WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.290 --> 00:00:03.990 A thumb pulls back the hammer on a loaded pistol. 00:00:03.990 --> 00:00:07.860 Even under all his thick, warm layers of coats and sweaters to protect him from the cold, 00:00:07.860 --> 00:00:11.680 the Musher can still feel his heart pounding in his chest. 00:00:11.680 --> 00:00:16.539 All the long months of training with his team has all been leading to this moment. 00:00:16.539 --> 00:00:20.539 He grips the reins as tightly as he can, all eight of his dogs attached to the other side 00:00:20.539 --> 00:00:21.830 of the sled beneath his feet. 00:00:21.830 --> 00:00:25.560 It’s about to start, any… second… 00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:26.570 now… 00:00:26.570 --> 00:00:27.580 Bang! 00:00:27.580 --> 00:00:31.590 The shot of the starting pistol rings out, and the second it does, all sixteen pairs 00:00:31.590 --> 00:00:34.910 of paws are dashing through the icy Alaskan snow. 00:00:34.910 --> 00:00:39.360 The Musher catches specs of white as they spray out from the sled in front, and encourages 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:41.289 his pack to pull harder, run faster. 00:00:41.289 --> 00:00:44.960 The race is on, and he intends to wind. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:49.860 When, all of a sudden, he hears an agitating, grating voice calling out to him, trying to 00:00:49.860 --> 00:00:52.560 divert his attention away from the race. 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.600 Out of the corner of his peripheral, he notices the movement of another pack of dogs, pulling 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:58.690 another sled up alongside his. 00:00:58.690 --> 00:01:02.910 They wouldn’t try to ram him and knock his sled off course, but The Musher still expects 00:01:02.910 --> 00:01:07.270 them to try and overtake, so he shoots a glance to his fellow competitor. 00:01:07.270 --> 00:01:11.080 And under his scarf, his jaw drops at who he sees driving the other sled. 00:01:11.080 --> 00:01:15.619 It can’t be, it makes absolutely no sense that someone with that degree of wealth would 00:01:15.619 --> 00:01:18.200 be taking part in a dog sled race through the snow. 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:23.250 But even under his ski goggles, the Musher is certain of who he’s looking at. 00:01:23.250 --> 00:01:27.630 It’s him, grinning and waving at the Musher from a neighboring sled. 00:01:27.630 --> 00:01:32.790 One thought shoots across his mind: IS THAT ELON MUSK!? 00:01:32.790 --> 00:01:36.229 The eccentric billionaire signals the Musher to lower the fur-lined hood of his winter 00:01:36.229 --> 00:01:37.229 coat. 00:01:37.229 --> 00:01:40.909 Still unable to fully believe his own eyes, let alone come up with a logical explanation 00:01:40.909 --> 00:01:44.950 for what he’s seeing, the Musher finds himself lifting the hood back, so he can hear what 00:01:44.950 --> 00:01:46.880 the man has to say. 00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:51.200 His smile is unnatural, overly forced, like he’s trying too hard to replicate what a 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.729 normal human expression looks like. 00:01:53.729 --> 00:01:57.700 The moment the Musher’s hood is down, he hears that bizarrely familiar tone of voice 00:01:57.700 --> 00:02:00.890 again, as the man starts… selling. 00:02:00.890 --> 00:02:04.719 He’s trying to sell him one of those outlandish brain chips of his. 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:09.619 The Musher remembers reading an article about them and the billionaire’s strange and unbelievable 00:02:09.619 --> 00:02:12.500 claims as to what these dangerous implants can do. 00:02:12.500 --> 00:02:16.810 Are people already so wise to his products being scams that he’s resorting to propositioning 00:02:16.810 --> 00:02:18.230 random sled racers? 