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X Minus One - "A Wind Is Rising" (1957) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On October 3rd, 1957, NBC broadcast episode 114 of X-1,
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  Speaker 1: A Wind is Rising. Its story takes us to Corella,
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  Speaker 1: where two Earth explorers at an advanced observation station must
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  Speaker 1: repair their water supply amid winds beyond anything they consider safe.
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  Speaker 1: The planet's native Karelins warn them, but the men set
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  Speaker 1: out into the storm, facing an environment that tests the
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  Speaker 1: assumptions they have carried from Earth. George Lefferts adapted Robert
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  Speaker 1: Sheckley's recent galaxy science fiction story, first published under the
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  Speaker 1: name Finn O'Donovan. Les Damon, Bert Cowlin, and William Griffiths
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  Speaker 1: are heard in the cast.
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  Speaker 2: Now, back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 3: This is Nightline, your open door to people and places,
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  Speaker 3: and this is Walter O'Keefe. Nightline invites you to listen
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  Speaker 3: in on NBC's award-winning science fiction series, X-1.
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  Speaker 4: Now escape to a world of the future. Countdown for blastoff.
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  Speaker 4: X minus 5, 4, 3, 2, X minus 1, fire.
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  Speaker 2: From the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
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  Speaker 2: new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 4: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 2: Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be
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  Speaker 2: years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
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  Speaker 2: in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 5: X minus 1.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight, A Wind is Rising by Finn O'Donovan. But first,
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  Speaker 2: hear this. Now, X minus one. And tonight's story, A
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  Speaker 2: Wind is Rising.
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  Speaker 5: A Wind is Rising.
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  Speaker 4: I'd only been on Corella for eight months. Not long
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  Speaker 4: for a seasoned advanced exploration man like myself, but long
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  Speaker 4: enough to know one thing. Before long, I was going
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  Speaker 4: to kill me a native Corellan. Maybe I was a
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  Speaker 4: little edgy. When you have to live inside a steel
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  Speaker 4: and concrete capsule just listening to that fantastic wind howl
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  Speaker 4: 24 hours a day, it begins to get you. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: it started with Smanick. He was our Corellan radio man,
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  Speaker 4: came up to my quarters to get me. Corellons are
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  Speaker 4: a dirty brown and look something like big spiders with
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  Speaker 4: five hairy tentacles. Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Manic Earthman.
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 6: Other Earthman, tell Manic, tell this Earthman, come pretty quick.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: You get lump sugar.
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  Speaker 4: What for?
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  Speaker 6: Manic do something favor, get lump sugar.
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't have sugar. Now beat it.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe you got dead meat. My neglect dead meat.
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  Speaker 4: No, no meat. Now get your slimy shape out of here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: what's wrong? Come on down with me. Clayton, I don't
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  Speaker 4: think it's good to insult these Carellans. They have no feelings,
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  Speaker 4: you know that. They have no emotional nervous set up.
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  Speaker 4: Just the same, I don't think it's good. For who?
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  Speaker 4: For you. When you insult somebody by your own standards,
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  Speaker 4: you hurt yourself. Even if the object of your insult
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  Speaker 4: is a dead thing. Now look, Mary Shev, I'm an
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  Speaker 4: advanced exploration expert. You're an anthropologist. You stick to your
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  Speaker 4: stuff and I'll stick to mine. Sorry. Now, what's the
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  Speaker 4: fuss about? The water faucet. What about it? It isn't running. What?
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  Speaker 4: I pounded it and put a probe in. It must
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  Speaker 4: be blocked out at the storage tank. How could it
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  Speaker 4: be blocked out there? I don't know. Maybe the wind
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  Speaker 4: rolled a boulder at it. More likely one of those
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  Speaker 4: spiders like Smanick was fiddling with it. The natives have
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  Speaker 4: been told not to tamper with the water line. They
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  Speaker 4: don't like us. They might... I thought you said they
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  Speaker 4: were incapable of feeling like or dislike or any emotion.
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  Speaker 4: I did. I know they can't feel, but... Still, somehow
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  Speaker 4: I get the sensation that they resent us. I'm glad
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  Speaker 4: we've only got one of them inside the station. Regardless
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  Speaker 4: of that, we can't live without water supply cut off.
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  Speaker 4: Listen to that wind. It'll be murder out there. I'll go.
