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X Minus One - "The Map Makers" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Frederick Pohl's story The Map Makers, adapted for radio by
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Ernest Conoy, brings a deep space survey ship far beyond
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: its charts. On September twenty sixth, nineteen fifty six, NBC's
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: X minus one presented episode sixty eight, with John Larkin,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Ed Prentiss, Bob Hastings, and Tom Collins among the cast.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: A meteor strike has thrown the ship out of hyperspace,
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  Speaker 1: damaged its systems, and destroyed the atlas. The crew needs
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: to find its way as supplies diminish and the familiar
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: star roots disappear. Lieutenant Grodan's injury takes on an unexpected importance.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Directed by Daniel Sutter, this is X minus one's The
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  Speaker 1: Map Makers and now the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: God Down for Blackbob X minus five four three two.
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  Speaker 3: X minus one Fire.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: From the far horizons of the Unknown come transcribed tales
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  Speaker 2: of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
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  Speaker 2: of the future adventures in which you'll live in a
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  Speaker 2: million could be years on a thousand Navy Worlds, the
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  Speaker 2: National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxies.
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  Speaker 3: Science Fiction Magazine presents.
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  Speaker 4: Heck he minus minus minus minus one.
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  Speaker 2: On the Night Story the Makers by Frederick Paul.
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  Speaker 5: Damage report mister Banner.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Sir.
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  Speaker 3: Three bulkheads penetrated in NAC and D sections patched and
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  Speaker 3: air tight.
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  Speaker 5: How is Lieutenant Broden?
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  Speaker 3: He isn't good. He's unconscious. His head is all bandaged dead.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a million to one chance. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 3: happened in three hundred years. Meteoric matter heading a ship
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  Speaker 3: in hyperspace.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Bonner, would you please have the events operated to
• 2:43
  Speaker 6: clear the control room of ketsene fumes? Mister Larch, I'll
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  Speaker 6: have a half G spin if you please.
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  Speaker 5: We can use a little gravity, won't We figured this out, I.
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  Speaker 3: Sir, Engine room half G spin for simulated gravity. How
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  Speaker 3: about the Atlas? That's the worst damage, sir. Celestial Atlas
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  Speaker 3: is destroyed.
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  Speaker 5: Hmmm.
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  Speaker 6: The Atlas was the only record on board of the
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  Speaker 6: hyperspace configurations.
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  Speaker 3: It's a total loss. Stead Sair.
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  Speaker 5: Oh what was his name?
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  Speaker 3: The Apish Spaun? He had a sister in Seattle. I think.
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  Speaker 5: The passorders for burial at the afterlock, I say, and.
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  Speaker 6: Mister Bonner have all officers assemble in the wardroom for
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  Speaker 6: an emergency meeting as soon as we are secured for
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  Speaker 6: normal space.
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  Speaker 3: Eddies.
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  Speaker 6: Gentlemen, gentlemen, we are in trouble. We're in the soup,
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  Speaker 6: and we're a long way from home. That banner, would
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  Speaker 6: you get me a bub of coffee?
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  Speaker 5: Please?
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  Speaker 6: Now, nobody is going to come get us out of this.
• 4:01
  Speaker 6: We'll have to do it ourselves if we can. Chiarelli
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  Speaker 6: is trying to get us a fix. But I can
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  Speaker 6: tell you right now we are not close to the
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  Speaker 6: Solar System here. No, thank you. That meteor dropped us
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  Speaker 6: out of hyperspace in the middle of a jump. Consequently,
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  Speaker 6: there isn't a constellation in the sky that you or
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  Speaker 6: I or anybody else ever saw before. We might be
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  Speaker 6: one hundred light years from home, or we might be
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  Speaker 6: ten thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Sir, what about our records?
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  Speaker 6: They went with the atlas. We can't retrace our steps,
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  Speaker 6: not in hyperspace. Yes, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Larch burial detail standing by at the afterlock.
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  Speaker 6: Very well, we'll get down there in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid the atlas will have to wait.
