1 00:00:00,390 --> 00:00:03,391 There is a metaphysical connection 2 00:00:03,391 --> 00:00:06,391 to the most significant technological breakthroughs. 3 00:00:06,391 --> 00:00:10,392 Ramanushan describes how he was asleep, 4 00:00:10,392 --> 00:00:13,393 and he saw these numbers being written in front of him, 5 00:00:13,393 --> 00:00:16,394 and he had no idea what this was all about. 6 00:00:16,394 --> 00:00:22,395 The meeting of Jan van Neumann and Alan Turing changed history. 7 00:00:22,395 --> 00:00:27,397 Maybe Steve Jobs was receiving information beyond the physical realm. 8 00:00:28,397 --> 00:00:33,398 Is it possible that extraterrestrials are somehow guiding certain people 9 00:00:33,398 --> 00:00:37,399 to bring them to their higher levels of knowledge? 10 00:00:37,399 --> 00:00:42,400 It appears that these beings are guiding humanity into a new age 11 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:48,402 of super advanced technology that will ultimately allow us to interface with the cosmos. 12 00:00:48,402 --> 00:00:51,403 Since the dawn of civilization, 13 00:00:51,403 --> 00:00:56,404 mankind has credited its origins to gods and other gods. 14 00:00:57,404 --> 00:01:00,405 They are other visitors from the stars. 15 00:01:00,405 --> 00:01:03,405 What if it were true? 16 00:01:03,405 --> 00:01:08,407 Did extraterrestrial beings really help to shape our history? 17 00:01:08,407 --> 00:01:16,409 And if so, could there be a connection between aliens and our greatest visionaries? 18 00:01:27,411 --> 00:01:38,414 Music 19 00:01:38,414 --> 00:01:45,416 Music 20 00:01:45,416 --> 00:01:50,417 Houston, Texas July 20, 1969 21 00:01:50,417 --> 00:01:54,418 At NASA Mission Control Center 22 00:01:54,418 --> 00:01:59,419 the massive IBM system 360 model 75 computer, 23 00:02:00,019 --> 00:02:02,160 which boasts processing power 24 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,901 of 16.6 million instructions per second 25 00:02:05,901 --> 00:02:08,701 and up to eight megabytes of main memory, 26 00:02:08,701 --> 00:02:11,802 is employed to accomplish the greatest feat 27 00:02:11,802 --> 00:02:15,843 in human history, putting a man on the moon. 28 00:02:15,843 --> 00:02:20,844 People across the world marveled at this technological achievement. 29 00:02:25,846 --> 00:02:29,847 But incredibly, only six decades later, 30 00:02:29,847 --> 00:02:33,848 a handheld device weighing less than half a pound 31 00:02:33,848 --> 00:02:35,848 dwarfs the technology. 32 00:02:35,848 --> 00:02:38,849 The technology is the most powerful 33 00:02:38,849 --> 00:02:40,849 technology in the world. 34 00:02:40,849 --> 00:02:44,850 A handheld device weighing less than half a pound 35 00:02:44,850 --> 00:02:49,852 dwarfs the total technology NASA possessed in 1969. 36 00:02:51,852 --> 00:02:54,853 Today's smartphone contains a staggering 37 00:02:54,853 --> 00:02:57,854 one million times the computing power 38 00:02:57,854 --> 00:03:00,854 used to carry out the moon landing. 39 00:03:00,854 --> 00:03:03,855 What we had when they went to the moon 40 00:03:03,855 --> 00:03:06,856 is like nothing compared to what an average teenager carries around now. 41 00:03:06,856 --> 00:03:08,856 I mean the kind of computing power, 42 00:03:08,856 --> 00:03:11,857 the ability to access information, the ability to reach people, 43 00:03:11,857 --> 00:03:14,858 the astonishing technological achievement. 44 00:03:14,858 --> 00:03:18,859 You can only imagine what's going to happen in 30 years from now. 45 00:03:18,859 --> 00:03:22,860 What we think is so advanced is going to be so not advanced. 46 00:03:24,860 --> 00:03:29,861 How is it that mankind's technology has advanced so rapidly? 47 00:03:30,862 --> 00:03:33,862 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 48 00:03:33,862 --> 00:03:35,863 at specific points in history, 49 00:03:35,863 --> 00:03:39,864 extraterrestrials have influenced certain individuals 50 00:03:39,864 --> 00:03:43,865 to allow humanity to make major leaps forward. 51 00:03:43,865 --> 00:03:48,866 And they propose that this is continued up until modern times. 52 00:03:49,866 --> 00:03:52,867 As evidence, they point to the visionary 53 00:03:52,867 --> 00:03:56,868 who jump-started the microcomputer revolution. 54 00:03:57,868 --> 00:03:59,869 Steve Jobs. 55 00:04:02,869 --> 00:04:04,870 San Francisco, California. 56 00:04:04,870 --> 00:04:07,871 January 9th, 2007. 57 00:04:08,871 --> 00:04:12,872 Apple's annual Macworld Conference and Expo. 58 00:04:12,872 --> 00:04:14,872 Thank you for coming. 59 00:04:14,872 --> 00:04:17,873 At the center of a worldwide media frenzy, 60 00:04:17,873 --> 00:04:21,874 Apple co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, 61 00:04:21,874 --> 00:04:25,875 takes the stage to announce a revolutionary new product, 62 00:04:25,875 --> 00:04:27,876 the iPhone. 63 00:04:27,876 --> 00:04:30,876 What we want to do is make a leapfrog product 64 00:04:30,876 --> 00:04:34,877 that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been 65 00:04:34,877 --> 00:04:36,878 and super easy to use. 66 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:44,880 And we are calling it iPhone. 67 00:04:48,881 --> 00:04:51,881 Steve Jobs was one of the greatest visionaries in Silicon Valley. 68 00:04:51,881 --> 00:04:55,882 The idea of what he was doing is how you popularize computing. 