1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,919 Speaker 1: In just a moment X minus one. 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 2: But first, when you hear the hearty laugh and familiar 3 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:07,000 voice of the Great guiller Sleeve Tomorrow Night, you know 4 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:11,080 you're in for some hilarious adventures. Because wherever Guilty is around, 5 00:00:11,279 --> 00:00:14,080 why somehow things never seem to go as planned. It 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:16,920 might be his impulsive nature, or maybe it's his incurable 7 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:19,879 weakness for the fairer sex. But whatever it is, the 8 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:22,320 Great Guildersleeve is bound to keep you laughing for a 9 00:00:22,359 --> 00:00:25,280 full thirty minutes. Tune in Tomorrow night, meet Judge Hooker, 10 00:00:25,359 --> 00:00:28,280 Nephew Leroy, housekeeper Bertie, and all the rest of the 11 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,200 friendly people from Summerville as they join the Great guilder Sleeve, 12 00:00:32,799 --> 00:00:36,759 and I'll stay tuned for X minus one on NBC. 13 00:00:41,759 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 3: Come tom for blast off X minus five four three 14 00:00:47,200 --> 00:01:17,280 two X minus one Fire from the far horizons of 15 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:20,959 the unknown. Come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time 16 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:25,799 and space. These are stories of the future adventures in 17 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,079 which you'll live in a million, could be years, on 18 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,799 a thousand, maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation 19 00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:39,280 with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, resents HE. 20 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 4: Minus one. 21 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 3: Tonight's story Junkyard by Clifford D. 22 00:01:54,159 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 1: Simak. 23 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 5: The funny thing about the whole thing was the fact 24 00:02:07,599 --> 00:02:10,039 that we had never intended to land on Planet nine. 25 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:13,000 We circled it and decided it was strictly a low 26 00:02:13,039 --> 00:02:15,280 grade affair, wouldn't amount to anything for a billion years 27 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:18,159 or so. As commander of the Galactic Survey Team, I 28 00:02:18,159 --> 00:02:21,759 couldn't waste my time on it. Then my exec saw 29 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,680 this junkyard through the telescope. We landed, took a look 30 00:02:25,719 --> 00:02:28,159 at a load of alien machine parts discarded by some 31 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,039 other spaceship, and then prepared to take off for Earth. 32 00:02:31,439 --> 00:02:32,759 Speaker 1: It had all been a waste of time. 33 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 5: Engine Roe Mac Iver is Commander Warren all secure, Yes, 34 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,240 sir very well. 35 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: Count down for blast off. 36 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 4: Engine Room ready, Sir x. 37 00:02:42,479 --> 00:02:49,879 Speaker 5: Minus five minus four minus three minus two minus one. 38 00:02:50,159 --> 00:02:58,680 Fire Mac. What's wrong down there? I don't know, Sir Brady. 39 00:02:58,719 --> 00:03:00,680 Get the data analyze already. We'll have to correct for 40 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:01,479 a new takeoff time. 41 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 6: It's the first time I ever heard of engine failure 42 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:04,319 before taking. 43 00:03:04,199 --> 00:03:06,719 Speaker 5: Oh better before than after. Engine room, Yes, sir, what's 44 00:03:06,759 --> 00:03:10,280 happening you boys ready yet? No, sir Well Burnett Man, 45 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:11,800 get going on? What those engines started? 46 00:03:12,039 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 7: Sir? 47 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: What is it. I don't quite know what to say. 48 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:17,719 Speaker 4: Well, say something or I'll have you busted. 49 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,319 Speaker 8: We can't start the engines, Commander, at least I can't. 50 00:03:21,319 --> 00:03:24,479 Speaker 4: Well why not? I don't know Cline? What plane on? 51 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:27,520 Lieutenant c Sir, Lieutenant? What is going on down there? 52 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:29,240 Is there something wrong with the engines? 53 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:30,520 Speaker 1: No, Sir, I checked them. 54 00:03:30,599 --> 00:03:32,039 Speaker 5: Well, then let's get them heated up or we'll be 55 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:33,759 on this god forsaken planet the rest. 56 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:34,199 Speaker 4: Of our lives. 57 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: We can't do it, sir, Clian. 58 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,599 Speaker 5: Suppose you tell me exactly why you can't start the engines? 59 00:03:40,639 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 4: Can you do that? 60 00:03:41,759 --> 00:03:42,159 Speaker 3: Yes, sir? 61 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 4: All right? Why because sir, we can't remember how what? 62 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,039 Speaker 1: Yes, sir, we've forgotten how to start the engine. 63 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,439 Speaker 5: Lieutenant report up here in one minute. Bring doctor Spencer 64 00:03:52,439 --> 00:03:54,719 with you, yes, sir, all right? 65 00:03:54,759 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 4: Brady, what have you got it? God? What don't play innocent? 