Intertemporal Communication

There's a plausible chance that we may be alone in the galaxy right now. But the odds that the galaxy has never, and will never, host other civilizations is far less likely. Today we explore the possibility of communicating through time, and how such a feat might be accomplished.

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Thank-you to Kevin Clark, Tom Widdowson, Denny Smith, Stephanie Hackley, Kolos Kantor, Patrick Herman, Abel Aganbegyan, Claudio Bottaccini, Daniel Brunk, Scott Fincher & James Kindred for their support and especially to Executive Producers Mark Sloan, Laura Sanborn & Douglas Daughaday.

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::Video clips used::
► Intro clip are images from NASA's EPIC DSCOVR mission, interpolated by BlueTurn:    • Blue Marble  
► Stars time lapse by Ben Vegel:    • Starry Night Time Lapse  
► Radio teleascope timelapse by Alex Cherney and CSIRO:    • Australia telescope compact array tim...  
► NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC-Caltech) http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video-...
► Galaxy fly through animation by AA VFX:    • 4K Galaxy Space Star Travel Zoom in A...  
► Veritas timelapse by Daniel Gall:    • VERITAS Time Lapse  
► Milky Way animation by Stefan Payne-Wardenaar: https://vimeo.com/330625918
► Spinning galaxy animation by Huy Trường Nguyễn:    • Galaxy Spinning  
► Flying through stars by Wilson Blindado:    • DreamScene   Flying through Stars  
► Exoplanet animation by ESO/M. Kornmesser: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso...
► New York timekapse by Urban VFX:    • CGI Timelapse - New York City 2016 - ...  
► Earth in 4k by NASA/ESA/M.Kornmesser: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/ear...
► Sand dunes blowing by HD Footage:    • Sand, Wind  3  
► Pyramids from AirPano VR:    • The Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt  
► Easter Island footage by Michael Kohen:    • Flying over Easter Island [Mavic Pro ...  
► Stonehenge timelapse by Love Great Britain:    • Stonehenge timelapse  
► Museum tour by ProWalk Tours:    • Egyptian Museum Cairo, Egypt (First F...  
► Voyager animations by NASA JPL Caltech: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/detail...
► Galaxy colonization animation by Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback
► Outro animation by ESA/Hubble and M. Kornmesser: https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos...
► Intro/Outro voice over by Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot"

::Movies/TV scenes used::
► Contact (1997) Warner Bros.
► Ad Astra (2019) 20th Century Fox
► Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) EuropaCorp Distribution
► Papillon (1973) Allied Artists
► The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) Warner Bros.
► Into The Wild (2007) Paramount Vantage
► Interstellar (2014) Paramount Pictures
► The Time Machine (2002) DreamWorks Pictures

::Music::
All music used is licensed by SoundStripe.com (SS) [shorturl.at/ptBHI] or via Creative Commons (CC) Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
► "Fable" by Stephen Keech licensed via SS
► "My Unbelief" by Hill licensed via SS
► "Cylinder Five" by Chris Zabriskie licensed under a CC Attribution license: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/
► "Painted Deserts" by Shimmer licensed via SS
► "Always Dreaming" by Caleb Etheridge via SS
► "Waking Up" by Atlas licensed via SS
► "Cylinder Two" by Chris Zabriskie licensed under a CC Attribution license: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/
► "We Were Never Meant to Live Here" by Chris Zabriskie licensed under a CC Attribution license: http://chriszabriskie.com/neptuneflux/
► "Horizon" by Joachim Heinrich licensed under a CC Attribution license: https://joachimheinrich.bandcamp.com/...

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