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-(WIND GUSTING)
-(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING)
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(ENGINE ROARS)
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(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
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This is your first time
driving in the dunes?
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I've been on dunes before.
Nothing like this, ever.
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-ALBERT: We're still in low, right?
-WILL: I hope.
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-WILL: Whoo!
-ALBERT: All right, Will, not too fast.
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"Pay attention," is basically
what you're saying.
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All of that freewheeling I was doing,
better cut that stuff out.
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Think it's up there that it gets crazier.
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Whoa. Good heavens.
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-You only learn through experience.
-Don't want to learn too much today.
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(LAUGHS)
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WILL: All right, this...
this is a serious one.
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(MUSIC TURNS OMINOUS)
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WILL: This is ridiculous.
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ALBERT: Look out, ooh!
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-You ready?
-I'm ready when you are.
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ALBERT: Oh, my God.
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WILL: Whoa, it's a steep one.
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Whoo! (CHUCKLES)
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I got you, I got you.
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This is a story about speed.
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-ALBERT: Oh, my God, Will. Whoa!
-(WILL CHUCKLES)
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Not how quick I'm shredding these dunes.
A different sort of speed.
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A hidden world where things go
so fast or so slow...
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we don't even know they're happening.
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(MUSIC FADES)
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(SOFT WIND BLOWING)
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(ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING)
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You got your real, like,
Zen explorer thing happening right now.
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There's, like, nothing happening here.
(CHUCKLES)
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-There's stuff happening here.
-Mm-hmm.
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You gotta be patient.
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You'll see.
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So here's the deal.
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I'm taking Will across the oldest desert
in the world.
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And at each pit stop,
I'm gonna use state-of-the-art technology
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to try to reveal how much of the world
he's actually missing.
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'Cause often, nature just whizzes by
too fast or creeps along too slowly
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for us to even notice.
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WILL: It all sounds pretty far-fetched.
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But apparently, this hidden world of speed
is everywhere.
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Even 80 feet underwater.
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(DREAMY MUSIC PLAYING)
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(MUSIC FADES)
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(DIVING REGULATOR HISSING)
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DIVA: Comm check, one, two, three.
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There are a lot of anemones. (LAUGHS)
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At first glance, it looks like
just hundreds of tiny anemones,
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anchored to the rocks.
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But film them patiently...
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-(CAMERA BEEPS)
-...then speed it up...
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(LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING)
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...and this miniature world comes to life.
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Because anemones are actually animals.
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And they do everything
you'd expect animals to do.
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They feed.
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They fight.
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They breed by splitting themselves in two.
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And even more surprising than that...
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they move...
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using a weird sort of gallop.
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WILL: Seems like down in Fraggle Rock,
anemones have to travel to survive.
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Just because those dudes look slower
than a parked car,
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doesn't mean they ain't moving.
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Same goes for creatures
that move fast as lightning.
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That's what Albert and I are after next.
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But to capture them,
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you better have a cameraman
who's quick on the draw.
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The second it hits,
you have to be, like, on a hair trigger.
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-WILL: Hair trigger.
-And you have to get it
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exactly at the moment
that you see it, almost predict it.
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Almost predict...
I have to, like, lean into it?
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So it's like the Force,
I have to use the Force to push this
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and it's gonna record
the last two seconds.
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It's like recording the past.
The camera records the past.
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-It's rolling all the time.
-It's rolling all the time,
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and then when I hit,
it'll record the last two seconds?
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Yeah. Just because it's rolling so fast...
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All right. I'm just trying to understand,
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'cause I don't want to mess up
the thing you got.
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We're using an incredibly powerful
slow motion camera
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to try and capture one of the fastest
muscle movements in biology.
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But success is gonna be dependent
on Will's reflexes.
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-You ready?
-Yeah.
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You got it? Don't screw this up, Will.
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Ooh.
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(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
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(WHISPERING) Albert, be still.
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-(WHISPERING) I gotta adjust the camera.
-Why are you moving?
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-'Cause he's moving. He's moving.
-But just be still.
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He sees it. He sees it.
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There we go. Okay. Ready.