69 00:04:56,883 --> 00:04:59,883 A lot of people who were in early in computing 70 00:04:59,883 --> 00:05:01,884 didn't think about people using them. 71 00:05:01,884 --> 00:05:04,885 And he managed to deliver into the hands of consumers 72 00:05:04,885 --> 00:05:07,885 a device that was usable, it was intuitive, 73 00:05:07,885 --> 00:05:10,886 it was easy to use, it was easy to understand, 74 00:05:10,886 --> 00:05:12,887 and that is not a small thing. 75 00:05:12,887 --> 00:05:15,887 In the simplicity and the beauty of it, 76 00:05:15,887 --> 00:05:19,888 he made something that was just perfect. 77 00:05:20,889 --> 00:05:26,890 Steve Jobs and his team of engineers at Apple 78 00:05:26,890 --> 00:05:30,891 harness technology that connected society digitally 79 00:05:30,891 --> 00:05:35,892 and put all the world's knowledge literally at mankind's fingertips. 80 00:05:40,894 --> 00:05:45,895 But the seeds of this technological revolution were planted in 1973, 81 00:05:46,895 --> 00:05:50,896 when the 19-year-old college student dropped out of school. 82 00:05:52,896 --> 00:05:55,897 Jobs was attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon, 83 00:05:55,897 --> 00:05:59,898 when he, along with one of Apple's first employees, 84 00:05:59,898 --> 00:06:03,899 Daniel Kotke, made a decision that would change 85 00:06:03,899 --> 00:06:05,900 not only the course of their lives, 86 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:09,901 but ultimately the course of humanity. 87 00:06:09,901 --> 00:06:13,902 I met Steve at Reed College the first month, 88 00:06:13,902 --> 00:06:18,903 but our friendship developed because a week or two later, 89 00:06:18,903 --> 00:06:21,904 I must have been walking around with a copy of Be Here Now, 90 00:06:21,904 --> 00:06:24,904 and I was eager to talk about it, 91 00:06:24,904 --> 00:06:27,905 and Steve was familiar with it. 92 00:06:27,905 --> 00:06:32,906 That book quickly led to autobiography of a yogi, 93 00:06:32,906 --> 00:06:36,907 and then led to Ramakrishna and his disciples. 94 00:06:39,908 --> 00:06:42,909 Like many of his generation, 95 00:06:42,909 --> 00:06:46,910 Jobs became caught up in the spiritual Enlightenment movement 96 00:06:46,910 --> 00:06:50,911 that was sweeping through America in the 1970s. 97 00:06:52,911 --> 00:06:54,912 And according to those who knew him best, 98 00:06:54,912 --> 00:06:59,913 he considered it not just a passing interest, but a calling. 99 00:07:00,913 --> 00:07:03,914 Steve got a hold of the book Cosmic Consciousness. 100 00:07:03,914 --> 00:07:06,915 That's probably what pushed him over the edge. 101 00:07:06,915 --> 00:07:10,916 He had chapters about great geniuses through history 102 00:07:10,916 --> 00:07:13,916 and how they were enlightened, and that was his whole thesis. 103 00:07:14,917 --> 00:07:16,917 That's how he ended up in India. 104 00:07:18,918 --> 00:07:21,918 Fueled by his desire to find spiritual Enlightenment, 105 00:07:21,918 --> 00:07:27,920 Steve Jobs traveled to India with Daniel following a few months later. 106 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:33,921 Together, they discovered a Hindu guru known as Hidakon Baba. 107 00:07:34,921 --> 00:07:38,922 He was discovered at about the age of 18 108 00:07:38,922 --> 00:07:41,923 doing yoga in a cave. 109 00:07:42,923 --> 00:07:45,924 But there are legends going back that the same figure 110 00:07:45,924 --> 00:07:48,925 had appeared all the way back into the 1800s. 111 00:07:50,925 --> 00:07:54,926 Hidakon Baba claimed that he had no mother or father. 112 00:07:55,927 --> 00:08:00,928 But who was this character who had no known history before the age of 18 113 00:08:01,928 --> 00:08:05,929 and was said to have manifested out of thin air? 114 00:08:06,929 --> 00:08:09,930 He professed that he was an immortal being 115 00:08:10,930 --> 00:08:14,931 known in Hinduism as Mahavatar Babaji. 116 00:08:17,932 --> 00:08:24,934 Mahavatar means the great avatar, the great incarnated being. 117 00:08:26,934 --> 00:08:31,935 Mahavatar is eternal and he can appear anytime, anywhere 118 00:08:31,935 --> 00:08:34,936 taking forms of another human being. 119 00:08:35,936 --> 00:08:40,938 So he was here to change the humanity in a better path, 120 00:08:40,938 --> 00:08:44,939 in a path of understanding, path of greatness. 121 00:08:45,939 --> 00:08:47,939 Steve Jobs did spend some time with them. 122 00:08:47,939 --> 00:08:51,940 Hidakon Baba actually gave him an initiation 123 00:08:51,940 --> 00:08:53,941 by giving him a spiritual name. 124 00:08:53,941 --> 00:08:56,942 This is a traditional kind of initiation. 125 00:08:57,942 --> 00:09:00,943 So they were formally initiated by this guru. 126 00:09:00,943 --> 00:09:05,944 Babaji had said that he was a celestial being 127 00:09:05,944 --> 00:09:09,945 who would come to Earth to help enlighten our planet 128 00:09:09,945 --> 00:09:11,945 and to advance us forward. 129 00:09:12,946 --> 00:09:15,946 And we have to wonder, is it possible that Steve Jobs 130 00:09:15,946 --> 00:09:17,947 was being influenced telepathically 131 00:09:18,947 --> 00:09:21,948 by an extraterrestrial entity named Babaji? 132 00:09:24,948 --> 00:09:29,950 Hidakon Baba claimed that he had come to guide humanity to a higher path. 133 00:09:30,950 --> 00:09:35,951 And referred to himself as the messenger of the revolution. 