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Two thousands. Let us send our imaginations forward in time for the years beyond
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two thousand AD. What strange adventures, what exciting thing will we find in
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the world of tomorrow two thousand flu today and adventure about our space when the
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world's met It is a year of two thousand and Fust twenty and the giant
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space. For in Washington, DC, temporary capital of the Federated World Government,
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an anonymous plot tends what expectancy chems every available inch of space surrounding the
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rocket planting field, all eyes straying up with it at the clear blue sky.
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For today is the day, April twenty first, two thousand breastway an
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audio and telebox that works in the world or up the rocket field to cover
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the ever debat. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is the day,
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the day we've all been waiting for. In a matter of minutes, now
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out of that Frisian blue sky will come a ship with space ship carrying in
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his cleaning hole the first float of strain taken around the fits of Luna,
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that ride of Earth since the beginning of the time. I one on the
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post. There's a single on the car that's maybe it's taken away, friend,
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this is Fred Haskins reporting from the control tower. Our escort planes have
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been in contact with the spaceship from blowing up for the past twelve minutes.
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They are now approaching the field from the northeast. Any moment now, we'd
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oh wait ho pfliction of the actosphere? Her right, she quiet, she
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right, don't want to feel house. She's coming down land Mark. Well,
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let's stay, my friends. This is the noon of the get there
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fling everyday calling Moan, that's call him Moan, I mean Luna City.
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Luna said he got a Dixon protection way up in. You're three minutes late,
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started mcade. All shipman's as schedules every day, rookie report noted,
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checkout, check it. Yeah, you know, Johnny, what full?
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Sometimes I think we're great spending our lives cooped up in this pressurized shell,
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breathing synthetic are We're see our nets every time we put on a spacesuit and
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go out to the cold, barren, bitted piece of green cheese. H
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for what were you kidding? Bull? You know the answer. We're space
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happy. That's all that's wrong with us. We pull every wire and frantically
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told the World Federation apart getting this assignment of the moon, and we'll do
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it again when the first flight in a deep space gets underway next month and
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next year, whatever they get through with their preparations. Yeah, yeah,
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I guess that's it right now, Johnny. What I wouldn't give to see
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a tree again? And corn fields in Kansas? Hey, I want to
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hear a bird? And what's the lights go on in as skyscrapers along the
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water. I want to dance with my girls. Let's breathe in the sweet
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smell of lilas. What's that? Huh? That sound that bibra shouldn't here
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here? I'm not sure whether I heard or or photo, Johnnie, like
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a current of air passing by me? Yeah, that's it, some kind
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of pulsation. It's making skin tingling. Listen. Sounded different, didn't it?
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Yeah? Niping pitch. The instruments are all steady, nothing on the
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the screen. The radar's negative. What is it, Johnny? Where's the
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problem? Not from Earth? I'll swear to that. I got a crazy
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notion. What a crazy notion that someone's kind of suddenly you mean? I
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don't know what I mean? Dave, right, Baby, I gotta that
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you, Johnny, Johnny, what is it? But pof look at the
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direction flighter they swum all the way around? Who sound those waves are coming
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from dollar space? All right, go aheader, go ahead of act takes.
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What's going on up there? What's even Amy, shistan Assy, here's
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a kind of stare stuff giving up poison the monitors down yere, Amy Joys,
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you've got a zoo McCabe. You picked him up on her curtay.
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Watch it on about the signals if that's what they are, are coming from
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one definite spot in outer space, outer space. That's what I said,
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Johnny, get your space suit ready. I have a conference about it.
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But listen, have your man turned up rocket three or seven? Last drop
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it? Oh eight hundred? Let me expecting you on Earth in the morning.
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Heads Now, we've been getting those signals and not one or you teenersys,
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but been able to decide with any where, mister mckeeb, if you
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know of anyone who can do it better, the easy professor Wolves, You
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don't have to be so touchy. But ten days, what do you say,
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doctor Lee? Ten days or ten years? It makes no difference if
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those sounds of signals aren't cold he's in your language unknown toime. You're sure
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that we've consulted the foremost cryptographists of the world. We've tied Healy way to
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break the code. What are that at ups to that message? If it
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is a message, does not come from anywhere on Earth or from any man
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on Earth. I told you, g It's what I've been saying all wrong.
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Of course, you can't decode those messages in any known language, living
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or dead, because they come from Mark about Yes, Mars, my directional
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finder on the moon indicated did mackay it down here? Bend it down?