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Remember, get it exactly
at the right moment.
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(MUSIC BUILDS)
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Wow!
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-(CHUCKLES)
-Whoa!
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Damn, that's a crunchy bug.
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-How are your slow reactions?
-My reactions are great.
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-Let's see.
-My reactions are so good,
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I might be before the chameleon.
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I had to put it on the maximum delay.
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Oh, man.
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ALBERT: Wow.
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I have no idea whether I got it or not.
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But there is no way
I'm telling Albert that.
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Okay.
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WILL: No, I'm pretty sure I did.
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He's confident.
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So we slowed...
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everything down
by 40 times with this camera.
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Let's see how quick
you needed to be to get food around here.
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Oh...
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Oh! (CHUCKLES)
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Oh, you got lucky!
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Right, let's zoom in.
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WILL: I'm just noticing
how that acceleration builds...
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and then, whoosh! Like, you just
don't see any of that in real time.
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ALBERT: That tongue goes from zero to 60
in just a few hundredths of a second.
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That's nearly a hundred times faster
than any supercar.
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Which is why we just see a blur.
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That blur is happening at a speed
faster than our brains can actually see
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-and process the data.
-Yeah. Yeah.
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The bigger you are,
the faster life seems to be.
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The smaller, the slower.
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That lizard's tongue
is one of the fastest movements
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in the entire animal kingdom.
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But there are some creatures
that have figured out a way
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to use speeds way beyond
what their bodies are capable of.
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-(WIND HOWLING)
-(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
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DWAYNE: Each fall, billions of herring
migrate into these fjords.
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And they're followed
by a fearsome predator.
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(GASPING)
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Whoa! (CHUCKLES)
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It's amazing!
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Problem is,
orca are 20-foot-long and slow.
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Herring are one foot long and fast.
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(ORCA SCREECHES)
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DWAYNE: So, the big whales
have come up with an ingenious solution.
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(ORCA SCREECHES)
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DWAYNE: Something far too fast to see.
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(ORCA SCREECHES)
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DWAYNE: But I just might be able to hear.
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-(UNDERWATER RUMBLING)
-DWAYNE: That was it!
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-(ORCA SCREECHING)
-Whoa!
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That's the sound of an orca
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creating a shock wave
by slapping its tail.
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(SHOCK WAVE BOOMING)
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DWAYNE: That pulse
can travel through the water
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at more than a thousand miles an hour.
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And it stuns the herring,
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-knocking them out cold...
-(ORCA SCREECHES)
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DWAYNE: ...so the orca
can just scoop them up.
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(ORCAS SCREECHING)
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DWAYNE: Genius.
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WILL: Speed isn't just about
the animals though.
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The water itself is working
in ways we can't see.
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And even in a desert,
Albert's found a way to show me how.
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Now, that is something
I was not expecting.
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ALBERT: Look at that!
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That's one of the most
crocodile-infested rivers in Africa.
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They say there's three people a week
who get bit by a crocodile on this river.
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Let's not add to that. (LAUGHS)
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ALBERT: And the thing is,
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to see what I want to see,
I have to get the perfect camera angle.
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Which means that Will and I have to get
to the other side of that river.
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WILL: So is there a bridge or something?
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-ALBERT: I got a little drone.
-All right.
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ALBERT: Maybe I can fly
a line out to the other side,
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around one of those big trees,
and we can get across onto the other side
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and see if we can see more of the falls.
Do you wanna to do that?
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Well, I hope you can do that,
'cause I have a hard time
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getting my remote to put the right stuff
on the TV I want.
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So, if you can fly a drone with a line,
I'm with you.
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-(CHUCKLES)
-(LAUGHS)
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(GRUNTS) That should probably do it.
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-Yeah. Are you ready?
-WILL: Yeah.
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-Watch out for the rotors.
-WILL: Yeah.
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ALBERT: Okay, I'm gonna go.
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The idea is to fly the light line
around the tree on the other side.
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And then we'll use that line
to pull a heavy climbing rope across.
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That's some MacGyver vibes you got going.
Coming down.
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ALBERT: Landing.
