WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.160 Wayne Crowder has the engineers, the industrial power, and the 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:08.359 determination to make the first voyage into space. What he 3 00:00:08.439 --> 00:00:11.240 lacks is a way to propel the ship until a 4 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:15.320 scientist arrives with an anti gravity solution and terms of 5 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:20.600 his own. From NBC's Dimension X, this is episode forty 6 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:24.839 four Vital Factor, adapted for radio by Howard Rodman from 7 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:30.079 Nelson S. Bond's short story. Raymond Edward Johnson, Luis van Ruten, 8 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:34.840 John McGovern, Guy Repp, Danny Acco, and Martin Wolfson are 9 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:39.520 featured in the cast. First broadcast August sixteenth, nineteen fifty one. 10 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:42.439 Here is the original broadcast. 11 00:00:48.200 --> 00:01:06.079 Adventures in Time and Space told in Tempture, the National 12 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:11.480 Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of 13 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:30.640 Astounding science Ficshure bring you Dimension X. I dont get 14 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.239 anywhere on Earth as a man or a woman or 15 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:35.959 a child who doesn't know the name of Wayne Crowder. 16 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:38.879 I doubt whether as a human being who hasn't at 17 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.959 one time or another used one of the crowded products, 18 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:45.000 the can opener of a razor blade of the patent 19 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.120 of Tooth Potter, dispatcher of the Crowder improved slideless fastener 20 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:52.959 as a fortune in such products, and Wayne Crowder with 21 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:56.200 a man to squeeze that fortune of any by penny, 22 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.719 and he didn't. And in the magazines would write about 23 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.040 men of business, he was described as a man of 24 00:02:02.120 --> 00:02:06.480 ice and stone, and ink and steel, no warm, and 25 00:02:06.599 --> 00:02:08.080 a heart that pomp blood, not. 26 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:09.560 Feel human emotion. 27 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:11.840 But he took some of his money and he built 28 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:15.919 himself a cowering skyscraper, and he placed his private office. 29 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:16.360 At the very peak. 30 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:19.080 And he built a battery of buttons into his desk, 31 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.240 so that when he wanted something, all he ever had 32 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.680 to do was nice a button. And like genies springing 33 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.599 out of the bottle, these proper personnel would come running. 34 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:37.759 Yes, mister Crowder, Yes sir, right away, mister Crowver. Mister 35 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:53.520 Crowder wants his engineers at once. Here I are engineer, sir. 36 00:02:53.680 --> 00:03:04.439 All right, close the door and get out now, gentlemen, saiddan, gentlemen. 37 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.719 I hired you because you're the best engineers I was 38 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:11.960 able to find. They tell me you can do anything. 39 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.479 They tell me. If there's a scientific fact known in 40 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:18.759 the world, even if he's discovered six hours ago, you gentlemen, 41 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:21.520 are up on it. I don't want to put that 42 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:25.960 to work. Gentlemen, I want you to build me a spaceship. 43 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:27.719 What a spaceship, sir? 44 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:30.639 That's right. I decided that I'm going to be the 45 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.879 man who gives space flight to mankind. A question. Well, 46 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:37.400 I don't yer, sir. 47 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:40.919 We can design such a ship. That part's not too hard. 48 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:44.080 The basic blueprint has been in existence for many years. 49 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:47.080 The submarine is the model for the shape in the form. 50 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:51.240 But yeah, but we have no way of providing the 51 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:52.800 motor to power such a ship. 52 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:55.439 When the ship's ready to fly, there'll be a motor. 53 00:03:55.719 --> 00:04:00.000 Sure. I don't like to contradict you, but you see, scientist, 54 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.800 it's still been searching for a motor power for spaceships 55 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:06.360 for decades now without success. You will have a ship, 56 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:09.479 but we can't lift that ship from the Earth's surface. 57 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:12.000 That is not to the point of free flight at 58 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:12.400 any rate. 59 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:14.400 And mister Crowder, you see. 60 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:17.160 You'll be spending millions of dollars, hundreds of millions, perhaps 61 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:17.680 for nothing. 62 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:21.639 What's your name, Phillips, sir, you're fired. Go down to 63 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:23.399 cashier and draw your pain and get out. 64 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:25.040 But mister Crowder out. 65 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.399 Nobody who works for me thinks of how much something costs, 66 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:33.879 we use money. We don't let expense provide a rationalization 67 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:38.240 for not beginning a project fell up pretty waiting for 68 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:48.240 get out, gentlemen. Any other comments. 