00:02:18.230 --> 00:02:19.310 The race! 00:02:19.310 --> 00:02:23.400 The Musher is so distracted by the hard-pitching billionaire that he almost forgets to focus 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:25.410 on the path in front of him. 00:02:25.410 --> 00:02:29.349 And at any rate, even if he did want a microchip installed in his head, he definitely can’t 00:02:29.349 --> 00:02:31.069 afford the price tag. 00:02:31.069 --> 00:02:33.900 He tells the man to get lost, then focuses on his dogs. 00:02:33.900 --> 00:02:38.010 Only to hear the deafening sound of a jet engine erupting next to him… followed by 00:02:38.010 --> 00:02:39.819 a huge wall of snow. 00:02:39.819 --> 00:02:41.920 It’s an avalanche! 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:46.550 Hours later, the Musher wakes up in the hospital, having been dragged out of the snow. 00:02:46.550 --> 00:02:50.100 The doctor asks him what happened, and when he tells the doctor that he was distracted 00:02:50.100 --> 00:02:54.420 by Elon Musk trying to sell him cutting-edge technology, the doctor orders an immediate 00:02:54.420 --> 00:02:55.420 brain scan. 00:02:55.420 --> 00:02:58.849 However, the results of the brain scan come back clean. 00:02:58.849 --> 00:03:01.209 No brain damage, no illicit chemicals. 00:03:01.209 --> 00:03:05.780 But no matter what - The Musher sticks to his story: Elon Musk distracted him on the 00:03:05.780 --> 00:03:06.780 slopes that day. 00:03:06.780 --> 00:03:10.150 Elon Musk and his gaggle of cyborg dogs. 00:03:10.150 --> 00:03:15.040 A nondescript man in a black suit turns up later that day, claiming to be a psychological 00:03:15.040 --> 00:03:16.040 specialist. 00:03:16.040 --> 00:03:18.520 The doctors leave the man in the black suit alone with the Musher. 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:23.270 The strange man notes down every detail of the story - He doesn’t judge, he doesn’t 00:03:23.270 --> 00:03:24.270 dispute. 00:03:24.270 --> 00:03:29.800 He just listens to every bizarre detail, Elon Musk, cyborg dogs, avalanche, and all. 00:03:29.800 --> 00:03:34.730 When the story is done, the man in black pulls a photograph from his jacket and asks if this 00:03:34.730 --> 00:03:37.069 was the man the Musher saw out there on the slopes. 00:03:37.069 --> 00:03:38.069 But no… 00:03:38.069 --> 00:03:40.810 The photo shows a bizarre creature. 00:03:40.810 --> 00:03:45.510 Vaguely human-shaped, but with multiple pairs of arms, and horns sprouting from the top 00:03:45.510 --> 00:03:46.510 of its head. 00:03:46.510 --> 00:03:50.910 The only thing it has in common with the man he saw on the slopes is the creature’s face 00:03:50.910 --> 00:03:54.170 - It’s the face of Elon Musk. 00:03:54.170 --> 00:03:58.730 This whole ordeal makes the Musher feel incredibly distressed, but the man in the black suit 00:03:58.730 --> 00:04:00.049 remains calm. 00:04:00.049 --> 00:04:03.750 He tells the Musher that he can make it all better - He gives the Musher a special medication 00:04:03.750 --> 00:04:06.590 that makes the memory of his time on the slope fade away. 00:04:06.590 --> 00:04:10.500 It feels as strange and distant as a half-remembered dream. 00:04:10.500 --> 00:04:14.030 But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t real. 00:04:14.030 --> 00:04:16.870 The warning of ‘buyer beware’ is always applicable. 00:04:16.870 --> 00:04:20.669 But especially when you’re buying from a businessman with a history of dubious claims. 00:04:20.669 --> 00:04:24.520 Or at least, someone who looks an awful lot like said businessman. 00:04:24.520 --> 00:04:30.020 Meet SCP-3710, or as those working among the staff at the SCP Foundation have taken to 00:04:30.020 --> 00:04:32.390 calling it: Elon Mush. 00:04:32.390 --> 00:04:38.010 Now, SCP-3710 isn’t a single entity but rather a collection of strange anomalies that 00:04:38.010 --> 00:04:41.169 manifest together to form the SCP in question. 00:04:41.169 --> 00:04:46.449 On their own, each entity is just a component, but you put them all together, and you have… 00:04:46.449 --> 00:04:50.800 well, one of the strangest anomalies in the Foundation’s catalog. 