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  Speaker 7: He's a mess. Isn't cover him up? Haven't you got
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  Speaker 7: any respect? Here's a laugh spawn. I mean, look at
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  Speaker 7: his head. They spent four years stuffing it with all
• 5:01
  Speaker 7: those equations under that hypno machine.
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  Speaker 5: Do you ever see him working a jump? Oh? My
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  Speaker 5: jump station's engine pit three. There's nothing curly here. You
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  Speaker 5: know what it's like doing jump?
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  Speaker 7: No lights, no fluorescence, even just those kerosene lamps, smoking
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  Speaker 7: everything looking bent and twisted.
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  Speaker 5: You can't tell what you're seeing.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Spawn stands right up there next to the captain
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  Speaker 7: in a trance, and he's spouting numbers and times and.
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  Speaker 5: Equations, and all the time his eyes are shut. He's out,
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  Speaker 5: looking light. He's sure out for good now.
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  Speaker 7: It's funny. You never knew how to cut up his
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  Speaker 7: pay when he was conscious. When he's out, he's as
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  Speaker 7: good as a five story computer, and never could figure.
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  Speaker 7: It's kind of creepy.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't they take a regular machine to do hyperspace navigating?
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  Speaker 3: What you ought to know?
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  Speaker 7: You're just lifted him Spawn with one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 7: ringing wet. A computer would weigh maybe three or four tons.
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  Speaker 7: Ship couldn't lift it. We've got computers on board, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: electronic computers. What's the first order before jump das all electric?
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  Speaker 9: Yet?
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  Speaker 6: Sure that zero one blue higher than the kite before
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  Speaker 6: they file that out.
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  Speaker 7: You don't use juice in hyperspace, not if you want
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  Speaker 7: to get out of it.
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  Speaker 5: So you can't use a computer during a jump. That's
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  Speaker 5: respond came in.
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  Speaker 8: I can't use him and jump anymore either, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 8: for sure. Hey, listen, it's the brass coming to dump him.
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  Speaker 8: I gotta get back to my patient. Put out that
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  Speaker 8: cigarette and try to look solemn. How is a conboy
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  Speaker 8: not so good? I gave him three ampules of neo
• 6:35
  Speaker 8: morph in the last two hours. That's twice the normal dosage.
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  Speaker 8: Let me see Ooh, Lieutenant Groden's the navigator, isn't he?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, what happens with him all cut up in
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  Speaker 8: the head.
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  Speaker 5: The captain is a trained navigator. Well, that doesn't do
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  Speaker 5: us any good, and jump, does it?
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  Speaker 10: Not?
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  Speaker 5: Without the atlas to do the calculus.
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  Speaker 11: Look, our job down here is to keep the telling
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  Speaker 11: growing out of pain. We'll leave the rest of the
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  Speaker 11: bridge all right.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, sir, it's just that CORRELLI in the chart room
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  Speaker 7: told me you can't locate one.
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  Speaker 12: Of those stars in his chart. And what's more, that
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  Speaker 12: ampul seconds.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Eckland come.
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  Speaker 13: In recorders made Eckland recording.
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  Speaker 6: Sir, standard 's Ekland. You've heard about recorders made spawn.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, sir, I was with Charlie when Bonner decline the
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  Speaker 14: chair please, I'm all right, sir.
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  Speaker 5: You know that.
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  Speaker 6: Spawn's operation was essential to navigation in a jump.
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  Speaker 14: No, sir, I mean I don't know much of anything
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  Speaker 14: until i'm indexed.
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  Speaker 6: You're rated at ship's librarian log. Yes, sir, Spahn read
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  Speaker 6: his calibrations up to this point into you.
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  Speaker 13: I suppose so, sir. I'm in trance when I record.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. Now we're going to need those records. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 13: Yes, sir. The keyword is index, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Index.
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  Speaker 3: There she goes. Takes about thirty seconds for full trance.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Bona, this is risky.