69 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:50.199 That the ship will be built, of course, mister Crowder, 70 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:53.319 But the fact still remains, we can't power you. 71 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:57.360 Design the ship. I'll find the motor for you. Where, sir, 72 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:02.120 that's a fair question. The answer is I don't know, 73 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.439 but somewhere in the world as a man who does 74 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:11.120 know the secret. Long before Henry Ford there was Leonardo 75 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:15.439 da Vinci, and long before him there was Archimedes, and 76 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.839 long before him there was some Stone Age genius who 77 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:21.639 invented the wheel when the only thing the mob could 78 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:25.759 conceived was dragging things around their backs. I want that motor, 79 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:28.720 and I'll root out the man who has the theory 80 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.800 which will let us build it. I'll find him, money 81 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:35.120 will be available to him, an organization my backing, and 82 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:36.800 we'll get what we want. 83 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:40.120 You're going to be plagued with a host of crackpots, obviously, 84 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:42.079 so it's going to be your job to separate the 85 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:43.079 wheat from the chat. 86 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.839 But anyone who shows up with a promising idea, no 87 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.600 matter how fantastic, it sounds is going to have a 88 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:49.879 chance to show what it can do. 89 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:52.480 How quickly do you want this donec yesterday? 90 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:52.759 Yes? 91 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:57.920 Anything you need, well, mister Crowder will need construction yards, sir, 92 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.720 and certain machinery and a great many materials. 93 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.439 Of course a label for send me the bills. I 94 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:05.319 don't want to be bothered with minor details. 95 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:10.959 Yes, sir, one more thing, sir, Phillips says. We need him, sir. 96 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.800 He's a top man on electronics. He's a vital cog. 97 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:13.959 You know. 98 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:17.879 I don't want Phillips working for me. That's clear. I 99 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:21.079 hope who else in the country knows what he does? 100 00:06:21.279 --> 00:06:24.319 Not one in this country. So there's a man in Asia, though, 101 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:27.319 get him. We've tried before, mister Crowder. He's working on 102 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:28.879 an important project for his country. 103 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:31.160 I'm not concerned with the tails, and I get that man. 104 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:32.519 Pay what he wants, but get him. 105 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:34.160 Tell you you don't understand. 106 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:36.199 I understand man. 107 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:39.839 If this man quits his job, that whole project will collapse. 108 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:42.519 It means the welfare of many people, millions of people 109 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:45.480 in his country. And he has a high sense of patriotism. 110 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:48.680 Why that sense of patriots Now, that's all I don't 111 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:50.680 want to see you again until you have a report 112 00:06:50.680 --> 00:07:04.319 of work in progress. Yes, as a man named Philip's 113 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:07.240 going to draw his pay, I want two company policemen 114 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:09.720 to meet him at the cashier's office and escored him 115 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:12.639 from there, directly off the premises. And I want them 116 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:16.199 to be emphatic about it, and notify the newspapers, the 117 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:20.079 television and the radio networks, periodicals and the scientific journals 118 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:23.920 that I'll receive the press in my office afternoon at 119 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:26.879 three point thirty. I have an important announcement to make. 120 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:48.639 Gen gentlemen. You can finish your drinks later. Gentlemen of 121 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:51.560 the press and ladies, it's my pleasure to be able 122 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:54.480 to tell you that I'm in the process of constructing 123 00:07:55.399 --> 00:08:01.680 a spaceship. Any questions. Did you say a spaceship. That's right, 124 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.199 that's what I thought you said. I knew the drinks weren't. 125 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:11.519 That's strong. I expected it might be something of a 126 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.920 shock to you, mister Crowder. 127 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:19.000 Is this spaceship under construction now? It is well according 128 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:19.800 to your plans. 129 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:20.839 Is it intended for. 130 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:23.800 Interstellar flight or merely for flight between planets? 