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In the year 2020, lunar personnel pick up an unusual signal,
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one traced toward Mars. From Mutual's science fiction anthology 2000
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Plus comes When the Worlds Met, Episode 8, first broadcast
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May 3, 1950. At the Federated World Government's Washington spaceport,
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Johnny Dixon, Paul, and Earth officials prepare to meet an
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approaching Martian craft. Ken Williams appears as Johnny Dixon, with
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Louise Van Rooten as the voice of Mars. The script
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is by Judith and David Bublik. And now we return
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to the original broadcast.
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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 2000 A.D. What strange adventures, what exciting things
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will we find in the.
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World of tomorrow? 2000 Plus Today, an adventure.
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Of outer space, when the worlds met.
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It is the year 2000 plus 20.
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At the giant spaceport in Washington, D.C., temporary capital of
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the Federated World Government, an enormous throng, tense with expectancy,
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jams every available inch of space surrounding the rocket landing field.
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All eyes strain upward into the clear blue sky. For
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today is the day, April 21st, 2000 plus 20. And
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audio and televox networks of the world are at the
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rocket field to cover.
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The epic event.
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is the day, the day
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we've all been waiting for. In a matter of minutes now,
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out of that brilliant blue sky will come a ship,
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a spaceship, carrying in its gleaming hold the first load
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of uranium taken from the pits of Luna, satellite of Earth.
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Since the beginning of time... Now, one moment, folks. There's
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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. They are now approaching
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the field from the northeast, and any moment now.
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We can expect....
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And there she is, the rocket ship Lonos, 17 hours
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out of Luna City.
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Her magnatey of hull white hot from the friction of
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the atmosphere. Her jet breaks, belching fire.
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She's right over the field now.
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She's coming down.
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He's landed.
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Mark well this date, my friends.
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This is the dawn of the interplanetary age.
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The End.
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Earth calling moon. Earth calling moon. Come in, Lunar City.
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Lunar 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?
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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?
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Well, you're kidding, Paul. You know the answer. We're space happy.
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That's all that's wrong with us.
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We pulled every wire and practically tore the World Federation
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apart getting this assignment on the moon. And we'll do
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it again when the first flight into deep.
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Space gets underway. Next month, next year, whenever they get
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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. There, do you hear it?
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Well, 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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Sounded different, didn't it?
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Yeah, a different pitch.
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The instruments are all steady. Nothing on the business screen.
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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.
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Johnny.
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Johnny, what is it?
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Look.
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Look, Paul. Look at the direction finder. It swung all
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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 our 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.
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But listen.
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Have your men tune up rocket 307. Blast off at 0800.
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We'll be expecting you on Earth in the morning.
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The End.
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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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Take it easy, Professor Wolfson. You don't have to be
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so touchy. 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.
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If those sounds or signals are code, it is in
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a 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. We've tried
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every way to break the code.
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What does 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 exactly 24 hours, 37 minutes,
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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. But it seems to me the message
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need not necessarily drift past us. By the message, I
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do not mean the sounds or the words that are
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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. Dixon. Too many charlatans
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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 Wilson. What? I have
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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 telepathator 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.
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The instrument is in the next room.
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I took the liberty of bringing it with me, hoping
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it might conceivably be of some use. This way, gentlemen.
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You say this little machine can take thoughts and turn
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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. 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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Don't clever these Chinese.
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You must understand... 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.
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Nothing.
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More power. Well, it was a good try. Wait. I've
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got that feeling again. My skin's beginning to crawl.
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Yeah, yeah, mine too.
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Oh, now it's... your imagination.
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Quiet!
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They are coming through now.
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Planet four greeting planet three.
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You said it's Mars.
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This is the fourth planet from the sun greeting planet three.
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Planet 4 calling Planet 3. We are trying to reach you,
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Planet 3. If you receive our signal, respond. If you
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receive our signal, respond. 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 thought? Ah, the smell
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of lilacs, Terry. I'll never get enough 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. It's beyond imagination.
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Rubbish.
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Why shouldn't there be life up there?
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They're so advanced. 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.
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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. But don't worry, honey.
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I won't be seeing any 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.
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Hop to it, Johnny.
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Telepathator setting 212 degrees, 18 seconds.
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Frequency 600,000.
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Got that, Johnny?
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Check.
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Planet 4 calling Planet 3. Planet 4 calling Planet 3.
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We greet you in peace.
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Your response received. The time has come. At this moment,
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which marks the beginning of the great interstellar age between worlds,
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it is fitting that there be between us a meeting
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of minds. Therefore, we are sending a ship to visit
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your planet. The ship will depart tonight and enter your
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magnetic field in seven of our days.
