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Cold Equations [episode 15], Broadcast 8/25/1955 · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: God down for blast off x minus five four three
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  Speaker 2: two x minus one fire from the far horizons of
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  Speaker 2: the unknown come transcribe tales of new dimensions in time
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  Speaker 2: and space. These are stories of the future adventures in
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  Speaker 2: which you'll live in a million, could be years, on
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  Speaker 2: a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation
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  Speaker 2: with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding science Fiction, presents.
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  Speaker 3: He he he minus minus minus.
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  Speaker 4: One on.
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  Speaker 5: The Night Story Cold Equations. There is no margin of
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  Speaker 5: safety along the rim of a frontier. There can't be
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  Speaker 5: any until a way is made for those who come later.
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  Speaker 5: Until then, the penalty for mistakes is a grim one.
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  Speaker 5: The laws of physical nature operate with irrevocable certainty, with
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  Speaker 5: no room for mercy, kindness, or sentimentality. In space, life
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  Speaker 5: becomes a cold equation, and the equal sign is often
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  Speaker 5: followed by death. I know I'm the pilot of an EDS.
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  Speaker 5: Come in, you said for me, commander, Yes, sit down, Barton.
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  Speaker 5: We just got an E D from the Territorial Space
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  Speaker 5: Station on Wolden, uh Wolden. That's in the crab nebula,
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  Speaker 5: isn't it. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: There are two exploration parties there on Manning's continent, eight
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  Speaker 1: man each. They've got Kala fever in one of them
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  Speaker 1: and no serum. Oh and I thought this was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a nice quiet passenger run. Computers are working out
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  Speaker 1: your payload and your course right now. In exactly ten minutes,
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  Speaker 1: we'll drop in a normal space and launch your ship.
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  Speaker 5: I'll get her ready.
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  Speaker 1: One thing, what's that Woden is at the maximum pay
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  Speaker 1: limit for an DS. Figuring the weight of the serum,
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  Speaker 1: we'll be able to give you just enough fuel to
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  Speaker 1: land on Manning's continent if you'll make it the first pass.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise you'll burn out in mid air.
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  Speaker 5: Standard procedure.
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  Speaker 1: Report to launching control right, Good luck Barton.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks. Oh by the way, yes, when can I expect
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  Speaker 5: to be picked up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll make a stop on the run back to Earth
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  Speaker 1: sometime next year.
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  Speaker 5: You'll be notified by radio. Okay, sorry, we can't make
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  Speaker 5: it sooner. That's what happens when you sign on for
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  Speaker 5: EDS work. I'll see you next year, commander. Down in
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  Speaker 5: the belly of the stardusk, the crew was working like
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  Speaker 5: Beaver's to get the EDS the emergency dispatch ship ready.
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  Speaker 5: Mechanics and technicians were swarming all over the place. Girls
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  Speaker 5: and inspector's uniforms were checking the gauges in the supply cabinet.
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  Speaker 5: Nine minutes later, the exact course was in the computer,
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  Speaker 5: the serum was stowed in my supply cabinet closet, and
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  Speaker 5: little EDS four G three was ready to be born
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  Speaker 5: into space.
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  Speaker 4: Martin. Yes, sir, thirty seconds to blast off.
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  Speaker 5: All sets, All set. I'm turning you over to traffic Ready.
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  Speaker 4: Traffic control.
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  Speaker 5: Come in HEYDS four G three ready, twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Seconds, lock open, fifteen seconds, space drive on, space drive
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  Speaker 3: on ten seconds, gravity neutralizer on, neutralizer on five seconds
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  Speaker 3: or three two one blast off.
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  Speaker 5: I don't remember how long it was afterwards that I
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  Speaker 5: first noticed something wrong, maybe an hour, maybe two. There
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  Speaker 5: was nothing to show it except the needle in the
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  Speaker 5: heat gage. It was on zero when we left the Stardust,
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  Speaker 5: and now I noticed that it had crept up toward
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  Speaker 5: the thirty mark. That meant something inside the ship was
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  Speaker 5: radiating heat. That's something was in the supply closet and
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  Speaker 5: it was alive. All right, come out, whoever or whatever
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  Speaker 5: you are. If you don't come out in five seconds,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to blast you one two, Well, that'll be.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Marilyn Lee Craw.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing in there?
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  Speaker 6: I'm a stowaway?
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  Speaker 5: Oh what's the matter?
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  Speaker 6: Do I have to pay a fine or something?
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to see my husband.
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  Speaker 5: Who's your husband?
