1 00:00:06,256 --> 00:00:08,675 -(WIND GUSTING) -(TRANQUIL MUSIC PLAYING) 2 00:00:25,358 --> 00:00:27,277 (ENGINE ROARS) 3 00:00:27,819 --> 00:00:29,863 (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) 4 00:00:32,615 --> 00:00:34,409 This is your first time driving in the dunes? 5 00:00:34,576 --> 00:00:37,454 I've been on dunes before. Nothing like this, ever. 6 00:00:40,582 --> 00:00:42,792 -ALBERT: We're still in low, right? -WILL: I hope. 7 00:00:46,087 --> 00:00:49,424 -WILL: Whoo! -ALBERT: All right, Will, not too fast. 8 00:00:50,091 --> 00:00:51,801 "Pay attention," is basically what you're saying. 9 00:00:52,302 --> 00:00:56,347 All of that freewheeling I was doing, better cut that stuff out. 10 00:00:56,890 --> 00:00:58,683 Think it's up there that it gets crazier. 11 00:01:04,773 --> 00:01:07,275 Whoa. Good heavens. 12 00:01:07,901 --> 00:01:12,113 -You only learn through experience. -Don't want to learn too much today. 13 00:01:12,322 --> 00:01:13,698 (LAUGHS) 14 00:01:34,719 --> 00:01:37,597 WILL: All right, this... this is a serious one. 15 00:01:44,020 --> 00:01:45,313 (MUSIC TURNS OMINOUS) 16 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,398 WILL: This is ridiculous. 17 00:01:50,401 --> 00:01:52,612 ALBERT: Look out, ooh! 18 00:01:53,154 --> 00:01:54,989 -You ready? -I'm ready when you are. 19 00:02:00,161 --> 00:02:01,287 ALBERT: Oh, my God. 20 00:02:02,664 --> 00:02:04,457 WILL: Whoa, it's a steep one. 21 00:02:05,166 --> 00:02:07,794 Whoo! (CHUCKLES) 22 00:02:09,045 --> 00:02:10,046 I got you, I got you. 23 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,349 This is a story about speed. 24 00:02:22,058 --> 00:02:24,853 -ALBERT: Oh, my God, Will. Whoa! -(WILL CHUCKLES) 25 00:02:25,562 --> 00:02:30,066 Not how quick I'm shredding these dunes. A different sort of speed. 26 00:02:30,608 --> 00:02:35,655 A hidden world where things go so fast or so slow... 27 00:02:37,282 --> 00:02:38,867 we don't even know they're happening. 28 00:02:40,285 --> 00:02:41,327 (MUSIC FADES) 29 00:02:41,494 --> 00:02:43,079 (SOFT WIND BLOWING) 30 00:02:49,419 --> 00:02:52,463 (ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING) 31 00:03:03,224 --> 00:03:07,854 You got your real, like, Zen explorer thing happening right now. 32 00:03:19,365 --> 00:03:23,786 There's, like, nothing happening here. (CHUCKLES) 33 00:03:24,412 --> 00:03:26,664 -There's stuff happening here. -Mm-hmm. 34 00:03:27,207 --> 00:03:28,374 You gotta be patient. 35 00:03:30,627 --> 00:03:31,628 You'll see. 36 00:03:35,548 --> 00:03:36,674 So here's the deal. 37 00:03:37,425 --> 00:03:40,345 I'm taking Will across the oldest desert in the world. 38 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:44,933 And at each pit stop, I'm gonna use state-of-the-art technology 39 00:03:45,016 --> 00:03:49,395 to try to reveal how much of the world he's actually missing. 40 00:03:51,397 --> 00:03:56,694 'Cause often, nature just whizzes by too fast or creeps along too slowly 41 00:03:57,111 --> 00:03:58,321 for us to even notice. 42 00:04:11,834 --> 00:04:14,170 WILL: It all sounds pretty far-fetched. 43 00:04:14,754 --> 00:04:19,592 But apparently, this hidden world of speed is everywhere. 44 00:04:21,427 --> 00:04:23,888 Even 80 feet underwater. 45 00:04:26,015 --> 00:04:28,893 (DREAMY MUSIC PLAYING) 46 00:04:46,828 --> 00:04:48,621 (MUSIC FADES) 47 00:04:49,163 --> 00:04:50,873 (DIVING REGULATOR HISSING) 48 00:04:51,207 --> 00:04:52,792 DIVA: Comm check, one, two, three. 49 00:04:58,965 --> 00:05:02,635 There are a lot of anemones. (LAUGHS) 50 00:05:08,516 --> 00:05:13,438 At first glance, it looks like just hundreds of tiny anemones, 51 00:05:13,896 --> 00:05:15,732 anchored to the rocks. 