7 - The Two Scientists

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[00:01] Luna
    I-It came out pretty nicely, huh?
[00:04] Luna
    In Xeno's words, it's extremely...
[00:11] Luna
    elegant.
[00:15] Senku
    Luna...
[00:18] Senku
    Was Doctor Xeno a former NASA scientist?
[00:22] Luna
    How did you know?!
[00:30] Senku
    Doctor Xeno...
[00:32] Senku
    He got me started on rocket building.
[00:40] Senku
    He's my science mentor.
SIGN    The Two Scientists
[02:32] (Flashback) Senku
    All right.
[02:34] (Flashback) Senku
    Here we go.
[02:35] (Flashback) Taiju
    Okay.
[02:51] (Flashback) Senku
    What caused that?
[02:54] (Flashback) Taiju
    Dang it!
[02:55] (Flashback) Taiju
    I don't get any of it.
[03:02] (Flashback) Taiju
    You can look up rocket secrets
    on your computer, huh?
[03:07] (Flashback) Taiju
    You can read English?!
[03:08] (Flashback) Taiju
    You're amazing, Senku!
[03:10] (Flashback) Senku
    No, not at all.
[03:12] (Flashback) Senku
    Nothing beyond "This is a pen."
[03:14] (Flashback) Taiju
    What's a "Desuizu"?
[03:16] (Flashback) Senku
    Then again, most of the articles are in English.
[03:19] (Flashback) Senku
    I have to do the best I can
    with a dictionary in hand.
[03:22] (Flashback) Senku
    Just scouring articles will only get you so far.
[03:25] (Flashback) Senku
    You can save time sharing
    information with colleagues.
[03:28] (Flashback) Senku
    That's how science works.
[03:36] (Flashback) Taiju
    And you're sending that all over the world, huh?
[03:39] (Flashback) Senku
    That's right.
[03:41] (Flashback) Senku
    I'm practically a spammer.
[03:51] (Flashback) Staff A
    We got a question from an
    elementary school student.
[03:53] (Flashback) Staff A
    "Why is the sky blue when space is black?"
[03:57] (Flashback) Staff B
    That's adorable.
[03:58] (Flashback) Staff B
    Give them a good answer.
[04:00] (Flashback) Staff A
    This one's from an elementary
    school student in Japan.
[04:02] (Flashback) Staff B
    Senku-kun, huh?
[04:05] (Flashback) Staff B
    He must have put in a lot of
    effort to write it in English.
[04:08] (Flashback) Staff C
    Let's see...
[04:15] Senku; text
    I started off my rocket research modding
    the hell out of a car turbocharger,
[04:19] Senku; text
    but I'm hitting a stupid number of brick walls
    trying to decipher papers by brute force.
[04:23] Senku; text
    The first problem was with the oscillating
    component of the firing pressure.
[04:26] Senku; text
    I managed to get the intermediate
    frequency oscillatory combustion error
[04:30] Senku; text
    down to 7% by running a computer simulation.
[04:35] Senku; text
    There's no way I'm doing that on my potato
    PC, though. Not in ten billion years.
SIGN    So I set up a VPN server on a lab server at the university my dad taught at
SIGN    and used the supercomputer there to optimize the structure of the fuel injector, and...
[04:42] (Flashback) Staff A
    I'm pretty sure he's confessing
    to some crimes here.
[04:45] (Flashback) Staff B
    Nah, there's no way any elementary
    school kid could be like this.
[04:48] (Flashback) Staff B
    It must be a prank by some grown-up.
[04:50] (Flashback) Staff C
    Either way, we can't get involved.
[04:53] (Flashback) Staff C
    Ignore him.
[05:10] (Flashback) Taiju
    Nice, Senku!
[05:11] (Flashback) Taiju
    You got a reply from someone
    who actually works at NASA!
[05:15] Senku
    Pipe down.
[05:18] Xeno
    I've included the math below,
[05:20] Xeno
    but long story short, the nozzle will
    need to be made of niobium alloy.
