Project Hail Mary

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What is two plus two?

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- - You may experience

- some memory loss... -

... difficulty speaking.

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Body movement detected.

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please return to the medical platform.

Where am I?

Please remember muscle function has not yet been restored.

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People!

Hello?

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Where am I?

Red leather, yellow leather.

Why is there an atomic resolution scanning electron microscope?

Why do I know that?

Am I smart?

Hello?

Please record video diary.

No.

Can I speak to the person in charge?

The, uh, captain.

Captain Yáo, Li-Jie. Deceased.

Yeah, where, um, are the living people?

- - Dr. Ryland Grace.

End of manifest.

I can't be the only person here. Right?

Pilot detected.

- -No! No. No-No. Not the pilot.

Uh...

Call, uh, Houston.

Unknown command.

Operation Go Home in effect.

Invalid operation.

That's the sun! There it is.

So, what are we, like, Neptune-ish?

Let's crank up the radio and call Earth.

Current transmission time to Earth

is 11 years, 10 months, 14 days and 6 hours.

No. Nope. You're wrong.

I need a map.

Oh.

Uh...

That's so far.

That's really far. Uh...

That's not our sun.

That's not our sun.

Where is the fuel?

Wait.

We are just minutes away from the fly-by

through the Petrova line near Venus.

So, what can you tell us about the ArcLight probe?

What do we expect to find?

The image we see

will be coming from the onboard microscope.

Um... Oh, my God.

Sorry. I have to go now.

Sound waves are physical.

And at different frequencies,

they make different... ... pattern--

No, pattern-- They make different... ... patt--

Olivia, can you help me out? There we go!

Whoa!

Yeah.

Are they really eating the sun?

The space dots?

That is a great question, uh, Rekha.

And I'd be curious what your parents think about that.

I'm not sure it should come from me.

Hey! Who wants to play a game of...

the bean bag is lava!

Lava! Lava! Lava!

What is the speed of light, Olivia?

Uh...

It's melting your hands, Olivia!

186,000 miles per second!

Oh! Give her a round of applause.

That is awesome.

What is the Petrova line?

Pass!

You can't pass!

I just did.

Lava! Lava! Lava!

Come on, guys.

Two years ago...

a radio telescope enthusiast named Irina Petrova,

she noticed that there was a streak

of infrared light from the sun to Venus.

And that is now known as the Petrova line.

That's it.

That's the dots?

They think so.

What dots?

These dots.

They sent a probe up to the Petrova line,

and this is what they found.

Are they eating the sun?

They seem to be...

dimming the sun a tiny, teeny-weeny, little bit.

So, no big whoop.

It's a small whoop.

It's a small-to-medium whoop.

Over the next 30 years, the Earth could...

cool maybe 10...

to 15 degrees.

So it is a big whoop.

I heard that all the crops will die,

the economy will free-fall,

and half the Earth will die of starvation.

- -Well...

We're all gonna die!

Yeah, it's true.

You're forgetting something.

Guys, guys! That's if that were to happen. Right?

They're gonna figure this out.

Right now, the best minds in the entire world are on it.

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Good morning, Dr. Grace.

I'm up!

- - Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Not good at jokes.

Not good at jokes who?

Dr. Grace?

Maybe.

Eva Stratt. I'm with the Petrova Task Force.

I need your help.

Me.

Did you write this?

Oh.

I'm interested in this section here.

-Uh... -Page 31.

"The Goldilocks Zone Is For Idiots:

Why Everyone Is Wrong About Life."

That was a long time ago.

Do you stand by what you wrote?

I was fired for standing by what I wrote.

You were fired

for calling the leading scholar in your field

"a staggering waste of carbon" at the UNESCO conference in Denmark.

You heard about that, huh?

Look, I don't know what this is,

but, uh, I think I'm not s--

That's lava.

-It's not. -Okay.

No one in your field wants anything to do with you

because you refused to back down from a very unpopular view,

and I can give you a chance to prove them all wrong.

Uh... Kevin, no running.

I'm not.

Well, joke's on them because I don't even care. So...

I think you do care. You're running away because you're scared.

No, I'm not.

Do you still believe water is unnecessary for life to evolve?

Uh...

Look, there is nothing magical about hydrogen and oxygen.

Water is required for life on Earth, sure.

But a completely different planet

might have completely different conditions.

I don't know why that makes me such a nut.

I need you to come with us.

Sorry, I didn't catch your name.

Carl.

Carl. Hi.

Dr. Grace, Petrova line samples splashed down last night.