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I was alone in a room one hundred thousand miles from Perth. My body
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lay dead before me, and yet I spoke and felt and lived. Behind
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me lay a tortured world before me, the moon and destiny again. I
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felt a surge of power, and had I been able to, I would
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have smiled. My mission was accomplished. No one knew, no one understood.
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If they had, they would not believe this was a project three thousand
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years old. Yet no one had guessed. No one. Listen now to
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two thousand plus o lovesand plus adventures into the World of Tomorrow science fiction stories
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from the years beyond two thousand AD. Today a story entitled Flying Saucers.
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It is the year two thousand plus twelve. A blazing New Mexico sun shines
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down upon a great military installation, upon a vast, noisy field, and
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upon a silvery shape which seems to strain forward, ready to leap up into
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space. In an executive office, a man sits in his chair, his
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eyes on the great rocket. The islim. A girl waits for him to
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speak. Let her close that window, iolin and always won't let a man
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think, yes, ah, that's better. I'm ready. Doctor Bronson.
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Get this on tape as well as in shorthand. It's for the permanent files
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in Washington. It's gotta go out on the next jet. I'll give you
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a signed Cheater stationary, send it off to make the five o'clock connection.
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You got that yes recorder on the letter to be transcribed over your signature and
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sent off on the five o'clock connecting plane. Right heading top secret two National
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Scientific Council copies to Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Defense, the President
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from Andrew Bronson. Forget the usual string of titles Alan Chief, Government of
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Extraterrestrial Research, White Sands, New Mexico, regarding defense measures against sterial visitors
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listed in file AA two eighty six as Flying Saucers one. For the past
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three months, this secret experimental installation has been visited by Flying Saucers. First
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appearance coincided with the launching of our secret flying missiles Zeus. The tales in
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reports C B two, eight six, A B and C two. Although
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the Flying Saurces have never landed, the frequency of their visits has tripled since
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the launching, as reported in the file Sighted. Zeus is not yet returned
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three In view of the importance to national security of this secret installation and its
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experiments. The reports already mentioned were reviewed by JCS and the National Scientific Council.
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It was decided that the Flying Sources were a potential menace and that countermeasures
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be undertaken. Form ZEUS two, an improved model of our secret flying missile
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has been completed and armed. It is equipped with mass attraction and proximity fuse
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devices. Warhead contains five thousand pounds hexinite firing control automatic C file CB three
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four four five. The station has been placed in condition alert. Next visit
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from the Flying Sources is expected momentarily. In view of the foregoing we are
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in complete readiness s we will attack, repeat, we will attack. Ah.
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Now, where's my pen? Andrew? Uh? This one doesn't work.
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Oh, I'll get it. I saw your pen and your best.
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Don't touch that best. I Uh, I'll get it myself. Did I
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do something wrong? No? No, no, they'll uh well, you
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might have been hurt? Hurt? No, not mine? Here you are
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my signature? No on your way, Andrew? Why can't I stay?
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You know the orders I lean. We're going to test ZEUS too. You
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know, anything can happen. Maybe the flying sauces will come back. If
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they do, we'll be ready for them. Besides, if the rudder should
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go wrong or the hechs and I detonate, no, no, no,
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on your way now, the jet cars waiting downstairs. H very well,
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but you will be careful, won't you? Of course? Oh, Eileen,
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yeah, I've never told you. Never mind, my dear, my
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darling, Doctor Bronson's security come in security security has ms harkness. Well,
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that's funny. I expected to too, after sending off her latest reports.
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She should be home now, are you sure, sir? Something must have
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happened to a Sunday security officer to check what about the set up for the
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new test? Alright? I hope nothing happens any report of flying No,
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sir, not yet. But sir, there's something funny about that. Every
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time we get ready for a test, even one of the minor missiles,
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one of the saucers appears. That's too much of a coincidence for comfort,
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sir. Yes, I've thought of that too. You think that's a leak
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somewhere. Yes, we've checked and rechecked nothing, but there's no doubt that
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someone's passing on information I see. Of course, we'll keep on checking whoever
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is responsible? Walter Bronson Radar Control to doctor Bronson Johnson here, what is
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it? Flygs houser detected and registered. Computation Center fed data data follows distance
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four eighty six miles hight fifty point two miles, speed five miles per second.
