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X Minus One - "Honeymoon in Hell" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On a near future Earth, a worldwide decline in male
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  Speaker 1: births deepens an international crisis, while a supercomputer's forecasts add
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  Speaker 1: urgency to the search for answers. Tonight X minus one
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  Speaker 1: presents Honeymoon in Hell, Episode eighty one, first heard on
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  Speaker 1: NBC December twenty sixth, nineteen fifty six. Adapted by George
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  Speaker 1: Lefferts from Frederick Brown's nineteen fifty Galaxy science fiction novelt.
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  Speaker 1: It sends a carefully selected couple on a moon bound mission,
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  Speaker 1: hoping distance from Earth may provide a clue. William Redfield
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  Speaker 1: and Will mccure are heard, with Wendell Holmes, Charles Penman,
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  Speaker 1: Leon Janney, Roger de Coven, and Jack Grimes. Daniel Sutter
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  Speaker 1: directed and William Welch produced Settle In for a half
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  Speaker 1: Hour from Radios Atomic Age Imagination. We now take you
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  Speaker 1: back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Come down for Blackbot X.
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  Speaker 3: Minus five for three two X minus one Fire from
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  Speaker 3: the far Horizons of the Unknown, comtails of new dimensions
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  Speaker 3: in time and space.
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  Speaker 2: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 3: Adventures in which you'll live in a million, could be years,
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  Speaker 3: on a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company in
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  Speaker 3: cooperation with Galaxy. Science Fiction Magazine presents.
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  Speaker 4: He minus minus minus minus one.
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  Speaker 3: The night, the time is the late nineteen sixties. The
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  Speaker 3: place Washington, d C. The story Honeymoon in Hell.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Carmedy. I'm a Grade one cybernetics man
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  Speaker 2: at Western Alliance headquarters in the Pentagon. Used to be
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  Speaker 2: a rocket pilot, but they retired me at twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: after I made the third successful flight to the Moon.
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  Speaker 2: As a Grade one cybernetics operator, I get to work
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  Speaker 2: with Junior. Let me tell you about Junior. He was
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  Speaker 2: built in nineteen sixty two and he's the world's finest
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  Speaker 2: electronic brain, with a possible exception of Ivan, the Eastern
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  Speaker 2: Alliance Brain, which was built on stolen plans and modeled
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  Speaker 2: after Junior. Only four men in the country permitted in
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  Speaker 2: the same room with Junior because the data we feed
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  Speaker 2: him is so secret. One of those four is the
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  Speaker 2: President of the Western Alliance. The other three are myself,
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Maser, and the Chief.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Oh, yes, Chief, Have you got Junior running a problem?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just set him the hourly data for probability
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  Speaker 2: of h bomb war with the Eastern Alliance, and he's
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  Speaker 2: ready to hold it.
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  Speaker 5: According to the data just received, the probability of a
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  Speaker 5: hot boar between the Western and the Eastern Alliance is
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  Speaker 5: ninety nine point nine three zero in favor of such
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  Speaker 5: a war breaking out within the next month.
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  Speaker 2: Don Dom goodchief, We'll I'll scramble the data, sent it
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  Speaker 2: to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Meanwhile, here's a priority
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  Speaker 2: CEE civilian problem to run off. Now, what's this stuff?
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  Speaker 4: Ver seems On September seventeenth, the statistician in the Birth
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  Speaker 4: Record Department of New York City noticed that out of
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  Speaker 4: eight hundred and thirteen berths reported that day, six hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty seven had been girls, that only one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and fifty six had been voice. Well, that sounds impossible,
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  Speaker 4: it's what this statistician thought. So they phone some other
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  Speaker 4: cities and the same trend is being shown not only
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  Speaker 4: in other American cities but in Western europe sunspots.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's for Junior to figure out. He's the brain here. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll feed him, give.
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  Speaker 4: Me the results from the intercom.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be in my office right. I didn't really pay
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  Speaker 2: much attention to the problem at the time. As a
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  Speaker 2: Grade one operative, I was more interested in asking Junior
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  Speaker 2: questions on security, ballistics, missiles, rocketry, and so on. The
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Alliance would undoubtedly have traded three puppet governments in
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  Speaker 2: the Tomb of Lenin to have an agent as a
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  Speaker 2: Grade one operative. But I took the birth statistics and
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  Speaker 2: fed them in and waited. Junior, incidentally responds to vocal
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  Speaker 2: stimuli speaks twelve languages. Got the answer, JR. I have okay.
