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  Speaker 1: In the year 2020, lunar personnel pick up an unusual signal,
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  Speaker 1: one traced toward Mars. From Mutual's science fiction anthology 2000
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  Speaker 1: Plus comes When the Worlds Met, Episode 8, first broadcast
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  Speaker 1: May 3, 1950. At the Federated World Government's Washington spaceport,
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Dixon, Paul, and Earth officials prepare to meet an
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  Speaker 1: approaching Martian craft. Ken Williams appears as Johnny Dixon, with
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  Speaker 1: Louise Van Rooten as the voice of Mars. The script
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  Speaker 1: is by Judith and David Bublik. And now we return
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  Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: 2,000 plus.
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  Speaker 3: Let us send our imaginations forward into time, into the
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  Speaker 3: years beyond 2000 A.D. What strange adventures, what exciting things
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  Speaker 3: will we find in the.
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  Speaker 4: World of tomorrow? 2000 Plus Today, an adventure.
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  Speaker 5: Of outer space, when the worlds met.
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  Speaker 4: It is the year 2000 plus 20.
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  Speaker 3: At the giant spaceport in Washington, D.C., temporary capital of
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  Speaker 3: the Federated World Government, an enormous throng, tense with expectancy,
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  Speaker 3: jams every available inch of space surrounding the rocket landing field.
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  Speaker 3: All eyes strain upward into the clear blue sky. For
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  Speaker 3: today is the day, April 21st, 2000 plus 20. And
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  Speaker 3: audio and televox networks of the world are at the
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  Speaker 3: rocket field to cover.
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  Speaker 4: The epic event.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is the day, the day
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  Speaker 3: we've all been waiting for. In a matter of minutes now,
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  Speaker 3: out of that brilliant blue sky will come a ship,
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  Speaker 3: a spaceship, carrying in its gleaming hold the first load
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  Speaker 3: of uranium taken from the pits of Luna, satellite of Earth.
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  Speaker 4: Since the beginning of time... Now, one moment, folks. There's
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  Speaker 4: a signal from the tower.
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  Speaker 6: This may be it. Take it away, Fred.
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  Speaker 3: This is Fred Haskins reporting from the control tower. Our
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  Speaker 3: escort planes have been in contact with the spaceship from
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  Speaker 3: Luna for the past 12 minutes. They are now approaching
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  Speaker 3: the field from the northeast, and any moment now.
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  Speaker 4: We can expect....
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  Speaker 3: And there she is, the rocket ship Lonos, 17 hours
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  Speaker 3: out of Luna City.
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  Speaker 4: Her magnatey of hull white hot from the friction of
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  Speaker 4: the atmosphere. Her jet breaks, belching fire.
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  Speaker 6: She's right over the field now.
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  Speaker 4: She's coming down.
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  Speaker 6: He's landed.
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  Speaker 4: Mark well this date, my friends.
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  Speaker 3: This is the dawn of the interplanetary age.
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  Speaker 5: The End.
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  Speaker 6: Earth calling moon. Earth calling moon. Come in, Lunar City.
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  Speaker 4: Lunar City, Johnny Dixon.
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  Speaker 6: Dixon, where have you been? You're three minutes late.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, McCabe. All shipments as scheduled. Everything routine.
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  Speaker 6: Report noted. Check out.
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  Speaker 4: Check out.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: What, Paul?
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes I think we're crazy.
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  Speaker 7: Spending our lives cooped up in this pressurized shell, breathing
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  Speaker 7: synthetic air, risking our nets every time we put on
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  Speaker 7: a space suit and go out into the cold, barren,
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  Speaker 7: bitted piece of green cheese.
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  Speaker 4: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: For what?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're kidding, Paul. You know the answer. We're space happy.
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  Speaker 4: That's all that's wrong with us.
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  Speaker 3: We pulled every wire and practically tore the World Federation
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  Speaker 3: apart getting this assignment on the moon. And we'll do
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  Speaker 3: it again when the first flight into deep.
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  Speaker 4: Space gets underway. Next month, next year, whenever they get
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  Speaker 4: through with their preparations.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I guess that's it. But right now, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: what I wouldn't give to see a tree again. And
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  Speaker 2: cornfields in Kansas.
