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Speaker 1: M h countdown for blast off x minus five minus

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four minus three minus two x minus one Fire from

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the far horizons of the unknown, contails of new dimensions

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in time and space. These are stories of the future

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adventures in which you'll live in a million could.

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Speaker 2: Be years on a thousand baby worlds.

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Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents X minus one on the

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night story No Contact. It was in the year of

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nineteen eighty two that spacemen first discovered the Great Galactic Barrier.

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In the past ten years, rocket traveled to the Moon

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and the nearer planets had become commonplace, and then men

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fixed their sights on a more distant star, the remote

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planet known as Bota. Five exploratory ships went out and

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none came back, each in turn disappearing mysteriously at the

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same vanishing point at an invisible wall somewhere in the

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vast outer reaches that became known as the record of

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space Ships, the Galactic Wreath. And yet the explorers refused

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to admit defeat. It was on June the second, nineteen

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eighty seven, that the rocket star Cloud made ready for

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takeoff the sixth to attempt to crack the barrier and

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win through to Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Addition, greatly, addition, greatly. Dog Well, Lewis, this is it.

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I don't suppose you'll be needing the ship's doctor up

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here in the bridge during blaster. I think, nuts, middy,

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there's little chance of acceleration bends in these new overdrive ships.

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I'll be in my office then, counting vitamin pills. If

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you need me. It's only a few steps. Good luck, Lewis,

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Thank you, smiddy. Lieutenant Collier, yes it you're relieved. You'd

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better get down to navigation control and take over. Yes, sir, Lieutenant,

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we've never flown together before. This is your first flight

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in a space vessel as big as the star Cloud.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, but I was trained in oversized jobs at

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the Naval Academy.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you're half as good a navigator as your

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father was, you'll do fine.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 3: Did you ship out with my father? I served under

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him on one of the first rocket runs to the Moon.

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I see I almost went along on his last trip

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to the barrier. Bad about that, Yes, sir, that's all. Collyer,

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get me the ground controlsar on the field. I want

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to talk to Colonel Harrison.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, sir, I've patched in the bridge.

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Speaker 3: Speaker Colonel Harrison. Yes, captain, we're standing by for takeoff

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in thirty seconds.

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Speaker 6: Good fields cleared of all personnel. We'll try to re

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establish radio contact immediately. Have to take off. In any event,

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there'll be a twenty four hour ground monitor.

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Speaker 3: Fine, good luck, hope you'll make it. Thank you. Bridge

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to Navigation Control have control call you ready, Lieutenant ready.

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Speaker 4: Captain of course, is in the integrator for take off

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at twelve hundred hours.

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Speaker 3: All right, stand by for blastov. Bridge to engine room.

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Fire up your rocket chambers. Take off at exactly twelve

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hundred hours. I'll read you off twenty seconds. Nineteen eighteen,

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seventeen sixteen, hold it, revoke all orders. Who turned in

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that alarm store? We where? Have him brought up to

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the bridge enginerom kill your rockets and stand by thorson.

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Speaker 6: This is Colonel Harrison and ground control.

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Speaker 5: What's holding you up?

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Speaker 3: Trouble? What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you?

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There's a stowaway of boards. Yes, I thought your men

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were supposed to police this base. What's the matter with you? You

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know what this the lake can do to us, don't you?

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One minute later? Take off can throw some million miles

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off course, we'll have to reintegrate the whole works.

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Speaker 5: Well, look, how long do you think you'll take?

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Speaker 3: You don't father for me, bro while I'm busy, stupid

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idious captains convinced Middy, here's your store marshalled. Oh Charlie,

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can you use a good radio man? Skipper? Well? I

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see you two have met.

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Speaker 7: Matt Skipper me made fifty trips to the moon together, didn't.

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Speaker 3: With Skipper, Charlie. If you wanted to come along, why

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didn't you volunteer? I did, Skipper? They they turned me down?

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And what's wrong?

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Speaker 7: Acceleration Benz. They said my arteries wouldn't stand another trip.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry to hear that, but they're.

