We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

Fearing the great cataclysm that will surely befall our civilization, we began this monumental

reference of strange and obscure human knowledge.

These recordings represent our attempt to compile and preserve wonders and esoterica that would otherwise be lost.

So whether you're listening from an advanced civilization or have just reinvented the technology to decrypt our transmissions,

this is our legacy to you.

This is our time capsule.

This is the omnibus. Oh, You have accessed entry 734.

P.S. 9010.

Certificate number 4814. Longitudinal Film

I'm going to work in Walworth.

When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut.

And I get married and I like to have two children.

My heart's desire is to see my daddy.

I don't want to answer that.

Now I presume we're speaking to some kind of future species that has no worries about aging.

I think that's a safe assumption.

I mean it's taken us as a species a few thousand years and we are we've maybe pushed the

envelope a couple decades just with penicillin and hair implants right but gene therapy and

whatnot I mean I'm assuming that it's got to be coming right the future

lings are made entirely out of genes there are a hundred ways to do this with cloning or you know they

could be robots they could be right what's the animal that doesn't age? Portuguese Manawar or lobster or something isn't there some animal that just lives forever unless yeah lobsters live forever? Is that true? I think that's common knowledge unless you put them in a bisque. Right. Yeah, the only thing that can kill a lobster is a pot.

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