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  Speaker 1: A crippled Earth to Mars freighter is driven beyond the
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  Speaker 1: Solar System, carrying three men, dwindling fuel, and an advanced
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  Speaker 1: computer in its cargo hold. From NBC on October tenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty seven. This is X minus one, episode one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen Death Wish, adapted for radio by William
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  Speaker 1: Welch from a Robert Sheckley story published under the.
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  Speaker 2: Name ned Lang.
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  Speaker 1: Ralph Camargo, Maurice Tarplin, Walter Black, and Joseph Bell are
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  Speaker 1: heard in the cast under the direction of Daniel Sutter.
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  Speaker 1: Aboard the Queen Deirdre, Captain Summers, Engineer Watkins, and navigator
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  Speaker 1: Rajchik must decide whether their unusual cargo can offer a
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  Speaker 1: way through an emergency that leaves little room for error.
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  Speaker 1: And now the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 5: minus one and tonight's story death wish.
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  Speaker 2: He'll consumption normal.
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  Speaker 5: You'll reach point able in ten seconds from now nine
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  Speaker 5: eight seven, six, five four three two one.
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  Speaker 2: Cut.
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  Speaker 5: Well, gentlemen, we're on our way to Mars. Now, mister Ratchick,
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  Speaker 5: give me a thirty second warning before we reach Point Baker.
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  Speaker 5: Very well, captain, mister Watkins, what's the condition of your engines?
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  Speaker 2: Don't you worry about my engines?
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  Speaker 6: The Dedro may be a cantankerous old crate, but she's
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  Speaker 6: good for another five or ten round trips to Mars.
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  Speaker 2: You can lay to that. Look at him, Captain.
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  Speaker 5: If anybody criticizes his engines, you can actually see that
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  Speaker 5: walrus mustache his bristle.
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  Speaker 6: That'sen Rachick. I've had about enough of these personal remarks
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  Speaker 6: of yours. Stick to your navigation.
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  Speaker 5: Let me alone, now, Watkins, let's not get into another
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  Speaker 5: of those arguments. Now that's an order, sir. You had
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  Speaker 5: a reason for asking about your engines. I've made enough
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  Speaker 5: trips to Mars to know the way a ship should sound.
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  Speaker 5: There's something about this one I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know quite well.
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  Speaker 6: I'd wrong with a ship, Captain Summers. I'll tell you something, though.
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  Speaker 6: Every engineer where the salt knows there are just two
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  Speaker 6: kinds of equipment, the kind of fails bit by bit
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  Speaker 6: and the kind of goes all at once. When something
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  Speaker 6: happens to the Didra, you'll know it right away. You
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  Speaker 6: won't have to ask. Or maybe so.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder if our cargo didn't shift on the takeoff,
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  Speaker 5: mister Ratchick, would you be kind enough to check on it?
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  Speaker 2: You bet, Captain right away.
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  Speaker 6: You worried about that new ferns and computer we're carrying, Captain.
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  Speaker 5: Not worried exactly, but it's a responsibility. That thing is
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  Speaker 5: by far the largest, heaviest, most delicate piece of machinery
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  Speaker 5: have but transported in space.
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  Speaker 6: It's an evil thing that's blinking eyes and scheming brain.
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  Speaker 6: I'll be glad to get to Marsport and get it
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  Speaker 6: off the ship from.
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  Speaker 5: Saul I Watkins, but not quite for the same reason.
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  Speaker 5: I don't quite share your feelings about the personality of machine.
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  Speaker 5: That's because you don't know anything about them, Captain, I do,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't like that computer thing back there in the.
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  Speaker 2: Whole all in order, and the whole boss.
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  Speaker 5: Cargo hasn't shifted, all right, miss Stretching, Maybe I'm borrowing trouble.
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  Speaker 5: Thirty seconds to point Baker, Sir Bara, strap yourselves on
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  Speaker 5: the acceleration couches again. You sure you don't read anything,
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  Speaker 5: mister Watkins, I.
