The Hundred Foot Journey Vietsub

[Tarja Hempton]

[wind blowing, static radio and chimes] [wind blowing, electronic sounds, faint radio chatter] [wind blowing, electronic sounds] [radio static, faint radio chatter] [wind blowing, wolf howling] [faint Morse code style beeping] LARRY SODERBLOM: It is really true that you can only explore the solar system for the first time once.

[faint plucked guitar string] CAROLYN PORCO: Voyager to me was Homeric, it was years of passing across the solar system from one planet to the other and then it was a week or two of frenzied activity and discovery and conquest and then it was, well, back in the boats, oars in the water and then on to the next conquest.

[soft piano continues, chain rattling, squeaking, clanking] FRAN BAGENAL: Astronomers had worked pretty hard to know what the physical make-up was, there were some basic characteristics, but their real nature, what they were really made of and what the means, moons, were like, we had none of that, just little glimpses.

LOMBERG: At first Carl thought they'd simply do another plaque, maybe with some more information, but Frank Drake-- a brilliant theoretical physicist but also a very hands-on kind of guy, he came up with the idea that for the same amount of weight and space, you could send a phonograph record.

[harp music] DRAKE: The people who actually did the science part of Voyager are always jealous and mad because the Golden Record gets more attention than all the wonderful things they did exploring the outer planets of the solar system except Pluto and all that.

Because of the aura that surrounds anything to do with extraterrestrial intelligent life, any kind of effort to contact extraterrestrial life is more fascinating than knowing the chemical makeup of a mineral on Mars or something.

An hour and a half of it was devoted to music and the other half hour contains all of the other data on the record: the natural sounds of Earth, the spoken greetings and the encoded photographs of Earth.

BELL: Maybe what's written on it will seem like kindergarten scribbles to them, but they should be able to figure it out if they've got some smart minds or whatever's in their heads, if they even have heads.

[spraying sounds] KOHLHASE: What I find interesting is to protect it from the dust and tiny particles of the journey, they put a cover over it, and on the cover was engraved the location of Earth, our solar system, in terms of its direction from different pulsars.

You know, you want to take those people on a camping trip with you because they will think of... well, you've got to bring... what if these bugs come out, what if the tent gets flooded, what if you run out of gas, what if you can't start the fire, you know.

They're the what if people, and when you're sending something out into space you can't go do a service call, you can't bring it back, so your what if list had better be like that long or you're not going to be able to survive.

[beeping machines and low bass drum beats] RICH TERRILE: 1972 was when you had the technology freeze, remember we launched in 1977, so you freeze technology several years earlier, and at the time the biggest computers in the world were comparable to the kinds of things we have in our pockets today, and I'm not talking about a cell phone.

It has these feet that connected it to the rocket and then a really long arm with a magnetic field sensor on it over here and another arm over there with this plutonium power supply to give it its electricity.

[Fairie Round--David Munrow] LOMBERG: We had six weeks to do it, that's what always draws the biggest gasp, that you had to figure out a way to explain the world to aliens, and by the way it has to be finished in six weeks.

[Melancholy Blues-- Louis Armstrong] FERRIS: We had two goals in making the Voyager record: we wanted the music to represent many different cultures around the world and not just the culture of the society that had built and launched the spacecraft.

[Mozart--Queen of the Night-- Eda Moser] [Cranes in Their Nest-- Japan (Shakuhachi)] FERRIS: If you listen to the Voyager record, it would be remarkable if you didn't hear some pieces of music that were quite unlike anything you had heard before.

STONE: Voyager was not in control of itself, it's just riding this big rocket, and that was shaking it in such a way that it thought it was failing, and so it started switching off various boxes, changing to the back-up this, to the back-up that.

CASANI: As the launch vehicle leaves the launchpad, it has to roll through a certain angle to get to the right direction for departure, and the rate that it rolls at is a much higher rate than the spacecraft would ever normally experience flying, and so the gyro hits the stops.

SPEAKER: Centaur 6, Titan Centaur 6 has lifted off at 8:56 from here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station... KOHLHASE: We're thinking everything's OK, and then we begin to hear that something wasn't right.

There was a leak in the propellant line, and we were losing propellant overboard, so while it was burning, propellant was escaping from the launch vehicle and second stage never got to deliver its full thrust because it ran out of fuel.

