Sci-Fi Short Film "Paleonaut" | DUST
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- Опубліковано 6 кві 2020
- A scientist studying the first human time traveller falls in love with her subject. But if her research succeeds they will become separated by eons of history. She must find a way to connect with him across the ages or lose him forever.
"Paleonaut" by Eric McEver
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Really loved this one.... haunting & melancholy atmosphere...noted the landscape of the drawing in the end...she knew he would be found there 👍👏
I DID NOT! Not the first time....I had to go back. Thanks, that was cool. This was a good one, dont'cha think?
Why is she wearing the mask at 3:20 when they are obviously testing his VO2 Max? OH, she caught COVID-19 on her way to the job and gave it to him and that's why he said "...I'm already dead". Brilliant but dark! Too soon?
This short would 99.99% the same if stripped of all sci-fi and the guy was going on a trip somewhere remote.
*This isn't sci-fi at all* It's an excuse for another indie mini-drama. Yeah I get different tastes and all, but
*God how I hate this stuff* and wish I could be warned before clicking - you know a label or something.
The rock that she was holding at the end almost seemed like it had markings resembling her drawing.
Incredible concept and difficult but fascinating to wrap your mind around. Imagine getting ready to travel back in time and at the same time knowing that you have been dead for millions of years. Time is our biggest mystery.
I always wonder how people don't get jokes.
Lots of people missing the key detail, the rock she is looking at in the beginning and final scene has shoe tread print fossilized in it, proving he arrived on the shores of the swamp.
1st Law Of Thermodynamics: You can't add or remove energy from the cosmos. You can't put a body into "the past" (whatever this might be) which wasn't there before and remove a body from the present (the only "position of time" there is). Time is a concept. A comparison. Not an actual physical dimension.
The problem with Time Travel is arriving on the planet Earth in the past, which is not where the planet is when they travel back in time. The planet would lightyears away from present send point. Then there is the problem of arriving in sub straight material which might be the point of this film but highly unlikely the present team would find the subject.
Fun story but highly unlikely. IMO
Did anyone see the volcano and pterodactyl in the reflection of this eye at 13:40? That was the coolest part of the film!
To have something to live for in the present he travelled to the past. She wanted to have what she spent her life searching for and ended up searching for what she once had.
As soon as he gets sent back...
*YOU WERE KILLED BY A LVL 170 ALLOSAURUS!*
Looks at a black crystal on his arm
They knew it really work because they already found his fossil, his name written there and he wrote something cryptic and unsettling - "the future is DUST".
I even liked how they rolled the credits at the end. Kinda of a nod to the theme of the movie and maybe a cultural nod of how some places like China and Japan read in a different direction.
I really liked this one.
Beautiful film. Haunting. One or two logical issues, so if you're bothered by that sort of thing, you may want to give it a miss. This film's not meant to be analysed, but instead felt. It has a strong resonance, particularly emotional, but also intellectual. It stays with you.
And now (in the present, which once was his present too) she's looking for him. Beautiful story!
Wonderful. Their scene in the cafeteria was full of irony and eyeball psychology... sooo well done. Surprised that I didn't see this sooner. Very very nicely done.
I wish they would put up the "cc" (closed captions). This film is excellent by the way, and the actors/actresses, did a beautiful job!💐🌹🌹🌹🌹
I wanted to see him run from the dinosaurs.😆
I'm thinking he was eaten and digested.
They should've had him metabolize some type of long-lasting isotope.
bip-bip-bip-bip-bip-bip... found him, in three places.
No, five.
Lol
He could be anywhere and if he happens to be in land where a contemporary city is we may have destroyed his remains
You would think that with all that knowledge and planning, they would put some long-lasting isotope in him. Maybe he was picked up by space aliens? Or maybe he formed a tribe of hominids and introduced cremation as a burial practice? Who knows.
@@michaelhendricks2252 There would probably not be any remains of the little squishy in that hard age.
I would just send back some kind of time capsule with him that he can bury in a agreed place (maybe with a atomic battery or something with a tracker turning on after x years. Then he could deposit samples and such in the capsule and notes on something that doesn't decay like carved into something. Counting on finding his fossils is kinda a longshot, even with tracking, unless he kills himself in a specific position where they wont be disturbed.
The mystique of death and dying played in a futuristic sense. Thanks to all that made this short film.
This concept needs to be made in a film. Great storyline. Brilliantly shot.