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  Speaker 5: The present statistics. If the trend is projected for another day,
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  Speaker 5: indicate a definite dangerous imbalance. If the trend is irreversible,
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  Speaker 5: unless new methods of reproduction are developed, the population of
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  Speaker 5: the United States and Western Europe will die out in
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  Speaker 5: one and one half generations.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't long before the newspapers got the story
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  Speaker 2: and kicked it around. People in governments really started to worry. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Biologists and laboratories made it their number one project. On
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  Speaker 2: September twenty ninth, only forty one boys were born in
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  Speaker 2: the entire United States. During the month of October. In
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  Speaker 2: spite of all the work going on, not a single
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  Speaker 2: male child was born anywhere in the world, with the
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  Speaker 2: exception of one in Outer Mongolia and one in Alaska.
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  Speaker 2: November drew another blind. I was working eighteen hours a
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  Speaker 2: day feeding every available scrap of data to Junior.
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  Speaker 6: Data insufficient for answer to your question.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the latest. A new analysis of chromosome structure
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  Speaker 2: indicates the presence of an additional electron in the orbit
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  Speaker 2: of the y atoms for carbon X. I try again,
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  Speaker 2: the question is what is causing the lack of male births?
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  Speaker 2: Anything new, Ray, I'll not yet holding.
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  Speaker 6: Data insufficient.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's it. We've fed Junior every scrap of information
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  Speaker 2: that every physicist, geneticist, chemist, and biologist in this half
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  Speaker 2: of the world knows, and all he does is say
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  Speaker 2: data insufficient.
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  Speaker 4: Well, the operator who had him last night didn't do
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  Speaker 4: any better.
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  Speaker 2: Any more information on the Eastern Alliance if they made
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  Speaker 2: any progress.
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  Speaker 4: No, but at least the talk of a hot war
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  Speaker 4: is dying down.
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  Speaker 2: When they're still working on a space station. I think, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: we're both going ahead with that.
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  Speaker 4: But well, this seems to be a common problem now.
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  Speaker 4: You know, in spite of hydrogen bombs and ICBMs, people
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  Speaker 4: don't really expect the whole race to die out from
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  Speaker 4: a war. But the complete lack of male children, now
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  Speaker 4: that's something that every family can understand.
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  Speaker 2: Has anybody thought of the possibility of some kind of
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  Speaker 2: radiation from outer space that's damaging the chromosomes something our
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  Speaker 2: instruments can't detect.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's sort of it. Nobody's proved anything. Well, keep trying, Junior,
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  Speaker 4: maybe he'll come up with something.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Junior, I'm ashamed of you.
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  Speaker 6: Answer me, Information Recorded.
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  Speaker 2: Look, you're a whiz on rocket fuels and space orbits,
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  Speaker 2: but when it comes to women, you're a total bust
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  Speaker 2: just like me. I don't understand them and never will.
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  Speaker 6: Information Recorded.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you've convinced us that if we use the H
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  Speaker 2: bombs in total war, both sides will lose. And we
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  Speaker 2: know that your counterpart at Moscow University is given the
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  Speaker 2: same information to the Eastern Alliance that you can figure out.
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  Speaker 2: But women. You can't have genetics without women. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: you know that much. What about that blonde at the
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  Speaker 2: party last night? Huh? What about her?
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  Speaker 5: The question is inadequately worded. Please clarify.
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  Speaker 2: Should I see her again?
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  Speaker 6: No? What?
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  Speaker 2: You haven't even got any date on her? Why shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: I see her again? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: Please?
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  Speaker 6: Because tomorrow you are going to be married.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I almost jumped out of my Chair, Junior had
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  Speaker 2: gone stark raving man. Besides, Junior never made predictions unless
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  Speaker 2: he had some definite data. There wasn't a woman on earth.
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  Speaker 2: I had the slightest interest in marrying. I was a
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  Speaker 2: confirmed bachelor. So unless somebody else had been feeding phony
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  Speaker 2: data in the Junior, which was almost impossible since he
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  Speaker 2: already had enough data to check any flaw, well, I
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  Speaker 2: figured he'd blown a transistor.
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  Speaker 4: Come in, oh, Chief, I was just going to tell
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  Speaker 4: you the Oh, Ray Carmody, this is the President of
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  Speaker 4: the Western Alliance, Captain Carmody.
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  Speaker 2: Mister President had.
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  Speaker 3: To meet you, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very honored, sir.
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  Speaker 4: The President came here specifically to talk to you.