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  Speaker 6: Thing, Sir, I'll vouch for every bit of equipment on
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  Speaker 6: the DIDRA.
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  Speaker 5: Fifteen seconds to point Baker.
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  Speaker 6: Prepare for a new acceleration enginees ready for firing, Sir
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  Speaker 6: ten nine eight. We fire for exactly five seconds on
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  Speaker 6: reaching point Baker for maximum acceleration three two one fire.
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  Speaker 2: That's fine, it didn't cut off. We're over firing. My fuel,
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  Speaker 2: of course will be of course, switch doesn't respond the
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  Speaker 2: emergency cut off hit the emergency can't move my arms.
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  Speaker 2: Acceleration stop it stop the rockets. Your arms so heavy,
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  Speaker 2: fucking Just get out switch. What happened? We're on emergency lights?
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  Speaker 2: We blew the generator. The lousy things to happen. What
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  Speaker 2: was it?
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  Speaker 6: Main firing circuit affused on us metal fatigue. I'd say
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  Speaker 6: it has to have been flawed for years.
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  Speaker 2: It last checked out.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's a sealed unit, Captain. It's supposed to outlast
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  Speaker 6: the ship, absolutely fool proof unless it's flawed. Now, don't
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  Speaker 6: go blaming it on me. Those circuits are supposed to
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  Speaker 6: be x rayed. He treated fluoroscope. You just can't trust machinery.
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  Speaker 2: Or are we on fuel?
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  Speaker 6: Not enough to push a kiddy car down main street?
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  Speaker 6: If I could just get my hands on those factory
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  Speaker 6: in spectrums trgic. How does this affect our course? I'm
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  Speaker 6: computing it now. I'm working as fast as I can.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Watkins, can we find those rockets on manual?
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  Speaker 2: Sure we can.
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  Speaker 6: We only have enough fuel for about a three second burst.
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  Speaker 6: It'll mean a crash landing. We'll worry about that when
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  Speaker 6: we come to it. Well, misterragic, this kills us, Captain.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to cross the orbit of Mars before Mars
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  Speaker 6: gets there?
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  Speaker 2: How long? Too long? Captain?
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  Speaker 5: We're flying out of the Solar system. Adjust under the
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  Speaker 5: speed of light.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to death wish.
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  Speaker 5: The night's attraction on X minus one. Ah back to
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  Speaker 5: X minus one and death wish.
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  Speaker 6: Look at him? Look at how he sits there staring
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  Speaker 6: at nothing. Here we are cutting off into space, and
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  Speaker 6: what do you do?
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  Speaker 2: We got a little fuel left. We can turn the ship,
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  Speaker 2: can't we.
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  Speaker 5: Look you are a navigator, I am mister Watkins, And
• 9:02
  Speaker 5: for your information, if I plotted my courses the way
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  Speaker 5: you maintain your engines, we'd be plowing into the middle
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  Speaker 5: of Australia right now.
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: You little company tody.
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  Speaker 6: At least I got my job, honestly, not by marrying
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  Speaker 6: the owner's.
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  Speaker 2: Daughter, You dirty old man. Stop at both of you.
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  Speaker 2: No more of this now, I give the orders here right.
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  Speaker 6: Then give some Tell him to plot a return curve.
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  Speaker 2: This is life and.
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  Speaker 5: Death, all of my reason for keeping our heads stragic?
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  Speaker 5: Can you plot such a course? The first thing I
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  Speaker 5: tried on the fuel we got left? There isn't a chance.
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  Speaker 5: Best I could do would be a degree or two.
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  Speaker 2: That won't help. What do you I mean it won't.
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  Speaker 6: We'll turn back into the Solar system, sure, but the
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  Speaker 6: best curve we can make will take us a few
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  Speaker 6: thousand years to complete.
