiving information
from an otherworldly being?
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Ever since he was
a little child,
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he was having these visions
of the Hindu goddess Namagiri,
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and on his own,
in poverty in India,
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he re-derives over
a hundred years' worth
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of Western mathematics.
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But then the goddess Namagiri
is giving him
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all this other information
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that goes way beyond where
Western mathematics had gone.
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For someone like Ramanujan,
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who grows up in a devout Hindu
family in southern India,
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everything that-that
he experiences has to do
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with Hindu gods and goddesses.
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But is it possible
that it was really
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some kind of extraterrestrial
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who was helping him develop
these mathematical theorems?
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There is abundant evidence
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of extraterrestrial
intervention that is involved
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in many of the most significant
technological breakthroughs
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that we see in our world,
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and these could come
through the form of dreams
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or actual contacts with some
sort of intelligent beings.
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Could Srinivasa Ramanujan,
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who practiced meditation
and studied Hinduism,
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much like Steve Jobs,
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have received guidance
from otherworldly beings
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that have been directing
the course of humanity
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for thousands of years?
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Is this why he was able
to devise theorems so complex
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that the world's
greatest mathematicians
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are still struggling to
understand them 100 years later?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
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and suggest further evidence
can be found
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by examining the man
who helped bring about
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the end of World War II,
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Alan Turing.
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London, England.
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June 23, 1912.
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In the residential district
of Maida Vale,
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Alan Turing is born.
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By the age of six,
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his teachers identify him
as a genius.
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By 16, he is studying
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the most advanced work
of Albert Einstein.
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And much like
the Indian mathematical genius.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan,
he has a single-minded focus
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and thinks differently
from his peers.
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Alan Turing was
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the other great mathematical
genius of the 20th century,
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but of a completely
different stripe
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than Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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His vision was born
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out of an extraordinary
literal-mindedness.
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By taking things literally,
he was able to go places
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that people who were
less literal-minded
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would never be able to go.
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In fact, Alan Turing
was so literal-minded
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that there has even
been speculation
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he had Asperger's syndrome.
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But some ancient astronaut
theorists propose
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his unique intellect may reveal
an otherworldly influence,
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one that intervened during
mankind's deadliest conflict.
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Milton Keynes,
Buckinghamshire, England.
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March 18, 1940.
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Six months into
the Second World War,
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British military intelligence
sets up
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a top-secret base
in Bletchley Park,
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50 miles northwest of London.
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Known as "Station X,"
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it is home to a handpicked team
of mathematicians
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led by Alan Turing
that work tirelessly to crack
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the infamous Nazi
encoding device
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called the Enigma machine.
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The Enigma machine
was an encryption machine
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that worked very simply,
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at least for the person
operating it.
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You would have
a message to convey,
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and you would type
the first letter.
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Its gears would turn.
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And then a light
would illuminate
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with another letter.
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And that letter
you would write down.
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The machine was putting
the letter
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through a huge range
of substitutions.
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In 1940, Turing accomplished
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what nearly every expert at
the time had deemed impossible.
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He solved the Enigma code.
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At Bletchley Park,
Turing conceived
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of a way of reverse engineering
an Enigma to run it backwards.
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It wasn't easy, but they built
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this very complicated machine
called the bombe.
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If you could separate
out the hardware
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from the sequences
of operations...
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what we now call software...
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you could create a machine
that could decode messages,
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but it could also do other
things, including mathematics,
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and I think that he realized
that this machine could be made
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into something that was quite,
uh, a bit more capable.
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In the process
of creating this machine,
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Turing also developed a
technology far more significant
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than anyone at the time
could have imagined:
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the world's first computer.
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It's particularly interesting
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how some of these visionaries
think differently,
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so you have to wonder
if these people
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are tapping into some kind
of universal mind,
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and even that somehow
telepathically
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extraterrestrials are
giving them information
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so that they can see
these universal truths.
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Curiously, in one of his papers,
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Turing wrote that telekinesis
and extrasensory perception
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should be taken seriously
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and questioned
the existence of free will.
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Is it possible,
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as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
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that he wrote this because he
himself was somehow in contact
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with extraterrestrial
intelligence?