[05:24] Xeno
    Doctor Senku, I suspect that you
    are being led astray by noisy data.
[05:30] Xeno
    You must be using subpar equipment.
[05:33] Xeno
    You should get your hands on a
    resistance thermometer that has a
[05:37] Xeno
    rhodium-platinum alloy heat sensor.
[05:39] Xeno
    From Dr. X of NASA.
[05:45] (Flashback) Taiju
    Here you go, Senku.
[05:47] (Flashback) Senku
    Thanks.
[05:50] (Flashback) Taiju
    So you need to buy this
    thermometer in the photo, huh?
[05:53] (Flashback) Taiju
    Think they have it at the 100-yen store?
[05:54] (Flashback) Senku
    How much does this thing even cost?
SIGN    platinum
SIGN    Platinum-rhodium Alloy Thermometer Sensor
SIGN    Free Shipping
SIGN    50,000 Points (10%)
SIGN    Add to Cart
[06:13] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Senku!
[06:15] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I can't believe you came all
    the way to the US for me!
[06:18] Byakuya
    You missed me that much, huh?
[06:18] (Flashback) Senku
    Yeah, skip the pleasantries
    and just give me the thing.
[06:23] (Flashback) Senku
    The magic card.
[06:24] (Flashback) Byakuya
    S-Sure...
[06:27] (Flashback) Senku
    The demon's credit card that lets you
    buy anything science-related for free
[06:34] (Flashback) Senku
    when an astronaut enters training in the US!
[06:36] (Flashback) Byakuya
    How do you know about that?
[06:38] (Flashback) Byakuya
    I mean, it's a real thing, but Google
    won't even tell you much about it.
[06:43] (Flashback) Byakuya
    You're going home already?!
[06:45] (Flashback) Byakuya
    What are you, one of those people who lost
    on the plane in All-American Ultra Quiz?!
[06:49] (Flashback) Senku
    Generation gap, old fart.
[06:51] (Flashback) Senku
    I don't get your reference.
[06:53] (Flashback) Byakuya
    When are you coming to the US for real?!
[06:55] (Flashback) Senku
    When the credit card expires
    and I need to renew it.
[06:57] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Aren't you being a bit too cold to your old man?!
SIGN    Platinum-Rhodium Alloy Resistance Thermometer
SIGN    Xenon Gas
SIGN    Phase-Contrast Microscope
SIGN    Thermal Camera
[07:10] (Flashback) Taiju
    So much expensive-looking gear!
[07:12] (Flashback) Taiju
    Not that I know what any of it is.
[07:14] (Flashback) Senku
    I could make do without it, but hey.
[07:18] (Flashback) Senku
    I'll gladly take anything I can get.
[07:21] (Flashback) Senku
    With this mountain of equipment
    and Doctor X's online classes...
[07:30] (Flashback) Senku
    I'm going to investigate everything.
[07:32] (Flashback) Senku
    I'm going to try everything.
[07:34] (Flashback) Senku
    We'll make our way up two
    million years of human history
[07:38] (Flashback) Senku
    not from the ground up, but from
    atop the shoulders of giants.
[08:51] (Flashback) Taiju
    Man, Senku...
[08:53] (Flashback) Taiju
    I thought you were trying
    to build a rocket, though.
[08:56] (Flashback) Taiju
    Why do you ask him stuff that has
    nothing to do with that project?
[09:02] (Flashback) Senku
    If only we knew which science
    would be useful for what.
[09:06] (Flashback) Senku
    That's like asking why I don't just
    bet on all the winning horses.
[09:10] (Flashback) Senku
    There's so much we don't know.
[09:13] (Flashback) Senku
    Science is...
SIGN    New message received.
[09:19] Xeno
    Science is power.
[09:24] Xeno
    For example, you don't need me
    to tell you that your rocket
[09:28] Xeno
    and a ballistic missile are
    fundamentally one and the same.
[09:32] Xeno
    With science,
[09:34] Xeno
    an intelligent person can guide the foolish
    masses toward truth and rule over them.