So very authentic and pure, I love all of it, well done, this stuff triggers the mind to expand! thanks for this Jewel!!
"Eh, sending a probe is too expensive"
Maybe has to be biological
@@tablescissors Yes, because everything send to it would become alive. So just something that is alive may be sendet back in time.
Kudos to the actors and director! So much done with so few words.
Before reaching the prehistoric age he stopped in the 1800s, became Emporer of Japan, and made peace with Tom Cruise.
Thats funny.
Actually, the term "chrononaut" would be a much better term than "paleonaut." Chrononaut literally means "time traveler", while paleonaut means "old traveler."
maybe cuz its a one way trip? only to the past?
i think you do understand the prefixes but a chrononaut could mean any point in time. i do believe the reason he was considered paleonaut because of the point in time he traveled to. Hence a astronauts destination is the stars and outer atmosphere. Then in turn a paleonauts destination would assume.....but its all speculation.
paleonaut is aesthetically better-and a very unique title for the programme and the short film.
A Paleochromonaut.
An old time traveller or an old-time traveller.
Anything else I can sort out, before going back to my own time?
↕️⚛️↔️ 😜😂😂😂
What precedes naut is your destination not your mode of travel.
Chances of him becoming a fossil - very small.
Just how are they supposed to find his fossil, even if he somehow manages to get fossilised, which is a very rare event requiring specific conditions
Glad to know I'm not the only one who wondered this. That whole detail completely killed the suspension of disbelief, for me.
He had to find the lizard that became a fossil. Once he found the dead lizard, he laid down beside it and took poison. OBVIOUSLY!
Saw this at Berlin sci-fi film fest 2018. Loved it! Great to see it on this awesome platform.
When are short film directors going to get away from the tiny white print on a black screen as the opener?
they are not. because it works. plus it doesnt matter. you've got a free amazing short sci film, and you are still complaining about tiny things?
Because classics are bad? Because everyone should have to make marvel universe style opening credits? C'mon man... Focus on the film.
I guess they assume everyone has huge wall digital TV now. Makes me just as mad as you.
Send him back with some Twinkies and he'll build a shrine with them. They'll last for eons.
Anthony Miyazaki first, of course they would ferment. Then the sugary yeasts through untold eons, would develop sentience. Ultimately becoming the dominant life form on the planet.
Causing the paradox of him never being sent. But fallout from the temporal incursion, gives rise to the deep sea sponge, mindless yet marred by the impressions of a vast, lost empire, of sweating yellow cakes of conscious sticky sweet filling.
And that explains why we are all descended from SpongeBob....excellent!
@@SedDelMar sounds like red dwarf
@@SedDelMar . . . now that's some imagination you got there !
that or a twinkie obsession .
@@SedDelMar like you were there, pfff. (Love the imagination!)
Really enjoyed this one. I rather hoped that he would have had something to do with the fossil that “was waiting for” her.
Searching for him wasn’t the ending I expected, but was much better than the one I thought was coming. The ending I could see coming was him walking out of the fossil room, and her going to another rock slab and caressing the remains of him already embedded in it.
Yay!!! Finally a Dust film like the ones that got me hooked years ago. A plot with a beginning middle and a clear ending. Characters that are fully rounded and say things that sound real. Great production values, direction and acting, etc. A home run all around🏆😊
Remember... a lot of dust films are actually film school projects that were basically meant to be fully fleshed preview type films... school projects... not complete films...
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I honestly didn't know that. Thanks for the explanation
this is the greatest time travel concept i have ever seen.And i've seen them all. im willing to suspend my knowledge that real practical time travel to the past must and does use parallel universe-the many world formulation of quantum mechanics. the name of the short film is so profound-it's perfect.
There was actually a short lived series where people were sent back to paleo times to colonize as their present times had become horrible. I was really interested in the show until they went and ruined it with the same old "corporate take over" schtick.