134 00:09:36,951 --> 00:09:39,952 Shortly after returning to the United States, 135 00:09:39,952 --> 00:09:43,953 Steve Jobs embarked on a revolution himself, 136 00:09:43,953 --> 00:09:46,954 the development of the microcomputer, 137 00:09:46,954 --> 00:09:49,955 along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. 138 00:09:50,955 --> 00:09:52,955 Steve was not in it for money. 139 00:09:52,955 --> 00:09:56,956 He was in it for the mission of transforming the world. 140 00:09:57,957 --> 00:10:02,958 The Apple II was the first mass market personal computer. 141 00:10:02,958 --> 00:10:05,959 Wozniak, of course, was the all-around genius 142 00:10:05,959 --> 00:10:08,959 who created the whole design and all the software. 143 00:10:08,959 --> 00:10:11,960 But the thing that Steve gets huge credit for 144 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,961 is having enough passion for what he saw the future bringing 145 00:10:16,961 --> 00:10:18,962 that he just did not give up. 146 00:10:18,962 --> 00:10:21,962 And the iPhone, of course, is the computer now 147 00:10:21,962 --> 00:10:23,963 that has taken over all our lives. 148 00:10:23,963 --> 00:10:26,964 Transformed everything, everything. 149 00:10:27,964 --> 00:10:30,965 Steve Jobs continued to practice meditation 150 00:10:30,965 --> 00:10:32,965 throughout the rest of his life, 151 00:10:32,965 --> 00:10:36,966 often finding refuge at Tosahara's Zen Mountain Center 152 00:10:36,966 --> 00:10:40,967 in California's Los Padres National Forest. 153 00:10:42,968 --> 00:10:45,968 It was here, while deep in meditation, 154 00:10:45,968 --> 00:10:49,969 that Jobs' thought he received much of the inspiration 155 00:10:49,969 --> 00:10:51,970 that transformed the modern world. 156 00:10:51,970 --> 00:10:55,971 Meditation does help to connect with the higher source, 157 00:10:55,971 --> 00:10:59,972 higher force, because then one becomes one with the divine. 158 00:10:59,972 --> 00:11:01,972 So they could, you know, in a sense, 159 00:11:01,972 --> 00:11:04,973 download the knowledge, wish them directly from them. 160 00:11:07,974 --> 00:11:11,975 Is it possible that Steve Jobs received guidance 161 00:11:11,975 --> 00:11:13,975 from an other worldly source? 162 00:11:15,976 --> 00:11:18,976 And if so, could it be that he was just one 163 00:11:18,976 --> 00:11:23,978 of a number of key visionaries who were chosen by extraterrestrials 164 00:11:23,978 --> 00:11:26,978 to lead humanity into the future, 165 00:11:26,978 --> 00:11:29,979 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 166 00:11:30,979 --> 00:11:33,980 Perhaps further answers can be found 167 00:11:33,980 --> 00:11:36,981 by examining an Indian mathematician 168 00:11:36,981 --> 00:11:39,982 who was decades ahead of his time. 169 00:11:40,982 --> 00:11:42,982 EMPERY UNIVERSITY 170 00:11:42,982 --> 00:11:45,983 ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER, 2012 171 00:11:48,984 --> 00:11:50,984 After years of work, 172 00:11:50,984 --> 00:11:54,985 mathematician Ken Ono and two of his former students 173 00:11:54,985 --> 00:11:57,986 come up with a groundbreaking mathematical formula 174 00:11:57,986 --> 00:12:00,987 that will allow scientists to study black holes 175 00:12:00,987 --> 00:12:02,987 in an entirely new way. 176 00:12:05,988 --> 00:12:07,988 In critical times, 177 00:12:08,989 --> 00:12:11,989 incredibly, they achieved this feat 178 00:12:11,989 --> 00:12:13,990 by studying a single paragraph 179 00:12:13,990 --> 00:12:16,991 written by an Indian mathematician 180 00:12:16,991 --> 00:12:18,991 over nine decades earlier. 181 00:12:18,991 --> 00:12:21,992 Srinivasa Ramanujan 182 00:12:25,993 --> 00:12:29,994 Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Indian mathematician 183 00:12:29,994 --> 00:12:33,995 who is unlike any other genius in world history. 184 00:12:33,995 --> 00:12:36,996 Ramanujan's work has now formed 185 00:12:36,996 --> 00:12:39,996 the basis for super string theory 186 00:12:39,996 --> 00:12:41,997 and multi-dimensional physics, 187 00:12:41,997 --> 00:12:43,997 some of the most advanced math 188 00:12:43,997 --> 00:12:46,998 that all the high-end scientists are still using today 189 00:12:46,998 --> 00:12:48,999 is called modular functions, 190 00:12:48,999 --> 00:12:51,999 which could lead to time travel, anti-gravity, 191 00:12:51,999 --> 00:12:54,000 limitless free energy, 192 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 all of this futuristic technology. 193 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,001 He was able to take a little that he knew 194 00:13:01,001 --> 00:13:05,002 farther than most mathematicians would be able to take them. 195 00:13:05,002 --> 00:13:09,003 He had the vision to see what was important. 196 00:13:09,003 --> 00:13:13,004 There are just so many beautiful ideas that he had, 197 00:13:13,004 --> 00:13:16,005 some of which are just waiting to be developed. 198 00:13:17,005 --> 00:13:21,006 Ramanujan made breakthroughs in integral calculus, 199 00:13:21,006 --> 00:13:24,007 which can be used to determine the drag force 200 00:13:24,007 --> 00:13:28,008 buffeting a wing as it slides through the air 201 00:13:28,008 --> 00:13:31,009 or the gravitational effects of the Earth 202 00:13:31,009 --> 00:13:33,009 on a man-made satellite. 