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Ryland Grace: They seem to be dimming the sun a tiny, teeny-weeny, little bit.
Olivia: So, no big whoop.
Ryland Grace: It’s a small whoop. It’s a small-to-medium whoop. Over the next thirty years, the Earth could cool maybe ten to fifteen degrees.
Olivia: So it is a big whoop.
Eva Stratt: Do you stand by what you wrote?
Ryland Grace: I was fired for standing by what I wrote.
Eva Stratt: You were fired for calling the leading scholar in your field “a staggering waste of carbon” at the UNESCO conference in Denmark.
Ryland Grace: 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.
Eva Stratt: The consensus here is that it would be preferable if you did not die.
Ryland Grace: [sarcastically] Thanks, guys.
Ryland Grace: It took like two hundred years to figure out how bacteria works, so.
Eva Stratt: Please do it faster.
Eva Stratt: I need people who think they’re right when everyone else thinks they’re wrong. I need people who pi** other people off.
Ryland Grace: That’s me!
Hardware Store Cashier: Do you have a coupon?
Carl: We don’t need a coupon. We’re the government.
Hardware Store Cashier: Which government?
Carl: All of them.
Ryland Grace: Carl and I made a baby.
Ryland Grace: Carl and I made a mini Venus out of a plywood box, and as soon as the samples recognized the spectral signature of CO2, they were. They were like, “Whoomp! There it is!”
Ryland Grace: So you want to build a near-light speed spaceship, have it travel further than any human-made object has ever traveled, and visit a star just to “see what’s up”?
Eva Stratt: The alternative is to just do nothing and to starve and to kill each other and watch everything on this planet go extinct, including us.
Ryland Grace: Up is down! Left is right! Xenon’s a solid! Aliens are real! I’m wrong about everything and everything’s wrong. Lefty tighty, righty loosey.
Ryland Grace: Faces are overrated.
Ryland Grace: If we’re going save our planets, we have to learn how to communicate. You know, they say math is the universal language. I thought maybe we find out if that’s true?
Ryland Grace: I’m Grace. I’m going to call you Rocky. You know, because you look like a giant rock. Oh!
Ryland Grace: I showed you a clock and you’re showing me a clock. We’re clock bros.
Ryland Grace: My atmosphere would kill him and his, me. But I like to keep a wall up in my relationships anyways.
Ryland Grace: [referring to Rocky] If I can’t understand what he’s saying, which is most of the time, he puts on a little puppet show for me and my tiny brain. And you know what? I don’t mind it. He’s kind of growing on me. At least he’s not growing in me, you know? Which was a concern for a little while.
Ryland Grace: Called a fist bump, by the way.
Ryland Grace: [reading from computer] What’s that? “Fist my bump”? No. It’s fist bump.
Rocky: [on computer] Is same.
Ryland Grace: It’s not the same.
Rocky: [on computer] Grace Rocky save stars.
Rocky: Why is a schoolteacher in space?
Ryland Grace: I’m going to go to sleep.
Rocky: No understand word. Sleep?
Ryland Grace: [as he lies down] Just, you go like this.
Rocky: Died? Is died? Died?
Ryland Grace: No-No-No-No-No. No. Not died. Just lay here for 29,000 seconds and then, we wake up!
Rocky: Oh. Understand.
Ryland Grace: Commander Yao, I really appreciate what you all are doing.
Yao: You would do the same.
Ryland Grace: I would choose just not to go at all. I don’t have the bravery gene that you all have. Trust me.
Ryland Grace: It’s not a gene. You just need to find someone to be brave for.
Rocky: Grace and Rocky big science.
Rocky: Amaze. Amaze. Amaze.
Rocky: Why room so messy, question?
Ryland Grace: Well, I wasn’t expecting company, was I?
Rocky: Is this room for garbage? Oh.
Ryland Grace: Rocky, my hand is up. We can’t just show up in a space ball unannounced and move into someone else’s spaceship. Right? There has to be boundaries.
Ryland Grace: He tells me what to do, he tells me why to do it, he tells me how to do it, he tells me when to do it. And then when I do it, he’s like, “What are you doing?”
Ryland Grace: I’m just saying you’re going to get out of the ball to get into a much bigger ball?
Rocky: Yes. For sleeping.
Rocky: [to Grace] Grumpy. Angry. Stupid. How long since last sleep, question?
Ryland Grace: I’m like one of the villains in the Superman movie. I’m just like trapped in hell. Get me out of here!
Ryland Grace: His eating habits are exotic.
Rocky: Grace look disgust when eat.
Ryland Grace: How do you look when you eat?
Rocky: Is look beautiful.
Ryland Grace: Show me.
Ryland Grace: [as Rocky demonstrates] Oh, my God.
Ryland Grace: He has incredible hearing. He can see through walls. Personal space is at a premium.
Rocky: Who is Grace talking to, question?
Ryland Grace: [whispering] There’s no way you can hear me right now.
Rocky: Can hear.
Ryland Grace: I guess together we’re, you know, pretty smart.
Ryland Grace: He’s so excited about us both getting to go home. There’s no harm in pretending for a little while.
Ryland Grace: What do you miss most about home?
