Three Seconds to Nowhere

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4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

If you want to get from point A to point B, teleportation sounds like a good idea. But if you ever get the opportunity, just take a cab. Learn what happened to teleportation’s First Man.

Written by Louis Kornfeld

Performed by Peter McNerney, Hannah Chase, Nick Kanellis, Mary McDonnell, Leonard Lyzner, Dennis Pacheco, Chris Kipiniak, Davy Gardner, Adelaide Kipiniak, and Evan Barden.

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0:00.0	I find myself in a dark place.
0:13.3	From here I can see the outline of my whole life.
0:18.6	There I am at 14, breaking both my wrists and the lures I've been accidentally.
0:25.2	There I am giving the toast to my best friend's wedding.
0:29.2	Over there the eulogy at his funeral.
0:32.9	There I am in a flight simulator, while my wife gives birth to her first girl.
0:42.1	None of it is any more substantial to me than a dream.
0:46.2	I've been dead for eons, reduced to nothing, but memories played over and over and over
0:53.4	and over and over and over and over and over again.
0:59.4	Once upon a time, a hundred million years ago it was May 5th, 1972.
1:05.2	I was teleported 35 feet across space.
1:10.4	At 615 in the evening I was disintegrated.
1:19.0	I was pulverized into nothing.
1:35.5	Nothing at all.
1:38.5	Just like that, I'm here again.
1:48.5	I'm something.
1:50.5	Three seconds had passed.
1:55.5	I think you did not know I used to go today.
1:57.5	Three seconds.
1:59.1	Every second an eternity.
2:02.1	I love you.
2:03.1	My whole life being lived again over and over and over.
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