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The Ocean Cleanup Fleet and the Hovercopter - Quantum #4 - A Bedtime Story · 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. Tonight,
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  Speaker 1: as promised, we're headed back into the quantum computer universe
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  Speaker 1: because I had a great suggestion from Josie from Bracebridge
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  Speaker 1: to do an episode where you go to different parts
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  Speaker 1: of the Earth and clean up trash and save wildlife
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  Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. I'd been meaning to go
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  Speaker 1: back to the quantum universe for a while and I
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  Speaker 1: thought this was the perfect excuse to do that. If
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  Speaker 1: you have an idea for the quantum universe or any
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  Speaker 1: I think there were a couple way back in the past,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll go back and try to find them for
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  Speaker 1: the quantum universe. But if you want to do another
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  Speaker 1: one just to remind me, that would be great. Before
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  Speaker 1: I actually went back due to some views and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that, and fixed up some of the older books.
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  Speaker 1: So Cards of Power has just been updated the first
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  Speaker 1: volume of it, just as a different format. There's no
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  Speaker 1: need to buy it again or anything like that if
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  Speaker 1: you already have it, but if you're buying it new,
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  Speaker 1: I've just kind of spread things out a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I made it a little bit longer, with bigger words
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  Speaker 1: and that sort of thing, something I'd always wanted to do,
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  Speaker 1: and fix a couple little mistakes I found when I
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  Speaker 1: was reading it for my other podcast, and I also
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  Speaker 1: changed one of the pictures in the coloring book because
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  Speaker 1: I saw another review that pointed out something strange in
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  Speaker 1: one of those pictures. Not a huge deal, but I
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  Speaker 1: did replace it. Anyways, you can check all of those
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  Speaker 1: And now it's that time again. Time to get as
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  Speaker 1: comfy as you can in that bed. Close your eyes
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  Speaker 1: and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine yourself waking up in your very own bed. Before
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  Speaker 1: you can even sit up properly, you hear Quantum's voice
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  Speaker 1: speak from your wrist. Good morning, he says, cheerfully, I
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  Speaker 1: have a surprise for you. You blink and lift your arm.
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  Speaker 1: Quantum's tiny, smiling face is glowing on the screen of
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  Speaker 1: your watch. A surprise, you ask, Yes, please look beside
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  Speaker 1: your bed on the nightstand. You should find a button.
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  Speaker 1: You look beside your bed, and sure enough, there is
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  Speaker 1: a night stand there, even if there wasn't before, and
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  Speaker 1: even stranger. Sitting on top of that night's stand is
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  Speaker 1: a little red button. Oh what does it do? You ask?
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  Speaker 1: I believe, Quantum says. The best way to answer that
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  Speaker 1: question is to press it. You hesitate for a second, because, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're not really sure about pressing this big red button.
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  Speaker 1: On your night stand. But eventually you decide to go
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  Speaker 1: for it. You press down on the thing, and for
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  Speaker 1: a moment nothing happens, and then your bed begins to move. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you jump off the bed as the entire thing slowly
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  Speaker 1: slide sideways across the floor with a smooth, mechanical hum,
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  Speaker 1: revealing a large square of metal, a hatch of some kind. Quantum,
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  Speaker 1: you built something under my room. I built something under
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  Speaker 1: your room, under much of the house and under a
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  Speaker 1: good portion of the yard. Quantum replies, I was productive
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  Speaker 1: and I had a lot of energy to work with.
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  Speaker 1: You hurry over and kneel beside the hatch. It's made
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  Speaker 1: of dark silver metal with little glowing blue lines around
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  Speaker 1: the edges, and there's a handle in the middle of course,
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  Speaker 1: dry opening it, Quantum suggests you grab the handle and pull.
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  Speaker 1: The hatch lifts up with a hiss, and beneath it.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a ladder or stairs, or you know, some
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  Speaker 1: sort of elevator. Instead, there's a slide. The shiny metal
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  Speaker 1: slide curves steeply down into glowing blue light below. You
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  Speaker 1: built a secret underground base, you say, staring down the slide.
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  Speaker 1: That is correct, And you made the entrance a slide
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  Speaker 1: that is also correct. I have researched children on your
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  Speaker 1: world thoroughly. Slides are extremely popular. You grin huh fair point.