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  Speaker 4: It's my turn. You wouldn't know what to do if
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  Speaker 4: you got there. It seems quite simple. Come to think
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  Speaker 4: of it, it could be a two-man job if there's
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  Speaker 4: a boulder. The wind gauge reads 82 miles an hour.
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  Speaker 4: Just a light breeze on Corolla. Maybe we ought to
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  Speaker 4: wait till it drops a little. Let's ask the gink.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't we take him along? The gig? He knows
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  Speaker 4: the terrain, and like all his kind, he's a fantastic sailor.
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  Speaker 4: But they take those woven land boats out in 100-mile
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  Speaker 4: winds with no qualms at all. The brute... 14 tons,
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  Speaker 4: and it has a diesel engine. We don't need any sailors.
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  Speaker 4: If we have to use a steadying sail, I can
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  Speaker 4: handle it as well as any spider-man. Just a suggestion.
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  Speaker 4: You stick to anthropology. Open the locks, and we'll get
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  Speaker 4: the brute out. We'll need Smonek to close the locks
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  Speaker 4: after us. Smonek? Is man caught? Clayton and I are
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  Speaker 4: going out in a heavy land car. What's the weather
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  Speaker 4: going to be like?
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  Speaker 6: Wind come up along little more. Not anything to be afraid.
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  Speaker 6: You got sugar?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, here you are, Spunnick.
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  Speaker 6: Very good sailing today.
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  Speaker 4: You got sail on truck. We have a steadying sail
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  Speaker 4: made of steel.
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  Speaker 6: Woven reeds.
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  Speaker 4: More better. Have more easy time. We know all about that.
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  Speaker 4: Open a lot, Narashev. The Brute, as we called it,
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  Speaker 4: was armored like a tank and streamlined. It had vision
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  Speaker 4: slits of shatterproof glass and most of its 14 tons
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  Speaker 4: were centered near the ground. It was sealed from dust
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  Speaker 4: and had six giant tires made of woven steel mesh.
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  Speaker 4: It was built to take the rocky terrain of the
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  Speaker 4: planet Corella and navigate in the gale force winds that
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  Speaker 4: battered the planet. I strapped myself into the cockpit and
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  Speaker 4: we were ready. The wind indicator told me that the
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  Speaker 4: winds had risen to 94 miles an hour and rising.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to A Wind is Rising. Tonight's attraction on X-Minus-One.
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  Speaker 3: Time, nighttime. The lights dim down for the curtain and
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  Speaker 3: theaters on Broadway. A Hollywood star greets the first guests
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  Speaker 2: Now back to X-1 and A Wind is Rising.
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  Speaker 4: I looked out over the instrument panel. The Karela station
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  Speaker 4: had been set down like an overturned bowl on a
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  Speaker 4: rocky plain. In order to get to the water storage tank,
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  Speaker 4: we had to travel six miles. Immediately around the station
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  Speaker 4: were our boulder baffles, huge spikes of concrete designed to
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  Speaker 4: stop the boulders that the wind rolled off the mountains.
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  Speaker 4: I shoved the brute into gear, and we were on
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  Speaker 4: our way. Hang on, Narashev. Here we go. The wind
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  Speaker 4: is up to 97. Do you suppose we're in for
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  Speaker 4: a storm? The gink said it was fine sailing weather.
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  Speaker 4: For a corellon, maybe. Well, this baby can take it.
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  Speaker 4: You see the pipeline yet? The sand is pretty thick
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  Speaker 4: in the vision glass. There it is. About two points
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  Speaker 4: on the starboard bow. I see it now. What's our speed?
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  Speaker 4: Three miles an hour. Give us a little more oxygen
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  Speaker 4: in here. What? Hey, there's something coming toward us. Looks
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  Speaker 4: like a boulder.
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  Speaker 7: Hard right.
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  Speaker 4: That was no boulder. That was one of those ginks
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  Speaker 4: out for a sail in his land ship. Playful, aren't they?
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  Speaker 4: Next one scares us like that, I'll shoot him, so
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  Speaker 4: help me. I don't understand how... they can sail those
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  Speaker 4: flimsy ships on those wooden rollers. What's our wind speed now?
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  Speaker 4: 102 miles an hour. I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a storm, Clayton. There's no point in turning back now.
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  Speaker 4: We can't live without water. I'm game if you are.