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-Good job.
-WILL: Love that.
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ALBERT: Now we'll tie
the line around this,
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pull it around. I'll go across.
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Hopefully, I won't fall.
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And then pull you across.
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'Cause there's really, like,
no room for error here.
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You got me nervous.
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All right.
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(SIGHS)
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-Looks good? Anything dangling?
-Just you.
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-(ALBERT LAUGHS)
-(CHUCKLES)
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-ALBERT: Ready?
-See you on the other side.
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ALBERT: Yeah.
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(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
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WILL: I am not gonna lie.
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I sometimes forget about Albert's leg,
he just moves so well.
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'Cause, of course,
his prosthetic leg is as high-tech
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as everything else about him.
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-There you go.
-ALBERT: Made it.
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-You got me?
-ALBERT: I got you.
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Little further. Keep going.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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ALBERT: Look down!
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Yeah!
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(MUSIC FADES)
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Hey.
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(CHUCKLES)
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(SIGHS) Oh, that's a man-tester.
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-(CHUCKLES)
-(LAUGHS)
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-Jeez.
-ALBERT: You glad we did it?
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WILL: Oh, yeah. You're always happy
you did it afterwards.
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In a movie,
my stuntman would've did that. (LAUGHS)
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-ALBERT: No stuntman here.
-(WILL LAUGHS)
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ALBERT: No stuntman here.
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WILL: Truth be told,
Albert doesn't need a stuntman.
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My man here just takes it all
in his stride.
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And more power to him.
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'Cause you'd have thought losing a leg
would've stopped him in his tracks.
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It's incredible when you can look back
at a single moment
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and realize just
how important it was. (CHUCKLES)
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I was riding along
with a friend in a vehicle...
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and then in an instant,
everything begins to slow down,
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all reality seemed to shift.
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Boom!
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I lost my leg in that car accident.
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But technology has helped me
be able to define my own limitations.
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You know, strangely,
I don't actually feel like
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I've lost anything,
I actually feel like I've gained.
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It transformed who I am.
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It gave me insights into a reality
that I wouldn't have seen otherwise.
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-(WILL GROANING)
-ALBERT: Okay.
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-Let's build the camera rig right here.
-WILL: Whoo!
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You got a lot of high-tech gear.
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ALBERT: Well, we're trying to capture
some pretty extreme speeds.
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Let's not forget what we're up to here.
We're trying to see the invisible.
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-ALBERT: How's the image?
-WILL: It's gorgeous.
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ALBERT: Great, ready when you are.
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Action.
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ALBERT: Close up and slowed down...
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you see the waterfall
for what it really is.
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(DROPLETS CRASHING)
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ALBERT: Millions...
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of tiny explosions.
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Watch even closer, and you see that
each droplet is constantly changing shape.
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The biggest ones turn into parachutes
and then blow apart.
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Okay, now let's change speed
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and look at the whole waterfall,
but in time-lapse.
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WILL: Wow, that's beautiful.
It's totally different.
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ALBERT: Just look at those ravines!
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WILL: All of those tiny explosions
have completely smoothed out.
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When you look at it like that...
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it almost is obvious
that the water is sawing the rocks away.
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Right? When you look at it like that.
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It's like, "Oh, yeah. Obviously,
that's cutting the rock."
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At this speed, we are literally seeing
how the face of the Earth changes.
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It's a completely
different experience of it.
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There's one more stop on this crazy trip.
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To see something
even Albert's cameras can't reveal.
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But apparently, we can only get there
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by leaping into a giant hole
in the ground.
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Because of course we do.
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Coming down.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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(MUSIC FADES)
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WILL: Wow.
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This is crazy.
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It's huge.
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So, it's like there's a cave
that goes around back there,
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and a cave that goes back there.
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In all of the hours
it took us to get here,
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not for one moment did it look like
there was anywhere
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that you could go scuba diving.
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(BOTH LAUGH)
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ALBERT: Just goes to show you.
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Can you tell anything about what might be
under the water based on what's out here?
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Well, I think there's only one way
to find out.
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And that's by going in, right?
