NARRATOR: In the 21st century,
scientists are attempting to bring
every star in the sky within our reach.
MICHIO KAKU: Stargates are a shortcut through space and time.
We're talking about opening up not just the Earth,
but the entire galaxy for human exploration.
NARRATOR: The concept of stargates dates back thousands of years.
DAVID CHILDRESS: You have a huge door cut into solid rock.
And the legends are, it's a portal to another world.
NARRATOR: And some claim the U.S. government has been
pursuing this technology for decades.
RICHARD DOTY: I saw a wavy orb.
And a scientist who was standing right next to me said,
"We just opened the fabric of space."
NARRATOR: Could we soon obtain the key
to unlocking the stargates,
and find a cosmos teeming with life?
WILLIAM HENRY: If we had access
to stargates, this would completely change everything,
and would lead to actual irrefutable proof
that we are not alone in the universe.
NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
NARRATOR: The pulp magazine Astounding Stories
publishes a short story called, "The Meteor Girl."
The tale is centered around a meteorite
that creates a window in space.
One that allows the protagonists
to travel between distant locations in an instant.
It is the very first science fiction reference
to what has become known as a stargate.
Anybody that's seen or read any modern-day science fiction,
there's always the story that somebody walks into...
a gate, a doorway, a hole in the sky,
some kind of opening, and they end up
somewhere else or they could be in another time.
What we're describing here is going
from some point A in space and time
to some other point B
in space and time without traveling
through the normal path to get there.
Going through a shorter path.
KAKU: Stargates are a shortcut through space and time.
The galaxy is 100,000 light-years across.
It would take 100,000 years to go across the galaxy.
But if you have a stargate,
in principle, you could do it in the blink of an eye.
NARRATOR: Currently, stargates are only known
to exist in the realm of science fiction.
But in 1935, physicists Albert Einstein
and Nathan Rosen proposed that creating shortcuts
through space and time is theoretically possible.
TAYLOR: When this idea was first postulated,
it was in fact called an Einstein-Rosen space bridge.
So Einstein and Rosen were working on general relativity,
and they had the idea that you could create a bend
or warp in space-time, where you can connect point A
to point B and make the pathway there much shorter.
NARRATOR: In addition to connecting two distant points in space,
some scientists have suggested that stargates
may facilitate an even more profound type of journey.
TAYLOR: So when we talk about a stargate,
or a wormhole,
the question is, is it just from point A
to point B within this universe?
Or could it also be through those other dimensions
that could possibly exist or even through other universes?
Just like when Alice fell through the rabbit hole,
uh, she ended up in Wonderland.
NARRATOR: While terms like "stargate" and "wormhole"
conjure up visions of the future and space-age technology,
ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the idea
of such gateways has existed in the human consciousness
for thousands of years.
And they say evidence of this can be found
within religious traditions throughout the ancient world.
All around the world, we have myths and legends
of beings coming and going through gates.
The Anunnaki gods in ancient Sumeria were constantly
coming and going through gateways.
In Egypt, we learn of the portals
of Ptah and the pharaohs, scaling the ladder to heaven
and going through the portal of the gods.
This idea of the stargate is everywhere.
TAYLOR: When I think about wormholes in the multiverse,
one of the first things that comes to mind
is the ancient idea of Vishnu.
When he would exhale,
he would excrete beads
of sweat and moisture,
that each one of these was a universe.
And in many cases, the description is
that when Vishnu was dreaming, this is a new universe
that Vishnu is creating.
Now Vishnu then used many different avatars
and went to many different of these realities,
universes, multiverses, and had adventures.
So how did he go from wherever he was
into these different realities that he had then created?
There must have been a stargate
that enabled him to go from universe to universe.
So going back through thousands of years
across different cultures, all across the planet...
...we have these stories of people
traveling to other realms.
It really does suggest that there is a possibility
that many ancient cultures
had some understanding
of portals or gateways to other worlds.
There is the story of the Bifröst bridge
in Norse mythology.
And what this is able to do
is take a person from out of this realm
into some other place.
NARRATORS: Are ancient accounts of beings passing
through gates or doorways
descriptions of a form of stargate travel?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining a mysterious stone feature
found high in the Andes Mountains.
Lake Titicaca, Peru.
Carved onto the sandstone face
of the Hayu Marca Mountain
is a T-shaped doorway known as the Gate of the Gods.
The Gate of the Gods is a vertical outcrop of sandstone,
which is composed of three depressions.