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:55.259 Primarily, SCP-3710 consists of a pack of eight dogs. 00:04:55.259 --> 00:04:59.900 Except, of course, these aren’t the average pooches you’d find at the local pound: they’re 00:04:59.900 --> 00:05:01.240 highly anomalous. 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.759 Each one of these peculiar pups has been extensively cybernetically enhanced, and even bears a 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:12.400 close resemblance to the dogs that form SCP-2624 - An anomalous, cybernetic space dog. 00:05:12.400 --> 00:05:14.050 How enhanced are we talking, exactly? 00:05:14.050 --> 00:05:19.470 Well, if you’re looking for technical specifications, how does a miniaturized Raptor rocket propulsion 00:05:19.470 --> 00:05:20.470 device sound? 00:05:20.470 --> 00:05:24.930 Each of these cyber canines is equipped with one of these methane-powered rocket boosters, 00:05:24.930 --> 00:05:28.800 and Foundation researchers believe that the propulsion system of each one is fuelled by 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:30.960 the dogs’ digestive system. 00:05:30.960 --> 00:05:35.330 All eight of these cybernetic dogs are reined to a sled in what seems to be a weird mix 00:05:35.330 --> 00:05:38.650 of high-tech and low-tech transportation. 00:05:38.650 --> 00:05:43.860 But SCP-3710 is clearly another of the many anomalies that aren’t concerned with making 00:05:43.860 --> 00:05:44.860 sense. 00:05:44.860 --> 00:05:48.610 The sled itself appears to be totally ordinary from the outside, apart from the addition 00:05:48.610 --> 00:05:53.199 of the two twin Raptor rocket propulsion devices welded to the back. 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:56.650 Okay, so it’s a dogsled that’s been modified by someone who either really likes to go fast, 00:05:56.650 --> 00:05:58.900 or is a complete lunatic. 00:05:58.900 --> 00:06:00.240 Or maybe both. 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:04.960 A large white ‘X’ is also painted on the wooden bed of the dogsled, but that is far 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:07.860 from the strangest physical property of the wood itself. 00:06:07.860 --> 00:06:12.960 The material used to construct this part of SCP-3710 is stronger than any wood known to 00:06:12.960 --> 00:06:13.960 man. 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:18.729 Presumably achieved through some anomalous means, the normally highly flammable material 00:06:18.729 --> 00:06:21.940 possesses a physically impossible resistance to fire. 00:06:21.940 --> 00:06:26.259 Neither the excessive heat from the eight dogs’ rockets or the pair mounted on the 00:06:26.259 --> 00:06:29.380 sled itself are enough to cause the wooden sled to combust. 00:06:29.380 --> 00:06:34.860 It simply doesn’t burn, making it surprisingly an even safer vehicle than your average Tesla. 00:06:34.860 --> 00:06:38.870 Then, there’s the driver of this anomalous dogsled. 00:06:38.870 --> 00:06:43.830 SCP-3710-1 is a humanoid entity that claims to be the world’s most Twitter-addicted 00:06:43.830 --> 00:06:46.030 businessman: Elon Musk. 00:06:46.030 --> 00:06:50.220 However, the creature itself has an entirely different physical appearance from the billionaire 00:06:50.220 --> 00:06:54.000 himself, apart from its extremely recognizable face. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:58.240 The most striking baseline physical dissimilarities are, of course, the fact that the creature 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:02.740 possesses four arms and horns that protrude noticeably from its skull. 00:07:02.740 --> 00:07:08.970 Despite being fluent in quotes from Elon Musk, SCP-3710-1 shares none of the same behavioral 00:07:08.970 --> 00:07:12.930 traits, which is undoubtedly a redeeming factor for this anomaly. 00:07:12.930 --> 00:07:19.419 The SCP Foundation researchers who study SCP-3710-1 have discovered, through all recorded interactions 00:07:19.419 --> 00:07:24.270 with the entity, that its mannerisms more closely resemble that of a door-to-door salesperson 00:07:24.270 --> 00:07:26.039 than an abrasive CEO. 00:07:26.039 --> 00:07:30.780 However, despite all these obvious differences, anyone unlucky enough to interact with an 00:07:30.780 --> 00:07:37.870 instance of SCP-3710-1 will believe the entity is, in fact, Elon Musk thanks to a latent 00:07:37.870 --> 00:07:39.690 memetic effect. 