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Quantum and Alien Planet of Garbage - Quantum #7 - A Bedtime Story for Kids · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that takes listener ideas and turns them into
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  Speaker 1: bedtime stories. Let's check out our listener idea for today's episode.
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  Speaker 2: That's read the Stories. I thought of an idea for
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  Speaker 2: the quantum computer universe. Just now, like now that you
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  Speaker 2: have a spaceship or whatever. You use the spaceship and
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  Speaker 2: you go to an alien planet, and on that alien planet,
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  Speaker 2: there's like aliens that are kind of like humans, but
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  Speaker 2: they are more advanced, and they've like they have like,
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  Speaker 2: like so much garbage that it's taking up most of
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  Speaker 2: their planet. And you try to help them because like
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  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, garbage. Thanks you help the environment.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, JD. I think that is an excellent idea.
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  Speaker 1: And JD has certainly come up with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: ideas lately. I've done I think this is the second
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  Speaker 1: one I've done, right, JD. But you have come up
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  Speaker 1: with many, many more. You could keep me busy for weeks.
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  Speaker 1: If you've never listened to Quantum before, you could either
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  Speaker 1: go back to the first episode or maybe a quick recap.
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  Speaker 1: You're the main character you found a quantum computer that
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  Speaker 1: helped you build a printer that helped you build a
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  Speaker 1: bigger printer, which helps you turn garbage into cool things
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  Speaker 1: like a secret underground base, a submarine, a huff scooter,
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  Speaker 1: and most recently.
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  Speaker 3: A starship.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes people ask me, Martin, what is the main character's
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  Speaker 1: name in your stories, And the answer is that you
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  Speaker 1: are really meant to be the main character you listen
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  Speaker 1: to these stories, so it's whatever your name is. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: when I get to publishing book versions and working on things,
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  Speaker 1: I give the character a name and sort of solidify it.
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  Speaker 1: But right now it's you, so I hope you enjoy that.
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  Speaker 1: But now it's probably time to get on with the
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  Speaker 1: story after a possible word from a possible sponsor. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: as much as I don't really love advertising, it is
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately a necessity to keep the.
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  Speaker 3: Lights on around here. Though.
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  Speaker 1: If you want bad free episodes, you can head over
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  Speaker 1: to Patreon. Now it's time to get as comfy as
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  Speaker 1: you can in that bed, close your eyes, and imagine
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  Speaker 1: yourself doing what the kid in the story does. Because
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  Speaker 1: the kid is it's you wherever you live, I want
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  Speaker 1: you to imagine it as yourself imagine yourself waking up
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  Speaker 1: in your very you own bed. Everything seems normal for
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  Speaker 1: a second, until you remember that you have a Quantum
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  Speaker 1: computer and a secret underground base send a spaceship hidden
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  Speaker 1: underneath your house, which is not in any way normal.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Quantum says, from the watch on your wrist.
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  Speaker 1: You lift your arm to see a little digital smiling
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  Speaker 1: face on the watch, and good morning. Did anything strange
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  Speaker 1: happen while I was sleeping? You ask, define strange? That's
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  Speaker 1: not a great way to start, you answer, I have
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  Speaker 1: spent the night analyzing the corrupted satellite from our previous encounter.
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  Speaker 1: Quantum explains, I have not yet identified the source of
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  Speaker 1: the signal, but I have determined that it was not random,
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  Speaker 1: as you may have guessed. So someone's out there wanting
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  Speaker 1: to attack us. Yes, Quantum answers, something incredibly intelligent, something
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  Speaker 1: that appears to be interested in me. And what are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do about it? You ask, for one,
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  Speaker 1: I have begun making spaceship improvements. Oh, you say that
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  Speaker 1: sounds pretty cool. It is pretty cool. I have reinforced
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  Speaker 1: the ship's energy shield, improved the sensor array, upgraded the
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  Speaker 1: emergency repair systems, and adjusted the interstellar engine. To make
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  Speaker 1: it more efficient, you set up a little straighter interstellar engine. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the starship is designed for travel between stars, as I
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  Speaker 1: believe I mentioned early. However, we have only tested it
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  Speaker 1: inside this solar system. I believe it's time for a
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  Speaker 1: proper test. You mean you want to go to another
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  Speaker 1: star system. Yes, that is what interstellar means.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I totally knew that you answer, I'm sure you did.
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  Speaker 1: Quantum says. You climb out of bed and look toward
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  Speaker 1: the little red button on your nightstand. You press it.