131 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:27.360 This is the beginning only, and my intentions are quite moderate. 132 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.199 I expect the ship to be able to pursue a 133 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:34.679 course between Earth and Mars or between Earth and Venus 134 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:38.159 before the present any longer trips than I've gotten places 135 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:41.240 you solved the problem of motive force, then no, I haven't. 136 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:45.279 But what sort of you mean? You don't have any 137 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:49.240 means of propulsion for the spaceship. That problem is not 138 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:57.360 solved as yet will be. That's why I called you 139 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:01.240 away in this afternoon. I want to announce that I 140 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:04.120 have one hundred thousand dollars in cash waiting for the 141 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:06.519 man or a woman who first brings me the basic 142 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:10.519 idea for such a motor. That's all I have to 143 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:14.759 say for now. Finish our refreshments, ladies and gentlemen. I'll 144 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:16.600 let you know from time to time when things. 145 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.399 Go mister crowded, One more question, play, yeah, do you 146 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:21.759 have a name for the spaceship yet? 147 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:22.519 No? Not? Yeah? 148 00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:32.519 Then let me suggest one. Yeah, Crowder's folly. What is 149 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.279 your paper, Daily Time? 150 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:39.200 Sir? And form the company police that, under no circumstances 151 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:42.320 is any representative for the Daily Times ever to be 152 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:44.440 allowed on company property. Again. 153 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:55.759 Wayne Crowder is offering one hundred thousand dollars to any 154 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:59.000 inventives can produce an engine capable of driving a spaceship. 155 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:05.440 Wain Plowder is offering one hundred. 156 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.879 Thousand doll ups to any velpie who can't produce an 157 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:10.279 engine capable of driving a spaceship. 158 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:20.519 It was Crowder's folly, but the word of what he 159 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:23.399 wanted circulated to the far corners of the globe, and 160 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.440 it was known in the white ice block ups of 161 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:28.440 the Eskimos and in the grass based villages of Central 162 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:35.080 Africa as well as place is less remote, and the 163 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.759 crowded office became a mecca and the heaven for the 164 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:42.120 lunatic fringe of humanity. Their blueprints and scale models clogged 165 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:45.879 its corridors, and more applicants came to the great skyscraper. 166 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:50.320 Well, I told you it a'll want these people in 167 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:56.120 my offical. The screen got get out. Every time I 168 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.080 opened that door, they surge in like a tidal wave. 169 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:00.879 I haven't trugged support for you, sir. 170 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:02.559 On the construction of the ship youry. 171 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:06.360 I've spent thirteen million dollars for the yards, the equipment, 172 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:10.360 including three gantry cranes, several dozen presses, thousands of guys 173 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:14.360 and sofi. We had twelve thousand people working for us directly, 174 00:11:14.519 --> 00:11:16.039 not including subcontractors. 175 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:16.879 And there lay before. 176 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.480 What about the ship, mister Crowder. The ship is finished 177 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:23.720 as far as we can go. Certain additional construction can 178 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:25.960 be done now because it depends on a shape and 179 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.159 the mass of the engine, and a type of fuel 180 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:29.519 on the weight of that fuel. 181 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.919 I see, all right, lay off everybody we don need. 182 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:33.600 I voted. 183 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.440 That's a miss crowded. 184 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:39.080 Is it possible that no one will turn up with 185 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:39.600 a motor? 186 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:44.080 That's the one thing that's not possible. He will come 187 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:50.159 money and determination will buy anything. Because the door anyway, 188 00:11:50.240 --> 00:12:00.399 Uh yes, it all of the property up. And to 189 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:02.600 put a name on the forward end of the ship, 190 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:06.240 I want letters in pure gold one foot high. The 191 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:09.720 name of the ship is Crowder's folly. Get it done 192 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:09.960 to day. 193 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:23.519 The sun rose in the morning and glinted rose on 194 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.799 the silver sheen of the hollow ship's skin. The sun 195 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:29.799 set at night and grinted rose on the silver sheen 196 00:12:29.879 --> 00:12:33.240 of the hollow ship's skin. The golden letters on the 197 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:36.320 proud hold out a fury of Crowder for the world 198 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:39.360 to see. A start of fifty was employed as time 199 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:42.320 went on in taking rust preventive measures to ensure the 200 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:46.120 ship's well being. In a year, the first experiment seemed 201 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:49.039 ready to bear fruit, and a test was held the 202 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:50.759 atomic fish and motor. 