After chastely sharing the King Kong (1933) suite at the Madrone Inn, the scientists arrive at a lab overlooking Monterey Bay, and Veronica reveals what sound and radio wave research has uncovered!
VERONICA: I wanted to understand what whales were going on about! Did you know sperm whales produce the loudest sound of any animal on earth and have the largest brain?
If my theory is correct, the reason for sperm whales' stupendous adaptations could be the greatest discovery of our age!
If my theory is correct, the reason for sperm whales' stupendous adaptations could be the greatest discovery of our age!
PHILCO: They're talking to other whales, aren't they? Did YOU manage to translate their language?
VERONICA That's the thing! Sperm whale clicks aren't language at all--no words or syntax--and whales don't gossip with other whales!
VERONICA That's the thing! Sperm whale clicks aren't language at all--no words or syntax--and whales don't gossip with other whales!
VERONICA: They're Archaeons who lack our familar internal dialogue! Human classification of life on Earth is laughably wrong. "Mammals"? An absurd category, organized around trivial characteristics! Do you think just because an animal has fur that you share some evolutionary ancestor. Hah!
PHILCO: That explains my cat!
PHILCO: That explains my cat!
VERONICA: Using the same wavelength-decoding algorithm that helped us see humans as fiends, I learned that sperm whale sounds create waves conforming precisely to topographical information about the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Every sperm whale possesses the same knowledge of critical formations on the ocean's floor, and they know it so well as I know the mink coat inventory at Maxine's!
Every sperm whale possesses the same knowledge of critical formations on the ocean's floor, and they know it so well as I know the mink coat inventory at Maxine's!