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  Speaker 5: What about a landfall on some other planet Neptune Uranus
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  Speaker 5: impossible in the first place. The right planet would have
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  Speaker 5: to be in the right place at the right time,
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  Speaker 5: And if it were, we'd need fuel, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: fuel to get into a breaking orbit. And if we could,
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  Speaker 5: who'd come and get us? No ship has gone past
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  Speaker 5: Mars yet.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but maybe there'd be a chance, just a slim
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  Speaker 6: chabe maybe, But we.
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  Speaker 2: Can't swing it.
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  Speaker 5: Gentlemen, I'm afraid we'll have to kiss the Solar System goodbye.
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  Speaker 5: It just doesn't seem possible. Who would believe we're traveling
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  Speaker 5: at almost the speed of light? Look out the viewing port,
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  Speaker 5: you'd swear we were standing still in space. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 5: because there's no reference point. As you know, I assure
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  Speaker 5: you we're traveling faster than any men have ever traveled.
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  Speaker 5: What you would do, Captain, I don't know what. I
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  Speaker 5: just don't know. Our noble captain can't face the situation.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, I can face it. I can follow any
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  Speaker 5: course you plot. That's my only real responsibility. Now let's
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  Speaker 5: get a grip on ourselves, mister Rajick, suppose you raise
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  Speaker 5: Mars on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Aye, I said.
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  Speaker 5: D Dre to Mars Port d dred to mars Port. Urgent, repeat, urgent,
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  Speaker 5: come in mars Port, read you over, emergency mars Port.
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  Speaker 5: Firing mechanism, jammed fuel, almost totally expended acceleration fifteen seconds
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  Speaker 5: past safe maximum heading out of solar system. Request help over.
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  Speaker 2: Can you turn the ship to DDRE and you put
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  Speaker 2: it into any kind of an.
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  Speaker 5: Orbit over no fuel Marsport. We can only turn a
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  Speaker 5: degree or two over? What's your captain on DDRE over
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  Speaker 5: Captain Summers Marsport over.
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  Speaker 2: Captain, what do you propose to do?
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  Speaker 5: Good lord man, that's what we're asking you.
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  Speaker 2: If you pain, what are they saying? I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I couldn't catch it, mister tragick. Can't you get better reception?
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  Speaker 5: Rapidly running out of range? Captain, I'll give it all again.
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  Speaker 2: I can get to Debra Marsport to Dedra. Can you
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  Speaker 2: read me Dedre? What can you do for us? Over?
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  Speaker 7: We can't think of a thing. If you could swing
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  Speaker 7: into any start.
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  Speaker 2: Of orbit, we can't. I told you that under the.
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  Speaker 7: Circumstances, Captain, you have the right.
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  Speaker 2: To try anything at all, anything. Captain. Oh, that's nice
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  Speaker 2: of them. What do they expect us to do? Complain
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  Speaker 2: to the company. Lessen Marsport, Marsport, do you still read me? Over?
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: Read you faintly? Go on, but hurry.
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  Speaker 5: I can think of just one thing we could bail
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  Speaker 5: out in space suits as near Mars as possible. The
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  Speaker 5: Diana is laying over there, isn't she You could have
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  Speaker 5: her pick us up over Sorry.
• 12:39
  Speaker 7: Captain, you're confused. If you left your ship, your momentum
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  Speaker 7: would not be affected. You and your crew would continue
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  Speaker 7: through space at the same rate as the ship.
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  Speaker 2: Over.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, I wasn't thinking I have it. Send the
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  Speaker 5: Diana out to intersect our course. Maybe we can find
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  Speaker 5: some way to transfer. My navigator will help you plot
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  Speaker 5: the intersection.
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  Speaker 2: Over they've gone again.
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  Speaker 5: Hello mars Port, Hello mars Port, Come in, mars Port.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tring them in again to do it that way. Sorry, over,
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  Speaker 2: you mean you can't do it? Why not? It is
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  Speaker 2: our only chance.