52 00:05:17,150 --> 00:05:18,609 But film them patiently... 53 00:05:20,111 --> 00:05:21,696 -(CAMERA BEEPS) -...then speed it up... 54 00:05:22,196 --> 00:05:23,781 (LIVELY MUSIC PLAYING) 55 00:05:23,990 --> 00:05:26,617 ...and this miniature world comes to life. 56 00:05:29,495 --> 00:05:32,081 Because anemones are actually animals. 57 00:05:34,083 --> 00:05:36,919 And they do everything you'd expect animals to do. 58 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:39,881 They feed. 59 00:05:42,175 --> 00:05:43,176 They fight. 60 00:05:44,969 --> 00:05:48,264 They breed by splitting themselves in two. 61 00:05:58,649 --> 00:06:00,777 And even more surprising than that... 62 00:06:02,487 --> 00:06:03,488 they move... 63 00:06:12,413 --> 00:06:14,540 using a weird sort of gallop. 64 00:06:26,677 --> 00:06:32,558 WILL: Seems like down in Fraggle Rock, anemones have to travel to survive. 65 00:06:33,893 --> 00:06:37,188 Just because those dudes look slower than a parked car, 66 00:06:37,772 --> 00:06:39,315 doesn't mean they ain't moving. 67 00:06:44,862 --> 00:06:48,408 Same goes for creatures that move fast as lightning. 68 00:06:49,659 --> 00:06:51,786 That's what Albert and I are after next. 69 00:06:53,204 --> 00:06:54,414 But to capture them, 70 00:06:54,705 --> 00:06:57,291 you better have a cameraman who's quick on the draw. 71 00:06:59,836 --> 00:07:02,964 The second it hits, you have to be, like, on a hair trigger. 72 00:07:03,047 --> 00:07:04,549 -WILL: Hair trigger. -And you have to get it 73 00:07:04,674 --> 00:07:06,759 exactly at the moment that you see it, almost predict it. 74 00:07:06,843 --> 00:07:08,970 Almost predict... I have to, like, lean into it? 75 00:07:09,095 --> 00:07:13,558 So it's like the Force, I have to use the Force to push this 76 00:07:13,808 --> 00:07:15,810 and it's gonna record the last two seconds. 77 00:07:15,893 --> 00:07:20,314 It's like recording the past. The camera records the past. 78 00:07:20,648 --> 00:07:22,483 -It's rolling all the time. -It's rolling all the time, 79 00:07:22,567 --> 00:07:24,694 and then when I hit, it'll record the last two seconds? 80 00:07:24,777 --> 00:07:26,571 Yeah. Just because it's rolling so fast... 81 00:07:26,654 --> 00:07:27,905 All right. I'm just trying to understand, 82 00:07:27,989 --> 00:07:29,866 'cause I don't want to mess up the thing you got. 83 00:07:30,450 --> 00:07:33,161 We're using an incredibly powerful slow motion camera 84 00:07:33,244 --> 00:07:37,874 to try and capture one of the fastest muscle movements in biology. 85 00:07:38,583 --> 00:07:42,378 But success is gonna be dependent on Will's reflexes. 86 00:07:42,962 --> 00:07:44,046 -You ready? -Yeah. 87 00:07:44,213 --> 00:07:46,048 You got it? Don't screw this up, Will. 88 00:07:46,591 --> 00:07:47,675 Ooh. 89 00:07:48,509 --> 00:07:50,678 (TENSE MUSIC PLAYING) 90 00:07:53,681 --> 00:07:54,682 (WHISPERING) Albert, be still. 91 00:07:54,932 --> 00:07:57,059 -(WHISPERING) I gotta adjust the camera. -Why are you moving? 92 00:07:57,143 --> 00:07:59,770 -'Cause he's moving. He's moving. -But just be still. 93 00:08:02,773 --> 00:08:04,275 He sees it. He sees it. 94 00:08:07,695 --> 00:08:08,905 There we go. Okay. Ready. 95 00:08:09,822 --> 00:08:11,574 Remember, get it exactly at the right moment. 96 00:08:13,117 --> 00:08:15,244 (MUSIC BUILDS) 97 00:08:17,788 --> 00:08:19,081 Wow! 98 00:08:19,707 --> 00:08:22,210 -(CHUCKLES) -Whoa! 99 00:08:24,003 --> 00:08:25,588 Damn, that's a crunchy bug. 100 00:08:26,797 --> 00:08:29,884 -How are your slow reactions? -My reactions are great. 101 00:08:31,344 --> 00:08:33,054 -Let's see. -My reactions are so good, 102 00:08:33,137 --> 00:08:34,847 I might be before the chameleon. 