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 221.

E.601.

Certificate number 491 46. The Kronofile. 4.

The Kronofile.

Now that we know we can cope with nature's most hostile actions of earthquakes, hurricanes,

great Arctic snow loads.

And now that we know how to get the best mathematics to get the most

volume with the least, next thing is how do we produce the surfaces that will do this in the higher speed in the most economical

effective manner?

I don't know if I've ever mentioned this to you before. Have we talked about this? But you once went on a walk across Europe.

Did you know that? You know, it's kind of been exaggerated. It's been blown out of proportion.

It's going to turn out you just took you actually took a bus most of the way

Like you walked for like three hours and we're like this blows. Yeah, I left I left the train station in Byrne and

I walked around Byrne and then I was like whoh. All right. Back to the

train station. I'm going to get a coffee and the well you for years decades maybe you've kind of

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