66 00:03:57,719 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 5: You and I have been doing planet surveys together for 67 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:02,639 fifteen years. You carry enough dead weight and grain alcohol 68 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:04,400 on every trip to keep you happy for a million 69 00:04:04,479 --> 00:04:06,560 light years now. Obviously the boys in the engine room 70 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:07,199 have gotten. 71 00:04:06,919 --> 00:04:08,199 Speaker 4: Into him past. Where is it? 72 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,439 Speaker 6: I got a few fists in my locker, but nobody's 73 00:04:10,520 --> 00:04:12,120 touched it. I checked a few minutes ago. 74 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:14,159 Speaker 4: When somebody has got some of the engine room, come in, 75 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:18,040 Lieutenant client, Sir, I brought Douc to Spencer's ordin. Hello, Doc, 76 00:04:18,439 --> 00:04:19,879 decline here, tell you what's going on? 77 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 5: He did. 78 00:04:20,439 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 4: How long will it take you to get these guys 79 00:04:21,759 --> 00:04:22,279 sobered up? 80 00:04:22,439 --> 00:04:23,199 Speaker 1: I can't. 81 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 4: Why not? 82 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,639 Speaker 1: Because they are not drunk. I tested climb in my office. 83 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 5: Now, wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to get 84 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,279 me to actually believe that these men, intergalactic engineers with 85 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:35,240 years of hyperficient experience, have forgotten how to stock the 86 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:36,199 engines of this ship. 87 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: That's right, you You're serious, dead serious, Ira, Something somehow 88 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:48,639 has caused these men to forget how to start the engines. 89 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:53,519 There it was. 90 00:04:54,079 --> 00:04:55,879 Speaker 5: It fit in perfectly with a lot of other annoying 91 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:57,560 little things that have been happening to us ever since 92 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,079 we put. 93 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: Down on planet nine. 94 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 5: It was to you have been a routine exploration of 95 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:07,560 a low grade, uninhabited planet. Some routine exploration, All right, 96 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,040 Klan to listen to me. Do you have manuals aboard 97 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:11,199 engineering manuals? 98 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:11,639 Speaker 1: Yes, sir. 99 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,439 Speaker 5: Take the engine room boys and study those manuals. They'll 100 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,600 tell you how to start the ship, won't they? Yes, sir, okay, 101 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:17,959 get going, Doc, I'd like you to stay here with 102 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:18,759 me and Brady for a minute. 103 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 4: Okay, report back to me Klin. 104 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:25,519 Speaker 5: Yes, sir, okay, Doc, you're supposed to be an expert 105 00:05:25,519 --> 00:05:26,279 on space medicine. 106 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: What is it. I've never seen anything like it, Iira Brady, 107 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:30,480 search me, Captain. 108 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,439 Speaker 6: I've seen them with space blues, alien psycho sees the works, 109 00:05:33,519 --> 00:05:35,319 But I've never seen a disease that could make a 110 00:05:35,319 --> 00:05:36,920 crew forget how to start the engines. 111 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,759 Speaker 1: Maybe it isn't a disease, Okay, what then, maybe it's 112 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:41,639 a deliberate thing. 113 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 4: You mean they're faking No. 114 00:05:43,399 --> 00:05:45,079 Speaker 1: I know Klein and the others too well for that. 115 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,439 I mean, maybe there's some outside influence. 116 00:05:48,519 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 4: Doc. 117 00:05:48,759 --> 00:05:50,759 Speaker 5: We've surveyed this planet from top to bottom. We know 118 00:05:50,759 --> 00:05:52,240 there is no living cell on it. 119 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:53,319 Speaker 4: What about the junk yard? 120 00:05:53,399 --> 00:05:54,040 Speaker 1: What junkyard? 121 00:05:54,079 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 5: Well, he means that pile of rusty space engine parts 122 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:58,439 we found. The boys nicknamed it the junkyard. He's right, 123 00:05:58,759 --> 00:06:01,120 somebody put it there. Well, Oh, that another space ship 124 00:06:01,199 --> 00:06:03,480 landed here. We know that from the blast marks on 125 00:06:03,519 --> 00:06:06,279 the rock. We know that, for some unexplained reason, they 126 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:07,720 took their engine the part and tried to put it 127 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:10,360 together again. We know they succeeded in building a much 128 00:06:10,399 --> 00:06:12,759 simpler engine, leaving a lot of spare parts, and we 129 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,519 know that they took off the blast off marks tell 130 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:15,040 us that too. 131 00:06:15,199 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 6: What we don't know is whether or not they left 132 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,319 somebody behind or something. 