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  Speaker 6: Trying to backtrack on hyperspace equations by dead reckoning a
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  Speaker 6: centimeter off of the figures might put us a thousand
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  Speaker 6: kilometers in hyperspace anything up to a million light years
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  Speaker 6: when we dropped back into normal. I wish that media
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  Speaker 6: had gotten me instead of the APIs. She's in transfer,
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  Speaker 6: all right, Ecklan Ship's log, Journey day one Jump one.
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  Speaker 14: Journey Day one jump one normal space coordinates three four
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  Speaker 14: five six seven four six five sub four five six
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  Speaker 14: time four three five six point nine.
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  Speaker 15: Eight ensign lots reporting on watch, sir. No maneuvering during watch,
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  Speaker 15: no change in operating status. I haven't made an entry
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  Speaker 15: for course in position.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Bonne, just put down unknown in big letters.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, sir, you didn't get anything out of Eckland.
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  Speaker 3: Oh sure, we got the absolute magnitudes and the stellar
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  Speaker 3: distances of half the stars in the galaxy, handshard course
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  Speaker 3: and the geodesics are the n dimensional space. We didn't
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  Speaker 3: get a roadmap. Who said thermometer read?
• 9:53
  Speaker 15: It's all right, sir. I adjusted heat level? What the
• 9:55
  Speaker 15: welding torches had the temperature of five degrees? So I
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  Speaker 15: ordered air valved into the expansion line.
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  Speaker 3: Stir larch, you were bleeding air? Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Or the cool ship fool?
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  Speaker 3: What you valve off air? As though we had a
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  Speaker 3: whole world of it? Did it ever occur to you?
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  Speaker 3: We might be in space a long time and we
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  Speaker 3: might run out.
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  Speaker 5: Of air, But sir, that doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: I mean no, not when you can jump, not when
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  Speaker 2: Earth is an hour a day away.
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  Speaker 3: But we can't jump. You just leave those airbowels alone.
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  Speaker 3: We'll need every molecule Roden, can you hear me?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, let's stop Broadway can you hear me? Yes, all right,
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  Speaker 11: don't talk. You've been heard. I metior right, got the
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  Speaker 11: atlas and something got you right across the eyes drops
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  Speaker 11: of molten metal. You're blind. At least for now. We
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  Speaker 11: can picture up from the eye bank and we get
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  Speaker 11: back on.
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  Speaker 5: Us the atlas Atlas there, we.
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  Speaker 11: Got enough pronoms. I've got to take the bandages off now.
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  Speaker 11: Mum hm ah can you can you see anything?
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  Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 11: I'm going to pass the light in front of your eyes.
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  Speaker 11: You tell me if you can see anything.
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  Speaker 9: No, no, nothing, but it hurts.
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  Speaker 5: Of that ambuel Secure for jumps, the bottom, secure engine.
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  Speaker 16: Room damage, ab damage forward generator stations, radiation control, cargo
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  Speaker 16: hold one, two, three, four.
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  Speaker 5: Men's what is that you ready? Eklin?
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  Speaker 9: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Have you ever been on the bridge during a jump?
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  Speaker 3: Poster?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's tricky your eyes light or you you see
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  Speaker 6: things that aren't there. I don't know how much you
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  Speaker 6: will get in.
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  Speaker 13: Trans nothing, sir, I black out.
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  Speaker 3: Completely, sec sir ship secured, Sir, kill the spin engine
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  Speaker 3: room kill spin Ship's companies stand by for free fall,
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  Speaker 3: free fall check off, phenomenos, wound and synchronized garrison lampcelet
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  Speaker 3: navigator HI communicating atlas. I'm sorry, Ready Eckland put her
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  Speaker 3: under Ekland index proceed, mister Bonner. Main circuit breakers open,
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  Speaker 3: main circuit breakers, open electricity cut eklans and trance.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we'll give it a try. How v on him?
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  Speaker 5: Back track on our jumps.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it'll work out.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe stand by the jump.
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  Speaker 3: Stand by the jump, stand by the jump.
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  Speaker 6: We'll go when she's straight up seven six, five, four
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  Speaker 6: three two one jump.