The central one, which is a T-shape,
is about six feet tall.
So a normal human could stand up in it
and then to the left and the right
are vertical depressions,
which go from the very bottom to the very top,
which would be a distance of approximately 20 feet.
Nobody knows how old it is and nobody knows who made it.
NARRATOR: While there is no written record to suggest why it was built,
local legends give detailed accounts
of people mysteriously disappearing in front
of the doorway and even strange beings coming through.
HENRY: Local legends tells us that the gods would use this
as a stargate, through which they would come and go.
The myth and legend attached to it suggests that the key
to this gateway is this golden disc of the sun god.
And all the stories tell us that the sun god Inti
came down to Earth
and was worshiped by the Incas.
Perhaps it was Inti himself who brought this key
to the stargate to Earth originally.
NARRATOR: While the Inca believed the Gate of the Gods
was created thousands of years ago,
there is at least one account of this gateway
being activated much more recently
when Spanish conquistadors arrived
in Peru in the 16th century.
HENRY: According to legend, when the Spanish arrived,
a priest from a nearby temple
took a golden disc from that temple
and went to the Gate of the Gods,
put the golden disc in the T-shaped gate,
opened it up and went through it.
It seems that what's happening today is
that we're coming back around to understand
the concept of the stargates
just as the ancients did, and perhaps to duplicate
the technology that extraterrestrials
were utilizing in opening these stargates to other realms.
NARRATOR: Are these ancient stargates
just the product of our ancestors' folklore?
Or might this kind of interstellar travel
have actually existed in the distant past?
Perhaps further clues can be found by investigating
another site believed to transport people
through space and time.
NARRATOR: Central Sri Lanka.
Overlooking the small town of Aralaganwila,
stands the lush Danigala mountain range.
Its peak reaches heights of over 900 feet.
And visible among them is a strange outcropping
that is almost entirely round.
COLLINS: This is a very remarkable geological formation,
circular in shape with a completely flat
platform on the top of it.
NARRATOR: For locals, the mountain is famous
not just for its unique shape
but for the number of reports
of unidentified aerial phenomena at the site.
Everybody calls it
"alien mountain" because
this is a UFO hotspot.
At least two dozen UFO sightings
have been reported in 2023 alone.
And many, many people claim
weird activities around the mountain.
NARRATOR: The recent sightings are just the latest
in a string of mysterious events at the mountain
that date back hundreds of years.
The mountain is associated
with various different legends in Vedic tradition.
It's actually said to be the landing place
of the god Ravana.
It was said that he could actually
fly this device and land on the top of it.
NEWMAN: Danigala Mountain is also
connected with the Buddha, in fact.
There's a cave in the side of this mountain
which has a statue of the Buddha
and it's said that he originally used this area
as a kind of way to explore the different astral planes.
So, does this suggest
this is some kind of portal area or stargate?
NARRATOR: The Buddha is believed to have lived
during the sixth or fifth century BC,
and according to ancient Buddhist stories,
he demonstrated the ability to teleport instantly
from one location to another.
And as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
early accounts of the Buddha sound very much
like descriptions of an extraterrestrial.
Some of the earliest representations
and some of the earliest recordings of Buddha
does not show or describe Buddha
as the size of a regular human being,
but, actually, up to nine feet tall
and with blue skin,
and his arms reached all the way down to his knees.
And before the term Buddhism existed,
the original term for Buddhism was
"The worship of the cosmic wheel."
The whole concept of Buddhism began
when this tall, blue-skinned person came down
in a gigantic wheel of fire,
and then started to teach mankind in various disciplines.
So that to me is eternally fascinating
because it would support the idea
that Buddha was an extraterrestrial.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Buddha was an otherworldly being
who accessed a stargate near Danigala Mountain
as told in local legends?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and propose that another site nearby
contains physical evidence that it too may once have been
the location of a stargate.
This sacred city, dating back to 377 BC,
is at the heart of the local Buddhist culture.
It is one of the most visited places in the world,
drawing pilgrims,
tourists and historians alike to its ancient domed temples
and massive shrines known as stupas.
But perhaps the most intriguing attraction is
a mysterious petroglyph called the Sakwala Chakraya.
The Sakwala Chakraya carving in Sri Lanka is
carved onto this rock face
and there's actually carved stone seats on the opposite side
for people to sit there and gaze into it.
Now, traditionally, it's like a cosmological map
that the ancient people there would talk about,
but could it be something else?