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Look at the graph I brought it the direction Those tingles can be wrong,
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yes, sir, but get this, I've been climbing those signals. They
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come at intervals of exactly twenty four hours, thirty seven minutes and twenty two
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seconds until the day on Mar Yeah, and if we were trying to signal
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them, we do it, say every night at eighteen hundred. That's what
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they're doing to us. In that case, the naked signal is due at
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ten medutsine thirteen seconds, and we're gonna be sitting here like a lawmoss,
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feeling our scouts tingle while the message drift passes a gentleman excuse please, but
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it seems to me the message need not necessarily drift. Bust us. If
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by the message I do not mean this hounds or the words that have been
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transmitted. I refer to the thoughts themselves, the thoughts that perhaps are being
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transferred from the Martians to us thought transfers. That's telepathy. We have discarded
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that word, mister Dixon too many Chartan Houston, But we do know that
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there is extrasensory perception of thought impulses. Just as there are sound waves which
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your ear has learned to interpret, and light waves which your eye and brain
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transform into a picture, so there are thought waves electrical impulses discharged by the
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brain which vary with the particular thought and intriguing idea, Doctor Lee. If
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only we had some instruments that could pick up and sort out these impulses.
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There is such an instrumental Professor would survivor. I have been working on it
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for many years. It involves a scanning screen into setting an electrified feel what
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we're waiting for. You understand the telepattra has only been tested for short dignals
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are reaching us. All the important thing is how sort of instrument is in
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the next room. I took a little bit achieve of bringing it with me,
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hoping it might considerably be of some use. This way, gentlemen,
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this little machine can take thoughts and tournament of words. We can hear English
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words. Not only English, mister machief. It will translate thought impulses into
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any language for which you stiff the diers. You think of something, mister
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Dixon. Now listen first I said for French, gentleman, wonderful and English.
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Don't call you must understand doctor, But we'll have to postpone this fifteen
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seconds to go. Better set your dials for remote pickup stand by everyone.
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Nothing more power. Well there's a good tribe. Wait, I've got a
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think again. My skin's beginning to crow. Ye, yeah, mine too.
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No, you're coming from now planet for greeting Planet three hard the fourth
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planet from the Sun, greeting planet three. Planet for balling planet three.
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We are trying to reach you Planet three. Game you receive our signal respond.
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If you receive our signal respond, we will call you engage in the
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game. My fore mark this week, ladies and gentle that the question that
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but the whole man kind and a sist today he first gonna right, and
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days and the heavens a pamphis There is life on bars in Helen articulate life
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the country of the world. When I see will excitement as far as received,
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as parts as our Hello Papator, but seated and projecting as book The
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message is booked it with my human beings, or call it really received.
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I loved life, Jerry, I'll never get enough of it. Oh it's
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lovely, Johnny. And look there is a monach. Oh please. You
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know it's hard to believe that back in nineteen fifty people could still get romantic
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over that cold dead park Mark, heavenly Yojo? How that red star?
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That's a different cop it's a line. There are living beings up there,
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honey, it's staggering. It's under matimation, rubbish. Why shouldn't there be
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life off? So it's down they shift in in ay. Maybe you've got
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a point of that. We thought we were so smart because they reached the
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moon. Our spaceship don't developed enough yet to get to Mark. It's just
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as well. But because you would want to be the first to go,
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wouldn't you like that? I'd be quite a hero. You get point of
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my picture and say, hey, that's my guy. You're my die anyway,
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Sure, don't worry, honey, I won't be seeing any Martians for
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a long time. All personnel stand by, standing by, or M signal
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that'll be mar hop to it. Johnny tell Apato door setting two hundred and
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twelve degrees eighteen seconds frequent say six hundred thousand plant for calling planet three.
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Planet for calling planet three. We greet you in peace. Your response received.
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We come from the time has come at this moment which marks the beginning
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of the great interstellar age between the worlds. It is viting the there be
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between us a meeting of minds. Therefore, we are sending a ship to
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visit your planet. The ship will depart to night and after your magnetic field
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in seven of our days, have landing instructions ready. We come in peace.
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We come in peace. A leady ladies and gentlemen. This is Matt
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Wilson bringing you a report of the emergency Session of the Federated World. Comment
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never as an assembly meetings taken place of such an atmosphere of a chipman panic
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and recrimination. And here on the high we were not followings aroused by the
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stunning message from Mars, have been boiling and clashing all day. All right
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for a word reformation as the villian air. The world's not a fairy government,
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I want and all why goes marss have beating us to the calls gentlemen,
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if the decision we ought to make is to be a wise one,
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we must lay asif ussions and fears and considers the question calmly. The Emotians
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are coming, and we must receive them, either with friendship or still.