@@hilaryc3203 ah thanks for the info. That's the beauty of the very short film format, no time to mess up the film and freedom from corporations like Hollywood
Paleonaut is the most profound and even realistic time travel piece I've ever seen .and I'm a time travel mega enthusiast who has read every physics paper on the subject .the most recent being a PHD theses writen with his professor supervisor the paper is called reversible dynamics in closed timelike curves. I think that's the title
And got published in a peer reviewed journal--quantum and classical gravity. Its now the opposite of the taboo purely sci fi subject .it was twenty years ago. It was the mathematician godel who first solved Einstein's field equations for general relativity-the true cause of gravity that godel discovered closed timelike curves that permit backwards time travel without the need to do the impossible of breaking the universe's speed limit or find/make the highly speculative concept of worm holes. There is also the more probable existence of closed timelike curves around millisecond pulsars due to their crazy fast spinning speed and very strong gravitation field that should act like a tippler cylinder , spinning the spacetime vacuum with time also spun into a loop as whatever Is s done to space is done to time that's relativity folks
How does your TV series go wrong?hey ruined the expanse TV series in the I think fourth and fifth series with the alien proto molecule rubbish taking over the military,political and economic intricacies of the different planets and¹ factions
And the family like relations between the main characters on board the ex martian space frigate called the rocinante. whereas before the alien molecule taking over too much of the plot it had been an ultra realistic future of humans colonised the solar system with the weak boned belters born in really low gravity on the outer planet outposts and even martians unable to cope with earth gravity and thepre intense sunlight.the outer planet orbiting stations citizensi.e belters are the bottom of the ladder working class treated like crap by working and exploited to mine the oort cloud of asteroids for earth and mars. That aliens part of the original novels should have been omitted from the TV series. The last series, series six is being produced and aired weekly now on Amazon prime
The realism especially the space medicine and health risks of acceleratng to dangerous high HD e.g strokes plus the solar system politics and this last setiesfocussedon the war with an independent belter ex pirate and angry outer planet folk who hate earth and mars for their unjust treatment occupies this last series so I'm engrossed against. The battles between space frigates so realistic and thrilling like nothing I've seen
Meteors thrown at earth deliberately , breaking the ozone layer, causing famine with millions dead. That's real consequences
Time travel is paradoxical. Therefore impossible. Gullible kid 😂
Beautifully constructed, emotionally tangible short film. Thank you!
I was like, "don't mess with that frog! We don't need no COVID-20!" All kidding aside, atmospheric palpability. Well done!
I feel like you're saying that because they were of Asian descent.
@@oxymoron02 Certainly not! Just trying to inject a little levity into my state's stay-at-home. I didn't put this together. COVID-19 is NOT an "Asian (read: Chinese) Virus" like some in the US promulgate. I will be more observant.
All these cringe comment about corona...
@@basedbear1605 ya. smugly satisfied, huh? too bad calling covid 'chinese' or whatever is directing some of my lower-information fellow citizens to commit hate crimes against Asian Americans. don't call me a liar. you do not know me
His bacteria would disrupt all life in the past. How is he going to make sure he is fossilized? Fossilization requires certain environmental factors like humidity and the type of earth in which the bones rest. Most animal bones don't turn into fossils, so again, how will he ensure that his bones do get fossilized?
Maybe they scouted some known fossil-rich locations that would have improved the chance that he’d be fossilized, and planned to have him spend most of his life camped out around there so whenever he died, his body would likely be found there. Realistically they’d also have to arrange some sort of backup plan to get data even if the guy didn’t fossilize, like rock carvings or something
maybe it's science fiction and that's how i watched it ?
It's not that he will be found, but he would plant things to be found, engrave a message in a rock. Of course they selected a place, the place that she drew and was looking in. We should have seen him studying the location and what to plant and how. The mission would be for him to collect specimens and lay them in the clay. To write messages about what he found. The would have sent along a marker. Simple as a piece of metal. Even better a slow-decay radioisotope. Perhaps building rock cairns, or laying out a patter of rocks in the mud. They need a wet site with clay, where they expect the water not to be too deep, so that he can plant things. Needs to have existed for thousands of years (because their time accuracy and our dating accuracy are poor). A tall order. Would it be possible to find a cave that's old enough?
Excellent, but let me add what is for me the big one: WHY DON'T THEY ALREADY HAVE HIS FOSSIL TO STUDY BEFORE HE GOES? This was still a wonderfully-acted gotta-get-the-whole-novel-in-in-40-minutes film. Better than a military doctor standing on the bridge of a ship screaming at the Captain ...
@@intercat4907 That's always the case with time-travel, there's a whole bunch of paradoxes that arise. Normally people talk vaguely about 'different timelines' being created.
I remember as a kid I used to have this unsettling sensation whenever the closing credits were going downward.
This film was excellent and such an original concept and idea that profer's so many questions about causality. I assume he is sent back to one of the Periods of the Mesozoic, just what would his actions there make to the unfolding history of this Planet. Just wish this could have been much longer. The actors were wonderful. 10/10 for this one.