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  Speaker 9: Home boy, come boy.
• 13:47
  Speaker 5: Where I over here? I can't see you?
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  Speaker 6: Feel away over the broad everything's green, Kevin the hypro
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  Speaker 6: Come on, man, you've been in the jumping fo here's
• 13:54
  Speaker 6: the actual sat to top pressure.
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  Speaker 11: Hypoe can't use card in jumpers for ringe.
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  Speaker 5: Road all right, we'ren jump.
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  Speaker 4: That's all.
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  Speaker 9: Sho.
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  Speaker 5: Deal's the use. You can't use the money even if
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: you win. I'm trying to do checking out. Corelli says
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: they got to fix after the jump. What are we
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: worried about? Deal? They gotta fix all right?
• 14:30
  Speaker 7: Fifteen thousand light years from south shuffle shuffle.
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  Speaker 5: He says, that's the way it is.
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  Speaker 7: Hyperspace distances haven't got anything to do with anything unless
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  Speaker 7: you unless you can navigate when you're in jump and
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: we can't. Hey, when did the lords meekey his rounds?
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: Why I'm gonna take off my jumper? It's hot, yeah,
• 14:49
  Speaker 7: and it's gonna get hotter. Every time the jets blast,
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: every time the cook fries an egg, the ship gets
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: just a little hotter.
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  Speaker 5: Don't mention it.
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  Speaker 7: Every time the jump generators turn over. Every time you're lighter, match,
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  Speaker 7: that gets us hotter and hotter.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: Hey, what are you doing taking.
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Off my skibby shirt? Deal?
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: How is he?
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: Mister Brown?
• 15:19
  Speaker 11: You can tell the captain that Lieutenant Croden remains unimproved.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: How is he really? He's working up to some real damage,
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: the kind of can't handle. It's in his head.
• 15:33
  Speaker 11: I had to tell him his sight was gone, and
• 15:35
  Speaker 11: as we can get back to an I bank within
• 15:37
  Speaker 11: ten days and Patrin and I. But once the nerve
• 15:40
  Speaker 11: is de tearage, you can't replace it.
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: Did he take it?
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Hard?
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: Worse? Worse? He didn't say a word. I know that
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: man is in pain.
• 15:50
  Speaker 11: A conboy found his pills hidden under his pillow. He
• 15:52
  Speaker 11: wouldn't take him, He just laid them without a sound.
• 15:56
  Speaker 11: We went into the jump and he screamed his hid him.
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  Speaker 11: What's wrong with him, who knows by an electroncephaloscope on board.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm lucky they let me have a mini X ray.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: What did doctors do before they had those gadgets shoot
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: the patients?
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: No luck.
• 16:12
  Speaker 11: I could run an old fashioned verbal psychoanalysis on him.
• 16:15
  Speaker 11: I might pick something significant out of the sludge, maybe
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  Speaker 11: five or six months.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: That's what they did before they're the ees.
• 16:25
  Speaker 11: What time is it, Oh, seven fifty six, I've got
• 16:28
  Speaker 11: sick call in twenty minutes, heat exhaustion, dizzy spells, skin rashes.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: I'm running out of aspirin and salt tablets.
• 16:35
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Bonner had me with a ten man detailed defluffing
• 16:39
  Speaker 15: the filtered traps on the air circulators.
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: It's a lucky thing. Spaceships aren't painted. They'd have us chipping.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Paint oster Bridari, great point in the braids, BRIDERI, great
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: point in the braid.
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  Speaker 11: How am I supposed to do that? I got two
• 16:55
  Speaker 11: core men down with heat prostration. I'll look after growden.
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: Mister Broderick.
• 17:00
  Speaker 17: Maybe I could give him an alcohol thanks launch. Oh,
• 17:04
  Speaker 17: by the way, that alcohol, Yes, it's de natured. Here's
• 17:23
  Speaker 17: the problem, mister Broderick. We have fuel for just under
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  Speaker 17: forty minutes of.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: Rocket glass at standard trust that will bring our overall
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: temperature up to sixty degrees centigrade.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: That's the maximum the human body can stand, right, that's
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: about one hundred and forty Fahrenheim.
