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Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.

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I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's bedtime Stories. Tonight,

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as promised, we're headed back into the quantum computer universe

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because I had a great suggestion from Josie from Bracebridge

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to do an episode where you go to different parts

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of the Earth and clean up trash and save wildlife

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and that sort of thing. I'd been meaning to go

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back to the quantum universe for a while and I

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thought this was the perfect excuse to do that. If

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you have an idea for the quantum universe or any

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other universe, you can leave it for me on speak Pipe.

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I think there were a couple way back in the past,

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and I'll go back and try to find them for

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the quantum universe. But if you want to do another

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one just to remind me, that would be great. Before

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we get started, I just want to give a big

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shout out to some of my newest Patreon sponsors. First up,

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thank you too, Calder, Hayes, Hattie and Mark for sponsoring

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the sponsoring the podcast on Patreon.

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Speaker 2: I really really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: And last thank you to Brandon, Melissa, Josie and Charlie

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from Bracebridge for their Patreon sponsorship as well. Apparently they

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started listening for the first time with my hydro one

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episode when I was caught in the middle of an

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ice storm about a year ago now, and funny enough,

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not the first.

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Speaker 2: People who told me that was the episode that led

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them to the podcast, so who knew.

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Speaker 1: If you'll like the podcast, don't forget to rate it

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and review it wherever you're listening, consider joining Patreon if

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parents think that's a good idea, or you can even

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check out some of my books that are available online.

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I actually went back due to some views and stuff

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like that, and fixed up some of the older books.

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So Cards of Power has just been updated the first

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volume of it, just as a different format. There's no

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need to buy it again or anything like that if

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you already have it, but if you're buying it new,

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I've just kind of spread things out a little bit.

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I made it a little bit longer, with bigger words

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and that sort of thing, something I'd always wanted to do,

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and fix a couple little mistakes I found when I

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was reading it for my other podcast, and I also

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changed one of the pictures in the coloring book because

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I saw another review that pointed out something strange in

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one of those pictures. Not a huge deal, but I

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did replace it. Anyways, you can check all of those

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out on Amazon. The link should be in the description.

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And now it's that time again. Time to get as

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comfy as you can in that bed. Close your eyes

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and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.

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Imagine yourself waking up in your very own bed. Before

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you can even sit up properly, you hear Quantum's voice

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speak from your wrist. Good morning, he says, cheerfully, I

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have a surprise for you. You blink and lift your arm.

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Quantum's tiny, smiling face is glowing on the screen of

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your watch. A surprise, you ask, Yes, please look beside

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your bed on the nightstand. You should find a button.

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You look beside your bed, and sure enough, there is

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a night stand there, even if there wasn't before, and

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even stranger. Sitting on top of that night's stand is

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a little red button. Oh what does it do? You ask?

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I believe, Quantum says. The best way to answer that

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question is to press it. You hesitate for a second, because, well,

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you're not really sure about pressing this big red button.

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On your night stand. But eventually you decide to go

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for it. You press down on the thing, and for

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a moment nothing happens, and then your bed begins to move. Oh,

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you jump off the bed as the entire thing slowly

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slide sideways across the floor with a smooth, mechanical hum,

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revealing a large square of metal, a hatch of some kind. Quantum,

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you built something under my room. I built something under

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your room, under much of the house and under a

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good portion of the yard. Quantum replies, I was productive

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and I had a lot of energy to work with.

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You hurry over and kneel beside the hatch. It's made

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of dark silver metal with little glowing blue lines around

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the edges, and there's a handle in the middle of course,

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dry opening it, Quantum suggests you grab the handle and pull.

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The hatch lifts up with a hiss, and beneath it.

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There's not a ladder or stairs, or you know, some

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sort of elevator. Instead, there's a slide. The shiny metal

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slide curves steeply down into glowing blue light below. You

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built a secret underground base, you say, staring down the slide.

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That is correct, And you made the entrance a slide

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that is also correct. I have researched children on your

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world thoroughly. Slides are extremely popular. You grin huh fair point.

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You sit down at the top, grip the sides, and

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push off. You shoot downwards, immediately twisting through a polished

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tunnel of metal and blue lights. The slide curves left,

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then right, then drops more steeply, and your stomach flips

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in the best possible way. At the bottom. You burst

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out of the tube and slide across a smooth metal

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floor before coming to a stop in the middle of

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a gigantic underground chamber, one that definitely wasn't there before.