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  Speaker 1: Your bed slide sideways across the floor, revealing the same
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  Speaker 1: glowing hatch that do the same one that's always beneath it.
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  Speaker 1: You pull it up, open it and sit on top
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  Speaker 1: of the metal slide, and when you're ready, you give
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  Speaker 1: yourself a push and head downward. Immediately, you shoot down
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  Speaker 1: the slide into a strange glowing tunnel that curves left
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  Speaker 1: and right, dips sharply, and eventually slides out into your
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  Speaker 1: secret underground base, which is very busy as usual. Helper
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  Speaker 1: robots float around, moving tools and checking panels. The giant
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  Speaker 1: three D printer glows softly against one wall. Over copters
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  Speaker 1: sit in their launch base. The living room area is
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  Speaker 1: lit up, and the quantum TV is showing some kind
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  Speaker 1: of alien cooking show where the chef appears to be
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  Speaker 1: cooking soup. But the thing that catches your eye is
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  Speaker 1: the starship. It sits in the middle of the launch bay,
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  Speaker 1: right below the bay doors, all sleek and silvery looking,
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  Speaker 1: with little blue lines running across it. A few helper
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  Speaker 1: bots float around it, polishing the hall and attaching the
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  Speaker 1: last few side panels. It looks different, you say, correct,
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  Speaker 1: the shield emitters have been reinforced, the engines have been
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  Speaker 1: made more efficient, and the shield has been greatly improved.
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  Speaker 1: You climb into the starship through the rear hatch. Inside
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  Speaker 1: the ship feels well kind of the same.
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  Speaker 3: First there's the cargo area with the three.
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  Speaker 1: D printer, storage, tank, tools, helper bots, and now the
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  Speaker 1: new mech suit parked over to the side. Then comes
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  Speaker 1: the living room area, which is designed a lot like
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  Speaker 1: a tiny house or RV, a small kitchen, a couch,
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  Speaker 1: a quantum TV, and a comfy sleeping pod built into
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  Speaker 1: the wall. Finally, you enter the command center or cockpit.
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  Speaker 1: You sit in the pilot's seat and the controls glowed
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  Speaker 1: life around you. Quantum's face appears on the main screen.
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  Speaker 1: Today's test will involve a short interstellar jump. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I have located a planet that may contain life near by.
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  Speaker 1: You ask, nearby in space terms, Quantum answers, so super
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  Speaker 1: far away?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Won't my parents notice if I'm gone for too long?
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  Speaker 3: You ask?
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  Speaker 1: That is a potential possibility, one that I have planned for.
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  Speaker 1: Behold you two point zero. A hatch in the side
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  Speaker 1: of the spaceship opens up and out walks you a
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  Speaker 1: perfect replica of you, wearing clothes that you actually own,
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  Speaker 1: not the same ones you're wearing right now, but well
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  Speaker 1: ones you definitely have.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: The other version of you says, I am a three
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  Speaker 1: D printed, robotic reconstruction of you, designed to mimic your
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  Speaker 1: habits and behaviors in every way. I will take care
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  Speaker 1: of things while you're gone, including any troublesome homework. The
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  Speaker 1: strange robotic version of you taps you on the shoulder
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  Speaker 1: and walks out the.
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  Speaker 3: Back of the ship. You watch out.
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  Speaker 1: The window as it climbs into the slide and shoots
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  Speaker 1: back up to your room. Are you sure that's a
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  Speaker 1: good idea, Quantum, you ask, don't worry most people will
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  Speaker 1: never know.
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  Speaker 3: Notice.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you answer, I do like the whole doing my
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  Speaker 1: homework part. After all, let's get going. Above you, the
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  Speaker 1: hatch and the base starts to open and sunlight pours in.
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  Speaker 1: You place your hands on the controls and start to
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  Speaker 1: pull up gently using the hover mode. Of course, the
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  Speaker 1: spaceship lifts up off the floor, rises smoothly through the opening,
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  Speaker 1: and begins to head higher and higher above your house.
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  Speaker 1: The hatch closes beneath you and hides the base entirely,
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  Speaker 1: as if it were never there. You pull back on
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  Speaker 1: the controls and the ship climbs higher. Activating flight mode,
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  Speaker 1: you say, pressing a button on the console. Instantly, the
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  Speaker 1: ship shifts.
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  Speaker 3: To flight mode.
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  Speaker 1: You press forward on the throttle and blast into the sky.
