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2000 Plus - "Worlds Apart" (1950) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: November 29, 1950 brought mutual listeners the 37th broadcast of 2000+.
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  Speaker 1: In Worlds Apart, the spaceship Phoenix sets out on a
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  Speaker 1: pioneering flight to Neptune, carrying Captain Roberts, rocket engineer Jim Granger,
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  Speaker 1: and a varied group of passengers. An unexpected navigational crisis
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  Speaker 1: brings the ship down at the isolated Green Valley installation.
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  Speaker 1: where the rescued travelers find unfamiliar technology, strict rules, and
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  Speaker 1: authorities who offer few answers. A half-hour journey from mutual
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  Speaker 1: science fiction anthology. Now, back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 1: Transcribed earlier or released to our West Coast audience at
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  Speaker 1: this more convenient listening time. Central Operational Headquarters, Commander Dystra speaking.
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  Speaker 1: This morning at 400 hours, our electronic scanners picked up
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  Speaker 1: on oscillator frequency an unidentified spacecraft in Sector K beyond
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  Speaker 1: the gravitational field of the planet Mars. Our calculations indicate
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  Speaker 1: that this craft will arrive in Space Sector G within
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  Speaker 1: the next 24 hours. Emergency directions to all defense units.
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  Speaker 1: Coordinate high-voltage destroyers to.
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  Speaker 2: Cover Area G.
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  Speaker 1: All units on alert for assault action.
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  Speaker 2: To learn what happened when the strange craft from outer
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  Speaker 2: space came into Sector G, listen in a moment to
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  Speaker 2: 2000 Plus. Adventures in the World of Tomorrow. Dramatic stories
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  Speaker 2: of science fiction from the years beyond 2000 A.D. Today,
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  Speaker 2: the strange adventure of men who dared the unknown through
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  Speaker 2: interplanetary space.
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  Speaker 3: Worlds Apart.
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  Speaker 2: And one thing more, Johnson. Your new Alamoid space suit
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  Speaker 2: has been tested and it's everything you claimed it to be. Light, pliable, fireproof,
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  Speaker 2: a splendid product. We'll want 50 of them in time
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  Speaker 2: for the next space flight three weeks from now.
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  Speaker 1: Can you make it?
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  Speaker 4: Excellent. Good luck, Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Your son is here, Mr. Granger.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to see you.
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  Speaker 5: Jim here? Well, tell him I can. All right, send
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  Speaker 5: him in.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: And Miss Ames, tell Roberts he can start punching tape
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  Speaker 2: for the mechanical pilot on Flight 17.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Granger. Hello, Dad.
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  Speaker 1: How are you, Jim?
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  Speaker 4: Dad, I've come to ask a favor of you.
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  Speaker 5: A big favor.
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  Speaker 1: Well, talk fast, son.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very busy.
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  Speaker 5: What is it you want?
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  Speaker 4: I want to be assigned to Flight 17. What?
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  Speaker 2: Flight 17?
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  Speaker 4: To Neptune?
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  Speaker 1: Are you crazy? No, Dad.
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  Speaker 4: I've been thinking about this for months.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can stop thinking about it right now. There's
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  Speaker 2: no opening for.
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  Speaker 1: You, sir.
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  Speaker 4: I happen to know there is, Dad.
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  Speaker 1: Golding's down with a bad case of acceleration bends.
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  Speaker 4: They'll need a new rocket engineer. But you're too young,
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  Speaker 4: too green.
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  Speaker 2: I've done 42 experimentals and three moon hops.
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  Speaker 5: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 4: Ready?
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  Speaker 5: This is an uncharted trip, Jim.
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  Speaker 1: A trailblazer.
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  Speaker 2: You know what happened to the first flight to the moon,
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  Speaker 2: don't you?
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  Speaker 4: Ah, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Crashed on the lip of a giant crypt.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and the first ship that tried to reach Mars.
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  Speaker 4: Went haywire and shot off into deep space.