103 00:08:35,014 --> 00:08:36,849 I had to put it on the maximum delay. 104 00:08:38,643 --> 00:08:39,644 Oh, man. 105 00:08:42,063 --> 00:08:43,105 ALBERT: Wow. 106 00:08:43,481 --> 00:08:45,983 I have no idea whether I got it or not. 107 00:08:46,275 --> 00:08:49,278 But there is no way I'm telling Albert that. 108 00:08:50,988 --> 00:08:52,031 Okay. 109 00:08:54,617 --> 00:08:55,785 WILL: No, I'm pretty sure I did. 110 00:08:56,744 --> 00:08:57,870 He's confident. 111 00:08:59,872 --> 00:09:00,915 So we slowed... 112 00:09:01,958 --> 00:09:04,210 everything down by 40 times with this camera. 113 00:09:06,212 --> 00:09:08,589 Let's see how quick you needed to be to get food around here. 114 00:09:11,801 --> 00:09:12,927 Oh... 115 00:09:14,303 --> 00:09:16,389 Oh! (CHUCKLES) 116 00:09:17,306 --> 00:09:18,599 Oh, you got lucky! 117 00:09:22,186 --> 00:09:23,521 Right, let's zoom in. 118 00:09:26,065 --> 00:09:29,151 WILL: I'm just noticing how that acceleration builds... 119 00:09:31,028 --> 00:09:35,491 and then, whoosh! Like, you just don't see any of that in real time. 120 00:09:36,242 --> 00:09:40,246 ALBERT: That tongue goes from zero to 60 in just a few hundredths of a second. 121 00:09:40,955 --> 00:09:43,499 That's nearly a hundred times faster than any supercar. 122 00:09:43,958 --> 00:09:45,209 Which is why we just see a blur. 123 00:09:46,252 --> 00:09:51,173 That blur is happening at a speed faster than our brains can actually see 124 00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:53,009 -and process the data. -Yeah. Yeah. 125 00:09:54,927 --> 00:09:58,514 The bigger you are, the faster life seems to be. 126 00:09:58,973 --> 00:10:01,142 The smaller, the slower. 127 00:10:03,269 --> 00:10:06,355 That lizard's tongue is one of the fastest movements 128 00:10:06,439 --> 00:10:07,857 in the entire animal kingdom. 129 00:10:09,734 --> 00:10:11,777 But there are some creatures that have figured out a way 130 00:10:11,861 --> 00:10:15,823 to use speeds way beyond what their bodies are capable of. 131 00:10:17,033 --> 00:10:20,494 -(WIND HOWLING) -(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING) 132 00:10:36,510 --> 00:10:39,972 DWAYNE: Each fall, billions of herring migrate into these fjords. 133 00:10:41,724 --> 00:10:43,768 And they're followed by a fearsome predator. 134 00:10:47,146 --> 00:10:49,106 (GASPING) 135 00:10:51,025 --> 00:10:53,027 Whoa! (CHUCKLES) 136 00:10:54,445 --> 00:10:55,571 It's amazing! 137 00:10:58,407 --> 00:11:02,411 Problem is, orca are 20-foot-long and slow. 138 00:11:06,457 --> 00:11:10,753 Herring are one foot long and fast. 139 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:16,884 (ORCA SCREECHES) 140 00:11:18,386 --> 00:11:21,138 DWAYNE: So, the big whales have come up with an ingenious solution. 141 00:11:21,347 --> 00:11:22,556 (ORCA SCREECHES) 142 00:11:24,684 --> 00:11:26,936 DWAYNE: Something far too fast to see. 143 00:11:27,061 --> 00:11:28,437 (ORCA SCREECHES) 144 00:11:28,521 --> 00:11:30,731 DWAYNE: But I just might be able to hear. 145 00:11:40,533 --> 00:11:44,286 -(UNDERWATER RUMBLING) -DWAYNE: That was it! 146 00:11:45,162 --> 00:11:46,622 -(ORCA SCREECHING) -Whoa! 147 00:11:59,093 --> 00:12:00,886 That's the sound of an orca 148 00:12:01,220 --> 00:12:04,557 creating a shock wave by slapping its tail. 149 00:12:11,272 --> 00:12:13,524 (SHOCK WAVE BOOMING) 150 00:12:13,691 --> 00:12:15,776 DWAYNE: That pulse can travel through the water 151 00:12:15,860 --> 00:12:17,737 at more than a thousand miles an hour. 152 00:12:20,448 --> 00:12:21,866 And it stuns the herring, 153 00:12:22,199 --> 00:12:24,118 -knocking them out cold... -(ORCA SCREECHES) 154 00:12:27,663 --> 00:12:29,999 DWAYNE: ...so the orca can just scoop them up. 155 00:12:30,332 --> 00:12:32,585 (ORCAS SCREECHING) 156 00:12:33,169 --> 00:12:34,170 DWAYNE: Genius. 