00:07:39.690 --> 00:07:44.400 And while that’s undoubtedly unpleasant for all involved, it gets slightly worse. 00:07:44.400 --> 00:07:50.560 You might notice that we did use the phrase “an instance of SCP-3710-1” because – that’s 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:52.900 right – there’s more than one. 00:07:52.900 --> 00:07:57.509 Specifically, and mercifully, only two that the Foundation is currently aware of, both 00:07:57.509 --> 00:08:01.430 manifesting with their own rocket-powered cyber dog driven sleds. 00:08:01.430 --> 00:08:05.389 Now, once you recover from the horror at the possibility of a world with more than one 00:08:05.389 --> 00:08:10.289 version of a sled-driving electric car CEO, you might find yourself confused as to the 00:08:10.289 --> 00:08:14.050 connection between the aforementioned business magnate and the sport of dog sledding. 00:08:14.050 --> 00:08:18.750 The same confusion baffles the Foundation too, but here’s what they do know so far. 00:08:18.750 --> 00:08:25.159 SCP-3710 – that’s the robo-dogs, the sled, and their painfully irritating passenger –are 00:08:25.159 --> 00:08:30.729 known to manifest at random intervals along the route of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. 00:08:30.729 --> 00:08:36.060 This is an annual long-distance dog sled racing event that occurs in early March in Alaska. 00:08:36.060 --> 00:08:39.560 The route usually runs from the state’s largest city of Anchorage, to the southern 00:08:39.560 --> 00:08:41.740 Seward Peninsula city of Nome. 00:08:41.740 --> 00:08:48.200 Upon appearing, SCP-3710 will then chase after a targeted racer taking part in the Iditarod, 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:51.610 following them until it is alongside them or at least within vocal range. 00:08:51.610 --> 00:08:56.450 Now, you might be worried that this anomaly tries to take part in the sled race, or somehow 00:08:56.450 --> 00:08:58.420 harm the other contenders. 00:08:58.420 --> 00:09:03.180 While its goal is disrupting the Iditarod, it’s not known to cause active harm. 00:09:03.180 --> 00:09:08.329 Once it catches the attention of another sled racer, then SCP-3710 attempts to persuade 00:09:08.329 --> 00:09:12.190 the competitor to purchase one of the latest products currently being produced by one of 00:09:12.190 --> 00:09:14.589 the billionaire’s various companies. 00:09:14.589 --> 00:09:18.330 Of course, if you’re participating in an annual dog sled race and suddenly you see 00:09:18.330 --> 00:09:22.430 what appears to be one of the most famous CEOs in the world pull up beside you in a 00:09:22.430 --> 00:09:27.620 sled pulled by cybernetically enhanced dogs, you might be compelled to do one of two things. 00:09:27.620 --> 00:09:30.320 The first being speed up to try and escape him. 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:34.860 The other might be to hear him out, to satiate your curiosity, if nothing else. 00:09:34.860 --> 00:09:38.790 But the average participant in the Iditarod typically can’t afford one of the more cutting-edge 00:09:38.790 --> 00:09:41.590 products offered by the billionaire’s various companies. 00:09:41.590 --> 00:09:46.459 So, naturally, they typically refuse, because they either don’t need, or can’t pay for 00:09:46.459 --> 00:09:48.630 something so expensive. 00:09:48.630 --> 00:09:51.420 This doesn’t deter SCP-3710, however. 00:09:51.420 --> 00:09:56.070 Apparently, the one trait it shares with the person it impersonates is a lack of understanding 00:09:56.070 --> 00:09:58.520 for the financial status of average everyday people. 00:09:58.520 --> 00:10:03.430 So, it keeps offering, until the other sled racer has refused at least three times, sometimes 00:10:03.430 --> 00:10:06.480 requiring more to really drive the message home. 