:33:02
- What happened?
- I've never seen anything like this before.
:33:06
Looks like it was created
in a volcanic environment.
:33:10
Looks like a big old clam.
:33:12
A giant mollusk that ate Antarctica.
:33:16
- It's not a mollusk.
- What is it?
:33:18
Don't touch it.
:33:21
You all right?
:33:22
You okay?
:33:24
It's got some sort of electrical charge to it.
:33:27
I'd say it's igneous rock
formed by some sort of eruption.
:33:30
My guess is rhyolite, or basalt.
:33:33
It didn't come from Earth,
it came from space.
:33:35
It's a meteorite.
:33:36
Meteorites don't broadcast radio signals.
:33:38
The signal's harmonics
are exactly like aircraft retrieval data.
:33:43
It's a black box.
:33:45
First I thought it was a location bounce...
:33:47
for celestial navigation,
but it's a little simplistic.
:33:50
Then Grisham mentioned it seemed
like a beacon, and that's when it hit me.
:33:53
This came here by mistake,
and the signal's meant for whoever lost it.
:33:57
- Aliens.
- This is nuts.
:33:59
Maybe not, Michael. It all makes sense.
:34:02
There's something else.
:34:03
The primary signal is a cryptographic key...
:34:06
that unlocks the message
buried in the harmonic.
:34:08
So I compared the cipher text
against itself...
:34:11
and the coincidences between
the character strings. A deviation arises...
:34:15
from strings of intervals divisible by five,
bit repeats at shifts of 70 and 125.
:34:20
- What the hell are you talking about?
- I'm talking about this.
:34:29
What?
:34:31
That? That's a message?
:34:33
It's part of a message.
:34:35
This is the great pearl of galactic wisdom...
:34:38
that we've all been waiting for.
:34:41
I've been waiting for.
:34:45
Could there be more to the message
that's not being deciphered?
:34:48
There could be several cryptographic keys.
:34:50
Shift intervals can change, strings vary.
Endless possibilities.
:34:53
But it could still be uniquely random.
:34:55
- I just don't think so.
- Yes, but it's a possibility.
:34:58
- Anything's possible.
- I think Julian's right.