203 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:57.200 In exactly forty five seconds. Now we hold the test, 204 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:01.720 Miss Crowder. The actual the motor is taking place three 205 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:07.320 miles from here. Now, this dial here registers the nucleonic activity, 206 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:11.600 and this dial right here is trust. 207 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:14.679 Over here. This dial is. 208 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:17.759 A measure of the effectiveness of the shielding in terms 209 00:13:17.799 --> 00:13:23.559 of outside radioactivity. That sound you hear is our generators 210 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.960 right here building up power to supply the motor by 211 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:33.000 remote control. Now, if this needle goes around to the 212 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.039 park of the dial marked in red, there will be 213 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:36.879 an explosion. 214 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:40.919 Are there any questions? There's eight with attat. 215 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:50.080 Watch the needlesi eight thousand, eighty five hundred, nine thousand, 216 00:13:51.559 --> 00:14:01.840 ten eleven, twelve fifteen. That's an overload doll side twenty. 217 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:04.480 I don't know how much Hice and census. 218 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:08.519 What happened? Your generator blew out? 219 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:10.759 What kind of I take Your partners of the motor 220 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:11.200 blew up? 221 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:12.120 What are you talking about? 222 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:17.720 I'd hear tom, You see, sir, It takes a while 223 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.320 for the vibration is an explosion to travel three miles 224 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:22.480 and then reach through fifteen feet of concrete. 225 00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:27.240 See well, other experiments in progress, let me know, and 226 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:28.200 they're ready protesting. 227 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:33.840 Yes, sir, mister Crowder, the inventor of that motor had 228 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:36.080 to be with it, of course during the tests. But 229 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:40.639 he has that is, he had a family. 230 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:44.039 The fool know what he was doing. He understood the danger. 231 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:47.879 I'll line up those experiments and don't turn anyone away 232 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:50.600 if you seems to have the remotest possibility of success. 233 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:54.080 Now I'm telling you my man will come. Money and 234 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:55.840 determination will buy anything. 235 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:09.159 And strangely enough, Crowder was right, because one day there 236 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:13.200 came to his office a stranger, a small man. He 237 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.559 looked even smaller in that tremendous room. He was an 238 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:20.679 unusual visitor, and that he carried no briefcase, fat with blueprints, 239 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:25.799 schematics or formerly. He was unusual in that he neither blustered. 240 00:15:25.440 --> 00:15:27.039 Coward nor deferred to his host. 241 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:30.600 Or He was a pleasant little stranger bird, life of 242 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:32.600 eye and movement, bright. 243 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:33.879 And smiling. 244 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:35.279 Powder. 245 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:37.240 My name is Wilkins. 246 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.039 I can power that ship you want, So of course 247 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:46.360 what I have in mind will be anything like that, 248 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:50.399 mean less anything like that meaningless for you. Flick, we'll 249 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:53.120 rock My motor requires a difference here in my. 250 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:56.840 Head, it so happens that I am presently opens, that 251 00:15:56.919 --> 00:15:59.679 I am presently supporting. Half a dozen people will make 252 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:04.600 this a none of them been successful. What makes you 253 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:06.279 think your idea will work? 254 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:13.840 Simple enough? The common magnet? What electromagnetism? Utilization of the 255 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:17.039 force of gravity or its opposite, in this case countergraphty. 256 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.240 You're very much if you'll forgive me. 257 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:22.720 Now, mister crowd, there's one thing more this. 258 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:25.519 I've seen pieces of metal before. 259 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:26.159 Thank you? 260 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:28.799 How high from your desk would you say I'm holding it? 261 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.159 I'm very sorry, mister Wilkins. Do you want to leave 262 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:32.840 or do you want to be escorted out? 263 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:35.240 This will only take a second. Say how high from 264 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.879 your desk would you say? I'm holding this piece of metal? 