Wow. Definitely on my "Favorites" list. (They were both beautiful, and so was the film.)
Truly enjoyed this. Beautiful and haunting. Thank you.
Too many short films use those "introspective" quiet shots, focus on the eye, or subject staring out into whatever. They think it's story telling. No, they are just padding time because they've only got 5 minutes worth of story that needs to take up at least 15 minutes.
It's character development on a low budget.
Great concept! I wish I could see more now! Ty
Underlying theme and motive similar to 'Project Mastodon', by Clifford Simak. Published 1955.
Hey, someone else read that! I read it under the title of "Mastodonia", but it was the same book.
@@cthulhufhtagn2483 Simak had some unsung skills.
@@cthulhufhtagn2483 I lucked out and found a bunch of physical copies of his books years ago and bought all I could. Pretty rare to come across! I'm really glad to see another fan! But I'm right with the similarities though, eh? Only Simaks story had the scientists trying to sell access to the government and no one believing them...
@@marcusshaner7066 Also aliens. This short had a distinct lack of aliens.
Simak, ohhhh! ♥
Fantastic short. I could totally see this as a full film.
Great story and example of unrequited love.
This film raises more questions than it answers. For example . . .
(1) How far back into the past is the volunteer being sent? (Although near the end, there was a close-up of someone's eyeball (presumably the volunteer's) with the reflection of a flying pterodactyl - so one can assume that he was sent back to the era of the dinosaurs.
(2) If the volunteer was sent back to the time of the dinosaurs, that becomes problematic in and of itself. There's a reason why Cretaceous mammals were marginal in the environment until the dinosaurs were rendered extinct by the Chicxulub impactor event.
(3) If they were planning a mass migration to the Cretaceous Period, how would that impact all subsequent history?
(4) Why would he volunteer to a one-way trip into the past, when he knew that he would die alone?
(5) Why wasn't he sent as an advance scout, with other colonists to arrive later?
(6) They wouldn't have to find his fossilized bones (or a footprint) to know that he had arrived safely. Just have him carry a radio-isotope with a suitably long half-life and have him bury it at a previously agreed upon spot.
This plot’s worthy of development and, in that, there’s some irony.
_I always wonder if these short films are just enough? Would an additional 15 minutes made it too much? I enjoyed it, but searching for your one and only in the present is bad enough. Searching for that one and only in their past is mind-boggling_
What a great concept! Loved it! Wonderful!
Paleonaut... that's a great title! I laughed out loud when I read it but I also wondered what the film was about. So, very cool title!
The world of the dinosaurs was very different. Six hour days with slightly less gravity due to planetary spin rate, mammoth tides from a moon that was much closer, atmospheric pressure many times higher because it was thicker, also the amount of oxygen was higher and probably lethal to ourselves, causing the sky to be more pink than blue.
awwww-her: I guess you'll get to see it -him: not the way you can
That WAS GREAT! Make that a full length movie. I'll go see that. Have those actors too.
"we come to the same places to be alone"
then you've both failed,didn't you?
Thank You. Your comment actually provoked thought. A rare thing in a myopic world.
Exactly what I was thinking lol
Foreshadowing that they will meet again?
A gem! Beautiful.
I spent the whole film failing to reconcile the paleonaut's nihilism with his moustache. Maybe that's how they'll recognise his fossil.
😂
Colonising the past... What an interesting yet simple concept! It brings up so many other ideas and questions!
and unoriginal
Terra Nova 2011 www.imdb.com/title/tt1641349/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
@Aloaf Ov'Bread the idea is to go back 100 million years, nothing done then would effect the present.
@@cuzz63 ...Wouldn't more be changed the farther back you go?
Have you read Mastodonia? It's a fairly old sci-fi book with that general concept.
@Aloaf Ov'Bread it would create a separate timeline.
Amazing idea. You could make a full movie using this concept. Really nice!
There's a TV series called Tera Nova, based on this concept. It was a good show, but it never had a conclusion. I think it ran for 2 seasons
Hey, you get to the point where you got nothing on you any more, so you agree to end your life in a weird way. And this is where many short and sparkling stories begin.
never end your life. it's a bum deal
@@Oxxyjoe you're going to end it, there's no other way.
Throughout the entire clip I couldn't help but wonder what jackie's chan's sister would look like.
They could have both gone back and lived out their lives becoming the subject they were studying
A technical question. Is the air breathable where he's going? My understanding is the composition or our atmosphere has changed over the years ...
