WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:55.417 --> 00:01:57.874 Listen patiently. 4 00:02:04.458 --> 00:02:09.907 We, who are the last men, earnestly desire to communicate with you. 5 00:02:47.375 --> 00:02:49.366 I am speaking to you now 6 00:02:49.542 --> 00:02:54.912 from a period about two thousand million terrestrial years in your future. 7 00:03:02.208 --> 00:03:05.200 Astronomers have made a startling discovery, 8 00:03:05.375 --> 00:03:08.663 which assigns a speedy end to humankind. 9 00:03:20.750 --> 00:03:23.708 We can help you - 10 00:03:23.875 --> 00:03:26.036 and we need your help. 11 00:04:41.583 --> 00:04:45.405 When your writers romance about the future, 12 00:04:45.583 --> 00:04:49.872 they imagine a progress toward some kind of utopia 13 00:04:50.042 --> 00:04:54.365 where beings like themselves live in unmitigated bliss. 14 00:04:59.750 --> 00:05:02.287 No such paradise existed 15 00:05:02.458 --> 00:05:06.497 through the eons that lie between your age and mine. 16 00:05:13.875 --> 00:05:19.700 Instead, we have watched huge fluctuations of joy and woe, 17 00:05:21.958 --> 00:05:26.122 the results of changes not only in humanity's environment, 18 00:05:28.875 --> 00:05:31.867 but also in its fluid nature. 19 00:05:47.417 --> 00:05:50.909 Human existence has been less like a mountain torrent 20 00:05:53.250 --> 00:05:57.368 than a great sluggish river, seldom broken by rapids. 21 00:06:11.958 --> 00:06:16.782 Ages of dormancy, often of stagnation, 22 00:06:17.792 --> 00:06:23.367 filled with monotonous problems and toils of countless almost identical lives, 23 00:06:26.208 --> 00:06:30.121 were punctuated by rare bursts. 24 00:06:55.375 --> 00:06:58.287 Existence has always been precarious. 25 00:06:59.375 --> 00:07:03.493 At any stage of its career, humanity might have been exterminated 26 00:07:03.667 --> 00:07:07.330 by some slight alteration to its chemical environment, 27 00:07:08.292 --> 00:07:12.080 by a more than usually malignant microbe, 28 00:07:12.250 --> 00:07:15.367 by a radical change of climate, 29 00:07:15.542 --> 00:07:18.614 by the manifold effects of its own folly, 30 00:07:26.833 --> 00:07:29.415 Or by some celestial event. 31 00:07:49.708 --> 00:07:56.113 And so it was that humanity detected a volume of non-luminous gas. 32 00:08:10.417 --> 00:08:14.490 Calculation showed that this object and the sun 33 00:08:14.667 --> 00:08:19.286 were approaching one another at a tangent and would collide. 34 00:08:28.625 --> 00:08:34.996 As a result of this, the sun would flare up and expand prodigiously. 35 00:08:53.583 --> 00:08:58.282 Life would be quite impossible on any of the planets 36 00:08:58.458 --> 00:09:02.155 save, perhaps, Neptune. 37 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:23.865 Some of our predecessors, 38 00:09:24.042 --> 00:09:28.866 realizing that they themselves could never live on the inhospitably remote planet, 39 00:09:29.042 --> 00:09:33.035 advocated an orgiastic celebration of pleasure until the end. 40 00:10:13.292 --> 00:10:17.661 But at length, our earlier species excelled itself 41 00:10:17.833 --> 00:10:22.532 in an almost unanimous resolve to devote its remaining centuries 42 00:10:22.708 --> 00:10:27.748 to the production of a new human species into a new world. 43 00:11:17.500 --> 00:11:21.994 Ten more species succeeded one another on the plains of Neptune. 44 00:11:32.167 --> 00:11:36.160 We, the 18th, are the last men. 45 00:12:24.292 --> 00:12:27.284 If you could enter this world of the last men, 46 00:12:27.458 --> 00:12:29.790 you would find some things familiar 47 00:12:29.958 --> 00:12:34.076 and much that would seem strangely distorted and perverse. 