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That may not be as simple as it sounds. Remember, my pin,
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these martians are advised scientifically, perhaps far beyond us. We have conquered this
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speace. He can transmitted foot whees. He may have weapons. The tight
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which owing nuclear buns are stoic systems. Doctor Lee is fight settlement. We
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don't care. Fight. Come on. The risk is to wait. They
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come in peace, he said so, over and over again. Be so
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receive them high, well, very wow. If thus is the will of
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his body, let them come in peace. But as civilian head of the
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world military government, I assure you all we will not be found Eppy Earth
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calling a martian gitter stellarship Earth calling martian gitter stellarship. Here are the landing
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in Dutch of the Federated World Government three earth days from this hour, which
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will be the sixth Martian day of your flight. Bruce Base. You will
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be met by an escort of twenty rocket ship. We will greet you in
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the name of Death. The twenty rocket ships will it sort you in functions
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to Commission of Defense. All escort rocket ships assigned to accompany Martian spaceship will
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carry the following armaments de falk sprays, magnetic disintegrators, atomic missiles Class B.
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All weapons shall be on the hand. Upon your country into the Earth
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atmosphere. You will circle our globe once and then make landing at our spaceport
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at Los Alamos, New Mexico, which will be ready to receive you.
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The spaceport of Most Alamos, he shall be mine to a depth of fifty
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feet with catonium land mines. The field shall be encircled with radioactive flamethrowers and
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a reserve force a landing field. You will be conducted to the seat of
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the Government at Washington, d C. Where you will be received and how
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in suitable accommodations. We will welcome you in peace. Check out. We
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will welcome you in peace. We hope suitable accommodation. Trust mchabe to hand
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me a clack pot assignment like this, Johnnie, you are to pick safe
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man. You're supposed to know by instinct what suitable accommodation for a Martian.
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Don't be silly, Kerry. I have the slightest notion in the world what
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they look like, exceptance crazy ideas I picked up from science fictions. I
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don't know. That's why we're here ahead of. Our anthropology section has more
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ideas than any science fiction writer you've ever read. Now Here we are,
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Harry, Hello, Progess. I know mistakes, the professor, I've got
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a problem here, and I have discussed the problem. It is my theory
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that the Martians will, in most important respects, have the characteristics of the
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Earth man. Or what's the basis of your theory, Professor, It's very
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simple. The accomplishments of the Martians parallel only a being with opposable thumbs,
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confession, the intricate devices necessary for spaceships on your being with a nervous system
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like our own, good Master communications. Only a creature with a brain like
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ours could pleame of peace makes sense, professors, that's one side of the
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Chinese. A lot of other athopologists think differently. Now, yeah, that
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is so. They feel that the Martians, living on a dry planet with
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little vegetation and the little water, will be creatures that crawl on the ground
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like our insects. Enlarged a few thousand times, they may look like enormous
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ants with oversized antella. With aly eight hours left, I can't prepare accommodation
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for every conceivable form of light. Doesn't have to improvise after they get here.
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I just hope they don't get too sick when they first look at us.
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This is Matt Wilson again reporting from the spaceport at Loss Animals. A
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tremendous crowd is galloped here. We're awaiting the appearance of the spaceship from Mars,
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which is being escorted by twenty rocket ships from around the bum me the
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Moon. According to report, calls gone well so far the Martians ship.
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The moment, please thody of us who's loo's going to be? Because the
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people assembled, you're attention to see there's ship up bars and that store.
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We will be seen any moment you heard that, any moment the ship from
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Mars, and he said, really honest. Now the ship famars the mark
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he sent the dialing over the veil now casting a fuge shadow of the landscape.
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It's an all inspired technacle. The ship is tremendous, fifteen to twenty
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stories of several city blocks long, and it's large window confessions of some kind
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of transpirit and command and do a special defense with raw man battle stations.
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Oh a technical experts tearing at the past and open mouth, wondering mister Cave's
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McCabe, what what what is your reaction? I have, don clown.
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The ship doesn't seem to operate at a rocket prince room. There's there's no
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belching fire, no cloud to snow. I keep wondering what kind of fuel
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me? I think as a proposal? What what meal? Thank you?
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Sir? Ship is almost touching the crown now and the crowd is getting unseen
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whenever a back and though there was something nice a house, wait think about
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the perfect or wen wait whatever commanded a bet? All you are three are
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in all my remout sighting atraws manned by the fire, Secretary of the World
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Generational fung to speaking as your grace, ship settles on our SiO. We
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served you the ever series of space. We wait your day for your fears.