265 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:43.000 And if I let go, then in less than a 266 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:45.639 second affraction of a second it should fall to you. 267 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.720 Now, look, I don't want the surface of that death mind, 268 00:16:48.840 --> 00:16:49.679 But will it be? 269 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:51.320 You? 270 00:16:51.399 --> 00:16:52.840 See? I have let go of the metal? 271 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:53.320 Is that right? 272 00:16:57.200 --> 00:16:58.799 What good? 273 00:16:59.320 --> 00:16:59.559 Long? 274 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:02.360 Many seconds ago it should have crashed to the desk? 275 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:02.879 Am I right? 276 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:07.000 This is. 277 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.359 Well? If you want to speak to me anymore. I'll 278 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:12.279 be right outside. 279 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:18.079 But it hasn't fallen. 280 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:25.000 That's right, sir, It hasn't fallen. Fluots, that's right, sir. 281 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:29.640 How do you do it? Why don't you call your 282 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:35.839 engineers and ask them. I'll wait outside, got me my 283 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:37.400 engineers immediately? 284 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:54.799 Oh right, mister Wilkins, yirre quite right. This piece of 285 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:58.319 metal is appandlic counter gravity here. My engineers can give 286 00:17:58.359 --> 00:17:59.240 me no explanation. 287 00:17:59.519 --> 00:17:59.799 Thank you. 288 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:01.759 What do you want? 289 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:05.519 I want to build a spaceship using this material and 290 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:08.440 to great expended. You're hundreds of the cost you be here, 291 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:11.319 a city out there in your building yard, and three 292 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:18.519 other things workshop expert, mechanical assistance, and an answer to 293 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:19.079 one question. 294 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:20.599 What is the question? 295 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:24.240 Why do you want so much to build this ship? 296 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:32.400 Frankly, because I love power, because I'm ambitious. I want 297 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:35.359 to be the master not only of one world, but 298 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:37.119 of worlds. 299 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:41.720 That's an honest answer. And that's as far as you're 300 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:42.400 thinking goes. 301 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:44.000 What else is there? 302 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:49.920 But there's my answer. I want to leave this planet 303 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:55.039 and go to Mars because there are strange wonders there, 304 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.759 because there will be scarlet sunsets, over balanced wastes, and 305 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.920 in the starstrewn night, the thin cold air of a 306 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:07.599 dying world stirring in restless size across the valleys of 307 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:11.680 the dragonnells. He may laugh out loud if you wish, 308 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:14.720 mister Crowtery, I prefer that to the peculiar, repressed smile 309 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:15.319 you're exhibiting. 310 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:15.559 Now. 311 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:20.400 You're a very lucky man, mister Wilkin's scientific talent, because 312 00:19:20.440 --> 00:19:25.440 your talents, is a poet, are inferior and very sentimental. Well, 313 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:28.319 all right, you're sentimental, isn't I'm man logic. No matter. 314 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:31.559 We can work together, you and I. Your workshop will 315 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:34.240 be ready by morning. If you need money on material 316 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:36.920 as a personnel, just tell my engineers and you'll get it, 317 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:39.519 or I'll know the reason why. And that's all, thank you, sir, 318 00:19:44.880 --> 00:20:01.400 Get me my engineers. Yes, mister crowd, we have fifty 319 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:04.119 men working on preserving that useless hulk out there in 320 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:06.960 the construction yard. Laid them off. Now, how many others? 321 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:08.839 But the ship will deteriorate if we do that. 322 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:10.880 Sir, Yes. 323 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:13.240 How many other employees are still working for us on 324 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:14.079 the project. 325 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:17.240 About three thousands, including the people working on experimental motives. 326 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:19.799 Get real them, but rid of them. 327 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:22.319 Mister Crowder, I never thought you'd drop this project. You 328 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:23.240 were so adamant on it. 329 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:26.759 I'm not dropping anything but dead. Would you saw what 330 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:29.640 Wilkins had to offer. He's my man and the rest 331 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:30.039 is young. 332 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:32.680 Mister Crowder, he might fail. We ought to have a 333 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:34.079 minimum of protection together. 