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Speaker 7: Wrong, Skipper. I got one more good trip in me. Listen, Skipper,

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you you know that these green kids they don't know

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the first thing about space radio operation. Now you you

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put a man like me on and out, I'll be

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getting you bedtime stories from Mars.

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Speaker 3: Charlie. You know the regulations as well as I do.

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I can't take you much as i'd like to. Colonel

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Harrison will murder me for this, and I'm sorry, Charlie.

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I'll have you put a ground. I'll tell you what.

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I'll ask Carrison to put you on his ground radio

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contact and it'll seem as if you're right here with us.

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He won't do it, sir, Well, he'd better. I'll have

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him busted to corporal for letting you sneak aboard. Look, Charlie, look,

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you better be off. Poulson. I'm sending this man of ground.

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Give him time to clear the launching platform. Hold on, Charlie,

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I'm sorry, good luck skipper. I thought you were going

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to have him drawn and quartered. If it had been

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anyone else I would have smitty. But Charlie, well, he's

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kind of special. It's been with me since my first command,

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when we began the regular run to the Moon, and

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if he wanted to come along this time, well it's

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only through loyalty to me, you know, Lewis. I didn't

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realize it before, but you're almost human.

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Speaker 2: Captain does control Collier?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, Lieutenant, how badly are we filed up? Can

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you recalculate the course or shall I cancel the takeoff?

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Speaker 2: I've already plotted a new course on the Integrator's heart.

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Speaker 8: If we take off exactly thirty seconds, we need to

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correct for only a one degree deflection.

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Speaker 2: I can do that before we.

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Speaker 5: Reach the stratisfy.

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Speaker 3: That's quick work. Are you sure all right? Colier? I'm

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putting it in your hands. We'll blast off on your signal.

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Bridge to engine room. Prepare to blast off on navigator's signal.

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How are we doing? Collyer the sir. That's four three two.

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Speaker 4: Zero. We've intersected the course. Back to good work. God

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course is corrected, sir. Ready to go into atomic COVID

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drive anytime you say all right? Stand by yes, sir,

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Now hear this, Now hear this. Prepare for maximum acceleration.

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Bridge to engine room.

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Speaker 3: Kill your rockets, rockets out, Fire up number one, cyclotron

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number one, Ready, fire up number two.

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Speaker 5: Number two.

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Speaker 3: Ready withdraw your dampening rods, patient chamber ready, last tub's

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clear call. Generators operating in capacity take it over, sir,

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Go into overdrive at the counter. Zero three seconds mitter collyne.

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Speaker 2: Three two two one one zero zero?

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Speaker 3: Are we doing? Collier?

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Speaker 2: Course?

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Speaker 3: Sir?

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Speaker 2: She's running hot and true.

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Speaker 3: My compliments, Lieutenant. This job would have done your father

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credit when he was the best navigation officer I ever saw.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 3: Starter gyro's put her on robot control. All right, the

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bridge is yours, mister Collier. If you need me, I'll

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be in doctor Smithson's office.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, the worst.

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Speaker 3: You've got us off the ground. You can thank young

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Collier for that chip off the old block. You knew

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his father, As a matter of fact, I knew him

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very well first rate space map. Is he the worst? Yes?

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He was lost in the galactic Barrier on the second

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ship we sent out to Volta. Lewis Just what do

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you think this s galactic barrier is? Ooh, your guess

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is as good as mine, Doc. All I know is

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that five ships have gone into it and none of

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them have come back out. You think it's a knit?

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How about Mestrovik's theory that it's a time warp in space,

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that the ships reach it and slip into another dimension.

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I think that's a lot of rubbish. My theory is

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that the galactic Barrier is nothing more than a radioactive

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layer of some kind. Why do you say that, Well,

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we know that radar signals bounce off it like they

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were hitting an invisible glass wall, and we know that

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it destroys our ships and cruise in some way. There's

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no other logical explanation. What makes you think we can

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get through it, Lewis, Because we're ready for it. The

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others weren't. The entire hull of this ship is completely

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shielded with lead. We can crack through any radioactive cloud

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ever detected. Besides, were equipped with some new UAHF radio

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devices that should enable us to maintain radio contact with

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her it. Nothing can happen, absolutely nothing. Now, who are

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you trying to convince myself? I suppose, Lewis, you've had

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your share of glory, first skipper to reach the moon

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back in nineteen Team sixty two. You could have retired.

