:42:00
You mean us, in our
present state of technology?
:42:03
- Yes.
- No.
:42:05
What the hell
are we talking about?
:42:07
We're hypothesizing a technology
that's 100,000 years ahead of us.
:42:12
We're the ancients, Mr.Fox.
:42:15
Ancients?
:42:17
Technologically, yes.
We've just started.
:42:21
But even if you're right,
I still have problems.
:42:24
His knowledge of English.
:42:26
Listen to this.
:42:30
I helped put this package
together, you know.
:42:33
This was designed so that
an intelligent species...
:42:35
could get a working knowledge
of English...
:42:38
enough to get by, anyhow.
:42:40
A couple hundred word vocabulary,
a rough idea of syntax.
:42:42
Think of what it would mean to talk to
a being from a civilization like that.
:42:47
Think of what we could learn.
:42:50
Who represent almost all
of the human inhabitants...
:42:53
of the planet Earth,
I send greetings.
:42:56
Greetings! There. That's what
he said to Heinmuller on the road.
:43:00
It is also what the cannibal
said to the missionary...
:43:02
just before he ate him.
:43:05
The question in this case is...
:43:07
who is the missionary
and who are the cannibals?
:43:13
When do you have to be there?
:43:15
What?
:43:18
In Arizona.
When do you have to be there?
:43:24
Do you see this little star?
:43:29
Star? What star? Where?
:43:34
There.
:43:37
We call that the sun.
:43:40
When this little--
:43:43
When the sun...
:43:46
appears mid-sky three more times...
:43:48
I must be at Arizona.
:43:51
You mean 12:00 noon
three days from now?
:43:55
Yes.
:43:57
And what happens if you
don't get there in time?