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  Speaker 2: And still you want to make this first flight to Neptune?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you have courage, son. I'll say that. But you're
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  Speaker 5: not going.
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  Speaker 4: Why not? Jim, it's not up to me.
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  Speaker 2: Captain Roberts chooses his own rocket engineer... You know, all
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  Speaker 2: I do is okay the.
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  Speaker 4: Man he selects. Then I guess I'll be making the
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  Speaker 4: flight then.
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  Speaker 1: You see, I persuaded Captain Roberts to select me. Captain
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  Speaker 1: Roberts on spaceship Phoenix on flight to Neptune calling Marshal Granger,
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  Speaker 1: Control Station 2. Roberts calling Granger. Are we still in contact?
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  Speaker 1: Roberts calling Granger. Do you read us?
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  Speaker 5: Granger, Control Station 2. We read you, Roberts. We're still
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  Speaker 5: in contact. Go ahead, Roberts. Ready to report, sir. Proceed.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of 120 hours of flight, conditions are
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  Speaker 1: entirely normal. Crew and passengers have passed safely through five accelerations.
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  Speaker 1: We are cruising now at a speed of 12 galactic
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  Speaker 1: miles per second.
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  Speaker 5: Excellent, Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: Continue.
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  Speaker 5: Astrogation reading.
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  Speaker 1: Take it, Sandy.
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  Speaker 3: Astrogator Lawson reporting. Our position in space-time units, 17 hours,
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  Speaker 3: 4 minutes to the Mars-Jupiter axis, sector G. 23 degrees
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  Speaker 3: off the plane at the ecliptic.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly on course, Lawson. Well done.
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  Speaker 4: Rocket control.
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  Speaker 5: Take it, Jim.
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  Speaker 2: Rocket engineer Granger reporting.
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  Speaker 5: Average rocket discharge rate, 12.7.
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  Speaker 2: Consumption level, 19%. Available supply, $ 300 would be two safety factors.
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  Speaker 5: Good work, son. Congratulations, all of you. Keep it up.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. Signing off. Huh. Everything okay back in
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  Speaker 5: the lodge, Jim?
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  Speaker 2: All quiet a few minutes ago when I passed the roof.
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  Speaker 1: How about that chess game? Those two physicists.
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  Speaker 4: Still at it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they're in no hurry.
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  Speaker 5: 50,000 miles to a move.
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  Speaker 1: Mm, real thrillers. And, uh, the music lovers?
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  Speaker 4: Wearing a groove in Beethoven's Fifth. You know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: see how anybody... Dick.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Watch your controls, pal. We've been swinging off course.
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  Speaker 5: Off course?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're nuts, lad.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't taken my eye off the chart for a second.
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  Speaker 5: We've been right on the line.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, we're off course, Dick.
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  Speaker 1: Six points.
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  Speaker 3: Better bring her back.
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  Speaker 5: You sure, Sandy?
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  Speaker 3: Am I sure?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sorry, Sandy. Stupid question.
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  Speaker 5: Stand by for directional correction. Standing by.
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  Speaker 1: Lateral deviation, 6.2.
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  Speaker 4: Speed, 12.
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  Speaker 1: Magnetic index, gamma 5.
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  Speaker 3: Portside and auxiliary rockets, 5, 7, 13, 15.
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  Speaker 4: Ready to discharge. Discharge. Discharge.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's that. I still don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Dick.
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  Speaker 5: Something wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 5: Wrong?
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: We're off again.
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  Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: We swung into line for a second, then we pulled
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  Speaker 3: right out again.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, but that's impossible, Sandy. There isn't any wind drift
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  Speaker 1: occurring out here in space. Anything in motion moves in
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  Speaker 1: a straight line until it comes within the magnetic field
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  Speaker 1: of some body.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm afraid of, Dick. I think we're caught
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  Speaker 3: in the toe of some tremendous mass.
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  Speaker 2: What mass, Sandy?
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  Speaker 1: The sun, Mars, Jupiter, everything's where it belongs, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: There aren't any unknown bodies floating about?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe there are.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe there....
