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Quantum and the 3D Printed Starship - Quantum #5 - A Sci-Fi Sleep 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: Tonight we're headed back into the Quantum Computer universe because
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  Speaker 1: I got a few ideas for it on my Google form.
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  Speaker 1: Tonight's episode comes to us from Asher, who wanted an
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  Speaker 1: episode where you continue to build up the underground base
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  Speaker 1: and build a spaceship. I think that's a great idea, Asher,
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  Speaker 1: So that's exactly what we're going to do today. If
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  Speaker 1: you have an idea for the Quantum Computer universe or
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  Speaker 1: any other universe, I love getting your ideas, even if
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  Speaker 1: I can't make all of them. You can record them
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  Speaker 1: on speak pipe, leaving your own voice, which I can
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  Speaker 1: play on the podcast, or you can fill out the
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  Speaker 1: Google form, or you can just email me at Bedtime
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  Speaker 1: Stories at gmail dot com. If you've never listened to
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  Speaker 1: any episodes of the Quantum series, I think there's only
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  Speaker 1: four before this. I did a little compilation episode in
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  Speaker 1: another one. If you want to get caught up, or
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  Speaker 1: you really just have to understand, you're a kid who
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  Speaker 1: found a quantum computer that helps you build things using
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  Speaker 1: a three D printer. So now you're like going around
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  Speaker 1: collecting garbage to turn into new material, and yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: pretty fun. Before we start, I just want to give
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  Speaker 1: a big shout out to my newest Patreon sponsors, Jessica
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  Speaker 1: and Valerie. I reached out to both of you via
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  Speaker 1: messages to see if there's anyone else you wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to shout out, so just let me know. As many
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  Speaker 1: of you have probably heard before, making this podcast and
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  Speaker 1: keeping it going does take a pretty significant amount of effort,
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  Speaker 1: so I really appreciate any donations going to the show.
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  Speaker 1: here are advertisements. Now, I don't love having a ton
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  Speaker 1: of advertisements, and I never never will play one during
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  Speaker 1: the story or after the story here on Dad's Bedtime Stories,
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  Speaker 1: but we do have to fit in a few beforehand
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  Speaker 1: to make that work. Now it's time to close your eyes,
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  Speaker 1: get as comfy as you can in that bed, and
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  Speaker 1: imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.
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  Speaker 1: As a quick recap from the last episode, you basically
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  Speaker 1: woke up to discover an underground base under your bed,
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  Speaker 1: and then Quantum sent you on a mission to collect garbage,
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  Speaker 1: clean up the ocean with a sort of self replicating
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  Speaker 1: garbage clean up fleet in the ocean. And yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: where we left off. Also, I want you to remember
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  Speaker 1: that you are the main character. So I try to
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  Speaker 1: write these stories so you can fill in the blanks
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  Speaker 1: with your own imagination. And that's exactly where we're going
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  Speaker 1: to start today. Imagine yourself waking up in your very
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  Speaker 1: own bed. For a moment, everything feels normal, your room's quiet,
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  Speaker 1: sun's peeking in through the curtains, and then you remember Quantum,
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  Speaker 1: the underground base, the ocean clean up fleet, the hover coppter,
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  Speaker 1: the giant secret hatch under your room. You sit up quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Quantum says from your wrist. You lift your
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  Speaker 1: arm and see Quantum's little smiling face glowing on the
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  Speaker 1: watch screen. Good morning, You say, anything new happening while
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  Speaker 1: I was sleeping? Of course, Quantum replies, several thousand things. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you say, that sounds like a lot of things. It was.
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  Speaker 1: I have prepared a progress report, but I suspect you
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  Speaker 1: would rather see it for yourself. You grin and look
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  Speaker 1: toward the little red button on your nightstand. It's still
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  Speaker 1: sitting there waiting for you. You climb out of bed
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  Speaker 1: and press it for a second. Nothing happens. Then your
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  Speaker 1: bed begins to slide sideways across the floor with a smooth,
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  Speaker 1: sort of mechanical hum. The metal hatch underneath it appears
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  Speaker 1: glowing faintly blue around the edges. You grab the handle,
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  Speaker 1: pull the hatch open, and look down at the shiny
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  Speaker 1: metal slide curving into blue light below. You sit down,
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  Speaker 1: push off, and immediately shoot downward. The slide twists around
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  Speaker 1: a glowing tunnel, curving left right, then dropping sharply enough
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  Speaker 1: to make your stomach jump. Blue lights blur past you.