157 00:12:37,923 --> 00:12:40,342 WILL: Speed isn't just about the animals though. 158 00:12:42,261 --> 00:12:45,765 The water itself is working in ways we can't see. 159 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,730 And even in a desert, Albert's found a way to show me how. 160 00:12:55,065 --> 00:12:57,151 Now, that is something I was not expecting. 161 00:12:58,819 --> 00:12:59,945 ALBERT: Look at that! 162 00:13:06,118 --> 00:13:09,371 That's one of the most crocodile-infested rivers in Africa. 163 00:13:09,872 --> 00:13:13,834 They say there's three people a week who get bit by a crocodile on this river. 164 00:13:14,376 --> 00:13:17,296 Let's not add to that. (LAUGHS) 165 00:13:21,425 --> 00:13:22,468 ALBERT: And the thing is, 166 00:13:22,968 --> 00:13:25,805 to see what I want to see, I have to get the perfect camera angle. 167 00:13:27,556 --> 00:13:30,392 Which means that Will and I have to get to the other side of that river. 168 00:13:31,185 --> 00:13:33,145 WILL: So is there a bridge or something? 169 00:13:33,646 --> 00:13:35,815 -ALBERT: I got a little drone. -All right. 170 00:13:36,357 --> 00:13:38,776 ALBERT: Maybe I can fly a line out to the other side, 171 00:13:38,859 --> 00:13:41,862 around one of those big trees, and we can get across onto the other side 172 00:13:41,987 --> 00:13:44,073 and see if we can see more of the falls. Do you wanna to do that? 173 00:13:44,156 --> 00:13:48,035 Well, I hope you can do that, 'cause I have a hard time 174 00:13:48,118 --> 00:13:51,497 getting my remote to put the right stuff on the TV I want. 175 00:13:51,580 --> 00:13:54,667 So, if you can fly a drone with a line, I'm with you. 176 00:13:55,543 --> 00:13:57,878 -(CHUCKLES) -(LAUGHS) 177 00:13:58,796 --> 00:14:00,130 (GRUNTS) That should probably do it. 178 00:14:00,798 --> 00:14:01,966 -Yeah. Are you ready? -WILL: Yeah. 179 00:14:02,299 --> 00:14:03,759 -Watch out for the rotors. -WILL: Yeah. 180 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:05,761 ALBERT: Okay, I'm gonna go. 181 00:14:13,185 --> 00:14:17,648 The idea is to fly the light line around the tree on the other side. 182 00:14:18,816 --> 00:14:21,777 And then we'll use that line to pull a heavy climbing rope across. 183 00:14:23,654 --> 00:14:27,283 That's some MacGyver vibes you got going. Coming down. 184 00:14:27,825 --> 00:14:28,993 ALBERT: Landing. 185 00:14:29,827 --> 00:14:31,328 -Good job. -WILL: Love that. 186 00:14:31,412 --> 00:14:33,038 ALBERT: Now we'll tie the line around this, 187 00:14:33,205 --> 00:14:35,291 pull it around. I'll go across. 188 00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:37,626 Hopefully, I won't fall. 189 00:14:38,919 --> 00:14:40,004 And then pull you across. 190 00:14:41,130 --> 00:14:43,799 'Cause there's really, like, no room for error here. 191 00:14:44,466 --> 00:14:45,551 You got me nervous. 192 00:14:46,677 --> 00:14:47,678 All right. 193 00:14:50,264 --> 00:14:51,265 (SIGHS) 194 00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:55,811 -Looks good? Anything dangling? -Just you. 195 00:14:55,895 --> 00:14:57,688 -(ALBERT LAUGHS) -(CHUCKLES) 196 00:14:59,773 --> 00:15:01,358 -ALBERT: Ready? -See you on the other side. 197 00:15:01,483 --> 00:15:02,526 ALBERT: Yeah. 198 00:15:02,651 --> 00:15:04,612 (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) 199 00:15:08,324 --> 00:15:09,658 WILL: I am not gonna lie. 200 00:15:10,534 --> 00:15:15,539 I sometimes forget about Albert's leg, he just moves so well. 201 00:15:19,001 --> 00:15:22,087 'Cause, of course, his prosthetic leg is as high-tech 202 00:15:22,171 --> 00:15:23,547 as everything else about him. 203 00:15:25,299 --> 00:15:27,593 -There you go. -ALBERT: Made it. 204 00:15:32,139 --> 00:15:34,391 -You got me? -ALBERT: I got you. 205 00:15:48,072 --> 00:15:50,532 Little further. Keep going. 