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  Speaker 8: Me, I want to hear a bird's And once the
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  Speaker 8: lights go on in the skyscrapers along the waterfront, I
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  Speaker 8: want to dance with my girl and breathe in the
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  Speaker 8: sweet smell of violence.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, if I.
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  Speaker 9: What's that? Huh?
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  Speaker 4: That sound, that vibration. There, do you hear it?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I'm not sure whether I heard or felt it, Johnny.
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  Speaker 10: Like a current of air passing by me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it. Some kind of pulsation. Makes my skin tingle. Listen.
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  Speaker 10: Sounded different, didn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a different pitch.
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  Speaker 10: The instruments are all steady. Nothing on the business screen.
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  Speaker 10: The radar's negative.
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  Speaker 4: What is it, Johnny? Where's it from?
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  Speaker 8: It's not from Earth, I'll swear to that. I got
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  Speaker 8: a crazy notion, Paul. A crazy notion that someone's trying
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  Speaker 8: to signal it.
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  Speaker 4: You mean... I don't know what I mean. Maybe McCabe's right.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe I gotta touch him.
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  Speaker 6: Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny, what is it?
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  Speaker 6: Look.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Paul. Look at the direction finder. It swung all
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  Speaker 4: the way around.
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  Speaker 3: Those sounds, those waves are coming from outer space.
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  Speaker 4: I've got to call.
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  Speaker 6: Earth calling Lunar City. Earth calling Lunar City.
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  Speaker 4: Lunar City to Earth. Go ahead, Earth. Go ahead, McCabe.
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  Speaker 6: Nixon, what's going on up there? What's the idea of
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  Speaker 6: beaming out those hammy signals?
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  Speaker 4: Signals?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the harp effect, the music of the sphere stuff.
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  Speaker 6: It's giving our boys in the monitors down here the heebie-jeebies.
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  Speaker 4: You got them too, McCabe? You picked them up on Earth?
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  Speaker 10: Certainly.
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  Speaker 6: What's it all about?
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  Speaker 3: The signals, if that's what they are, are coming from
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  Speaker 3: one definite spot in outer space.
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  Speaker 6: Outer space?
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  Speaker 4: That's what I said.
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  Speaker 6: Johnny, get your space suit ready. Better have a conference
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  Speaker 6: about it.
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  Speaker 4: But listen.
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  Speaker 6: Have your men tune up rocket 307. Blast off at 0800.
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  Speaker 6: We'll be expecting you on Earth in the morning.
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  Speaker 5: The End.
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  Speaker 3: Ten days now we've been getting those signals, and not
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  Speaker 3: one of you geniuses has been able to decipher them.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, well, Mr.
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  Speaker 11: McCabe, if you know of anyone who can do it better.
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  Speaker 2: Take it easy, Professor Wolfson. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 2: so touchy. But ten days. What do you say, Dr.
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  Speaker 12: Lee?
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  Speaker 2: Ten days or ten years, it makes no difference.
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  Speaker 12: If those sounds or signals are code, it is in
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  Speaker 12: a language unknown to man.
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  Speaker 2: You're sure of that?
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  Speaker 11: We've consulted the foremost cryptographers of the world. We've tried
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  Speaker 11: every way to break the code.
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  Speaker 4: What does that add up to?
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  Speaker 11: That message, if it is a message, does not come
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  Speaker 11: from anywhere on Earth or from any man on Earth.
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  Speaker 4: I told you, Chief. It's what I've been saying all along.
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  Speaker 8: Of course you can't decode those messages in any known language,
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  Speaker 8: living or dead, because they come from Mars.
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  Speaker 2: Mars, that's impossible.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Mars.
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  Speaker 3: My directional finder on the moon indicated it, and McCabe's
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  Speaker 3: down here pinned it down.
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  Speaker 4: Look at the graph. I brought it.
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  Speaker 11: Directional signals can be wrong.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir, but get this. I've been timing those signals.
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  Speaker 8: They come at intervals of exactly 24 hours, 37 minutes,
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  Speaker 8: and 22 seconds.
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  Speaker 11: The length of the day on Mars.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And if we were trying to signal them, we'd do it, say,
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  Speaker 4: every night at 1800. That's what they're doing to us.