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Why are you risking this strip? Five ships are missing,

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men like Prentice Margaretson, Young Collier's father. I'm tired of

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seeing good men fit into that meat chopper. Then why

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are we going to voter? We haven't any choicemoy. We're

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in a race, the kind of race where men and

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ships are expendable. According to the Interspace Code, the first

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nation to reach voltic conclaim it. Well, personally, I want

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no part. Not I'll have to play physician, morale builder

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and mother substitute for one hundred and twelve Slightly nervous men,

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and your morale doesn't sound too good. Dog. As morale officer,

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I can state without fear of contradiction, it is terrible.

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And something tells me as we approach that galactic barrier,

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I'm not going to be alone. Hello Earth, Hello Earth,

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Captain Thorson of the Stark Cloud calling Earth, Hello Star

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Cloud High Captain Charlie, Well, I see the having court

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martial gere yet no, sir, thanks to you. That's good

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to hear you. You can read us the funny papers

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on Sunday morning. How's our signal strong? Here's our log

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report for Colonel Harrison. You ready shoot Joan Second nineteen

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eighty seven, four weeks out from Earth, running through no

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radiation operation normal, still making our approach to the galactic barrier.

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That's all, Charlie, see you later.

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Speaker 5: Good luck, Captain. I sure wish I was with you.

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Speaker 3: How's the morals, middie. The men know we're getting closer

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to the barrier. They're beginning to show a little tension

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of us. Now. How's their physical condition? Any sickness? About

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half the crew who has come down with space Blue?

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I was afraid of that? Are they been same as usual?

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Lips and hands with a bluish cast eires are sensitive

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to infrared. I don't know when I first started flying

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these tin cans. Nobody ever heard of space blues. Well,

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now there's a theory. It's caused by the terrific acceleration

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of atomic overdrive. Change in gravity affects the circulation. What

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do you think? I think it's psychosomatic. I've noticed that

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the same men who get space blues under tension on

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a ship tend to get blue coloration back on Earth

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when they're upset. I guess it's just an occupation, the

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disease of space. Now do you think it's just nerves? Then, well,

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young Collier's got a bad case. I think it's tension

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from over Maybe he needs some vitamins, Lois, When will

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you realize that vitamins are not a panacea for all

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the troubles of mankind? Sir, I understand that you relieve

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me from beauty. Well, doctor Smithson says you aren't looking

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very well, Collier. I'm giving you a wrist, Sir, I

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feel perfectly able to continue. Your lips are as blue

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as Minnetonka. Captain, I'd like to remain at my post.

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Don't be foolhardy, Lieutenant.

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Speaker 8: I'm not being foolhardy, Sir. I have a special personal

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reason for wanting this expedition to reach Bolt your father.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, you think he might still be alive. I

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have to find out what happens, Sir, I think I

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understand very well. Collier, report back to duty. What's the

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reading policy.

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Speaker 9: We're getting at plus five rdar bonds now coming off

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the barrier almost as fast as we send it out.

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Speaker 3: What's the interval?

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Speaker 9: Two seconds shortening steadily. It's right, we'll hit the wall

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in the next few minutes.

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Speaker 3: All right, alert the crew, sound General Quarters, Now.

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Speaker 10: Hear this condition red. We are now approaching the galactic barrier.

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All hands to stations, All radiation detectors to be fully manned.

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Full security will prevail until further notice.

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Speaker 3: That is all policy. Yes, the radar bounces up to

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plus six. We'd better try to make final contact with Earth.

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Speaker 2: The sparks still tried to raise the base.

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Speaker 9: Yes, but he's not having much luck. Huh, seems to

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be some interference. That's the radio room, now, Yes, you

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got them well, cut in on the bridge speaker.

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Speaker 3: Captain will take it from here. Hello Star Cloud to Earth.

