January 17, 2022 • 29 mins
"Most of what has happened to us so far has not been scientifically possible. None of this makes sense. So why don't we start looking outside the box for answers, since the ones inside aren't really providing us anything?"
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Magma was a production of I Heart Radio and Bamford Productions. UM.
(00:29):
This is Captain Kevin Prescott reporting into General Tompkins Clearance
Code eight two OMEGA on Project Magmal. Sir, it is
with pleasure that I can report that our advanced AI
developed for this mission, code named Proteus, has taken to
his mission parameters. Despite the small errors originally reported at
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the beginning of our endeavor, Proteus has now operated without
issue for over thirty days. We believe a misassigned data
packet was to blame for the initial problems, but after
ex sens of testing and diagnostic scans, it is running
at optimal performance. We firmly believe that it will perform
above and beyond expectations and should be installed on the
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vessel bound for n g C seven to nine three,
as it will be an asset for the crew. Additionally,
not only are its first and secondary mission parameters up
to par, but the C class level mission parameters we
installed into its data course seemed to be operating at
optimal levels as well. We have placed certain restrictions on
its programming so that it is unaware of this sub
(01:30):
level parameter and it will only report back its findings
for those with the access code fifty three beta to C.
We believe this is the safest course of action in
order to investigate the anomaly detected within n GC seven
to nine three. Though we have observed this anomaly for
the past several months, no further findings could be assessed
(01:51):
from command nor the lighthouse station. Based on what we
have gathered so far, we still believe the anomaly maybe
a micro black hole. Though rare within the universe, this
micro black hole only expands and contracts on an irregular cycle.
It only remains visible for the moments that is at
full capacity, and when it retracts down to a sub
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atomic size, remains invisible to all detection. We believe that
sending magmal to and through n GC SN two N
three will give us the data we need in order
to further explain this abnormality. The research gained on this
can help expand our knowledge of the quantum realm and
help us potentially harness the power of a black hole
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or even wormholes for use in long distance space travel.
During our last meeting, you brought up the question of
what is the possibility that this micro black hole will
expand while the magmal is traveling through the nebula. While
there is a chance it is extremely low one in
a hundred billion or so according to the number crunters.
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In the unlikely chance it expands while the magma is present,
we are unsure of what will occur. However, as we discussed,
this is a calculated risk that we are willing to take,
but as I mentioned, the risk is low but still present.
Because of this, it is our belief that this Sea
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class level mission should remain classified to both those who
are not aware of it already and to the crew
of the magma itself. The less they know, the better,
just in case. On a personal note, I know you
have assigned to Jannah to this mission. Well, I disagree
with this decision. I will support it if you feel
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strongly about this choice. That said, I still believe, due
to the potential dangers of this mission, that I am
still the best choice for piloting the vessel into the
Helix Nebula. I am happy to discuss with you in
person when you might have time, and if not, then
I do feel it be of the mission's best interest
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to at least inform Janna of the C class level
mission protocols to better prepare the magma for any circumstances,
just in case. I will report back with any further finding.
Steamed relevant, Thank you, General Fuck Magmal Episode six contaminant
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detected tee. What the funk is going on? How could
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I be in that video we found on someone else's ship?
I am searching for possible explanations. That's not me? Right? T?
Right T. I am sure there is a perfectly reasonable
explanation for this, but that never happened. I would never
hurt Janna like that, would I? What's wrong with me?
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What's going on? I am scanning the video for any
evidence of tampering, but there appears to be none. Is
that someone who looks like me? Is? Is that? What?
It is? Just just a coincidence? It is possible. I
am checking all available information on the recording. Is there anything?
The video is timestamped thirty minutes from now? What it
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is from thirty minutes from now? At least according to
the data I have interpreted? It is? How how the
fund is that possible? Something is wrong with the ship's
log obvious, Lee, I cannot be sure when it is
actually from due to the extensive damage. No, No, No,
something isn't right here. Perhaps if I ran it through
a few more scans, I can detect something I did
not detect before. Did you finish fixing the rest of
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the ship's log? It is a very delicate process, and
it takes up a significant amount of processing power for
me to be able to repair it. I should concentrate T.
Did you finish fixing it? Yes? What else did it say?
I do not believe now is the time to review
the content? Does it say T? There could be something
in there that we could use to help Janna. It
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is difficult for me to decipher the Magmal is still
reading it as its own a duplicate. It's trying to
override it with duplicate information that well that it has
already logged it. Fuck does that mean T? It means
that everything I uncovered in the ship's log it's matching
up to our own, the previous time stamps, the mission logs,
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everything it is a duplicate of the Magmal's records. It's
exactly the same. How how is this happening? I have
explained to Janna that I believe my systems are malfunctioning,
causing a sort of mechanical deja vu in my data core.