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  Speaker 6: He's with the government survey crew on Wolden. I haven't
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  Speaker 6: seen him since he left Earth four years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, but what made you hide in my eds?
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  Speaker 6: I have a job waiting for me on the mirror.
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  Speaker 6: But I heard you were going to Wolden and there
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  Speaker 6: was plenty of rooms, so I hid. Oh I knew
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  Speaker 6: I'd be breaking some kind of rule. But what's one
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  Speaker 6: little rule?
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  Speaker 5: Huh? What's one little rule? Humount of fuel will power
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  Speaker 5: an EDS with a massive M safely to its destination.
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  Speaker 5: Hum Out of fuel will not power an EDS with
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  Speaker 5: a mass of M plus x safely to its destination.
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  Speaker 5: How could she be expected to know? She was five
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  Speaker 5: to two with brown, curly hair in the faint, sweet
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  Speaker 5: smell of perfume. She was five two and she smelled
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  Speaker 5: like apple blossoms, and her name was X in an
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  Speaker 5: equation that would have to be balanced.
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  Speaker 4: Stardust, Come in, ads, come in.
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  Speaker 5: This is Barton Emergency dispatch Pilot four G three, go ahead,
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  Speaker 5: give me Commander del Heart.
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  Speaker 4: What's the message? GDS.
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  Speaker 5: I have to consult Commander del Heart.
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  Speaker 4: The commander is busy.
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  Speaker 5: Listen you squirt. Give me Commander del Heart one.
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  Speaker 4: Moment for G three Command of dell Heart.
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  Speaker 5: Emergency message from ETS four G three.
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  Speaker 4: This is del Hart.
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  Speaker 5: What is it? At eight hundred hours, I discovered a
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  Speaker 5: store away aboard my ship stowaway? Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Well, have you know the FIKE ship's records?
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  Speaker 5: Not yet, sir.
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  Speaker 4: You know the regulations as well as I do.
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  Speaker 5: Of course I know the regulations. That's why I'm called.
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  Speaker 4: What's going on?
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  Speaker 5: Sir? This is a girl, a young woman. Oh, she
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  Speaker 5: wanted to see her husband on wooden. She didn't know
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  Speaker 5: what she was doing. I see, I wondered, sir. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: the cruiser could change course or something.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid not. We're hundreds of light years apart.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have a limited fuel supply ourselves with nine.
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  Speaker 5: Is there any chance, no, okay, Skipper.
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  Speaker 4: That I get the information to ship's records?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, button skipper, I'm sorry. Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: We've got our acceleration, didn't you?
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  Speaker 5: Yes? Why save fuel for a while? How did you
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  Speaker 5: manage to stow away?
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  Speaker 6: I was taking a language lesson in memory is from
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  Speaker 6: a girl in the inspection corps. The order came in
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  Speaker 6: for your trip. I just went long on an impulse.
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  Speaker 6: That was easy. I'll be a model prisoner, I promise.
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  Speaker 5: If you're only a thief or a spy, it would
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  Speaker 5: make it easier.
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  Speaker 6: What easier?
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  Speaker 5: Forget it? Why couldn't she have been somebody with some
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  Speaker 5: ulterior motive, a fugitive hoping to lose himself in a
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  Speaker 5: raw new world, about the crackpot with a mission. Why
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  Speaker 5: did she have to be a woman, A beautiful, kind,
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  Speaker 5: trusting woman. Starts Barton, Eds four, G. Three.
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  Speaker 4: I had three identify a stowaway.
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  Speaker 5: Give me your identification discuss cross here?
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's for ship's records, UH identification number T eight
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  Speaker 5: three seven four.
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  Speaker 4: This is for the gray card. Of course.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'll need the time. I'll tell you later. That's
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  Speaker 5: highly irregular, and we'll do it in a highly irregular manner.
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  Speaker 5: The subject is a young woman. She's listening to everything
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  Speaker 5: that's said. Are you capable of understanding that?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead?
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  Speaker 5: Forty three number T eight three seven four dash y
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  Speaker 5: five four name Marilyn Lee Cross, female, married, born July seventh,
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  Speaker 5: twenty one sixty. Good lord, you're only your child. Height
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  Speaker 5: five feet two inches. Wait one hundred and ten hair,
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  Speaker 5: brown eyes, blue complexion, light blood type. Oh original destination
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  Speaker 5: Port City, Mimir. Listen, I'll call you back later. Look,
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  Speaker 5: miss Marilyn. Look, Marilyn, I guess you don't know what
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  Speaker 5: you got yourself into here. Well, it's like this. This
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  Speaker 5: ship is carrying Cala fever serum to the survey group Woden. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: their supply was wrecked in a tornado. The fever is
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  Speaker 5: always fatal unless the serum is given in the first
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  Speaker 5: forty eight hours. Now, these little ships have exactly enough
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  Speaker 5: fuel to reach their destination. If you stay aborder, your
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  Speaker 5: added weight will cause it to use up all its
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  Speaker 5: fuel before it can land.
