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Where's the primer?
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You'll see.
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Every three-dimensional page
contains a piece of the primer.
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There it was all the time,
staring you in the face.
1:04:15
Buried within the message itself
is the key to decoding it.
1:04:19
Within the layering of the matrix,
we have these basic equations:
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So with this very elementary foundation,
they have given us a kind of...
1:04:28
...general scientific vocabulary.
1:04:30
We now have the symbols
for true and false--
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This was the key...
1:04:34
...that allowed us to decipher
their language...
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...for physics, geometry, chemistry.
Next frame, Ellie.
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Yes, and when we apply this
to the rest of the message...
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...we find this.
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Those look like engineering schematics,
almost like blueprints.
1:04:56
Yes.
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It is our belief that
the message contains instructions...
1:05:01
...for building something,
some kind of machine.
1:05:04
A machine?
That does what, Doctor?
1:05:07
We don't know.
It might be some type...
1:05:10
...of advanced communication device,
or a teaching machine of some kind.
1:05:16
Or it might be...
1:05:18
...some kind of a transport.
1:05:20
- Transport?
- There's no proof of that.
1:05:22
The fact is you don't know
what it does. It could be anything.
1:05:26
A Trojan Horse. We build it
and out pours the entire Vegan army.
1:05:30
Why risk the personnel?
It could be a weapon.
1:05:32
Right.
Some kind of a Doomsday Machine.
1:05:35
Every time they detect
a new civilization...
1:05:37
...they fax
construction plans from space.
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We poor saps build this thing
and blow ourselves to kingdom come.
1:05:43
There's no reason to believe
their intentions are hostile.
1:05:47
Why is it the egghead position
that aliens are always benign?
1:05:51
We pose no threat to them.
1:05:53
It'd be like us going out of our way...
1:05:56
...to destroy microbes on an anthill.
1:05:58
Interesting analogy.
1:05:59
How guilty would we feel if we
destroyed a few microbes on an anthill?