133 00:06:19,879 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: What about that stone tower, Ira, The boys looked it over. 134 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:23,720 It's just a pile of stones. 135 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 4: They probably threw them together as a shelter while they 136 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:26,879 were rebuilding their engine. 137 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: Oh that sounds too simple. 138 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 4: I don't like that tower, Ira, Why not? I don't know. 139 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:33,240 It was scary. 140 00:06:33,319 --> 00:06:36,360 Speaker 6: It had that black look about it, the smell of death. 141 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,480 I felt it when I walked past with Klein and McIvor. 142 00:06:39,639 --> 00:06:41,879 That's the Selton you band, sheees and spooks. I still 143 00:06:41,879 --> 00:06:43,519 don't like it. I need a drinkip it. 144 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,399 Speaker 5: We should be ready to blast off in a few minutes. 145 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,720 Engine room, Engine room. What's going on down there? Engine room? 146 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:53,000 Lieutenant Climb? 147 00:06:53,800 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: Daddy? Is that you daddy? Did you bring me a Breton? Paddy? 148 00:07:00,399 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 4: I'm scared. 149 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:06,879 Speaker 5: Holy mackerel, that's clin he's gone off his rocker, Climb, Doc. 150 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:16,199 I think we better get down to that engine room. 151 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,800 When Doc examined Kline, he found him to have the 152 00:07:18,879 --> 00:07:21,560 mind and memory of a six year old. 153 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: That's it, Irah. Something drained Cline of his memory. And 154 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,120 that's as much as I can tell you. That's a 155 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,160 big help. Here's the manual he was reading. 156 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:32,879 Speaker 5: Well, at least we can follow this manual and get 157 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:35,000 off this stinking planet and hand it. 158 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:43,439 Speaker 1: To me right here. Yeah, anything wrong in Ira? Is 159 00:07:43,439 --> 00:07:43,959 it all there? 160 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,319 Speaker 5: That's all here, Doc, This is the engine manual that 161 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,160 tell us all about the engines, how they operate, how 162 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:53,240 to locate trouble, how to fix them, how to stark pool? 163 00:07:53,279 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: What is it? 164 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 5: Then you're sweating like a pig all of a sudden, 165 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:02,639 I can't remember the symbols, Doc, I've forgotten how to read. 166 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:12,879 I left the engine room and went out through the 167 00:08:12,879 --> 00:08:14,879 lock to stand on the outside platform of the ship. 168 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,639 I looked over the junkyard where the metal of the 169 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:22,079 rusted engine parts gleamed. There was a riddle there, a 170 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:25,560 riddle we hadn't been able to figure out. Why had 171 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,959 an alien spaceship landed here, ripped out its engines and 172 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,159 then put together a simple, less efficient engine and taken 173 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,159 off again? And they had worked in an awful hurry. 174 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:36,559 Judging by the mess thing left? 175 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:46,759 Speaker 1: Why why mind if I join you? Arah? Now'll help yourself. Doc, 176 00:08:47,279 --> 00:08:51,960 ho's Klein. We've made him some toys. He's playing with them. 177 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:54,879 I've assigned Mac to see that he doesn't hurt himself. 178 00:08:56,039 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 4: Doc, Yes, have you got any ideas on what's happening 179 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,879 to us? Well? 180 00:09:02,399 --> 00:09:07,559 Speaker 1: Man experiences incidents, gathers knowledge, snows emotions. Then as he 181 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:12,679 grows older, he begins to forget those experiences, forget that knowledge. 182 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:17,240 That's what life is, a long series of forgettings. Here 183 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:21,240 on nine, in some impossible way, the forgetting is speeded up. 184 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 5: It happens overnight. Now there's more to it than that. 185 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,039 Oh well, I'm going back to my cabin, try to 186 00:09:28,039 --> 00:09:40,919 get some rest. And you Ara, that's me matters what gives. 187 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 1: We're in a jam. 188 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,159 Speaker 4: There's been planets I wouldn't mind being marooned on, you know, 189 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,480 but this ain't one of 'em. There's something here, Ira, 190 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:49,480 I can feel it. 191 00:09:49,799 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: I can feel it myself. Maybe we should have looked 192 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:52,879 around more. 193 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,919 Speaker 4: Klein looked around. Klein was the one found that tower. 194 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:58,159 Speaker 1: That's right, he did. 195 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:01,159 Speaker 4: He said he didn't like it, he said, it scared him. 196 00:10:02,159 --> 00:10:05,279 Speaker 1: In the morning, bad ears. We'll go and see that tower. 