in 2012 they are finally ready to start
looking we went down to Honduras and we
brought down a plane with this
million-dollar light our gear in it and
the crew and every morning you get up go
to the airport get in the airplane I
didn’t go in the plane the light or his
only room for two people to light our
engineer and a pilot we’d plot out where
they’re gonna go and they would fly
kind of like mowing the lawn maybe just
go back and forth and back and forth
having no idea whether or not this was
gonna work this was really a crapshoot
the scan begins
days go by with no results
time and money are ticking away
and then it happens I’m having breakfast
with Doug Preston who was writing an
article about it for The New Yorker and
all of a sudden one of the light our
engineers comes bounding out of his room
the scientist who was analyzing these
images came racing out of his bungalow
in his flip-flops waving his arms and
screaming he grabs me by the neck going
Steve Steve Steve this is it this is it
this is the Oak moment there’s something
in the valley he said it’s here it’s
here it is his eyes are bulging out and
bingo right where we thought it would be
were these rectangular features that you
know if you had to be an idiot not to
know these what man made I mean I
couldn’t believe it at that moment I
gives all tingly I was like a little kid
I said I can’t believe this actually
really worked but how can you stop there
now we have to go on the ground and
actually prove one hundred percent like
hold up a stone or something and say
this is what we saw on lidar this is it
looking we went down to Honduras and we
brought down a plane with this
million-dollar light our gear in it and
the crew and every morning you get up go
to the airport get in the airplane I
didn’t go in the plane the light or his
only room for two people to light our
engineer and a pilot we’d plot out where
they’re gonna go and they would fly
kind of like mowing the lawn maybe just
go back and forth and back and forth
having no idea whether or not this was
gonna work this was really a crapshoot
the scan begins
days go by with no results
time and money are ticking away
and then it happens I’m having breakfast
with Doug Preston who was writing an
article about it for The New Yorker and
all of a sudden one of the light our
engineers comes bounding out of his room
the scientist who was analyzing these
images came racing out of his bungalow
in his flip-flops waving his arms and
screaming he grabs me by the neck going
Steve Steve Steve this is it this is it
this is the Oak moment there’s something
in the valley he said it’s here it’s
here it is his eyes are bulging out and
bingo right where we thought it would be
were these rectangular features that you
know if you had to be an idiot not to
know these what man made I mean I
couldn’t believe it at that moment I
gives all tingly I was like a little kid
I said I can’t believe this actually
really worked but how can you stop there
now we have to go on the ground and
actually prove one hundred percent like
hold up a stone or something and say
this is what we saw on lidar this is it
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