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==Japanese==
  
 
==Japanese==
 
 
==English==
 
==English==
 
Voice: If you want to avoid pain, you should believe in God.
 
Voice: If you want to avoid pain, you should believe in God.
  
 
Voice: Whether you believe in him or not, God is always with you.
 
Voice: Whether you believe in him or not, God is always with you.
 
 
  
 
Title: PROTOCOL Layer 09
 
Title: PROTOCOL Layer 09
  
 
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Narrator: On July 4, 1947, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident a strange flying object] dropped into a desert in New Mexico, USA.
 
 
Narrator: In July 4th, 1947, a strange flying object dropped at a desert in New Mexico, USA.
 
  
 
Narrator: Even now, its identity has not been ascertained.
 
Narrator: Even now, its identity has not been ascertained.
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Narrator: Guesses became facts, and rumors became histories.
 
Narrator: Guesses became facts, and rumors became histories.
  
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Lain: Who was it?
  
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Lain: Who was it?
  
Lain: Who is it?
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Narrator: In 1984, Jaime Shandera, a TV producer, received an undeveloped roll of film in a brown envelope from an anonymous person.
 
 
Lain: Who is it?
 
 
 
 
 
  
Narrator: In 1984, James Chandra, a TV producer, received an undeveloped roll of film in a brown envelope from an anonymous person.
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Narrator: In the film was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12 the MJ-12 document].
 
 
Narrator: In the film was the MJ-12 document.
 
  
 
Narrator: It said that 12 people made a secret pact with an extraterrestrial under the President's direct orders.
 
Narrator: It said that 12 people made a secret pact with an extraterrestrial under the President's direct orders.
  
Narrator: Roscoe Hillenketter, who was the director of the CIA when the Roswell incident happened, was the chief of the 12 people.
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Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_H._Hillenkoetter Roscoe Hillenkoetter], who was the director of the CIA when the Roswell incident happened, was the chief of the 12 people.
 
 
Narrator: Now it is well known that President Truman's signature was copied from another document.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Narrator: Vannevar Bush, who was a Head of Department in MIT, was one of the 12 members of MJ-12.
 
  
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Narrator: It is well known now that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman President Truman]'s signature was copied from another document.
  
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Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush Vannevar Bush], who was a Head of Department in MIT, was one of the 12 members of MJ-12.
  
 
Lain: Connect Wired.
 
Lain: Connect Wired.
 
 
  
 
Lain(wired): How can you make something that already happened not have happened?
 
Lain(wired): How can you make something that already happened not have happened?
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Ear: I see, then, since when have we been here?
 
Ear: I see, then, since when have we been here?
  
Ear: I know we have not been here since the beginning of this world.
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Ear: I know we didn't start existing at the beginning of this world.
  
 
Eye: That's nothing to be concerned about!
 
Eye: That's nothing to be concerned about!
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Lain(w): Let's not talk about me right now-
 
Lain(w): Let's not talk about me right now-
  
 
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Narrator: Vannevar Bush put forward a new plan to extend memories, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex MEMEX], in 1945.
 
 
Narrator: Vannevar Bush put forward a new plan to extend memories, MEMEX, in 1945.
 
  
 
Narrator: It was a system to view information in microfilm on a translucent screen.
 
Narrator: It was a system to view information in microfilm on a translucent screen.
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Narrator: He planned to compress information to access it quickly.
 
Narrator: He planned to compress information to access it quickly.
  
Narrator: Bush led the Manhattan project that produced an atomic bomb.
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Narrator: Bush led the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project Manhattan Project] that produced an atomic bomb.
  
 
Narrator: He also made the foundations of multimedia at the same time.
 
Narrator: He also made the foundations of multimedia at the same time.
 
 
  
 
JJ: You forgot this.
 
JJ: You forgot this.
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JJ: That's what I said.
 
JJ: That's what I said.
  
 
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Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly John C. Lilly] explored the human unconscious in an experiment with sensory deprivation by using drugs and an isolation tank.
 
 
Narrator: John C. Lilly explored the human unconscious an experiment with sensory deprivation by using drugs and an isolation tank.
 
  
 
Narrator: He thought that he was connected to something like an existence in space.
 
Narrator: He thought that he was connected to something like an existence in space.
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Narrator: Dolphins can communicate over long distances in water using ultrasonic waves.
 
Narrator: Dolphins can communicate over long distances in water using ultrasonic waves.
 
 
  
 
Taro: What?
 
Taro: What?
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Lain: She is the same as me. I'm myself. I'm the only one.
 