I believe this is causing the confusion with the Magmal's
log with the other ships. But there are other log
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entries postdated much like the recording I played. But those
entries stopped in approximately forty five minutes. What do you
mean they stop? I mean there are no more entries
past that point. The ship's log is empty. What the
fox is going on? None of this makes sense? Yes,
I agree, Okay, I need you to run a scan,
a deep scan, a self diagnostic, whatever the hell you
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can do. There's something here. We're missing, something we missed before.
I am already running several to try to detect anything
out of sorts. There has been nothing detecting. What about
earlier when you've found those power fluctuations in the nebula?
Do that again, however you found those? Run that scan again.
I am trying, But there are several thousand tests that
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I need to run so I can affect Oh. Oh
what does that mean? Oh? This is I am not
sure how to interpret these findings. It is showing that
these are not the first recordings. There are multiple recordings
compounded on top of each other, and for the most part,
each with the same time stamps and contents. What does
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that even mean to It means that the log has
been recorded over again and again with mostly the same content.
Some records stray, but according to this, it's been recorded
before many times, over and over again. That's got to
be some sort of mistake, right, Like like your scanners
must be malfunctioning or something, right, I would think so.
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But this seems very conclusive. How is that even possible?
How can something like that be? Wait? Hang on, where
are you going to the bridge? I need to access
the main computer whole type Jane. I won't allow her
to access those files. I'll bring bring her back. Okay,
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seemed data packet, you can access the main computer from
anywhere on the ship Sydney. You didn't need to come
up here. You could have just asked, I know, but
I wanted the keyboard to see if I could here
it is? What are you looking for? I needed the
data from when we passed through the hills and be like,
can you bring that up for me? T There are
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thousands of data points from that. I need you to
be more specific, bring it up here to all of it?
Very well? Okay, Okay, here we go. What are you
looking for I'm not sure how, but I think we
funked up t big time. How so okay, so, well
before our time, like six or so, there was theory
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by this Austrian physicist named Ludwig Flom. He came up
with this idea for white holes, the theoretical time reversal
of a black hole, almost like at the opposite end
of one. I am aware, however, I am unsure of
what this has to do with our current situation. And
if I may remind you, Janna is still in the
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other room and is in no condition to be left alone.
Just listen to me and let me talk through this. Okay, fine, okay.
So then in the nineteen thirties, Einstein and Nathan Rosen
used the theory of general relativity to elaborate on the
same idea. Okay, They proposed the existence of bridges through
space and time. These bridges connected two different points in
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space time, theoretically creating a short cut that could reduce
travel time and distance. You know what I'm talking about,
the Einstein Rosen bridges, Yes, exactly, or to call a
spade a spade, wormholes they were talking about wormholes. Wormholes
are still a purely theoretical science, and their existence has
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yet to be proven. Okay, yes, but based on their
theories and what we know of black holes and white
holes and all that stuff, and comparing it to our
findings when we passed through the nebula, what if it's
not theoretical anymore? How So, it's very likely we did
unwittingly travel through a wormhole, yes, given all that we
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have seen. But that's not all, Tea. What if there
is more to that, with with all that we found,
all that we discovered, with the planet and the ship's
log and everything else. What if it's not theoretical anymore?
What if we just found something else, proved the existence
of something we didn't even know if it was possible.
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What if we accidentally did something we shouldn't have. What
are you saying, Sydney. I'm saying I think the wormhole
was the least of our problems, Tea. I think we're
stuck in a time loop. Mag Mill will returned after
these messages and now back to mag Mill, Sydney, what
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you are suggesting is not scientifically possible. Most of what
has happened to us so far has not been scientifically possible.
None of this makes sense, So why don't we start
looking outside the box for answers since the ones inside
aren't really providing us anything. I think perhaps you should
take a moment to breathe. Perhaps returning to Janna and
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focusing on that situation would be for the best. Ja. Yes, Jenna,
I should wake her and talk to her. She's feeling her.
She can probably help work through this with me right now,
to right, No, Sydney, that is not what I meant.
She certainly knows a bit more about this. Her husband
studied this stuff for years, so she should be able
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to work out solution or see what's going on. It's
the extra planetary scan. It's picking something up all the
way out there. I thought you scanned it before and
didn't detect anything. It didn't. But we are in uncharted
space and the atmosphere is different out here. Things can
change rapidly, and it seems that they have. Why. What's
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out there? It's the black hole? Black hole? What about them?
It's here? What do you mean it's here? What black hole?