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  Speaker 1: The smooth metal beneath you hum softly, and eventually you
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  Speaker 1: shoot out the bottom and come to a gradual stop
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the underground base. Only now the
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  Speaker 1: base looks different. Before it was huge and mostly empty,
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  Speaker 1: but now it's filled in. The walls are still dark
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  Speaker 1: metal with glowing blue lines running through them, but there's
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  Speaker 1: different sections everywhere. A line of hover copters rests along
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  Speaker 1: one side of the launch bay, each one silver gray
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  Speaker 1: with blue white energy rings. Helper bots float around them,
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  Speaker 1: polishing panels, checking tang welding things together. On the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the base is a kitchen area with shiny counters, cabinets,
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  Speaker 1: and well a fridge beside it is a living room,
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  Speaker 1: a real living room. There's a large, soft looking couch,
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  Speaker 1: a table, and an enormous entertainment screen that covers most
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  Speaker 1: of the wall. The screen is so clear it looks
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  Speaker 1: less like a screen and more like a window into
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  Speaker 1: another world. You built a living room, you ask, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you are spending more time in the base. I determined
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  Speaker 1: that you might appreciate the comfort. That's probably true, you say,
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  Speaker 1: walking towards the couch and entertainment. This quantum television receives
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  Speaker 1: programs from all quantum realities. You stop walking. Ohit all
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  Speaker 1: quantum realities, Yes, every possible universe that is close enough
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  Speaker 1: to tune in. That sounds weird, Oh it is. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: you have to turn it on. You pick up a
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  Speaker 1: remote sitting on the table and press the power button.
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  Speaker 1: It's obviously the power button because it's a large red button.
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  Speaker 1: The screen lights up, showing what looks like a traditional
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  Speaker 1: sitcom living room, except everyone in it looks like they're
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  Speaker 1: half person and half technology. A man that looks like
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  Speaker 1: he has a toaster built into his chest for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: begins to speak Honey, I accidentally downloaded the neighbor again.
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  Speaker 1: The audience laughs. A woman with wheels instead of feet
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  Speaker 1: rolls into the living room and says, not again, Carrie.
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  Speaker 1: Last time he got stuck in the dishwasher dimension. The
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  Speaker 1: audience laughs even harder. You just stare at the screen. Quantum,
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  Speaker 1: what is this? It appears to be a comedy program
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  Speaker 1: from a reality where humans and technology have merged together,
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  Speaker 1: though they have retained bad television writing. This is terrible,
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  Speaker 1: you say, yes, however, there are channels from all different realities.
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  Speaker 1: There is certainly something good on there. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll check that out later, you say, turning off
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  Speaker 1: the TV and putting down the remote. You walk further
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  Speaker 1: into the base, still amazed by everything. The giant printer
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  Speaker 1: is even larger than it was before. There are stored rooms,
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  Speaker 1: nail robot docking stations, what look like vehicle bays, a
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  Speaker 1: large circular empty area in the middle of the base
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  Speaker 1: that looks very important, though you're not sure why, so
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  Speaker 1: you ask what happened with the ocean cleanup fleet. Quantum's
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  Speaker 1: face appears not only on your watch, but also on
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  Speaker 1: the giant screen mounted to the wall. The screen changes
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  Speaker 1: to a map of Earth with glowing dots spread across
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  Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean. The ocean cleanup fleet has been largely successful,
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  Speaker 1: Quantum says. The mother sub has continued self replication. It
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  Speaker 1: has printed additional collectible submersibles, floating debris skimmers, river mouth interceptors,
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  Speaker 1: and transport drones. The operation is expanding at a sustainable rate.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing. So it's just cleaning the ocean by itsself.
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  Speaker 1: Heal now, correct, of course, with supervision. I am still
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  Speaker 1: monitoring it. The seagulls remain suspicious. It's understandable, you say,
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  Speaker 1: we did spray them with water that low pressure. Still
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  Speaker 1: though they probably didn't appreciate that. Quantum Screen returns to
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  Speaker 1: his smiling face. Now he says, what would you like
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  Speaker 1: to build next? Oh? What are the choices? You ask? Well,
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  Speaker 1: since I am programmed with knowledge from almost every quantum reality,
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  Speaker 1: I should be able to create anything. You can think
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  Speaker 1: of anything, you say, pretty much, even like a spaceship,
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  Speaker 1: like a real one that can traveled different planets and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Quantum is silent for almost a whole second.
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  Speaker 1: That is an excellent choice. The giant screen changes again.