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Perhaps further clues
can be found
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by examining
a meeting Turing had
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before the war with another
mathematical genius,
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John von Neumann.
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John von Neumann was
a Hungarian mathematician
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who emigrated
to the United States
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and took a position
at Princeton University.
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He had an incredible talent
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for mathematics and physics
in all kinds of fields.
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Like Turing, von
Neumann contributed to ending.
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World War II through
the development of technology.
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He came up with a way
to use machine calculation
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to determine how to compress
plutonium for the atomic bomb.
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This technology was essential
to the success of the project,
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and it might never
have been realized
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had von Neumann not
crossed paths with Alan Turing.
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We know that Alan Turing,
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uh, met John von Neumann
at Princeton.
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Von Neumann was familiar with
Turing's theoretical papers.
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What we don't know
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is the substance
of their conversations.
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A lot of that was
very highly classified.
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Very, very little information
ever leaked out.
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It has been argued by
some historians of computing
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that John von Neumann absorbed
the fundamental idea
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of the universal machine
from Alan Turing.
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According to historians,
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Turing and von Neumann
were largely responsible
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for inventing
the first computers
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and accelerating the advancement
of technology exponentially.
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But is it possible the meeting
of these two geniuses
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was more than mere chance?
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It could very well be
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that extraterrestrial
intelligence was involved
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in making sure
that von Neumann and Turing
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met each other in 1935
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and steered their development
to ensure
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that the computer would be
brought out on schedule
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at the right time,
which is exactly what we see.
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Is it possible
that extraterrestrials
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brought together
Turing and von Neumann
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to accelerate the development
of computer technology?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
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and suggest that
at the same time
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aliens were helping mankind
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to develop another
important technology,
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a rocket that would
reach the stars.
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Kaluga, Russia.
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December, 1903.
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Russian scientist
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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publishes the article.
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"Exploration of Outer Space
by Means of Rocket Devices."
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Most scientists
of the time consider
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the topic of space exploration
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highly speculative
and even far-fetched,
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considering the Wright Brothers
had just achieved
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the first powered flight
that same month.
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But many of the major points
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00:26:36,890 --> 00:26:39,890
contained in
Tsiolkovsky's article,
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such as the proposal
that the speed required
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for orbit around the Earth
is five miles per second
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and that this could be achieved
by means of a multistage rocket,
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would be proven
to be incredibly accurate.
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He's a fascinating character
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and the father
of Soviet rocketry,
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who actually designed
the rockets
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that put the first man
into space,
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that put the first
dog into space,
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that launched Sputnik, the first
satellite, into space in 1957.
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Tsiolkovsky's
main source of inspiration
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was his friend and mentor,
Nikolai Fyodorov,
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a Russian Orthodox
Christian philosopher.
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Fyodorov was one of
the founders of "cosmism,"
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which was a precursor
to ancient astronaut theory.
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The cosmists began
with Nikolai Fyodorov
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in the 1870s and 1880s,
and they believed
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that human civilization actually
had origins, uh, in outer space
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and that it was our destiny
as human beings
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to move back into space,
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and we would go back to
our origins from whence we came.
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Like Fyodorov,
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Tsiolkovsky came to be
a cosmist himself.
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And he not only inspired
Soviet rocket scientists
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but also the genius responsible
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for putting the first man
on the moon,
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Wernher von Braun.
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Germany.
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May 1945.
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After six years
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of the deadliest warfare
the world has ever seen,
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the Nazis surrender
to the Allied Powers.
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Germany's top rocket scientist,
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Wernher von Braun, predicted
the defeat months earlier
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and by deceiving his superiors
has managed
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to move his team of scientists
south into Austria
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to surrender
to the American forces.
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00:28:50,860 --> 00:28:54,220
Acquiring von Braun
was considered
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a major coup
by the United States.
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00:28:57,470 --> 00:29:01,240
His work in rocketry
was so important
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that the Soviets scoured
his former headquarters
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00:29:04,310 --> 00:29:07,080
at Peenemunde Army
Research Center
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00:29:07,110 --> 00:29:11,410
in search of any information
he may have left behind.