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  Speaker 3: Like what, Sandy? A comet.
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  Speaker 5: A comet?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a comet. That's what it must be. A wild,
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  Speaker 3: uncharted comet from outer space.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Dick.
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  Speaker 5: The atmosphere gauge is way up.
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  Speaker 4: We're not flying through a vacuum.
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  Speaker 5: There's something else out there now.
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  Speaker 4: Some sort of atmosphere.
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  Speaker 5: Gas.
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  Speaker 3: Hot gases forming.
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  Speaker 5: The tail of the comet.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, Sandy.
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  Speaker 1: Listen. Hot gases and other things, too.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Sounds like pellets of some kind. Stones.
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  Speaker 1: They're fragments.
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  Speaker 3: Meteorites.
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  Speaker 4: All trailing behind the comet.
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  Speaker 5: We're caught, Dick.
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  Speaker 4: Caught right in the middle of it. The ship.
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  Speaker 1: It's just beginning to spin. We'll be dragged clean out
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  Speaker 1: of the solar system.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps out of the galaxy. Maybe not, Sandy. There's one chance.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we can blast ourselves free.
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  Speaker 2: Alert.
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  Speaker 4: Alert.
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  Speaker 1: All personnel to emergency acceleration couches. Prepare to discharge all
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  Speaker 1: port side rockets.
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  Speaker 4: Good. Do you know what you're doing? 127 rockets going
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  Speaker 4: off at once.
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  Speaker 5: You'll blow us abyss.
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  Speaker 4: Our only chance, Jim.
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  Speaker 5: Here goes.
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  Speaker 1: Five seconds. Discharge.
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  Speaker 5: Discharge.
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  Speaker 2: Granger, Control Tower, calling Spaceship Phoenix. Granger, calling Phoenix.
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  Speaker 6: Come in, Phoenix.
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  Speaker 2: Granger to Space Patrol, special alert. Spaceship Phoenix bound for Neptune,
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  Speaker 2: missing 12 hours.
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  Speaker 5: May be lost or out of control.
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  Speaker 2: All units stand by to intercept signals, if any.
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  Speaker 4: Frequency, 40,000.
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  Speaker 2: Relay any information to Marshal Granger, Control Tower 2.
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  Speaker 5: That is all. Where are you, son?
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  Speaker 4: Where are you?
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  Speaker 3: What happened?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my head.
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  Speaker 1: I got to get up.
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  Speaker 4: I got to see... Sandy.
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  Speaker 3: Sandy, get up.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, man.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Sandy.
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  Speaker 5: Dead. Dick, you're all right.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Jim, I'm all right.
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  Speaker 1: But Sandy... I know.
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  Speaker 4: Head cracked against the control panel. Three passengers are dead,
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  Speaker 4: but we're out of it, Dick. Something threw us clear
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  Speaker 4: of the comet, some centrifugal force.
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  Speaker 5: Help me up, Jim, quick.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the control panel.
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  Speaker 5: Take it easy, Dick.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my head.
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  Speaker 4: Jim.
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  Speaker 1: Jim, how's the power plant?
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  Speaker 4: Half the rocket engines are out.
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  Speaker 1: And the boosters?
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  Speaker 4: Seem to be okay.
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  Speaker 1: Good. We've got enough to operate on. Maybe.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean? The nuclear overdrive is shot. Shot?
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  Speaker 4: Smacked by a meteorite.
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  Speaker 1: Jim, we've got to find out where we are. We
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  Speaker 1: can't afford to waste a unit of power. Do you
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  Speaker 1: know anything about astrogation?
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  Speaker 4: Not a thing. Beyond the moon, I'm lost.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's great. A crippled ship lost somewhere in space
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  Speaker 1: and a dead astrogator to show us the way.
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  Speaker 4: I'll have to make a wild stab at our position.
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  Speaker 1: What's your guess, Dick? Well, how can I guess? We
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  Speaker 1: may be near Neptune or way out near some far-off galaxy.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a crack at that radio relay.