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:13.380 With that, SCP-3710 typically takes off, stating it isn’t interested in negotiating any further, 00:10:13.380 --> 00:10:16.880 and engages the propulsion devices of its eight robo-dogs and the two on the back of 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:17.880 the sled. 00:10:17.880 --> 00:10:22.529 Of course, these highly dangerous Raptor boosters can cause severe burns, blunt force wind damage, 00:10:22.529 --> 00:10:25.340 and other environmental hazards to the other racers. 00:10:25.340 --> 00:10:30.730 The first recorded appearance of SCP-3710 takes place in the year 1995. 00:10:30.730 --> 00:10:34.410 During the course of this year’s Iditarod, the entity makes several attempts to sell 00:10:34.410 --> 00:10:38.760 Zip2 software licenses to the various racers competing in the sledding event. 00:10:38.760 --> 00:10:43.310 Given that it offers these licenses at the staggering fee of fifty thousand dollars each, 00:10:43.310 --> 00:10:46.180 not one of the participants is interested. 00:10:46.180 --> 00:10:50.510 Shortly after the conclusion of the Iditarod ’95, the SCP Foundation starts looking into 00:10:50.510 --> 00:10:51.510 the anomaly. 00:10:51.510 --> 00:10:55.310 They begin by contacting the real deal: Elon Musk himself. 00:10:55.310 --> 00:10:58.990 When asked about his whereabouts, he tells the Foundation that he was in New York City, 00:10:58.990 --> 00:11:03.399 over three thousand miles away from where the Iditarod takes place every year. 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:07.459 The Foundation, having confirmed that the entity manifesting during the sled race was, 00:11:07.459 --> 00:11:11.180 indeed, an imposter, try next to capture the anomaly. 00:11:11.180 --> 00:11:12.800 This doesn’t go well at all. 00:11:12.800 --> 00:11:18.050 They send out six Foundation operatives, all of them disguised as dog sled racers. 00:11:18.050 --> 00:11:23.010 SCP-3710 manifests yet again, but manages to evade the six-person team sent to capture 00:11:23.010 --> 00:11:24.010 it. 00:11:24.010 --> 00:11:28.760 It flies away by firing up its boosters, and thoughtlessly buries the six Foundation agents 00:11:28.760 --> 00:11:30.590 under an avalanche. 00:11:30.590 --> 00:11:35.390 However, as we all most likely know by now, the SCP Foundation isn’t one for giving 00:11:35.390 --> 00:11:37.120 up after just one try. 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:42.580 They proceed to make numerous attempts to capture and question SCP-3710, including going 00:11:42.580 --> 00:11:46.839 as far as to administer amnestics to any of the Iditarod competitors who claim to have 00:11:46.839 --> 00:11:48.709 seen the entity. 00:11:48.709 --> 00:11:52.399 That way, with their memories wiped, word of the strange sledding salesman can never 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:53.779 get out to the public. 00:11:53.779 --> 00:11:58.130 Whenever it appears during the annual Alaskan sled race, Foundation agents on the site attempt 00:11:58.130 --> 00:12:01.740 to use specialized tranquilizer rifles to apprehend SCP-3710. 00:12:01.740 --> 00:12:06.950 These, however, usually don’t work, given the anomaly’s fondness for just flying away 00:12:06.950 --> 00:12:10.790 with its robo-dogs’ boosters, or vanishing entirely when it de-manifests. 00:12:10.790 --> 00:12:17.360 But you’re probably wondering, what happens should someone decide to accept one of SCP-3710’s 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:19.519 extortionate offers during the race? 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:23.840 Can somebody actually purchase an overpriced electric car, or a potentially deadly brain 00:12:23.840 --> 00:12:25.310 chip from the anomaly? 00:12:25.310 --> 00:12:29.270 The Foundation ponders the very same question and, during one of their many containment 00:12:29.270 --> 00:12:31.600 attempts, is able to get an answer. 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:35.889 Agent Shiane McCormick is sent undercover to participate in the annual Iditarod Trail 00:12:35.889 --> 00:12:37.029 Sled Dog Race. 00:12:37.029 --> 00:12:42.060 Her instructions from the Foundation higher-ups are clear: should she encounter SCP-3710, 00:12:42.060 --> 00:12:45.660 she’s to reject its first two attempts at selling her anything. 