Lain: She is the same as me. I'm myself. I'm the only one.
 
 
  
 
Taro: Great!
 
Taro: Great!
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Taro: !
 
Taro: !
  
Lain: It's you, Taro, right?
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Lain: It was you, Taro, right?
  
 
Lain(w): You're one of the Knights, aren't you?
 
Lain(w): You're one of the Knights, aren't you?
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Lain(w): The only other me with a body only appeared in the club.
 
Lain(w): The only other me with a body only appeared in the club.
  
Lain(w): It would be enough if you modify the memories of people who were there.
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Lain(w): It would have been enough just to modify the memories of people who were there.
  
 
Taro: I can't...
 
Taro: I can't...
  
 
Lain(w): Play track 44.
 
Lain(w): Play track 44.
 
 
  
 
Father: It is drawing to a close...
 
Father: It is drawing to a close...
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Mika: Pii Pii Pii... Now transmitting. Pii Pii Pii...
 
Mika: Pii Pii Pii... Now transmitting. Pii Pii Pii...
 
 
  
 
Lain(w): Stop.
 
Lain(w): Stop.
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Taro: It wasn't me...
 
Taro: It wasn't me...
  
Taro: But I know that the data that JJ receives has such effect.
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Taro: But I know that the data that JJ receives can have such effects.
  
 
Lain(w): If I install this chip, what will happen to me?
 
Lain(w): If I install this chip, what will happen to me?
  
Lain(w): Would I suicide? Or would I go insane?
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Lain(w): Would I commit suicide? Or would I go insane?
  
 
Taro: I don't know. I'm too young to be a formal member of Knights. I'm only...
 
Taro: I don't know. I'm too young to be a formal member of Knights. I'm only...
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Lain(w): What will this do?
 
Lain(w): What will this do?
  
Taro: It is an involatile memory. It will rewrite the memories which already exist.
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Taro: It's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-volatile_memory nonvolatile memory]. It will overwrite existing memories.
  
 
Lain(w): What kinds of memories?
 
Lain(w): What kinds of memories?
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Taro: Knights aren't just crackers, Lain.
 
Taro: Knights aren't just crackers, Lain.
  
Taro: ?
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Taro: Uh...
  
 
Taro: You're strange. That's why the Knights are interested in you.
 
Taro: You're strange. That's why the Knights are interested in you.
  
Taro: Knights fight in order to make the only truth real.
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Taro: Knights fight in order to make the only truth become real.
  
 
Lain: I don't understand. What's the only truth?
 
Lain: I don't understand. What's the only truth?
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Taro: Truth is justice because it is true.
 
Taro: Truth is justice because it is true.
  
Taro: Don't you think this is very persuasive?
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Taro: Don't you find it convincing?
  
 
Taro: Don't you also want such a truth?
 
Taro: Don't you also want such a truth?
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Taro: It's a date, after all. I'm a guy, so I had to do that.
 
Taro: It's a date, after all. I'm a guy, so I had to do that.
  
 
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Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson Ted Nelson], who learned from heretic pioneers Vannevar Bush and John C. Lilly,
 
 
Narrator: Ted Nelson, who learned from heretic pioneers Vannevar Bush and John C. Lilly,
 
  
 
Narrator: made a plan for a digital library in orbit that can be used anywhere on earth through electromagnetic waves and a telephone network.
 
Narrator: made a plan for a digital library in orbit that can be used anywhere on earth through electromagnetic waves and a telephone network.
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Narrator: Ted Nelson will go down in history as a proponent of it.
 
Narrator: Ted Nelson will go down in history as a proponent of it.
 
 
  
 
Lain: Hello Navi.
 
Lain: Hello Navi.
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Lain: Kachi Kachi...
 
Lain: Kachi Kachi...
 
 
  
 
Lain: Was it me?
 
Lain: Was it me?
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Lain: It can't be true...
 
Lain: It can't be true...
 
 
  
 
Lain: Everything must be a lie... Why did you do that?
 
Lain: Everything must be a lie... Why did you do that?
 
 
  
 
Narrator: The earth itself has peculiar electromagnetic waves.
 
Narrator: The earth itself has peculiar electromagnetic waves.
  
Narrator: There are always resonances between the ground and the ionosphere at 8 Hz in the ELF band. It is called the "Schumann Effect".
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Narrator: There are always resonances between the ground and the ionosphere at 8 Hz in the ELF band. This is called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonances Schumann Resonance].
  
 
Narrator: It is the brain wave of the earth. But we still don't know how it affects humans.
 
