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Allan Reed: Steve, why do you think some... alien civilization out there would care enough about... us... travel light years away from their planet, just to teach us how to build a machine to prolong our lives? Doesn't really make sense, does it?Steve Arlyn: Maybe they're, uh... not like us?Allan Reed: You mean there are certain things Man can not understand... doesn't have the intelligence to comprehend?Steve Arlyn: Of course we don't understand... we're still trying to keep track of which nations hate each other the most. [pause] But it's not like that on certain other planets.Allan Reed: No? What's it like then?Steve Arlyn: [Deep breath] Hard to explain... it's not that Man doesn't have the brain power or the senses to understand... it's a matter of how people have conditioned their minds.Allan Reed: We limit our thinking.Steve Arlyn: And reasoning, and feeling... we limit the use of all parts of the brain. You've heard that a million times, right?Allan Reed: [Nodding] Huh.Steve Arlyn: Picture a place... out there... inhabited by beings who look... pretty much like we do. Their planet's about the same age as Earth... they've evolved at the same rate... with one exception...Allan Reed: Their mental abilities are much greater than ours?Steve Arlyn: You've heard that idea before too!Allan Reed: [laughing] In every science fiction movie I've ever seen.Steve Arlyn: Well, it's for real.Allan Reed: Are you telling me... there actually is another planet like ours, with people who look like us?Steve Arlyn: Not just one, millions of 'em that have been discovered so far. You heard signals from one of them.Allan Reed: Barnard's star!Steve Arlyn: That planet's a lot like Earth, except drier... more deserts... with only a third of its surface covered with water... but it's beautiful really. That's what my dad said.Allan Reed: Your father... was visited by people from Barnard's Star... so they told him how to build a machine to prolong life. [pause] Why?Steve Arlyn: So maybe we could live long enough to use what we'd learned.

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