We could survive as far back as 541 million years (the Cambrian era.)
@@jonathanconnor7920 Hmmmm....the O2 levels at that time would have been roughly at about 16%. Breathable, but we would feel dizzy and confused. Around 300M years ago, the O2 level on Earth would be about 19 to 20%. This concentration would be more human friendly.
@@eyecomeinpeace2707
Apparently standing at sea level would have been like standing at the peak of everest 541 million years ago.
So yeah, it would be rough going back that far. But survivable. The bigger obstacle would have been finding food.
Personally, I'd opt for around 70 million years ago, to fulfill my lifelong dream of seeing a living T-Rex.
@@jonathanconnor7920 I was thinkin the same. Me too, I'll go for a cool 70 million years ago. Ever watch the TV series Terra Nova? It was aired in North America 13 years ago. Time travelers settled with a colony just a few million years before the great asteroid hit. They had to deal with T-Rex and giant centipedes tho. But not that often.
@@eyecomeinpeace2707
Actually yes, I did see part of the first season. I think it was on Hulu or Netflix. I never got to finish it, though. Shows like that are right up my alley!
This was more conceptual and "almost a love story" than actually about sending matter back into the past. There didn't seem to be enough time that went by to actually fall in love...maybe pity--as she knew he didn't have anything to cling to here, which was the reason he chose to go to begin with. The show also leads you into thinking that she is going to choose to go herself instead of him. In the end, I was left feeling confused at what I watched.
its's highly conceptual yes, and all short films have more abstraction than feature length as they are condensing so much into a short time frame. i go for high concept anything,, hook line and sinker. if you give me 'man from another dimension is looping through time ' then i usually love it. this is probably my favourite for all dust short films-it's a masterpiece. and any logical inconsistencies like 'why did not send someone to go with him as companion because ice age hominids probaby woudnt accept him into their group or mate with him. and it is certain humans now would be able to survive that time period. it's just very cold, so they could have sent small teams out there in the past to prepare for full colonisation. so this project seems extremely cruel on the paleonaut. but then you dont have a short film if you think about that and act that out. thats not as original, not as profound. so screw the logical inconsistencies. i had coincidently been thinking physics wise-i'm a graduate in mathematical physics of a temporal escape instead of escaping to colonise mars or cloud cities in venus' higher atmosphere-both of which are inhospitable planet anyway.. i've actually binged watch all of them during the pandemic, and pre pandemic i had watched the previous years worth, so now have watched every one. it's hard to develop a love story in less than fifteen minutes, but imagine this is a fast forward love affair and also love at first sight. and i've fallen in love with someone completely love at first time and loved her and was with her for four years. love is a chemical reaction also involving ferimones and the male equivalent that interact, which detects the ideal mate. all of those things connects into a perfect chemical bonding moment creating probably the biggest most complicated emotional tangle of memories saved subconscious. it has been demonstrated that even romantic factors like it heavily raining on a coupe during their first encounter increases the likelihood or strength of their falling in love moment. and that it is a single moment in time that the falling in happens on.. this modern idea of needing a long time to get to know someone in order to fall in love with them is spewed out by modern pop psychology.
unobtainability has been shown to greatly increase the attractiveness of the mate hence the cliched advice of playing hard to get. there can be no more unobtainability than a man who is going back to the ice age to die there. though if it were me i would pay them to rig me up to follow me.. this has an evolutionary cause however. unobtainabiity increases competition. if a potential mate seems uninterested it is assumed she is considering other suitors, she has other options, which increases her perceived social status and desirability. whereasa desperate potential mate signifies there is something wrong with her. it's so hard to make an original concept out of a time travel subject, yet somehow the writer-director has done this. i also love that this is set in japan. i would like to see paleonaut worked by the same team masterpiece.
Good movie. I'm not that into time travel but this one kept me watching.
This is a sad note in the annals of love.
Not sure if she connected with him at all...
But she somehow kept her promise to look for him in the rocks.
In my imagination, the story would take a twist; she decided to broke the protocol and ran away with him to the past. Sending back two first Human, as we might now recall as "Adam and Eve".
There's another interesting take on Adam & Eve in an episode of the Twilight Zone called "Probe 7 - Over and Out". It's one of my favorites.