When we first arrived that black hole? You mean after
the nebula? How But that doesn't make any sense. We
just flew a few hours away. From it. How how
the hell is it here now? Unfortunately, science has not
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reached a point of understanding this quite yet, so I
am unable to make any accurate calculations regarding this phenomenon. However,
based on collected data, it might have something to do
with it expanding, contracting, or even the bending of space
and time. It seems to be expanding at a much
higher rate than before, and each time it does it
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moves within space. It followed us essentially, yes, but rather unintentionally.
But it's here now and we are in its direct path,
so that means we probably should What the hell is that?
What was? What are you seriously telling me? You didn't
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hear that? Listen? No, no, no, no, no, no no no.
We have to get the funk out of here right now, Sydney,
What are you hearing? Are you serious? It's this thing,
whatever it is, the fucking monster, it's coming for us.
I have to get us out of here now, Proteous,
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what what? I'm sorry, Sydney, but I can't let you
do that. Let me do what new protocols engaged contaminant detected. Damn,
Let me the funk out of here right now, Prodias,
are you fucking serious. Look outside ta we have two
big problems heading our way, and we need to get
the funk out of here now. No abnormalities detected on
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my visual sensors. We must stay here and wait further instructions.
Then fucking listen. No abnormalities detected on my auditory sensor
commencing full lockdown. Let me the fun here now? Fuck?
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Who get up? God head? What's going on? Everything is
being taken care of, Jenna, Please relax. Something is wrong
with what's wrong? What's wrong with you? Sydney was displaying
some tis disturbing behavior. I had to prevent her from
hurting herself. Locked me in here. He's looking down the ship.
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Now we have to get out of here. Something is
coming for us. What the fund is that I do
not detect anything on my sense? Listen to me? Why
the fund? Am? I strapped at this table t disengaged
now request to what do you mean? Requests denied? What?
I'm sorry, but you have also exhibited abnormal behavior, jan
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normal the hallucinations you are experiencing tell me that it
is not safe to let you operate the magma. You
are a danger to yourself and to others. So I
can get out of this is not fucking funny. Team
let me go now. Please, if you want to help us,
you have to disengage the lockdown here. We are not
going anywhere. It wants you to stay. If that thing
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doesn't kill us, the black hole will I'm begging you. Please?
Black hole? What black hole? The one after the nebula.
It's out there. It followed us. Oh, oh god, the anomaly.
It was the black hole. There is something wrong with
proteus surface level programming, but maybe his sublevel programming is
still clean. What what the hell are you talking about?
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Sub level? It doesn't matter right now, but I might
be able to fix this. T T access C class
level protocols access denied. Class level protocols are classified. Proteus
listened to me access C class level protocols. Pass code
beta to C access granted user to H one six.
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Captain Kevian Prescott command access mission protocols C class level
protocols accessed. Scanning for anomaly anomaly detected, observe anomally yes, yes,
Jesus Christ observed, go autopilot engaged. You did mission override
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lockdown commencing, No, goddamnit, override that override. What are you doing? Programming?
Erupt all commands overridden? Intution, what are you doing? Override
the lockdown for a few minutes and let us out
t flush all current commands and reboot your system system rebooting.
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Holy funk, that worked. Okay, come on, we gotta get
to the bridge before he comes fully back online. No wait,
do you hear that? Hear? What? Who? We don't have
time for the Sydney. Come on, we have to go.
But we're the C class level protocols. Jenna, she said
it yourself, not now, come on, what were they? Jenna,
Sydney tell me? Fuck? Alright, fine, The Magma's mission had
another classified purpose as well. Okay, we were sent up
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to observe an abnormality, one that originated from the Nebula.
They thought they could harness its power. They thought they
could tame the power of the wormhole. But obviously that
sucked us, all right, And you knew, you knew this
the whole time, and we don't have time for this.
But you knew I did, but I wasn't supposed to, Okay,
Kevin told me. Kevin knew. Look, we can talk about
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this later, but we have to go right now. This
the whole time, and you didn't say anything. You constantly
blame me for fucking things up. But you knew this
the whole time and you didn't tell me. And now
look look what you've done to us, Sydney. I only
complete system back online. Jenna. Are you all right? I'm sorry.
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I'm not sure what happened earlier. I assure you. I
am myself now, Sydney, at least for now. What is
going on, Tea? I seem to have something affecting me.
I believe it is the mold. I think it got
into my system, much like Jenna isn't in her now? Yes,
I am running a scan and it is infecting. No, no, Sid,
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it's not. I'm fine. It's just fuck that fucking heart.
You're not Channa anymore? What the fun? What are you
talking about, Sydney. Of course, I'm Janna. You lie to me,
and that's stuff. The mold. It's inside you. It's it's
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controlling you. Stop and listen to yourself. Said, help me
get out so we can get out of here. No, no,
I have to here is it? I know it's here.