206 00:15:52,910 --> 00:15:55,913 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 207 00:16:06,924 --> 00:16:07,925 ALBERT: Look down! 208 00:16:10,344 --> 00:16:11,428 Yeah! 209 00:16:36,286 --> 00:16:37,830 (MUSIC FADES) 210 00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:38,956 Hey. 211 00:16:40,833 --> 00:16:41,875 (CHUCKLES) 212 00:16:42,918 --> 00:16:44,628 (SIGHS) Oh, that's a man-tester. 213 00:16:44,712 --> 00:16:46,213 -(CHUCKLES) -(LAUGHS) 214 00:16:47,339 --> 00:16:49,258 -Jeez. -ALBERT: You glad we did it? 215 00:16:49,883 --> 00:16:52,177 WILL: Oh, yeah. You're always happy you did it afterwards. 216 00:16:53,095 --> 00:16:56,932 In a movie, my stuntman would've did that. (LAUGHS) 217 00:16:57,850 --> 00:16:59,560 -ALBERT: No stuntman here. -(WILL LAUGHS) 218 00:16:59,643 --> 00:17:00,853 ALBERT: No stuntman here. 219 00:17:05,107 --> 00:17:08,485 WILL: Truth be told, Albert doesn't need a stuntman. 220 00:17:09,194 --> 00:17:11,905 My man here just takes it all in his stride. 221 00:17:13,115 --> 00:17:14,533 And more power to him. 222 00:17:15,242 --> 00:17:18,954 'Cause you'd have thought losing a leg would've stopped him in his tracks. 223 00:17:21,290 --> 00:17:24,168 It's incredible when you can look back at a single moment 224 00:17:25,002 --> 00:17:27,254 and realize just how important it was. (CHUCKLES) 225 00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:31,508 I was riding along with a friend in a vehicle... 226 00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:36,472 and then in an instant, everything begins to slow down, 227 00:17:37,473 --> 00:17:39,767 all reality seemed to shift. 228 00:17:40,476 --> 00:17:41,477 Boom! 229 00:17:42,936 --> 00:17:44,688 I lost my leg in that car accident. 230 00:17:47,357 --> 00:17:53,030 But technology has helped me be able to define my own limitations. 231 00:17:54,281 --> 00:17:55,741 You know, strangely, I don't actually feel like 232 00:17:55,824 --> 00:17:58,827 I've lost anything, I actually feel like I've gained. 233 00:18:00,871 --> 00:18:03,791 It transformed who I am. 234 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,295 It gave me insights into a reality that I wouldn't have seen otherwise. 235 00:18:15,969 --> 00:18:16,970 -(WILL GROANING) -ALBERT: Okay. 236 00:18:17,054 --> 00:18:19,598 -Let's build the camera rig right here. -WILL: Whoo! 237 00:18:26,313 --> 00:18:27,981 You got a lot of high-tech gear. 238 00:18:29,024 --> 00:18:31,693 ALBERT: Well, we're trying to capture some pretty extreme speeds. 239 00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:36,824 Let's not forget what we're up to here. We're trying to see the invisible. 240 00:18:48,043 --> 00:18:50,420 -ALBERT: How's the image? -WILL: It's gorgeous. 241 00:18:50,712 --> 00:18:52,256 ALBERT: Great, ready when you are. 242 00:18:53,090 --> 00:18:54,091 Action. 243 00:18:58,053 --> 00:19:00,222 ALBERT: Close up and slowed down... 244 00:19:01,473 --> 00:19:04,226 you see the waterfall for what it really is. 245 00:19:04,726 --> 00:19:06,061 (DROPLETS CRASHING) 246 00:19:06,270 --> 00:19:07,354 ALBERT: Millions... 247 00:19:08,438 --> 00:19:10,149 of tiny explosions. 248 00:19:21,076 --> 00:19:25,455 Watch even closer, and you see that each droplet is constantly changing shape. 249 00:19:27,916 --> 00:19:31,879 The biggest ones turn into parachutes and then blow apart. 250 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:38,302 Okay, now let's change speed 251 00:19:38,385 --> 00:19:41,180 and look at the whole waterfall, but in time-lapse. 