Episode 1 of Pluribus opens with a bunch of astronomers, at what seems like the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, analyzing an extraterrestrial microwave coming from the great beyond. It’s a Morse-code-like message that’s being repeated every 78 seconds, and it’s supposedly coming from 600 light-years away. The astronomers think that it’s an encrypted message, but one of them figures out that it’s actually an Rna sequence. So, they decide to turn the Rna sequence into DNA, via some version of the reverse transcriptase procedure, in order to ascertain what mysteries that “message” entails. This is when a timer starts flashing on the screen, which states that there are 71 days,…
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