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  Speaker 11: In that case, the next signal is due at.
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  Speaker 4: In 10 minutes and 13 seconds.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll be sitting here like lummoxes, feeling our scalps
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  Speaker 3: tingle while the message drifts past us.
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  Speaker 12: Gentlemen, excuse, please. But it seems to me the message
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  Speaker 12: need not necessarily drift past us. By the message, I
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  Speaker 12: do not mean the sounds or the words that are
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  Speaker 12: being transmitted.
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  Speaker 2: I refer to the thoughts themselves.
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  Speaker 12: The thoughts that perhaps are being transferred from the Martians
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  Speaker 12: to us.
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  Speaker 4: Thought transference? That's telepathy.
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  Speaker 2: We have discarded that word, Mr. Dixon. Too many charlatans
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  Speaker 2: use it.
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  Speaker 12: But we do know that there is extrasensory perception of
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  Speaker 12: thought impulses. Just as there are sound waves which your
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  Speaker 12: ear has learned to interpret and light waves which your
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  Speaker 12: eye and brain transform into a picture, so there are
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  Speaker 12: thought waves, electrical impulses discharged by the brain which vary
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  Speaker 12: with the particular thought.
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  Speaker 11: An intriguing idea, Dr.
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  Speaker 13: Lee.
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  Speaker 11: If only we had some instrument that could pick up
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  Speaker 11: and sort out these impulses.
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  Speaker 2: There is such an instrument, Professor Wilson. What? I have
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  Speaker 2: been working on it for many years.
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  Speaker 12: It involves a scanning screen intercepting an electrified field.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what are we waiting for?
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  Speaker 12: You understand, the telepathator has only been tested for short distances.
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  Speaker 4: The signals are reaching us. That's the only important thing,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it? How soon can we.
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  Speaker 12: The instrument is in the next room.
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  Speaker 2: I took the liberty of bringing it with me, hoping
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  Speaker 2: it might conceivably be of some use. This way, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: You say this little machine can take thoughts and turn
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  Speaker 3: them into words we can hear?
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  Speaker 2: English words? Not only English, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: McKee.
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  Speaker 12: It will translate thought impulses into any language for which
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  Speaker 12: you set the dials.
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  Speaker 2: You think of something, Mr. Dixon.
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  Speaker 6: Now, listen.
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  Speaker 2: First, I set for French.
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  Speaker 6: German.
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  Speaker 14: And English.
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  Speaker 9: Don't clever these Chinese.
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  Speaker 4: You must understand... Oh, excuse me, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Lee, but we'll have to postpone this. Fifteen seconds to go.
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  Speaker 3: Better set your dials for remote pickup.
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  Speaker 2: Stand by, everyone.
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  Speaker 15: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: More power. Well, it was a good try. Wait. I've
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  Speaker 4: got that feeling again. My skin's beginning to crawl.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, mine too.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, now it's... your imagination.
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  Speaker 6: Quiet!
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  Speaker 2: They are coming through now.
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  Speaker 9: Planet four greeting planet three.
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  Speaker 2: You said it's Mars.
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  Speaker 16: This is the fourth planet from the sun greeting planet three.
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  Speaker 16: Planet 4 calling Planet 3. We are trying to reach you,
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  Speaker 16: Planet 3. If you receive our signal, respond. If you
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  Speaker 16: receive our signal, respond. We will communicate again.
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  Speaker 4: Life on Mars.
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  Speaker 3: This week, ladies and gentlemen, the question that has bedeviled
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  Speaker 3: mankind ever since the day he first stood erect and
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  Speaker 3: gazed into the heavens has been answered.
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  Speaker 4: There is life on Mars.
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  Speaker 3: Intelligent, articulate life. The country, the world, tonight, seethes with excitement.
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  Speaker 3: Has Mars received our response? Has our telepathator succeeded in
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  Speaker 3: projecting as thoughts the messages spoken into it by human beings?
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  Speaker 4: Or can it merely receive the thought? Ah, the smell
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  Speaker 4: of lilacs, Terry. I'll never get enough of it.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, it's lovely, Johnny. And look, there's a moon out tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Moon?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, please.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's hard to believe that back in 1950,
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  Speaker 3: people could still get romantic over that cold, dead, pockmarked,
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  Speaker 3: heavenly yo-yo.