203 00:13:33,009 --> 00:13:36,010 But perhaps what is most noteworthy 204 00:13:36,010 --> 00:13:40,011 is that Ramanujan insisted these baffling theorems 205 00:13:40,011 --> 00:13:44,012 were not simply the product of his own genius. 206 00:13:44,012 --> 00:13:47,013 He claimed they were communicated to him 207 00:13:47,013 --> 00:13:50,013 by an otherworldly being. 208 00:13:52,014 --> 00:13:56,015 Srinivasa Ramanujan was born in Irodi, India 209 00:13:56,015 --> 00:14:00,016 on December 22, 1887 210 00:14:00,016 --> 00:14:03,017 and was considered a miracle child 211 00:14:03,017 --> 00:14:06,017 because he was the only one of his mother's four children 212 00:14:06,017 --> 00:14:08,018 to survive infancy. 213 00:14:08,018 --> 00:14:12,019 Even as a young boy, he was obsessed with numbers. 214 00:14:12,019 --> 00:14:16,020 From a very early age, just instinctively, 215 00:14:16,020 --> 00:14:18,020 he was thinking about numbers. 216 00:14:18,020 --> 00:14:20,021 He was calculating. 217 00:14:20,021 --> 00:14:22,021 He was fascinated by numbers. 218 00:14:22,021 --> 00:14:25,022 Numbers, he said, had personalities for him. 219 00:14:25,022 --> 00:14:27,023 They had a kind of life for him. 220 00:14:27,023 --> 00:14:31,024 There are a lot of stories about how he was so focused 221 00:14:31,024 --> 00:14:35,025 on mathematics that he would ignore a lot of his other subjects. 222 00:14:35,025 --> 00:14:39,026 Ramanujan grew up in the town of Kumbakonam 223 00:14:39,026 --> 00:14:44,027 in a house within view of the impressive Serangapani temple. 224 00:14:44,027 --> 00:14:48,028 The mathematical prodigy spent much of his childhood 225 00:14:48,028 --> 00:14:52,029 at the temple, among thousands of carvings of Hindu gods. 226 00:14:52,029 --> 00:14:56,030 According to Ramanujan's childhood friend, 227 00:14:56,030 --> 00:15:01,031 he would often go to the temple and work on mathematics. 228 00:15:01,031 --> 00:15:04,032 Friend had a memory of coming into the temple 229 00:15:04,032 --> 00:15:10,033 and finding Ramanujan with all these inexplicable figures surrounding him. 230 00:15:10,033 --> 00:15:14,034 The figures that surrounded Ramanujan were, in fact, 231 00:15:14,034 --> 00:15:17,035 complex mathematical equations 232 00:15:17,035 --> 00:15:22,036 that he had written in chalk on the stone slabs of the temple floor. 233 00:15:22,036 --> 00:15:27,037 He would often say that they were communicated to him in his dreams 234 00:15:27,037 --> 00:15:31,038 by the Hindu goddess, Namagiri Thayer. 235 00:15:31,038 --> 00:15:35,039 He always insisted, and he was very adamant about this, 236 00:15:35,039 --> 00:15:39,040 that the mathematical discoveries he made came to him in dreams and visions 237 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:43,041 provided by the goddess, Namagiri. 238 00:15:43,041 --> 00:15:47,042 In these visions, he would see these fantastic, beautiful, 239 00:15:47,042 --> 00:15:52,043 mathematical formulae unscrolling before him. 240 00:15:55,044 --> 00:15:58,045 Numerous times throughout Ramanujan's youth, 241 00:15:58,045 --> 00:16:01,046 he would abruptly vanish for days at a time, 242 00:16:01,046 --> 00:16:05,047 then return home without explanation. 243 00:16:05,047 --> 00:16:08,047 His neighbors considered him to be psychic, 244 00:16:08,047 --> 00:16:14,049 and he suggested that numbers connect us to higher powers in the universe. 245 00:16:14,049 --> 00:16:21,051 Could it be that Ramanujan really was receiving information from another worldly being? 246 00:16:21,051 --> 00:16:24,051 Ever since he was a little child, 247 00:16:24,051 --> 00:16:29,052 he was having these visions of the Hindu goddess, Namagiri, 248 00:16:29,052 --> 00:16:33,053 and on his own, in poverty in India, 249 00:16:33,053 --> 00:16:38,055 he re-derives over a hundred years worth of western mathematics. 250 00:16:38,055 --> 00:16:43,056 But then the goddess, Namagiri, is giving him all this other information 251 00:16:43,056 --> 00:16:48,057 that goes way beyond where western mathematics had gone. 252 00:16:48,057 --> 00:16:54,059 For someone like Ramanujan, who grows up in a devout Hindu family in southern India, 253 00:16:54,059 --> 00:17:00,060 everything that he experiences has to do with Hindu gods and goddesses. 254 00:17:00,060 --> 00:17:05,061 But is it possible that it was really some kind of extraterrestrial 255 00:17:05,061 --> 00:17:10,063 who was helping him develop these mathematical theorems? 256 00:17:10,063 --> 00:17:14,064 There is abundant evidence of extraterrestrial intervention 257 00:17:14,064 --> 00:17:20,065 that is involved in many of the most significant technological breakthroughs 258 00:17:20,065 --> 00:17:23,066 that we see in our world. 259 00:17:23,066 --> 00:17:28,067 And these could come through the form of dreams or actual contacts 260 00:17:28,067 --> 00:17:32,068 with some sort of intelligent beings. 261 00:17:32,068 --> 00:17:38,069 Could Srinivasa Ramanujan, who practiced meditation and studied Hinduism, 262 00:17:38,069 --> 00:17:44,071 much like Steve Jobs, have received guidance from other worldly beings 263 00:17:44,071 --> 00:17:50,072 that have been directing the course of humanity for thousands of years? 264 00:17:50,072 --> 00:17:55,074 Is this why he was able to devise theorems so complex 265 00:17:55,074 --> 00:18:03,076 that the world's greatest mathematicians are still struggling to understand them 100 years later? 