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You stand up slowly and your mouth falls open. The

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base is enormous. The walls are smooth steel and dark

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gray metal, broken up by glowing blue lines that run

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along the floor and ceiling like streams of light. Overhead,

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huge support beams arch high above you. One side of

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the chamber is taken up by an enormous new printer,

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far larger than the one in your room upstairs. Thick

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energy canisters are plugged into the back of it, though

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none of them are glowing anymore, which makes you think

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they might be empty. Or close to it. Beside the printer,

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mounted against one wall, like the heart of the whole place,

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is Quantum's main body, its screen glowing brightly. A group

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of helper bods drift quietly through the air.

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Speaker 2: Nearby.

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Speaker 1: There are more than before, several of them, all hovering

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carrying tools, scanning surfaces and moving the last few panels

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of metal into place along the walls. But most of

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the base is still empty, just a huge open space.

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This is amazing, you say, thank you, Quantum says, there

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is still much to do. At present. The base contains

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a primary fabrication chamber, energy routing systems, robotic docking stations,

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secure storage and launch access. However, many facilities remain unbuilt.

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You slowly turn in a circle. You built this whole

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place while I was sleeping. Yes, mostly printed it. You

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sleep for a long time, which is super helpful. I

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can't believe this, Oh you should. It is standing directly

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beneath your feet, Quantum replies, I meant it more as

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a figure of speech. You walk toward the giant printer,

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where one of the helper bots floats past, carrying a

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tool nearly as big as itself, sitting beneath it. Is

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the folded up submarine in the shape of a backpack.

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So what happens next, you ask, do we start building

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all the cool stuff now? Yes, Quantum replies, but first

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we need more material. And after researching your Earth, I

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have found many possible sources. Quantum screen changes and suddenly

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a map of Earth appears different places, blink and red.

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I've spent the night analyzing publicly available information. There are

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many areas on Earth in desperate need of cleanup. According

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to the Internet, every year, an estimated nineteen to twenty

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three million tons of plastic waste leaks into the aquatic ecosystem, rivers,

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lakes and see you stare at the map that much. Yes,

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Also in twenty twenty two alone, the world generated and

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estimated sixty two billion kilograms of electric waste. That is

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sixty two million tons. You look from the map to

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quantum screen, so there's basically garbage everywhere. That is a

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somewhat simplified summary, Quantum says, but yes, essentially the map

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zooms in in an area marked with a glowing symbol.

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I would like to start by expanding our aquatic operations,

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but first we require more high quality material. Electronic waste

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will be especially use It contains metals, circuitry, structural materials,

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and many components suitable for advanced fabrication. With such a

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large quantity, it will be less necessary to reorganize atoms

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themselves into different materials. You nod slowly, all right, so

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you want me to go get a bunch of e

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waste correct. Also, in order to facilitate this, I have

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made substantial upgrades. A deep metallic rumble passes through the base.

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Speaker 2: Floor.

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Speaker 1: Panels in the ground slide apart, and from below something

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enormous begins to rise. You take a step back as

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a machine lifts up through a giant hatch in the

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floor and settles into the middle of the launch bay.

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It looks kind of like a helicopter, a cargo ship,

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and a futuristic drone smashed together. It's large and silver gray,

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with a rounded sort of cockpit at the front and

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four massive circular devices mounted around it, one on each corner.

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They resemble giant propellers from a gigantic drone, except there's

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no blades. Instead, each one glows faintly with a sort

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of blue white energy. At the bottom is a wide

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intake of some kind that looks well, kind of like

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a tractor beam if your knowledge of science fiction is right.

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Mounted on the rear are several large energy tanks that

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look almost identical to the ones from the submarine. What

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is that you ask? That? He says is a hover

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You walk around it in awe. It's huge. It needed

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to be. The plans I have drawn up for the

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upgraded submarine and ocean cleaning device are much larger than

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a backpack size. Therefore, you will need something larger than

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a hover scooter to relocate it. The hover copter contains

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its own collector beam, d atomizer, storage tanks, and dual

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navigation modes. You made a giant flying garbage vacuum. That

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is correct, you grin? I love it. A hatch on

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the side folds open, revealing the cockpit. Quantum begins explaining

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as you climb inside. It has several flight modes. In

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hover mode. The right hand lever controls eltude, lifting it

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up and down. The left hand joystick controls forward, backward,

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left and right, or by twisting it you can spin

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in circles. It is very similar to the controls on

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a toy drone. Hover mode is ideal for precision movements

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picking things up, dropping things off, or landing. You sit

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in the pilot's seat, staring at the controls. As the

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side closes up. On the right hand side, you see

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two levers. One looks like the height lever the spaceship

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is talking about, and the other is marked throttle. There's

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a central steering wheel that's sort of folded into the

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dash at the moment, and a little lever on the

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left hand side. What's the other flight mode? You ask?