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  Speaker 4: Now, that red star up there, Mars, that's a different proposition.
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  Speaker 4: It's alive. There are living beings up there.
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  Speaker 13: Johnny, it's staggering. It's beyond imagination.
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  Speaker 6: Rubbish.
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  Speaker 4: Why shouldn't there be life up there?
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  Speaker 13: They're so advanced. Spaceships and interplanetary signals.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe you've got a point at that. We thought we
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  Speaker 8: were so smart because we reached the moon. Our spaceships
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  Speaker 8: aren't developed enough yet to get to Mars.
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  Speaker 13: It's just as well.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 4: Because you would want to be.
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  Speaker 6: The first to go.
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  Speaker 8: Wouldn't you like that? I'd be quite a hero. You
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  Speaker 8: could point at my picture and say, Hey, that's my guy.
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  Speaker 13: You're my guy anyway, Johnny.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, Terry. But don't worry, honey.
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  Speaker 8: I won't be seeing any Martians for a long time.
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  Speaker 9: All personnel, stand by.
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  Speaker 17: Stand by for XM signal.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be Mars.
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  Speaker 4: Hop to it, Johnny.
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  Speaker 17: Telepathator setting 212 degrees, 18 seconds.
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  Speaker 9: Frequency 600,000.
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  Speaker 6: Got that, Johnny?
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  Speaker 9: Check.
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  Speaker 14: Planet 4 calling Planet 3. Planet 4 calling Planet 3.
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  Speaker 14: We greet you in peace.
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  Speaker 16: Your response received. The time has come. At this moment,
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  Speaker 16: which marks the beginning of the great interstellar age between worlds,
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  Speaker 16: it is fitting that there be between us a meeting
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  Speaker 16: of minds. Therefore, we are sending a ship to visit
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  Speaker 16: your planet. The ship will depart tonight and enter your
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  Speaker 16: magnetic field in seven of our days.
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  Speaker 9: Have landing instructions ready. We come in peace.
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  Speaker 14: We come in peace.
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  Speaker 4: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: This is Matt Wilson bringing you a report of the
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  Speaker 3: emergency session of the Federated World Government. Never has an
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  Speaker 3: assembly meeting taken place in such an atmosphere of excitement.
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  Speaker 2: Panic, and recrimination.
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  Speaker 3: And here on the floor of the assembly chamber, all
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  Speaker 3: the emotions aroused by the stunning message from Mars have
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  Speaker 3: been boiling and clashing all day.
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  Speaker 4: I rise for a point of information.
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  Speaker 3: As civilian head of the world military government, I want
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  Speaker 3: to know why those Martians have beaten us to the draw.
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  Speaker 4: Gentlemen, gentlemen, if the decision.
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  Speaker 12: We are to make is to be a wise one,
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  Speaker 12: we must lay aside passions and fears and consider the
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  Speaker 12: question calmly. The Martians are coming, and we must receive
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  Speaker 12: them either with friendship or hostility.
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  Speaker 4: Drive them off!
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  Speaker 6: Blast them out of the sky!
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  Speaker 4: That may not be as simple as it sounds.
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  Speaker 12: Remember, my friends, these Martians are advanced scientifically, perhaps far
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  Speaker 12: beyond us. They have conquered deep space. They can transmit
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  Speaker 12: thought waves. They may have weapons. beside which our nuclear
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  Speaker 12: bombs are as toy pistols.
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  Speaker 6: Dr. Lee is right, gentlemen. We don't dare fight them off.
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  Speaker 4: The risk is too great. They come in peace.
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  Speaker 6: They've said so over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: Let us so receive them. Very well, very well.
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  Speaker 18: If such is the will of this body, let them
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  Speaker 18: come in peace. But as civilian head of the world
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  Speaker 18: military government, I assure you all, we will not be
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  Speaker 18: found napping.
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  Speaker 3: Earth calling Martian interstellar ships. Earth calling Martian interstellar ships.
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  Speaker 3: Here are the landing instructions of the Federated World Government.