If I can just find it, I could I could
stop it. Help me Sydney. Here it is Sydney. You're
not thinking clearly. Here is the rent, don't you see?
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We have to stop it. The only way to save her.
It's the only way to say, step away from her.
Something is wrong with Sydney. To move. It's inside eu Genna.
I have to save you. No, Sydney, it's inside you.
With me. I have control the idol. He told me
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what happened. It told me what's inside you. It's coming
for you. I need to save us, Janna, I need
to save you. You have to listen to me. It
isn't you please stop that. I don't. I don't get
rid of it now. Oh h h Sydney safety. I
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did it. No, Sydney, she's alive, but her heartbeat is
very faint. Don't you say I had to stop it
from from taking control of over hanging over mm hmmmmm.
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No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
it's still it's still coming for us. It's still here.
We've got to go. We've got to go, prepare the
ship for lunch. We've got to go. Get out of here.
Listen to reason, Sydney, you're not We need to get
out of here away from away from the thing, away
from the black hole. Don't you understand I'm trying to
save us. Just sucking do it, t I don't have
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time to argue with you. You are not qualified nor
in the right state of mind to fly this Verdi
has switched to computer mode. Computer mode engaged for takeoff
now prepping systems. Please proceed to the cockpit for takeoff.
Now let's get the funk off this planet. Magmal will
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returned after these messages and now back to magmill. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, work,
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God damn it. Come on the fuck won't you go faster?
Fuel reserves below acceptable level. I fucking know that already.
Just make it work. God, how the hell do you
do this, Jenna? Just one more minute, you can do it.
Unidentified object approaching buck Buck. Fuck? How long do we have? Collision? In?
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Approximately thirties seconds? Fuck? Engage warp engine warning, insufficient fuel
for maximum efficients. Just fucking do it. Yes, come on, baby,
you can do this. Just hang on, We're almost there.
We can do this. Warning almost come on almost. What
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would you do if you have a chance to say
nor again? What would you do do? Good morning, Magma crew.
Today is March. You are currently one hundred kilometers from
the helix Nebula. Congratulations, ladies. After seven hundred fifty four days,
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today is the day your mission finally comes to fruition.
My head, I don't want to go to school today.
Just ten more minutes, Proteus, there is no educational work
currently eduled for the day. Janna, Perhaps you are mistaken.
It was a joke to God. After two years, you
think you'd grow a sense of humor. After two years,
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you'd think you would understand the one I was programmed with.
Very funny. Hey, what's that smell? Sydney is preparing breakfast
in the galley. You, ladies have a big day ahead
of you, so she wanted to make sure you were
well nourished. Great, tell her I'll be there in a minute.
And how many times do I have to tell you
stop calling us ladies. We are interplanetary scientists charting the
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great unknown, not the real housewives of outer space. I
beg your pardon, ladies, all right, funck off? How lady like?
Said Proteus is being a prick again? Well there she is,
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Good morning, Ready for your big day? Yes, mom, so
excited for the first day of school. Well, I made
you breakfast because you know we're going to be busy later.
Thank you. Oh bacon and eggs. Looks like someone went
through the trouble of rehydrating the good stuff. Today must
be a special occasion. If you're not a fan, I
can always oh, oh what's wrong? Just feel off off?
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Oh god, it's not the food, is it? Because I'm
starving and we all know I would have given up
on step two. I don't know. I just feel like,
have you ever gotten deja vu? Who hasn't? I just
got the strongest sensation of it, Like, like we've had
this conversation before. Dude, deja vu is a lie. You
know that, right, It's just temporal lobe epilepsy. It's a
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discharge in your brain that fools you into thinking that.
And I know you're right. It's just very strange feeling
and I can't shake it. Said, this is the biggest
day of your career. Trust me, you would know if
you've done this already. Right, Yeah, yeah, I guess so good.
I'll get ready because today today we're gonna make history.
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Mag Mel starring Ali Trasher, Julia Henning, and b J Gribb.
Additional voices in this episode provided by kat Ton Chonko
Mac Manson, and Jeff Heimbuck. Written by Jeff Heimbuck and
Lindsay Skaggin, Directed and edited by Jeff Heimbuck. Produced by
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Jeff Heimbuck and Ali Trasher. Executive produced by Holly Fry.
Audio engineered by Corey Celeste and Alex Gona. Original musical
score by Corey Celeste. Additional songs by the Ramikins as
played by Roscoe Soultran. Magmel is a production of I
Heart Radio and Bamfor productions, questions comments email us at
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Project Magmal at gmail dot com. Until next time, We'll
see you when we see you,
Magma was a production of I Heart Radio and Bamford Productions. UM.