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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.
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This is Matt Wilson bringing you a report of the
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emergency session of the Federated World Government. Never has an
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assembly meeting taken place in such an atmosphere of excitement.
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Panic, and recrimination.
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And here on the floor of the assembly chamber, all
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the emotions aroused by the stunning message from Mars have
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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.
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We are to make is to be a wise one,
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we must lay aside passions and fears and consider the
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question calmly. The Martians are coming, and we must receive
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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.
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Remember, my friends, these Martians are advanced scientifically, perhaps far
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beyond us. They have conquered deep space. They can transmit
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thought waves. They may have weapons. beside which our nuclear
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bombs are 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. They come in peace.
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They've said so over and over again.
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Let us so receive them. Very well, very well.
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If such is the will of this body, let them
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come in peace. But as civilian head of the world
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military government, I assure you all, we will not be
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found napping.
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Earth calling Martian interstellar ships. Earth calling Martian interstellar ships.
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Here are the landing instructions of the Federated World Government.
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Three Earth days from this hour, which will be the
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sixth Martian day of your flight through space, you will
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be met by an escort of 20 rocket ships. We
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will 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.
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Be 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.
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Mexico, which will be ready to receive you.
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Of Los Alamos shall be mined to a depth of
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50 feet with tritonium landmines. The field shall be encircled
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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 and housed in suitable accommodations.
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We will welcome you in peace. Check out.
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We will welcome you in peace.
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We hope.
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THE END.
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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 Marshal.
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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.
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Here we are. Ah, Terry, come in.
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Hello, Professor.
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This is Mr.
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Dixon, the young man I told you about?
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I know Mr. Dixon.
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Professor, I've got a problem.
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Terry and I have discussed the problem. It is my
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theory that the Martians will, in most important respects, have
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the characteristics of the Earthman.
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Oh, what's the basis of your theory, Professor?
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It's very simple.
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The accomplishments of the Martians parallel our own. Only a
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being with opposable thumbs can fashion the intricate devices necessary
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for spaceships. Only a being with a nervous system like
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our own could master communication. Only a creature with a
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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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Ah, 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. I just hope they don't get too
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sick when they first look at us.
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This is Matt Wilson again, reporting from the spaceport at
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Los Alamos.
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A tremendous crowd has gathered here.
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We're awaiting the appearance of the spaceship from Mars, which
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is being escorted by 20 rocket ships from the rendezvous
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near the moon. According to reports, all's gone well so far.
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The Martian ship... One moment, please. An audio box announcement
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is going to 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.
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From the east.
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You heard that. Any moment, the ship from Mars and.
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What?
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There they are.
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They're coming in.
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The landing rocket ships first. And now, the ship from Mars.
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The Martian ship is idling over the field now, casting
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a huge shadow over the landscape.
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It's an awe-inspiring spectacle.
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The ship is tremendous, 18 to 20 stories in height,
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several city blocks long, and its large windows are fashioned
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of some kind 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.
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Mr.
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McCabe, Mr.
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McCabe, what is your reaction? 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.
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I keep wondering what kind of fuel they use, what.
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Principles of propulsion, and what metals. Thank you, sir.
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The ship is.
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Almost touching the ground now, and the crowd is getting uneasy. Why,
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they're falling back, as though there were something. I see
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it now.
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It's a blue.
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Haze misting about the Martian ship, forming a 20-foot blanket
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of whatever it is.
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Commander, defense patrol. Zero hour.
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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.
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All eyes are on the ship waiting for the first
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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.
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Perhaps on the very brink of success, death has struck
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within that 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 out
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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 to our soil.
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And now it's down, and the surface of the ramp,
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the surface of the ramp is like nothing ever seen
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on this earth.
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A shimmering, impalpable iridescence.
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Unbelievably radiant and beautiful.
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The throng of spectators is silent, motionless, scarcely breathing, waiting
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to see the first 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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And men on the field that 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.
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If it's all right with the committee, I'd like to
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go aboard it. Technical information, sir.
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No.
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Quiet, John.
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This is my dish, McCabe. I was slated for the
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space run to Mars, remember?
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They're not doing me out of this. Besides, you're too
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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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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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A ramp?
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It's pulling me forward like a conveyor belt.
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It's beginning 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.
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Nothing except that dancing light.
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I'll follow.
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It.
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Enter, Earthman.
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Well, how can I? 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. 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.
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It is a thin cloak which covers the hates and
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fears and savagery of primitive beings.
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Observe, Dixon. On this large, busy screen, we have for
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hours been viewing your people... 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. The
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rest of us are different.