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  Speaker 1: A glowing blue print appears in the air. Above the floor,
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  Speaker 1: lines of light form the outline of a ship. At first,
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  Speaker 1: it's small and simple, and then Quantum keeps adding details.
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  Speaker 1: The ship grows longer and sleeker. A cockpit forms at
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  Speaker 1: the front, A rear fabrication chamber appears, storage tanks lock,
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  Speaker 1: and a place along the sides. Engines glow at the back.
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  Speaker 1: A living room or living quarter area forms in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Then the whole design spins slowly in the air on
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  Speaker 1: the computer screen. You stare up at it with your
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  Speaker 1: mouth open. That, Quantum says, is a compact interplanetary and
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  Speaker 1: limited interstellar exploration vessel. It uses anti gravity engines within
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  Speaker 1: the Solar system and can create a warp field to
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  Speaker 1: travel to other soldier systems. That's incredible, thank you. This
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  Speaker 1: ship will contain built in accommodations, a high capacity three
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  Speaker 1: D printer, a de atomizer, energy storage systems, repair drones,
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  Speaker 1: matter collection tools, and long range navigation, as well as
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  Speaker 1: some defensive capabilities in case we run into aggressive alien
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  Speaker 1: species so we can actually go to space. Yes, you
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  Speaker 1: look at the glowing ship design. Can you build it? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Quantum says, but it will be matter heavy. Oh, of course,
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  Speaker 1: it will require a large variety of materials, including precious metals,
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  Speaker 1: rare earth elements, conductive materials, advanced ceramic plastics, carbon structures,
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  Speaker 1: and energy storage materials. Technically, I can reorganize atoms into
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  Speaker 1: different materials, but doing so requires additional energy and time.
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  Speaker 1: It is more efficient to begin with a large variety
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  Speaker 1: of matter, so we need more garbage, correct preferably useful garbage.
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  Speaker 1: The screen changes to show several locations. There are many
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  Speaker 1: nearby sources, Quantum explains. Electronic waste deposits contain precious metals
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  Speaker 1: and circuitry. Battery graveyards contain lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, and
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  Speaker 1: other useful materials. Old landfill sites contain mixed matter and
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  Speaker 1: in some cases leach unpleasant substances into the groundwater. We
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  Speaker 1: can both build a spaceship and clean up the planet.
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  Speaker 1: You make a face at the thought of the groundwater. Gross, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but useful, and on the plus side, no one is
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  Speaker 1: likely to miss any of it. What about the Ocean
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  Speaker 1: cleanup fleet? Couldn't we just use the matter from that?
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  Speaker 1: We could, Quantum says, But the fleet is currently self
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  Speaker 1: replicating and expanding. If we take matter from it now,
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  Speaker 1: we slow down the cleanup operation. I believe it is
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  Speaker 1: better to let it continue. That makes sense, you say,
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  Speaker 1: all right, battery graveyard first, I guess excellent choice. One
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  Speaker 1: of the hover copters powers up in the launch bay
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  Speaker 1: and slides over to the side. Its side hatch folds open.
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  Speaker 1: You climb inside and sit in the pilot's seat. The
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  Speaker 1: controls glow life around you. Quantum's face appears on the
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  Speaker 1: screen in front of you. The huge launch hatch opens
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  Speaker 1: above the base and sunlight pours in. You pull up
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  Speaker 1: on the hover lever, and the hover copter rises smoothly
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  Speaker 1: into the air, lifting out of the underground base and
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  Speaker 1: up into the yard. You take it higher and higher
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  Speaker 1: as the hatch closes beneath you, hiding the base again
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  Speaker 1: as if it was never there. Once you're high enough,
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  Speaker 1: you shift into flight mode. The steering wheel folds out,
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  Speaker 1: the engines hum louder. You place one hand on the wheel,
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  Speaker 1: one hand on the throttle, and you push forward. The
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  Speaker 1: hover copter blasts ahead. A sonic boom cracks behind you.
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  Speaker 1: As the world blurs beneath your window. You soar over forests, rivers, roads, fields,
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  Speaker 1: and towns, following the little glowing path on the navigation screen.