CASANI: And the Centaur is the stage that's doing the guidance, so the Centaur knows that it's not reaching the required velocity, and when it separates from the second stage it knows it has to burn longer to add more velocity.

CASANI: It wouldn't have gotten enough velocity to get to Jupiter, you know, so instead of getting to Jupiter, you know, we'd have gotten almost to Jupiter and then we'd come back toward the sun, which would not have been good.

[music: classical music] [music: classical music] LAWRENCE KRAUSS: It's worth realizing that a human life ago, less than 100 years ago, 87 years ago, the universe consisted of one, of one galaxy, our Milky Way galaxy, in a static eternal universe with eternal empty space.

INGERSOLL: Let me first modify your statement, not that it was wrong ... INGERSOLL: The atmospheric scientists got long-range views because we weren't looking at tiny moons, we were looking at the big planet, and so we could see things going on before the other groups could see things, and we were always the first to start shouting.

You get a much higher-resolution image in black and white, and so when we want to make color, we take them through different filters and then on the ground you put it together and make a color image out of it.

[low dramatic electronic rhythm music] BELL: You're approaching this monster magnetic field, this monster radiation environment on purpose, because you need to get close because you want to see all the little moons and the clouds and the storms and you want to slingshot on to Saturn, but you just don't know if you're going to survive.

We didn't have time to go through the normal design reviews, so in order to get this protection done quickly enough, an ad hoc team was formed and we did some things that were out of the ordinary, very out of the ordinary.

We're actually cutting continuous strips and then cleaning them with wipes and alcohol and then finally wrapping these on all of our exterior cabling, but yeah, same material that's in your Christmas turkey.

BELL: Discovering this billiard ball smooth icy crust of Europa with cracks in it and what looked like plates of ice that might be moving relative to each other, the best explanation for that is that there's a thick ocean of liquid water, salty water underneath that icy crust.

LINDA MORABITO: I was on the mission as a mission navigator, and our job involved just looking back over the shoulder of the spacecraft to say, OK, one more picture of the realm of Jupiter, so it wasn't high-priority work.

[soft piano music] STONE: It was so hard to believe that a little moon could have 10 times the volcanic activity of Earth, which was the only known active volcanoes in the solar system were here on Earth.

I mean, you got hungry, you got tired, you know, you had to go to the bathroom, I mean, you're going to miss something, you don't want to miss anything because every 48 seconds a new image would come down.

[electronic version of atmospheric motif] NARRATOR: The journey to Saturn would take over a year and bring Voyager and its message one tiny step closer to other stars where, just possibly, intelligent aliens might discover it.

[atmospheric rhythmic music] NICK SAGAN: My father was Carl Sagan, and my mother is Linda Salzman Sagan, and she's a writer and an artist and she designed the iconic Pioneer plaque, she actually drew it, and she's the one who got all the greetings for the Voyager Golden Record.

[recordings of voices with rock music plays] JANET STERNBERG: The greetings to the universe are almost like proto-tweets, the first tweets, keep it short, keep it simple, and there was a limit to what they could put on the record.

NICK SAGAN: My parents wanted a child to have a voice of one of the voices, and they just came to me one day and said, Nick, if you'd like to leave a message to aliens if they happen to exist, what would you like to say to them?

Like the only thing that I know that I remember from that time is those knobs and the little recording level that goes into the red if you speak too much, this 70s, kind of, um... so I remember that, and I remember watching the needle move as I spoke and seeing where it got, oh, that got close to the red but actually didn't go into the red, OK, that's probably good.

That's just the soda straw, and now you imagine the whole sky filled with thousands upon thousands upon thousands of galaxies, each of which is billions and billions of stars, there's a lot of possibility out there.

BAGENAL: Once you start getting into the astronomical scales, our solar system is pretty tiny, and so this adventure of Voyager which seems so remote and distant for this little spacecraft to go out to the giant planets is really just exploring the tiniest closest neighborhood when you start thinking about cosmic scales.

The galaxy's about 12 billion years old, our sun's four and a half billion years old, there are many stars that are a lot older: therefore, you could have imagined some civilization around such a star that might have watched our Earth form over the last four and a half billion years.

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