334 00:20:34.160 --> 00:20:37.720 I say, he won't fail. You'll just let everybody off 335 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.480 that is needed. Give him two weeks paying my thanks 336 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:44.279 for a thankless job well done. That's all, Yes, sir, I'll. 337 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:45.440 Get it, John Sir. 338 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:50.359 Forty years work, yes, and ten years or twenty years 339 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:53.000 and I do the same thing. That's why you're an 340 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:56.440 engineer and I'm an executive. That's why you work for me, 341 00:20:56.720 --> 00:20:59.279 because when I have to, I can be ruthless with 342 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:03.680 my own miss stakes. What are you waiting for? 343 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:10.359 I was just thinking, mister Crowder, what would happen to 344 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:14.000 me if my usefulness to you were over? I've worked 345 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:15.319 for you for thirty years now. 346 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:20.039 Just don't give me any occasion to consider your usefulness terminator. 347 00:21:20.200 --> 00:21:21.480 That ouldn't be too word. 348 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:27.079 Yes, but nothing, sir. I'll make the arrangements at once. 349 00:21:35.039 --> 00:21:36.599 Oh you what do you want? 350 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:38.200 I tried to stop himself. 351 00:21:38.200 --> 00:21:42.920 Well, speak up, man, my name is your resistry. I 352 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:44.480 am an electronic sex. 353 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:49.839 Oh yes, I remember you're the Asian. Well, come in, 354 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:51.039 come in? Do you want me? 355 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:51.319 There? 356 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:54.440 Never mine and mine? Just stay outside closed the door 357 00:21:54.480 --> 00:22:04.119 behind him. Yes, sit down, Tom, thank you. No, I 358 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:08.480 want to give you a gift before I leave. Oh 359 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:13.960 h you leaving? I thought we still needed you. I resigned. Well, 360 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.359 I'm sorry to hear that. I'm told you're a good man. 361 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:22.599 I want you to understand what's behind this gift. I 362 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:25.960 was working on a power project in my country, which 363 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:29.000 would have meant a tremendous rise in the standard of 364 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:33.200 living for millions of my people. I was unable to 365 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:34.680 resist the money you offered. 366 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:37.200 Had you resisted even more money, it would have been 367 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:40.279 forthcoming up placed no limit on your worth to me. 368 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:41.519 I understand. 369 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:46.079 But you see I did not come without a sense 370 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:49.680 of guilt because there was no one in my country 371 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:51.640 who could take my place. 372 00:22:51.799 --> 00:22:53.079 I would assume, man. 373 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:57.559 And now I discovered that what I did was for nothing. 374 00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:01.759 The spaceship on which I work is being dispensed. 375 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:02.519 That's right. 376 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:06.440 So I have been corrupted by you at a whim. 377 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:12.000 I think you have too much power, sir. I think 378 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:16.720 you use your power for evil, selfish purpose selfish. 379 00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:18.839 Yet only sentimentality is evil. 380 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:23.759 I think otherwise, and so in order that you shall 381 00:23:23.799 --> 00:23:27.759 not corrupt anyone else, I have this gift for you. 382 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:36.000 Here you are, sir, and just one more shot for good, 383 00:23:36.079 --> 00:23:39.039 measure to make sure you are really dead. 384 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:50.960 Good. The man on his way out, by the name 385 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:55.359 of Job is ushually an engineer. He's not to be molested. 386 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:58.119 He probably won't stop the cashiers, so I want to 387 00:23:58.279 --> 00:24:00.960 check for six months hour in advance. Mailed to his 388 00:24:01.079 --> 00:24:05.000 arm address, A man showed a certain quality of ruthlessness 389 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:08.279 which is deserving of recognition. And you have the chap 390 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:11.359 of the company police. Bring me a new bulletproof vest. 391 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:25.960 This one seems to have been dented in two places. 392 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:29.720 A new spaceship, according to Wilkins plans, as executed by 393 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:33.799 Crowder's engineers, was finished within four months. It was small, 394 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:36.960 It was shaped like a disk. It gleamed brightly even 395 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.839 in the smoky haze of an October sunset. Inside Crowder 396 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:43.440 and mister Wilkins, in a small cubucle oft the heart 397 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:46.000 of the machine, were surrounded by many instruments of a 398 00:24:46.079 --> 00:24:50.160 complicated nature. Outside, huge crowds gathered to witness the test. 399 00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:54.039 They stirred and murmured, waiting restlessly as inside the control 400 00:24:54.119 --> 00:24:57.519 room of the craft, Wilkins installed the final secret part 401 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.000