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