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Four -seated -three -two -one - release mission!
TheASON Horror The The Woah!
Nine thousand nine hundred feet.
Nine thousand nine hundred fifty feet.
And! Ten thousand. We made it!
Ten thousand feet below sea level.
Wow, the ocean is incredible this far down.
I mean, just look at the - Wait a minute.
What is that? What?
Right there. Get a little closer.
Alright. It looks like … looks like … An elephant tusk.
Gasp! But that's impossible.
We're - we're a hundred and fifty miles from shore.
And ten thousand feet deep!
Exactly how on Earth could there be an elephant tusk all the way out here?
Huh. I don't know. But I do know someone who might.
Quickly, help me get a sample.
Copy that. But who would know why this elephant tusk is at the bottom of the ocean!
And on top of that, the ink ribbon was also bone -dried.
Uhh, Mindy? Ah, that's caramel all over my hands!
Ugh, so sticky. Anyway, as I was saying, it took me 15 minutes to realize that my cartridge release lever was jammed.
Uh -huh. I tell you, I thought I might have to throw away the whole typewriter!
Oh, no! Someone's at the door!
Thank goodness. Catholics!
I'll get it, Mindy.
Your hands are all sticky with caramel.
No, no, no. No, no.
I got it! I got it!
Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk.
Opening. At your with foot.
Ah, geez! Ah, there we go.
Oh, my gosh! Aww, hello!
I have a special delivery here for Mindy.
Hey, that's me! Great!
Would you please sign here for me?
Oh, yeah. Ah, one little problem, my hands are kind of sticky, So, you think you could just, uh, stick the pen in my mouth for me to sign?
Uh... okay. Gross. Here we go then.
R -R -R -I -M -D... Whbothaaa!
Hah! There you go! Thanks.
Um? Here's your package.
Oh. Uh. Still got sticky hands.
So, maybe just stick it in my mouth.
This is weird. There we are.
Alright, girl. You're welcome.
Hey, where did you get a new door?
Wap, wap, wap, wap, wap, wap, wap, wap.
Good job! Cut! Gah!
Gross! Mindy, what is this?
I don't know. Open it up and find out.
I've got to go wash my hands.
All right. Let's see here.
Hey, it looks like there's a letter in here, Mindy.
Read it out loud! OK.
Let's see here. Ahem.
Dear, detectives, Mindy and Guy Roz.
Hey, my love! We come to you with a mystery.
Oh, I love mysteries.
Keep reading! Okay.
Our story starts way back in 2019, when myself and a colleague of mine from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute were out doing some deep sea exploring.
We were on the lookout for gelatinous zooplankton When something even more exotic and unusual grabbed our attention.
What? What was it? A tusk.
A tusk? You mean like those big bony things that stick out of the front of elephants' faces?
Whoa. That's what it says here, Mindy.
What would an elephant tusk be doing at the bottom of the ocean?
I have no idea. Well, maybe they have an idea.
Keep reading. OK, let's see here.
Ahem. We have no idea how this tusk arrived here.
Oh, man. Or how long it's been here for.
It's a total mystery.
A mystery, huh? Well, that's where we come in, Guy -R Jo soon!
That's where you come in.
What? We've provided with this letter a sample of the tusk that we were able to recover on our initial excavation, oh, I didn't see that.
Well, maybe it's down there at the bottom of the envelope.
Here, let me see that thing.
Shake, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it.
There it is! We were hoping with your past experience with the case of the missing salmon and the unveiling of static man, that perhaps you would have more luck figuring out how this tusk ended up 150 miles off the coast and 10 ,000 feet under water.
Yours sincerely. Your friends at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
Wow! Yeah. So, what do you say, partner?
You up for another mystery solving adventure?
Here. You bet, Mindy.
I'll go grab my detective hat.
Yes. And I'll go grab our trench coats.
Maybe at Grandma G -force's house in 15 minutes.
Grandma G -force's house?
Why there? I'll explain when we get there.
Parker. Oh, hey, Mindy.
Good to see you. No, that's not it.
I'm go to slay your Aaron the techno.
No? Huh. Mm -hm. Uhh, good to see you again Detective Ghairaz.
Oh yeah. That's it.
Mindy. Do we have to do the detective voices the whole time?
It really hurt my throat last time we did it.
Uhh, fine. But you do have to keep your trench coat on.
OK, deal. All right, let's see if Grandma G -Force is home.
Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock.
Uhh, why are we here again?
Because we need to read the DNA code inside this tusk and Grandma G -force has the only DNA testing machine in the whole neighborhood.
Wait, what? Oh DNA is the coding that's inside of every living thing.
No, no, I mean, didn't I give you a DNA testing machine for your birthday last year?
Uh... You didn't re -gift it, did you?
Uh, no? Indeed! Oh, hi...
Cat. Hi Grandma GeForce!
Hi Grandma GeForce, nice to see you.
What do you two want?
Yeah, um, do you remember that DNA testing kit that I gave you last year?
Yeah... remember saying, what am I supposed to do with this?
Then I don't remember what you said after that.
Yeah, well, I kind of need it back now because we're trying to solve a mystery.
Yeah, well, we're trying to solve a mystery!
Ooh, a mystery! Well, blah, law, blah, blah!
OK. Well, I think I may have tossed it out there in this garage.
Follow me. Oh, OK, walk, walk, walk.
Garage garage. Hey, isn't that your name, boy?
Me? What? No, my name's Guy Ross not Garot.
Well, I don't hear no difference.
Yeah, once you hear it, you kind of can't unhear it.
Oh, OK. Now stand back while I try to open this thing.
Oh, shit. What? Yeah.
Oh, gone. Get back in my room.
Well, let's just take a little look see here, see what we got.
Wow. This place is a real mess!
How we're ever going to find this DNA testing kit.
Oh look at that! That's my very first pair of nunchucks back when I was just a little baby, ooh, pet.
Uh... Grandma Gee -Force, what are these?
Oh, well that's just my old collection of, uh, wrestling calendars.
Wrestling calendars?
1864 Grandma GeForce how old are you exactly?
Ugh! Why? Uh, oh, look here it is one DNA toaster.
I think you mean a DNA tester That's what I said Well, what are we waiting for detective Mindy?
Let's see what this tusk is made of All right, okay.
I'm pretty sure I still remember how this DNA tester works.
Okay, let's see here.
The elephant test goes in here.
And uh, maybe I'm supposed to hit this button.
Nope, nope, that's not it, that's not it, okay.
Maybe it's this one.
Huh, nope, that one does nothing.
Uh... Move over, young broad, and let Grandma GForest take the wheel.
Uh, okay. Blup -be -bluup -boop -boop, Bear -dee -doo.
And... Adler. Huh. What does it say, Grandma GForest?
Look. What does it say?
Well, that's saying that this ain't no elephant tusk.
It's not? Well then, what is it?
It's mammoth .oo! Mammoth?
Mammoth? Like those big hairy elephants from the Ice Age?
Actually Guy pores, mammoths were related to elephants but not the same species.
Well, kind of like how dogs and wolves are related but not the same species.
Exactly, sort of like we humans and chimpanzees.
Well, speaking of chimpanzees, get a load of these results.
Ha! It says here, Mindy, that not only does this tusk belong to a mammoth, it seems to be more than 100 ,000 years old!
Huh. So a little bit before the end of the paleolithic era.
Exactly, around the time human beings started to migrate out of Africa.
And more importantly, when continents like Asia and America were connected by huge ice sheets, of course...
Maybe in the Ice Age!
Uh huh, Detective Gilraz.
I think i may have...
A hypothesis! Hypothesis well don't do her in here.
The bathroom's in the house No, no.
Grandma G force Hypothesis is a scientific guess And you have a hypothesis as to how this tusks got to the bottom of the ocean Yeah, okay.
Sure me our story time It's about 100 ,000 years ago Massive ice sheets cover the oceans.
Go on! And a herd of woolly mammoths are migrating across what is now the Pacific Ocean.
Okay. And then, suddenly one of the mammoths falls sick and dies!
Oh no! Well, that took a turn.
Over the next several thousand years, the ice sheets begin to melt, and the remains of those sam M made sink to the ocean floor.
Until 100 ,000 years later, present day, the ancestors of some primitive apes, our scientists, arrive in an underwater machine, dig up a sample of those remains, And mail them here to us, Guy -Raws.
Oh! That's a pretty good hypothesis Mindy.
Yeah, I know. I just don't know how we're going to prove it though.
Well, if we were able to get a larger sample of this mammoth tusk, maybe we'd be able to find out a little more about this mammoth's life and what sort of conditions it lived in!
Uh, what do you mean?
Well, it all has to do with how mammoth tusks grow.