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  Speaker 1: Before long, dark smoke appears in the distance. Uh, Quantum,
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  Speaker 1: I see it, he says. Thermal scans indicate a battery
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  Speaker 1: fire at the facility. The fire is spreading toward the
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  Speaker 1: nearby forest. You grip the controls tighter as the smoke
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  Speaker 1: grows larger. Below you see a huge yard filled with
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  Speaker 1: old batteries, containers, broken equipment, and storage piles. Flames roar
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  Speaker 1: from one section. Bright flashes pop inside the smoke as
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  Speaker 1: more batteries ignite. You pull back on the throttle and
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  Speaker 1: switch to hover mode once again. Beyond the facility is
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  Speaker 1: a thick green forest, and the fire is moving towards it.
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  Speaker 1: Can we stop that? Yes? Scanning forest now. A display
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  Speaker 1: appears on the screen showing outlines of animals moving along
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  Speaker 1: the trees. There are deer, foxes, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, birds, frogs, snakes, insects,
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  Speaker 1: and several nesting areas within the risk zone. Quantum says,
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  Speaker 1: if the fire reaches the forest, many animals will be displaced,
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  Speaker 1: some may not survive. You feel your stomach, Titan, Then
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  Speaker 1: we have to stop it, agreed, Quantum continues. Luckily, the
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  Speaker 1: hover copter includes several emergency systems I have not yet explained,
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  Speaker 1: such as such as a freeze ray. A freeze ray
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  Speaker 1: you say yes, adapted from designs collected from highly advanced
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  Speaker 1: quantum versions of Earth. The freeze ray can instantly lower
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  Speaker 1: the temperature of anything it hits, making it much more
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  Speaker 1: effective than water, particularly on a battery fire. Would you
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  Speaker 1: like me to activate it now? Yeah? You respond? A
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  Speaker 1: panel opens beside your seat and a joystick rises out
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  Speaker 1: of it. The screen changes to a sort of aiming
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  Speaker 1: display with glowing hash marks and a bright blue crosshair.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like it's showing a view directly from the
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  Speaker 1: freeze ray. Use the joystick to aim, quantum says, and
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  Speaker 1: the trigger to fire. You grab the joystick and guide
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  Speaker 1: the crosshairs towards the edge of the forest, between the
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  Speaker 1: trees and the approaching flames. Fire When ready, You pull
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  Speaker 1: the trigger and a brilliant blue light blasts from the
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  Speaker 1: front of the hover copter. It hits the ground with
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  Speaker 1: a flash of sort of icy mist. The ground freezes
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  Speaker 1: and frost begins to spread across the grass and dirt,
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  Speaker 1: rising up into a thick wall of ice. Whoa excellent
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  Speaker 1: continue You guide the beam carefully sweeping it along the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the forest. Ice bursts up wherever the beam touches.
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  Speaker 1: You create a sort of shiny, frozen barrier between the
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  Speaker 1: fire and the trees. Then you shift your aim to
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  Speaker 1: the fire itself. As the beam hits it, it almost
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  Speaker 1: instantly stops. You move the beam back and forth across
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  Speaker 1: the ground, across ball of the ground that's currently on fire,
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  Speaker 1: until the fire is completely out. I believe the forest
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  Speaker 1: has been protected. Now we should deal with the battery
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  Speaker 1: piles before they continue to burn. More fires may start. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: how do we do that? You ask, the same way
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  Speaker 1: we do everything, We absorb them. You turn the hover
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  Speaker 1: copter towards the burning battery yard, hover just above, and
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  Speaker 1: flick the button to activate the suction device. The atom vacuum,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever you call it. A cone of energy shoots downward.
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  Speaker 1: Broken batteries, melted casings, wires, metal scraps, and all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of other debris begins to rise into the beam. As
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  Speaker 1: it rises, it transforms into energy and gets sucked into
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the ship. You start with the section
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  Speaker 1: of the yard that was on fire, and once that's
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  Speaker 1: taken care of, you move to other parts of the
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  Speaker 1: yard as well. Congratulations, Quantum says you have performed very well.
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  Speaker 1: The chance of future battery fires has been greatly diminished,
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  Speaker 1: at least for the time being, and I believe your
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  Speaker 1: animal friends will be safe. Oh good, well, it looks
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  Speaker 1: like the tanks are already half full. Uh where to next?
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  Speaker 1: The next closest destination is a nearby landfill. It was
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  Speaker 1: previously used for humans to dump their garbage into a
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  Speaker 1: giant pile before being abandoned. However, the garbage continues to
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  Speaker 1: decay and large amounts are leeching into the ground, contaminating
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  Speaker 1: ground in the nearby town. That doesn't sound good. No,
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  Speaker 1: it is in fact quite gross. The substance is called
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  Speaker 1: leech eight and it is not ideal. Can we clean
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  Speaker 1: it up? Absolutely? As the next destination appears on the screen,
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  Speaker 1: you activate flight mode and blast forward at incredible speed.