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  Speaker 4: What's the strongest storm we've ever recorded? Let's see. In
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  Speaker 4: the eight months we've been here, about 168 miles an hour. Well,
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  Speaker 4: this baby was built to navigate up to 200. We'll
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  Speaker 4: be all right. We had had two storms on Corella
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  Speaker 4: since Earthman had been there. The first one had almost
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  Speaker 4: wiped out the station. That's why the boulder traps were built.
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  Speaker 4: The second one had leveled an entire mountain range on
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  Speaker 4: the other end of the plane... By the time we
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  Speaker 4: reached the water storage tanks, the wind was up to
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  Speaker 4: 113 miles an hour. Well, this is it. One of
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  Speaker 4: us has got to put on an air suit and
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  Speaker 4: repair the damage. Means blowing out the line. It's my turn.
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  Speaker 4: What do you know about mechanical things? I'll go out.
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  Speaker 4: Fasten that nylon rope to me and winch it as
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  Speaker 4: I go along. I'll anchor the brute in the lee
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  Speaker 4: of the concrete breaker. Maybe you ought to wait till
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  Speaker 4: the wind dies down. It isn't dying down. It's rising.
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  Speaker 4: We can radio Smanek at the station and get a report.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think he'll give us a straight answer? I
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  Speaker 4: trust him. Hello, Smanek. This is Neryshev calling Smanek.
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  Speaker 5: This Smanek, Earthman.
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  Speaker 4: How long is this wind going to keep up?
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  Speaker 1: Long time.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe even longer.
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  Speaker 4: More than two hours?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Clayton is going out to fix the pipe. We'll
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  Speaker 4: be back in an hour if everything holds.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready. Lock my helmet.
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  Speaker 5: Can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Open the chamber. Here
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  Speaker 5: I go.
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  Speaker 4: Outside, the wind thundered and roared like breaking surf. Once
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  Speaker 4: I was almost blown free, but the line held. By
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  Speaker 4: the time I crawled back into the ship... I'd cleared
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  Speaker 4: the water lines, but my suit was shredded and my
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  Speaker 4: air extractor was clogged with dust. The wind was up
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  Speaker 4: to 145 miles an hour and still rising. You all right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's get this thing going. It's starting to
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  Speaker 4: shiver in the wind. All right. What's wrong? I can't
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  Speaker 4: start the engine. Here, let me try. Oh, sand. Sand
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  Speaker 4: in the bearings, in the injectors, every place. She'll never start.
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  Speaker 4: Good grief. Well, we'll have to sail her back. What?
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  Speaker 4: I said we'll have to sail her back. At wind
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  Speaker 4: speeds like this? It'll be like sailing a little dinghy
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  Speaker 4: across the Atlantic on a gale. Well, what else can
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  Speaker 4: we do? Well, put out the auxiliary anchor and ride
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  Speaker 4: it out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: One good boulder and we'd be goners. Come on, raise
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  Speaker 4: the sail. Okay. Release anchors. Hang on. Here we go.
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  Speaker 4: We raised the steel sail and tacked into the wind.
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  Speaker 4: Shoved by a wind that had now reached 175 miles
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  Speaker 4: an hour, the 14-ton brute soon picked up to a
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  Speaker 4: speed of 40 miles an hour. Even reefed down and
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  Speaker 4: heeled over, I couldn't hold her. And I had to
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  Speaker 4: winch out the steel main sheet to straighten her up.
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  Speaker 4: Then it began to happen. The thing we feared the most.
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  Speaker 4: What's that? The wind is tossing rocks at us. Well,
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  Speaker 4: as long as we're not capsized, we'll be okay. She's
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  Speaker 4: healing at 45 now. It's no problem. It's a rock.
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  Speaker 4: Smash the visor. Put on your oxygen mask.
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  Speaker 5: Wait. Man, she's boiling along now. Seventy-five miles an hour. Clay,
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  Speaker 5: there's a boulder coming. Down the mountain. I can't head
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  Speaker 5: her up. Get off.
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  Speaker 4: No use.
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  Speaker 5: I'll have to join. Hang on.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I.
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  Speaker 5: Missed us. That boulder's as big as a city block.
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  Speaker 5: You're headed for the cliffs. Winch in the sheet again.
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  Speaker 5: We'll head up toward the station.
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  Speaker 7: It's no use.