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I bet we can get down around here
and maybe enter in over here?
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WILL: I'm not entirely sure
how Albert gets me to agree to this stuff.
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He's like, "Trust me, Will.
Trust me. This isn't dangerous."
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Mm-hmm.
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-ALBERT: You feel good?
-Yeah. Just pop down and pop up.
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ALBERT: Okay. Ready?
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(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
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ALBERT: This is one of the biggest
underground lakes in the world.
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At least 600 feet deep.
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And this is why we came here.
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Stalactites. One of the
slowest-growing things on the planet.
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By measuring them, we can go back in time.
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Each inch takes a thousand years to grow.
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Meaning this one has been here
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for more than 150,000 years.
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But these stalactites,
they're not just old.
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They're time capsules.
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As stalactites form, drip by drip...
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tiny fragments of air and soil
get trapped inside.
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(ICE CRACKING)
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ALBERT: Snapshots
of our planet that stretch
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way back before us humans were here.
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Every drought...
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every flood...
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every ice age...
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every forest fire is timestamped
and recorded forever.
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The speed that the Earth has changed...
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captured on
the ultimate time-lapse camera.
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-ALBERT: Whoo-hoo!
-Yeah.
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ALBERT: That was incredible.
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That's ridiculous, I didn't think
it was gonna be that deep.
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(BOTH LAUGH)
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-It just kept going.
-(ALBERT SIGHS)
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Okay, it was scary.
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-I'm going to be honest. (LAUGHS)
-(LAUGHS)
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-I'm gonna keep it real.
-Oh, man.
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I'm gonna keep it real.
It was terrifying.
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(BOTH LAUGH)
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WILL: That's about as epic
an undertaking as I've ever...
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-(ALBERT CHUCKLING)
-WILL: (CHUCKLING) ...been a part of.
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What's crazy is the terrain.
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You just never expect
that's under the ground.
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-(ALBERT CHUCKLING)
-WILL: Like, you just... (CHUCKLING)
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It's like, how did that get under there?
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All the way along,
from the moment I woke up...
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to being in this car,
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everything that we experienced
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was different than what I thought
it was gonna be...
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to the point that
I could see how my perception
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would have limited my experience
if I wasn't following you.
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And Namibia does that to me a lot.
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It's just different than I thought
it was gonna be.
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Whatever my frame of reference has been
for caves and water and sand,
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Namibia is destroying, at every turn,
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what I think something is going to be.
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Yeah, nature reveals itself
in the most incredible ways, right?
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Yeah, for sure. Now, that's the better way
to say what I wanted to say.
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-ALBERT: You can use it.
-"Nature reveal..." I can have it?
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-Thank you.
-ALBERT: Yeah, go for it.
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-I'm gonna put it on a t-shirt. Yeah.
-ALBERT: Do it, yeah.
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"Nature reveals itself
in such a beautiful way."
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And we're not finished yet.
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Nature has more revealing to do.
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Nowhere more beautifully...
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than on the biggest salt flats
in the world.
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(FLAMINGOS HONKING)
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(SERENE MUSIC PLAYING)
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WILL: Those four and a half thousand miles
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can reveal speed
on an even more epic scale.
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JHEISON:
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WILL: Once a year,
the arrival of the rains...
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-(THUNDER BOOMS)
-...transform the vast salt flats...
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into a mirror so large
it seems to reflect everything.
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(JHEISON SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
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JHEISON:
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WILL: During the day, it's otherworldly.
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(CAMERA BEEPS)
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WILL: But it's when night falls
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that the true magic
of this cosmic mirror is revealed.
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WILL: A time-lapse shows us
the stars in motion.
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But lock the camera to the Milky Way,
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and you get to see
what's really going on up there.
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The movement is actually us.
365
00:29:21,634 --> 00:29:27,474
Our planet spinning on its axis
at 1,000 miles an hour.
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We can also tell that we're racing
through the solar system...
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at 67,000 miles an hour.
368
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And we're not even out of second gear yet.
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Our entire galaxy is spinning
about its center.
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By this time tomorrow,
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we will have hurtled
more than ten million miles through space.