Ok, here's a question nobody seems to be asking: How is sending this guy to prehistoric times going to do them any good? Also, in reality, he probably wouldn't have lasted long. I'd say he would've been eaten by a dinosaur within the 1st month...quite possibly on the 1st day.
@Praque Forqsk I don't know, man. Can you even imagine the reality of that situation? All those fierce dinosaurs running around? Even with a weapon, I don't think that I would survive for very long.
@Praque Forqsk Well, maybe you're right. But, it's interesting to me when people think that they know what a situation was like many years ago. For example, what if there were WAY more dinosaurs than what we're thinking? I'm just saying that we really don't know for sure.
Possibly, but there's also the possibility that he ate T Rex steaks for supper, Pterodactyl eggs for breakfast, and Brontosaurus ham for the holidays. I for dam sure would try to eat them rather be eaten by them. Besides back then they would all be organc and non GMO fed. Good time to be a m at eater!
@Praque Forqsk Greater intelligence? Then they definitely shouldn't send a human from the 21st century. A rat would be a better choice.
@Praque Forqsk Everything!
Two minutes of the show, five minutes of infomercials
"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
Very nice 😀 great acting 👏
This is well acted. I enjoyed it. It kinda makes me sad that those who make time travel films rarely account for the movement of the earth. The earth moves around the sun, the sun moves around the galaxy, the galaxy moves within it's cluster and all of it moves away from everything else. The farther back you go the harder it would even be to predict where the earth would have been to send anyone to. How would they even calculate it? They need to use a wormhole and a spacecraft or none of this makes sense.
Correct. The orbit looks something similar to a spiral than simple circles. There is a VSauce video about time and how Earth moves. It's interesting to think about.
Yeah most people think of time travel as just going to a different time. They don't realize how far away they're traveling, too.
It's kind of crazy to think of how far away your great, great, great, great ancestors lived.
@@jonathanconnor7920 250,000,000 years to go 100,000 light years i think, correct, as in 1 galactic orbit?
Yeah, if you can instantly and precisely move someone/something from point A to point B, then why'd you need to spend even more efforts and fossilize a living being in a distant past when you can do literally anything nowadays?
@@wordsofcheresie936 Sure that handwavium works for me. It was well done regardless.
Strange but surreal in human time traveling research in past time from future time
1:00 A meeting room fitting to the Corona rules.
It is an interesting story. It reminds me of a couple of episodes of Star Trek. The one where Spock and Kirk are transported into the distant pasts of a planet whose star is going to Supernova. Also, the one where McCoy goes through the time portal and changes history. It seems a little bit like The Twilight Zone. It isn't clear what motivates the test subject to go back to prehistory. Feels a little suicidal. Then, the thread about romances that don't kindle in the story. What are the ethics of sending someone back in time w/o any way to retrieve them?
Transports him back in time and materializes in a T-Rex's mouth! LOL
Hmm. In that case, they'd need to search for his fossilized bone fragments encased in T-Rex coprolite.
This is not scif-Fi, its a soap
Soap with time travelling. ;)
6:23. That is the face of a man being fed by a wildly eccentric foodie he loves very much. I have been there.
Cool short , enjoyable story, just enough
Would be great to indicate the drama -- sci-fi ratio in the description for each movie on DUST. If drama is over 20%, I don't want to waste my life watching it.
So, neat idea for a sci-fi story, but it's riddled with holes. First off, fossils are rare. The chances of a single human dying in the perfect situation to fossilize is astronomical. Let alone the chances of them ever finding the fossil if he happened to actually fossilize. There are so many unknowable and frankly luck based variables that need to go completely right to find a single bone fragment from his skeleton. It would be much more likely to succeed if they sent back a team of people with knowledge of how fossils form and instructions to bury the dead in a specific location and in a way that maximizes the chances of fossilization. This would make it infinitly more practical to find the bodies, and also make it the slightest bit more likely to actually have a fossil to find.
Their plan has another huge hole. Lack of evidence of success. In order for the plan to work their time travel method has to actually move things back in time, as aposed to an alternate timeline. Since they're confident they'll be able to find the fossil, we can assume their time machine works. There is a catch though, they haven't found any evidence of human civilization that far in the past. So if their plan worked at all, you would expect some trace of prior human settlement. So send a dude back, find his remains, if it's a survivable environment send back more people. They already know this solution is a temporary one, as there isn't a long history of human civilization dating back to the jurassic in their world, and with a lack of evidence for any humans back then they can already safely assume that at least one part of their plan doesn't work at any point in the future. Either he doesn't make it to the past, they don't find his fossil, it's not a survivable environment, or every person they send back dies before any sophisticated technology it civilization can develop. They already know how it ends, because if it works, it's already worked.