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  Speaker 6: What happens then we crash?
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  Speaker 5: You die, I die, and six fever victims on Woden die.
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  Speaker 6: Can't they send out another ship to meet it?
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  Speaker 5: There are no ships to send.
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  Speaker 6: No, No, you couldn't do that.
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  Speaker 5: That's how it has to be.
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  Speaker 6: But that's crazy. I haven't done anything. I haven't heard
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  Speaker 6: any pod.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry. I should have told you before, but I wanted
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  Speaker 5: to make sure there was no other way.
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  Speaker 6: You mean it going to make me leave the ship.
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  Speaker 5: That's how it is.
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  Speaker 6: We'll die, I'll explode. I'll be like those horrible.
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  Speaker 5: Pictures about try to understand.
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  Speaker 6: I do understand. You're going to kill me. And I
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  Speaker 6: didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 5: I know you didn't. I know you didn't. That has
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  Speaker 5: nothing to do.
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  Speaker 6: With it, has everything to do with it. Nobody just
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  Speaker 6: dies like that for no reason. Oh listen, maybe there
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  Speaker 6: are other cruisers, cruisers you don't know about. Maybe the radio.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe it isn't.
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  Speaker 5: No, listen to me. It's different here, different from anything
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  Speaker 5: you've ever known. On Woden. There are sixteen men, sixteen
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  Speaker 5: men on an entire world. They're fighting, fighting an alien environment.
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  Speaker 5: The environment fights back. You can only make a mistake. Once.
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  Speaker 6: I made a mistake, Yes, yes, no.
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  Speaker 5: Hope, absolutely none. You have to be put out of
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  Speaker 5: the ship. It was better so with the going of all,
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  Speaker 5: Hope would go to fear. Then would come the resignation.
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  Speaker 5: She needed time and there was so little.
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  Speaker 3: Eds Starship to EDS need pertinent data.
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  Speaker 5: All right, starship, when do you expect to complete your report?
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  Speaker 5: I I need a computer check.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you statistics statistics.
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  Speaker 5: This is eds four G three. I'm intersecting course vector
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  Speaker 5: seven point three at eight three one deceleration seventeen fifty
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  Speaker 5: Wait one ton. I would like to stay at point
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  Speaker 5: ten as long as the computers allow. Will you give
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  Speaker 5: them the question check, I'll call you back. We wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: have longer wait. The new factors would be fed into
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  Speaker 5: the steel mall of the computer bank, and the electrical
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  Speaker 5: impulses would go through the complex circuits. Here and there
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  Speaker 5: a relay would click, a tiny cog turnover, but it
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  Speaker 5: would be the current formless, mindless, invisible, which would determine
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  Speaker 5: with utter precision how long the pale young girl beside
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  Speaker 5: me would live. Little segments of metal in the second
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  Speaker 5: bank would trip against an inked ribbon, and the machine
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  Speaker 5: would spit out the answer. It will resume deceleration at
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  Speaker 5: nineteen ten. It was eighteen ten when he spoke one hour.
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  Speaker 5: She has one hour to live.
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  Speaker 6: One hour.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 6: All I did was hide in a closet, And now
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  Speaker 6: you tell me I have to die. I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 5: You might as well get used to it.
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  Speaker 6: This happened back on Earth. A thousand ships would fill
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  Speaker 6: the sky. The whole world would know about it. They'd
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  Speaker 6: do everything to say.
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  Speaker 5: This isn't earth.
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  Speaker 6: It's such a big dream. Jerry and I separated almost
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  Speaker 6: five years ago. We were too young, and I was
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  Speaker 6: going to see him to try to everything all right again.
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  Speaker 6: I are you married?
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  Speaker 5: I was, Oh, she ran off with some guy in
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  Speaker 5: the weather Service.
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  Speaker 6: Do you still think about it?
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  Speaker 5: I don't let myself. Where is she back on earth? Look,
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  Speaker 5: if you don't mind, I'd just as soon talk about
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  Speaker 5: something else.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, what do you do when you've got an hour
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  Speaker 6: to live? What do you talk about?