Narrator: It is the brain wave of the earth. But we still don't know how it affects humans.
  
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Narrator: The human population on Earth is approaching the number of neurons in the brain.
  
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Narrator: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff] claims that it will awaken the consciousness of Earth itself by connecting humans to each other in a network.
  
Narrator: The human population on Earth is aproaching the number of neurons in the brain.
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Narrator: The network has quickly grown into a form like the neurons in the brain, so the Earth itself will become a neural network.
 
 
Narrator: Douglas Rachcov claims that it will awaken the consciousness of Earth itself by connecting humans to each other in a network.
 
 
 
Narrator: The network has quickly grown into a form like the neurones in the brain, so the Earth itself will become a neural network.
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
Lain: The only truth... God.
 
Lain: The only truth... God.
  
 
Deus: Yes, me.
 
Deus: Yes, me.
 
 
  
 
Narrator: Eiri Masami was a chief research worker in Tachibana Labs.
 
Narrator: Eiri Masami was a chief research worker in Tachibana Labs.
  
Narrator: He improved the theory of Earth's neural network.
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Narrator: He caused the theory about Earth's neural network to progress.
  
 
Narrator: He advocated that every human's unconscious should be connected to a wireless network without devices through the Schumann effect.
 
Narrator: He advocated that every human's unconscious should be connected to a wireless network without devices through the Schumann effect.
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Narrator: When Tachibana Labs found out, they fired him.
 
Narrator: When Tachibana Labs found out, they fired him.
  
Narrator: One week later, Eiri's corpse was found run over and killed at the railway on Yamanote line.
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Narrator: One week later, Eiri's corpse was found run over and killed on the railway on Yamanote line.
  
 
Newspaper: Mr. Eiri Masami
 
Newspaper: Mr. Eiri Masami
  
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(Adapted from [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/rumors/09protocol_en.txt] and from memory. Originally translated by Keisuke Shindo.)
  
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(Adapted from [http://lain.angelic-trust.net/rumors/09protocol_en.txt] and from memory.)
 
 
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Latest revision as of 08:28, 31 December 2022

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English

Voice: If you want to avoid pain, you should believe in God.

Voice: Whether you believe in him or not, God is always with you.

Title: PROTOCOL Layer 09

Narrator: On July 4, 1947, a strange flying object dropped into a desert in New Mexico, USA.

Narrator: Even now, its identity has not been ascertained.

Narrator: Guesses became facts, and rumors became histories.

Lain: Who was it?

Lain: Who was it?

Narrator: In 1984, Jaime Shandera, a TV producer, received an undeveloped roll of film in a brown envelope from an anonymous person.

Narrator: In the film was the MJ-12 document.

Narrator: It said that 12 people made a secret pact with an extraterrestrial under the President's direct orders.

Narrator: Roscoe Hillenkoetter, who was the director of the CIA when the Roswell incident happened, was the chief of the 12 people.

Narrator: It is well known now that President Truman's signature was copied from another document.

Narrator: Vannevar Bush, who was a Head of Department in MIT, was one of the 12 members of MJ-12.

Lain: Connect Wired.

Lain(wired): How can you make something that already happened not have happened?

Eye: Are you Lain? I see.

Lain(w): I don't know you, but you know me...

Eye: Information does not always flow both ways.

Eye: You have been here since the Wired was created.

Eye: You are free in here.

Lain(w): But that wasn't me!

Ear: I see, then, since when have we been here?

Ear: I know we didn't start existing at the beginning of this world.

Eye: That's nothing to be concerned about!

Eye: If something exists in memory, then it's part of a record.

Arm: What you said is groundless.

Arm: How old do you think Lain is? She's still a child.

Lain(w): Let's not talk about me right now-

Narrator: Vannevar Bush put forward a new plan to extend memories, MEMEX, in 1945.

Narrator: It was a system to view information in microfilm on a translucent screen.

Narrator: He planned to compress information to access it quickly.

Narrator: Bush led the Manhattan Project that produced an atomic bomb.

Narrator: He also made the foundations of multimedia at the same time.

JJ: You forgot this.

Lain: What?

JJ: You left this here yesterday.

JJ: I'll dump it if you don't need it.

Lain: Did I leave this?

JJ: That's what I said.

Narrator: John C. Lilly explored the human unconscious in an experiment with sensory deprivation by using drugs and an isolation tank.

Narrator: He thought that he was connected to something like an existence in space.

Narrator: He called the existence that led him ECCO, Earth Coincidence Control Office.

Narrator: After that, Lilly began to research dolphins.