252 00:19:46,852 --> 00:19:51,023 WILL: Wow, that's beautiful. It's totally different. 253 00:19:53,108 --> 00:19:54,651 ALBERT: Just look at those ravines! 254 00:19:55,402 --> 00:19:58,864 WILL: All of those tiny explosions have completely smoothed out. 255 00:20:00,115 --> 00:20:01,950 When you look at it like that... 256 00:20:03,452 --> 00:20:08,707 it almost is obvious that the water is sawing the rocks away. 257 00:20:08,957 --> 00:20:10,334 Right? When you look at it like that. 258 00:20:10,417 --> 00:20:13,545 It's like, "Oh, yeah. Obviously, that's cutting the rock." 259 00:20:16,256 --> 00:20:20,427 At this speed, we are literally seeing how the face of the Earth changes. 260 00:20:22,429 --> 00:20:25,849 It's a completely different experience of it. 261 00:20:29,811 --> 00:20:32,731 There's one more stop on this crazy trip. 262 00:20:34,608 --> 00:20:37,694 To see something even Albert's cameras can't reveal. 263 00:20:40,405 --> 00:20:42,783 But apparently, we can only get there 264 00:20:43,283 --> 00:20:46,411 by leaping into a giant hole in the ground. 265 00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:50,082 Because of course we do. 266 00:20:50,749 --> 00:20:51,792 Coming down. 267 00:20:53,919 --> 00:20:56,380 (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) 268 00:21:31,373 --> 00:21:32,499 (MUSIC FADES) 269 00:21:32,624 --> 00:21:33,709 WILL: Wow. 270 00:21:35,669 --> 00:21:36,962 This is crazy. 271 00:21:41,216 --> 00:21:42,592 It's huge. 272 00:21:44,136 --> 00:21:46,638 So, it's like there's a cave that goes around back there, 273 00:21:46,722 --> 00:21:49,599 and a cave that goes back there. 274 00:21:54,271 --> 00:21:57,941 In all of the hours it took us to get here, 275 00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:01,945 not for one moment did it look like there was anywhere 276 00:22:02,029 --> 00:22:03,405 that you could go scuba diving. 277 00:22:03,613 --> 00:22:05,073 (BOTH LAUGH) 278 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:06,450 ALBERT: Just goes to show you. 279 00:22:08,785 --> 00:22:13,832 Can you tell anything about what might be under the water based on what's out here? 280 00:22:15,292 --> 00:22:17,836 Well, I think there's only one way to find out. 281 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:19,755 And that's by going in, right? 282 00:22:24,551 --> 00:22:27,596 I bet we can get down around here and maybe enter in over here? 283 00:22:29,348 --> 00:22:33,643 WILL: I'm not entirely sure how Albert gets me to agree to this stuff. 284 00:22:34,019 --> 00:22:37,314 He's like, "Trust me, Will. Trust me. This isn't dangerous." 285 00:22:38,398 --> 00:22:39,399 Mm-hmm. 286 00:22:40,108 --> 00:22:42,444 -ALBERT: You feel good? -Yeah. Just pop down and pop up. 287 00:22:42,569 --> 00:22:43,904 ALBERT: Okay. Ready? 288 00:22:55,082 --> 00:22:57,542 (EERIE MUSIC PLAYING) 289 00:23:14,768 --> 00:23:17,771 ALBERT: This is one of the biggest underground lakes in the world. 290 00:23:20,065 --> 00:23:22,067 At least 600 feet deep. 291 00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:27,406 And this is why we came here. 292 00:23:28,281 --> 00:23:32,953 Stalactites. One of the slowest-growing things on the planet. 293 00:23:36,915 --> 00:23:39,459 By measuring them, we can go back in time. 294 00:23:42,879 --> 00:23:45,590 Each inch takes a thousand years to grow. 295 00:23:47,426 --> 00:23:49,553 Meaning this one has been here 296 00:23:49,636 --> 00:23:52,472 for more than 150,000 years. 297 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:57,727 But these stalactites, they're not just old. 298 00:23:58,854 --> 00:24:00,105 They're time capsules. 