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  Speaker 1: You sit down at the top, grip the sides, and
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  Speaker 1: push off. You shoot downwards, immediately twisting through a polished
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  Speaker 1: tunnel of metal and blue lights. The slide curves left,
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  Speaker 1: then right, then drops more steeply, and your stomach flips
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  Speaker 1: in the best possible way. At the bottom. You burst
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  Speaker 1: out of the tube and slide across a smooth metal
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  Speaker 1: floor before coming to a stop in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: a gigantic underground chamber, one that definitely wasn't there before.
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  Speaker 1: You stand up slowly and your mouth falls open. The
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  Speaker 1: base is enormous. The walls are smooth steel and dark
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  Speaker 1: gray metal, broken up by glowing blue lines that run
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  Speaker 1: along the floor and ceiling like streams of light. Overhead,
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  Speaker 1: huge support beams arch high above you. One side of
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  Speaker 1: the chamber is taken up by an enormous new printer,
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  Speaker 1: far larger than the one in your room upstairs. Thick
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  Speaker 1: energy canisters are plugged into the back of it, though
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  Speaker 1: none of them are glowing anymore, which makes you think
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  Speaker 1: they might be empty. Or close to it. Beside the printer,
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  Speaker 1: mounted against one wall, like the heart of the whole place,
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  Speaker 1: is Quantum's main body, its screen glowing brightly. A group
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  Speaker 1: of helper bods drift quietly through the air.
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  Speaker 2: Nearby.
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  Speaker 1: There are more than before, several of them, all hovering
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  Speaker 1: carrying tools, scanning surfaces and moving the last few panels
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  Speaker 1: of metal into place along the walls. But most of
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  Speaker 1: the base is still empty, just a huge open space.
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  Speaker 1: This is amazing, you say, thank you, Quantum says, there
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  Speaker 1: is still much to do. At present. The base contains
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  Speaker 1: a primary fabrication chamber, energy routing systems, robotic docking stations,
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  Speaker 1: secure storage and launch access. However, many facilities remain unbuilt.
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  Speaker 1: You slowly turn in a circle. You built this whole
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  Speaker 1: place while I was sleeping. Yes, mostly printed it. You
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  Speaker 1: sleep for a long time, which is super helpful. I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe this, Oh you should. It is standing directly
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  Speaker 1: beneath your feet, Quantum replies, I meant it more as
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  Speaker 1: a figure of speech. You walk toward the giant printer,
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  Speaker 1: where one of the helper bots floats past, carrying a
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  Speaker 1: tool nearly as big as itself, sitting beneath it. Is
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  Speaker 1: the folded up submarine in the shape of a backpack.
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  Speaker 1: So what happens next, you ask, do we start building
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  Speaker 1: all the cool stuff now? Yes, Quantum replies, but first
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  Speaker 1: we need more material. And after researching your Earth, I
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  Speaker 1: have found many possible sources. Quantum screen changes and suddenly
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  Speaker 1: a map of Earth appears different places, blink and red.
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  Speaker 1: I've spent the night analyzing publicly available information. There are
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  Speaker 1: many areas on Earth in desperate need of cleanup. According
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  Speaker 1: to the Internet, every year, an estimated nineteen to twenty
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  Speaker 1: three million tons of plastic waste leaks into the aquatic ecosystem, rivers,
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  Speaker 1: lakes and see you stare at the map that much. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Also in twenty twenty two alone, the world generated and
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  Speaker 1: estimated sixty two billion kilograms of electric waste. That is
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  Speaker 1: sixty two million tons. You look from the map to
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  Speaker 1: quantum screen, so there's basically garbage everywhere. That is a
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  Speaker 1: somewhat simplified summary, Quantum says, but yes, essentially the map
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  Speaker 1: zooms in in an area marked with a glowing symbol.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to start by expanding our aquatic operations,
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  Speaker 1: but first we require more high quality material. Electronic waste
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  Speaker 1: will be especially use It contains metals, circuitry, structural materials,
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  Speaker 1: and many components suitable for advanced fabrication. With such a
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  Speaker 1: large quantity, it will be less necessary to reorganize atoms
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  Speaker 1: themselves into different materials. You nod slowly, all right, so
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  Speaker 1: you want me to go get a bunch of e
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  Speaker 1: waste correct. Also, in order to facilitate this, I have
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  Speaker 1: made substantial upgrades. A deep metallic rumble passes through the base.
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  Speaker 2: Floor.
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  Speaker 1: Panels in the ground slide apart, and from below something
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  Speaker 1: enormous begins to rise. You take a step back as
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  Speaker 1: a machine lifts up through a giant hatch in the
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  Speaker 1: floor and settles into the middle of the launch bay.