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  Speaker 1: You once again shift to hover mode and activate the
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  Speaker 1: collector again. A beam begins to pull up old garbage
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  Speaker 1: from the dump below, breaking it down and absorbing it
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  Speaker 1: into the energy tanks. Drones release themselves from the hover
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  Speaker 1: copter as well and begin collecting their own little tiny
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  Speaker 1: piles of garbage and ceiling contaminated patches. You built in
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  Speaker 1: many robots into the hover copter. You ask, of course,
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  Speaker 1: is there anything you didn't build into the hover copter?
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  Speaker 1: You ask, yes, there are many millions of things that
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  Speaker 1: I did not build into the hover copter. Ok, Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it was kind of more of a figure's speech.
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  Speaker 1: Material capacity reached, Quantum says, we should return to base.
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  Speaker 1: You lift into the sky, switch back to flight mode,
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  Speaker 1: and push the throttle forward. The hover copter booms through
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  Speaker 1: the air, once again, racing back over the landscape towards
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  Speaker 1: your home. When you reach a more familiar environment, you
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  Speaker 1: shift the thing back into hover mode, aim at right
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  Speaker 1: over the giant patch of ground beside your house, and
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  Speaker 1: begin to lower it down. As a hatch in the
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  Speaker 1: yard opens up, You carefully lower the hover copter into
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  Speaker 1: the underground base and land gently in the launch bay. Immediately,
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  Speaker 1: helper robots swarm the craft. They detach the glowing tanks
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  Speaker 1: and carry them to the giant printer. Quantum's main screen
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  Speaker 1: lights up. Golden energy flows through transparent tubes and into
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  Speaker 1: the fabrication system. Then the printer begins. It prints huge
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  Speaker 1: curved panels first, then beams, then engine parts, then well
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  Speaker 1: glass that looks like it's probably for the cockpit, then
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  Speaker 1: storage tanks, doors, walls, wires, chairs, control panels, and strange
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  Speaker 1: glowing pieces that you have no idea what they'refore. Helper
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  Speaker 1: robots grab each piece as soon as it's finished and
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  Speaker 1: fly it to the open circular area in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the base. Soon, the spaceship begins to take place
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  Speaker 1: right there in your underground base. You watch for a
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  Speaker 1: while before getting a little bit bored, so instead you
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  Speaker 1: sit down on the couch and turn on the Quantum TV.
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  Speaker 1: At first, the strange sitcom with the half human half
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  Speaker 1: robot people appears, but you begin to flip the channel
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  Speaker 1: to all sorts of different programs. Some seem completely alien
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  Speaker 1: in others well, others look like they were probably made
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  Speaker 1: on your own Earth. You sit on the couch, watching,
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  Speaker 1: laughing and generally being entertained while the helper robots assemble
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  Speaker 1: your ship, until eventually Quantum speaks from the wall screen
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  Speaker 1: the starship is complete. You jump off the couch. It's done. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: would you like to see it? Obviously? You run across
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  Speaker 1: the base. The ship stands in the center of the
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  Speaker 1: launch bay, sleek and silver with glowing blue lines along
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  Speaker 1: its side. It's not enormous, but it's pretty big. The
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  Speaker 1: rear hatch opens, you walk over and step inside. The
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  Speaker 1: first room you enter is a sort of building and
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  Speaker 1: storage area. A smaller copy of a three D printer
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  Speaker 1: sits against one wall, connected to storage tanks and a deatomizer.
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  Speaker 1: Tools are locked neatly into place. Helper bots line the
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  Speaker 1: walls and docking stations, and they're small open areas for
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: well future projects. This area allows us to build parts,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: repair damage, and ibricate equipment while traveling, Quantum explains. A
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: door opens and you step into the next area. It's
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the living quarters. There are bunk beds built into the wall,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: a little couch, a tiny kitchen area, storage cabinets, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: another Quantum TV. It sort of looks like the inside
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: of a futuristic RV. You put a Quantum TV in
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the spaceship two. Of course, long voyages can be boring
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: fair enough. Finally, you enter the last door, the control area,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: or the cockpit. It has two seats, a wide front window,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: glowing control panels, and a center console. Quantum's face appears
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: on the main screen. I have transferred control to the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: ship's computer. He says. The controls are similar or to
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the hover copter. However, the ship also includes advanced autopilot.