Because the symbols on it are very unusual.
MOHAN: Locals believe that this is a stargate.
That Buddha used this stargate three times
to go to other planets.
And they believe that if you go
and meditate in front of the stargate,
you can actually open the stargate
using the power of your mind,
and you can go to another dimension.
NARRATOR: In the local dialect of Sinhalese,
Sakwala Chakraya translates as "universal cycle,"
and according to some scholars,
the unique images are various astronomical symbols
representing different parts of the cosmos.
COLLINS: The Sakwala Chakraya was written about as early as 1911
by a British archaeologist named Harry Bell,
and he came to the conclusion
that it represented the cosmos as a whole.
There is an outer ring showing the primeval waters of chaos.
And inside this are seven concentric rings,
one inside the other.
And this is a very typical symbol used
to represent a portal or stargate.
HENRY: It's been suggested that the petroglyph
at Sakwala Chakraya is similar to geometric mandalas.
And a mandala itself is
considered to be a sort of a consciousness portal,
a mental portal.
NARRATOR: Mandalas are important components in both
the Buddhist and Hindu faiths.
These elaborate circular patterns are
a spiritual symbol for the universe,
but also represent the realm of the gods.
They act as an aid in meditation,
and according to Buddhist mythology,
can be used to transport oneself across space and time.
Could the fact that the Sakwala Chakraya carving
resembles a mandala provide another clue
about its true purpose?
HENRY: The symbols on this stone, there's lines,
there's geometric figures,
everything we're seeing here is reinforcing
that this was a portal of the gods.
NARRATOR: Could the mysterious carving found in Sri Lanka indicate
the presence of an ancient stargate,
as legend suggests?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and they believe further evidence
that such stargates still exist on Earth
can be found at sites around the world
where people have mysteriously vanished
without a trace.
NARRATOR: Five Navy torpedo bombers,
collectively known as Flight 19,
take off for what is supposed to be a routine training mission
over the Atlantic Ocean.
MIKE RICKSECKER: This flight was headed eastward toward their mark.
They had actually reached it and headed north from there.
And then all of a sudden,
bizarre things started to happen.
Their navigational equipment went awry.
Their compasses started turning in different directions.
(alert beeping)
One of the pilots reported that they had started
flying over land,
and it looked like the Florida Keys below them,
which were in the exact opposite direction,
many, many miles away.
They should not have been over the Keys at all.
They decided to swing low
under the clouds...
and were never heard from again.
NARRATOR: All told, 27 airmen disappeared
during the Flight 19 incident.
(ship horn blowing)
But it is only one
of countless mysterious events
that have happened in the exact same area,
which has become known as the Bermuda Triangle.
FOERSTER: It's said that within that triangle,
all sorts of strange, natural
and unnatural phenomena have happened.
Several hundred if not thousands of ships have
mysteriously disappeared.
Airplanes disappeared as well.
NARRATOR: But it's not only mysterious disappearances
that have been documented in the Bermuda Triangle.
People have also reported witnessing
what they believe could be stargates.
We have many personal stories
of people who've been involved in this,
who've been even caught up
in vortexes and... and what they think is
a hyperspace portal that was going to send them
to another planet, but they somehow got out of it.
JOHN BRANDENBURG: There appears to be, in nature,
the possibility of crossing thresholds of energy,
of electromagnetic phenomenon associated with thunderstorms,
that can perhaps open up portals in space-time
that we never would have thought possible.
An analogy is that lightning is still poorly understood.
Lightning typically carries several million volts.
This is not sufficient voltage to jump from a cloud,
miles above the ground, to the ground or between clouds.
Yet, nature does it.
Combine that with the strange location
of the Bermuda Triangle,
the collision point of these cold and warm currents,
you can have a playground for exotic physics, I believe.
NARRATOR: Skeptics propose
that the notoriety of the Bermuda Triangle
has led people to jump to extraordinary conclusions
for events that likely have conventional explanations.
But ancient astronaut theorists point out
that stories of strange vortexes and mysterious disappearances
are not only coming from the Bermuda Triangle,
but have been reported in numerous other locations.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501
departs La Guardia Airport en route to Seattle.
On board are 58 passengers.
But, five hours into the flight,
as it crosses Lake Michigan,
air traffic control loses radio contact
and the airplane mysteriously disappears.
A widespread search spanned the entire area,
dragging the bottom of the lake
and using sonar technology to look for debris,
but the wreckage was never found.