00:12:45.660 --> 00:12:50.000 But then, the third time it offers, McCormick is told to accept. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.709 Armed with a debit card containing a hundred thousand dollars, she sets out on her sled. 00:12:54.709 --> 00:13:02.490 One key detail is left out: nobody tells Agent McCormick what SCP-3710-1 looks like. 00:13:02.490 --> 00:13:06.500 While she’s out on the Iditarod, her dogs racing along and pulling her sled behind them 00:13:06.500 --> 00:13:10.959 through the snow, the Agent soon becomes aware of another pack of dogs running up alongside 00:13:10.959 --> 00:13:11.959 hers. 00:13:11.959 --> 00:13:17.780 A short few seconds later, and she soon hears a voice hailing her from the other sled. 00:13:17.780 --> 00:13:23.600 SCP-3710-1 greets her as a valued customer and gives a disjointed opening speech as an 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:25.530 introduction to its sales pitch. 00:13:25.530 --> 00:13:29.910 It begins by talking about doing something important even when the odds are not in your 00:13:29.910 --> 00:13:31.430 favor. 00:13:31.430 --> 00:13:36.949 SCP-3710-1 claims brands are just perception, and that perceptions can change over time. 00:13:36.949 --> 00:13:40.860 Then, it doubles down its previous statement, by stating that brands are just the collective 00:13:40.860 --> 00:13:42.410 impression of a product. 00:13:42.410 --> 00:13:46.060 That’s when it offers her a brand new Tesla electric car. 00:13:46.060 --> 00:13:51.889 Confused, the Agent questions if SCP-3710-1 is meant to be who she thinks it’s meant 00:13:51.889 --> 00:13:52.889 to be. 00:13:52.889 --> 00:13:57.889 The entity claims it is, indeed, the one and only highly recognizable businessman. 00:13:57.889 --> 00:14:01.750 It also states that it would be in violation of SpaceX policy if it wasn’t who it claims 00:14:01.750 --> 00:14:06.420 to be before then offering the Foundation Agent a Tesla for over two hundred thousand 00:14:06.420 --> 00:14:07.420 dollars. 00:14:07.420 --> 00:14:11.790 When she rejects the offer and tells the entity she can’t afford that, it then lowers the 00:14:11.790 --> 00:14:15.029 price to a hundred and fifty thousand. 00:14:15.029 --> 00:14:20.290 SCP-3710-1 also claims that when Henry Ford first made cheap, reliable cars available 00:14:20.290 --> 00:14:24.649 to the public, there were those who rejected this in favor of horses. 00:14:24.649 --> 00:14:28.459 The Agent follows her prior instructions and tells the entity for a second time that the 00:14:28.459 --> 00:14:30.970 asking price is too expensive. 00:14:30.970 --> 00:14:37.860 Using presumably much the same justification the real Elon Musk employs, SCP-3710-1 explains 00:14:37.860 --> 00:14:41.420 that offering a compelling product means charging a premium. 00:14:41.420 --> 00:14:46.889 However, it then offers Agent McCormick the third, lower price of fifty thousand dollars. 00:14:46.889 --> 00:14:51.940 It even makes the lofty promise that she could be driving her new Tesla as early as the following 00:14:51.940 --> 00:14:53.290 day. 00:14:53.290 --> 00:14:56.980 Just as she has been told to, the Agent accepts the much lower price. 00:14:56.980 --> 00:15:01.680 As thanks for doing business, the product-hawking anomaly includes an additional bonus to her 00:15:01.680 --> 00:15:02.680 purchase. 00:15:02.680 --> 00:15:06.980 It says it will give the Agent a once in a lifetime add-on, and not one typically seen 00:15:06.980 --> 00:15:09.920 with other electric car purchases. 00:15:09.920 --> 00:15:15.120 SCP-3710-1 claims it will give cybernetic rocket propulsion enhancements to both Agent 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:17.420 McCormick and her team of sled dogs. 00:15:17.420 --> 00:15:23.060 It tells her that the first step is to establish something as physically impossible, then cybernetic 00:15:23.060 --> 00:15:24.180 surgery can occur. 