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  Speaker 5: I can't head her up. We'll have to run with
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  Speaker 5: the wind. You can't run far. The cliffs are dead ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Let's drag the emergency anchor. Maybe it'll slow us down.
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  Speaker 5: Suppose it follows. Worry about that later. Drag it. That's better.
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  Speaker 5: I may even be able to head her up now.
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  Speaker 4: Those cliffs. Holy smoke, look at that.
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  Speaker 5: A dozen current land ships sailing toward the station like
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  Speaker 5: it was a fine afternoon. They usually keep away from
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  Speaker 5: the station. There's no time to worry now. Watch in
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  Speaker 5: the sheet. I'm going to head up higher. What was that? Boulder.
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  Speaker 5: Snap the mast off. Holy mother. We're being blown toward
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  Speaker 5: the cliffs. Is that land anchor out?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, pray it'll foul and hold us. Pray!
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Father, what?
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  Speaker 4: We're fouled.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's holding. Now if it'll just bite in.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're anchored. But listen to those boulders. We
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  Speaker 5: won't last ten minutes anchored here. Move over.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to try the diesel again. I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: maybe it's a long shot, but maybe. That's it. She's running.
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  Speaker 5: She's running. All right, let's go to that anchor. One
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  Speaker 5: of them coffees, Matic. We're coming in.
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  Speaker 4: Somehow the engine coughed and spit us back to the station.
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  Speaker 4: The boulder defense was completely flattened. And one side of
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  Speaker 4: the capsule was dented by a huge rock. But otherwise
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  Speaker 4: it was still holding. The winds were up to 212
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  Speaker 4: miles an hour at the time. A dozen Karelian land
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  Speaker 4: ships were moored by their long vines on the lee
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  Speaker 4: side of the station. And more ships were coming in
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  Speaker 4: every minute. We slid into the tube and entered the capsule... Welcome, Earthman.
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  Speaker 6: You have nice sail.
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  Speaker 4: Shut up, you crummy gink.
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  Speaker 6: Earthman, not pleased.
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  Speaker 4: You told us the weather would hold.
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  Speaker 6: Old Corellon saying, one can predict weather, but not do
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  Speaker 6: something about it.
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  Speaker 4: Very true. We almost died out there. You wouldn't have
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  Speaker 4: been planning anything like that, would you? Earthman, I do
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  Speaker 4: not understand. No? Well, do you understand this, Clayton? Now
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  Speaker 4: get out of here. Get out before I blow your
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  Speaker 4: ugly head off with this gun.
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  Speaker 6: Very difficult for Smanek to be without head. Impossible to
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  Speaker 6: eat sugar or dead meat for almost three weeks before
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  Speaker 6: new head grow. Smanek join his people now for summer festival.
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  Speaker 4: Now you do that pronto. Wait a minute, Smanek. Did
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  Speaker 4: you say summer festival?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes. Ancient Karelian festival. When summer ends, we go
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  Speaker 6: sail away to caverns in Far West.
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  Speaker 4: Caverns? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: We live in caverns for three months. In that way,
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  Speaker 6: we have safety.
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  Speaker 4: Safety? From what? From winds.
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  Speaker 6: After summer is over come winter storms. First storm of
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  Speaker 6: year about to start any moment now.
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  Speaker 4: About to start? Yes. What do you call what we've
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  Speaker 4: been having? The wind is 238 miles an hour right now.
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  Speaker 4: The brute's ruined. The boulder defense is level. The foundations
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  Speaker 4: are cracked.
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  Speaker 6: Very regrettable. Perhaps you'd like to come stay with us
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  Speaker 6: in caverns.
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  Speaker 4: Bring sugar. Impossible. We need oxygen, food, our own water.
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  Speaker 6: Very regrettable indeed. Well, maybe you don't stay and colonize
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  Speaker 6: our planet after all.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Really big wind starting to rise now. Smanak, go.
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  Speaker 4: Goodbye, Smanak. Thanks for your help. Smanak, do favor.
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  Speaker 6: Glad to help.
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  Speaker 4: You got sugar? Sugar?
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  Speaker 2: Featured in our cast were Les Damon as Clayton, Bert
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  Speaker 2: And Nightline brings it to you.
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  Speaker 5: We have just heard X-1, episode 114, A Wind is Rising.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, and thank you for joining us.