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  Speaker 1: It looks kind of like a helicopter, a cargo ship,
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  Speaker 1: and a futuristic drone smashed together. It's large and silver gray,
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  Speaker 1: with a rounded sort of cockpit at the front and
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  Speaker 1: four massive circular devices mounted around it, one on each corner.
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  Speaker 1: They resemble giant propellers from a gigantic drone, except there's
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  Speaker 1: no blades. Instead, each one glows faintly with a sort
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  Speaker 1: of blue white energy. At the bottom is a wide
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  Speaker 1: intake of some kind that looks well, kind of like
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  Speaker 1: a tractor beam if your knowledge of science fiction is right.
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  Speaker 1: Mounted on the rear are several large energy tanks that
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  Speaker 1: look almost identical to the ones from the submarine. What
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  Speaker 1: is that you ask? That? He says is a hover
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  Speaker 1: You walk around it in awe. It's huge. It needed
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  Speaker 1: to be. The plans I have drawn up for the
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  Speaker 1: upgraded submarine and ocean cleaning device are much larger than
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  Speaker 1: a backpack size. Therefore, you will need something larger than
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  Speaker 1: a hover scooter to relocate it. The hover copter contains
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  Speaker 1: its own collector beam, d atomizer, storage tanks, and dual
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  Speaker 1: navigation modes. You made a giant flying garbage vacuum. That
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  Speaker 1: is correct, you grin? I love it. A hatch on
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  Speaker 1: the side folds open, revealing the cockpit. Quantum begins explaining
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  Speaker 1: as you climb inside. It has several flight modes. In
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  Speaker 1: hover mode. The right hand lever controls eltude, lifting it
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  Speaker 1: up and down. The left hand joystick controls forward, backward,
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  Speaker 1: left and right, or by twisting it you can spin
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  Speaker 1: in circles. It is very similar to the controls on
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  Speaker 1: a toy drone. Hover mode is ideal for precision movements
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  Speaker 1: picking things up, dropping things off, or landing. You sit
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  Speaker 1: in the pilot's seat, staring at the controls. As the
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  Speaker 1: side closes up. On the right hand side, you see
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  Speaker 1: two levers. One looks like the height lever the spaceship
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  Speaker 1: is talking about, and the other is marked throttle. There's
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  Speaker 1: a central steering wheel that's sort of folded into the
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  Speaker 1: dash at the moment, and a little lever on the
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  Speaker 1: left hand side. What's the other flight mode? You ask?
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  Speaker 1: In the other flight mode, the reconfigures, the steering wheel
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  Speaker 1: folds out, and the entire thing acts more like a
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  Speaker 1: traditional airplane, only one that will not fall from the
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  Speaker 1: sky if you come to a complete stop. In this mode,
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  Speaker 1: speed is controlled with the throttle on the right hand
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  Speaker 1: side of the steering wheel, and the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: ship is controlled with the wheel itself. Pulling back pulls
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  Speaker 1: the ship upwards, pushing down moves it forwards, and steering
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  Speaker 1: left and right. As you may have guessed, steers it
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  Speaker 1: left or right. I suggest you start with a basic takeoff.
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  Speaker 1: The base starts to rumble again, then sunlight shines in
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  Speaker 1: over top of the hovercraft as a gigantic.
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  Speaker 2: Hatch opens up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh starting hover copped now the hoofer copter hums to life.
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  Speaker 1: All of the little controls on the dashboard laid up
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  Speaker 1: at once and well, it starts to sort of hum.
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  Speaker 1: Now pull up on the right hand lever to move
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  Speaker 1: yourself straight up and out of this place. You do
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  Speaker 1: just that, carefully, pulling up on the control. The hum
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  Speaker 1: grows louder, and the ship starts to move up, higher
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  Speaker 1: and higher and higher. Out of the hatch and above
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  Speaker 1: your home. You look at a little glass panel below you,
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  Speaker 1: one that lets you see what's directly below, which should
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  Speaker 1: be helpful for landing. A huge opening in your lawn
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  Speaker 1: slowly starts to close until it completely disappears, appearing as
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  Speaker 1: if nothing was there in the first place. You practice
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  Speaker 1: hovering around on the little copter, moving left and right
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  Speaker 1: on the joystick. The copter itself moves directly right or
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  Speaker 1: directly left as you push in that direction. If you
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  Speaker 1: push forward, it moves forward, and backward it moves backward.
