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.

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

Looks at a black crystal on his arm

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.

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.

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 😂

Thats funny.

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! ♥

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...

@@ikghostlombard3429 I honestly didn't know that. Thanks for the explanation

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.

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!

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!)

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.

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.

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.

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

_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_

never end your life. it's a bum deal

@@Oxxyjoe you're going to end it, there's no other way.

@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!

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

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.

It's character development on a low budget.

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!

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?

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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 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...

Hmm. In that case, they'd need to search for his fossilized bone fragments encased in T-Rex coprolite.

Too bad it was canceled so quickly. Never got a chance to really develop its viewership.

Soap with time travelling. ;)

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.

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.

No one cares 😂

8. It's not a love story, it's a story what people do when running from their loneliness.

And you are exactly WHO?

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