RICKSECKER: Two hours after
the last transmission of Flight 2501,
two local police officers reported seeing a red light
over Lake Michigan that lasted for about ten minutes.
And red lights have been seen
over that particular area of Lake Michigan
since at least as far back as 1913.
NARRATOR: The area of the lake where Flight 2501 vanished
has become known as the Michigan Triangle,
and has been the site of bizarre sightings
and unexplained activity for over a hundred years.
In the Michigan Triangle, there's a tremendous amount
of UFO activity.
UFOs are seen coming up, out of the water,
going down into the water.
There's a number of missing ships
and airplanes in that area.
One of the most fascinating cases to have occurred
along the Michigan Triangle
is the case of Steven Kubacki.
Now, he's a 23-year-old student
who was cross-country skiing
in February 1978, close to the lake.
When he didn't return, the police were called
and they went out looking for him and did an investigation.
(siren chirping)
NARRATOR: Steven Kubacki's backpack, skis and poles
were eventually found at the very edge of Lake Michigan
in the city of Holland.
And nearby, police investigators found a set of tracks
leading out onto the frozen lake.
POPE: Now, what's really interesting is that
the police followed the tracks,
and they went out onto the ice,
and then they disappeared.
There was no sign that the ice was broken,
no evidence of any scuffle,
the tracks simply vanished.
NARRATOR: The authorities concluded that Steven Kubacki
had fallen into the ice and drowned.
But, over a year later, he suddenly reappeared
more than 600 miles away in Massachusetts.
POPE: According to the contemporary reports,
Steven woke up on a grassy knoll
about 40 miles from his father's house.
So he went home, and of course,
his family were just shocked.
They thought he was dead.
But he was confused because in his mind's eye,
he'd only been gone for a few moments.
Is it possible that he got caught up
with a stargate in the vicinity of Lake Michigan,
which somehow transported him to Massachusetts?
NARRATOR: Steven Kubacki's bizarre experience
is one of the most incredible incidents to occur
in the area of the Michigan Triangle.
And researchers note that the location where
he reappeared is only 150 miles west
of an equally mysterious area
known as the Bridgewater Triangle.
For centuries, the local Native American tribes
have claimed that this 200-square-mile region
is home to otherworldly beings called Pukwudgies,
beings who suddenly appear out of thin air.
COLLINS: The Pukwudgie
is described within Algonquin folklore.
And it's a type of little people
that have been seen
for hundreds of years by Native American peoples,
telling us that these entities
can quite literally walk through portals
into our world.
When we look at what's happened in the Bermuda Triangle,
the Michigan Triangle, the Bridgewater Triangle,
it leads to the conclusion that there are these
naturally occurring stargates or portals on the Earth.
And there are probably more out there
that we've yet to discover.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that stargates already exist on Earth?
And if so, are they the product of environmental conditions,
or are they gateways that were created by
extraterrestrials to travel to our planet?
Perhaps further clues can be found by
examining research being conducted by
the U.S. military to create a wormhole.
NARRATOR: Counterintelligence officer Richard Doty begins
a new assignment at the top secret
U.S. military base Area 51.
What he is tasked with is highly classified,
but years later, he comes forward
and makes a remarkable claim.
He says that during his time at Area 51,
he observed a military experiment
that succeeded in ripping a hole
in the fabric of space and time.
I was some distance away in a control center
watching the experiment.
I was just an observer. I'm not a scientist.
And when they generated this beam
through this magnetic field,
what I saw was a wavy orb appearing,
and the orb was moving a little bit.
The background was real wavy, almost as if you were
looking at a hot, uh, sidewalk during the summertime.
And it became larger and larger and larger and larger.
And behind it, there was a flashing light.
And when I ask a scientist
who was standing right next to me, "What did we just see?"
he said, "We just opened the fabric of space."
NARRATOR: Doty claims that the team used argon gas
and anti-magnetic sheaths
to try to keep the portal open.
It worked for only a few seconds,
but it was enough time for researchers to observe
what was on the other side.
DOTY: The scientists believe that
you open the fabric of space, you're in a different dimension.
That's an entirely different dimension,
and possibly an alternate universe.
That's the way they explained it to me.
NARRATOR: After this initial experiment,
Doty was informed that the research team
successfully replicated their results.
DOTY: After the first test, all the scientists
were fascinated and thrilled.
And they wanted to do more and more and more.
And in a period of about six weeks,
they did five different tests
similar to the first test, opening the portal.