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In the other flight mode, the reconfigures, the steering wheel

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folds out, and the entire thing acts more like a

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traditional airplane, only one that will not fall from the

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sky if you come to a complete stop. In this mode,

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speed is controlled with the throttle on the right hand

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side of the steering wheel, and the rest of the

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ship is controlled with the wheel itself. Pulling back pulls

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the ship upwards, pushing down moves it forwards, and steering

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left and right. As you may have guessed, steers it

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left or right. I suggest you start with a basic takeoff.

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The base starts to rumble again, then sunlight shines in

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over top of the hovercraft as a gigantic.

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Speaker 2: Hatch opens up.

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Speaker 1: Oh starting hover copped now the hoofer copter hums to life.

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All of the little controls on the dashboard laid up

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at once and well, it starts to sort of hum.

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Now pull up on the right hand lever to move

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yourself straight up and out of this place. You do

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just that, carefully, pulling up on the control. The hum

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grows louder, and the ship starts to move up, higher

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and higher and higher. Out of the hatch and above

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your home. You look at a little glass panel below you,

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one that lets you see what's directly below, which should

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be helpful for landing. A huge opening in your lawn

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slowly starts to close until it completely disappears, appearing as

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if nothing was there in the first place. You practice

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hovering around on the little copter, moving left and right

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on the joystick. The copter itself moves directly right or

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directly left as you push in that direction. If you

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push forward, it moves forward, and backward it moves backward.

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You try twisting the joystick, and the copter twists with it.

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It's actually really easy to fly in this mode, though

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not particularly fast. A GPS map appears on the display

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in front of you, with a glowing path leading away

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this is your destination, a large electronics waste depository. With

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this additional energy collected, we should have no problem completing

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the submarine upgrades to continue our cleaning of the Pacific

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garbage batch. Now, are you ready to switch to flight mode?

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I guess so, you say, press the button. A big

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blue button lights up that says flight mode, right beside

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another button that reads hover mode, which is currently glowing green,

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probably to indicate that it's on. You press the flight

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mode button, and the ship hums slightly differently. Now simply

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press forward on the throttle and steer with the steering wheel.

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The steering wheel pops out of the console in front

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of you. You take hold of it with your left hand,

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put your right hand on the throttle, and press forward. Instantly,

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the hover copter surge is ahead. Whoa, you say, as

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the trees blurbneath. You pull back slightly on the wheel

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and the craft climbs pointing upwards. You angle left to

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avoid a group of buildings.

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Speaker 2: Just in time.

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Speaker 1: You should be more careful. Quantum says buildings are to

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be avoided. Luckily, I have built in safety devices to

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take over control if you are doing something too dangerous. Oh,

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probably a good idea. The hover copter continues to shoot

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forward atn incredible speed as adrenaline pumps through your body.

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You are doing exceptionally well for a first attempt. However,

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the depository of electronic waste is not particularly close. I

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suggest you give it a little more gas.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Once you find yourself high above any possible obstacles, you

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do exactly as Quantum suggests and press forward on the throttle.

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The ship zooms forward at incredible speed, and you hear

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a sudden banging noise as you presumably break the sound barrier.

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You may notice that you don't feel the speed as

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much as one might in a traditional Earth aircraft. Quantum

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says that is because I have also built in a

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small artificial gravity device. This way you can travel at

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up to ten g's without feeling the acceleration against your body.

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You zoom up through the clouds and over top of

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the world at absolutely incredible speed until Quantum's voice appears again.

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I believe we are reaching the destination. Lower your altitude

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and switch back to hover mode. You look at the

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little GPS and see that the little dot that indicates

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where you are is approaching. The little dot that indicates

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where the e waste is. You slowly pull back on

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the throttle a little bit and push forward, dipping down

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below the clouds at a much more reasonable speed. Below

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you lies a huge sprawl of discarded machines, Mountains upon

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mountains of broken monitors, televisions, old computers, tangled wires, printers, microwaves, cables, keyboards, phones,

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and piles of metal frames just glinting in the sun.