299 00:24:03,150 --> 00:24:05,986 As stalactites form, drip by drip... 300 00:24:08,613 --> 00:24:11,825 tiny fragments of air and soil get trapped inside. 301 00:24:14,077 --> 00:24:15,954 (ICE CRACKING) 302 00:24:18,498 --> 00:24:20,500 ALBERT: Snapshots of our planet that stretch 303 00:24:21,168 --> 00:24:22,919 way back before us humans were here. 304 00:24:24,171 --> 00:24:25,213 Every drought... 305 00:24:28,133 --> 00:24:29,342 every flood... 306 00:24:31,553 --> 00:24:32,804 every ice age... 307 00:24:36,308 --> 00:24:42,147 every forest fire is timestamped and recorded forever. 308 00:24:44,441 --> 00:24:46,985 The speed that the Earth has changed... 309 00:24:49,154 --> 00:24:52,199 captured on the ultimate time-lapse camera. 310 00:24:58,747 --> 00:25:00,582 -ALBERT: Whoo-hoo! -Yeah. 311 00:25:01,541 --> 00:25:02,626 ALBERT: That was incredible. 312 00:25:03,001 --> 00:25:05,253 That's ridiculous, I didn't think it was gonna be that deep. 313 00:25:05,337 --> 00:25:07,464 (BOTH LAUGH) 314 00:25:07,714 --> 00:25:10,467 -It just kept going. -(ALBERT SIGHS) 315 00:25:11,259 --> 00:25:12,511 Okay, it was scary. 316 00:25:12,761 --> 00:25:14,721 -I'm going to be honest. (LAUGHS) -(LAUGHS) 317 00:25:14,804 --> 00:25:16,139 -I'm gonna keep it real. -Oh, man. 318 00:25:16,264 --> 00:25:18,225 I'm gonna keep it real. It was terrifying. 319 00:25:18,308 --> 00:25:20,769 (BOTH LAUGH) 320 00:25:24,689 --> 00:25:27,734 WILL: That's about as epic an undertaking as I've ever... 321 00:25:27,859 --> 00:25:29,528 -(ALBERT CHUCKLING) -WILL: (CHUCKLING) ...been a part of. 322 00:25:30,403 --> 00:25:31,905 What's crazy is the terrain. 323 00:25:32,030 --> 00:25:35,534 You just never expect that's under the ground. 324 00:25:35,825 --> 00:25:37,536 -(ALBERT CHUCKLING) -WILL: Like, you just... (CHUCKLING) 325 00:25:37,911 --> 00:25:39,829 It's like, how did that get under there? 326 00:25:41,706 --> 00:25:44,251 All the way along, from the moment I woke up... 327 00:25:45,252 --> 00:25:47,754 to being in this car, 328 00:25:48,505 --> 00:25:51,091 everything that we experienced 329 00:25:51,424 --> 00:25:54,427 was different than what I thought it was gonna be... 330 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:01,017 to the point that I could see how my perception 331 00:26:01,101 --> 00:26:04,813 would have limited my experience if I wasn't following you. 332 00:26:05,689 --> 00:26:08,233 And Namibia does that to me a lot. 333 00:26:08,733 --> 00:26:10,860 It's just different than I thought it was gonna be. 334 00:26:10,944 --> 00:26:17,659 Whatever my frame of reference has been for caves and water and sand, 335 00:26:17,867 --> 00:26:22,205 Namibia is destroying, at every turn, 336 00:26:22,539 --> 00:26:25,584 what I think something is going to be. 337 00:26:26,084 --> 00:26:28,878 Yeah, nature reveals itself in the most incredible ways, right? 338 00:26:29,004 --> 00:26:33,049 Yeah, for sure. Now, that's the better way to say what I wanted to say. 339 00:26:33,174 --> 00:26:34,843 -ALBERT: You can use it. -"Nature reveal..." I can have it? 340 00:26:34,926 --> 00:26:36,052 -Thank you. -ALBERT: Yeah, go for it. 341 00:26:36,136 --> 00:26:37,929 -I'm gonna put it on a t-shirt. Yeah. -ALBERT: Do it, yeah. 342 00:26:38,305 --> 00:26:42,267 "Nature reveals itself in such a beautiful way." 343 00:26:44,686 --> 00:26:46,104 And we're not finished yet. 344 00:26:47,397 --> 00:26:49,774 Nature has more revealing to do. 345 00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:54,154 Nowhere more beautifully... 346 00:26:56,197 --> 00:26:59,326 than on the biggest salt flats in the world. 