Now, they wanted to use more energy.
They had a high-energy laser.
They wanted to try a chemical laser,
which is a little bit different than an energy laser.
They actually built
a brand-new power plant,
and all of that electricity
was being used for this particular project.
They tried to get as much energy as they could
to be directed at that one point
to see how much of it they could open up.
NARRATOR: According to Doty, this is only
one of many experiments the U.S. government
has conducted to try to create portals.
He believes these programs began
over 50 years ago, and might continue today.
DOTY: Ever since the Central Intelligence Agency's
Office of Scientific Intelligence
realized that there were theories about wormholes,
they engaged in a number of operations over the years
to try to prove wormholes were possible.
And there were a number of operations.
The one that I worked on was Project Jackknife.
The project, it started before my time,
probably started in the early '70s,
and I only was in it up until about 1990.
After that, somebody else took over.
But those programs continued on and on and on.
And I can guarantee you, even today, that there's
some type of experiment going on.
NARRATOR: Could it be that for the past 50 years,
scientists working for the United States government
have secretly been attempting to create
a real traversable stargate?
And if so, is it possible that they have succeeded?
CHILDRESS: It's a fascinating thought
that the U.S. military has been working on
stargates and wormholes and portals.
And we might imagine that,
if they've poured enough money and resources
into creating these stargates,
that maybe they already have this technology,
and have refined it to a point
where they're able to
teleport people and objects
from place to place.
POPE: This isn't just science fiction, this isn't just
technology that would be fun or nice to have.
Sad to say, of course,
a lot of this probably would be weaponized.
I mean, imagine not having to launch
a nuclear missile,
which can be detected, tracked,
intercepted,
and then the opposition
press the button and it's Armageddon.
If you could just send
your atomic weapons through a portal
and instantly destroy
the other nation's offensive capabilities.
This is war-winning technology,
and that explains the secrecy.
NARRATOR: But, according to Doty,
the potential dangers of a stargate
are far greater than its use as a weapon.
DOTY: Once that portal opens,
what if something from the other side
comes in our dimension? What do we do then?
How do we handle these entities or whatever they are?
This is really difficult to understand,
but what if we opened a portal
and it dealt with a parallel universe,
and now we got people from that parallel universe
stepping into this universe?
What would happen to us?
NARRATOR: According to most scientists,
even if some secret government program
has managed to open a small window
in the fabric of space, as Richard Doty claims,
it's unlikely they have advanced to the point
of creating a traversable wormhole.
But some researchers suggest
there may be another way to reach distant places
in the universe or alternate dimensions,
by using the power of the mind.
NARRATOR: Seattle, Washington. November 1975.
Fungi expert Paul Stamets
has come upon a recently discovered breed
of psilocybin mushrooms.
Curious about the mushrooms' psychedelic effects,
he consumes them.
RICKSECKER: When he ingested this,
he had this fascinating vision of these dead cows in a field.
Days later, as he was driving down the road,
he saw off on the side this field full of dead cattle.
So, the question becomes,
when he ingested that hallucinogenic,
did he travel to some other dimension to see this?
Or even another point in time?
NARRATOR: Is it merely an extraordinary coincidence
that Paul Stamets had a vision of dead cows in a field
and then saw the exact same scene with his own eyes
just a few days later?
Or might the psilocybin mushrooms he ingested
have opened a mental gateway that gave him a glimpse
into another place in space and time?
For the longest, it was assumed that,
when you take these hallucinogenic drugs,
that your brain is going hyperactive.
And that's why you're seeing things that aren't really there.
Turns out, recent experiments tell us that's not the case.
What we see is right the opposite.
During the hallucinogenic phase of this,
your brain activity actually decreases to levels
as if you were in hyper-meditative states.
So, the question is, then, if your brain
isn't being very active...
...why are you experiencing
these strange hallucinations?
It's been discussed as a, as a real possibility
that opening portals and gateways
has a psychedelic or a hallucinogenic connection.
(group chanting)
NARRATOR: In many religious traditions around the world,
it is believed that entering a hyper-meditative state
can allow the mind to travel to otherworldly realms.
RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: This is something which is known as astral projection.
People who, through the power of mind,
can experience these other realms and dimensions.
These other realms
are as populated as our own,
and this is practiced in traditions,
India and China,
amongst Native Americans and the like.
MOHAN: Buddha.
He was the master of astral travel.