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Oho you say yes, Quantum says humanity is extremely skilled

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at inventing future garbage. You lower into hover mode and

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slowly use the lever to bring the craft down over

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top of the site. Activate the Collector. Quantum suggests. A

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screen over to your right lights up with a button

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that says activate Collector. As soon as you press the button,

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the screen displays all of the garbage below and asks

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you to select a target. You select, a gigantic pile

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of garbage hit except and a cone of energy shoots

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downward like a tractor beam. Suddenly, broken electronics begin lifting

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from the heaps below, small pieces at first, and then

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wull clusters of devices, enormous tangles of metal and wire.

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They rise into the beam, vanish into the intake, and

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are instantly deatomized, breaking them down into their well most

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basic components. The energy tanks at the back begin to

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glow brighter and brighter. The process is actually astonishingly fast, Quantum,

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you say as you watch, this thing is incredible. Yes,

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Quantum says, I am aware. The ability to use a

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larger three D printer allowed me to construct more advanced materials.

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In this case, you have now collected a substantial amount

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of material. We should return. You turn off the little

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garbage vacuum device and lift back up into the air

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above the clouds, before switching into flight mode once again

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and pressing forward on the throttle again. You hear a

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loud boom as you pass the sound barrier and keep

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on going. The clouds zip below you as you keep

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an eye on your little GPS, checking to see if

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you're anywhere near your home, and then you see something in.

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Speaker 2: Front of you. It grows larger and larger.

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Speaker 1: At first it looks a little bit like a bird,

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and then you realize it's an airplane, an airplane that

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you're heading directly towards. You quickly pull back on the

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joystick or steering wheel, I should say, and the ship

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zooms up above the gigantic passenger plane, then past it

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at incredible speed. You press forward and dip below the

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clouds until things start to look rather familiar again, until

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you see your own home. You switch to hover mode

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and sl slowly lower the thing down towards your house.

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A huge hatch opens in your yard out of seemingly nowhere,

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and you carefully aim the ship directly above it, and

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then slowly lower it down.

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Speaker 2: Through the hatch.

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Speaker 1: The hatch closes above you, the sunlight disappears, and immediately

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the little helper bots are already moving, grabbing the huge

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storage tanks and moving them over to the three D printer.

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You look over to see the little backpack sized submarine

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already in place, and then the printer starts up. It

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hums to life. Golden energy surges through the transparent channels

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in the machine, and you see parts forming with incredible speed. Walls, panels, engines,

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mechanical arms, collector systems, printing modules, and all sorts of

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other pieces put together in a gigantic metal square or

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wel cube. Before you know it, the gigantic square is

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completely made. It's time to upgrade our ocean cleanup operation.

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Please lift the hover copter up higher so we can

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activate the tractor beam. Uh. Okay, you haven't even had

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time to get out of the thing in the first place,

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because Quantum moves rather quickly. The hatch above you opens

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up again and you use the lever on the right

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to increase your altitude. Hovering just above the ground beside

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your home, the helper bots fly the gigantic square below you,

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and Quantum's voice appears again. Activate the tractor beam, Quantum says,

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and another little button lights up tractor beam. You press

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the button, a light shines down below you and snaps

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the gigantic square that apparently folds out into a submarine

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onto the bottom of the hover copter. Next destination, the

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Pacific garbage patch, a little GPS map appears once again.

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You lift the ship up high above the clouds, before

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once again switching to flight mode and pressing forward on

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the throttle again. There's a gigantic boom as you pass

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the sound barrier and zip forward over top of cities,

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over top of forests and lakes and rivers, until you

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eventually come to a huge body of water, the Pacific Ocean.

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You zip over the ocean at incredible speed until the

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water below begins to change. You slow down as you

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see scattered debris appear first, and lower the ship towards

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the water. Soon you see larger clusters than wide streaks

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of floating garbage, then, at last a great sprawling mass

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of the patch itself. You slow into hover mode and

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lower the giant cube toward the water. Stand by for activation,

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Quantum says, activating submode. The tractor beam disengages. The square

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falls to the ground and splashes into the water, and

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then it begins to unfold. Panels split apart, sections extend,

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Haull pieces rotate outward. Massive side collectors swing into place,

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A larger body emerges from within the cube. Windows appear,

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tanks extend. A wide rear section opens up to reveal

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something new, a whole fabrication bay with its own three

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D printer and storage area, until that too becomes completely

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covered in a hard metal shell. You stare through the

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cockpit at this strange transformation. The new submarine is huge.