[09:40] Xeno
    It's an elegant power indeed, Doctor Senku.
[09:45] (Flashback) Senku
    Yeah, I'm not interested in that crap.
[09:50] (Flashback) Senku
    I'm just stupidly curious about the secrets
    of the world and the universe.
[09:57] (Flashback) Senku
    All of it.
[09:58] (Flashback) Senku
    All of it!
[10:01] (Flashback) Senku
    Ten billion percent all of it!
[10:29] (Flashback) Colleague
    Hey, Xeno...
[10:30] (Flashback) Colleague
    What would you do if you were
    transported back to the Stone Age?
[10:37] (Flashback) Xeno
    I'd be able to make weapons of science from
    scratch and become a dictator, wouldn't I?
[10:43] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Would you even want to become a dictator?
[10:48] (Flashback) Colleague
    What if there are other scientists?
[10:51] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Exactly.
[10:53] (Flashback) Byakuya
    No matter the situation,
    humanity, ten billion percent,
[10:57] (Flashback) Byakuya
    always produces a greedy bastard who
    wants to know everything about the world.
[11:05] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Someone like my son.
[11:10] (Flashback) Xeno
    Then I'd be facing off
    against this man or woman.
[11:15] (Flashback) Xeno
    Who will master science in the
    primitive stone world first?
[11:21] Xeno
    Doing so, you can keep the temperature
    in the chamber under 60 degrees Celsius.
[11:27] Xeno
    In other words, your homemade rocket could be
    packed with biological and chemical weapons.
[11:34] (Flashback) Senku
    I gotta know everything,
    whether I care for it or not.
[11:42] Senku
    So sulfanomides would work
    against pneumococcus, then.
[11:48] (Flashback) Taiju
    Where are you headed, Senku?
[11:49] (Flashback) Senku
    Africa.
[11:50] (Flashback) Taiju
    What?!
[12:04] (Flashback) Byakuya
    My son's coming!
[12:07] (Flashback) Colleague
    You two are real close, huh?
[12:09] Byakuya
    Nah...
[12:10] Byakuya
    He's coming for the awful reason
    that my credit card expired.
[12:14] (Flashback) Byakuya
    We're meeting up outside.
[12:16] (Flashback) Byakuya
    His name's Senku.
[12:19] (Flashback) Xeno
    Senku...
[13:01] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Hey!
[13:03] (Flashback) Byakuya
    Senku!
[13:08] (Flashback) Byakuya
    What is it?
[13:11] (Flashback) Senku
    Nothing.
SIGN    Petrified swallows?!
SIGN    Swallow
    populations
SIGN    Social media posts
SIGN    Europe
    South America
    Japan
[14:01] (Flashback) Xeno
    The geographical correlation
    between social media posts
[14:04] (Flashback) Xeno
    and swallow populations is
    too strong to be coincidence.
[14:07] (Flashback) Xeno
    It's safe to assume these are real
    swallows being turned to stone.
[14:11] (Flashback) Scientist
    That's an interesting approach.
[14:13] (Flashback) Scientist
    An old fogy like me can
    hardly use a smartphone,
[14:15] (Flashback) Scientist
    let alone come up with such an analysis.
[14:17] (Flashback) Scientist
    This kind of science is a young person's game.
[14:20] (Flashback) Xeno
    It wasn't me.
[14:21] (Flashback) Xeno
    It was a high school student
    who posted that analysis data.
[14:27] (Flashback) Xeno
    One from Japan.
SIGN    CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
[14:41] (Flashback) Research Director
    It even has internal organs.
[14:44] (Flashback) Research Director
    No one could make such a sculpture.
[14:46] (Flashback) Researcher A
    There's a notable difference in hydrophobicity
    between the center and the peripheries.
[14:53] (Flashback) Researcher A
    The finer areas repel water more.
[14:55] (Flashback) Research Director
    What about the X-ray fluorescence analysis?
[14:57] (Flashback) Researcher B
    Mostly iron. Traces of gold,
    as well as carbon and nitrogen.