48 00:12:36.792 --> 00:12:41.411 You would encounter creatures recognizably human, 49 00:12:41.583 --> 00:12:45.451 yet in your view grotesque. 50 00:12:49.708 --> 00:12:55.533 Some of these fantastic beings you would find covered with fur or mole velvet, 51 00:12:55.708 --> 00:12:58.290 revealing the underlying muscles. 52 00:13:02.750 --> 00:13:06.948 Others display brown, yellow, or ruddy skin, 53 00:13:07.125 --> 00:13:10.788 and yet others a translucent ash-green. 54 00:13:26.292 --> 00:13:31.662 You might call us faun-like, ape-like, 55 00:13:31.833 --> 00:13:36.122 bear-like, or even elephantine. 56 00:15:21.708 --> 00:15:25.405 Yet some characteristics are common to all of us. 57 00:15:27.500 --> 00:15:32.665 The upward-looking astronomical eye on the crown of the skull would shock you. 58 00:15:50.833 --> 00:15:57.409 This organ, when fully extended about a handbreadth from its bony case, 59 00:15:57.583 --> 00:16:03.738 reveals the heavens in as much detail as your astronomical telescopes. 60 00:17:21.750 --> 00:17:26.323 Scattered about the green plains of our colonized planet, 61 00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:28.912 you would notice many buildings. 62 00:17:38.667 --> 00:17:43.866 These buildings would seem like geometrical mountains to you. 63 00:17:49.875 --> 00:17:54.915 In many cases, the whole fabric is translucent or transparent. 64 00:17:55.083 --> 00:18:01.079 So that at night, with internal illumination, it appears as an edifice of light. 65 00:18:53.458 --> 00:18:57.781 Springing from a base twenty or more miles across, 66 00:18:57.958 --> 00:19:03.578 the star-seeking towers attain a height where even the atmosphere is breached. 67 00:19:41.125 --> 00:19:44.697 Some of them are almost as old as our species. 68 00:19:47.083 --> 00:19:49.825 Some are not yet completed. 69 00:20:13.958 --> 00:20:17.496 Every successive culture has expressed itself 70 00:20:17.667 --> 00:20:20.989 in one or more of these supreme monuments. 71 00:20:29.833 --> 00:20:33.997 In their summits work the hosts of our astronomers: 72 00:20:34.167 --> 00:20:40.914 The essential eyes through which our community peers across the boundless ocean of space. 73 00:20:49.708 --> 00:20:53.030 Each of us goes there, at one time or another. 74 00:20:54.292 --> 00:20:57.534 Together, we perform the symbolic acts 75 00:20:57.708 --> 00:21:02.452 which replaced the debased rites of your religions long ago. 76 00:23:30.667 --> 00:23:34.740 Our children are very different beings from the first human children. 77 00:23:36.083 --> 00:23:40.782 Their number in our world is small in relation to our immense population. 78 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:46.494 Yet, seeing that every one of us is potentially immortal, 79 00:23:46.667 --> 00:23:51.036 you may wonder how we permit ourselves to have any children at all. 80 00:23:59.250 --> 00:24:05.576 Our policy is to produce new individuals of a higher order than ourselves. 81 00:24:10.458 --> 00:24:14.622 As a result, we need a continuous supply of children. 82 00:24:22.208 --> 00:24:24.915 The fetus is carried for twenty years. 83 00:24:27.875 --> 00:24:30.457 Infancy lasts for about a century 84 00:24:30.625 --> 00:24:34.789 when the foundations of body and mind are slowly laid. 85 00:25:04.417 --> 00:25:11.118 When our children attain physical adolescence, nearly a thousand years after birth, 86 00:25:11.292 --> 00:25:16.286 they leave the safe paths of childhood to spend another thousand years 87 00:25:16.458 --> 00:25:21.873 in one of the polar continents known as the land of the young. 88 00:25:28.125 --> 00:25:33.870 There, our young people live the half-primitive, half-sophisticated life 89 00:25:34.042 --> 00:25:36.454 that suits their nature. 