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  Speaker 1: The sky slowly changes from blue into well black. Quantum
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  Speaker 1: brings up a star map on the screen in front
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  Speaker 1: of you. The target planet orbits a small star not
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  Speaker 1: too far away. My scan suggest an atmosphere, liquid water,
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  Speaker 1: and artificial energy patterns. So like aliens, you ask, Probably
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  Speaker 1: friendly aliens, you ask. That remains to be seen. That
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  Speaker 1: is why I upgraded the shields. Oh uh, thanks, I
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  Speaker 1: guess that's kind of comforting. I was not attempting to
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  Speaker 1: comfort you. I was providing accurate information. Yeah, okay. Quantum
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  Speaker 1: highlights a glowing button on the console setting coordinates coordinates set,
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  Speaker 1: press the button to activate the warp drive. Quantum, how
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  Speaker 1: exactly does warp work?
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  Speaker 3: Again?
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  Speaker 1: The engine bends the space between two points, allowing the
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  Speaker 1: ship to travel a shorter distance instead of crossing a
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  Speaker 1: very large gap. So we're not actually going super fast,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly, we're actually making the trip shorter. That doesn't
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  Speaker 1: sound super possible. You say, many useful things sound impossible
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  Speaker 1: until they're done. Now, are you going to press that button?
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  Speaker 1: Or should I activate the warp drive myself? You press
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  Speaker 1: the button. Warp field forming Quantum says, as the ship
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  Speaker 1: starts to hum, then everything outside the windows starts to
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  Speaker 1: kind of bend. The stars stretch into lines, space twists
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  Speaker 1: around the ship in a way that makes you feel
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  Speaker 1: a little bit sick to your stomach. Then the ship
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  Speaker 1: shoots forward at what feels like an incredible speed. Oho,
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  Speaker 1: you say, don't worry, the feeling you are currently experiencing
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  Speaker 1: is fully normal. Hi, dot think it feels normal? You say, understood,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry. It will be over soon. And you should
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  Speaker 1: get more used to the feeling in future trips. Before
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  Speaker 1: you can think too much about that, the stars snap
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  Speaker 1: back into place, and a new planet hangs directly in
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  Speaker 1: front of you. It's large and blue and green, with
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  Speaker 1: really wide continents and shiny cities and rings of satellites
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  Speaker 1: floating around it. It looks beautiful from space. We made it,
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  Speaker 1: you say, yes, Quantum answers warp jump successful. You stare
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  Speaker 1: at the planet amazed. But well you're staring something else
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  Speaker 1: appears behind you. A blast of purple energy flashes. You
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  Speaker 1: hear an explosion behind the ship, and you suddenly start
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  Speaker 1: heading straight towards the planet. Alarms start to flash across
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  Speaker 1: the screen. Quantum, I believe we have sustained a hit
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  Speaker 1: to our engines. Quantum says, engine damage detected.
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  Speaker 3: I thought we had.
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  Speaker 1: Brand new shields. We do, However, they were not on.
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  Speaker 1: Why were they not on? You ask, shields take an
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  Speaker 1: extensive amount of power, and I did not detect anything
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  Speaker 1: to be worried about. Well, obviously you were wrong. You say,
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  Speaker 1: that is true. Prepare for crash. Seat belts shoot around
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  Speaker 1: your body, locking you securely in place. You grab a
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  Speaker 1: hold of the controls and do your best to steer
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  Speaker 1: the ship as it heads down towards the planet. You
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  Speaker 1: are doing an excellent job. I recommend heading straight down
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  Speaker 1: towards this area, Quantum says, displaying a picture of a
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  Speaker 1: large open area on the screen in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to be some sort of gigantic garbage dump.
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  Speaker 1: It should help with the impact and provide sufficient materials
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  Speaker 1: for repair if we survive. The spaceship drops through the
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  Speaker 1: planet's atmosphere. Fire glows around you, and the shield begins
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  Speaker 1: to shake. Brace for impact, Quantum says, and the ground
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  Speaker 1: starts rushing up towards you. You see a huge gray
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  Speaker 1: brown area stretching in the horizon and rivers of garbage,
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  Speaker 1: towers of garbage, garbage stacked so high it's well bigger
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  Speaker 1: than most buildings on Earth. The ship slams into the
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  Speaker 1: top of one of the trash mountains. It slides through
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  Speaker 1: broken machines, containers, twisted metal, old hover carves, and that's
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  Speaker 1: something that looks a bit like a banana peel. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: it crashes into a soft hill of something that looks
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  Speaker 1: like giant foam cubes and comes to a stop. For
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  Speaker 1: a moment, everything is silent, and then quantum says, good news,
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  Speaker 1: we have landed. What's the bad news, you ask. The
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  Speaker 1: ship is damaged, the main three D printer is offline,
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  Speaker 1: the engines are unstable, and we seem to be sitting
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  Speaker 1: in an alien garbage dump. It does not smell good.