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  Speaker 5: What's Jerry like?
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  Speaker 6: Jerry? Oh, he's a funny guy. Well he found out
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  Speaker 6: I mean about the other fella. He didn't get mad.
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  Speaker 6: He cried. That was all he felt, sadness.
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  Speaker 5: So you walked all over him.
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  Speaker 6: I thought I wanted him to get mad at me,
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  Speaker 6: to be jealous. No thinking about him for five years.
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  Speaker 6: So when I heard this ship was bound for Woden
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  Speaker 6: and I knew Jerry was there, I stowed away. I
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  Speaker 6: didn't know about the fuel. I didn't know this would
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  Speaker 6: happen to me.
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  Speaker 5: She had violated a man made law that said keep out.
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  Speaker 5: The penalty was not of man's making. Or desire, and
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  Speaker 5: it was not a penalty. Man could revoke h amount
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  Speaker 5: of fuel will power an EDS with a mass of
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  Speaker 5: m safely to its destination. The time was eighteen thirty
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  Speaker 5: forty minutes. It was beginning to get me. A space
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  Speaker 5: frontier is a rough place, and I'd seen a hundred
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  Speaker 5: men die since I left Earth, but this was different.
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  Speaker 5: I watched her as she wrote a message to her folks.
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  Speaker 5: I watched her as she fought her way through the
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  Speaker 5: black horror of fear toward the calm gray of acceptance.
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  Speaker 5: And then there it was on the view screen, the
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  Speaker 5: planet Woden, a red enshrouded in the blue haze of
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  Speaker 5: its atmosphere, swimming in space against the background of star
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  Speaker 5: sprinkled blackness. The chronometer on the instrument panel said eighteen
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  Speaker 5: forty five. Listen, we're in radio range of Woden. Now,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, would you want me to try to contact
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  Speaker 5: your husband, Jerry? It'd mean he would know you're going
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  Speaker 5: to die. There'd be nothing anyone can do.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I would like to talk to him. Do you
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  Speaker 6: think we can?
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  Speaker 5: The planet is turning. If his group is on the
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  Speaker 5: side facing us, we might be able to reach it.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Hello, Hello Woden, DS to Government survey group.
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  Speaker 5: Can you hear me? Come in Woden? They may not
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  Speaker 5: be monitoring. Hello, hello, hello, identify yourself please?
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  Speaker 4: Is this Government Survey group one on planet? Won't?
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  Speaker 5: This is John Barton EDS pilot.
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  Speaker 4: You have the serum?
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  Speaker 5: Yes? How bad is it?
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  Speaker 1: One man died last night?
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  Speaker 5: Six have the fever?
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  Speaker 4: How long will it take them?
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  Speaker 5: I start deceleration at nineteen ten hours. I should be
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  Speaker 5: able to land at nineteen thirty, Thank god. Look, do
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  Speaker 5: you have a Gerald Cross in charge of the.
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  Speaker 4: Group Command of Cross?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, we do, but I speak to him.
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  Speaker 4: He isn't here, he's out with the survey team.
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  Speaker 5: When do you expect him?
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  Speaker 4: I can't say.
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  Speaker 5: How do you read me? How much time do we
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  Speaker 5: have left for communication?
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Less than fifteen minutes?
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  Speaker 5: All right? If Commander Cross comes back before we lose
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  Speaker 5: radio contact, will you have him buzz me? It's important? Okay, DS,
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  Speaker 5: I'll keep a set open.
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  Speaker 4: Check.
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  Speaker 5: The minutes passed like small bits of eternity. On the
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  Speaker 5: view screen, I could see Manning's continents sprawled like a
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: gigantic hourglass in the eastern sea. There was a thin
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  Speaker 5: line of shadow where it was beginning to disappear as
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  Speaker 5: the planet turned on its axis. I looked at the
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  Speaker 5: pale woman next to me, and I thought of another
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: woman long ago who had sat next to me and
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: cried because I wouldn't try to understand. What had she
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: written in those letters back home? What would they think
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: of the faceless, unknown pilot who'd sent her to her death?
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: What would I think of myself alone nights reliving this voyage?
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  Speaker 6: Cold, isn't it?
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I'll turn up the thermostadic.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing from Jerry.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: We have about two minutes of radio contact left.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Maybe it's better. I mean, suppose it were you and
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: your wife tried to call you. How'd you feel?
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: Do you ever hear from her?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: I got a letter about a year ago. I tore
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: it up. That was foolish, yeah, it was.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Life is so terribly short to be wandering around alone.