00:15:24.180 --> 00:15:28.320 Before the Agent can even question what is going on, something happens that causes her 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.269 to suddenly vanish without a trace. 00:15:31.269 --> 00:15:35.199 The Foundation is confounded following the loss of contact with Agent McCormick. 00:15:35.199 --> 00:15:39.170 A team of retrieval operatives is deployed to her latest known location, within the area 00:15:39.170 --> 00:15:41.630 of Alaska where the Iditarod takes place. 00:15:41.630 --> 00:15:46.490 They follow her latest recorded GPS tracker to find no evidence of where she went or what 00:15:46.490 --> 00:15:47.990 happened to her. 00:15:47.990 --> 00:15:52.060 Even the dogs that had been pulling her sled are nowhere to be found. 00:15:52.060 --> 00:15:55.950 Any hope that she’d be found alive and well dissipates the moment that the retrieval team 00:15:55.950 --> 00:16:00.580 comes across Agent McCormick’s abandoned sled, left unattended in the middle of the 00:16:00.580 --> 00:16:01.580 trail. 00:16:01.580 --> 00:16:06.991 Beyond the audio recordings of the interaction between the Agent and SCP-3710-1, this is 00:16:06.991 --> 00:16:11.050 only one other piece of evidence to prove that it even took place at all. 00:16:11.050 --> 00:16:15.800 Foundation agents notice a bank transfer, bearing the exact date of Agent McCormick’s 00:16:15.800 --> 00:16:17.509 untimely disappearance. 00:16:17.509 --> 00:16:21.949 The amount transferred is fifty thousand dollars, sent from an SCP Foundation front company 00:16:21.949 --> 00:16:25.170 to the sales account of Tesla Inc. 00:16:25.170 --> 00:16:28.670 For three whole weeks following the incident, there’s no change. 00:16:28.670 --> 00:16:33.550 No sign of the missing Agent, and no reappearance of SCP-3710. 00:16:33.550 --> 00:16:37.149 That is until a blip is noticed on one of the SCP Foundation’s monitors. 00:16:37.149 --> 00:16:42.680 A tiny, blinking spot on a map, highlighting a location so far away that nobody would ever 00:16:42.680 --> 00:16:45.050 think to even search there. 00:16:45.050 --> 00:16:48.430 Agent McCormick’s GPS locator has reactivated… 00:16:48.430 --> 00:16:50.699 But she’s not in Alaska anymore. 00:16:50.699 --> 00:16:55.730 Instead, the signal relayed to the Foundation puts her over five and a half thousand miles 00:16:55.730 --> 00:16:58.399 away… in Tahiti. 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:02.060 The Foundation hurry to triangulate her exact position, and a retrieval team is sent out 00:17:02.060 --> 00:17:03.410 to her coordinates. 00:17:03.410 --> 00:17:07.160 It looks like she’s somewhere off the western coast of the French Polynesian island, in 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:09.360 the shallower waters of the Pacific Ocean. 00:17:09.360 --> 00:17:13.709 The team rushes to the location, hoping that if they make it quick enough, their fellow 00:17:13.709 --> 00:17:16.110 Foundation operative will still be alive… 00:17:16.110 --> 00:17:21.120 although we’re not certain any of them could predict what they’d actually find. 00:17:21.120 --> 00:17:25.640 Following the GPS locator, the team discovers a Tesla Model 3; a car that isn’t due to 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:29.230 be released until several months from the time they found it. 00:17:29.230 --> 00:17:33.010 Immediately, the retrieval experts begin to examine the vehicle, searching for any further 00:17:33.010 --> 00:17:34.940 signs of the missing Foundation agent. 00:17:34.940 --> 00:17:38.090 And sure enough, they quickly find her. 00:17:38.090 --> 00:17:40.910 Agent McCormick is alive in the trunk of the electric vehicle… 00:17:40.910 --> 00:17:45.210 although not exactly in the same state she was in when she disappeared. 00:17:45.210 --> 00:17:49.950 Much to the horror of those that have discovered her, the Agent has undergone severe and invasive 00:17:49.950 --> 00:17:52.559 cybernetic surgical modification. 