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  Speaker 1: You try twisting the joystick, and the copter twists with it.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually really easy to fly in this mode, though
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  Speaker 1: not particularly fast. A GPS map appears on the display
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  Speaker 1: in front of you, with a glowing path leading away
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  Speaker 1: this is your destination, a large electronics waste depository. With
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  Speaker 1: this additional energy collected, we should have no problem completing
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  Speaker 1: the submarine upgrades to continue our cleaning of the Pacific
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  Speaker 1: garbage batch. Now, are you ready to switch to flight mode?
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  Speaker 1: I guess so, you say, press the button. A big
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  Speaker 1: blue button lights up that says flight mode, right beside
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  Speaker 1: another button that reads hover mode, which is currently glowing green,
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  Speaker 1: probably to indicate that it's on. You press the flight
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  Speaker 1: mode button, and the ship hums slightly differently. Now simply
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  Speaker 1: press forward on the throttle and steer with the steering wheel.
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  Speaker 1: The steering wheel pops out of the console in front
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  Speaker 1: of you. You take hold of it with your left hand,
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  Speaker 1: put your right hand on the throttle, and press forward. Instantly,
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  Speaker 1: the hover copter surge is ahead. Whoa, you say, as
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  Speaker 1: the trees blurbneath. You pull back slightly on the wheel
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  Speaker 1: and the craft climbs pointing upwards. You angle left to
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  Speaker 1: avoid a group of buildings.
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  Speaker 2: Just in time.
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  Speaker 1: You should be more careful. Quantum says buildings are to
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  Speaker 1: be avoided. Luckily, I have built in safety devices to
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  Speaker 1: take over control if you are doing something too dangerous. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: probably a good idea. The hover copter continues to shoot
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  Speaker 1: forward atn incredible speed as adrenaline pumps through your body.
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  Speaker 1: You are doing exceptionally well for a first attempt. However,
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  Speaker 1: the depository of electronic waste is not particularly close. I
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  Speaker 1: suggest you give it a little more gas.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Once you find yourself high above any possible obstacles, you
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  Speaker 1: do exactly as Quantum suggests and press forward on the throttle.
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  Speaker 1: The ship zooms forward at incredible speed, and you hear
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  Speaker 1: a sudden banging noise as you presumably break the sound barrier.
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  Speaker 1: You may notice that you don't feel the speed as
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  Speaker 1: much as one might in a traditional Earth aircraft. Quantum
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  Speaker 1: says that is because I have also built in a
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  Speaker 1: small artificial gravity device. This way you can travel at
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  Speaker 1: up to ten g's without feeling the acceleration against your body.
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  Speaker 1: You zoom up through the clouds and over top of
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  Speaker 1: the world at absolutely incredible speed until Quantum's voice appears again.
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  Speaker 1: I believe we are reaching the destination. Lower your altitude
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  Speaker 1: and switch back to hover mode. You look at the
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  Speaker 1: little GPS and see that the little dot that indicates
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  Speaker 1: where you are is approaching. The little dot that indicates
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  Speaker 1: where the e waste is. You slowly pull back on
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  Speaker 1: the throttle a little bit and push forward, dipping down
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  Speaker 1: below the clouds at a much more reasonable speed. Below
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  Speaker 1: you lies a huge sprawl of discarded machines, Mountains upon
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  Speaker 1: mountains of broken monitors, televisions, old computers, tangled wires, printers, microwaves, cables, keyboards, phones,
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  Speaker 1: and piles of metal frames just glinting in the sun.
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  Speaker 1: Oho you say yes, Quantum says humanity is extremely skilled
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  Speaker 1: at inventing future garbage. You lower into hover mode and
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  Speaker 1: slowly use the lever to bring the craft down over
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  Speaker 1: top of the site. Activate the Collector. Quantum suggests. A
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  Speaker 1: screen over to your right lights up with a button
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  Speaker 1: that says activate Collector. As soon as you press the button,
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  Speaker 1: the screen displays all of the garbage below and asks
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  Speaker 1: you to select a target. You select, a gigantic pile
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  Speaker 1: of garbage hit except and a cone of energy shoots
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  Speaker 1: downward like a tractor beam. Suddenly, broken electronics begin lifting
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  Speaker 1: from the heaps below, small pieces at first, and then
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  Speaker 1: wull clusters of devices, enormous tangles of metal and wire.
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  Speaker 1: They rise into the beam, vanish into the intake, and
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  Speaker 1: are instantly deatomized, breaking them down into their well most
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  Speaker 1: basic components. The energy tanks at the back begin to
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  Speaker 1: glow brighter and brighter. The process is actually astonishingly fast, Quantum,
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  Speaker 1: you say as you watch, this thing is incredible. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Quantum says, I am aware. The ability to use a
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  Speaker 1: larger three D printer allowed me to construct more advanced materials.