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  Speaker 3: Three Earth days from this hour, which will be the
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  Speaker 3: sixth Martian day of your flight through space, you will
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  Speaker 3: be met by an escort of 20 rocket ships. We
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  Speaker 3: will greet you in the name of peace.
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  Speaker 4: The 20 rocket ships will escort you.
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  Speaker 14: Instructions to Commission of Defense.
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  Speaker 19: All escort rocket ships assigned to accompany Martian spaceship will
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  Speaker 19: carry the following armaments.
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  Speaker 6: Death fog sprays.
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  Speaker 19: Magnetic disintegrators, atomic missiles class B, all weapons shall.
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  Speaker 14: Be on the.
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  Speaker 20: And upon your entry into the Earth's atmosphere, you will
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  Speaker 20: circle our globe once and then make landing at our
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  Speaker 20: spaceport at Los Alamos, New.
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  Speaker 15: Mexico, which will be ready to receive you.
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  Speaker 19: Of Los Alamos shall be mined to a depth of
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  Speaker 19: 50 feet with tritonium landmines. The field shall be encircled
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  Speaker 19: with radioactive flamethrowers and a reserve force.
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  Speaker 15: From the landing field, you will be conducted to the
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  Speaker 15: seat of the world government at Washington, D.C., where you
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  Speaker 15: will be received and housed in suitable accommodations.
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  Speaker 4: We will welcome you in peace. Check out.
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  Speaker 2: We will welcome you in peace.
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  Speaker 4: We hope.
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  Speaker 6: THE END.
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  Speaker 4: Suitable accommodations.
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  Speaker 3: Trust McCabe to hand me a crackpot assignment like this.
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  Speaker 13: Johnny, you're the big face, man. You're supposed to know
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  Speaker 13: by instinct what suitable accommodation for a Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Don't be silly, Terry.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't the slightest notion in the world what they
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  Speaker 8: look like except some crazy ideas I picked up from
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  Speaker 8: science fiction.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 13: All right, all right. That's why we're here. The head
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  Speaker 13: of our anthropology section has more ideas than any science
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  Speaker 13: fiction writer you've ever read.
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  Speaker 10: Now.
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  Speaker 6: Here we are. Ah, Terry, come in.
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  Speaker 19: Hello, Professor.
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  Speaker 17: This is Mr.
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  Speaker 13: Dixon, the young man I told you about?
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  Speaker 9: I know Mr. Dixon.
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  Speaker 4: Professor, I've got a problem.
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  Speaker 11: Terry and I have discussed the problem. It is my
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  Speaker 11: theory that the Martians will, in most important respects, have
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  Speaker 11: the characteristics of the Earthman.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, what's the basis of your theory, Professor?
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  Speaker 2: It's very simple.
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  Speaker 11: The accomplishments of the Martians parallel our own. Only a
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  Speaker 11: being with opposable thumbs can fashion the intricate devices necessary
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  Speaker 11: for spaceships. Only a being with a nervous system like
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  Speaker 11: our own could master communication. Only a creature with a
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  Speaker 11: brain like ours could dream of peace.
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  Speaker 4: Makes sense, Professor.
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  Speaker 13: That's one side of it, Johnny. A lot of other
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  Speaker 13: anthropologists think differently.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, yeah, that is so.
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  Speaker 13: They feel that the Martians living on a dry planet
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  Speaker 13: with little vegetation and very little water... will be creatures
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  Speaker 13: that crawl on the ground like our insects, enlarged a
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  Speaker 13: few thousand times. They may look like enormous ants with
• 19:00
  Speaker 13: oversized antennae.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: I give up.
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: With 48 hours left, I can't prepare accommodations for every
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: conceivable form of life. I'll just have to improvise after
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: they get here. I just hope they don't get too
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: sick when they first look at us.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: This is Matt Wilson again, reporting from the spaceport at
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Los Alamos.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: A tremendous crowd has gathered here.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: We're awaiting the appearance of the spaceship from Mars, which
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: is being escorted by 20 rocket ships from the rendezvous
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: near the moon. According to reports, all's gone well so far.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: The Martian ship... One moment, please. An audio box announcement
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: is going to be made to the people assembled.