197 00:10:11,879 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 4: In the morning. 198 00:10:12,399 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 5: I took Doc and MacIvor and Brady with me, and 199 00:10:14,159 --> 00:10:16,720 we walked across the valley to the stone tower. This 200 00:10:16,919 --> 00:10:19,360 wasn't much of a tower, maybe eight or nine feet high, 201 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,200 made of rocks piled one on top of the other. 202 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 1: Pretty solid, well built and odd type. If culture, I'd. 203 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:32,879 Speaker 4: Say, did anybody bother to look inside this thing? Magiva? 204 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 8: You were here with client yesterday, Yes, sir, we couldn't 205 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,799 find a way in. Captain Klimb poked around, but gave a. 206 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:39,879 Speaker 5: We'll make away and stand back. I think I can 207 00:10:39,879 --> 00:10:45,960 shoot the top of it. Oh no, that should be 208 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,360 big enough for a man to lower himself into. Okay, 209 00:10:48,519 --> 00:10:49,960 pass a rope around my shoulders. 210 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 8: A captain, Yes, in case there's anything well dangerous, maybe 211 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:54,679 I ought to go. 212 00:10:55,159 --> 00:10:59,639 Speaker 1: After all, I'm survey engineer. Macg Ivery's right, Ira, okay 213 00:10:59,639 --> 00:11:03,440 mackew responsibility, Yes, sir, Just fasten the rope under my arms. 214 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 8: That's it now, I'll climb up and lower myself in. 215 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,320 If I pull twice, haul me out. One pull means okay, 216 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:12,320 give me a hand. 217 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 6: Brady how about a quick shadow whiskey first, never touch it, Auddy, yep, 218 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:20,120 can you see him? 219 00:11:20,159 --> 00:11:25,000 Speaker 4: Side black is a tomb. I'm going to lower myself, 220 00:11:25,279 --> 00:11:29,240 pay out a little rope. Well, it's been lovely. 221 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 7: Here we go. 222 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:38,799 Speaker 1: One tug. He's on the ground inside. I wonder what 223 00:11:38,799 --> 00:11:39,279 he's found. 224 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:41,600 Speaker 5: I still don't like it, Old Brady, there's probably another 225 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:42,559 thing in there, except the future. 226 00:11:43,279 --> 00:11:45,919 Speaker 1: There's two tugs, three coming, all them out, Get. 227 00:11:45,759 --> 00:11:51,399 Speaker 6: Brady heavy, pull the top right, easy, No, Mac, what 228 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,600 the heck is in there anyway? 229 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,879 Speaker 4: Mac? Mac? 230 00:11:57,799 --> 00:12:02,039 Speaker 9: Dad, Dad, Holy jumping asteroids. 231 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 4: Doc, he's flipped. 232 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: No, he hasn't lost his mind. He's just reverted to babyhood. 233 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:17,320 We stood there at the foot of the tower, stunned. 234 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 5: Mac Iver sat on the ground, happy as a clam, 235 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:24,919 playing with his fingers and talking happy little nonsense syllables. 236 00:12:25,519 --> 00:12:26,399 Speaker 4: Doc, take a look at him. 237 00:12:26,399 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 1: Make sure that he's okay physically. Jack. If it's fright, 238 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:31,159 his pulse will be way up. Mike, let me have 239 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,159 your hand. That's a good fellow, now, good heavens? What 240 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:40,159 is it? Hi, I've forgotten what the normal pulse rate is. 241 00:12:40,519 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 5: Pulse pulse, Doc, let's get out of here, Brady, pick 242 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:47,559 up a guiver and bring him back to the ship. 243 00:12:47,679 --> 00:13:01,240 Come on, let's get away from this tower. A few 244 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:02,639 minutes later, Brady and I sat in. 245 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: The captain's quarters. 246 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:06,759 Speaker 5: He didn't do much talking, just sat and tipped his 247 00:13:06,759 --> 00:13:13,039 bottle to his lips. Ever so often, Well, at least 248 00:13:13,039 --> 00:13:14,879 we know in a general way what we're up against, 249 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,960 do we? We know there's been knowledge lost, important information forgotten. 250 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,039 Check for that memory, that lost skill, That knowledge went somewhere. 251 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,840 Maybe there's something in that tower that takes it away. 252 00:13:26,399 --> 00:13:28,320 And I have a silly feeling we might even get 253 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,039 it back. Have a drink, that is, get a couple 254 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:34,039 of men volunteers. Now, now we're going to find out 255 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:47,360 what's inside that tower. We lowered a rotating infra red 256 00:13:47,399 --> 00:13:49,320 movie camera into the tower, took some pictures, and went 257 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:50,480 back to the ship for a look. 258 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: There was something in there all right. Now, as far 259 00:13:55,039 --> 00:13:59,399 as we can determine, this thing we photographed is shaped 260 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,679 like a water melon standing on end. The movement of 261 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,120 the hairs all over it suggests vibrations such as an 262 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,120 antenna of an insect underneath the wires leading to terminals 263 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,879 that seemed plugged right into the thing. Do you think 264 00:14:13,879 --> 00:14:16,919 it's a form of life. My guess is a combination 265 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,159 of living organism and machine. After all, man and machines 266 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:25,240 work together. The difference is that man retains his individual identity. 