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Oh, the little mist is completely vanished. All eyes are on the
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ship, waiting for the first mart to appear. There is no sign of
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activity it where you resperned to our three teams wat ships. Will you make
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your pressures? Nothing story, no game, plank forward, no sign of
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life. Perhaps they will not prepare for atmospheric conditions here, Perhaps on the
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very brink of success, death is struck within that or inspiring vessel. Yes,
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yes, it's moving. A tremendous section of the ship's now is opening
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out in front like a gigantic tongue. It thrusts forward and tops to her,
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forming a great graft from the ship to hour soil ten. How it's
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down as the surface of the raft. The surface of the raft is like
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nothing ever seen on the surf, a shimmering, impompable her distance, unbelievably
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radiant and beautiful. The throng of spectators is silent, buceless, scarcely breathing,
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waiting to see the first Martian to merge. And still nothing, No
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one, no thing comes down the ramp. There is nothing but silence,
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listen. That must be the Martian communication vibrations we were told about. Then
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my moun field are operating and receiving device. As that you save one representative
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to board our craft, we are sure his safety, gentlemen. Of course
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for arm I think there is. They want a hostage or a specimen to
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take back with their still type of arranging. They're waiting. We're position,
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mister secretary. Yes, it's all right in the committee. I'd like to
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go aboard technical information. Oh quiet chum, this is my ish McKie.
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I was lady for the space run of Mars. Remember you're not doing me
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out of this. Besides, you're too valuable to waste. Mister secretary,
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Tell them I am coming aboard the bars. We do fly with your request.
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Our representative is about to board your ship. Get ready, Johnny Dickon,
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isn't it They got controng the sun and the sky. Because deep breadth
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of the Earth's good air, you may never get another left him me Whatever
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is waiting at the end of this long ramp ramp put you forward like a
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can, think about be getting right over the air. Damn, no's no
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one here, I think, except that dancing lights follow it, and man,
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well, can I closed hit by four solid walls? Follow the light
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and the walls will not even beat you. But like your realientation changing the
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destiny of soul that matter at will? We adieve that in thousands of psychos
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Ago, man, where are you mad? A box? Romans got it
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with life? And I know we are not ready to reveal ourselves. The
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people of Earth are waiting to see the wealth. There is nothing to this.
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We are not afraid, Dixon, you know my name. We know
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many things. That is why we are said, filled with revulsion. I
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don't understand what do you mean? Through the dog space ways? We came
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to you in peace. You said to us, come in peace. But
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the escorts you said to honor us were armed for destruction. The very ground
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on which we now rest scenes with radioactive potential. Way you've met understood it.
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These workmen are with defense against you. Nothing recycles ago. We of
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Mars learned, as your earth men will someday learn that wars are fought,
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men are slaughtered, Civilizations wiped out by those who attacked them with weapons of
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giants? What our world is it? Lisa? Your peace is not peace.
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It is a thin cloak which covers the hates and fears and savagery of
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primitive beings, observed Dixon on this large business screen. We have for hours
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been viewing your people in many parts of your earth. Why listen, I
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want you. It was a trap. We'll never again see Dixon alive.
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I told you not to trustformness. Just give me the word, and I
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have placed them all in the kingdom coming. You must not be deceived.
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These only one man, the rest of us stiff? Are you look at
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this from another part of your civilized you to our party? You'll be gifting
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of bushing. You assured us that you would Betty my first. You wear
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great fish. I flash, flash, that's a backward part of our planet.
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It's not better to judge by them. Then we reveal a more civilized
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area, the country of your birth. Dix, stay up the square,
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fish IMPENSI now you know why we shall not reveal ourselves to you. If
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you are like this to these or your old guide, what will you think?
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What will you do when you see us strange as we are? Don't
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we know you may be different, but we can all meet in These must
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be achieved through toil and sacrifice for those you among you who understand its meaning.
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It may take many cycles. In the end the day will arrive then
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and they only we will return. Go back to your people, man of
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us, and give them the message from us. Next week another starting drama
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on two thousand plus, The Silent Noise. In the year two thousand plus
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twenty, an important man is murdered. All the police of the future tracked
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down a killer and what new methods of assault will the criminals of tomorrow use.
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Listen next week and you'll find out. Two thousand plus is produced by
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Chermint Stryer and Robert Woolson. In today's story, Ken Williams play Jenny Stowe.
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Van Ruton played the voice of Mars long Park play McCabe. Frank Barrons
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was the Senator, Andy Stickman was Terry, Sanford Beckett was Paul, and
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Gilbert mac was Doctor Lee. The orchestra was conducted by Emerson Buckley. Music
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composed by Elliot Chacobbe, script by Judith and David Buckley, Son by Walt
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Shaver. Now April Engineer Bob Aaulbright, and you are Houser, Ken Martin
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puck Arapple. This is visual broadcasting system