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What they discovered
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00:29:13,380 --> 00:29:16,280
were the writings
of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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and found that almost every page
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00:29:19,190 --> 00:29:24,130
was embellished by
von Braun's comments and notes.
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00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:25,490
Wernher von Braun
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00:29:25,530 --> 00:29:28,330
was heavily influenced
by Tsiolkovsky.
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00:29:28,370 --> 00:29:30,340
Tsiolkovsky himself
had this concept
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00:29:30,370 --> 00:29:33,740
of human beings being
birthed in the stars.
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And if you really
think about it,
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could it be that these
scientists coming out of Russia
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00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,050
had some kind
of advanced knowledge?
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00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,180
Could they have
been communicating
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00:29:44,220 --> 00:29:47,050
with some form of advanced
extraterrestrial intelligence
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00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,510
that was influencing
the space race
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00:29:49,550 --> 00:29:50,880
and influencing this push
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00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,020
to get humanity
to go back to the stars?
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00:29:55,430 --> 00:29:59,070
As a young boy,
Wernher von Braun was fascinated
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00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:03,340
with the science fiction
of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells
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00:30:03,370 --> 00:30:05,940
and was convinced
that he could make
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00:30:05,970 --> 00:30:08,740
their visions
of space travel a reality,
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even going so far
as to tell his mother
512
00:30:12,310 --> 00:30:16,680
that he would build a machine
that would take man to the moon.
513
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:23,450
But when von Braun actually
achieved this in 1969,
514
00:30:23,490 --> 00:30:26,460
it was such an extraordinary
technological leap
515
00:30:26,490 --> 00:30:29,800
that some people believed,
like Tsiolkovsky,
516
00:30:29,830 --> 00:30:33,830
he too was guided
by extraterrestrial beings.
517
00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:38,660
Wernher von Braun
518
00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:41,160
was utterly captivated
by the idea
519
00:30:41,210 --> 00:30:43,080
that we belong in the stars.
520
00:30:43,110 --> 00:30:46,410
It's as if the Earth is a seed,
521
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,340
and if that seed
never germinates,
522
00:30:49,380 --> 00:30:51,980
then it could just die.
523
00:30:52,020 --> 00:30:54,490
We need to go out into space.
524
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,290
And that vision
of a new tomorrow
525
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,490
is what fueled him to want
to succeed even further.
526
00:31:02,530 --> 00:31:05,870
That leads me to suggest
the possibility
527
00:31:05,900 --> 00:31:08,330
that some sort of
extraterrestrial contact
528
00:31:08,370 --> 00:31:10,300
might have happened
with Wernher von Braun.
529
00:31:10,330 --> 00:31:13,060
Something or someone
might have reached him
530
00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:16,870
and saw where we needed
to go as a civilization
531
00:31:16,910 --> 00:31:20,680
and gave him the tools
and the insights that he needed
532
00:31:20,710 --> 00:31:23,540
to be able to build
our way out into space.
533
00:31:25,450 --> 00:31:26,790
Is it possible,
534
00:31:26,820 --> 00:31:29,590
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
535
00:31:29,620 --> 00:31:34,060
that Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
and Wernher von Braun
536
00:31:34,090 --> 00:31:38,190
were aided
by extraterrestrial beings?
537
00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:41,400
And if so, why?
538
00:31:41,430 --> 00:31:45,160
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the predictions
539
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:50,100
not of science
but of science fiction.
540
00:31:53,470 --> 00:31:56,610
How far out can you get?
541
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,080
That's the big question
in television today,
542
00:31:59,110 --> 00:32:01,010
and CBS has the big answer.
543
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,370
Its fabulous new series,
Lost in Space.
544
00:32:04,410 --> 00:32:08,540
In 1965,
the CBS network announced
545
00:32:08,580 --> 00:32:10,350
the debut of what would become
546
00:32:10,390 --> 00:32:14,960
television's first prime-time
science fiction series.
547
00:32:14,990 --> 00:32:16,650
Wouldn't Dad like
to use this gadget
548
00:32:16,690 --> 00:32:18,690
to beat that thruway traffic?
549
00:32:18,730 --> 00:32:23,270
Set in the far-future of 1997,
550
00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:27,710
Lost in Space told the story
of a family of space colonists
551
00:32:27,740 --> 00:32:30,610
who become marooned
on an alien world.