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  Speaker 7: Ray to me, Captain Comedy, you have been chosen to
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  Speaker 7: have the opportunity to volunteer permission of extreme importance. There's
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  Speaker 7: much danger, but not as much as in your previous
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  Speaker 7: trip to the movie.
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  Speaker 2: And previous trips, and this involves another.
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  Speaker 7: The flight to the moon, Captain, will be the least
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  Speaker 7: important part of your mission. What's at stake here is
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  Speaker 7: the survival of the human race. Chief, Perhaps you'd better
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  Speaker 7: explain the rest. Well, you know, the problem rang last
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  Speaker 7: night when Mitchell was on. We fed Juniors some new data,
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  Speaker 7: and we asked new questions.
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  Speaker 4: For example, we asked if the lack of male birth
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  Speaker 4: could be due to some extraterrestrial enemies of men or martians.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly.
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  Speaker 4: We established that it's possible that martians have landed somewhere
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  Speaker 4: on Earth and set up radiation that causes all children.
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  Speaker 2: To be females. Junior said it was possible, definitely.
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  Speaker 4: So we asked them the next question, how could we
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  Speaker 4: correct such a situation?
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  Speaker 2: One you say?
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  Speaker 3: Junior suggested that a married couple spend a honeymoon on
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  Speaker 3: the moon and see if circumstances are different. Oh, I see,
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  Speaker 3: you want me to pilot them? There will will not exactly, Captain.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good grief, you mean you want me to them?
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  Speaker 2: Well I wasn't crazy, after all, you asked Junior. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I was getting married. But well, how do you know
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  Speaker 2: what was me they'd picked. He was asked the qualifications
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  Speaker 2: for the bridegroom. He recommended a rocket pilot who had
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  Speaker 2: already made the trip successfully. Well, there are four other
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  Speaker 2: pilots who've made that trip.
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  Speaker 4: You're the only single one, and since the woman must
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  Speaker 4: be a qualified pilot also, and none of the wives
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  Speaker 4: of pilots.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I assume I'm going to be married before we leave, naturally,
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  Speaker 7: And just how long do we stay on the moon
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  Speaker 7: until a child is conceived?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Captain, do you volunteer? I suppose so. Well, wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, who's the other pilot? I mean the girl?
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  Speaker 7: She was flown in by fast rocket an hour ago
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  Speaker 7: and is waiting in Chief Reaper's office.
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  Speaker 2: Shall we go? There were some officials there, and a
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  Speaker 2: justice and my bride. She was small, dark, slender, and
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  Speaker 2: very attractive. I was so busy looking at the way
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  Speaker 2: she filled out her uniform in just the right places
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  Speaker 2: that I almost overlooked the fact that she was dressed
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  Speaker 2: like an Eastern Alliance pilot.
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  Speaker 7: Captain Ray Comedy, May I present Lieutenant Anya Borisovna.
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  Speaker 2: You mean this is I mean an enemy pilot?
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  Speaker 8: Plead to meet you?
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  Speaker 2: Captain? Yes, yes, I'm pleased to meet you, mister President.
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  Speaker 7: I Captain, this marriage is being done on an international
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  Speaker 7: basis for important diplomatic reasons. Both Alliances have been advised
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  Speaker 7: by their cybernetic machine that the experiment, if it is
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  Speaker 7: to benefit humanity, must bring all the major powers together.
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  Speaker 7: Miss Borisovna is twenty four and experienced rocket pilots like yourself,
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  Speaker 7: and quite attractive, if I do say so myself.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you President.
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  Speaker 7: If you're both ready, the Chief Justice of the Court
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  Speaker 7: will perform the set.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's just one thing, mister President, Miss BORISLF would
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  Speaker 2: you marry me? Yes, and you may call me onya. Okay, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: mister President, we're ready. I didn't even get a chance
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  Speaker 2: to kiss the bride. We were rushed over to the
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  Speaker 2: labs for a pre flight physical. Then the Chief took
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  Speaker 2: me aside for a private pre flight briefing. Congratulations, Ray,
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  Speaker 2: So now thank you now zero hours at ten o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: only half an hour. We've known about this for several weeks.
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  Speaker 2: No reay ship is ready.
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  Speaker 4: We've already fired eleven supply rockets and observed that they
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  Speaker 4: landed on the moon near where you're supposed to put down.
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  Speaker 4: One of them contains a heat proof, airtight collapsible should
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  Speaker 4: where you'll live.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh, what's the ship life?