267 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 5: Or since it doesn't locomote, somebody or something must have 268 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,840 put it exactly. It looks like some kind of communication organists. 269 00:14:31,879 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: If it is, it's a communication machine that is built 270 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:37,559 to take in information rather than pass it along. 271 00:14:37,759 --> 00:14:39,840 Speaker 6: Doctor, do you really think that egg in there has 272 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:40,919 been stealing our memory? 273 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: Why not? Because it's too too wild. That's why it's 274 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:46,759 no wilder than a lot of other things we found. 275 00:14:47,759 --> 00:14:51,679 Say that that egg is a device for gathering knowledge, 276 00:14:51,679 --> 00:14:53,279 but there's no knowledge here to gather. 277 00:14:53,879 --> 00:14:54,639 Speaker 4: I mean, how. 278 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 6: Often does a ship land on and out of the 279 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:56,879 way melon like this? 280 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Brady, who says that knowledge has to 281 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:01,120 be collected here? 282 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: Why? 283 00:15:02,559 --> 00:15:02,919 Speaker 4: I said? 284 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,279 Speaker 5: Why do we assume that knowledge has to be collected 285 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,559 right here on planet nine? We forget things back on Earth. 286 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:09,799 Speaker 1: Don't we. 287 00:15:10,519 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 5: Good Lord, suppose you were some race setting out fish 288 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:16,159 traps for knowledge, and you had plenty of time to 289 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:16,639 gather it. 290 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: Where would you put your traps on. 291 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,759 Speaker 5: A planet swarming with intelligent beings where the traps would 292 00:15:22,759 --> 00:15:26,080 be found and destroyed, or their secret snatched away, Or 293 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,120 would you put them out on some second rate world 294 00:15:28,159 --> 00:15:30,720 where nobody would ever bother them? Good heavens, I'd pick 295 00:15:30,759 --> 00:15:33,679 a spot just like this, doc. I think that some 296 00:15:33,919 --> 00:15:37,639 unknown race is bent on trapping knowledge throughout the galaxy, Ira, 297 00:15:38,039 --> 00:15:39,360 if what you say is true. 298 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: If it is, then every time someone on Earth forgets something, 299 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:46,559 it's because one of these eggs has drained it out 300 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,039 of him. Well, it's too fantastic. 301 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 4: Have you got a better guess? No? The question is 302 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:52,240 what do we do next? 303 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 6: If anybody gets near that egg, he winds up like 304 00:15:54,799 --> 00:15:56,080 some puling little baby. 305 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,399 Speaker 1: You were pretty near it that first day. Did you 306 00:15:58,440 --> 00:15:59,159 forget anything? 307 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 4: How should I? Now? 308 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 6: I was too pleasantly lit up in grain spirits to 309 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:02,879 know the difference. 310 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:07,279 Speaker 5: Well, the question is still what now I'm going outside 311 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:07,840 to think, Ira. 312 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: Yes, there is one thing to keep in mind. What 313 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:15,840 is that dug If those are memory traps, then there 314 00:16:15,919 --> 00:16:18,679 must be a way for somebody to empty them. And 315 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,440 if we're ever going to get away from here, what's 316 00:16:21,519 --> 00:16:24,320 gone in has got to come out. 317 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,080 Speaker 5: I stood out on the platform of the ship and 318 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:40,639 tried to make some sort. 319 00:16:40,399 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: Of pattern of it. Forgetfulness. 320 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 5: That was the key word all through the galaxy, in 321 00:16:47,399 --> 00:16:51,200 every culture there was forgetfulness. There were lots of learned theories, 322 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:54,120 of course, kinks in the brain, roses data processing. 323 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:56,720 Speaker 1: But suppose they were wrong. 