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Are you? Look at this. From another part of your civilized.
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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 the enemies of our people.
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You will pay the penalty.
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But first you will confess.
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Confess!
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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! The law be damned!
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Time's too good for him! Hang him, I say, 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! 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.
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What will you do when you see us, strange.
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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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THE END.
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THE END.
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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. This is the
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United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
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THE END.
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THE END.
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That was 2000 plus with When the Worlds Met. Until
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the next visit to classic radio, good night. Follow old-time
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sci-fi radio for more classic science fiction broadcasts.
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In the year 2020, lunar personnel pick up an unusual signal,
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one traced toward Mars. From Mutual's science fiction anthology 2000
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Plus comes When the Worlds Met, Episode 8, first broadcast
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May 3, 1950. At the Federated World Government's Washington spaceport,
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Johnny Dixon, Paul, and Earth officials prepare to meet an
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approaching Martian craft. Ken Williams appears as Johnny Dixon, with
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Louise Van Rooten as the voice of Mars. The script
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is by Judith and David Bublik. And now we return
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to the original broadcast.
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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 2000 A.D. What strange adventures, what exciting things
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will we find in the.
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World of tomorrow? 2000 Plus Today, an adventure.
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Of outer space, when the worlds met.
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It is the year 2000 plus 20.
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At the giant spaceport in Washington, D.C., temporary capital of
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the Federated World Government, an enormous throng, tense with expectancy,
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jams every available inch of space surrounding the rocket landing field.
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All eyes strain upward into the clear blue sky. For
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today is the day, April 21st, 2000 plus 20. And
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audio and televox networks of the world are at the
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rocket field to cover.
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The epic event.
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is the day, the day
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we've all been waiting for. In a matter of minutes now,
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out of that brilliant blue sky will come a ship,
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a spaceship, carrying in its gleaming hold the first load
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of uranium taken from the pits of Luna, satellite of Earth.
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Since the beginning of time... Now, one moment, folks. There's
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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. They are now approaching
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the field from the northeast, and any moment now.
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We can expect....
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And there she is, the rocket ship Lonos, 17 hours
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out of Luna City.
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Her magnatey of hull white hot from the friction of
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the atmosphere. Her jet breaks, belching fire.
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She's right over the field now.
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She's coming down.
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He's landed.
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Mark well this date, my friends.
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This is the dawn of the interplanetary age.
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The End.
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Earth calling moon. Earth calling moon. Come in, Lunar City.
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Lunar 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?
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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?
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Well, you're kidding, Paul. You know the answer. We're space happy.
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That's all that's wrong with us.
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We pulled every wire and practically tore the World Federation
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apart getting this assignment on the moon. And we'll do
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it again when the first flight into deep.
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Space gets underway. Next month, next year, whenever they get
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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. There, do you hear it?
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Well, 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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Sounded different, didn't it?
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Yeah, a different pitch.
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The instruments are all steady. Nothing on the business screen.
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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.
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Johnny.
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Johnny, what is it?
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Look.
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Look, Paul. Look at the direction finder. It swung all
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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 our 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.
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But listen.
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Have your men tune up rocket 307. Blast off at 0800.
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We'll be expecting you on Earth in the morning.
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The End.
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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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Take it easy, Professor Wolfson. You don't have to be
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so touchy. 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.
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If those sounds or signals are code, it is in
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a 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. We've tried
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every way to break the code.
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What does 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 exactly 24 hours, 37 minutes,
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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. But it seems to me the message
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need not necessarily drift past us. By the message, I
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do not mean the sounds or the words that are
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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. Dixon. Too many charlatans
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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 Wilson. What? I have
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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 telepathator 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.
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The instrument is in the next room.
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I took the liberty of bringing it with me, hoping
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it might conceivably be of some use. This way, gentlemen.
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You say this little machine can take thoughts and turn
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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. 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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Don't clever these Chinese.
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You must understand... 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.
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Nothing.
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More power. Well, it was a good try. Wait. I've
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got that feeling again. My skin's beginning to crawl.
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Yeah, yeah, mine too.
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Oh, now it's... your imagination.
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Quiet!
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They are coming through now.
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Planet four greeting planet three.
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You said it's Mars.
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This is the fourth planet from the sun greeting planet three.
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Planet 4 calling Planet 3. We are trying to reach you,
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Planet 3. If you receive our signal, respond. If you
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receive our signal, respond. 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 thought? Ah, the smell
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of lilacs, Terry. I'll never get enough 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. It's beyond imagination.
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Rubbish.
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Why shouldn't there be life up there?
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They're so advanced. 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.
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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. But don't worry, honey.
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I won't be seeing any 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.
