: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.
:10:14
- What is that bloody thing?
- I don't know.
:10:17
I'll record it and we'll pass it on
to the Yanks at Kitt Peak.
:10:20
Maybe they'll know.
:10:30
There's a transport leaving
Edwards Air Force Base tonight.
:10:33
Stops in Panama
and South Georgia Islands.
:10:35
Then they'll decide
whether to go Rundell Peak...
:10:38
- Why not?
- Antarctic weather at this time is bad...
:10:40
- and sometimes you can't get in or out.
- Great.
:10:50
- Where'd you get this?
- From a radio tech at the Falklands.
:10:53
One of their satellites intercepted it
two days ago.
:10:56
- Where is it originating from?
- Antarctic.
:10:59
It was somewhere in the Ross Ice Shelf,
then it moved farther inland.