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Estimated time of arrival at contact point one minute fifty eight seconds from now
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fifty eight right uh let fire control. Fire Control alerted, Sir, when
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may we expect you in thirty seconds? Over and off? Are you still
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on security? I sir? Clear the field field already clear of just an
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emergency rent signal. We're waiting control Sir, very well. I'm coming down
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right now, over and off. Let me have my headset in hand.
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Mark's cunning. Yes, thank you Bronson, the fire control, fire control
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the Bronson. Everything ready here, Chief Dolly is cleared from Zeus to warhead
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arm Well done, runs the computation m mutation. Your figures checked through cybernetics.
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Yes, sir, as reported, Zeus too should destroy flying saucers six
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seconds after blast off. Firing time twenty two hundred thirty three hours, thirty
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six seconds. Time check everyone. Time is now thirty two seconds to blast
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off condition red. I shall operate fire control remote strap in for firing.
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Security security I report field clear guards alerted and shielded, anti radiation of war
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hit armed. Soon's two ready any further hand seconds nine eight seven six five
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form three two one fire get a bearing on that projectory competition trajectory established and
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being pennymag conjectory connections, paramotic salary factors, receiving contact twenty thirty three point
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two D work everyone security condition brain. Oh boys, I'll wait till someone
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phones in where the pieces fell, and then maybe we'll be finally knowing what
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the flying sauces are. Yes, God, he a security located Aileen Harkness,
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No, sir, not yet. Captain McDonald's here, sir. Here's
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a man with him, says you should see him immediately. Uh well,
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all right, bring him in. Yes, what McDonald thought you'd like to
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hear this here? This is Al Waters, the rancher from upstate. He
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flew down from his ranch this morning, reported to the state police. They
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sent him to us. The saucer. Yes, where is mister warping the
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wreck wreck? I didn't see no wreck, dog, What did you see?
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I've seen a flying saucer come down about half a mile from my ranch
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house. Start this morning when I was going after lost calf. He swears,
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the sausage on damaged. Doctor Bronson, hah, well it may not
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be the one we you flew down, mister Water. Yeah, got my
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own jetplane. Well can you take me up with you to your ranch?
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I mean, sure, care glad, all right, we'll leave immediately.
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A scotty you round up the crew everyone, have them load everything we need
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on the transport for the big job. One can't spect. You give us
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two hours? All right, now, mister Waters, let's get your ranch.
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There's a flying saucer dog where you see them? Two peaks and that
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platau between them. You see it that? Now the sun's hit it.
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It is on damaged. I'm putting her down. Did you see any signs
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of life in anything moving? No, said course, I didn't get too
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closeed sized might larry the thing. I understand. It's just as well you
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didn't. He Hey, wait, does he stop rolling? Dot? You're
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all excited anytime, I'm afraid so even scientists get excited sometimes. Yeah,
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sure is big, ain't she? Yes? This must be about three hundred
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feet in diameter. Now there's an ally. Hey you going in? Was
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that uh round door open when you first saw this? U don't know,
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don't remember if you're going in, doc, I'm going with you. Wow,
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thank you. I'm gonna be safe if there's two of us. Ain't
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got a gun? Uh no, I'm glad I got mine. Then?
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Never can tell what you'll bump into. Don't you think you oughta wait for
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the rest of your game? Oh? I can't. I've got to see
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what's in there? Okay? Want you ahead? Right in? The dollar?
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Is stoup claused? It's over looping? Not well? Look at there?
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Sure looks complicated, don't it. This must be the control room.
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I can't wait to spect that. Another door over there. Yes, you'd
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better stay here. Don't touch anything. I'll see if there's anyone. Is
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still a board? Okay, dog, keep your eyes open. A larger
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room. This must be the cruise quarters. There's no one here, let's
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not What's that? I starts getting it for a second and I'll take a
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look through it. I mean, I mean, wake up, wake up,
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I'm conscious, I lean still unconscious. How did she get here?
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I've gotta get a doctor. What what is who we are you doing it
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at control board? If you look through the porthole, doctor Bronson, you'll
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notice that we're miles up, still accelerating. We would've been higher if I
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hadn't to take such care with my take off. What is you crazy?
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Who are you? Are you taking me us? You were right when you
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guessed that this is not the saucer you destroyed. It isn't. You were
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wrong when you said there was no crew on board. There is. You
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see, I am the crew. You should consider yourself very fortunate, doctor
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Bronson. It's not everyone who can view the Earth from a distance of a
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hundred thousand miles. You can put that gun away. Let me take care
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of his Harkness. I've already assured you there's nothing wrong with her, merely
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an advanced soporific. She'll recover quickly. Fact here she is now, angel
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I lean, stay where you are. He has a gun? Rawly?