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That's gigantic, you say, I am glad you approve it

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had to be gigantic. Quantum replies, because it is no

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longer a simple submarine. It is now a mother sub

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I have added storage and printing chambers on the back.

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This the vessel can now process collected waste into usable

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energy and fabricate additional clean up devices in the field

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so it can build more machines. Well it's out here,

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that is correct. Some will collect floating debris, Some will

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travel underwater to recover submerged waste. Some can be deployed

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near inlets and river mouths where much of the plastic

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enters the water in the first place. As I mentioned earlier,

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an estimated nineteen to twenty three million tons of plastic

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waste enter aquatic ecosystems every year. Interception is now a priority.

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You lower the hovercraft onto the surface nearby, climb out

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and board the mother ship. Inside everything is bigger than before.

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There's more room to move around, more screens, more controls,

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and in the rear, behind a sealed doorway, a new

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on board printer glowing with quiet power. You sit at

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the controls and start the collectors. The mother sub moves forward.

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Huge amounts of floating plastic slide into the front system.

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They're pulled inwards, deatomized, and routed into the internal energy

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banks on a nearby screen. The available material count rises rapidly.

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Then the rear printer comes to life. Inside the fabrication chamber.

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At the back, metal parts begin appearing almost immediately. A

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small submersible body forms, smooth and compact with miniature collector

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arms and a rear intake. You watch fascinated as a

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dissembled piece by piece. Quantum, are you building another sub already?

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That is correct, he says, this is Unit one, autonomous

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debris collection submersible. The little machine finishes printing, a hatch

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opens at the rear of the mother sub, and the

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many sub drops neatly into the water. On the display,

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you watch it dive beneath the surface and begin moving away.

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It will now collect debris independently and return stored energy

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to the mothership. The printer starts again. A second many

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sub forms, then a third. After that, a group of

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little hovering helper drones are printed, as well, little flying

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robots that can put together together smaller pieces into larger structures,

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or move stored energy bins from one machine to another.

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Before long, the operation has become something much larger than

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one kid in one submarine. The mother sub moves steadily

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through the garbage patch while it's new helpers spread out

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like a growing clean up fleet. You stand in the

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center of it all, looking from the front screens to

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the fabrication bade, the glowing ocean outside, and realize that

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this could actually change the world using garbage to create

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new materials. This is amazing. And since we're using all

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of the garbage to create more things. To get rid

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of the garbage, we'll have more material then we know

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what to do with Before well before you'll even know it.

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I believe your immediate task here is complete. The cleanup

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fleet can continue autonomously. Also, I believe it is your bedtime.

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You smile, so you're saying I should go home. Uh, yes,

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that is exactly what I'm saying. You leave the mothership running,

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climb back into the hover copter, and lift up over

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top of the water. You rise high above the ocean

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before switching into flight mode and pressing forward on the throttle,

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once again creating another sonic boom as you blast into

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the sky. You fly over the ocean until you come

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back to the land, where you once again fly over

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cities and oceans and lakes and rivers before coming to

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some nearby territory. You switch back to hover mode as

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you approach your house and carefully lower the machine down

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into the little well cargo bay hatch. The hatch closes

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above you as the hovercraft or hover copter comes down

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with a soft landing and a little hiss, the hover

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copter opens up. You climb down out of the hatch

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and walk back over to the slide that brought you

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down here in the first place. Uh, Quantum, how do

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I get out of here?

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Speaker 2: You ask?

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Speaker 1: That is easy. You just use reverse slide mode. Have

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a seat on the slide as if you just arrived,

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Quantum says. So you sit down on the bottom of

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the slide facing the normal direction. A little circular piece

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of metal folds up from the bottom and pushes against

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your feet, lifting you backwards up the slide, around the

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corners and up through the hatch until you find yourself

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standing in the middle of your bedroom, above the little

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secret hatch. You step off, close the hatch door, and

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move over to the bedstand and press the little red

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button again. The bed slides back into place. You climb

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into it, pull the covers up over top of yourself,

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and rest your head on the pillow.

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Speaker 2: The lights in the room turn.

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Speaker 1: Off and you begin to just focus on your breath,

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noticing your stomach rise and fall with each deep breath.

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With each out breath, you try to release a little

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more tension, noticing any tension in your arms and your

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legs and letting it melt away. Soon it feels as

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if you're just floating on a cloud. Your mind wanders

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off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures, and new

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fun things you can build with a three D printer.

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Speaker 3: To come, good night everyone in.

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Speaker 4: New York. More union, no no thing, no.

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