:14:02
I was his graduate assistant at MIT
and he offered me a position here.
:14:05
What position is that?
:14:07
Dr. Brecher warned us about you.
:14:10
You're not talking about Kate Brecher,
are you?
:14:14
Dr. Brecher.
:14:15
Welcome to Rundell Peak.
:14:18
- Good to see you again, Dr. Gierach.
- Yes.
:14:21
When John said you were coming,
I was delighted.
:14:23
I've followed your career off and on.
:14:26
That's exactly what it's been.
:14:28
Your time with SETI
must have been memorable.
:14:32
Yes, my lost-in-space days.
:14:45
And so, there it is.
:14:50
In compliance with COMNAP provisions...
:14:53
we've kept the room at a temperature...
:14:55
that won't abnormally accelerate
the melting process.
:14:58
And as you see,
it seems to be melting at an unusual rate.
:15:11
What do you think is inside it?
:15:12
My first guess would have been...
:15:15
a shale slag caught in a glacier.
:15:18
The radio signal rules that out.
:15:21
Could it be the work of SETI?
:15:23
There is no more SETI.
:15:26
The government has no interest
in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
:15:31
They pulled the funding.
:15:33
If this is really what it appears to be...
:15:35
this technology is way beyond
what any of us were working on.
:15:38
For the sake of argument,
let's say it was placed here...
:15:42
by something else.
:15:47
You said it, not me.
:15:49
Alexie, they need you in the corn lab.
:15:53
We'll talk later.
:15:56
What did NASA say when you told them
about this?