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: Your attention, please.
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  Speaker 17: The ship from Mars and its escorts will be seen
• 20:01
  Speaker 17: any moment.
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  Speaker 9: From the east.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You heard that. Any moment, the ship from Mars and.
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: What?
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: There they are.
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: They're coming in.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: The landing rocket ships first. And now, the ship from Mars.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: The Martian ship is idling over the field now, casting
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: a huge shadow over the landscape.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: It's an awe-inspiring spectacle.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: The ship is tremendous, 18 to 20 stories in height,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: several city blocks long, and its large windows are fashioned
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: of some kind of transparent metal.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Civilian commander to special defense patrol. Man battle stations.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Our technical experts are staring at the craft in open-mouthed wonder.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: McCabe, Mr.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: McCabe, what is your reaction? I am dumbfounded.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: The ship doesn't seem to operate on a rocket principle.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: There's no belching fire, no clouds of smoke.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I keep wondering what kind of fuel they use, what.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Principles of propulsion, and what metals. Thank you, sir.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: The ship is.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Almost touching the ground now, and the crowd is getting uneasy. Why,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: they're falling back, as though there were something. I see
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: it now.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: It's a blue.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Haze misting about the Martian ship, forming a 20-foot blanket
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: of whatever it is.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Commander, defense patrol. Zero hour.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Reorient all weapons. Remove safety controls.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Stand by to fire.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: The Secretary of the World Federation is going to speak.
• 21:35
  Speaker 17: As your great ship settles on our soil, we salute you,
• 21:41
  Speaker 17: the emissaries of space. We wait eagerly for your appearance.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Now the blue mist is completely vanished.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: All eyes are on the ship waiting for the first
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Martian to appear.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: There is no sign of activity yet.
• 21:55
  Speaker 17: Will you respond to our greetings, Martians? Will you make
• 22:00
  Speaker 17: your presence known?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Nothing stirring. No gangplank lowered. No sign of life. Perhaps
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: they were not prepared for atmospheric conditions here.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Perhaps on the very brink of success, death has struck
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: within that awe-inspiring vessel.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, it looks... Yes, yes, it's moving.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: A tremendous section of the ship's prow is opening out
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: in front.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Like a gigantic tongue, it thrusts forward and drops to earth,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: forming a great ramp from the ship to our soil.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: And now it's down, and the surface of the ramp,
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: the surface of the ramp is like nothing ever seen
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: on this earth.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: A shimmering, impalpable iridescence.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Unbelievably radiant and beautiful.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: The throng of spectators is silent, motionless, scarcely breathing, waiting
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: to see the first Martian emerge.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And still, nothing, no one, no thing comes down the ramp.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: There is nothing but silence. Listen.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: That must be the Martian communication vibrations we were told about.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: And men on the field that are operating the receiving device.
• 23:07
  Speaker 16: Earthmen, we ask that you send one representative to board
• 23:12
  Speaker 16: our craft. We assure his safety.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Gentlemen, gentlemen, there is no cause for alarm.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: I think there is.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: They want a hostage or a specimen to take back
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: with them.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: There's no time for ranting. They're waiting for a decision.
• 23:26
  Speaker 14: Mr.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: Secretary.
• 23:27
  Speaker 14: Yes, Mr.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: Lieutenant.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: If it's all right with the committee, I'd like to
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: go aboard it. Technical information, sir.
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: No.
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: Quiet, John.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: This is my dish, McCabe. I was slated for the
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: space run to Mars, remember?
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: They're not doing me out of this. Besides, you're too
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: valuable to waste.
• 23:41
  Speaker 19: Mr.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Secretary, tell them I'm coming aboard.
• 23:45
  Speaker 17: Men of Mars, we can fly with your request. Our
• 23:50
  Speaker 17: representative is about to board your ship.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Ready, Johnny Dixon.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: This is it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Take a good long look at the sun in the sky.
• 24:08
  Speaker 17: Take a deep breath of the Earth's good air.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: You may never get another after you meet whatever is
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: waiting at the end of this long ramp.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: A ramp?
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: It's pulling me forward like a conveyor belt.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: It's beginning to rise into the air. Get a move on, Johnny.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Get into that ship. Get into that ship fast.