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: Well, it hits that on Earth in a couple of
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: places and around the Dead Sea, but it isn't sustained heat.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: It drops considerably after dot. We'll hope we find ourselves
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: out of this before we hit sixty degrees. If we don't,
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: at least we won't starve or suffocate.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: All right, gentlemen, mister Broderick, you can prepare for increasing
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: heat casualties as we proceed, all right, mister Bonner, secure
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  Speaker 6: for jump.
• 18:09
  Speaker 13: M hmmm, h.
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: My eyes, my eyes.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Not take it easy, Groton, conboy, conboy?
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Listen, where's the doctor who stayed on the bridge with
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: the jump?
• 18:24
  Speaker 9: Well?
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: What do we do for Grodon during the jump?
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: I can't even see him.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: I don't think you've hurt himself. You better just wait
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: till the jumps over my eyes.
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: They lied, They lied to me. They lied. They can
• 18:47
  Speaker 9: see it, the master pattern. I I can see it. No, no,
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: not like seeing like like No, that's that's large and
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: Roderick's on the bridge and the Captain and Earth And
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: suddenly I can see them and buckle the straps.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I've got to get up to the bridge, and the
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: jump is almost over. I'll be blind again. Lord sees me.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: You'll think it's jump hallucinations. They are lost, but I'm not.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I can see.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: The whole universe. I can see.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Jump snormous broad and come back here?
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: What are you doing out in the passage? Convoys, sir,
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: come on, give me a hand. How did he get
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: out here and jump?
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: He's blind?
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Navigation Report Negatives said, is there a fix?
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: No?
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Soonlly? Things you can get a triangulation on an extragalactic nebula.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Gotta take time? And what's the temperature? Forty five?
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: We don't have time. We'll have to keep on.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: If we don't end up within a light year of sol,
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: we're cooked, literally, So at your convenience, we'll.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Take another jump.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: So we've got to take a break.
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: The only way to handle the temperature is frequent rests
• 20:39
  Speaker 11: and liquids.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Will ten minutes be enough? Oh?
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: I suppose?
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: So, mister Bonner have steward sections issue whatever they have, juices, water,
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: and there's no point in saving it to any length
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: of time. We have about twenty four minutes of rocket
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: time before the hull heats up to sixty degrees.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Is there any reasonable chins Rick.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: We have tried dead reckoning from the records, but in
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: hyperspace we can't follow them accurately, not without aptness. I'm
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: timing the blasts from my pulse because you can't trust
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: reading a clock unless you can touch it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: When we jump, I might as well be blind. Get
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: him back on the bed.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: I got it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: I can't figure how we got out there.
• 21:37
  Speaker 9: I saw him, but I thought it was a jump.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Hallucinations, just like O no, no, I can see, I
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: can see. Is that possible? Look at him, mister Lord.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: His eyes are covered with bandages. He's blind.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Ten minutes is up?
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Keptain all right? Secure for jump?
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I had to assign three more men to each generator.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: The crew couldn't handle the manual plushing the heat very well.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Proceeding phenomens one and synchronized kerosene lamps lit. Never get
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: here a Rereddy Ecklin index.
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  Speaker 5: Proceed mister Bunner.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Main circuit breakers open.
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  Speaker 6: Stan barda jump stan batter jump straight up four three
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  Speaker 6: two one jump.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty seconds to full philosophy.
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  Speaker 5: Circuit never can get used to it. You can hear,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: you can touch your eyes live.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: The photons and electrons that carry vision have some crazy
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: mathematics of their own.
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  Speaker 2: I know, sir.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: I remember one I saw a row of monkeys sitting
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: on the control console.
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  Speaker 5: I wondered what they were before hyperspace twisted.
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  Speaker 3: Them into monkeys ten seconds.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: That's what I mean.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Now it seems as if I'm seeing Croden up here
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: on the bridge, and I know very well he's down in.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: Sick Bay asleep. Captain, Captain, who is that Larch? Yes,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: you're not on bridge. Watch, Captain.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: He's really here.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: It's not a hallucination. What are you talking about, Broden?