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  Speaker 4: I've been trying all along. Can't raise a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Keep trying. It's our only chance.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take a look through the port and see if
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  Speaker 1: I can make out anything.
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  Speaker 2: Spaceship Phoenix calling Earth stations.
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  Speaker 5: Mars, Jupiter, Earth.
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  Speaker 4: Spaceship Phoenix, are we coming through?
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  Speaker 1: Can't recognize a star, a planet, an astrobody.
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  Speaker 5: Jim?
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  Speaker 1: Spaceship Phoenix.
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  Speaker 4: Can you hear us?
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear us?
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  Speaker 1: How long is it since we blanked out?
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  Speaker 5: Can't say, Dick. All our instruments went haywire.
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  Speaker 2: Spaceship Phoenix, flight 17 for Neptune in distress.
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  Speaker 4: Are we coming through?
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  Speaker 2: Answer us.
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  Speaker 3: We may have... Dick, listen.
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  Speaker 5: Spaceship Phoenix, you're coming through.
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  Speaker 4: We hear you.
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  Speaker 6: We've got them.
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  Speaker 5: They heard us.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it can't be.
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  Speaker 4: Give me that mic. Hello? Hello?
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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is Space Flight 17. We're off our course
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  Speaker 1: and badly damaged. Our position unknown.
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  Speaker 5: We have located your position, Spaceship Phoenix. Stand by, please.
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  Speaker 1: Jim, that's Earth.
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  Speaker 3: We're blown or sucked the world right back toward Earth.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Phoenix. Are we still coming through?
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  Speaker 1: Like music, sir. Very well.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to bring you in on a beam if
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  Speaker 5: you're within range. Does the signal reach you? Please acknowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Got you.
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  Speaker 2: Got you perfectly.
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  Speaker 5: Good. Set your degravitators and disengage all engines.
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  Speaker 4: We're in free flight, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Instruct all personnel to get into acceleration compensators. We'll land
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  Speaker 5: at our spaceport in approximately four hours.
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  Speaker 3: 100 feet.
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  Speaker 1: Prepare for landing. Ranger to engine room.
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  Speaker 4: Landing jets for a nap.
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  Speaker 1: Discharge.
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  Speaker 4: 50 feet.
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  Speaker 3: Release airlock.
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  Speaker 1: Switch on landing lights. 10 feet. Prepare to land.
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  Speaker 5: Contact.
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  Speaker 4: Cut motors.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we've landed, Jim.
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  Speaker 4: We made it.
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  Speaker 2: Don't I know it.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, pal.
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  Speaker 4: Out you go.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, take your time.
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  Speaker 5: We're in no rush now.
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  Speaker 1: You may not be, but I am.
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  Speaker 2: In a rush to get down a good old taro firmer.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, boy, does this air smell good. What a spaceport, Jim.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know we had anything anywhere that.
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  Speaker 3: Looked like this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what it looks like. All I know
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  Speaker 2: is that.
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  Speaker 1: There comes someone.
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  Speaker 6: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Hello there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Captain Roberts of the Phoenix. Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Are we glad to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Stand where you are.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's the idea? Well, you don't understand. I said I'm...
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  Speaker 4: Don't move.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Roberts, you and your crew and your passengers are
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  Speaker 1: all under arrest.
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  Speaker 5: Elton Smith, take.
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  Speaker 1: Over the ship and seal all the exits. No one
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  Speaker 1: is to leave. Captain Roberts, you and your companion come
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  Speaker 1: this way, please. By what authority are we being held prisoners?
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  Speaker 4: I want to know. I have the right to demand
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  Speaker 4: to know.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Roberts, you're hardly in a position to demand anything. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what is my position, sir?
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  Speaker 4: The title is Commander. Commander Dyster. Commander? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Commander, you know that you will be held responsible for
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: any harm to my passengers or ship.
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: There's no cause for alarm, Captain?