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How did I get here? I think you'd better sit down, miss Harkness?
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Who's he? I don't know? He calls himself waters. Where are
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we? I looked out of a porthole. Don't be frightened, Elean Where
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we're on a flying saucer, a flying saucer. Yes, how did you
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get here? I I don't know. I sent off the report, got
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into the car and woke up here one of my operatives. I shall now
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engage the automatic controls and the ship will fly itself until we get to the
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boon. Yes, that is our first stop. You see, fast as
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this sorcer is, it would take us centuries to get to our ultimate destination.
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So we must transfer to a matter converter at our base on the Moon,
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and we shall be in Core almost instantly. Cor What are you talking
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about? Perhaps a little explanation is due you. We Core are the inhabitants
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of the Solar system you know as Rigel. But that's five hundred light years
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away exactly. Although the speed of what you Earthmen have been pleased to call
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our flying saucers is approximately that of light, even that speed would entail a
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round trip of the thousand years. True, the Core are almost immortal.
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But for efficiency's sake, we set up a matter converter to flash us,
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or rather, I should say, our operatives through space instantaneously our bases on
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the dark side of the Moon. From there we trans shift to the saucers.
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But Why why are you so interested in Earth? Why haven't you,
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let us know, sent representatives to the World Councils one thing at a time,
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Doctor Bradson, I see you partake of your pulp writer's suspicions that we
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intend to take over the Earth. The truth is just the opposite. We
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want Earth left strictly alone for our research. How can we believe that the
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truth is self explanatory. We've been visiting the Earth for over three thousand years.
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Three thousand years, yes, miss Hardness, But why for what reason?
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A very simple reason. Our interests differ from yours. Without research,
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we become bored to spend eternity. I bored them. Well, we are
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primarily psychologists social psychologists, while you are engrossed in a mechanical civilization. Of
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course, we fostered that development. I still don't understand it. I didn't
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expect you to. However, in every society, there are certain problems,
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shall I say, which can only be solved experimentally. We have used you
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humans in our experiments. Extremely interesting. You mean you've been using us as
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guinea pigs, as experimental animals. You had put it that way if you
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wish. I still don't see how through our operatives. That's the third time
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you mentioned operatives. What do you mean We corps possessed no body as you
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know it. We are constructed of energy. In order for us to visit
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Earth, it was necessary for us to construct human bodies and to inhabit them.
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We thereupon had an operative who could go to work on Earth. You
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couldn't have gotten away with it. Some one must have suspected exactly. There
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were a huge suspicions. So we took the memory of life on cors away
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from our operatives and landed them on her, complete with an Earth history.
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You may remember Alexander, Alexander the Great. He was one of our operatives
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and Froansvoi Villon. His task was to satirize his time and to lead the
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unrest which brought on the French Revolution. There we had another Maras beyond Maras.
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It's incredible. I am tall as one of your earth men. Emerson
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said, an institution is the link and shadow of one man. We saw
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to it that the key men in each age were ours our appetises. The
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problems they set Earth gave our scientists much material to work with, enough for
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another few thousand years. Then our inventions. Our our scientific advances were or
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pushed on by you. Yes, like giving an ap ape a stick to
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see what he will do with it. Too, And our wars are revolution
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naturally, wars and revolutions are part of the research. They're all part of
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the master plan. But don't forget we foster genius too. Why are you
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telling us all this? Surely that must be clear even to you. You
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are perhaps the leading scientist in America, certainly the leading figure in the use
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of atomic power for extra terrestrial research A key man. Doesn't that suggest something
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to you? No, I can't believe it is. Certainly, my dear
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Bronson, you were one of our operatives. You've done your work, but
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your experiments have endangered our base on the Moon. So it's time to transport
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you back to Korn the Single. We are approaching our base. It will
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be a comfort to leave this unpleasant body and to resume my right. Bronson,
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put on that head here here, put the sanctum of your love.
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I guess will clear away in a moment. I think it's all right now.