90 00:25:40.125 --> 00:25:41.956 They love 91 00:25:43.292 --> 00:25:45.123 and hate. 92 00:28:19.750 --> 00:28:23.948 We live through all the mistakes of thought and action 93 00:28:24.125 --> 00:28:27.413 that humankind has ever made. 94 00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:34.745 And, at last, we emerge ready for a world of maturity. 95 00:29:40.875 --> 00:29:46.199 The designers of our species set out to produce a new order of mentality 96 00:29:46.375 --> 00:29:50.914 in a system of distinct brains held in telepathic unity. 97 00:29:55.458 --> 00:30:00.498 The immense difference between ourselves and all other human species 98 00:30:00.667 --> 00:30:03.989 lies in the group-mind. 99 00:30:46.083 --> 00:30:50.656 When these individuals join in simultaneous mental unity, 100 00:30:51.375 --> 00:30:56.449 the entire past of the species appears as a personal memory. 101 00:31:22.833 --> 00:31:25.905 They are able to enter into past minds. 102 00:32:19.042 --> 00:32:25.197 Away from those contented to remain on the planet's surface are the navigators 103 00:32:25.375 --> 00:32:29.869 who embody humanity's proud mastery of interstellar space. 104 00:32:34.500 --> 00:32:39.665 The navigators mentally form a unique class among us 105 00:32:39.833 --> 00:32:42.449 because they spend so much of their time 106 00:32:42.625 --> 00:32:46.994 in the empty regions beyond the range of telepathic communication. 107 00:32:54.292 --> 00:32:58.114 They are a Hardy, simple, and modest folk. 108 00:34:13.083 --> 00:34:19.329 Recently, an exploration ship returned from a voyage into the outer tracts through space. 109 00:34:22.750 --> 00:34:25.366 Half the crew had died. 110 00:34:28.833 --> 00:34:31.415 The survivors were emaciated 111 00:34:34.083 --> 00:34:36.574 and mentally unbalanced. 112 00:34:38.958 --> 00:34:42.826 Throughout the voyage, an unexpected alteration 113 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.538 taking place in a neighboring star was observed. 114 00:34:50.083 --> 00:34:55.908 It began to change from white to Violet and increase in brightness. 115 00:35:03.708 --> 00:35:07.781 When the ship returned, the crew flung open the ports 116 00:35:07.958 --> 00:35:11.701 and staggered blubbering into the arms of the crowd. 117 00:35:17.875 --> 00:35:22.869 These poor human wrecks have shown a phobia of the stars 118 00:35:23.042 --> 00:35:25.533 and of all that is not human. 119 00:35:28.417 --> 00:35:30.874 They dare not go out at night. 120 00:35:32.292 --> 00:35:34.783 They cannot find companionship. 121 00:35:39.208 --> 00:35:43.622 They cling piteously to the sweets of individual life, 122 00:35:47.292 --> 00:35:50.284 a mere defense against reality. 123 00:37:54.542 --> 00:37:56.658 Listen patiently. 124 00:38:01.167 --> 00:38:05.160 The navigators have made a startling discovery. 125 00:38:07.375 --> 00:38:09.787 It is something unprecedented: 126 00:38:11.708 --> 00:38:17.908 A normal star suffering from a fantastic acceleration of its vital process. 127 00:38:20.292 --> 00:38:26.572 We hoped that our sun might prove too distant to be seriously influenced, 128 00:38:26.750 --> 00:38:29.822 but this hope had to be abandoned. 129 00:38:31.583 --> 00:38:34.199 Within thirty thousand years, 130 00:38:34.375 --> 00:38:39.665 life will be impossible anywhere within a vast radius of the sun... 131 00:38:39.833 --> 00:38:42.040 So vast a radius 132 00:38:42.208 --> 00:38:46.872 that it is quite impossible to propel our planet away fast enough to escape. 133 00:40:54.500 --> 00:41:00.040 The discovery of this doom kindled in us unfamiliar emotions. 134 00:41:15.417 --> 00:41:20.161 Outwardly, everyone behaved with perfect Serenity, 135 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:26.913 but inwardly, every mind was in turmoil 136 00:41:27.083 --> 00:41:30.826 as we faced the sudden destruction of our world. 