347 00:27:00,076 --> 00:27:04,956 (FLAMINGOS HONKING) 348 00:27:07,709 --> 00:27:12,589 (SERENE MUSIC PLAYING) 349 00:27:17,052 --> 00:27:20,055 WILL: Those four and a half thousand miles 350 00:27:20,221 --> 00:27:23,850 can reveal speed on an even more epic scale. 351 00:27:25,143 --> 00:27:27,729 JHEISON: 352 00:27:38,239 --> 00:27:41,284 WILL: Once a year, the arrival of the rains... 353 00:27:41,576 --> 00:27:45,163 -(THUNDER BOOMS) -...transform the vast salt flats... 354 00:27:46,289 --> 00:27:50,877 into a mirror so large it seems to reflect everything. 355 00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:02,889 (JHEISON SPEAKING IN SPANISH) 356 00:28:07,602 --> 00:28:08,645 JHEISON: 357 00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:23,702 WILL: During the day, it's otherworldly. 358 00:28:25,954 --> 00:28:26,955 (CAMERA BEEPS) 359 00:28:31,209 --> 00:28:33,044 WILL: But it's when night falls 360 00:28:33,628 --> 00:28:37,507 that the true magic of this cosmic mirror is revealed. 361 00:29:00,238 --> 00:29:04,117 WILL: A time-lapse shows us the stars in motion. 362 00:29:05,326 --> 00:29:07,829 But lock the camera to the Milky Way, 363 00:29:08,663 --> 00:29:11,458 and you get to see what's really going on up there. 364 00:29:15,211 --> 00:29:18,089 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. 366 00:29:31,936 --> 00:29:35,899 We can also tell that we're racing through the solar system... 367 00:29:36,983 --> 00:29:40,195 at 67,000 miles an hour. 368 00:29:41,362 --> 00:29:43,490 And we're not even out of second gear yet. 369 00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:49,287 Our entire galaxy is spinning about its center. 370 00:29:51,164 --> 00:29:52,540 By this time tomorrow, 371 00:29:52,665 --> 00:29:56,878 we will have hurtled more than ten million miles through space. 372 00:29:58,254 --> 00:30:00,882 Which is frighteningly fast. 373 00:30:03,676 --> 00:30:09,265 But the Milky Way is so huge, it's gonna take us 200 million years 374 00:30:09,557 --> 00:30:11,100 to go all the way around. 375 00:30:12,393 --> 00:30:14,896 Which sounds painfully slow. 376 00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:19,651 And the craziest thing of all... 377 00:30:20,652 --> 00:30:25,615 despite being hurled through space at incomprehensible speeds... 378 00:30:27,534 --> 00:30:29,577 we can't feel any of it. 379 00:30:29,744 --> 00:30:31,996 (SOFT WIND BLOWING) 380 00:30:33,373 --> 00:30:36,334 WILL: So, is nothing happening here... 381 00:30:39,003 --> 00:30:42,507 or is the whole world invisibly moving? 382 00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:47,095 Albert's camera has the answer. 383 00:30:48,513 --> 00:30:50,849 (SAND GRAINS RUSTLING) 384 00:30:56,980 --> 00:30:59,232 ALBERT: You see, Will, if we track the grains, 385 00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:01,067 you can watch how they bounce. 386 00:31:05,071 --> 00:31:08,992 That bouncing is happening across this whole dune. 387 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. 389 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. 391 00:31:34,392 --> 00:31:37,687 It's just happening at a much slower pace, beyond our perception. 392 00:31:38,229 --> 00:31:41,608 -And if we zoom out further... -Wow! 393 00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:50,450 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 00:31:55,455 --> 00:31:58,875 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... 412 00:33:15,743 --> 00:33:17,537 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. 419 00:33:44,731 --> 00:33:49,527 -Each one as perfect and precious as ours. -ALBERT: Whoo! 420 00:33:50,236 --> 00:33:53,906 (BOTH LAUGH, CHEER) 421 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)