324 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,279 Speaker 5: Might it not be that forgetfulness was by thousands upon 325 00:17:01,399 --> 00:17:06,039 thousands of these memory traps planted throughout the galaxy, nibbling 326 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:08,680 away at the conscious memory of all the sentient beings 327 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,240 that lived among the stars. On Earth, a man forgets 328 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,799 slowly because the traps are far away, but here, in 329 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:21,680 their very shadow, a man forgets suddenly. And then another 330 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,000 thought ended my mind. What kind of race had set 331 00:17:25,039 --> 00:17:29,240 these traps? How did they empty them? 332 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:30,920 Speaker 1: Ha? 333 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 5: Ha? 334 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,079 Speaker 4: Ready, huh where do you keep your liquor? Na chee? 335 00:17:36,079 --> 00:17:38,359 Come on, where it's in my locker? 336 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,079 Speaker 5: Get it out of there, all of it, Ira, It's 337 00:17:40,079 --> 00:17:45,839 a direct order, Okay, all of it? 338 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,759 Speaker 4: Got it? Yeah? I never thought i'd see the day 339 00:17:51,759 --> 00:17:53,119 when you pulled rank on me. Ira. 340 00:17:53,319 --> 00:17:55,799 Speaker 5: If you confiscate this stuff, so help me. I'll never 341 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:01,799 foresaid anything about confiscating. That is, have you ever really 342 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,880 hung one on? I mean, just pie eyed drunk. 343 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:10,160 Speaker 4: Let's see, there was once on Mars. Was that the worst? 344 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,680 It was beautiful. Took me three days to sober up. 345 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 6: They say I fought off the whole galactic patrol for hours. 346 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,599 Speaker 4: Well do you think you got enough here to get 347 00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:21,359 that polluted again? I got a pretty good supply iron. 348 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 5: That's good because in one minute I'm gonna give you 349 00:18:24,279 --> 00:18:29,359 a direct order to hang on the biggest, most monstrous 350 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,680 drunk in the entire history of the universe. 351 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: But first you have to volunteers. 352 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,319 Speaker 4: I volunteered. No, no, no, not until I explain why. 353 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:38,039 Speaker 6: I'm doing this era this sort of project. 354 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 4: Don't need reasons. It's a pleasure. 355 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:43,039 Speaker 5: Let me finish. You know that egg up in the tower, Yeah, 356 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:45,400 let me. If you get near it, it grabs your mind, 357 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:46,160 wipes it clean. 358 00:18:46,279 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 4: Right. 359 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,279 Speaker 5: Yeah, and a lead space helmet doesn't shield you, as 360 00:18:49,319 --> 00:18:52,519 we saw with Mackaibern. Right now, Doc thinks this egg 361 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:54,559 is a kind of communications thing. 362 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: It must be. 363 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 5: Okay, you're a communications man. What do you do when 364 00:18:58,480 --> 00:18:59,920 you can't shield a communicate? 365 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 6: Well, that's easy. You scramble at any fool knows Holy mackerel, 366 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,119 exactly are you still game? You think it'll work? 367 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it might suppose it doesn't. 368 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,519 Speaker 5: Maybe you're babbling infant like Klein and mac Ivery. 369 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,079 Speaker 6: If we don't stop that thing, it'll happen anyway unless 370 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,160 we can remember how to start the engines. Okay, Ira, 371 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:23,240 I'll do it. Why do I start right now? 372 00:19:28,319 --> 00:19:28,519 Speaker 1: Well? 373 00:19:28,559 --> 00:19:35,880 Speaker 6: Ira, here's Mudd and you're ever loving indragalactic eyeballs. You 374 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:46,960 know something, I'm beginning to like this mission already. 375 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:53,400 Speaker 1: Oh that kills the last bottle? 376 00:19:53,599 --> 00:19:54,960 Speaker 4: How am I drew an irol? Buddy? 377 00:19:55,039 --> 00:19:57,519 Speaker 5: Not drunk enough? I should have picked somebody like Doc, 378 00:19:57,559 --> 00:19:58,880 except you'd probably pass out. 379 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,039 Speaker 4: I'm not drunk enough, huh, old buddy, pound not yet? Well? 380 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 6: And in which case, old Buddy, I'm gonna have to 381 00:20:06,279 --> 00:20:08,559 do something I never like to have to do. 382 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:09,160 Speaker 1: What's that? 383 00:20:09,519 --> 00:20:13,039 Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to go into my extra special emergency 384 00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:17,880 reserve supply little supply I keep in case of getting 385 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,599 marooned on a planet. You know, I don't like to 386 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:31,599 go into it, but in this case it's my duty. 387 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:37,039 I rambling wreck from Georgia Tech, a heck of an engineer, 388 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,759 A rambling wreck from Georgia Tech, and a heck of 389 00:20:40,799 --> 00:20:42,279 an engineer. 390 00:20:42,759 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 4: Whoo blast. 