137 00:41:47.875 --> 00:41:50.332 There was nothing left for us to do 138 00:41:50.500 --> 00:41:54.288 but to crowd as much as possible into our remaining life 139 00:41:54.458 --> 00:41:57.370 and meet our end in the noblest manner. 140 00:42:19.375 --> 00:42:21.661 And there again came upon us 141 00:42:21.833 --> 00:42:26.327 the rare experience of a unified mind among the species. 142 00:42:29.167 --> 00:42:33.661 For a whole year, every individual entered a trance 143 00:42:33.833 --> 00:42:37.121 in which we resolved many ancient mysteries. 144 00:43:04.750 --> 00:43:07.287 And in consequence of this, 145 00:43:07.458 --> 00:43:13.408 we found ourselves faced with two tasks that had not yet been contemplated. 146 00:43:18.333 --> 00:43:21.746 First, we have set about the forlorn task 147 00:43:21.917 --> 00:43:26.786 of disseminating the seeds of a new humanity among the stars. 148 00:43:38.708 --> 00:43:42.621 We have devised minute electromagnetic wave-systems 149 00:43:42.792 --> 00:43:47.957 individually capable of sailing forward toward the most promising regions of the galaxy. 150 00:44:01.250 --> 00:44:07.655 These units are so cunningly interrelated that they combine to form spores of life. 151 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:23.743 We shall project these particles in immense quantities. 152 00:44:24.833 --> 00:44:30.658 But the chance that any of them will survive to find a suitable environment is small. 153 00:44:34.417 --> 00:44:39.081 It is clear to us that the work will not be completed 154 00:44:39.250 --> 00:44:42.617 until the disintegration of our community has begun. 155 00:44:51.042 --> 00:44:54.785 The second task that occupies us relates to the past. 156 00:44:59.458 --> 00:45:01.744 We need your help. 157 00:45:40.167 --> 00:45:45.366 We have long been able to enter and participate in the experiences of past minds 158 00:45:45.542 --> 00:45:47.749 as passive spectators. 159 00:45:48.958 --> 00:45:53.497 But recently, we have discovered the power of influencing the past. 160 00:45:55.250 --> 00:46:00.370 This may seem to be an impossibility. A past event is what it is. 161 00:46:06.958 --> 00:46:11.156 But, in certain cases, some feature of a past event 162 00:46:11.333 --> 00:46:14.905 may depend on an event in the far future. 163 00:46:20.125 --> 00:46:22.161 In certain rare cases, 164 00:46:22.333 --> 00:46:28.124 mental events far separated in time determine one another directly. 165 00:46:40.958 --> 00:46:45.201 The past can help us learn once again 166 00:46:45.375 --> 00:46:48.788 that supreme achievement of the human spirit: 167 00:46:50.250 --> 00:46:55.449 The loyalty to the forces of life embattled against death. 168 00:47:28.167 --> 00:47:31.739 But what is it that we seek to contribute to the past? 169 00:47:36.667 --> 00:47:40.330 We want to help the past make the best of itself. 170 00:47:44.042 --> 00:47:49.116 We seek to direct the attention of past individuals to truths, 171 00:47:49.292 --> 00:47:51.783 which would otherwise be overlooked. 172 00:47:55.583 --> 00:47:58.575 Those of us who still care for the life of the mind 173 00:47:58.750 --> 00:48:03.665 are tempted to regret that humankind did not choose decent suicide 174 00:48:03.833 --> 00:48:06.666 before the degeneration began. 175 00:48:08.375 --> 00:48:10.991 But this could not be. 176 00:48:11.167 --> 00:48:14.659 The mission we undertook had to be completed. 177 00:48:17.500 --> 00:48:20.867 This is the last office of humanity. 178 00:49:12.583 --> 00:49:14.574 I am speaking to you now 179 00:49:14.750 --> 00:49:20.245 from a period about two thousand million terrestrial years in your future. 