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Or threats? Simply holding you here at Green Valley for
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: a short while until we check your credentials? You've inspected
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  Speaker 1: our ship. You know we carry no contraband. Since when
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: does an American have to have his credentials checked in
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: his own country? I've already explained to you that this
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: entire area, all 500 square miles of it, is government
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: property devoted exclusively to secret research projects. Now, is it
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: perfectly obvious why we can't allow you and your passengers
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  Speaker 1: to walk about freely? Maybe, but it isn't obvious why
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: we're not allowed to.
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  Speaker 4: Use the Visiphone.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Why, we can't call our base, report our safe landing.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps not, Captain Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: But then, government regulations often are obscure. Commander Baxter, we
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: were met with guns and suspicion. Now, you say that
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: was because secret research is going on. Yet, when you
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: contacted us above the Earth's atmosphere, you offered to bring
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: us in here.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Why did you make that offer if you didn't want
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: us here?
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Would you rather be back in space.
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  Speaker 4: floundering about in.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Your crippled craft?
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: That can be arranged.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: You haven't answered my question.
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  Speaker 4: We brought you in for two reasons.
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  Speaker 1: First, to save your lives... if you turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be harmless.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: Second.
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  Speaker 1: because it is our policy to apprehend all craft.
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  Speaker 4: entering our space sector. We have enemies.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Well, the high-handed method you use, I can see why.
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  Speaker 1: Not high-handed, Captain Roberts. During your detainment here, you and
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: your company will be accorded full courtesy. We appreciate your courtesy,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: but we demand the right to contact Chicago here, now,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: and on that visital.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, that is impossible. Donna. Yes, Commander Dykstra?
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Arrange for suitable accommodations for Captain Roberts and his crew.
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  Speaker 1: The interview is closed.
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  Speaker 2: Commander Dyser, I.
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  Speaker 1: That is all, Captain. Send out a special bulletin to
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: the Science Institute. To all chiefs of the following departments. Astrogation, navigation, anthropology, astronomy.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Is there anywhere in this solar system or in adjoining
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: constellations a body known as planet Earth or America... Is
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: there any community, area, or experimental station known as Chicago?
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: I won't do it, Dick. I won't take this lying down. No?
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: What are you going to do about it? Think of something.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I'm certainly not going to sit around twiddling my thumbs while.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: The great Dystra checks our credentials.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I don't like the looks of this place any better
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: than you do. A secret project, he says. For all
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: we know, it may be the headquarters of some gangster
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: out there.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: There are a lot of things about this Green Valley
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: setup that bother me. Nothing definite. I just get a
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: feeling that everything's a little lopsided.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: It's as if I were looking at it through a
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Coney Island mirror. Oh, easy now, Jim.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: You'll be going bats if you.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Take it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: I've got it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Got what?
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: That visiphone.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: If we can get into Dystra's office some way, we
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: can phone home.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: You're way off, Jim. There isn't a chance in a million.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Why not? This room's not locked. They finished work for
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: the day. We saw everybody leave.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: All right. All right, we'll try it. But, Jim, why
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: don't you step over there? I feel sort of responsible
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: for you.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Here's the office. So far, so good. Try the door. Open.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Inside, fast. It's very dark in here. Now, where was
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: that clither phone? Oh, it's right here. Put the call in,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: but don't light the scanning cone. I'll use this pocket flash.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: You listen for anyone approaching.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: Here goes.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Your call, please. Get me Marshal Granger in Chicago. Chicago?
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: Where is that?
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Chicago, Illinois, USA. Come on, operator. USA? What place is
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: that near? Didn't you hear me? I said USA.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I will check it, sir.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: If you... Someone's coming, Jim. Drop it quick. We'd better
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: get out.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I have two ladies in the car to stand back
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: here in the corner.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Hello?
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: Hello?
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Someone is here. Please come forward.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I know you are here. I can hear your heart beats.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: There are two of you there in the back. Please
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: come forward. Oh, this is very childish. Now that is better.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Now we can put on the lights. Good evening, Commander Dyster.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Captain Roberts.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Congratulations, sir.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: A very impressive trick, hearing a heartbeat across a 40-foot room.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Trick?