Rocky: Hmm, my mate.
Ryland Grace: Wait, what? You got a mate?
Rocky: Grace have mate, question?
Ryland Grace: No. I mean, I did. But she thought I had my head in the clouds and I didn’t really want to live in the real world. She was right. Anyway, now she’s with Mark.
Rocky: Rocky hate Mark.
Ryland Grace: You have a mate. How long you been together?
Rocky: 186.3 years.
Ryland Grace: It’s like the honeymoon phase.
Rocky: No understand.
Ryland Grace: That’s a joke, Rock. That’s a long time. You’ve been together a long time.
Rocky: Is not enough.
Ryland Grace: I always wanted to be mysterious. Talk too much. That’s my problem. Like right now.
Ryland Grace: You believe in God?
Eva Stratt: It beats the alternative.
Rocky: What is Grace doing, question?
Ryland Grace: [softly] I’m having a moment.
Ryland Grace: You know, back on Earth, if you discover something, you get to name it. You were technically the first one here, so.
Rocky: Yes, name is Medium-Rough Texture Circle Planet.
Rocky: Hello, Earth! Plan is like fishing. We get very close to Adrian atmosphere and lower collector into clouds with chain. Then Grace go on hull to reel it in. If ship not at precise angle and speed, we die! Example! We must fly backwards to keep proper velocity, even though Grace still have no pilot experience.
Ryland Grace: But I’ve been practicing, haven’t I?
Rocky: So Grace die, question?
Ryland Grace: Yeah, once we’re done, I’m. I’m going to die.
Rocky: Why didn’t you tell me?
Ryland Grace: It slipped my mind.
Ryland Grace: I got to meet you. I got to do all this amazing stuff. I’m good. I’ve made peace with it.
Rocky: What mean? What mean “make peace”?
Ryland Grace: It means, I know I’m not going home I know why, and it’s okay.
Rocky: Need word.
Ryland Grace: What word do you need?
Rocky: To risk self to help another.
Ryland Grace: Uh, dumb.
Rocky: Rocky watch crew die. Could not fix. Grace say Grace will die. Rocky fix. Grace go home.
Rocky: I thought you made peace, question?
Ryland Grace: I didn’t mean any of that. That’s just something you say.
Rocky: How do you know when the hug is done?
Ryland Grace: You just feel it.
Rocky: Oh. Are you feeling it now?
Ryland Grace: Nope.
Rocky: Words of encouragement.
Ryland Grace: You can’t just say “words of encouragement”.
Rocky: Words of great encouragement.
Rocky: We leave now, question?
Ryland Grace: We leave now, statement.
Ryland Grace: We need to get into orbit or we’ll crash!
Rocky: I have an idea. First, no crash. Then, not explode. Deal?
Ryland Grace: Deal!
Ryland Grace: I’m not an astronaut! I put the “not” in astronaut. I’ve never done anything. I’ve never done a space walk. I can’t even moonwalk! I haven’t done the whole pool thing.
Olesya Ilyukhina: No, no, no. This is just we do for the picture, for social media.
Ryland Grace: I’m not heroic in any way. I get sick on an elevator.
Yao: Oh, perfect. There’s no elevator on the ship.
Eva Stratt: You’re smart. You’ll figure it out.
Ryland Grace: This might be very hard for you to understand, but some people are failures. Some people don’t rise to the challenge.
Ryland Grace: We have our predator. Right now I’m calling it “Taumoeba”. And I’m sure that when you wake up, you’ll have a lot to say about why that’s a bad name because it’s just an amoeba from Tau Ceti, and we’re putting “Tau” in front of “amoeba”. But I would argue there’s an elegance to that. A simplicity.
Ryland Grace: Now we’re just a couple of very cool dudes with their very own strain of nitrogen-resistant Taumoeba.
Rocky: We can go home, statement.
Ryland Grace: We can go home.
Rocky: Fist my bump.
Ryland Grace: Nope.
Rocky: [referring to the laptop] My portable Earth thinking-machine!
Ryland Grace: With all human knowledge.
Rocky: Thank. Thank. Thank.
Ryland Grace: It’s Earth. So you can remember me.
Rocky: Rocky can’t forget. I didn’t get you anything.
Ryland Grace: You gave me everything.
Ryland Grace: You’ll find a solution.
Eva Stratt: You are my solution.
Eva Stratt: This may seem like me betraying you, but it’s actually me believing in you.
Ryland Grace: Sure feels like you’re betraying me.
Rocky: You are bravest human I have ever met.
Ryland Grace: Hey.
Rocky: Is joke.
Ryland Grace: I know.
Rocky: I only meet one human, and is you!
Ryland Grace: I get it. It’s a good joke.
Rocky: Good joke.
Rocky: He’s looking at a long slow painful death alone. I can’t do both. I can go home or I can save Rocky.
Rocky: Hello, Earth. I am Rocky. I am Rocky from Erid. I am not Rocky from movie. No, no, no, no.
Ryland Grace: I’m pretty sure they know that.
Ryland Grace: Hopefully it all makes sense. And if not. You’re smart. You’ll figure it out. This is Dr. Captain Ryland Grace reporting from the Hail Mary.