180 00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:28.867 It has become very difficult to reach you, 181 00:49:35.625 --> 00:49:38.697 And still more difficult to speak to you. 182 00:51:03.042 --> 00:51:05.158 Some centuries have now passed 183 00:51:05.333 --> 00:51:10.373 since the sun began to show the first symptoms of disintegration: 184 00:51:10.542 --> 00:51:14.911 Namely a slight change of color toward the blue, 185 00:51:15.083 --> 00:51:18.496 followed by a definite increase of brightness and heat. 186 00:51:43.167 --> 00:51:49.288 The deluge of solar radiation has had a disastrous effect on the human organism. 187 00:51:56.250 --> 00:51:59.287 We are the wreckage of our former selves. 188 00:52:57.708 --> 00:53:03.157 The normal power of telepathic communication is now so unreliable 189 00:53:03.333 --> 00:53:09.158 that we have been compelled to fall back upon the archaic practice of vocal symbolism. 190 00:53:58.958 --> 00:54:02.246 Away from the sun's destructive heat, 191 00:54:02.417 --> 00:54:08.663 we are forcing our planet outward from its old orbit in an ever-widening spiral. 192 00:54:14.667 --> 00:54:19.957 But we have not been able to prevent the climate from becoming more and more deadly, 193 00:54:24.375 --> 00:54:27.617 even at the poles where we have migrated. 194 00:54:28.708 --> 00:54:32.701 The intervening regions have all been deserted. 195 00:54:39.250 --> 00:54:43.869 Evaporation of the oceans has thrown the whole atmosphere into tumult. 196 00:56:55.958 --> 00:57:00.577 Now and again, we meet together, the few that prevail, 197 00:57:01.750 --> 00:57:04.662 to hearten ourselves with one another's presence. 198 00:57:11.458 --> 00:57:14.621 We can only sit in silence, 199 00:57:14.792 --> 00:57:18.614 groping for consolation and for strength. 200 00:57:24.500 --> 00:57:28.914 Sometimes, the spoken word flickers between us, 201 00:57:29.083 --> 00:57:34.203 shedding a brief light but little warmth. 202 00:58:01.583 --> 00:58:03.869 But listen patiently. 203 00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:14.833 This is not our last word. 204 00:58:26.083 --> 00:58:33.205 We, the last men, still have something in us left from the time that is past. 205 00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:13.573 The stars have their beginnings and their ends. 206 00:59:15.000 --> 00:59:19.539 For a few moments, somewhere in between, 207 00:59:19.708 --> 00:59:24.122 a few, very few, may support thought. 208 00:59:55.833 --> 00:59:59.655 The universal end comes in due course. 209 01:00:10.083 --> 01:00:15.157 After the end, events unknowable will continue 210 01:00:15.333 --> 01:00:20.657 in a time much longer than that which will have passed since the beginning. 211 01:00:27.958 --> 01:00:34.784 The whole duration of humanity, its evolution and many successive species, 212 01:00:34.958 --> 01:00:39.577 is but a flash in the lifetime of the cosmos. 213 01:00:52.375 --> 01:00:58.450 Looking at the heavens and at the Violet splendor that seeks to destroy us, 214 01:00:59.833 --> 01:01:03.451 we are filled with awe and pity: 215 01:01:08.458 --> 01:01:13.578 Awe for the inconceivable potential of this bright host 216 01:01:20.958 --> 01:01:27.033 And pity for its self-thwarting effort to supplant the universal spirit. 217 01:01:38.458 --> 01:01:42.656 We find ourselves filled, in spite of everything, 218 01:01:42.833 --> 01:01:46.246 with a triumphant love of our fate. 219 01:04:00.833 --> 01:04:03.199 Great are the stars, 220 01:04:08.625 --> 01:04:12.197 And humankind is of no account to them. 221 01:04:27.625 --> 01:04:32.449 But humankind is a fair spirit, 222 01:04:47.042 --> 01:04:49.624 Whom a star conceived 223 01:04:51.500 --> 01:04:54.116 and a star kills.