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  Speaker 5: Well I had wait a second, we're getting something.
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  Speaker 6: How much time before I have to leave the ship?
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  Speaker 5: How about ten minutes?
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  Speaker 4: Slow? EDS? Hello?
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  Speaker 5: DS, come in, come in DS.
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  Speaker 4: This is woton. I have command a cross.
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  Speaker 5: All right, go ahead? Hello, this is command a Cross,
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  Speaker 5: Jerry Cross. Yes, I have someone for you. Go ahead,
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  Speaker 5: Hello Jerry.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Jerry, who is it? It's me, Marilyn. Marilyn, I
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: wanted to see you again. I stowed away on the EDS.
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  Speaker 6: You what, But Marilyn, it doesn't matter, Jerry. All that
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: matters is that I can tell you all the things
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  Speaker 6: I've kept inside for so long. Jerry, I want you
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: to know it. I've never forgotten.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: It's been so many years. I can't believe it.
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: I thought i'd see you again, but no, I can't, Jerry.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: You don't hate me? Do you hate you?
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  Speaker 4: Arlyn?
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: I've never stopped loving you, not for an instant.
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  Speaker 6: Jerry.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, we don't have much time to train.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: This mission is getting fuzzy. Marilyn. I've got to see you.
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  Speaker 6: There's got to be some way there is. Let me
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: talk to the pilot.
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  Speaker 5: Give me hello, Pilot.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Have you called the mother ship? Did you have them.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Checked with the computers.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: I've done everything. You've been on the frontier long enough
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  Speaker 5: to know the setup in an DS.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, dear God, there must be something some way.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think i'd let this happen if I wasn't sure?
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  Speaker 6: He tried to help me, Jerry. He tried, And it
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: really doesn't matter. I'm not frightened anymore, not now.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: But how did you get here?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: I don't understand.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: I was going to be there to take a job,
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: I thought. Now I realized it was I was just
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: going because i'd be closer.
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  Speaker 5: To where you were.
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, Jerry, all this time. Let me tell you something, Marilyn.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I've always known you'd come back to me. I've known
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: it every minute. It's what's kept me alive. I want
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: you to hold that in your mind.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Jerry. I can't hear you.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: We haven't much time.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: We're losing radio content.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Jerry.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Don't cry, darling. Just know how I feel.
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: I do.
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  Speaker 6: There was so many things to say, Jerry. If you
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: can still hear me, maybe I'll come to see you again.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: Maybe I'll come to you in your in your dreams,
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: or probably the touch of a breeze or one of
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: those golden winged little birds saying my silly head off.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Maybe I'll be nothing you can see or hear, but
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: you'll know I'm there. Think of me like that, Jerry. Goodbye.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: She sat motionless in the hush that followed, and then
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: she looked at me.
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  Speaker 6: No, No.
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  Speaker 5: I pulled down the black lever and the inner door
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: of the lock slid open. She walked with her head
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: up and the brown curls brushing her shoulders. I let
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: her do it alone. She stepped into the lock and
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: turned to face me, and I could see the pulse
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: in her throat.
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  Speaker 6: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 5: I pulled a red lever and there was a slight
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: waver as the air gushed out. I thought I sensed
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: a bump, as if something had bumped the outer door,
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: and then there was nothing. The white hand of the
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: closet temperature control was back at zero. A cold equation
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: had been balanced, and I was alone in the ship.
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
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  Speaker 7: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
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  Speaker 7: of astounding science fiction. Tonight by transcription, X minus one
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  Speaker 7: has brought you Cold Equations, written by Tom Godwin and
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  Speaker 7: adapted for radio by George Lefforts. Featured in the cast
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  Speaker 7: were Court Benson as Barton, j. Meredith as Marilyn Myle
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  Speaker 7: of Bolton as Commander Delhart, Bob Hastings as Jerry Cross,
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  Speaker 7: Jack Arthur as traffic control officer, and Walter Kinseller as
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  Speaker 7: the Woden Monitor. Your announcer Bill Rippi. X minus one
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  Speaker 7: was directed by Ken mc gregor and as an n
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  Speaker 7: b C Radio Network production.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: And now next week.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: In the days of the wind jammers, Whaler sometimes went
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: on cruises that lasted as long as two years, and
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: so sometimes they had to resort to rough methods to
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: gather a crew. But one of the future, when a
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: cruise to a destant star may last for fifteen years
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  Speaker 7: or more, we hear of such a voyage next week
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  Speaker 7: on ch minus minus minus minus one one one one