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Can you hear me Earth?

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Speaker 7: Hello, Skipper, I can barely read you. We're getting heavy

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static from Sunspot.

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Speaker 3: That's not Sunspot's Charlie. We're right on top of the

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galactic barrier, getting a plus no plus seven radar bounce.

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I expect to hit the barrier almost any second. Now.

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If we crack the barrier and come through still in

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one piece, I'll try to get back to you on

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the high frequency band.

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Speaker 5: Got you, Skipper, don't worry.

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Speaker 3: I'll be waiting so long, Charlie, so long.

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Speaker 2: Stark Cloud.

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Speaker 3: Must be getting off with close now, Captain. It goes

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bouncing back so fast it's almost beating the signal when

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they go inside. Hold onto your hat. That's when we

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run into the wall.

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Speaker 11: Any second, hold on, here goes nothing, Here it comes, Captain.

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Speaker 3: Nothing happened. We made it. We made it, Captain. No radiation,

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no time warp, no nothing. The crew's gone crazy, Sir.

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Speaker 2: Let them they've earned it.

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Speaker 5: Doc.

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Speaker 3: Can you break out a few bottles of snake bite

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serum for medicinal purposes? Sure?

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Speaker 6: Can.

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Speaker 3: Let's go for a celebration.

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Speaker 2: How's your moral?

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Speaker 3: No, it couldn't be better?

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Speaker 10: Condition red condition radiation detectex condition red radiation.

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Speaker 3: Holy mackerel, look at the needle on that indicator. Allison Hollison, Yes,

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I see it, Captain picking radiation like crazy? What's it like?

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What's a strong impulse? What kind? I don't know.

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Speaker 9: It's too long for a cosmic ray, too short for UHF.

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Speaker 3: Whatever it is, sir, the ship is allowsy. We'll track

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it down, triangulate it and make it fast. I want

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a directional fix. Yes, the engine room, we're picking up radioactivity.

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Who's the fission chambers? No, cacer, check your gauges, nothing, hare,

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Captain must be coming from outside damage control? Is our

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leg shield leaking radiation? We'll keep at it. Allison, how

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are you doing? I've got to fix the captain? Well,

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what is it? I don't have to recheck my figure.

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I'll hurry it up. Angle is correct, but I can

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one man for Pete's sake. Where's the radiation coming from?

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Sirds It's coming from inside the shift. It's impossible, no, sir,

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I've checked the twelve. It's not to be the engines.

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Then it is, sir. We're finished engine room.

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Speaker 5: Yes, sir.

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Speaker 3: That radiation must be in the overdrive pile. Oh, sir.

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Speaker 12: It isn't.

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Speaker 3: Are you certain? Yes? All right, keep checking the only

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one thing left to do, Paulus, and get a guy

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your counter. We're gonna start calmbing this ship inch by inch, yes, sir,

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all right, turn it on, yes, sir, all right, ready, captain,

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we'll check the atomic guns first. Come on. We'll got

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through the officers quarters here to ordinans. I'll turn here.

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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, sir, what is it?

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Speaker 3: The signal is weaker? Now, yeah, let's go back. Hold it.

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Hold it seems strongest right about here. Doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 2: Whose cabin is this?

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Speaker 3: Turning? Carliers here? Oh, he's done, and that. I'll try

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the door.

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Speaker 9: Alright, it's not locked, sir, it's in here, all right.

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Listen that counter.

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Speaker 3: Strongest over here, Open that wall, cabinet, it's lot. Let's fashion.

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Speaker 2: And shut off that Giger college.

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Speaker 11: What do you make of this, polisy It looks like

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some sort of portable transmitter, sir.

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Speaker 3: It must be foreign manufactured. I don't recognize the calibration

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symbols at all. I've never seenything like it, which raises

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a small question. What is Lieutenant Collier doing with a

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transmitter in his cabin? I don't know well. I intend

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to find out Poulson get down and have control and

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bring Collier up to the bridge on the double.

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Speaker 9: Haven't we better find somewhere to shut this thing off first?