266 00:18:03,076 --> 00:18:10,077 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further evidence can be found 267 00:18:10,077 --> 00:18:16,079 by examining the man who helped bring about the end of World War II. 268 00:18:16,079 --> 00:18:19,079 Alan Turing 269 00:18:33,083 --> 00:18:39,084 By the age of six, his teachers identify him as a genius. 270 00:18:39,084 --> 00:18:45,086 By sixteen, he is studying the most advanced work of Albert Einstein 271 00:18:45,086 --> 00:18:50,087 and much like the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, 272 00:18:50,087 --> 00:18:57,089 he has a single-minded focus and thinks differently from his peers. 273 00:18:57,089 --> 00:19:04,091 Alan Turing was, in my opinion, the other great mathematical genius of the 20th century, 274 00:19:04,091 --> 00:19:10,092 but of a completely different stripe than Srinivasa Ramanujan. 275 00:19:10,092 --> 00:19:16,093 His vision was born out of an extraordinary literal-mindedness. 276 00:19:16,093 --> 00:19:22,095 By taking things literally, he was able to go places that people who were less literal-minded 277 00:19:22,095 --> 00:19:26,096 would never be able to go. 278 00:19:26,096 --> 00:19:32,097 In fact, Alan Turing was so literal-minded that there has even been speculation 279 00:19:32,097 --> 00:19:35,098 he had Asperger's syndrome. 280 00:19:35,098 --> 00:19:44,100 But some ancient astronaut theorists propose his unique intellect may reveal an otherworldly influence, 281 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:50,102 one that intervened during mankind's deadliest conflict. 282 00:19:50,102 --> 00:19:55,103 Milton Keynes 283 00:19:55,103 --> 00:20:03,105 Buckinghamshire, England, March 18, 1940 284 00:20:03,105 --> 00:20:13,107 Six months into the Second World War, British military intelligence sets up a top-secret base in Bletchley Park, 285 00:20:13,107 --> 00:20:18,109 50 miles northwest of London. 286 00:20:18,109 --> 00:20:26,111 Known as Station X, it is home to a hand-picked team of mathematicians, led by Alan Turing, 287 00:20:26,111 --> 00:20:37,113 that worked tirelessly to crack the infamous Nazi encoding device called the Enigma Machine. 288 00:20:37,113 --> 00:20:46,116 The Enigma Machine was an encryption machine that worked very simply, at least for the person operating it. 289 00:20:46,116 --> 00:20:52,117 You would have a message to convey, and you would type the first letter. 290 00:20:52,117 --> 00:20:57,118 Its gears would turn. 291 00:20:57,118 --> 00:21:08,121 And then a light would illuminate with another letter, and that letter you would write down. 292 00:21:08,121 --> 00:21:18,123 The machine was putting the letter through a huge range of substitutions. 293 00:21:18,123 --> 00:21:26,125 In 1940, Turing accomplished what nearly every expert at the time had deemed impossible. 294 00:21:26,125 --> 00:21:34,127 He solved the Enigma Code. 295 00:21:34,127 --> 00:21:41,129 At Bletchley Park, Turing conceived of a way of reverse engineering an Enigma to run it backwards. 296 00:21:41,129 --> 00:21:45,130 It wasn't easy, but they built this very complicated machine called the Bomb. 297 00:21:45,130 --> 00:21:52,132 If you could separate out the hardware from the sequences of operations, what we now call software, 298 00:21:52,132 --> 00:22:00,134 you could create a machine that could decode messages, but it could also do other things, including mathematics. 299 00:22:00,134 --> 00:22:08,136 And I think that he realized that this machine could be made into something that was quite a bit more capable. 300 00:22:08,136 --> 00:22:19,138 In the process of creating this machine, Turing also developed a technology far more significant than anyone at the time could have imagined. 301 00:22:19,138 --> 00:22:24,140 The world's first computer. 302 00:22:24,140 --> 00:22:29,141 It's particularly interesting how some of these visionaries think differently. 303 00:22:29,141 --> 00:22:35,142 So you have to wonder if these people are tapping into some kind of universal mind, 304 00:22:35,142 --> 00:22:49,146 and even that somehow telepathically extraterrestrials are giving them information so that they can see these universal truths. 305 00:22:49,146 --> 00:23:02,149 Curiously, in one of his papers, Turing wrote that telekinesis and extrasensory perception should be taken seriously and question the existence of free will. 306 00:23:02,149 --> 00:23:16,152 Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that he wrote this because he himself was somehow in contact with extraterrestrial intelligence? 307 00:23:16,152 --> 00:23:28,155 Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a meeting Turing had before the war with another mathematical genius, John von Neumann. 308 00:23:28,155 --> 00:23:37,157 John von Neumann was a Hungarian mathematician who emigrated to the United States and took a position at Princeton University. 309 00:23:37,157 --> 00:23:43,159 He had an incredible talent for mathematics and physics in all kinds of fields. 310 00:23:43,159 --> 00:23:51,161 Like Turing, von Neumann contributed to ending World War II through the development of technology. 