391 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,039 Speaker 1: Okay, I guess you're ready. What do you think, Doc? 392 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,960 The most amazing thing I've ever seen is he drunk enough. 393 00:20:50,079 --> 00:20:52,119 What I want to know is what's keeping him consciously? 394 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 4: Bet he is on your feet? 395 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:54,039 Speaker 1: Help him up right? 396 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 4: Rambling erec from Georgia Tech. 397 00:20:56,759 --> 00:21:09,759 Speaker 9: Let's go batres right Rambling wreck from Georgia. 398 00:21:01,039 --> 00:21:14,079 Speaker 5: And somehow we pushed, hauled and stumbled bat ears Brady 399 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:15,480 out of the ship and up to the rocks to 400 00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:18,759 the egg tower. We erected a tripod over the hole 401 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,000 with a block and tackle, passed a rope around Brady's chest, 402 00:21:22,079 --> 00:21:25,359 and hauled him over the entrance to the tower. There 403 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,599 he swung like some over stuffed pig, singing raucously under. 404 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 1: The eerie moonlight. 405 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 4: Ram Runner wreck from Georgia Tech. 406 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 5: Well, what do you say? I got the earphones on 407 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,839 him so they can't slip off there. I guess we're 408 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:38,599 going to the lower. 409 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 1: You sure it's a man's life. 410 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 5: I'm not sure, Doc, but it's commander of this expedition. 411 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:48,319 I sometimes have to risk the lives of my men. 412 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:53,079 Speaker 7: Okaylor, away before I start to get sober. 413 00:21:53,559 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 4: Wor away flashed up fire one fire? Do oh boy? 414 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,119 Good luck, Brady, good luck. 415 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,039 Speaker 1: He's at the bottom. Irah, that is can you hear me? 416 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 4: Gise your hands on my hair? Some guy's hands my hair, Irah. 417 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,279 Speaker 1: The thing must be picking at his brain. 418 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,759 Speaker 4: Brady Brady listened to me. Do you see the egg? 419 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 6: See that's my buddy, Irah, egggad buddy, you mean buddy? 420 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 4: They get right avenger? 421 00:22:28,079 --> 00:22:29,960 Speaker 5: Oh good lord, he's got a bottle with him. He's 422 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 pouring it on the egg. 423 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 4: Brady Brady listened to me. 424 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 5: The wires, wires, the lead wires you took in with you. Yeah, 425 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,599 pull out the studs on the egg and hook your 426 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:40,440 wires to it. 427 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 4: You got that. 428 00:22:44,519 --> 00:22:44,759 Speaker 9: Drink? 429 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:45,079 Speaker 1: Oh? 430 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:47,640 Speaker 5: Good, heavens, it's no use. He's too drunk to know 431 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:52,240 what he's doing. I'll try again, Brady. Listen, your friend 432 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,559 the egg can't hear you. See, he can't have a 433 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,480 drink until you hook your wires into him. 434 00:22:57,519 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 4: You got that? 435 00:22:58,240 --> 00:22:58,559 Speaker 1: Sure? 436 00:22:58,759 --> 00:23:07,519 Speaker 4: Nice? An awful things readful? Okay, Okay, what's he doing? Doc? 437 00:23:07,559 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: You getting any impulses? Not a thing. 438 00:23:09,799 --> 00:23:11,440 Speaker 5: We better haul him out if he starts to sober, 439 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,279 and maybe we'd better okay one, two? 440 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:19,440 Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait, I'm getting something, Hirah, what this 441 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:20,839 is fantastic? 442 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:22,079 Speaker 3: Oh? 443 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 1: I'm getting something. 444 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:32,839 Speaker 7: I'd haul him out quick from Georgia. Check caramble and ready, ready, 445 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,079 you're all right, Doc, help me take a look at him. 446 00:23:35,079 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 4: Is he okay? 447 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:37,680 Speaker 1: Yes, he's okay, just passed out. Let's getting back to 448 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,880 the ship right. You know what, Irah, Tomorrow about nine am, 449 00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:45,119 we're going to be in on the most colossal hangover 450 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,240 in the history of mornings. 451 00:23:47,279 --> 00:23:55,759 Speaker 5: After we were in on more than Doc Spencer had 452 00:23:55,799 --> 00:23:59,160 bargained for, more than any human being had any business 453 00:23:59,240 --> 00:23:59,880 being in on. 454 00:24:01,559 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 1: Oh well, Brady, how do you feel? Shoot me? 455 00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:11,279 Speaker 4: You turn the trick drick the tower you hooked into 456 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:11,720 the egg. 457 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:13,759 Speaker 1: The stuff is rolling. 