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Speaker 5: I know a.

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Speaker 3: Way, Lieutenant Collier. I'm going to ask a few simple questions,

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and I want a few simple answers. Yes, sir, what

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were you doing with a transmitter in your cabin? Transmitter? Captain? Oh,

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you know nothing about it?

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Speaker 2: No, sir, I don't.

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Speaker 3: Do you recognize these calibration symbols? No, sir? Can you

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think of how it might have been placed in your

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cabin without your knowing it?

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Speaker 2: No, sir, unless someone came in while I was on duty.

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Would that have been possible? I suppose so if someone

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had a key. I found your cabin door unlocked. When

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I met a key to the wall cabin, I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Say the wall cabinet. Well, I you what, Lieutenant, How

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could you have known it was in the wall cabinet? Well?

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Speaker 2: I just assumed, Sir, Tenant Callier.

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Speaker 3: I find it hard to believe you would lie, having

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known and respected your father, having observed the way you

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handled your job. However, I intend to get to the

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root of this thing. May I have your wristwatch, Lieutenant, sir,

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your wrist watch, yes, sir, Pollison, turn on that Geiger collar, yes, sir,

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pull this watch next to it, yes, sir, that's all. Lieutenant.

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If you hadn't any close contact with that transmitter, how

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do you explain the radioactivity of this watch? I don't, sir.

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I think you'd better to whom were you sending those signals?

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Speaker 2: There's your answer, Captain?

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Speaker 3: What is this? Collier? Call your who's a board that ship?

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All right? Now?

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Speaker 8: Talk very well, captain. My mission seems completed.

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Speaker 3: Your mission? Are you admitting that you're an agent of

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a foreign power?

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Speaker 2: I am stating it's what nation?

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Speaker 3: No nation?

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Speaker 2: Captain? What I am an agent of the Voltime government?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 2: The government of the planet of Voltime?

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Speaker 3: Crazy?

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Speaker 2: Are you so stupid? Captain?

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Speaker 8: Do you think your people are the only ones who

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can invade another planet?

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Speaker 5: What do you mean?

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Speaker 2: We've had agents.

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Speaker 8: Operating on Earth since nineteen one hundred and forty five.

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Speaker 3: Don't believe you?

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Speaker 8: What do you think happened to those five ships?

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Speaker 2: Captain?

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Speaker 8: Where do you suppose we got our information? Your language

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or culture, family background, appearance. You'll you look like like

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command to Collier well, is that so surprising?

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Speaker 3: Captain?

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Speaker 2: You see, Captain, we had a living model.

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Speaker 3: I ought to kill you.

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Speaker 2: It would be very foolish. Captain. I would advise you

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to surrender without delay.

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Speaker 3: I'll deal with you later. Call your polison. Yes, what

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this man and irons take him away? Don't worries, so

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I will take good care of him. Governor, Gunnery Connery Richardson?

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What's the range?

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Speaker 5: Ten thousands? The closing fast?

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Speaker 3: But your guns on? Radar tracking?

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Speaker 5: Tracking? Coming on the bearing?

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Speaker 3: Fire? Fire? Richardson, Richardon, did you hear me?

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Speaker 13: Fire?

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Speaker 3: What's the matter down there? Did you hear me? Richardson? Anthomy,

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it's no use to shout, Captain Collier, how did you

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get loose? Where's Paulison?

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Speaker 2: Lieutenant paulis and he is dead?

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Speaker 3: Pulse stations. Lieutenant Collier has escaped.

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Speaker 8: Seasy men, don't waste your breath. Your men can't hear you.

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Speaker 2: Captain? What those still alive? My man done?

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Speaker 8: No, Captain, every ship that has ever left Earth was

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controlled by a Voltan cruise.

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Speaker 3: It's impossible. Those were hand picked men and picked by us.

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I don't believe you know.

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Speaker 2: Then, why not call for help?

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Speaker 3: Carpenter Robinson Hailey, report you see, Captain cut Carpenter Robinson Hailey.

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Speaker 2: It's quite useless.

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Speaker 8: Captain, I would advise you to sit very quietly and

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do nothing.