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So, of course, was directed with this this corn? What was
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it? I had a gas pen in my vest an idea which was originated
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after some of our scientists were kidnapped by the Eastern Alliance, and never thought
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I'd have to use it on something like this. Is he no, no,
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merely unconscious for a few minutes. The gas is harmless. See if
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you can find something to put around his hands and feet. Well, I
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see if I can operate the controls. So we've got to get back to
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Earth, all right, Andrew. They won't believe us story, but they'll
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have to believe the ship. I can't find anything to you better hurry,
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true, what is it? We haven't much? I thought you said the
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gas was harmless. Of course, it is that this man isn't unconscious.
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He's dead dead. There's no pulse, no breathing, no heartbeat. Andrew,
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I get hold of yourself. I don't know how it was his life
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or ours. I mean I neglected to inform you that the core of the
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upper grades can leave his body as he pleases. I see that I underestimated
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you, doctor Bronson. You saw immediately that my weakest point was the human
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body, of which I complained, very clever. I can't move, I
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need no future alarms and hands. In this form, a core carries power
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for A core is power. I take it you will rid us of our
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bodies too. Precisely, isn't there anything if it comes to forget you you
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can make us forget? Unfortunately the matter is out of my hands. My
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orders were to recall too operatives. Two. Yes, miss Heartness was a
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psychomatrist in her previous shall I call it incarnation? An excellent one too?
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Draga moore, Eileen, as you're not called. But this is in human
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Precisely, I am not not human that I mean. Go. I'll go
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with you gladly, but I be Andrew take me instead. The answer is
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the same for both of you. No, what kind of fiends I do?
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Isn't there one of you with pity? Just one who knows what we
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fear, who's helped the agony of the millions you've made your guinea pigs?
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You're speaking of sympathy? No Ah, I guess, yes, I stand
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directed. There was one of cour who felt that strange emotion card an art
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being is I recall? And I suppose you killed him? No, a
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core being energy cannot be destroyed. We captured Kard and exiled him to your
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planet, an enormous task. He was one of our greatest scientists. That
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makes it all the more strange. You say he wished to stop our experiment.
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We lost track of him. But no matter, the unfit must go.
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That is the paramount law of nature. A love of these aggressions,
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It is tiring. Least let me say good bye. A little time must
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elapse before I can build up the energy to free you of your body.
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You may have the time. Besides, it is a new experience to me.
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Oh, most interesting, Aileen, darling. It's too late now,
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but I want you to know I love you. I've loved you ever since
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you walked into my office three years ago. And I love you, Andrew.
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I always have, I always will. A very touching don't be afraid,
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my darling, this touching of lip to lip, very interesting energy is
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undoubtedly transmitted and very well, doctor Bronson. It is tiding you take me
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first. Let him done, Andrew, Huh, your emotion is senseless.
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I'm merely returning the two of you to your true being, Oh Andrew,
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Why darling, my darling, So this is your odd emotion called love.
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This should make an interesting report, a minor report. It is true,
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but you would have done your work, oh locan you would have done your
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work too well. You You are not the opperative I was sent for No,
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I am kardon at last. But now with two centuries of power,
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power I learned on Earth, there is no care. Who can withstand me
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now? O Sympathy is the ability to feel what others feel. How do
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you feel now, local, I don't understand unscientific unscient No say mercy,
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say it, un sign mercy, mercy. There shall be changes on Care.
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We must leave Earth alone to work out its destiny in its own way.
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Now, go to the converter and await me there, Dragon, myleen
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and it. Don't be afraid. The transition is painless. It is so
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much for us to do on Core, so much to teach Android. I
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cannot. I'm so frightened. Don't be me. Your power will soon be
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with me, For you too, are call what those fools didn't know.
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Ret Emotion too is power. With your love and mine, we can right
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the wrongs Core has done to Earth, various eternity for both of us to
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spend together. I mean, Dragon, I'm ready, my darling now and
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forever. Next week on two thousand plus, another dramatic story of unbelievable adventure,
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the story of a world of the past locked in the world of tomorrow.
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Time out of hand, be sure to listen. Two thousand plus is
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produced and directed by a Dryer and when Olson Productions incorporated. In today's production,
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Ralph Bell portrayed Doctor Bronson, though Van Ruten was Waters, Brina Rayburn
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was Eileen, Ken Williams was Scottie. A script was written by vier Gerson.
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The Lechester was conducted by Emerson Buckley, music opposed by Elliott J.
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Kobe, sound Wald Shaver and Adrian Peder. Engineer Martin Nghauser. This is
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Ken Marvin speaking and