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:56.440 Anyone with an affinity for that type of enhancement might hope for a mechanical arm that shoots 00:17:56.440 --> 00:18:01.360 rockets or has hidden blades, or maybe a spinal device that can make a person run faster than 00:18:01.360 --> 00:18:02.900 the human eye can perceive. 00:18:02.900 --> 00:18:07.090 But Foundation Agent Shiane McCormick isn’t so lucky. 00:18:07.090 --> 00:18:12.440 Her entire lower jaw, including her oesophagus, has been replaced with a Raptor propulsion 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:13.530 device. 00:18:13.530 --> 00:18:17.169 Whoever is responsible for the mechanical modification of the missing Agent had left 00:18:17.169 --> 00:18:21.080 a handwritten note attached to Agent McCormick’s forehead, which read: 00:18:21.080 --> 00:18:24.080 “Thank you for purchasing from Tesla Incorporated! 00:18:24.080 --> 00:18:28.240 We deeply regret the conditions under which we are forced to return your representative. 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:32.030 An accident occurred when they attempted to prevent the agreed upon dog modification, 00:18:32.030 --> 00:18:37.460 as stated in Article 1 subsection 3 of our verbal purchase agreement: “Upon purchase, 00:18:37.460 --> 00:18:42.020 the customer shall cede all dogs in his/her possession for propulsion modification, in 00:18:42.020 --> 00:18:45.610 preparation for SpaceX's excursion to Enceladus.” 00:18:45.610 --> 00:18:49.570 The note then concludes with a link to fill out a customer satisfaction survey. 00:18:49.570 --> 00:18:54.299 Foundation experts would later discover that this URL posed a cognitohazardous threat. 00:18:54.299 --> 00:18:58.170 Additionally, the note contained thanks for the Agent’s contribution of money and dogs 00:18:58.170 --> 00:19:01.350 towards the Tesla-SpaceX rocket dog initiative. 00:19:01.350 --> 00:19:05.570 After stating he hopes they’ll shop with Telsa again, the note is signed with the all-too-familiar 00:19:05.570 --> 00:19:08.390 name of the company’s infamous CEO. 00:19:08.390 --> 00:19:11.890 The following year, the Iditarod starts up once again. 00:19:11.890 --> 00:19:17.299 And just like many times before, SCP-3710 makes its usual repeat appearance. 00:19:17.299 --> 00:19:19.720 But this time, there’s a slight difference. 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:27.000 Now, a second, identical instance of SCP-3710-1 manifests alongside the original, with its 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:30.929 own matching rocket-powered sled, complete with cybernetically modified dogs. 00:19:30.929 --> 00:19:35.110 The dog team pulling this new instance’s sled match the description of the dogs that 00:19:35.110 --> 00:19:37.600 had pulled Agent McCormick’s sled a year earlier. 00:19:37.600 --> 00:19:42.210 But, of course, they, too, have seemingly undergone the same cybernetic surgery to implant 00:19:42.210 --> 00:19:44.789 them with Raptor propulsion devices. 00:19:44.789 --> 00:19:50.320 The SCP Foundation’s researchers theorize that SCP-3710 manifests during the Iditarod 00:19:50.320 --> 00:19:52.710 race primarily for two reasons. 00:19:52.710 --> 00:19:56.850 For one, it’s an isolated route through the snowy tundra of Alaska, with not a lot 00:19:56.850 --> 00:20:00.470 of witnesses, save for the participating sled racers and their dogs. 00:20:00.470 --> 00:20:04.500 But therein lies the second reason: the dogs. 00:20:04.500 --> 00:20:08.179 Given the intense physical training these sled dogs undergo, it seems that makes them 00:20:08.179 --> 00:20:16.090 ideal candidates for SCP-3710’s cruel, sadistic, and unapproved cybernetic experiments. 00:20:16.090 --> 00:20:19.130 As the old adage says, buyer beware. 00:20:19.130 --> 00:20:23.880 And as a general rule of thumb, we’d recommend not buying anything from someone who claims 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:25.220 to be a genius. 00:20:25.220 --> 00:20:29.940 Instead, use that money to join the Dr. Bob Patreon and become a junior researcher today! 00:20:29.940 --> 00:20:35.030 Now go and watch another entry from the files of Dr. Bob, like SCP-280 Eyes in the Dark!