The final issue is one of time paradoxes. Just because he got sent back to the past in our timeline, doesn't mean that his actions don't affect the future. If time travel doesn't self correct for paradoxes, then something as simple as the bacteria in his first dump could bring the entire ecosystem crashing down. Evolution is an arms race, and we're way further along that race than everything back then. While that doesn't mean every organism from now is better than every organism from then, it does mean that those organisms will have absolutely no way of coping with an invasive species from the future. The cold virus could have defenses that prevent any animal from dealing with it, if it's capable of infecting the ancestors of modern mammals, and if it's deadly enough, it could potentially change the course of evolution on the planet. Honestly, these microbes don't even need to be particularly invasive, a single horizontal gene transfer event extrapolated out millions of years later could still change all of the evolutionary timeline.
It's a touching short, but the premise is laughable at best.
12:44 best dialogue in the Whole movie which could be felt deeply.. "if I do it will always be waiting for me in my future.."
11:53 begins here...
Quite well done. I'm all thumbs.... up.
So sad so beautiful. So good.
One of my new favorites. Bravo Eric & team!
Very interesting vid. Good job!
Theoretically, so long as they fully intended on following through, they could start looking for his fossil before he even goes. That way they'd know beforehand if it was a success.
Paradox
This is the reason i don't find time travel concept plausible the way most scifi movies imply. It would mean everything is pre-determined in our lives, we would have sent him back in time no matter what. Multiverse theory sounds more logical here, bug again it's just a theory. Not even a theory, more like a mind fart.
@@misterxmistery7424 Personally, I think the multiverse theory is the only way to allow for time travel without paradoxes. For example, if you go back in time, change an event and then return to the present, you don't return to the present of your original earth. When you change the event, another timeline (i.e. another earth) gets spawned and that's the earth you return to. It's the only way I can see to get around the "killing your own grandfather" paradox. The traveler's personal timeline is unaffected (so they don't wink out of existence, thus creating the paradox, nor do they end up with a bunch of new memories from the new timeline), they just jump to an alternate reality of earth where the events unfolded they way they ended up unfolding after the change.
@@davewalker8519 They wouldn't jump. Another time line would be created.
Say you had a sister Dana Walker. If you went back in time and tried to change something in your sisters past, you wouldn't make your original sister's present suddenly change. You'd create another time line for your past sister and have her life go a different path.
Your original sister would just keep living her life, except you wouldn't be around because you time traveled into the past.
Even the idea about going back to do something like buy Apple stock wouldn't work. Or going back in time to play the lottery. Unless you went back in time with winning lottery numbers and stayed there. But then you'd have to worry about your past you seeing you there and wondering why there's another person with his name that looks just like him.
That's why good time travel movies have to be careful with how they're written. Some things you just have to accept, but they have to use clever writing to make it believable fiction. The Time Agent did a good job. It's another DUST movie. And the movie Predestination did a good job of it.
@@gregorylagrange Right. You're obviously familiar with the multiverse theory, which postulates that a new timeline/Earth is created by every decision we make. We turn left, Earth A goes on, but at the same time, an Earth B is created where we turned right. Because of this, and in order to avoid paradox, my theory is if a hypothetical time traveler changes past events in their original timeline/Earth, they must then jump to the new timeline/Earth created by those changes when they return to the present to avoid creating a paradox.
Let’s use the “killing my own grandfather” as an example. If I go back in time and do something that results in my own grandfather being killed, when I return to my own time, one of two things will have happened: I’ll either return to my original timeline/Earth, where my grandfather was never killed, thus “proving” that past events are immutable, or I return to the new timeline/Earth created by the events I changed which led to my grandfather’s death. But, although the “me” from that new Earth never existed, I can exist on that alternate dimension Earth (and no one will know who I am) because I came from a different one.
Jumping to a different dimension/timeline allows the traveler to see the results of their actions without actually impacting their own existence and avoids the paradox. The inhabitants of the original timeline/Earth (like my sister, Dana) are still going about their merry way other than the fact that I have disappeared from that timeline/Earth (from the point where I stepped into the time machine) and moved to another one. So, all those scenes about time travelers returning to their original Earth, which has been radically changed because of their actions in the past, don’t seem to make sense. The movie “The Butterfly Effect” handled that fairly well, as the main character was changed every time he “returned” to the present after changing the past. But even what they did in that movie does not eliminate the grandfather paradox.