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  Speaker 1: In this case, you have now collected a substantial amount
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  Speaker 1: of material. We should return. You turn off the little
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  Speaker 1: garbage vacuum device and lift back up into the air
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  Speaker 1: above the clouds, before switching into flight mode once again
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  Speaker 1: and pressing forward on the throttle again. You hear a
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  Speaker 1: loud boom as you pass the sound barrier and keep
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  Speaker 1: on going. The clouds zip below you as you keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on your little GPS, checking to see if
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  Speaker 1: you're anywhere near your home, and then you see something in.
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  Speaker 2: Front of you. It grows larger and larger.
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  Speaker 1: At first it looks a little bit like a bird,
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  Speaker 1: and then you realize it's an airplane, an airplane that
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  Speaker 1: you're heading directly towards. You quickly pull back on the
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  Speaker 1: joystick or steering wheel, I should say, and the ship
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  Speaker 1: zooms up above the gigantic passenger plane, then past it
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  Speaker 1: at incredible speed. You press forward and dip below the
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  Speaker 1: clouds until things start to look rather familiar again, until
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  Speaker 1: you see your own home. You switch to hover mode
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  Speaker 1: and sl slowly lower the thing down towards your house.
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  Speaker 1: A huge hatch opens in your yard out of seemingly nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: and you carefully aim the ship directly above it, and
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  Speaker 1: then slowly lower it down.
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  Speaker 2: Through the hatch.
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  Speaker 1: The hatch closes above you, the sunlight disappears, and immediately
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  Speaker 1: the little helper bots are already moving, grabbing the huge
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  Speaker 1: storage tanks and moving them over to the three D printer.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: You look over to see the little backpack sized submarine
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  Speaker 1: already in place, and then the printer starts up. It
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  Speaker 1: hums to life. Golden energy surges through the transparent channels
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: in the machine, and you see parts forming with incredible speed. Walls, panels, engines,
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  Speaker 1: mechanical arms, collector systems, printing modules, and all sorts of
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  Speaker 1: other pieces put together in a gigantic metal square or
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  Speaker 1: wel cube. Before you know it, the gigantic square is
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  Speaker 1: completely made. It's time to upgrade our ocean cleanup operation.
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  Speaker 1: Please lift the hover copter up higher so we can
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  Speaker 1: activate the tractor beam. Uh. Okay, you haven't even had
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: time to get out of the thing in the first place,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: because Quantum moves rather quickly. The hatch above you opens
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  Speaker 1: up again and you use the lever on the right
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: to increase your altitude. Hovering just above the ground beside
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: your home, the helper bots fly the gigantic square below you,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and Quantum's voice appears again. Activate the tractor beam, Quantum says,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and another little button lights up tractor beam. You press
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  Speaker 1: the button, a light shines down below you and snaps
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  Speaker 1: the gigantic square that apparently folds out into a submarine
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  Speaker 1: onto the bottom of the hover copter. Next destination, the
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Pacific garbage patch, a little GPS map appears once again.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: You lift the ship up high above the clouds, before
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: once again switching to flight mode and pressing forward on
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the throttle again. There's a gigantic boom as you pass
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the sound barrier and zip forward over top of cities,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: over top of forests and lakes and rivers, until you
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: eventually come to a huge body of water, the Pacific Ocean.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: You zip over the ocean at incredible speed until the
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: water below begins to change. You slow down as you
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: see scattered debris appear first, and lower the ship towards
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the water. Soon you see larger clusters than wide streaks
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  Speaker 1: of floating garbage, then, at last a great sprawling mass
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of the patch itself. You slow into hover mode and
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: lower the giant cube toward the water. Stand by for activation,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Quantum says, activating submode. The tractor beam disengages. The square
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: falls to the ground and splashes into the water, and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: then it begins to unfold. Panels split apart, sections extend,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Haull pieces rotate outward. Massive side collectors swing into place,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: A larger body emerges from within the cube. Windows appear,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: tanks extend. A wide rear section opens up to reveal
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  Speaker 1: something new, a whole fabrication bay with its own three
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  Speaker 1: D printer and storage area, until that too becomes completely
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: covered in a hard metal shell. You stare through the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: cockpit at this strange transformation. The new submarine is huge.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: That's gigantic, you say, I am glad you approve it
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: had to be gigantic. Quantum replies, because it is no
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: longer a simple submarine. It is now a mother sub
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I have added storage and printing chambers on the back.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: This the vessel can now process collected waste into usable
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  Speaker 1: energy and fabricate additional clean up devices in the field
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: so it can build more machines. Well it's out here,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: that is correct. Some will collect floating debris, Some will
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: travel underwater to recover submerged waste. Some can be deployed
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: near inlets and river mouths where much of the plastic
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: enters the water in the first place. As I mentioned earlier,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: an estimated nineteen to twenty three million tons of plastic
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: waste enter aquatic ecosystems every year. Interception is now a priority.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: You lower the hovercraft onto the surface nearby, climb out
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and board the mother ship. Inside everything is bigger than before.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: There's more room to move around, more screens, more controls,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and in the rear, behind a sealed doorway, a new
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: on board printer glowing with quiet power. You sit at
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: the controls and start the collectors. The mother sub moves forward.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Huge amounts of floating plastic slide into the front system.