552
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,450
It underscored
America's growing acceptance
553
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,620
that mankind's future
was not here on Earth
554
00:32:38,650 --> 00:32:41,590
but out in the vast reaches
of the galaxy.
555
00:32:41,620 --> 00:32:44,190
This trend continued
556
00:32:44,220 --> 00:32:48,060
when the following year
NBC premiered Star Trek,
557
00:32:48,090 --> 00:32:51,930
the epic saga
of a futuristic starship
558
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,590
whose crew is charged
with exploring the galaxy,
559
00:32:55,630 --> 00:32:59,060
seeking out new life
and new civilizations,
560
00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:02,560
and going where no man...
or woman...
561
00:33:02,610 --> 00:33:04,880
had ever gone before.
562
00:33:04,910 --> 00:33:07,750
Interestingly,
both programs would appear
563
00:33:07,780 --> 00:33:09,910
in America's living rooms
564
00:33:09,950 --> 00:33:14,320
years before mankind would even
step foot on the moon.
565
00:33:14,350 --> 00:33:18,390
It is amazing that today
we are living in times
566
00:33:18,420 --> 00:33:21,150
where only 40, 50 years ago,
567
00:33:21,190 --> 00:33:23,830
people were fantasizing
about the future.
568
00:33:25,590 --> 00:33:29,660
And here we are experiencing
that said future.
569
00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:32,340
Not all of it, but many things.
570
00:33:32,370 --> 00:33:36,410
Where do we stand
50 years from now?
571
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,610
I think science fiction
is a part of disclosure.
572
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:45,540
Over time, science fiction
has become science fact.
573
00:33:45,580 --> 00:33:48,780
Ignition sequence start.
574
00:33:48,820 --> 00:33:51,520
Of course,
science fiction's role
575
00:33:51,550 --> 00:33:54,520
in pre-envisioning
what would ultimately become
576
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,900
the world's "science fact"
was nothing new.
577
00:33:57,930 --> 00:34:02,470
Space stations,
intelligent robots,
578
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:05,500
extraordinary
communication devices,
579
00:34:05,530 --> 00:34:08,300
Even Star Wars-type
space weapons
580
00:34:08,340 --> 00:34:11,440
were all pre-envisioned
in the creative minds
581
00:34:11,470 --> 00:34:16,240
of authors like Jules Verne,
H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke,
582
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,850
Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
583
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,280
And their works later
formed the basis
584
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,220
for countless films
and television series.
585
00:34:27,790 --> 00:34:31,330
Great innovation has come
from science fiction literature.
586
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,730
Arthur C. Clarke imagined the
satellite before the engineers.
587
00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,690
They were reading
science fiction
588
00:34:38,730 --> 00:34:40,700
when they came up
with the idea to do that.
589
00:34:40,740 --> 00:34:43,540
This has happened repeatedly
where a creative artist
590
00:34:43,570 --> 00:34:46,400
will come up with a new idea
just to tell a story,
591
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,440
but it's coming
from the unconscious.
592
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,350
I mean, look at Jules Verne.
Go back and read Jules Verne.
593
00:34:51,380 --> 00:34:52,680
It's really interesting.
594
00:34:52,720 --> 00:34:54,590
Like, a lot
of the stuff we made,
595
00:34:54,620 --> 00:34:56,650
like, he just thought it up.
596
00:34:56,690 --> 00:35:00,630
And these ideas
sprung out of a man's mind,
597
00:35:00,660 --> 00:35:03,530
and it has become reality.
598
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,500
And I think that
they've turned to reality
599
00:35:05,530 --> 00:35:08,730
because of young kids
reading these stories
600
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,430
and eventually growing up
and realizing,
601
00:35:11,470 --> 00:35:12,940
"Wait a second.
602
00:35:12,970 --> 00:35:15,840
"We have all these
technological capabilities.
603
00:35:15,870 --> 00:35:17,370
"What if I can bring it
604
00:35:17,410 --> 00:35:19,810
to the next level
with a new invention?"
605
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:26,040
So science fiction can serve
as a direct path to science
606
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,340
that has been
inspired by fantasy.
