:08:01
But now they're not so sure.
:08:03
Why?
:08:04
Well, station telemetry
identified some sort of radio signal...
:08:09
- being emitted from it.
- Really?
:08:12
They burned a spectrogram of it on this CD.
:08:16
I thought you might like to look at it.
:08:19
- Plain or with cheese?
- I don't care.
:08:21
- Look at this.
- What have you got?
:08:24
Look at that.
:08:26
- Nonrandom?
- Definitely.
:08:28
Fixed-length pulse groups,
discriminate text...
:08:31
consisting of prime numbers
repeated over and over.
:08:35
What about a meteorite?
:08:36
A meteorite as big as this would've
left a mile-wide crater in the ice shelf.
:08:40
It would explain an electromagnetic pulse.
:08:42
Not a nonrandom signal. Check this out.
:08:48
That's a kickass frequency.
:08:50
The dish transmitter at Arecibo
is 1,000 feet in diameter.
:08:53
The most powerful on earth.
:08:55
This signal's stronger and it's coming
from something the size of a pickup truck.
:09:08
- You said it was nonrandom?
- Yes, with a fixed pulse device.
:09:11
You mean some sort of new search signal?
:09:14
It's possible.
:09:15
But search text is always
diverse samples with mathematical data.
:09:18
This has no parallel plain text.
:09:20
Like a tracking signal.
:09:22
We're talking about a target signal
of 30,000 light years.
:09:24
- We don't have that technology.
- Not that you know of.
:09:27
I know what's on this disk.
I gotta see this up close.
:09:30
Too many people
know about your past with SETI.
:09:34
They'd read something into it.
:09:37
You say that it may be a Russian satellite,
and I wanna run cryptanalysis on it.
:09:47
All right.
:09:49
But you do anything
to embarrass this institution...
:09:52
you're gonna spend the rest of your days...
:09:55
teaching communication skills
to the penguins down there.
:09:59
Thank you, John.