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  Speaker 1: They're pulled inwards, deatomized, and routed into the internal energy
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  Speaker 1: banks on a nearby screen. The available material count rises rapidly.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Then the rear printer comes to life. Inside the fabrication chamber.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: At the back, metal parts begin appearing almost immediately. A
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: small submersible body forms, smooth and compact with miniature collector
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: arms and a rear intake. You watch fascinated as a
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: dissembled piece by piece. Quantum, are you building another sub already?
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: That is correct, he says, this is Unit one, autonomous
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: debris collection submersible. The little machine finishes printing, a hatch
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: opens at the rear of the mother sub, and the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: many sub drops neatly into the water. On the display,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: you watch it dive beneath the surface and begin moving away.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: It will now collect debris independently and return stored energy
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: to the mothership. The printer starts again. A second many
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: sub forms, then a third. After that, a group of
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: little hovering helper drones are printed, as well, little flying
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: robots that can put together together smaller pieces into larger structures,
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  Speaker 1: or move stored energy bins from one machine to another.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Before long, the operation has become something much larger than
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: one kid in one submarine. The mother sub moves steadily
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: through the garbage patch while it's new helpers spread out
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: like a growing clean up fleet. You stand in the
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: center of it all, looking from the front screens to
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the fabrication bade, the glowing ocean outside, and realize that
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: this could actually change the world using garbage to create
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: new materials. This is amazing. And since we're using all
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of the garbage to create more things. To get rid
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of the garbage, we'll have more material then we know
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: what to do with Before well before you'll even know it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I believe your immediate task here is complete. The cleanup
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: fleet can continue autonomously. Also, I believe it is your bedtime.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: You smile, so you're saying I should go home. Uh, yes,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: that is exactly what I'm saying. You leave the mothership running,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: climb back into the hover copter, and lift up over
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: top of the water. You rise high above the ocean
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: before switching into flight mode and pressing forward on the throttle,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: once again creating another sonic boom as you blast into
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: the sky. You fly over the ocean until you come
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: back to the land, where you once again fly over
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: cities and oceans and lakes and rivers before coming to
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: some nearby territory. You switch back to hover mode as
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: you approach your house and carefully lower the machine down
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  Speaker 1: into the little well cargo bay hatch. The hatch closes
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: above you as the hovercraft or hover copter comes down
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: with a soft landing and a little hiss, the hover
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: copter opens up. You climb down out of the hatch
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: and walk back over to the slide that brought you
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: down here in the first place. Uh, Quantum, how do
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I get out of here?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: You ask?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: That is easy. You just use reverse slide mode. Have
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: a seat on the slide as if you just arrived,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Quantum says. So you sit down on the bottom of
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the slide facing the normal direction. A little circular piece
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: of metal folds up from the bottom and pushes against
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: your feet, lifting you backwards up the slide, around the
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: corners and up through the hatch until you find yourself
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: standing in the middle of your bedroom, above the little
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: secret hatch. You step off, close the hatch door, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: move over to the bedstand and press the little red
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: button again. The bed slides back into place. You climb
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: into it, pull the covers up over top of yourself,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: and rest your head on the pillow.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: The lights in the room turn.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Off and you begin to just focus on your breath,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: noticing your stomach rise and fall with each deep breath.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: With each out breath, you try to release a little
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: more tension, noticing any tension in your arms and your
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: legs and letting it melt away. Soon it feels as
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: if you're just floating on a cloud. Your mind wanders
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures, and new
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: fun things you can build with a three D printer.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: To come, good night everyone in.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: New York. More union, no no thing, no.
• 44:27
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