607
00:35:30,390 --> 00:35:35,030
But are many
of today's scientific wonders
608
00:35:35,060 --> 00:35:39,530
merely the product of fertile
minds and wild imaginations?
609
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,420
Or do they have
their origins elsewhere,
610
00:35:43,470 --> 00:35:46,100
possibly light-years away?
611
00:35:48,170 --> 00:35:49,910
There's an interesting theory,
612
00:35:49,940 --> 00:35:54,550
the idea that certain profound
science fiction writers
613
00:35:54,580 --> 00:35:56,910
may not have just simply
come up with the ideas
614
00:35:56,950 --> 00:36:00,420
for their stories on their own,
albeit they may have thought
615
00:36:00,450 --> 00:36:02,290
they came up with
the ideas on their own.
616
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,490
Perhaps there was
an outside force
617
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,380
presenting it to them.
618
00:36:07,420 --> 00:36:10,820
Have science fiction
authors and writers
619
00:36:10,860 --> 00:36:13,830
been inspired
by extraterrestrials?
620
00:36:18,030 --> 00:36:19,930
Could
extraterrestrials have given
621
00:36:19,970 --> 00:36:24,810
humanity glimpses of its own
future through science fiction?
622
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,310
And if the creative minds
of the past
623
00:36:28,340 --> 00:36:30,400
have been able to pre-envision
624
00:36:30,450 --> 00:36:33,680
the incredible technologies
of the present day,
625
00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:37,720
then should we also regard
the science fiction of today
626
00:36:37,750 --> 00:36:42,220
as a guide to where mankind
is headed next?
627
00:36:42,260 --> 00:36:45,400
Where do we stand
50 years from now?
628
00:36:45,430 --> 00:36:48,230
And if we're talking
about science fiction today,
629
00:36:48,260 --> 00:36:52,390
one recurring theme
is what happens
630
00:36:52,430 --> 00:36:55,330
if we gain the ability
to upload our consciousness
631
00:36:55,370 --> 00:36:57,600
to some type of a computer?
632
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:02,150
Is it possible that our future
may lie in a digital realm?
633
00:37:02,180 --> 00:37:06,650
I would not want my thoughts
to be uploaded to a computer,
634
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,940
because then
we really become glass.
635
00:37:09,990 --> 00:37:13,820
This planet will cease to exist
within two seconds
636
00:37:13,860 --> 00:37:15,890
if we all know
each other's thoughts.
637
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,850
So there's a fine line
we have to walk
638
00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:23,900
between what can
and will ensure our future
639
00:37:23,930 --> 00:37:28,400
and what can and will be
our assured annihilation.
640
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:35,350
According to many
ancient astronaut theorists,
641
00:37:35,380 --> 00:37:37,850
the visions of a bleak future...
642
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,850
as depicted in today's
science fiction...
643
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,350
could, if realized,
prove as perilous
644
00:37:44,390 --> 00:37:46,960
as they once seemed profound.
645
00:37:46,990 --> 00:37:48,890
But they also suggest
646
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,650
that the messages that mankind's
visionaries receive
647
00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:57,400
may not be dire predictions
as much as they are warnings.
648
00:37:57,430 --> 00:38:01,900
Warnings intended
to help mankind
649
00:38:01,940 --> 00:38:03,810
avoid annihilation.
650
00:38:08,940 --> 00:38:13,540
Today the theorems
of Srinivasa Ramanujan
651
00:38:13,570 --> 00:38:16,670
are being applied in branches
of physics that may allow us
652
00:38:16,710 --> 00:38:20,110
to unlock the greatest mysteries
of the cosmos.
653
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,510
The computer models
654
00:38:24,550 --> 00:38:27,550
established by Alan Turing
and John von Neumann
655
00:38:27,590 --> 00:38:32,060
have advanced human technology
by leaps and bounds.
656
00:38:32,090 --> 00:38:34,590
The advances in rocketry
657
00:38:34,630 --> 00:38:38,740
made by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
and Wernher von Braun
658
00:38:38,770 --> 00:38:43,770
have allowed for
greater exploration of space.