• 13:30
  Speaker 7: Over Diana's laid up, having her engines over her.
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  Speaker 2: How long before she can be spaceport?
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: Too long?
• 13:40
  Speaker 7: Three weeks? Sorry, Captain. I wish we could think of something.
• 13:45
  Speaker 7: That's the only thing we can suggest.
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  Speaker 2: What if I didn't get it?
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  Speaker 5: Receptions going again, Captain, we're getting out of range. I
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: don't know whether I can raise them again or not.
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  Speaker 2: Well, try try, Come.
• 13:54
  Speaker 6: On, Maybe that's suggestions, and I suggest that we don't
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  Speaker 6: already know.
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: Even the statics get weaker now we only knew what
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: they were going to say.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: What's the difference? They didn't really think it would work anyhow?
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, wait, wait, maybe something cup hold it?
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  Speaker 2: Can you hear suggest? Most unlikely?
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: But try try calculator, try calculity.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: They're gone for good this time. I heard what he said,
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: the calculator. Does he mean the Farrens and computer in
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  Speaker 2: our hole? Yes?
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, I see what he meant. The Farens is a
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: very advanced job. No one knows the limits of its potential.
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  Speaker 5: He suggests we present our problem to it. Ah, that's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: The problem has no solution.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't seem to.
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: But the big computers have solved other problems that seem
• 14:50
  Speaker 5: to have no solution. Now, we can't lose anything by trying, No,
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: not as long as we don't pin any hopes.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: So that's right.
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  Speaker 5: We don't dare hope, ster Watkins. I believe this is
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: your department. What's the use you say.
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  Speaker 2: Don't hope?
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  Speaker 6: But both of you are hoping anyhow You think the
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  Speaker 6: big electronic god is going to save your lives?
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Well, it's not. We have to try. Man who says
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: we do, I.
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  Speaker 6: Wouldn't give it the satisfaction of turning us down. Are
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: you implying that machines think you bet? I am because
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: they do. No, I'm not out of my head. Any
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: engineer will tell you that a complex machine has a
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: personality all its own. Do you know what that personality
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: is like? It's cold, withdrawn, uncaring, unfeeling. A machine's only
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: purpose is to frustrate desire and produce two problems for
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: everyone it solves. And do you know why a machine
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: feels this way hysterical?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm not.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: A machine feels this way because it knows it's an
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: unnatural creation in nature's domain. It wants to reach entropy
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  Speaker 6: and cease. It's a death wish, a mechanical death wish.
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  Speaker 2: Verish.
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  Speaker 5: Wats you're going to hook up that computer?
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Sure, I'm human. I keep trying. I just wanted you
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: to understand that there's no hope I'll get it warmed up.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: We better watch him. He'll be all right.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Maybe he's blaming the situation on a machine personality now
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: trying to absolve himself of guilt. It's his fault we're
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: in this spot. An engineer is responsible for all equipment.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: What's the good of blaming anybody? None, I guess personally,
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: I don't much care. This is as good a way
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: to die as any better than most.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Don't talk like that? Why not?
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Death in space is an appealing idea in certain ways.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Imagine an entire spaceship for a tomb, and you have
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: a certain choice in how you die. Thirst, hunger, heat, cold, order.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: This is your first real emergency, Captain, and you're responding
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: like a stunned ox.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Wake up. You can't live with joy.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: At least try to extract a little pleasure out of
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: your disht your mouth.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: Well, chance, little tin, gods ready and waiting. Anybody care
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: to make a burnt offering in front of it?
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Have you given it the problem? Most of it?
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: You too have to punch up your own details. Position,
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: elapse time from maximum acceleration, water, oxygen, food, All right,
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: Come on, rechick.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Did you tell it we want to return to Earth alive? Oh? Yes, yes,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it loves that part.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: It'll get such pleasure out of rejecting the problem is unsolved.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, I won't say that. It'll say
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  Speaker 6: insufficient data.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: And I'll punch up the rest of the information. Insufficient data.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: You see the point.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: It hints a solution as possible, but just out of reach,
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: a subtle torture.