311 00:23:51,161 --> 00:24:01,163 He came up with a way to use machine calculation to determine how to compress plutonium for the atomic bomb. 312 00:24:01,163 --> 00:24:12,166 This technology was essential to the success of the project, and it might never have been realized had von Neumann not crossed paths with Alan Turing. 313 00:24:13,166 --> 00:24:18,168 We know that Alan Turing met John von Neumann at Princeton. 314 00:24:18,168 --> 00:24:25,169 Von Neumann was familiar with Turing's theoretical papers. What we don't know is the substance of their conversations. 315 00:24:25,169 --> 00:24:32,171 A lot of that was very highly classified. Very, very little information ever leaked out. 316 00:24:32,171 --> 00:24:43,174 It has been argued by some historians of computing that John von Neumann absorbed the fundamental idea of the universal machine from Alan Turing. 317 00:24:43,174 --> 00:24:58,177 According to historians, Turing and von Neumann were largely responsible for inventing the first computers and accelerated the advancement of technology exponentially. 318 00:24:59,178 --> 00:25:09,180 But is it possible the meeting of these two geniuses was more than mere chance? 319 00:25:09,180 --> 00:25:19,183 It could very well be that extraterrestrial intelligence was involved in making sure that von Neumann and Turing met each other in 1935 320 00:25:19,183 --> 00:25:26,184 and steered their development to ensure that the computer would be brought out on schedule at the right time. 321 00:25:26,184 --> 00:25:30,185 Which is exactly what we see. 322 00:25:30,185 --> 00:25:40,188 Is it possible that extraterrestrials brought together Turing and von Neumann to accelerate the development of computer technology? 323 00:25:40,188 --> 00:25:52,191 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that at the same time aliens were helping mankind to develop another important technology. 324 00:25:52,191 --> 00:25:57,192 A rocket that would reach the stars. 325 00:26:01,193 --> 00:26:06,194 Kaluga, Russia December 1903. 326 00:26:06,194 --> 00:26:17,197 Russian scientist Konstantin Solkovsky publishes the article Exploration of Outer Space by means of rocket devices. 327 00:26:18,197 --> 00:26:27,199 Most scientists of the time consider the topic of space exploration highly speculative and even far-fetched, 328 00:26:27,199 --> 00:26:34,201 considering the Wright brothers had just achieved the first powered flight that same month. 329 00:26:35,201 --> 00:26:46,204 But many of the major points contained in Solkovsky's article, such as the proposal that the speed required for orbit around the Earth is five miles per second 330 00:26:46,204 --> 00:26:56,206 and that this could be achieved by means of a multi-stage rocket, would be proven to be incredibly accurate. 331 00:26:56,206 --> 00:27:04,208 He's a fascinating character and the father of Soviet rocketry who actually designed the rockets that put the first man into space, 332 00:27:04,208 --> 00:27:12,210 the first dog into space that launched Sputnik, the first satellite into space in 1957. 333 00:27:12,210 --> 00:27:22,213 Solkovsky's main source of inspiration was his friend and mentor Nikolai Fyodorov, a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher. 334 00:27:25,213 --> 00:27:33,215 Fyodorov was one of the founders of Cosmism, which was a precursor to ancient astronaut theory. 335 00:27:34,216 --> 00:27:46,219 The Cosmists began with Nikolai Fyodorov in the 1870s and 1880s and they believe that human civilization actually had origins in outer space 336 00:27:46,219 --> 00:27:54,221 and that it was our destiny as human beings to move back into space and we would go back to our origins from whence we came. 337 00:27:55,221 --> 00:28:07,224 Like Fyodorov, Solkovsky came to be a Cosmist himself and he not only inspired Soviet rocket scientists, 338 00:28:07,224 --> 00:28:15,226 but also the genius responsible for putting the first man on the moon, Werner von Braun. 339 00:28:16,226 --> 00:28:21,227 Germany, May 1945. 340 00:28:21,227 --> 00:28:31,230 After six years of the deadliest warfare the world has ever seen, the Nazis surrendered to the Allied powers. 341 00:28:31,230 --> 00:28:38,231 Germany's top rocket scientist, Werner von Braun, predicted the defeat months earlier 342 00:28:39,232 --> 00:28:48,234 and by deceiving his superiors has managed to move his team of scientists south into Austria to surrender to the American forces. 343 00:28:51,235 --> 00:28:57,236 Acquiring von Braun was considered a major coup by the United States. 344 00:28:57,236 --> 00:29:07,238 His work in rocketry was so important that the Soviets scoured his former headquarters at Penamunde Army Research Center 345 00:29:07,238 --> 00:29:12,240 in search of any information he may have left behind. 346 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:23,242 What they discovered were the writings of Konstantin Solkovsky and found that almost every page was embellished by von Braun's comments and notes. 347 00:29:23,242 --> 00:29:28,244 Werner von Braun was heavily influenced by Solkovsky. 348 00:29:28,244 --> 00:29:33,245 Solkovsky himself had this concept of human beings being birthed in the stars 349 00:29:34,245 --> 00:29:42,247 And if you really think about it, could it be that these scientists coming out of Russia had some kind of advanced knowledge? 350 00:29:42,247 --> 00:29:49,249 Could they have been communicating with some form of advanced extraterrestrial intelligence that was influencing the space race 351 00:29:49,249 --> 00:29:53,250 and influencing this push to get humanity to go back to the stars? 