[15:02] (Flashback) Researcher B
    Yet it hardly reacts to any chemicals.
[15:05] (Flashback) Researcher B
    Only a slight ion outflow
    in response to nitric acid.
[15:08] (Flashback) Research Director
    What about UV radiation?
[15:09] (Flashback) Researcher C
    No embrittlement in response to
    short wavelength electromagnetism.
[15:12] (Flashback) Research Director
    Impossible!
[15:14] (Flashback) Researcher D
    It reacts in unrecognizable
    ways to each frequency.
[15:16] (Flashback) Researcher D
    We have no way to determine its structure.
[15:18] (Flashback) Researcher D
    I've never seen such a mineral.
[15:20] (Flashback) Researcher D
    Really, I'm not even sure
    "mineral" is the right word.
[15:25] Government Official
    This is a global-scale—no,
    universe-scale anomaly.
[15:30] Government Official
    Doctor Xeno of NASA, we would
    like your input on this matter.
[15:37] Senku
    Yeah, it does sink in water,
    but it's a bit light to be rock.
[15:42] Senku
    Maybe it's a porous rock, like pumice.
[15:48] Senku
    Worth a shot, then.
SIGN    Hiromatsu High School
[15:52] (Flashback) Senku
    We're making gasoline out
    of plastic bottle caps.
[15:55] (Flashback) Senku
    Normally you use something porous, like zeolite.
[15:58] (Flashback) Senku
    Let's see if this swallow statue's
    wing works just as well.
[16:02] (Flashback) Taiju
    Listen up, Senku!
[16:04] (Flashback) Taiju
    I'm going to confess the feelings I've had
    for Yuzuriha for the past five years!
[16:10] (Flashback) Senku
    Yeah?
[16:12] (Flashback) Senku
    Well, that sure does sound interesting.
[16:16] (Flashback) Senku
    All right, I got some gasoline.
[16:19] (Flashback) Senku
    Throw this on a nuclear magnetic resonance
    machine, and the carbon distribution might
[16:24] (Flashback) Senku
    give me some idea of its properties
    and the depths of the pores and stuff.
[16:29] Senku
    I'm going to investigate everything.
[16:34] Senku
    Try everything.
[16:43] (Flashback) Stanley
    Today's just a DARPA tech demonstration.
[16:49] (Flashback) Stanley
    Isn't it?
[16:51] (Flashback) Stanley
    So why are we, special forces, being invited?
[16:54] (Flashback) Stanley
    It's so fishy, I can feel my asshole puckering.
[17:00] (Flashback) Brody
    It's a gathering of America's
    most talented superheroes.
[17:04] (Flashback) Brody
    What is this all about?
[17:07] (Flashback) Xeno
    This.
[17:08] (Flashback) Xeno
    A terror attack involving an unknown weapon,
    or an attack by a foreign nation...
[17:13] (Flashback) Government Official
    Doctor Xeno!
[17:14] (Flashback) Government Official
    You mustn't show this yet!
[17:16] (Flashback) Government Official
    Especially not outside!
[17:17] (Flashback) Xeno
    It doesn't matter.
[17:19] (Flashback) Xeno
    It's going to be public information after
    tomorrow's expert briefing, anyway.
[17:25] (Flashback) Xeno
    We can try a potentiometric analysis using
    glass wool electrodes doused in nitric acid.
[17:30] Stanley
    Yeah, okay, that's enough, Xeno.
[17:32] (Flashback) Stanley
    What's the conclusion?
[17:40] (Flashback) Maya
    What's this?
[17:42] (Flashback) Xeno
    There's a very slight potential
    difference around the head.
[17:46] (Flashback) Xeno
    Brain waves.
[17:49] (Flashback) Xeno
    It's quite elegant, is it not?
[17:52] (Flashback) Xeno
    This statue is still alive.
[17:54] (Flashback) Xeno
    Though, with time, their brain
    waves vanish one by one.
[17:59] (Flashback) Xeno
    But this swallow, for instance,
    is still awake right now.