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  Speaker 1: You look out the window at the giant piles of trash. Well,
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  Speaker 1: as you said, at least we have materials. Yes, that
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  Speaker 1: is good news. A loud knock echoes from outside the ship,
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  Speaker 1: as if someone's knocking on the back door. Something is
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  Speaker 1: standing outside the window, or someone an alien. It has
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  Speaker 1: long arms and three eyes, and a shiny orange work vest.
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  Speaker 1: It also seems to be holding a clipboard, which makes
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  Speaker 1: it look kind of official, as people with clipboards do.
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  Speaker 1: The alien waves towards you and knocks again. You move
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  Speaker 1: over to the back door and open up the hatch.
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  Speaker 1: Hello there, the alien says, cheerfully, Welcome to the Great
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  Speaker 1: Northern Waist Management's Zone. You blink the What the Great
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  Speaker 1: Northern Waist Achievement Zone? The guy replies, it's the largest
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  Speaker 1: garbage dump on the planet, possibly even in the quadrant.
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  Speaker 1: My name's Gary, Oh, you say, thank Gary. Gary looks
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  Speaker 1: at your crashed spaceship with interest. It's a totally nice entrance,
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  Speaker 1: very traumatic, but not very tidy. This ship looks totally trashed.
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  Speaker 1: I assume you'll be leaving it here. No, hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 1: be repairing it. Oh weird, Sorry about landing in the
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  Speaker 1: garbage dump. We were attacked, Gary nods, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Was gonna guess that.
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  Speaker 1: The giant blaster remarks on the back of your engines
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  Speaker 1: kind of tell that story. You step abu to the
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  Speaker 1: ship and look around at the gigantic garbage dump. It
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  Speaker 1: smells bad. It's impressive, isn't it, Gary says. As you
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  Speaker 1: look around the dump stretches, as far as you can see,
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  Speaker 1: there are broken, well what look to be flying things,
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  Speaker 1: old robot bodies, cracked machines, torn screens, twisted cable, mountains
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  Speaker 1: of packaging, and strange alien appliances that you've never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: At least you think they're alien appliances. It's a lot,
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  Speaker 1: you say, thank you, Gary says proudly. We're a very
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  Speaker 1: advanced people, you are, you ask, Oh? Yeah, very advanced.
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  Speaker 1: We mind asteroids and build pretty much anything we want.
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  Speaker 1: We ship it across the planet, use it for a
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  Speaker 1: little while, and then we throw it back here, and
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  Speaker 1: what happens to it all? You ask, leaving Gary looking
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  Speaker 1: rather confused. What do you mean what happens to it?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 3: Do you recycle it?
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  Speaker 1: Carrie stares at you, and then well he laughs and
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  Speaker 1: laughs and continues to laugh. Oh that's a good one,
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  Speaker 1: Gary says, he used the same material, dece What a
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  Speaker 1: funny idea. You're quite a funny guy there, he says,
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  Speaker 1: as he punches you on the arm. Actually it's an
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  Speaker 1: excellent idea. A voice says from your wrist, Gary leans,
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  Speaker 1: closer to your wrist. Is your bracelet talking? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's quantum. Hello, Quantum says Gary waves at your wrist. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: small bracelet person. I am a quantum computer. Quantum explains,
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  Speaker 1: Of course you are. Gary says, nodding as if that
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  Speaker 1: explains everything. You look around at the dump again. Would
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  Speaker 1: you mind if we repurposed some of this garbage? You ask?
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  Speaker 1: Gary laughs. You can take as much garbage as you want.
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  Speaker 1: We have more coming every hour. It's my job to
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  Speaker 1: manage it. So you're in charge of all of this.
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  Speaker 1: Gary stands taller. Yes, I am the supreme regional waste
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  Speaker 1: placement coordinator. That sounds really important. You say, Oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: extremely important, Gary explains. Without me, people might put like
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  Speaker 1: waste in the wrong region and then it would look
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  Speaker 1: like it look terrible around here. Scanning garbage, Quantum says
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  Speaker 1: the ship produces a bright blue light that scans the
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  Speaker 1: garbage around you. The main printer inside the ship is damaged.