458 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 5: Out now dark and the boys have got a recording 459 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,279 hooked up. The stuff they're listening in on is enough 460 00:24:17,279 --> 00:24:20,880 to set your teeth on edge. The information that mind 461 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,119 Trap has been collecting for hundreds of years. It'll take 462 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,720 us years to sort it out, but we're getting some 463 00:24:25,759 --> 00:24:26,640 of it straight already. 464 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 6: Any of our own stuff plenty, anything on engines, well 465 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,240 not on our engines. 466 00:24:32,559 --> 00:24:34,799 Speaker 5: So we got the dope on the Junkyard engine. Mack 467 00:24:34,839 --> 00:24:36,799 and the boys are helping to get it assembled. We're 468 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,079 ripping out our own engines and just keeping some of 469 00:24:39,079 --> 00:24:43,160 the parts another junkyard, another junk yard. The engine we're 470 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,119 building now is superior to anything ever built. 471 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 6: Pretty handy little gadget. That egg only one thing. What's 472 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,400 that tell Doc if he comes across a good hangover 473 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,480 remedy to let me know. 474 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 4: Oh. 475 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,519 Speaker 5: It took us about six days to assemble new engines 476 00:25:11,599 --> 00:25:13,480 using some of our parts and some of the advanced 477 00:25:13,519 --> 00:25:16,920 designs from the junkyard. During most of that time, Doc 478 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,839 Spencer sat down at the tower with a set of 479 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:20,920 headphones monitoring the information from the egg. 480 00:25:21,519 --> 00:25:24,640 Speaker 1: It was like a man possessed. I didn't think anything 481 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,759 unnatural was happening until the night of the sixth day. 482 00:25:30,079 --> 00:25:32,279 Speaker 4: Well, that does it. The boys have got the engines 483 00:25:32,319 --> 00:25:33,240 ready for blast off. 484 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:34,759 Speaker 1: There's a full moon too. 485 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:36,599 Speaker 4: We should be able to lift your by tomorrow morning. 486 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:36,839 Speaker 1: Huh. 487 00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 5: We're blasting off in exactly one minute, that is what 488 00:25:39,599 --> 00:25:40,799 in exactly one minute? 489 00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 6: But I ara a doc and some of the techno 490 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,039 boys are down monitoring that egg. 491 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:44,599 Speaker 1: I know it. 492 00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 6: Well, it'll take them twenty minutes to get back into 493 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:47,119 the ship with. 494 00:25:47,079 --> 00:25:47,759 Speaker 4: All that equipment. 495 00:25:47,759 --> 00:25:50,559 Speaker 5: They're not getting back. Huh, I said, they're not getting back? 496 00:25:51,039 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 4: Are you nuts? 497 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 1: Come here. 498 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,640 Speaker 5: That is, I want you to take a look through 499 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,359 this s fieldscope. You can get a good close up 500 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,759 of Doc and they who have been monitoring that egg. 501 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,160 Speaker 4: Where'll I get it focused? 502 00:26:04,279 --> 00:26:11,240 Speaker 5: You got them? Yeah, take a close up. Mother in Heaven, 503 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,000 you see why we have to leave them here. Those faces, 504 00:26:15,039 --> 00:26:17,440 they're like like some kind of beast. 505 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 4: What is it, Iira, what's happened to us? 506 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 5: The same thing that must have happened to the crew 507 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,519 of the last ship that touched here, the same thing 508 00:26:23,559 --> 00:26:25,079 that made them blast out of here in such a 509 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:25,920 tearing hurry. 510 00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:27,920 Speaker 4: What that is? 511 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,279 Speaker 5: There isn't only knowledge in that thing. Those boys are 512 00:26:32,279 --> 00:26:39,279 monitoring something else, something else, personality. That is, they're not 513 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:57,559 human anymore. They're turning alien. Wow, they were still there 514 00:26:57,599 --> 00:26:59,960 when the ship roared up away from planet nine and 515 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:03,480 pointed her silver nose toward Earth. We could see them 516 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,000 in the scopes, A group of tiny figures crouched over 517 00:27:07,039 --> 00:27:11,920 the recording equipment, their earphones plugged into the age. They 518 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,480 didn't even look up when we blasted off. They were 519 00:27:15,519 --> 00:27:20,319 no longer human. Now there was something else, something a 520 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,039 million like years old and of another world. 521 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,039 Speaker 3: Who have just heard X minus one presented by the 522 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:40,599 National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy science fiction magazine, 523 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,920 Your Announcer, Fred Collins. 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