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  Speaker 1: Spaceflight can become uneventful over long distances. You mean it
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: can get boring, Yes, extremely boring, flying straight through empty
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: space for days upon days. You sit in the pilot seat.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to take it for a test spin?
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Quantum masks, yes, you say. The launch hatch above the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: base begins to open, the same one used for the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: hover copters, only it sort of feels like there's barely
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: enough room to make it through. You pull up on
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the hover control and the Quantum Starship lifts smoothly out
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: of the base. It rises through the hatch, up past
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: your house and into open air. As the hatch closes
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  Speaker 1: below Oh, then you press the button and enter flight mode.
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  Speaker 1: Only this time you pull back on the steering wheel
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  Speaker 1: and aim straight up. As you press forward on the throttle,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the ship blasts upward. The ground drops away beneath it
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: as clouds rush past. The sky starts to turn darker
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and darker, Quantum explains calmly as the ship climbs. We
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: are primarily using anti gravity flight. This allows us to
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: move without relying on traditional rocket propulsion inside the atmosphere. Good,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you say, because rockets seem kind of wasteful. The blue
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: sky fades into black. Stars appear, and then you're in space.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Earth curves below you, glowing blue and white and beautiful.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: For a moment, you're just in awe. Quantum, we're actually
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: in space, Yes, Quantum says, we are. You stare down
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: at the planet somewhere below, our motions being cleaned by
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: your fleet, forests that didn't burn down because you helped them.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Oh what now, you ask, I suggest testing the matter
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: gathering system on an asteroid. A map appears, showing a
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: glowing path toward the asteroid belt. Let's do it, you say.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Quantum engages long range flight, and the ship surges forward,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: even faster than it did before. Earth shrinks behind you.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: The Moon slides past in the distance. You pass Mars
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: as a rusty red world glowing against the black, and
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: then ahead, countless rocks appear in space the asteroid belt.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Quantum highlights one asteroid on the screen, targets selected, many
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: precious metals present. Begin attachment protocol. You slow the ship
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and carefully guide it toward the spinning rock. Hash Marks
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: appear on the screen, helping you line up with the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: surface easy, Quantum says, we must match rotation speed and
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: engage clamps. You follow his instruction. The ship turns gently,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: matching the asteroids spin. As you press the clamp button,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: there's a deep metallic thunk, and the ship is suddenly
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: pulled straight down and attaches itself to the asteroid. We
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: are success fully attached, Quantum says. The front of the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: ship opens up. A gigantic needle like device extends from
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the nose of the ship, then pushes forward slowly and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: lunges itself into the asteroid. The asteroid lights up with
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: glowing blue lines spread from the point of contact. Matter
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: gathering device engaged, Quantum says. The ship powers up as
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: storage tanks in the back begin to fill. You watch
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the display climb higher and higher as the ship gathers
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: useful materials from inside the asteroid metals, mineral stone, and
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: well elements that will help you build things you haven't
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: even imagined yet. This is incredible, you say, Yes, Quantum says,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: asteroids are highly useful. Also, people do not complain when
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: they go missing. The tanks reach full capacity, test successful,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Quantum announces. Prepare for detach with another sort of metallic thunk.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: The ship detaches from the asteroid and you pull it
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: up and out of the area. Autopilot engages and guides
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you home across the dark, star filled space. Soon Earth
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: glows large again. You descend through the atmosphere, surrounded by
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a soft glow as the ship's shielding protects you. Clouds
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: rush past. Your home appears on the navigation map. The
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: giant hatch opens beside your house. You lower the starship
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: carefully into the underground base as the hatch closes above you,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: hiding the sky. The ship lands with a soft hiss,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: and you climb out, very tired, but in the best
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: possible way. I think that was a big enough day.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: You say, time for bed. You walk to the new
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: living quarters inside the base, where Quantum is already prepared
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: a bed for you. It's built into the wall, but
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: it looks very soft and cozy. You climb inside and
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: pull the covers up over top of yourself. The base
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: hums quietly around you. Helper robots move gently in the distance,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: and somewhere near by, your new starship rests in the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: launch bay, full of asteroid matter and ready to build
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: whatever comes next good night, Quantum. You say good night,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Quantum answers. Tomorrow the universe will be ours to explore.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: You close your eyes. With each breath, your body feels
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: heavier and softer, your arms relax, your legs sink into
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the bed, and your thoughts begin to drift off to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: dreams of new adventures, new planets, and new things to build.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Good Night, everyone in New yor.
• 40:25
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