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This is Captain Kevin Prescott reporting into General Tompkins Clearance
Code eight two OMEGA on Project Magmal. Sir, it is
with pleasure that I can report that our advanced AI
developed for this mission, code named Proteus, has taken to
his mission parameters. Despite the small errors originally reported at
(00:49):
the beginning of our endeavor, Proteus has now operated without
issue for over thirty days. We believe a misassigned data
packet was to blame for the initial problems, but after
ex sens of testing and diagnostic scans, it is running
at optimal performance. We firmly believe that it will perform
above and beyond expectations and should be installed on the
(01:09):
vessel bound for n g C seven to nine three,
as it will be an asset for the crew. Additionally,
not only are its first and secondary mission parameters up
to par, but the C class level mission parameters we
installed into its data course seemed to be operating at
optimal levels as well. We have placed certain restrictions on
its programming so that it is unaware of this sub
(01:30):
level parameter and it will only report back its findings
for those with the access code fifty three beta to C.
We believe this is the safest course of action in
order to investigate the anomaly detected within n GC seven
to nine three. Though we have observed this anomaly for
the past several months, no further findings could be assessed
(01:51):
from command nor the lighthouse station. Based on what we
have gathered so far, we still believe the anomaly maybe
a micro black hole. Though rare within the universe, this
micro black hole only expands and contracts on an irregular cycle.
It only remains visible for the moments that is at
full capacity, and when it retracts down to a sub
(02:12):
atomic size, remains invisible to all detection. We believe that
sending magmal to and through n GC SN two N
three will give us the data we need in order
to further explain this abnormality. The research gained on this
can help expand our knowledge of the quantum realm and
help us potentially harness the power of a black hole
(02:33):
or even wormholes for use in long distance space travel.
During our last meeting, you brought up the question of
what is the possibility that this micro black hole will
expand while the magmal is traveling through the nebula. While
there is a chance it is extremely low one in
a hundred billion or so according to the number crunters.
(02:56):
In the unlikely chance it expands while the magma is present,
we are unsure of what will occur. However, as we discussed,
this is a calculated risk that we are willing to take,
but as I mentioned, the risk is low but still present.
Because of this, it is our belief that this Sea
(03:17):
class level mission should remain classified to both those who
are not aware of it already and to the crew
of the magma itself. The less they know, the better,
just in case. On a personal note, I know you
have assigned to Jannah to this mission. Well, I disagree
with this decision. I will support it if you feel
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strongly about this choice. That said, I still believe, due
to the potential dangers of this mission, that I am
still the best choice for piloting the vessel into the
Helix Nebula. I am happy to discuss with you in
person when you might have time, and if not, then
I do feel it be of the mission's best interest
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to at least inform Janna of the C class level
mission protocols to better prepare the magma for any circumstances,
just in case. I will report back with any further finding.
Steamed relevant, Thank you, General Fuck Magmal Episode six contaminant
(04:45):
detected tee. What the funk is going on? How could
(05:10):
I be in that video we found on someone else's ship?
I am searching for possible explanations. That's not me? Right? T?
Right T. I am sure there is a perfectly reasonable
explanation for this, but that never happened. I would never
hurt Janna like that, would I? What's wrong with me?
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What's going on? I am scanning the video for any
evidence of tampering, but there appears to be none. Is
that someone who looks like me? Is? Is that? What?
It is? Just just a coincidence? It is possible. I
am checking all available information on the recording. Is there anything?
The video is timestamped thirty minutes from now? What it
(05:50):
is from thirty minutes from now? At least according to
the data I have interpreted? It is? How how the
fund is that possible? Something is wrong with the ship's
log obvious, Lee, I cannot be sure when it is
actually from due to the extensive damage. No, No, No,
something isn't right here. Perhaps if I ran it through
a few more scans, I can detect something I did
not detect before. Did you finish fixing the rest of
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the ship's log? It is a very delicate process, and
it takes up a significant amount of processing power for
me to be able to repair it. I should concentrate T.
Did you finish fixing it? Yes? What else did it say?
I do not believe now is the time to review
the content? Does it say T? There could be something
in there that we could use to help Janna. It
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is difficult for me to decipher the Magmal is still
reading it as its own a duplicate. It's trying to
override it with duplicate information that well that it has
already logged it. Fuck does that mean T? It means
that everything I uncovered in the ship's log it's matching
up to our own, the previous time stamps, the mission logs,
(06:55):
everything it is a duplicate of the Magmal's records. It's
exactly the same. How how is this happening? I have
explained to Janna that I believe my systems are malfunctioning,
causing a sort of mechanical deja vu in my data core.