He could go to the heavens, come back to the Earth,
he could reach many other dimensions
using the power of his mind.
TZADOK: This is not symbolic. It's real.
And with proper training,
we are taught how to experience
the realities around us outside of the limitations of the body.
In that form,
we can and do see other entities.
It could be our extraterrestrial visitors
who are watching us
from the safety of a parallel world.
We can go and interact with them.
NARRATOR: The concept that it is possible to travel to distant locations,
other points in time, or even other dimensions
while the body remains in one place
has existed in cultures around the world
for thousands of years.
And this astral travel often involves
an altered state of mind.
In Mexico and Central America,
we have examples of statues
and amulets in the shape of psilocybin mushrooms.
In North America, we have traditions of cultures
using peyote and mescaline and other types of cactuses.
In South America, we have the famous ayahuasca plant.
FOERSTER: The Inca used--
and the descendants of the Inca still use--
ayahuasca and extract from the San Pedro cactus
to get into alternate states of consciousness.
Some believe that it is so powerful
that you can actually create or enter
into a portal of some kind.
Shamans from every part of the world
all had similar processes to get into an altered state
using psychoactive substances
to somehow connect
with parallel existences and parallel worlds.
And this is how they were able to make contact
with celestial beings,
with divine ancestors,
and perhaps even extraterrestrials.
TZADOK: Why is it so deeply etched
in the human psyche
that, from ancient times and in cultures
around the world, they're all describing
other dimensions, other realms, and astral travels?
And it makes us question whether, in the ancient world,
the ability to expand consciousness, to experience
other realms, other dimensions
was the natural and normal practice of the peoples.
And that was etched deep into our consciousness
and stayed with us to this very day.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the transportive power
of the mind could actually allow us to peer into other worlds
and even communicate with the beings that reside there?
Some researchers suggest that scientists
may be getting close to developing stargates
through which we can physically travel.
NARRATOR: A team of physicists, led by Caltech professor
Maria Spiropulu, conducts an extraordinary experiment.
Using Google's powerful quantum computer,
they successfully create
an observable and traversable wormhole.
Recently, there's been a great concept for an experiment
where some scientists are using
the Google Sycamore quantum computer
to simulate a wormhole.
They set up a model of the universe
inside the quantum computer,
and then, when they turned on the program to run,
it would transfer information from one processor
to another processor via a wormhole.
That's fantastic.
How do we go from inside a simulated universe
to out here in reality where there's portals
and stargates that we can actually use to go
from here to wherever you want to go?
That's the next step.
KAKU: Modern science is now taking us beyond Einstein.
Now we're talking about the fact that space and time
could be curved.
Curved to the point where it may be possible to create gateways,
gateways to other parts of the galaxy.
Stephen Hawking, the great cosmologist,
looked into this and said, "Well, it would be difficult,
but, yes, it may be possible to build stargates."
HENRY: We're suddenly returning to ideas
found in the ancient world about traveling through stargates,
going to other worlds by opening doorways.
Our science is now geared towards opening these stargates.
We now know that the idea of a stargate
is real, it's real science, and it's very desirable.
NARRATOR: Some scientists believe it is only a matter of time
before we are able to create a stargate
through which humans can safely travel.
But if we do open a stargate to another world,
how might that change the course of humankind?
If wormhole travel ever becomes possible,
it would be one of the greatest breakthroughs
in the history of the human race.
We're talking about opening up not just the Earth
but the entire galaxy for human exploration.
Think of the impact to navigate to the stars.
If we're able to create an artificial stargate today,
this would change everything.
Suddenly we would be able to make
instantaneous journeys to the Moon,
instantaneous journeys to Mars,
and instantaneous journeys to other planets
and solar systems as well.
As long as you were able to create, you know,
the computer coordinates for where you wanted to go,
you'd be able to just make that jump.
Stargates can benefit us in a number of different ways.
Whether it is understanding better
the inner workings of the universe,
how the various dimensions work,
or if we unlock stargate technology,
the skies, or rather the stars, are the limit.
HENRY: And if we had access to stargates
and interdimensional travel, it's beyond our comprehension
how this would completely change everything.
It would be a brand-new beginning for the human race.
And it's one I hope to see in my lifetime.
NARRATOR: Is humankind on the precipice
of an incredible new reality?
One in which the most distant stars are within our reach?
And possibly even stars that are in entirely different universes?
Perhaps only when we find the key
to unlocking the stargates
will we once again come face-to-face
with our alien ancestors.
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