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: Made it. Locked in.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Now what? There's no one here.
• 24:37
  Speaker 17: Nothing except that dancing light.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: I'll follow.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: It.
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: Enter, Earthman.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Well, how can I? I'm closed in by four solid walls.
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: Follow the light, Earthman. The walls will not impede you.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: Molecular reorientation? Changing the density of solid matter at will?
• 25:03
  Speaker 16: We achieved that 10,000 cycles ago, Earthman.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Where are you, man of Mars? This room is flooded
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: with light, but I see no one.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: We are not ready to reveal ourselves.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: The people of Earth are waiting to see you, to
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: welcome you. There is nothing to fear.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: We are not afraid. Dixon.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: You know my name.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: We know many things. That is why we are sad.
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: Filled with revulsion.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: I don't understand. What do you mean?
• 25:43
  Speaker 16: Through the dark spaceways we came to you in peace.
• 25:48
  Speaker 16: You said to us, come in peace. But the escorts
• 25:54
  Speaker 16: you sent to honor us were armed for destruction. The
• 25:59
  Speaker 16: very ground on which we now rest seeds with radioactive potential.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Wait!
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: You've misunderstood us. These weapons are for defense against you,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: not attack.
• 26:10
  Speaker 16: Many cycles ago, we of Mars learned, as you Earth
• 26:16
  Speaker 16: men will someday learn, that wars are fought, men are slaughtered,
• 26:23
  Speaker 16: Civilizations wiped out by those who attack with weapons of defense.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: But our world is at peace now.
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: Your peace is not peace.
• 26:36
  Speaker 16: It is a thin cloak which covers the hates and
• 26:39
  Speaker 16: fears and savagery of primitive beings.
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: Observe, Dixon. On this large, busy screen, we have for
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: hours been viewing your people... In many parts of your earth. Watch.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: The senator.
• 26:59
  Speaker 9: Listen.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: I warned you it was a trap. We'll never again
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: see Dixon alive. I told you not to trust foreigners.
• 27:05
  Speaker 19: Just give me the word and I'll blast them all
• 27:07
  Speaker 19: in the kingdom coming.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: You must not be deceived. He's only one man. The
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: rest of us are different.
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: Are you? Look at this. From another part of your civilized.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: You have been a traitor to our party. You've been
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: guilty of bourgeois thinking.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: You have sold us out to the enemies of our people.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: You will pay the penalty.
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: But first you will confess.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: Confess!
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Confess!
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: That's a backward part of our planet. It's not fair
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: to judge by them.
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: Then we reveal a more civilized area. The country of
• 27:48
  Speaker 9: your birth.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: No, Lord, no! The law be damned!
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Time's too good for him! Hang him, I say, hang him!
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: The rope!
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: String him up from the highest tree in the square!
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Linch him! Linch him!
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Linch him!
• 28:04
  Speaker 16: Now you know why we shall not reveal ourselves to you.
• 28:11
  Speaker 16: If you are like this, to these of your own kind,
• 28:17
  Speaker 16: what will you think.
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: What will you do when you see us, strange.
• 28:25
  Speaker 14: As we are?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Don't go.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: We know you may be different from us, but we
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: can all meet in peace.
• 28:32
  Speaker 16: Earthman, peace must be achieved through toil and sacrifice of
• 28:38
  Speaker 16: those few among you who understand its meaning. It may
• 28:43
  Speaker 16: take many cycles, but in the end, the day will arrive.
• 28:49
  Speaker 13: Then.
• 28:50
  Speaker 16: And then only we will return. Go back to your people,
• 28:57
  Speaker 16: man of Earth, and give them the message from Mars.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: The End.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: THE END.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 30:04
  Speaker 21: This has been 2000 Plus. Excitingly dramatic stories of the future.
• 30:10
  Speaker 21: These are events that you will never witness. Adventures into
• 30:13
  Speaker 21: the world of tomorrow. Tune in again next week at
• 30:17
  Speaker 21: the same time for another thrilling story. This is the
• 30:20
  Speaker 21: United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
• 30:38
  Speaker 10: THE END.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: THE END.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: That was 2000 plus with When the Worlds Met. Until
• 31:44
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