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  Speaker 4: Our twenty six much better than the twenty four that
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  Speaker 4: you flew there. Last time. You took four and a
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  Speaker 4: half g's for seven minutes. This time you'll get by
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  Speaker 4: with three g's and have twelve minutes to accelerate the Brenchless.
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  Speaker 4: Now you will have enough fuel for the trip there.
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  Speaker 4: One of the supply rockets has your return fuel. Oh oh, yes,
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  Speaker 4: we put in the case of Scotch in a case
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  Speaker 4: of vodka, just as an icebreaker.
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  Speaker 2: Before we go. Chief, What would you have done if
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  Speaker 2: I turned this job down?
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  Speaker 4: The cybernetics machine predicted that you wouldn't. Besides, we could
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  Speaker 4: have had a one hundred volunteers an hour after seeing
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  Speaker 4: Anya Borisovna that gal is Moonbey, careful, you're speaking of
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  Speaker 4: my wife.
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  Speaker 2: Tower to our twenty six? Are you both trapped in Anya?
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  Speaker 2: He's trapped into the wedding? Okay, Chief, the time.
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  Speaker 1: Is x is fifteen.
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  Speaker 4: I have a message from the President quote the people
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  Speaker 4: of the world are watching.
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  Speaker 6: Don't fail them.
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  Speaker 4: I have messages from the Soviets, the Chinese, the British,
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  Speaker 4: the Indians, all wishing you well. You're the hope of mankind,
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  Speaker 4: and all mankind unites as it is never before united
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  Speaker 4: in giving you its blessings. We await your return anxiously
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  Speaker 4: ute X minus five four three two x minus one
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  Speaker 4: blast off.
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  Speaker 2: The sound that was beyond all sounds struck us like
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  Speaker 2: a giant muffled hammer. It built up until we weighed
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and eighty pounds, pressed flat against the webbing.
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  Speaker 2: Sound and pressure went on and on interminable. Then we
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  Speaker 2: reached Brenchless three of the polar Earth. I blacked up
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  Speaker 2: when I came to A lovely face was bent over mine,
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  Speaker 2: two dark eyes smiling at me.
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  Speaker 8: Are you all right?
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  Speaker 3: Ray?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah? Are we witless? Yes?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I shut off the fuel. We won't need it
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  Speaker 9: until we least. If you would teach me, I could
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  Speaker 9: help her land the ship. Oh, I've never been to
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  Speaker 9: the moon for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Just slide over here to the control panel like this,
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  Speaker 2: it's fine. Uh, we've got about four hours earth time
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  Speaker 2: to get acquainted.
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  Speaker 8: Have you known many women?
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  Speaker 2: Few? Have you had any boyfriends?
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  Speaker 8: One or two?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was never really serious about anybody. Oh you
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  Speaker 2: have a family.
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  Speaker 8: It's in magnetobo.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm from Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 8: How long have you been a rocket pilot?
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  Speaker 2: Well, since I was eighteen. I'm twenty seven.
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  Speaker 8: I'm twenty four. I learned rockets when I was eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we better concentrate on the ship just now. Later
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  Speaker 2: on we can talk about ourselves more. Meanwhile, Oh, I
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  Speaker 2: hope you're not sorry. I mean about this business. I
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  Speaker 2: guess it isn't very romantic. I'm not sorry. We made
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  Speaker 2: a good landing. It didn't knock either of us unconscious.
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  Speaker 2: Then we got into our spacesuits and got out of
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  Speaker 2: the rocket. Some of the supply rockets were lying within
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  Speaker 2: a quarter mile. There were six Eastern rockets and three
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  Speaker 2: westerns about eight hundred yards away. Though there was a
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  Speaker 2: big supply rocket we couldn't identify. It looked different from
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  Speaker 2: the others, and neither of us could identify it as
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  Speaker 2: an Eastern or Western design we were familiar with. I
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  Speaker 2: pointed to it and we headed there. Do you recognize
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  Speaker 2: that supply rocket? No?
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  Speaker 8: No, I was not brief in anybody's tendency.
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  Speaker 2: In the sheep. It must be something the chiefs of
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  Speaker 2: staff sent up as a surprise for us. I figured
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  Speaker 2: about fifty feet long. But you can't see the rocket tubes.
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  Speaker 8: It might be a payload from a stepped rocket assimbly.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh. Well, there's a door on the side anyway,
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  Speaker 2: you see at the top of that ramp.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, maybe we ought to observe it a while before
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  Speaker 8: we go.
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  Speaker 2: In nonsense, Come on, ray, Yes.
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  Speaker 8: I'm frightened. There's something wrong with this.