352 00:29:54,250 --> 00:30:02,252 As a young boy, Werner von Braun was fascinated with the science fiction of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells 353 00:30:02,252 --> 00:30:08,253 and was convinced that he could make their visions of space travel a reality 354 00:30:08,253 --> 00:30:16,255 even going so far as to tell his mother that he would build a machine that would take man to the moon. 355 00:30:17,256 --> 00:30:26,258 But when von Braun actually achieved this in 1969, it was such an extraordinary technological leap 356 00:30:26,258 --> 00:30:34,260 that some people believed, like Solkovsky, he too was guided by extraterrestrial beings. 357 00:30:37,261 --> 00:30:43,262 Werner von Braun was utterly captivated by the idea that we belong in the stars. 358 00:30:43,262 --> 00:30:51,264 It's as if the earth is a seed and if that seed never germinates, then it could just die. 359 00:30:53,264 --> 00:31:02,267 We need to go out into space and that vision of a new tomorrow is what fueled him to want to succeed even further. 360 00:31:02,267 --> 00:31:10,269 That leads me to suggest the possibility that some sort of extraterrestrial contact might have happened with Werner von Braun. 361 00:31:10,269 --> 00:31:17,270 Something or someone might have reached him and saw where we needed to go as a civilization 362 00:31:17,270 --> 00:31:24,272 and gave him the tools and the insights that he needed to be able to build our way out into space. 363 00:31:26,273 --> 00:31:34,275 Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that Konstantin Solkovsky and Werner von Braun 364 00:31:34,275 --> 00:31:38,275 were aided by extraterrestrial beings? 365 00:31:38,275 --> 00:31:41,276 And if so, why? 366 00:31:41,276 --> 00:31:50,278 Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the predictions not of science, but of science fiction. 367 00:32:05,282 --> 00:32:15,285 In 1965, the CBS network announced the debut of what would become television's first primetime science fiction series. 368 00:32:15,285 --> 00:32:19,286 Wouldn't dad like to use this gadget to beat that throughway traffic? 369 00:32:19,286 --> 00:32:31,289 Set in the far future of 1997, Lost in Space told the story of a family of space colonists who become marooned on an alien world. 370 00:32:31,289 --> 00:32:42,291 It underscored America's growing acceptance that mankind's future was not here on Earth, but out in the vast reaches of the galaxy. 371 00:32:42,291 --> 00:32:52,294 This trend continued when the following year NBC premiered Star Trek, the epic saga of a futuristic starship 372 00:32:52,294 --> 00:33:05,297 whose crew is charged with exploring the galaxy, seeking out new life and new civilizations, and going where no man or woman had ever gone before. 373 00:33:05,297 --> 00:33:15,299 Interestingly, both programs would appear in America's living rooms years before mankind would even step foot on the moon. 374 00:33:15,299 --> 00:33:25,302 It is amazing that today we are living in times where only 40, 50 years ago people were fantasizing about the future. 375 00:33:25,302 --> 00:33:36,304 And here we are experiencing that said future, not all of it, but many things. Where do we stand 50 years from now? 376 00:33:36,304 --> 00:33:41,306 I think science fiction is a part of disclosure. 377 00:33:41,306 --> 00:33:46,307 Over time, science fiction has become science fact. 378 00:33:46,307 --> 00:33:49,308 Ignition sequence star. 379 00:33:49,308 --> 00:33:59,310 Of course, science fiction's role in pre-envisioning what would ultimately become the world's science fact was nothing new. 380 00:33:59,310 --> 00:34:15,314 Space stations, intelligent robots, extraordinary communication devices, even Star Wars type space weapons were all pre-envisioned in the creative minds of authors like Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, 381 00:34:15,314 --> 00:34:20,315 Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury. 382 00:34:20,315 --> 00:34:27,317 And their works later formed the basis for countless films and television series. 383 00:34:28,317 --> 00:34:37,319 Great innovation has come from science fiction literature. Arthur C. Clarke imagined the satellite before the engineers. 384 00:34:37,319 --> 00:34:49,322 They were reading science fiction when they came up with the idea to do that. This has happened repeatedly where a creative artist will come up with a new idea just to tell a story, but it's coming from the unconscious. 385 00:34:49,322 --> 00:34:56,324 I mean, look at Jules Verne. Go back and read Jules Verne. It's really interesting. Like a lot of the stuff we made, like he just thought it up. 386 00:34:56,324 --> 00:35:11,328 And these ideas sprung out of a man's mind and it has become reality. And I think that they've turned to reality because of young kids reading these stories and eventually growing up and realizing, 387 00:35:11,328 --> 00:35:30,332 wait a second, we have all these technological capabilities. What if I can bring it to the next level with a new invention? So science fiction can serve as a direct path to science that has been inspired by fantasy. 