As you pointed out, one potential issue of both traveling to the past as well as returning to an alternate dimension present would be to run into yourself either in the past (ala Marty McFly) or running into your alternate self in the present on the new timeline.
Along a similar vein, I've wondered... If the multiverse theory is true, is it possible all of the "missing" mass in the universe that science can't seem to find is actually "bleed over" being detected? Just a random thought, lol.
👏👏👏 I really love this one!
They must already have his remains on a shelf somewhere, actually sending him back is just a formality to avoid creating a time paradox
It's good, but I would have liked to have seen more.
It comes to my mind the move Somewhere in time,…different stage sets but the same theme between the two. Longing for the past, living in the present. The perfect Catch 22
Fascinating idea. I was sure she would somehow switch with him or she would find evidence of him. Frustrating that a marker of some sort could have been appropriate but not out of the ordinary. Both a memory of each other alive at the same time period and separated by millions of years at the same two timelines 💞...
I was expecting the trite: she would love him so much, she'd go back with him and they would become Adam and Eve.
Meantime, I doubt they would ever find him. They could have looked before he ever left, and if they found him, know it worked. Then it would be worth killing him so they would know exactly where to look.
But what they would learn from his petrified bones is beyond me.
@@davidm5707 Wait, you made me think of more. They would not find him if they never sent him. He must be sent first, to find him. What was the problem with sending an object like a video recorder placed in a certain place in the modern time that is untouched? It seems like a better way to get a real study of the past. I initiated the idea of a marker only known GPS-wise that signaled success? Idk, too much to speculate, much sincerity, no logic...
If you are not on earth were do you get the raw materials for the things you are using?
loved her!!
Maybe time travel is commonplace and our realities change with every historical change to the timeline. We are unaware of these changes. They simply become the current reality complete with our memories and the histories appropriate to the new timeline.
Good start to a movie worth watching
As a drama this is interesting, but the implausibility of the premise is too distracting for me.
How can they be sure he will become a fossil? Only a tiny fraction of organisms that live on the Earth become fossilized. And how would they find him? Only a tiny fraction of fossils that get created are ever discovered.
Even if you choose a known fossil sight, and told him to make sure he dies in that place (how would THAT work???), you can't put him in the exact time and place of the fossilization event. Any fossil site will get moved around as the Earth's crust slowly moves, and when, in the present day, paleontologists determine the age of a fossil site, it is only accurate to--what? within a hundred thousands years (wild guess)? The chances of sending him to the correct time for him to be caught in that fossil event would be minuscule.
Also, if you want to learn about the past, or how we can colonize it, why not have him leave more than his bodily remains? Figure out a way for him to record his experiences in a way that will last the eons.
I think my problem with this is... they intend to send him back for the sole purpose of having him die and finding his fossil to prove... what? That they can? Wouldn't sending someone back 15 minutes make as much sense? If they're worried about a duality, send him back long enough before he was born but why the Jurassic era? Furthermore, they have no idea where he will die or, perhaps, if he might be eaten due to the time period they sent him to, so his fossil may not even exist.
I appreciate the acting and concept but it could've been slightly more thought out...
Hope all DUST movies can come with manually generated captions...
Even though it's sci-fi, as a scientist, I felt compelled to sub. Good work!
He just had to eat weird food didn’t he? Take a sandwich. Eating bats and stuff is what got us in this situation.
Brian Gilbreath The sandwiches will eventually run out, so he will have to eat whatever is available. Of course, he should probably roast or boil the meat and not eat it raw.
Pretty good, really the only thing that would've made it a little bit easier to understand would have been subtitles with their thick accents and all..
Give this team all the moneys 💰
I thought in the end she would find a fossil of both of them in that valley. Showing she would be going back to join him someday.
Need to make part two
Time travel will require space travel. Where you are sitting now was the same place in the past. The earth travels in an uneven loop around the sun, the sun travels in the galaxy, the galaxy travels in the universe. If one goes back 20 years in the same space one occupies in the now, it will not be on the earth where one comes out of the time travel. Looking for his fossil isn't possible. Too many variables.
That's pedantic. You're taking it too literally. If it's possible, all that will be taken care of. Think quantum entanglement.
Perhaps your first name should be Quantum (Fairchild)?
Nice story idea. Enjoyed.