:22:01
Ah... it's my best buddies.
:22:03
Hey!
:22:05
Why don't you join
us for a drink?
:22:06
We'd be grateful if you could
join us for a ride, sir.
:22:09
And if I were to say no?
:22:11
- Just asking.
- Yeah.
:22:12
Well, we have
no sense of humor.
:22:14
That's true.
:22:16
Oh...
:22:18
And we're armed.
:22:23
Thank you.
:22:27
Dr. Keyes, welcome.
:22:28
Thank you.
:22:30
Dr. Zimsky informs us
:22:31
that you made a
useful contribution
:22:33
to his investigations,
so he wanted you
:22:35
to assist him
in the briefing.
:22:36
That's very generous of you,
Dr. Zimsky.
:22:38
Science is a selfless business,
dear boy.
:22:40
Now, why don't you begin,
:22:43
and I'll fill in
all the difficult bits.
:22:49
All right, I'll put this
as simply as I can.
:22:53
Everybody on Earth
is dead in a year.
:22:56
And let me explain why.
:22:58
Wrapped around the Earth
is an invisible field of energy.
:23:02
It's made up of...
electricity and magnetism,
:23:05
so it's called...
creatively enough...
:23:06
the electromagnetic field.
:23:08
It's where we get our magnetic
North Pole and South Pole,
:23:11
and it protects us
from cosmic radiation.
:23:13
So this EM field is our friend.
:23:15
But now...?
:23:17
But now,
:23:18
that field is falling apart.
:23:20
Why?
:23:21
Why?
:23:24
This here.
:23:28
Does somebody have a can
of air freshener?
:23:34
Quick and dirty.
:23:37
The thin skin,
that's the Earth's crust.
:23:39
That's what we live on.
:23:41
It's 30 miles thick.
:23:42
The meat here,
call it the mantle.
:23:46
And forgetting
all the-the funky transitions,
:23:49
it's 2,000 miles thick.
:23:50
The core,
:23:53
the peach pit in the center...
that's a tricky one.
:23:55
There's two parts...
:23:56
the inner core
and the outer core.
:23:58
Are you following me?
:23:59
The inner core