659
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:49,070
And Steve Jobs' contributions
to the microcomputer revolution
660
00:38:49,110 --> 00:38:51,850
have put all of the world's
collective knowledge
661
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,720
at our fingertips.
662
00:38:57,590 --> 00:39:00,990
But has the work of
these visionaries and others
663
00:39:01,020 --> 00:39:05,050
really been directed by an
extraterrestrial intelligence?
664
00:39:05,090 --> 00:39:09,220
And if so, to what end?
665
00:39:13,870 --> 00:39:17,840
We have been the experiment of,
I believe, extraterrestrials.
666
00:39:17,870 --> 00:39:22,170
I think they have nurtured us
to see how we develop.
667
00:39:22,210 --> 00:39:24,780
And they're probably saying,
668
00:39:24,810 --> 00:39:27,640
"Gosh, look at these humans,
look how fast they can advance."
669
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,740
And we're getting better
and better and better
670
00:39:29,780 --> 00:39:31,640
with technology.
671
00:39:31,690 --> 00:39:35,690
But Elon Musk from Tesla
and physicist Stephen Hawking
672
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:39,590
all warn us, "Be careful
of artificial intelligence."
673
00:39:39,630 --> 00:39:41,100
It could go too far."
674
00:39:41,130 --> 00:39:43,770
I agree with them.
We need to be careful.
675
00:39:45,900 --> 00:39:48,670
Something too that comes out
676
00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:51,530
of a lot of the UFO literature
of the '50s and '60s,
677
00:39:51,570 --> 00:39:54,530
that extraterrestrials were
678
00:39:54,580 --> 00:39:57,610
allegedly contacting
certain people
679
00:39:57,650 --> 00:40:00,680
and warning them of the dangers
of nuclear power
680
00:40:00,710 --> 00:40:05,580
and that what we were doing
with our atomic weapons
681
00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:07,790
was very destructive
682
00:40:07,820 --> 00:40:11,650
and that we could destroy our
own planet with this technology
683
00:40:11,690 --> 00:40:13,690
and that the extraterrestrials
themselves
684
00:40:13,730 --> 00:40:15,260
were very concerned about this.
685
00:40:17,730 --> 00:40:21,560
And so, in many ways,
we must be very careful
686
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,930
of how we use
our own technology.
687
00:40:25,970 --> 00:40:30,540
There's a reason
why we are where we are today.
688
00:40:30,580 --> 00:40:33,580
We have made
these advances in technology
689
00:40:33,610 --> 00:40:36,140
for one and one reason only...
690
00:40:39,250 --> 00:40:42,250
to return to the stars,
691
00:40:42,290 --> 00:40:44,260
because that's where
we came from.
692
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,020
And now the question is:
693
00:40:49,060 --> 00:40:52,890
are we going to fulfill
our destiny or not?
694
00:40:52,930 --> 00:40:55,260
Is it possible
695
00:40:55,300 --> 00:40:57,630
that humanity's
greatest visionaries
696
00:40:57,670 --> 00:41:00,370
have been unknowingly
carrying out
697
00:41:00,410 --> 00:41:03,880
some sort of extraterrestrial
master plan?
698
00:41:03,910 --> 00:41:07,140
One intended to prepare mankind
699
00:41:07,180 --> 00:41:09,240
for the ultimate
"close encounter"?
700
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,750
And if so, does this mean
701
00:41:12,790 --> 00:41:16,830
that our future has been
somehow predetermined?
702
00:41:16,860 --> 00:41:20,830
Or are we simply being
given the tools
703
00:41:20,860 --> 00:41:23,860
with which to shape
our own destiny?
704
00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:26,070
Perhaps the answer can be found
705
00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:29,770
in the pages
of a science fiction book,
706
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:34,530
in the palm of our hand
within a simple cell phone,
707
00:41:34,580 --> 00:41:39,380
or in the latest
robotic technology.
708
00:41:39,410 --> 00:41:42,340
Perhaps it is carved
on the stone walls
709
00:41:42,380 --> 00:41:45,110
of an as-yet-undiscovered tomb.
710
00:41:45,150 --> 00:41:48,680
Or even as we sit,
711
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:51,850
right before our eyes.