[18:03] (Flashback) Stanley
    So if you get hit by this new weapon,
[18:05] (Flashback) Stanley
    you still have a chance if
    you keep yourself awake.
[18:13] (Flashback) Carlos
    Miss!
[18:14] (Flashback) Carlos
    I prepared this.
    I think it would look great on you.
[18:19] (Flashback) Carlos
    Please have this ring!
[18:22] (Flashback) Max
    Screw your flashy shit, Carlos, you womanizer!
[18:27] (Flashback) Carlos
    Miss?
[18:30] (Flashback) Luna
    What is...
[18:33] (Flashback) Luna
    that light?
[18:42] Stanley
    It's coming!
[18:44] (Flashback) Stanley
    Retreat!
[18:44] (Flashback) Stanley
    Get behind cover!
[18:46] (Flashback) Stanley
    We won't escape petrification,
    but the real test comes after!
[18:51] (Flashback) Stanley
    Maintain consciousness, no matter what!
[18:52] (Flashback) Max
    We have to protect Luna
    even if it kills us, Carlos!
[18:56] (Flashback) Carlos
    Of course!
[18:58] Carlos
    Damn it, the ring!
[19:00] Carlos
    This belongs to her, though...
[19:01] Carlos
    so I don't want to let go of it!
[19:04] Carlos
    I'm sorry!
[19:05] Carlos
    I'll wash it later!
[19:25] Soldier A
    Shit...
[19:26] Soldier A
    Captain Stanley's orders!
[19:28] Soldier A
    I have to stay awake!
[19:31] Soldier B
    Damn it...
[19:32] Soldier B
    I can't move at all.
[19:37] Luna
    No way!
[19:39] Luna
    I'm a capable woman!
[19:41] Luna
    I'm supposed to date a capable
    man and form a power couple!
[19:46] Luna
    I don't wanna die single!
[19:50] Luna
    That soldier said to stay awake!
[19:53] Luna
    I'm so, so, so, so staying awake!
[19:55] Luna
    I'm the cool-headed Luna!
    The capable woman, Luna!
[19:57] Luna
    I'm the cool-headed Luna!
    The capable woman, Luna!
[20:00] Luna
    I'm the cool-headed Luna!
    The capable woman, Luna!
[20:02] Luna
    I'm the cool-headed Luna!
    The capable woman, Luna!
[20:02] Carlos
    I'm not leaving her all alone!
[20:04] Luna
    I'm the cool-headed Luna!
    The capable woman, Luna!
[20:09] Stanley
    Sure.
[20:10] Stanley
    I'm used to staying awake
    and still for days on end.
[20:14] Stanley
    I get plenty of practice sniping.
[20:42] Xeno
    Pinnacles National Park, where we were,
    is filled with saltpeter caves.
[20:48] Xeno
    Which means there must be nitric acid.
[20:51] Xeno
    I don't know if that's a
    good thing or a bad thing,
[20:53] Xeno
    but it's better than no denaturation at all.
[21:05] Senku
    One, two, three, four, five, six...
[21:11] Senku
    seven, eight, nine...
[21:14] Senku
    9,157,661,240 seconds.
[21:20] Senku
    As long as I stay conscious,
    I'll have a chance to reawaken.
[21:26] Xeno
    If I do manage to awaken,
[21:28] Xeno
    I'll want Yellow Dent corn for
    both livestock feed and fuel.
[21:36] Xeno
    There's one location on the West Coast Corn
    Belt where the corn will have hybridized...
[21:40] Xeno
    Or better yet, it may have been
    preserved in a dormant state.
[21:47] Xeno
    If there are any scientists around,
    they'll gather there.
[21:55] Senku
    That wouldn't be fate.
[21:58] Senku
    It wouldn't even be coincidence.
[22:00] Senku
    It would be necessary.
[22:02] Xeno
    It would be repeatable.
[22:04] Xeno
    That is the essence...
[22:11] Senku/Xeno
    ...of science.
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