[Music] [Music] from earth turned we our mind and heart away to chase new joy and love the stars be combed the fruit of ecstasy sustains by day [Music] but by our own in night we thirst for home autopilot set for sinai we've got a few minutes great thank you captain just the key is fine uh vic right ackley vern sorry [Music] so what are you reading just a normal book what's it called um emails of mark seaver actually it's the oldest piece we have on earth mythology oh well it's not for everybody but most of
my students uh seem to enjoy it oh so you're a teacher yes a professor from the moment i thought you actually believed in earth i do what well i do i believe in earth huh well i i guess we're all entitled to our beliefs yes so why sinai april 30th 32 32. next came our vessel grand the wrathful space where asteroids smash and clang with boom and cry in cautious speed we slowed grey death's embrace but shameful mutineers drove us to die hang on a poem you paid for this entire trip based off of a
poem well of course not i couldn't have paid for this a grant a gift go on keep reading the belt of sinai slaughtered ship and crew its crushing stones beat down our hull-like drum as countless sailors died as asteroids slew few did escape nine ships were total some our fallen ship and crew's fate we deplore the drift and sinai's belt forevermore so have you been there before and seen the wreckage no tell you the truth i've never left the planet before then you must have a lot riding on this mission setting out to prove earth
and all no it's already proven what do you mean it's a platonic argument shadows represent true or deeper forms of reality well basically if i have an idea about something it must exist somehow some way so aliens must exist then since somebody imagined it no it's more than imagination think of it this way we need oxygen to breathe but none of our planets produce it naturally so the answer is we must have come from an oxygen rich planet but that doesn't mean earth with forests full of bright green trees and oceans full of liquid water
exist well actually it's more than that we're in trouble should we be moving forward we just dropped out a light speed it takes a minute for the engines to drop back into impulse control how long has a minute 60 seconds professor we could be dead in a minute yeah what can i do to speed things up grab that strap clip it to the bottom of your seat is it tight yes good now shut up [Music] slow down slow down that lever pull it it's still coming go left go left [Music] um sorry about that it's
fine you should have worn your safety belt so shall we continue you really think it's out there i do you can't be certain well i am how old's that poem 500 years is that one the original no then where is it loss then you can't be certain what is your problem there's just a lot going to waste here a lot of time money and hope and i suppose you're a belief so grounded i'm trying to make the most of my life not just sit here waiting or hoping for a better one listen i get your
whole o2 argument and the whole how can the idea of earth exist if it ain't real but you have three tries we're triangulating the asteroid belt after the third scan if nothing pings then your book is wrong what's next [Music] [Music] uh [Music] zakiyah it's fine it doesn't hurt to take a few extra scans [Music] it's steel 10 of you starboard there it's a piece of a hydrogen tank but it's really old that's it isn't it aren't you excited i thought i'd be but looking at it now i'm not so sure that i that i
need it why not when i read how beautiful earth is how alive and bright how sustaining and colorful and blue it's oceans valleys mountains creatures air [Music] earth when i think about how complete earth is i feel as though i were made for earth or earth for me i'm so drawn to it it must exist and if someday somehow we discover that it doesn't well the worlds into which we were born are so horrible compared to the one i've read of i think i'll stick with earth and spend my life looking for it vern [Applause]
[Music] [Applause] [Music] to earth turn we our mind and heart again all vibrant star faith in mankind reign and lead us soon to paradise regained [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] you