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Not at all, sir.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: It seems strange to you. Your hearing must be impaired.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: You know why we're here, I suppose.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: It's obvious.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: We're trying to use the visophone against orders. You gentlemen
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: have abused your privileges as guests. From now on, you
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: will be held prisoners under lock and key.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: I've brought you your food, gentlemen.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: It's about time.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Well, this is a fancy touch.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: A woman jailer.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: My name is Donna, Captain Roberts. I'm Commander Dyster's assistant.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: We just remembered you hadn't had any food tonight.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: That's very touching.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Take it easy, Jim. She's just carrying out orders. Donna
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: was very kind of you to bring us this food,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: but there's something we need even more.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: We need some information. We're going mad.
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: Well, if there is anything I can tell you.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Anything.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: You can start talking now and continue all night. First,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: where is this place? Where are we?
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: You're in Green Valley, Captain.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Green Valley, Green Valley. Where is Green Valley? What continent
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: is it on?
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: What is it bounded by? I'm sorry, I can't answer that.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: You're wasting your breath, Dick. She won't talk. Then tell
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: me this.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: How long have you been here?
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: All my life.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I was born here. Fifty-seven years ago. Fif....
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: You look like twenty.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: How old is Dyster? Ninety-two.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: And he can hear a heartbeat at forty paces.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Ah, my hearing's even better.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Listen.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Do you hear the dogs barking in the distance?
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Yes. Nuts.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: These people are a terrific hoaxer we've wanted in some weird,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: out-of-this-world madhouse.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Good night, Donna.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Good night, gentlemen.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't try anything foolish.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Shangri-La. Yes, that's where we must be. The place someone
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: wrote about back in the 20th century. If you ask me,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: it's probably the place.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Dick, listen. Granger. Roberts. The window. There's someone below.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Hello there. Who is it?
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: It's me, Reynolds.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Reynolds, the chess-playing physicist.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Reynolds, how'd you get out? What are you doing down there?
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I escaped while the others distracted the guard.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: I'm making a dash for it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Dash for what, Reynolds?
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: There's a small plane at the far end of the field.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: I spotted it this afternoon. Will you come with me?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: It's pitch black out there.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: You'll never find it. I'll find it if I have
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: to feel my way.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: You're mad, Reynolds.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: We've got to get away, Roberts. Don't you understand? This place,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: it's unnatural. I've seen things that have made my hair
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: stand on end.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Now, Reynolds, listen to me.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Don't go now.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Perhaps tomorrow everything will be all right.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: No, not tomorrow. Now. Are you coming, Roberts? Ranger? Very well.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: When I come back with help, I hope you're still alive.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Now, wait, Reynolds.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Come back.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: He's gone.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I hope he knows what he's doing.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Dr.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Reynolds, you are out of bounds.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: That's Deister.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Come back, Dr. Reynolds. We cannot permit you to go
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: any further.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Last warning, Dr.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Reynolds. Do not go near that plane. There isn't a
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: light on anywhere.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: How do they know where Reynolds is?
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: I think you're foolish to refuse the food we've been
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: sending you. You haven't eaten all day.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Please put it down, Dawn, and go away.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Commander Dyster wishes me to express his regrets. The injury
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: to Dr.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Reynolds was most unfortunate.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Tell Commander Dyster he'll pay for this. Tell him I said.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: The electronic beam merely paralyzes temporarily. It leaves no permanent mark.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Dr.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Reynolds will recover.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: How did they manage to hit him in the dark?
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Well, I.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: I don't understand. We see very well in the dark.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Well, good night, gentlemen.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: Please eat your food. Commander Dystra will be offended if
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: you don't.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Mustn't offend Dystra, must we?