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  Speaker 1: As I explained, However, we do have a back up
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  Speaker 1: three D printer. The only issue is that it is
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  Speaker 1: much smaller. We can start by getting material and printing
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  Speaker 1: components to fix the larger three D printer. After that,
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  Speaker 1: ship repair should be much easier. We should start by
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  Speaker 1: gathering material. I recommend using the mech suit. I believe
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  Speaker 1: it is mostly intact. Mostly you ask mostly meaning it
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  Speaker 1: works enough. It's not your favorite answer, but you climb
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  Speaker 1: over towards the mech suit anyways. The cargo bay has
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  Speaker 1: a few pieces of the walls missing and a few
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  Speaker 1: damaged robots, but luckily the mechs suit does look fairly untouched.
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  Speaker 1: The chest opens up like a giant metal rib cage,
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  Speaker 1: and you step inside. The arms close around your arms,
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  Speaker 1: the legs close around your legs, the chest plate seals,
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  Speaker 1: and the helmet lowers over your head. The display lights
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  Speaker 1: up and well in an instant, It's as if you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing through the eyes of the mech suit itself. WHOA
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  Speaker 1: Gary gasps, he brought like a metal chipion robot. Uh sure,
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  Speaker 1: you say through the speaker, We'll go with that. Quantum
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  Speaker 1: begins to highlight useful material in your helmet display and
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  Speaker 1: you start to move around and pick up pieces of it.
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  Speaker 1: Using a giant datomizer cannon, of course, that's well attached
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  Speaker 1: to your left wrist. You simply point it at objects
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  Speaker 1: that you want to absorb, squeeze your fist, and a
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  Speaker 1: bright yellow light shines out, pulls the material closer to
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  Speaker 1: you and starts to deatomize it into little pieces of
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  Speaker 1: energy that it sucks into its storage tank. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: take you too long before you have a single full tank.
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  Speaker 3: You move back inside the.
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  Speaker 1: Cargo bay where some helper robots have placed the smaller
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  Speaker 1: three D printer. You hook up the energy storage tank
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  Speaker 1: and the printer comes to life. Piece by piece, it
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  Speaker 1: prints what it needs to make the larger three D printer,
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  Speaker 1: and the remaining helpers, the ones that weren't destroyed on
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  Speaker 1: the crash, begin to repair the main one. It's slow
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  Speaker 1: at first, but you keep collecting. Gary follows you around,
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  Speaker 1: taking notes on his clipboard. This is fascinating, he says.
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  Speaker 1: You're like turning garbage into new stuff that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: cool or maybe gross.
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  Speaker 3: You can't really decide.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, basically, you say. And then you see it, a
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  Speaker 1: purple light shining down on the garbage around you. Quantum,
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  Speaker 1: you say, analyzing, this is what I feared. It would
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  Speaker 1: seem that this is the strange energy we faced before.
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  Speaker 1: If I were you, I would prepare for another garbage creature.
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  Speaker 1: And sure enough, broken pieces of garbage start moving themselves together.
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  Speaker 1: Metal pieces slide into arms and legs, Thick cables twist
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  Speaker 1: around the thing, and old tires and weird pieces of
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  Speaker 1: biological garbage sort of suck themselves together into a weird,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: broken looking garbage monster or something like that. Luckily, you've
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: dealt with things like this before. You immediately activate your
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: freeze ray. You jump into the air, aim down at
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the garbage creature, and fire a blast of freezing energy.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: It instantly hits the creature and turns itself into a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: gigantic ice cube with the whole garbage creature inside. You
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: slam down on it with a fist and break it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: back into hundreds of pieces. Only another garbage monster appears
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: behind you. A tire hits you in the back. You
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: turn around, point your freeze ray and freeze that creature too,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: then run towards it and smash it into pieces. I
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: believe you will have to take care of the satellite.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: A similar satellite has taken to orbit of this planet.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I recommend using your long range missiles to destroy it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: I have long range missiles, you ask, and as if
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: to answer the question, your field of view changes. You
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: look up at the sky and instantly zoom in on
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: something that looks very tight At first, you zoom in
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: further and the object gets bigger. Zoom in more, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: it gets even bigger, until it takes up your whole
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: field of vision. A satellite that looks like it's made
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: up of pieces of garbage, glowing with a strange purple energy.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Your suit highlights the target. Ready to launch missiles.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Quantum masks.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, I'm ready, you say, Well, then do so.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: All you should have to do is think about launching them.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Oh okay. You focus for a second, imagining missiles launching
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: out of the mechsuit and destroying the satellite, and in
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: an instant. That's exactly what happens. The hatch opens on
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the back of the suit, A missile atisle blasts out,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: and you watch as it explodes the satellite into a
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: whole bunch of different pieces. That was an excellent job,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Quantum says. You look around at double check, but you're