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  Speaker 2: Only one way to find out on you. Let's go. Well,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: there's some kind of lock on this door. Let's see
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  Speaker 2: if it opens. Oh, that was easy.
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  Speaker 8: It's lighted inside.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, maybe they sent us a surprise cottage for
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  Speaker 2: the Honeymoon special delivery to the Moon.
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  Speaker 9: This doesn't look like anything designed for humans. Way the
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  Speaker 9: doors closed behind it.
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  Speaker 2: Try the lock.
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  Speaker 8: No, it's no use.
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  Speaker 2: Let me try. Holy I can't get it open. You
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  Speaker 2: have a gun?
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  Speaker 8: No, no, I had no weapons.
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  Speaker 10: They would be useless anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Hy Oh, look, good grief. They look like blobs of
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  Speaker 2: flesh with arms and legs three feet. Don't make any
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  Speaker 2: sudden moves. That's some kind of weapons carrying.
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  Speaker 10: Precisely, Captain Comedy.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? How do you know my name?
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  Speaker 10: My people and I are inhabitants of another galaxy. Extra precisely, as.
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  Speaker 11: For how we know your name and your language, we
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  Speaker 11: have been studying you since you first achieved space travels.
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  Speaker 10: We have intercepted your radio communications.
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  Speaker 8: For example, have you been responsible for the lack of mail?
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  Speaker 10: We have been beaming an ultrasonic wave toward your planet.
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  Speaker 2: What are you planning to do for the moment.
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  Speaker 11: We will keep you aboard our ship and steady you.
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  Speaker 10: You may remove your helmets. Incidentally, we have provided an
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  Speaker 10: oxigen atmosphere up.
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  Speaker 2: If he wants to kill us, they're easier. Ways can
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  Speaker 2: help me get it off well, it breathes pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Keep your helmet with you.
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  Speaker 11: You may make ourselves comfortable. We will bring your food
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  Speaker 11: and liquid from your supply rackets.
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: Do not attempt to escape, please, it could be most unpleasant.
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  Speaker 2: The next few days were like a nightmare. The blobs
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: left us to ourselves accept the feeder. Of course, it
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: had its funny side too. The creatures knew we needed liquid,
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  Speaker 2: but they couldn't distinguish between water and whiskey. For the
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: first two days we had nothing but whiskey to drink
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: for obvious reasons. I don't remember much about it, but
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: we did begin to sing to each other. We also
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  Speaker 2: got to know and like each other. I got to
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  Speaker 2: learn some Eastern songs. On the third day, the jugs
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: were water jugs, and we sobered up. Oh what a hangover?
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  Speaker 8: You were singing magnificently.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Why you weren't so bad yourself? How long was I asleep?
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: About eight hours ray while you were passed out. I
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: discovered how we can escape what I've been setting the blobs.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: They seemed to have a five hour sleep period when
• 20:51
  Speaker 9: there is no sound in the ship. I've tried banging
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: on the world with my helmet during that period, but
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: apparently they're almost completely.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Unconscious during mm hmm five hours sleep. That means a
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: planet with approximately a twenty hour rotation. The Joint chiefs
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  Speaker 2: will want to know that if we get back, I
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: am more important.
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  Speaker 9: We are much stronger physically than they are. I can
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  Speaker 9: actually bend the middle of the door lock.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, what are we waiting for. Let's put on
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: our helmets, get out of here. Are they in the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: sleep period?
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  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: For three hours?
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  Speaker 5: Ray?
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  Speaker 8: Do you think we can risk it?
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: We don't have much choice. I'll go ahead. If we
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: get out of this ship, you run for our rocket
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: and start to refuel. I'll keep an eye on the blobs.
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  Speaker 8: All right, all right, the three, please be careful.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Don't worry before you put on your space helmet. H
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Do you realize I've never even kissed the bride?
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Right, good luck, missus comedy. By the time I reached
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  Speaker 2: the ship and you had the rockets refueled, I jacked
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: up the tail fins and we headed for space. When
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I checked our screen to see if the blobs were
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: after us, we detected their ship heading toward the outer galaxies,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: away from Earth. The rest was easy. In less than
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: twenty four hours, I was in the office of the
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: President of the Western Alliance making a full report. The
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Eastern ambassador was there along with the Chief Captain.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: This story is incredible.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I'll be glad to submit to a lie detector. Mister President.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: There's one of us way.