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: He's really here, saying, Lorch.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: What's the idea of bringing him up here? During jump?
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: I only brought him to the forward lock Surrey.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Then he brought me Roderick. Is this some kind of
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: heat exhaustion?
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, sir.
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: We went into jump and I couldn't see anything that
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: made sense, just twisting shadows and lights, you know. But
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: Croden took my hand and led me right up here
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: along the passage. It's blind, not in hyper space, not
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: in jump. Then he can see Captain he must be
• 23:52
  Speaker 10: in intense pain.
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: Yes, yes, it's pain, all right. But I can see
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: the whole plan, the whole pattern.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: It makes sense to me.
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: Now I can see the stars and the ship and
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: the Earth at the same time.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: The equations on hyperspace. I can see them the way
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: you can see a triangle or a circle. I can
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: see the Earth, and I can tell you how far
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: it is. Roden, you mean you can pilot us home?
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: I can, all right, mister Grodon, take over this ship.
• 24:45
  Speaker 9: Number three pattern fire.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Velocity five six three seven four eight relative thrust seven
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: eight six seven powder blasts for two seconds pattern six
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: five seven blast.
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: What all right?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Hit normal space at mark five four three two one
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: mark look out.
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: I've got him.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: He saw, he saw in hyperspace.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: He navigated by line of sight in hyperspace after order
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: stretcher on, he's blind again.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Sun system two hundred and thirty nine degrees forty five
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: elevation magnified by fifty on forward screen.
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: That's not sold. But it's a place to land. There's
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: a planet there. It's Earth. Normal you can land in
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: cool ship and Replemish air.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Mister Bonner, take it down the atmosphere.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Have planetology sections start to check it out.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Answer latch refore down to planetology.
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: And you know why didn't we hit Earth on?
• 26:12
  Speaker 12: Why?
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Just as well, mister Bronnerick.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: If the planet checks out, it's a whole world for
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: colonization shows you for have been two weeks before you
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: can replace ship and catalyze fuel.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: There won't be any new eyes for Lieutenant Croton. Then
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: the opt he knows will be gone too far. You
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: will never have eyes again.
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: I knew that before I brought you up here.
• 26:34
  Speaker 16: Ready last or fifty celeration three?
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: You mean Gorodon? You could have brought us back to
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Earth in two jumps, then why didn't you? I can't
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: allow a man to go blind because of phony heroic.
• 26:45
  Speaker 9: Do you want to know.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: How many solid type systems there are within five thousand
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: light years?
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: I can tell you.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Want to know what the universe looks like in hyperspace?
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I can tell you that too, only I can't describe it.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: The whole thing is as orderly and chartable as our
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: own space, and I could see it, all of it,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: and you offer me eyes, Captain. We have a quadrant
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: of hyperspace to chart. I can see during the jumps.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: He's still in pain.
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: I can see the end of the galaxy and they.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: But in the meantime, mister Brodrick, when we take off again,
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: Lieutenant Crodon will be in command during jump. He will
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: handle this ship and at his direction we will chart hyperspace.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: In the meantime, will you kindly lead.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Him to his quarters.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science fiction magazine,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: which this month features Dead Ringer by Lester Delray, a
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: fascinating story about a man who learned that there was
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: nothing on Earth which could set him free, least of
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: all the truth. Galaxy Magazine on your new stand today tonight.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: By transcription. X minus one has brought you The Map Makers,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: a story from the pages of Galaxy, written by Frederick
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Pohl and adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured in
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the cast were John Lokin, Ed Prentice, Bob Hastings, Tom Collins,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Dick Hamilton, Berford Hampden, Raleigh Bester, and Carl Frank. You're announcer,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Fred Collins. X minus one was directed by Daniel Sutter,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: and is an NBC Radio Network production.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: We close with X minus one and the map Makers.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Good night, and thank you for listening.