Hello. My name is Dr. Marvin Candle and i....you know what? Forget it. No point in games anymore, right? If you're watching this now, you already know that my name is, my real name is Pierre Cheng and i...(baby cries off screen and the Doctor looks over. He gets up from the couch and yells: "Jennifer! Just take him outside, please! I've got one chance at this." He sits back down.) [static] ...professor of theoretical astro-physics from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I was brought [static] years ago to conduct experiments to study the Kerr metric solution to the Einstein field equation and... [static] If i can hold this pinhole open long enough, you should be recieving my message roughly thirty years [static] If you're... [static] The American president is a man named George W. Bush and you share digital infomation instantaneously on something called "internet". And, unfortunatly, my colleagues and i are all dead [static] and if, of a violent purge, one that we are apparently powerless to escape. (he looks down sadly at his left arm, which looks normal, and grasps it with his other normal hand). [static] This infomation comes to me from a source that has proven himself to be credable.
Other man (possibly Daniel Faraday): None of that matters. It doesn't matter. Just get to it, please! [static]
Dr. Cheng: Because, if this transmission is successful, it's proof the work i've been doing here is valid. This place, it has extraordinary properties. I'm begging you, no matter what's happened, it's imperative that the DHARMA Initiative be reconstituted. You have to continue to research [static] and you have to do it now. Time is not just of the essence, it is the essence. Perhaps you'll be able to find a way to save us, to change the past and to [static] (something) You can't let it....
Other man: This is useless! Alright? It's just useless. They'll never gonna see this. How do i turn this off?
Dr. Cheng: No, no! W-w-what are you doing?
Other man: How do you turn it off?
Dr. Cheng: No! What are you doing? [static]
Source: Lostpedia
Transcript of Comic-Con Dharma Video
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13 Comments:
"None of that matters. It doesn't matter". is very much like Faraday's semi-flustered style of speech. As is "This is useless! Alright? It's just useless". Notice the habit of repeating himself.
I also thought I could hear Cheng say the words 'God forsaken island' right after "I was brought.." but I guess Lostpedia weren't so sure.
Google the Kerr metric solution to the Einstein field equation and have a look. I'm just trying to make sense of it, although it looks like the did manage to build a time machine!
From Wikipedia: Even stranger phenomena can be observed within the innermost region of this spacetime, such as some forms of time travel. For example, the Kerr metric permits closed, time-like loops in which a band of travellers returns to the same place after moving for a finite time by their own clock; however, they return to the same place and time, as seen by an outside observer.
thats why the rabbit in Last years Comic Con video only disappears for a moment, but in reality, it[STATIC]
Fascinating possibilities...
T.L.A. said...
I also thought I could hear Cheng say the words 'God forsaken island' right after "I was brought.." but I guess Lostpedia weren't so sure.
I thought I heard that too.....
I looked up Kerr Metric on Wikipedia and my head is still spinning, thanks sldf_gunslinger for the quick, LOST-related version.
Pierre Cheng, eh? I prefer Edgar Halliwax! :-)
Did anyone else notice that the camera man's voice sounded a LOT like Daniel Faraday?
Nice little bit I noticed: "[I was a] professor of theoretical astro-physics from Ann Arbor, Michigan". The DeGroots, of course, were at the U of M in Ann Arbor. I'd love to see the DHARMA story in the 1970's/80's, with the DeGroots and all that, up to The Purge.
What does Cheng say when the baby is crying? I'm having a hard time making it out. I know in the transcripts it says Jennifer, but I don't hear that.
I'm pretty sure he says "Stay in the car," not "Jennifer."
@Gunslinger: Who is the outside observer and bigger what causes the time loop (in the equation not the show).