How tusks grow? Yeah.
You see, they grow in layers, getting a new layer each year.
Huh, kind of like stacking ice cream cones on top of each other until you've got a big tower of ice cream cones.
Or like how you can tell the age of a tree by counting its rings.
Huh, so you can tell the age of a mammoth by counting the rings in its tusk?
Not only that, Bindi, but depending on the size and shape of the layers, scientists can also tell whether a mammoth had produced offspring.
Awes? Well, I get what had a lot of little mammoth babies.
Uh huh, and they can even tell what kind of food the mammoths were eating during certain years and where they were eating it.
Wow. That's a lot of information in one mammoth tusk.
Uh huh. Well, Detective Giraz?
I think I know where we have to go next.
Where? We gotta get the rest of that mammoth tusk.
But Mindy, its at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
How on earth are we gonna get there?
Basically the same way we get everywhere else, Skyrasp.
Oh, right. You know it.
The Wow Machine! And I plugged all the holes up with Marshmallows just yesterday.
So basically its waterproof.
Uh...uh... Come on, Detective Guy Roz, anything for the investigation?
Uh...anything for the investigation.
Boo, yeah! See you later, Grandma G Force.
We've gotta mystery to solve.
What? Oh, you two still here?
Bye, Grandma G -Force.
Oh, see you later, garage!
Do you hear that, Guy Roz?
Yeah! What is it? DColek?
Guy Roz? Dennis? How man?
Hold on, I need to catch my breath.
You ok? Why are you sort of breath?
Well, I had to run all the way over here from my driveway and Wait a minute don't you live like two houses away from here Dennis?
Yeah! It's like a hundred feet or something And why did you have to get over here so fast?
What so important? What's so important is this!
What is that? It's a letter.
You wrote me a letter, Dennis?
Oh, I intercepted a letter for you!
What are you talking about, Dennis?
Well, I saw a delivery man trying to deliver this letter to your gingerbread house, Mindy.
A mansion, a gingerbread mansion.
Right, whatever. And the delivery man wouldn't leave the letter without a signature.
So I signed your name for you.
You foraged my signature, Dennis?
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Oh, wait. Yes. Yes.
I forged it. Look, do you want the letter or not?
Well, of course I want the letter.
Here, let me see that.
That's what I thought.
Well, I better get back home.
Mother wants dinner soon.
And those pizza rolls aren't going to microwave themselves.
Am I right, Guy? All right.
Reading, reading, reading, reading.
Oh man. What is it?
It's written by those same researchers who wrote to us earlier today.
And what did they say?
Well it turns out they had the same bright idea that we did.
That they could get more information about the mammoth's life if they were able to study the whole tusk.
Yeah. And so they headed back out to where they originally found that piece of the tusk in hopes of finding the rest of it to bring back and study, too.
The same tiny sample that we just ran through Grandma G Hospital's DNA testing machine.
Uh -huh. So how did it go?
Well, let's see here.
Breathing. Breathing.
Breathing. Oh, look at that!
It was a total success.
That's great news, Mindy.
Yeah, it says here that they first took a whole bunch of pictures of the Tusk to create a 3D model, you know, just in case Something happened to it when they dug it out.
Ah! You mean, they made a digital copy?
Yeah. And once they made that 3D digital copy, they used a pair of robotic hands attached to the front of a submarine to carefully dislodge the mammoth tusk and bring it back up to the surface, where they were able to do all of those tests and experiments you were just talking about.
Wow. And what did they find?
Well, it says here that they're still still going through the results, but it appears that the hypothesis that we came up with seems to be correct.
You mean our hypothesis that the owner of this mammoth tusk was migrating on packed ice when it died and then once the ice melted, it's remains drifted to the bottom of the ocean?
Well basically, although these scientists think that this particular mammoth might not have died a hundred and fifty miles off the coast, but instead they think that maybe its bones might have been pushed around by the current for a few thousand years and then just kind of settled where they found it.
Well, Detective Gyoroz?
Nope, that's not my detective voice.
Oh, well, Detective Gyoroz, it looks like we have another mystery solved.
Nice work, partner.
Uh, thanks Mindy. Uh, say uh, we should write back to these researchers and congratulate them on their find.
Oh, yeah. Good idea, Guy Roz.
On my brand new typewriter, I just got the keys oiled, Mindyae, and the new lever releases.
Mwah. Oh. This letter is going to look so good.
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