38:31 Khufu is the young man around Ness's age.
12:04 Sure. I mean, as a young woman taking care of a child that is not her own, Shakti is basically already working as a nanny or governess. She's just not getting any wages for it. There is a sense of having missed a step here. Like there is some context that we aren't seeing some period of negotiation about USO and Marbet taking the shuttle into space, about this little play acting they do. Some of the old men from the polycule, plus Lieutenant Gomez, are standing in the air traffic control room with pistols. And from their expressions and the way they interact with each other, it's pretty clear they're not actually threatening these guys, but they're doing a little pretend hostage situation. Marbet does the fake tanty hose hijacker thing.
07:58 Why does he know that? Is Odello a space noid whose family came to Earth, or is Odello a space nerd who just loves all of this stuff and has spent his whole life waiting for an opportunity to go out into space and do cool space stuff? Because I think that's an alternate explanation for why he would stow away aboard the shuttle and abandon Susie. Cause the only thing he says Uso challenges him. He's like, why did you abandon Susie? And the only thing Odello says is what? We were supposed to bring a little kid along with us when we stowed away on this shuttle. So the stowing away on the shuttle is assumed they were gonna do that, and it was only a question of whether they brought Suzy along with them or not. And if you view it from their perspective, that stowing away on the shuttle was a must do, then leaving Susie behind becomes not an act of neglect, but one of protection. She's too young for something so dangerous now. They botched it. They didn't explain it to her or anything.