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Which is frighteningly fast.
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But the Milky Way is so huge,
it's gonna take us 200 million years
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to go all the way around.
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Which sounds painfully slow.
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And the craziest thing of all...
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despite being hurled through space
at incomprehensible speeds...
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we can't feel any of it.
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00:30:29,744 --> 00:30:31,996
(SOFT WIND BLOWING)
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WILL: So, is nothing happening here...
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or is the whole world invisibly moving?
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Albert's camera has the answer.
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(SAND GRAINS RUSTLING)
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ALBERT: You see, Will,
if we track the grains,
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you can watch how they bounce.
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00:31:05,071 --> 00:31:08,992
That bouncing is happening
across this whole dune.
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00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:22,755
WILL: That's crazy.
388
00:31:24,674 --> 00:31:26,384
It's like it's moving like the ocean.
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00:31:27,927 --> 00:31:32,098
ALBERT: When we see all this,
these little waves marching towards us,
390
00:31:32,724 --> 00:31:34,225
-it's happening.
-Yeah.
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It's just happening at a much slower pace,
beyond our perception.
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00:31:38,229 --> 00:31:41,608
-And if we zoom out further...
-Wow!
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WILL: The whole desert is in motion
right under our feet.
394
00:31:52,035 --> 00:31:55,121
And the fact
that it's constantly on the move
395
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is the reason it's stayed
a desert for so long.
396
00:32:01,127 --> 00:32:03,129
Nothing else can get a foothold here.
397
00:32:04,297 --> 00:32:06,382
No plants can anchor their roots.
398
00:32:07,383 --> 00:32:10,053
No animals can arrive to eat the plants.
399
00:32:11,054 --> 00:32:13,514
No town can build foundations.
400
00:32:17,101 --> 00:32:20,605
So, this desert is unchanging
401
00:32:20,813 --> 00:32:25,151
because it's always, always moving.
402
00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:29,238
So, the appearance of permanence...
403
00:32:30,448 --> 00:32:35,787
is based on the power of its impermanence.
404
00:32:37,038 --> 00:32:40,458
You like that? That was just a little...
Just tossing a little poetry at you.
405
00:32:41,459 --> 00:32:44,128
-That was a big one, though.
-(LAUGHS)
406
00:32:50,510 --> 00:32:54,555
Our world is like
a series of clockwork cogs,
407
00:32:54,639 --> 00:32:56,557
all turning at different speeds.
408
00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:00,979
Some too slow for us to see.
409
00:33:03,439 --> 00:33:04,941
Others, too fast.
410
00:33:07,568 --> 00:33:10,530
But all of them in constant motion.
411
00:33:11,948 --> 00:33:13,574
The animals around us...
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the land beneath us...
413
00:33:19,747 --> 00:33:21,582
and the universe above.
414
00:33:23,751 --> 00:33:26,462
Each is moving at its own pace...
415
00:33:27,922 --> 00:33:29,424
on its own cog.
416
00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:36,472
It's tempting to think
that what we see is all there is.
417
00:33:38,891 --> 00:33:40,643
But every minute of every day,
418
00:33:40,727 --> 00:33:44,397
there are other realities
living alongside us.
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00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:49,527
-Each one as perfect and precious as ours.
-ALBERT: Whoo!
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(BOTH LAUGH, CHEER)
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00:33:59,162 --> 00:34:05,209
WILL: Next time, the hidden world
is actually inside me.
422
00:34:05,793 --> 00:34:10,339
Hello! My name is Will!
423
00:34:12,216 --> 00:34:14,969
In a crazy, frozen wilderness,
424
00:34:15,386 --> 00:34:21,392
it's time to see if I've got
what it takes to be a true explorer.
425
00:34:21,976 --> 00:34:24,020
-(SIGHS) You didn't kill me.
-(CHUCKLES)
426
00:34:24,395 --> 00:34:25,730
-(CHUCKLES)
-You didn't kill me.
427
00:34:26,064 --> 00:34:27,732
(BOTH LAUGHING)
428
00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:29,942
(ADVENTUROUS MUSIC PLAYING)