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: It can keep us hoping there. And that's the complete picture.
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Let's see what happens when I press this.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: I just keep your eye on that red light at
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: the If it goes on, it means a problem is rejected.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Watch it now, and if it solves it. It's a
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: little bell, sort of like a typewriter bell. But you
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: won't hear it. Don't worry, don't say that. It's a
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: matter logic, superstitions. Shut up. You two have to keep
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: up that everlasting wrangling.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Now not for long, captain. We haven't much longer to live, Captain.
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: Maybe that's good.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: What's that a solution? It's found a solution. That must
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: be a mistake. There is no solution. It's fooling us,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: leading us on. Now, who's superstitious. Here's the tape the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: solutions on this to take Come on, come on, read it,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: read it? May you read it? Captain? I won't play
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: its fiendish game.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, I see, that's fine, It's just fine. What does
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: it say for the level heaven? You figured a few
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: thousand years to return to the solar system?
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Magic?
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: When the computer agrees twenty three hundred years to be precise. Therefore,
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: it has given us the formula.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: For a longevity serum.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Twenty three hundred years.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: What are we supposed to do? Hybrid eight?
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, the serum does awag quite
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: neatly with the need for sleep. But twenty three hundred years, gentlemen,
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: we three sit here in this little ship and look
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: at each other. Twenty three hundred years of that?
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, that's just the sort of thing a machine
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: would do.
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  Speaker 5: Fred Collins again, and I'll have another word for you
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  Speaker 5: about X minus one in a moment.
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  Speaker 8: That's how you feel blue and miserable with a deep
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  Speaker 8: down cold.
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  Speaker 2: Listen. Every second someone takes it for the miser cold,
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  Speaker 2: millions more take bromo quinine. Every second someone takes it
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: for the misery zapA cold brow all fine.
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  Speaker 8: More people have taken more promo quinine cold tablets for
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: more complete relief than any other cold tablet ever sold.
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  Speaker 2: You could use aspirin or cough.
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  Speaker 8: Syrups or nose drops all day and not yet promo
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: Quinine's relief. Romo Quinine works to relieves topped up nose,
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  Speaker 8: body aches, fever, irregularity, the blues and headache. Two yes,
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: more complete relief or even virus colds for promo Quinine
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  Speaker 8: is the only cold tablet sold with wonderworking quinine and
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: five Edison's health fortified with him and see remember.
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  Speaker 5: Every second someone takes it for the miseries of.
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: Millions more take promo Quinine yet promo Quinine brand cole tablets.
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  Speaker 5: You have just heard X minus one presented by the
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  Speaker 5: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine,
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  Speaker 5: which this month features You Were Right Joe by J. T. McIntosh,
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  Speaker 5: the story of a time traveler who, going into the future,
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: hardly expected to encounter a Neanderthal man. Read it in
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  Speaker 5: Galaxy Magazine on your new stand today. X minus one
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  Speaker 5: has brought you Death Witch, a story written by Ned
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  Speaker 5: Lang and adapted for radio.
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  Speaker 2: By William Welch.
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  Speaker 5: Featured in our cast were Ralph Camargo as Watkins, Maurice
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Tarplin as Captain Summers, Walter Black as Ratchek, and Joseph Bell.
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  Speaker 2: As the radioman. This is Fred Collins speaking.
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  Speaker 5: X minus one was directed by George Hutsas and is
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  Speaker 5: an NBC Radio Network production.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: There's excitement in the air at night, and Nightline brings
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  Speaker 2: it to you here. Nightline with Walter O'Keeffe next. On
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  Speaker 2: most of these NBC stations, you've been hearing X minus
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  Speaker 2: one's death Wish.
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