388 00:35:31,333 --> 00:35:46,336 But are many of today's scientific wonders merely the product of fertile minds and wild imaginations? Or do they have their origins elsewhere, possibly light years away? 389 00:35:47,337 --> 00:36:02,340 There's an interesting theory, the idea that certain profound science fiction writers may not have just simply come up with the ideas for their stories on their own, albeit they may have thought they came up with the ideas on their own. 390 00:36:02,340 --> 00:36:14,343 Perhaps there was an outside force presenting it to them. Have science fiction authors and writers been inspired by extraterrestrials? 391 00:36:17,344 --> 00:36:41,350 Could extraterrestrials have given humanity glimpses of its own future through science fiction? And if the creative minds of the past have been able to pre-envision the incredible technologies of the present day, then should we also regard the science fiction of today as a guide to where mankind is headed next? 392 00:36:42,350 --> 00:36:57,354 Where do we stand 50 years from now? And if we're talking about science fiction today, one recurring theme is what happens if we gain the ability to upload our consciousness to some type of a computer? 393 00:36:58,354 --> 00:37:02,355 Is it possible that our future may lie in a digital realm? 394 00:37:02,355 --> 00:37:16,358 I would not want my thoughts to be uploaded to a computer, because then we really become glass. This planet will cease to exist within two seconds if we all know each other's thoughts. 395 00:37:17,359 --> 00:37:28,361 So there's a fine line we have to walk between what can and will ensure our future and what can and will be our assured annihilation. 396 00:37:28,361 --> 00:37:46,366 According to many ancient astronaut theorists, the visions of a bleak future as depicted in today's science fiction could, if realized, prove as perilous as they once seemed profound. 397 00:37:47,366 --> 00:37:57,368 But they also suggest that the messages that mankind's visionaries receive may not be dire predictions as much as they are warnings. 398 00:37:57,368 --> 00:38:04,370 Warnings intended to help mankind avoid annihilation. 399 00:38:05,370 --> 00:38:20,374 Today, the theorems of Srinivasa Ramanujan are being applied in branches of physics that may allow us to unlock the greatest mysteries of the cosmos. 400 00:38:20,374 --> 00:38:31,377 The computer models, established by Alan Turing and John Von Neumann, have advanced human technology by leaps and bounds. 401 00:38:32,377 --> 00:38:42,380 The advances in rocketry, made by Konstantin Solkovsky and Werner von Braun, have allowed for greater exploration of space. 402 00:38:44,380 --> 00:38:53,382 And Steve Jobs' contributions to the microcomputer revolution have put all of the world's collective knowledge at our fingertips. 403 00:38:54,382 --> 00:39:09,386 But has the work of these visionaries and others really been directed by an extraterrestrial intelligence? And if so, to what end? 404 00:39:10,386 --> 00:39:22,389 We have been the experiment of, I believe, extraterrestrials. I think they have nurtured us to see how we develop. 405 00:39:22,389 --> 00:39:31,392 And they're probably saying, gosh, look at these humans. Look how fast they can advance. And we're getting better and better and better with technology. 406 00:39:31,392 --> 00:39:41,394 But Elon Musk from Tesla and physicist Stephen Hawking all warn us, be careful of artificial intelligence. It could go too far. 407 00:39:41,394 --> 00:39:42,394 I agree with them. 408 00:39:42,394 --> 00:39:44,395 We need to be careful. 409 00:39:45,395 --> 00:40:00,399 Something too that comes out of a lot of the UFO literature of the 50s and 60s, that extraterrestrials were allegedly contacting certain people and warning them of the dangers of nuclear power. 410 00:40:00,399 --> 00:40:11,401 And that what we were doing with our atomic weapons was very destructive and that we could destroy our own planet with this technology. 411 00:40:12,402 --> 00:40:15,402 And that the extraterrestrials themselves were very concerned about this. 412 00:40:18,403 --> 00:40:25,405 And so in many ways we must be very careful of how we use our own technology. 413 00:40:26,405 --> 00:40:36,407 There's a reason why we are where we are today. We have made these advances in technology for one and one reason only. 414 00:40:36,407 --> 00:40:44,409 To return to the stars because that's where we came from. 415 00:40:48,410 --> 00:40:52,411 Another question is, are we going to fulfill our destiny or not? 416 00:40:54,412 --> 00:41:04,414 Is it possible that humanity's greatest visionaries have been unknowingly carrying out some sort of extraterrestrial master plan? 417 00:41:04,414 --> 00:41:09,416 One intended to prepare mankind for the ultimate close encounter. 418 00:41:10,416 --> 00:41:16,417 And if so, does this mean that our future has been somehow predetermined? 419 00:41:17,418 --> 00:41:23,419 Or are we simply being given the tools with which to shape our own destiny? 420 00:41:24,419 --> 00:41:29,420 Perhaps the answer can be found in the pages of a science fiction book. 421 00:41:30,421 --> 00:41:34,422 In the palm of our hand, within a simple cell phone. 422 00:41:35,422 --> 00:41:38,423 Or in the latest robotic technology. 423 00:41:39,423 --> 00:41:45,424 Perhaps it is carved on the stone walls of an as yet undiscovered tomb. 424 00:41:46,425 --> 00:41:51,426 Or even as we sit, right before our eyes.