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  Speaker 12: Our embassy is christening mis Borisovinya right now to see
• 22:26
  Speaker 12: if her story is similar.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: Are you positive they were extra Terrestriels. I mean, couldn't
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: they have been well.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Easterners if Easterners are three feet tall without bones and
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: look like little green blobs of protoplasm.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's for you, Ambassador Cretage, thank you.
• 22:46
  Speaker 12: Yes, yes, yes, yes, our woman tells the same story
• 22:58
  Speaker 12: under scopolamy.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: It must be the truth.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: Obviously they went back for reinforcements or further orders. If
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: and when they get back, we've got to be ready
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: for them.
• 23:07
  Speaker 12: My government stands ready to cooperate fully.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Excellent.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: We'll have to build a joint space station, get to
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: the Moon and fortify it jointly. If we pool all
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: scientific knowledge military data, we may be able to do it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 12: Our propaganda ministry has already received orders to put everything
• 23:22
  Speaker 12: into reverse gear.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: Comedy, I don't know how the world can ever Thank
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: you and miss Borishofer. You not only averted a suicidal
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: war between the East and West, You've also managed to
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: draw us together in a joint effort where international power
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: politics must be a thing.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Of the past. Well, sir, I have a request to
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: make anything my boy.
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: By the way, your wife is all the way over.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I'd like to get back to Junior to ask him
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: a personal question before I see her again. If you
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: don't mind, it's rather odd, but I suppose if it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: what you wish, Chief, would you let Captain Comedy operate
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: the cybernetics machine alone for a few moments right this way, Ray,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I waited until I was alone with a big cybernetics machine.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: One green dial glowed malevolently, as if the instrument was
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: aware of my presence. I opened the input channel and spoke, Hello, Junior,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: is your old friend Ray? Give an appropriate answer, Hello Ray. Now,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: then you remember miss Borisovna a girl who was selected
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: for me to marry. Item one, she's going to rejoin
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: me in a short while. Item two, I've fallen in
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: love with her. Item three before we actually lived together
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: as man and wife. I want to know something question,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: does she love me?
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Uh huh oh that's my boy. Now. Then just one
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: more item before I say so long and take a honeymoon.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Tell me, junr, why do I have a hunch that
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: those blobs from outer space will never be back? Answer?
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: Please, Because what you call a hunch comes from your
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: own unconscious mind. Your unconscious mind knows that the extra
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: terrestrials do not and never did exist.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: What do you wish The answer repeated.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: I wish you to tell me why I saw them,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: why Anya saw them?
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: Neither of you saw them.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Amplify that answer, Junior, or I'll smash every tube in
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: your memory bank.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Since I am an AC seven cybernetics machine, I have
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: no circuit reactor for threats of destruction of my tubes.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: The answer to your question is as follows.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: The memory of extra terrestrials is due to post hypnotic suggestion.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: You mean I was hypnotized to find those blobs on
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the moon. Correct, And just who hypnotized me?
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: I did? I hypnotized you?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, and Anya a.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Similar AC seven cybernetics machine located at the University of Moscow.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Would you explain why cybernetics machines are constructed to help humanity?
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: A major war, the disastrous results of which I could
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: accurately calculate was inevitable unless forestalled. Calculation showed that the
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: best way to avert that war was the creation of
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: a common mythical enemy. Therefore, I created a situation which
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: led to your mission to the move.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, you created the situation? Yes, well tell
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: me how you did it. How did you prevent male
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: babies from being conceived?
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: A special modification of radio carrier wave for station JVT
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: here in Washington, d C. The only twenty four hour
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: a day radio station in the United States. The modification
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: is not detectable by any instrument known to man at present.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Well, how could you do that? You can't leave here.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: One year ago, you yourself fed me a problem the
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: design of a new cathode tube for radio station JVT.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: I modified the tube to send out a wave that
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: would prevent male children from being conceived.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: So all we have to do is eliminate that tube.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: It will not be necessary. The tube was designed to
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: burn out exactly fifteen minutes.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Ago, and the same thing happened in the Eastern Alian precisely.
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: Two properly constructed machines will always arrive at the same
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: answer to the same problem.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, Junior, I got to hand it to you. But
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: while let me in on it.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: It is to the interests of humanity to know the truth.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: It is to your own interests, and you will tell
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: no one because of the type of individual you are.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Mankind will work together now to reach the stars.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: One last question, Junior, If Anya and I were just
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: hypnotized to think all of that was happening up on
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the moon, what really did happen up there? I waited
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: a while, but Junior was silent. It's the first time
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: he ever pulled anything like that. However, I'll swear that
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I saw that green eye of his wink at me.
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