:40:01
- What do you think is inside it?
- Nothing, I hope.
:40:08
The blade's cutting through a layer
much softer than the outside surface.
:40:13
- What if he's right?
- Snap out of it, Kate.
:40:17
You don't believe it any more than I do.
:40:19
The only reason you're going along
with this insanity is because of him.
:40:23
That's not true.
:40:25
It's not rock. It looks like a carbon alloy.
:40:29
What caused the surface corrosion?
Water exposure?
:40:31
It appears more like a molten degeneration...
:40:34
from exposure to extreme heat.
:40:37
For God's sake, Alexie,
you don't know what the hell that thing is.
:40:41
I'll tell you what.
I'm going down to the corn lab to work.
:40:45
They don't give Nobel prizes for space junk.
:40:59
Anything?
:41:01
No, it just keeps returning to that.
:41:04
- What exactly is it doing?
- Trying to speak.
:41:07
It's a language.
You know, language isn't just used...
:41:11
as a means to converse...
:41:13
but also to define an environment
so one can survive in it.
:41:17
Since time and space is a constant...
:41:20
any intelligence within that environment
will define it the same.
:41:23
- But with a different language?
- Yeah.
:41:25
I mean, mathematics
is the basic expression of any language.
:41:29
So you just have to find a way
to solve the equations.
:41:33
That's what it's doing, with the help
of the cryptographic key from the signal.
:41:37
- It's kind of like MindMaze.
- Like what?
:41:39
It's a computer game...
:41:42
where you have to figure out
the math puzzles.
:41:45
Each time you do, you get a key
that unlocks the door to another world.
:41:53
What?
:41:57
Maybe each piece of the message
is its own key.
:41:59
What do you mean?