I believe this is causing the confusion with the Magmal's
log with the other ships. But there are other log
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entries postdated much like the recording I played. But those
entries stopped in approximately forty five minutes. What do you
mean they stop? I mean there are no more entries
past that point. The ship's log is empty. What the
fox is going on? None of this makes sense? Yes,
I agree, Okay, I need you to run a scan,
a deep scan, a self diagnostic, whatever the hell you
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can do. There's something here. We're missing, something we missed before.
I am already running several to try to detect anything
out of sorts. There has been nothing detecting. What about
earlier when you've found those power fluctuations in the nebula?
Do that again, however you found those? Run that scan again.
I am trying, But there are several thousand tests that
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I need to run so I can affect Oh. Oh
what does that mean? Oh? This is I am not
sure how to interpret these findings. It is showing that
these are not the first recordings. There are multiple recordings
compounded on top of each other, and for the most part,
each with the same time stamps and contents. What does
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that even mean to It means that the log has
been recorded over again and again with mostly the same content.
Some records stray, but according to this, it's been recorded
before many times, over and over again. That's got to
be some sort of mistake, right, Like like your scanners
must be malfunctioning or something, right, I would think so.
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But this seems very conclusive. How is that even possible?
How can something like that be? Wait? Hang on, where
are you going to the bridge? I need to access
the main computer whole type Jane. I won't allow her
to access those files. I'll bring bring her back. Okay,
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seemed data packet, you can access the main computer from
anywhere on the ship Sydney. You didn't need to come
up here. You could have just asked, I know, but
I wanted the keyboard to see if I could here
it is? What are you looking for? I needed the
data from when we passed through the hills and be like,
can you bring that up for me? T There are
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thousands of data points from that. I need you to
be more specific, bring it up here to all of it?
Very well? Okay, Okay, here we go. What are you
looking for I'm not sure how, but I think we
funked up t big time. How so okay, so, well
before our time, like six or so, there was theory
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by this Austrian physicist named Ludwig Flom. He came up
with this idea for white holes, the theoretical time reversal
of a black hole, almost like at the opposite end
of one. I am aware, however, I am unsure of
what this has to do with our current situation. And
if I may remind you, Janna is still in the
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other room and is in no condition to be left alone.
Just listen to me and let me talk through this. Okay, fine, okay.
So then in the nineteen thirties, Einstein and Nathan Rosen
used the theory of general relativity to elaborate on the
same idea. Okay, They proposed the existence of bridges through
space and time. These bridges connected two different points in
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space time, theoretically creating a short cut that could reduce
travel time and distance. You know what I'm talking about,
the Einstein Rosen bridges, Yes, exactly, or to call a
spade a spade, wormholes they were talking about wormholes. Wormholes
are still a purely theoretical science, and their existence has
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yet to be proven. Okay, yes, but based on their
theories and what we know of black holes and white
holes and all that stuff, and comparing it to our
findings when we passed through the nebula, what if it's
not theoretical anymore? How So, it's very likely we did
unwittingly travel through a wormhole, yes, given all that we
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have seen. But that's not all, Tea. What if there
is more to that, with with all that we found,
all that we discovered, with the planet and the ship's
log and everything else. What if it's not theoretical anymore?
What if we just found something else, proved the existence
of something we didn't even know if it was possible.
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What if we accidentally did something we shouldn't have. What
are you saying, Sydney. I'm saying I think the wormhole
was the least of our problems, Tea. I think we're
stuck in a time loop. Mag Mill will returned after
these messages and now back to mag Mill, Sydney, what
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you are suggesting is not scientifically possible. Most of what
has happened to us so far has not been scientifically possible.
None of this makes sense, So why don't we start
looking outside the box for answers since the ones inside
aren't really providing us anything. I think perhaps you should
take a moment to breathe. Perhaps returning to Janna and
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focusing on that situation would be for the best. Ja. Yes, Jenna,
I should wake her and talk to her. She's feeling her.
She can probably help work through this with me right now,
to right, No, Sydney, that is not what I meant.
She certainly knows a bit more about this. Her husband
studied this stuff for years, so she should be able
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to work out solution or see what's going on. It's
the extra planetary scan. It's picking something up all the
way out there. I thought you scanned it before and
didn't detect anything. It didn't. But we are in uncharted
space and the atmosphere is different out here. Things can
change rapidly, and it seems that they have. Why. What's
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out there? It's the black hole? Black hole? What about them?
It's here? What do you mean it's here? What black hole?