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Speaker 3: Very well. Caughtier you beateness? What now the ship will

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be taken to Volta for.

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Speaker 2: Shall we say, further experimentation?

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Speaker 3: I see, of course there's one thing you hadn't counted on.

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Speaker 2: Just what is that?

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Speaker 3: Captain Carpenter? Are you a lieutenant Carpenter? You can all

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be dead. There must be one alive. Marry doctor Smithson, Sperry, Smedy.

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What have they done to you?

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Speaker 14: Lewis Arlie, I don't talk, I must lean lean closer.

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It's not much time, Louis, Space blues.

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Speaker 3: Space blues?

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Speaker 5: What is it?

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Speaker 3: Smitty? What are you trying to tell me? Oh? Men

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with space blues?

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Speaker 13: Voltime Hell, let me help you out, Louis, get message

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back to Worth Voltime fifth column, watch out for it space.

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Speaker 15: Smith smy and and you can't now come back by

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the brain m horender my men will.

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Speaker 3: Hello Hello Star cloud calling Earth to please can't let

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me throws too lay Hello Stark loud to Earth, come

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in prease, come.

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Speaker 12: In breath, Hello, Hello Star clattering Earth Captain Thawson calling Charlie,

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come in, please hurry Hello.

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Speaker 5: Can you hear me? Charlie?

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Speaker 3: Skipper? Is that you?

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Speaker 5: You kidding?

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Speaker 3: My signals? It's coming in a little louder now skip

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keep sending.

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Speaker 5: God Now look, Charlie, listen to me. Not much time.

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Get word to Colonel Harrison.

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Speaker 12: Crew mutant, most of crew members PHOTONSA Fulton's.

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Speaker 3: Spell that feed O L Fultons.

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Speaker 5: That's right. They're from the planet photo.

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Speaker 3: Skipper, Skipper, Are you all right, Charlie?

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Speaker 5: This is serious. They'll be here any second. I'll listen.

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They have a fifth column on Earth. They're planning to

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invade you.

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Speaker 3: You mean, of course?

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Speaker 5: I mean it.

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Speaker 3: Tell Harrison posing as humans, you can detect them by

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space Bruce, you got that?

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Speaker 5: Only phultons get space Blue, Charlie. Did you hear me?

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Speaker 3: Space Blue? I got you? You get Charlie.

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Speaker 5: I'm reading a you for everybody.

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Speaker 3: C're open the door, so chary happen? Captain Thawson, Hello, hello,

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star Cloud. What's the trouble, Sergeant? I was just trying

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to raise the star Cloud.

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Speaker 6: Colonel had any luck, no no contact no contact ee,

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no sir. Nearly an hour since they hit the galactic barrier.

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I don't understand why they haven't tried to get a

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message back.

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Speaker 3: No, sir, neither do I. Oh right, I'll take over

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for a while.

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Speaker 6: Yes, you you do that, sir. It's all yours right.

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Oh and Charlie better go on and get yourself some coffee.

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You look a little blue around the gills.

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Speaker 1: The night X minus one has brought you No Contact,

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written by George Leopards from an original story of Leopards

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and Ernest Kenoy featured in the cast where Louis van

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Ruten as Captain, Donald Bucher as Collier, Wendell Holmes as Charlie,

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and Bill Griffiths, Bill Smith, Matt Crowley and Ken Williams.

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Speaker 3: You're announce it, Don Pardow.

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Speaker 1: X minus one was directed by Fred Way and is

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the transcribed NBC Radio Network production.

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Speaker 3: And Now next Week.

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Speaker 1: When you want to take over a world, you naturally

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look for its week point, some way to catch its

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people off guard.

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Speaker 3: We live in a world where everybody loves.

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Speaker 1: A parade, a world of press agents and publicity stunts.

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But who would ever dream that invaders from outer space

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would take advantage of that weakness and actually hire a

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press agent to advertise their coming. Who would believe it

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was anything but just another publicity gang, at least not

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until the terrible moment when it was already too late,

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The moment of

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Speaker 3: X minus one,