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: pretty sure that would have taken care of the problem.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: What was that thing, you ask? I am not entirely sure,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: but I believe it is trying to interfere with our operations.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: You look around again at the endless gigantic alien garbage pit.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: This place could be a real problem here, you say.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: These people don't seem to know how to recycle or anything. Yes,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Quantum says, a very large problem. But there is good news.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: The primary printer has been restored, so we can fix
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the engines now, Yes we can. However, based on the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: situation surrounding us, I would like to suggest something else.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Uh what is it? You ask?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Well, Gary, your planet has an enormous waste problem. Gary
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: looks at the mountain of trash. I well, I sort
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: of always saw this as an achievement, he says. That
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: is incorrect. Quantum replies, oh, I was afraid of that
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: what if we helped you turn all of this stuff
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: into something useful? Ugh, this garbage into something useful. Well,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: maybe not all of it today, but we could get
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: things started. Quantum prity jets a design into the air
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: as a sort of holographic image. We could create a
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: station that would include collector bots, d atomizers, storage tanks,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and three D printers. The first printer will prioritize building
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: more collector bots and three D printers. After that, the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: system can begin producing useful objects from approved blueprints.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Huh, Like what kind of useful objects?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Gary asks? Vehicles, appliances, tools, replacement parts, furniture, toys, clothing,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: building materials and building accessories, gadgets, and pretty much anything else.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: You mean, Like people could bring garbage here and leave
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: with like new things. That is direct, Quantum says. That
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: would make this the coolest garbage dump on the planet.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: It would make it a recycling and fabrication center. Quantum says, well,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I guess it would be like the most important recycling
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: and fabrication center on the planet. Then that is more accurate,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Quantum says. Gary nods hi accept and Quantum begins immediately
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the big three D printer inside the starship glows and
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: helper bots begin to carry materials into the deatomizer. He
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: starts by first producing a collector bot, a robot with
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: little grab or arms, a deatomizer cannon, and some energy
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: storage mabel to fly throughout the dump and collect material
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: The robot immediately gets to work as Quantum continues to print,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: only this time it prints another printer. The collector robots
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: starts to feed the printer with energy, and the printer
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: continues printing other things, other collector robots and other printers.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: This is totally amazing, Gary says, thank you. Quantum. Response,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: with the other collector robots and three D printers collected,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Quantum switches again to repairing the ship. The printer prints
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: new panels and new materials needed to finish the ship,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: and the helper robots start putting them in place. It
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: doesn't take long for the ship to be completely repaired
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: and for the new recycling center to be well underway. Well, Gary,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I believe it is time that we left you here. However,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the three D printers and collector robots will continue to work.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I have scanned your local databases and programmed the machines
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: with pre approved designs, designs from your planet's own database. WHOA,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: that's totally cool, Gary says. He immediately rushes over to
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: one of the three D printers and starts flipping through
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: different designs on the screen. You mean I can make
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: like any of this, he asks. That is correct. You
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: maneuver the mech suit back inside the storage bay of
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the ship, lock it into the wall, and open up
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the chest cavity. You climb out and onto the ground.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Oh hell, Gary, we better be headed out. I have
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: fun with your new three D printing recycling center, you say,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: as you wave goodbye. Oh thanks, guys. You should totally
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: come back and see how things go later on. Huh,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: maybe we will, you answer. The back hatch closes and
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: the ship lifts up into the air. Uh, quantum, I'm
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: feeling kind of sleepy. You mind handling the flight home
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: or wherever?
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: You say?
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Understood, I can do all of the driving. Have a
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: good night. The lights inside the ship automatically dim as
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: you walk into the living area. You climb into your
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: little sleeping pod. You pull the covers up to your chin,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: close your eyes, and begin to simply focus on your breath,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: noticing your stomach rising and falling with each breath and
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: allowing all of the tension and your muscles to sort
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: of fall away, releasing the tension from your arms and legs,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: your neck, your head, your shoulders, and even your face.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: And slowly you allow your mind to begin to drift
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: off as well, off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: and new three D printed objects to come. Good night
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: everyone in.
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