When we first arrived that black hole? You mean after
the nebula? How But that doesn't make any sense. We
just flew a few hours away. From it. How how
the hell is it here now? Unfortunately, science has not
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reached a point of understanding this quite yet, so I
am unable to make any accurate calculations regarding this phenomenon. However,
based on collected data, it might have something to do
with it expanding, contracting, or even the bending of space
and time. It seems to be expanding at a much
higher rate than before, and each time it does it
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moves within space. It followed us essentially, yes, but rather unintentionally.
But it's here now and we are in its direct path,
so that means we probably should What the hell is that?
What was? What are you seriously telling me? You didn't
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hear that? Listen? No, no, no, no, no, no no no.
We have to get the funk out of here right now, Sydney,
What are you hearing? Are you serious? It's this thing,
whatever it is, the fucking monster, it's coming for us.
I have to get us out of here now, Proteous,
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what what? I'm sorry, Sydney, but I can't let you
do that. Let me do what new protocols engaged contaminant detected. Damn,
Let me the funk out of here right now, Prodias,
are you fucking serious. Look outside ta we have two
big problems heading our way, and we need to get
the funk out of here now. No abnormalities detected on
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my visual sensors. We must stay here and wait further instructions.
Then fucking listen. No abnormalities detected on my auditory sensor
commencing full lockdown. Let me the fun here now? Fuck?
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Who get up? God head? What's going on? Everything is
being taken care of, Jenna, Please relax. Something is wrong
with what's wrong? What's wrong with you? Sydney was displaying
some tis disturbing behavior. I had to prevent her from
hurting herself. Locked me in here. He's looking down the ship.
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Now we have to get out of here. Something is
coming for us. What the fund is that I do
not detect anything on my sense? Listen to me? Why
the fund? Am? I strapped at this table t disengaged
now request to what do you mean? Requests denied? What?
I'm sorry, but you have also exhibited abnormal behavior, jan
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normal the hallucinations you are experiencing tell me that it
is not safe to let you operate the magma. You
are a danger to yourself and to others. So I
can get out of this is not fucking funny. Team
let me go now. Please, if you want to help us,
you have to disengage the lockdown here. We are not
going anywhere. It wants you to stay. If that thing
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doesn't kill us, the black hole will I'm begging you. Please?
Black hole? What black hole? The one after the nebula.
It's out there. It followed us. Oh, oh god, the anomaly.
It was the black hole. There is something wrong with
proteus surface level programming, but maybe his sublevel programming is
still clean. What what the hell are you talking about?
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Sub level? It doesn't matter right now, but I might
be able to fix this. T T access C class
level protocols access denied. Class level protocols are classified. Proteus
listened to me access C class level protocols. Pass code
beta to C access granted user to H one six.
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Captain Kevian Prescott command access mission protocols C class level
protocols accessed. Scanning for anomaly anomaly detected, observe anomally yes, yes,
Jesus Christ observed, go autopilot engaged. You did mission override
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lockdown commencing, No, goddamnit, override that override. What are you doing? Programming?
Erupt all commands overridden? Intution, what are you doing? Override
the lockdown for a few minutes and let us out
t flush all current commands and reboot your system system rebooting.
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Holy funk, that worked. Okay, come on, we gotta get
to the bridge before he comes fully back online. No wait,
do you hear that? Hear? What? Who? We don't have
time for the Sydney. Come on, we have to go.
But we're the C class level protocols. Jenna, she said
it yourself, not now, come on, what were they? Jenna,
Sydney tell me? Fuck? Alright, fine, The Magma's mission had
another classified purpose as well. Okay, we were sent up
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to observe an abnormality, one that originated from the Nebula.
They thought they could harness its power. They thought they
could tame the power of the wormhole. But obviously that
sucked us, all right, And you knew, you knew this
the whole time, and we don't have time for this.
But you knew I did, but I wasn't supposed to, Okay,
Kevin told me. Kevin knew. Look, we can talk about
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this later, but we have to go right now. This
the whole time, and you didn't say anything. You constantly
blame me for fucking things up. But you knew this
the whole time and you didn't tell me. And now
look look what you've done to us, Sydney. I only
complete system back online. Jenna. Are you all right? I'm sorry.
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I'm not sure what happened earlier. I assure you. I
am myself now, Sydney, at least for now. What is
going on, Tea? I seem to have something affecting me.
I believe it is the mold. I think it got
into my system, much like Jenna isn't in her now? Yes,
I am running a scan and it is infecting. No, no, Sid,
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it's not. I'm fine. It's just fuck that fucking heart.
You're not Channa anymore? What the fun? What are you
talking about, Sydney. Of course, I'm Janna. You lie to me,
and that's stuff. The mold. It's inside you. It's it's
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controlling you. Stop and listen to yourself. Said, help me
get out so we can get out of here. No, no,
I have to here is it? I know it's here.