Narrator: Dolphins can communicate over long distances in water using ultrasonic waves.

Taro: What?

Lain: I promised you.

Taro: What?

Lain: I'll go on a date with you.

Myu-myu: Really? Did you say that?

Taro: Did I promise?

Myu-myu: No, no.

Taro: Even if I did, I don't want to date with the current you, Lain.

Myu-myu: Idiot! Taro!

Lain: She is the same as me. I'm myself. I'm the only one.

Taro: Great!

Taro: You made this very well.

Taro: I see. This synchronizes the parallel processors.

Taro: It's not very neat, but you can keep extending it this way.

Taro: How do you cool this?

Lain: Taro.

Taro: Is this liquid carbon?

Lain: Sit there.

Taro: What?

Lain: You know what this is, don't you?

Taro: !

Lain: It was you, Taro, right?

Lain(w): You're one of the Knights, aren't you?

Taro: You're...the real Lain...

Lain(w): I'm not sure if there is another me in the Wired or not.

Lain(w): But in the real world, there is no me other than myself.

Lain(w): The only other me with a body only appeared in the club.

Lain(w): It would have been enough just to modify the memories of people who were there.

Taro: I can't...

Lain(w): Play track 44.

Father: It is drawing to a close...

Father: Finally...

Mother: So, before it's too late...

Mika: a.. e..

Mika: Pii Pii Pii... Understood.

Mika: Pii Pii Pii... Now transmitting. Pii Pii Pii...

Lain(w): Stop.

Taro: It wasn't me...

Taro: But I know that the data that JJ receives can have such effects.

Lain(w): If I install this chip, what will happen to me?

Lain(w): Would I commit suicide? Or would I go insane?

Taro: I don't know. I'm too young to be a formal member of Knights. I'm only...

Lain(w): What will this do?

Taro: It's nonvolatile memory. It will overwrite existing memories.

Lain(w): What kinds of memories?

Taro: I... I don't know...

Taro: Knights aren't just crackers, Lain.

Taro: Uh...

Taro: You're strange. That's why the Knights are interested in you.

Taro: Knights fight in order to make the only truth become real.

Lain: I don't understand. What's the only truth?

Taro: I've never been told, because I'm not a formal member of Knights.

Taro: But it's true. Truth is strong because it is true.

Taro: Truth is justice because it is true.

Taro: Don't you find it convincing?

Taro: Don't you also want such a truth?

Taro: I'm going back. Myu-myu will be jealous of you.

Lain: Taro, thank you.

Taro: You...

Taro: It's a date, after all. I'm a guy, so I had to do that.

Narrator: Ted Nelson, who learned from heretic pioneers Vannevar Bush and John C. Lilly,

Narrator: made a plan for a digital library in orbit that can be used anywhere on earth through electromagnetic waves and a telephone network.

Narrator: It would be a utopia where every text from every culture will exist forever.

Narrator: It is called "Xanadu". Hypertext can make it real in this world.

Narrator: Ted Nelson will go down in history as a proponent of it.

Lain: Hello Navi.

Lain: Kachi Kachi...

Sound of machine: Memory check...

Lain: Kachi Kachi...

Lain: Was it me?

Lain(past): Yes, it was me.

Lain: Who were those people?

Lain(past): I don't know because I'm you.

Lain: It can't be true...

Lain: Everything must be a lie... Why did you do that?

Narrator: The earth itself has peculiar electromagnetic waves.

Narrator: There are always resonances between the ground and the ionosphere at 8 Hz in the ELF band. This is called the Schumann Resonance.

Narrator: It is the brain wave of the earth. But we still don't know how it affects humans.

Narrator: The human population on Earth is approaching the number of neurons in the brain.

Narrator: Douglas Rushkoff claims that it will awaken the consciousness of Earth itself by connecting humans to each other in a network.

Narrator: The network has quickly grown into a form like the neurons in the brain, so the Earth itself will become a neural network.

Lain: The only truth... God.

Deus: Yes, me.

Narrator: Eiri Masami was a chief research worker in Tachibana Labs.

Narrator: He caused the theory about Earth's neural network to progress.

Narrator: He advocated that every human's unconscious should be connected to a wireless network without devices through the Schumann effect.

Narrator: He added a function to use the Schumann Resonances to the 7th protocol code on his own discretion.

Narrator: When Tachibana Labs found out, they fired him.

Narrator: One week later, Eiri's corpse was found run over and killed on the railway on Yamanote line.

Newspaper: Mr. Eiri Masami

(Adapted from [1] and from memory. Originally translated by Keisuke Shindo.)

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