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Well, here goes this tray out of him way.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: It's foolish, really.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: We'll only get weak if we don't eat. Too weak
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to help ourselves if an opportunity comes along. Yeah, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: guess you're right. Feel a little lightheaded already.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Hand me that jug of milk.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Here you are. Pour one for me, too, will you?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Three days we've been here. He could have checked our
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: credentials a dozen times.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: There. Happy landing.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I'm bottomed up. Jim, look out.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: What is it, Dick?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Why'd you knock the glass out of my hand? Did
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: you see the color of that milk?
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Green. Green? Green milk?
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Poison.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: That's all I can think of.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Of course. Please eat your food, she kept saying.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Come on, let's open that window and get rid of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: this tray.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Here goes.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Compliment to Jim Grayson.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Damn it. Well? Well, what? What is it going to land?
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: I didn't hear a sound. Did you see it as
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: it went down?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: That heavy metal tray, that big jug of glasses? They
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: didn't forge them.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: They sort of floated down. As if somebody had messed
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: around with the force of gravity. They reduced the pull
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: of the earth here at Green Valley, Dick.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's one of their secret projects. An anti-gravitational force.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Dick.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Dick, I'm going to find out.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: What are you climbing up on that windowsill for? And
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: if it works for a tray full of dishes, why
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: won't it work for me?
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: I'm going to jump out, Dick. There's only one way
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: to find out. Take a big jump. Just walking around
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: doesn't give the answer.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: It's three stories. You'll land smack on those rocks below.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Well, if I make it, you follow. And if I don't?
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Don't do it. Wait, don't jump.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Go on, Dick. I'll be seeing.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: You.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: I'll be seeing you.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Jim.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Jim, you there?
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Here I am, Dick.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: We made it, all right. I can't believe it.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: You hurt?
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Just a bruise.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: It was like a jolt at the end of a
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: parachute jump. I think I'm going out of my mind, Jim.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: All those fantastic things that have happened since we landed here.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: The visiphone operator who never heard of Chicago or the USA.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: And Dyster, who can hear a.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Heartbeat across the room.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: And see in the dark.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Donner, 57 years old, looking like a chorus girl.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Green milk.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: And a reduced gravitational pull.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I don't like it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: I want to get out.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: And there's our ship out in the middle of the spaceport,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: prepared and.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Ready to go. Maybe we could.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Dick.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: I just noticed something.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Last night when Randall... Last night it was pitch dark,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: but now... Now there's a full moon. What's so strange
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: Take another look at that sky.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: There.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Over the rim of the horizon.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Another moon. A second moon. What fools we've been. Don't
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you see what this means?
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: We're not on the Earth at all.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: We've landed on some alien planet. We must get to
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Dystra at once. Yes, that is it. That explains the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: things that puzzled us. Your reference to Chicago, to the Earth.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: The small, strange differences between us. It's not the differences
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that bother me now, Dystra. It's the uncanny, incredible similarity between.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Your planet and ours. Is it so incredible, Captain Roberts?
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: We've shown you our astronomical charts. Our planet Vesta is
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: exactly opposite the Earth, on the other side of the sun.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: That's why we never discovered each other.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: We are 90 million miles distant from the sun.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: You are... 93 million miles.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Well, no doubt both planets split off from the sun
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: at the same time. Vespa is a little smaller than
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the earth, and that fact, plus its nearer distance to
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the sun, gives us less gravity, but otherwise our development
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: has paralleled yours completely.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Even in appearance and in culture and language.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: You've reached precisely the same stage of development we have.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Which simply proves, Granger, that similar conditions may produce the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: same result. One thing still bothers me.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: How do you stay so young, so vigorous?
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: That. It is simple.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: We live in peace and harmony. Our only concern is
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: interplanetary threats. That's why you were so rough on us.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Precisely.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Now that we understand each other, may I use your vis-a-thon?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: You want to call Chicago.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I want to call our crew and passengers and tell
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: them to get ready for the journey home. Next week,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: an incredible adventure from the world of tomorrow when a
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: scientist crosses the border of what is known into the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: strange mysteries of the unknown.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Be sure to listen.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: That was 2000 Plus with Worlds Apart. Until our next
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: stop among radio science fiction programs, good evening.