If I can just find it, I could I could
stop it. Help me Sydney. Here it is Sydney. You're
not thinking clearly. Here is the rent, don't you see?
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We have to stop it. The only way to save her.
It's the only way to say, step away from her.
Something is wrong with Sydney. To move. It's inside eu Genna.
I have to save you. No, Sydney, it's inside you.
With me. I have control the idol. He told me
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what happened. It told me what's inside you. It's coming
for you. I need to save us, Janna, I need
to save you. You have to listen to me. It
isn't you please stop that. I don't. I don't get
rid of it now. Oh h h Sydney safety. I
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did it. No, Sydney, she's alive, but her heartbeat is
very faint. Don't you say I had to stop it
from from taking control of over hanging over mm hmmmmm.
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No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no,
it's still it's still coming for us. It's still here.
We've got to go. We've got to go, prepare the
ship for lunch. We've got to go. Get out of here.
Listen to reason, Sydney, you're not We need to get
out of here away from away from the thing, away
from the black hole. Don't you understand I'm trying to
save us. Just sucking do it, t I don't have
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time to argue with you. You are not qualified nor
in the right state of mind to fly this Verdi
has switched to computer mode. Computer mode engaged for takeoff
now prepping systems. Please proceed to the cockpit for takeoff.
Now let's get the funk off this planet. Magmal will
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returned after these messages and now back to magmill. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, work,
(24:10):
God damn it. Come on the fuck won't you go faster?
Fuel reserves below acceptable level. I fucking know that already.
Just make it work. God, how the hell do you
do this, Jenna? Just one more minute, you can do it.
Unidentified object approaching buck Buck. Fuck? How long do we have? Collision? In?
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Approximately thirties seconds? Fuck? Engage warp engine warning, insufficient fuel
for maximum efficients. Just fucking do it. Yes, come on, baby,
you can do this. Just hang on, We're almost there.
We can do this. Warning almost come on almost. What
(25:23):
would you do if you have a chance to say
nor again? What would you do do? Good morning, Magma crew.
Today is March. You are currently one hundred kilometers from
the helix Nebula. Congratulations, ladies. After seven hundred fifty four days,
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today is the day your mission finally comes to fruition.
My head, I don't want to go to school today.
Just ten more minutes, Proteus, there is no educational work
currently eduled for the day. Janna, Perhaps you are mistaken.
It was a joke to God. After two years, you
think you'd grow a sense of humor. After two years,
(26:07):
you'd think you would understand the one I was programmed with.
Very funny. Hey, what's that smell? Sydney is preparing breakfast
in the galley. You, ladies have a big day ahead
of you, so she wanted to make sure you were
well nourished. Great, tell her I'll be there in a minute.
And how many times do I have to tell you
stop calling us ladies. We are interplanetary scientists charting the
(26:30):
great unknown, not the real housewives of outer space. I
beg your pardon, ladies, all right, funck off? How lady like?
Said Proteus is being a prick again? Well there she is,
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Good morning, Ready for your big day? Yes, mom, so
excited for the first day of school. Well, I made
you breakfast because you know we're going to be busy later.
Thank you. Oh bacon and eggs. Looks like someone went
through the trouble of rehydrating the good stuff. Today must
be a special occasion. If you're not a fan, I
can always oh, oh what's wrong? Just feel off off?
(27:17):
Oh god, it's not the food, is it? Because I'm
starving and we all know I would have given up
on step two. I don't know. I just feel like,
have you ever gotten deja vu? Who hasn't? I just
got the strongest sensation of it, Like, like we've had
this conversation before. Dude, deja vu is a lie. You
know that, right, It's just temporal lobe epilepsy. It's a
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discharge in your brain that fools you into thinking that.
And I know you're right. It's just very strange feeling
and I can't shake it. Said, this is the biggest
day of your career. Trust me, you would know if
you've done this already. Right, Yeah, yeah, I guess so good.
I'll get ready because today today we're gonna make history.
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Mag Mel starring Ali Trasher, Julia Henning, and b J Gribb.
Additional voices in this episode provided by kat Ton Chonko
Mac Manson, and Jeff Heimbuck. Written by Jeff Heimbuck and
Lindsay Skaggin, Directed and edited by Jeff Heimbuck. Produced by
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Jeff Heimbuck and Ali Trasher. Executive produced by Holly Fry.
Audio engineered by Corey Celeste and Alex Gona. Original musical
score by Corey Celeste. Additional songs by the Ramikins as
played by Roscoe Soultran. Magmel is a production of I
Heart Radio and Bamfor productions, questions comments email us at
(29:04):
Project Magmal at gmail dot com. Until next time, We'll
see you when we see you,
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