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Hop to it, Johnny.
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Telepathator setting 212 degrees, 18 seconds.
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Frequency 600,000.
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Got that, Johnny?
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Check.
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Planet 4 calling Planet 3. Planet 4 calling Planet 3.
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We greet you in peace.
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Your response received. The time has come. At this moment,
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which marks the beginning of the great interstellar age between worlds,
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it is fitting that there be between us a meeting
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of minds. Therefore, we are sending a ship to visit
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your planet. The ship will depart tonight and enter your
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magnetic field in seven of our days.
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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.
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This is Matt Wilson bringing you a report of the
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emergency session of the Federated World Government. Never has an
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assembly meeting taken place in such an atmosphere of excitement.
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Panic, and recrimination.
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And here on the floor of the assembly chamber, all
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the emotions aroused by the stunning message from Mars have
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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.
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We are to make is to be a wise one,
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we must lay aside passions and fears and consider the
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question calmly. The Martians are coming, and we must receive
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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.
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Remember, my friends, these Martians are advanced scientifically, perhaps far
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beyond us. They have conquered deep space. They can transmit
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thought waves. They may have weapons. beside which our nuclear
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bombs are 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. They come in peace.
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They've said so over and over again.
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Let us so receive them. Very well, very well.
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If such is the will of this body, let them
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come in peace. But as civilian head of the world
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military government, I assure you all, we will not be
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found napping.
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Earth calling Martian interstellar ships. Earth calling Martian interstellar ships.
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Here are the landing instructions of the Federated World Government.
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Three Earth days from this hour, which will be the
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sixth Martian day of your flight through space, you will
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be met by an escort of 20 rocket ships. We
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will 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.
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Be 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.
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Mexico, which will be ready to receive you.
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Of Los Alamos shall be mined to a depth of
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50 feet with tritonium landmines. The field shall be encircled
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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 and housed in suitable accommodations.
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We will welcome you in peace. Check out.
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We will welcome you in peace.
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We hope.
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THE END.
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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 Marshal.
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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.
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Here we are. Ah, Terry, come in.
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Hello, Professor.
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This is Mr.
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Dixon, the young man I told you about?
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I know Mr. Dixon.
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Professor, I've got a problem.
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Terry and I have discussed the problem. It is my
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theory that the Martians will, in most important respects, have
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the characteristics of the Earthman.
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Oh, what's the basis of your theory, Professor?
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It's very simple.
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The accomplishments of the Martians parallel our own. Only a
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being with opposable thumbs can fashion the intricate devices necessary
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for spaceships. Only a being with a nervous system like
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our own could master communication. Only a creature with a
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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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Ah, 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. I just hope they don't get too
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sick when they first look at us.
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This is Matt Wilson again, reporting from the spaceport at
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Los Alamos.
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A tremendous crowd has gathered here.
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We're awaiting the appearance of the spaceship from Mars, which
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is being escorted by 20 rocket ships from the rendezvous
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near the moon. According to reports, all's gone well so far.
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The Martian ship... One moment, please. An audio box announcement
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is going to 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.
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From the east.
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You heard that. Any moment, the ship from Mars and.
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What?
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There they are.
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They're coming in.
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The landing rocket ships first. And now, the ship from Mars.
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The Martian ship is idling over the field now, casting
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a huge shadow over the landscape.
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It's an awe-inspiring spectacle.
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The ship is tremendous, 18 to 20 stories in height,
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several city blocks long, and its large windows are fashioned
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of some kind 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.
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Mr.
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McCabe, Mr.
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McCabe, what is your reaction? 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.
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I keep wondering what kind of fuel they use, what.
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Principles of propulsion, and what metals. Thank you, sir.
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The ship is.
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Almost touching the ground now, and the crowd is getting uneasy. Why,
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they're falling back, as though there were something. I see
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it now.
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It's a blue.
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Haze misting about the Martian ship, forming a 20-foot blanket
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of whatever it is.
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Commander, defense patrol. Zero hour.
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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.
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All eyes are on the ship waiting for the first
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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.
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Perhaps on the very brink of success, death has struck
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within that 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 out
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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 to our soil.
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And now it's down, and the surface of the ramp,
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the surface of the ramp is like nothing ever seen
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on this earth.
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A shimmering, impalpable iridescence.
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Unbelievably radiant and beautiful.
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The throng of spectators is silent, motionless, scarcely breathing, waiting
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to see the first 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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And men on the field that 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.
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If it's all right with the committee, I'd like to
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go aboard it. Technical information, sir.
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No.
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Quiet, John.
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This is my dish, McCabe. I was slated for the
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space run to Mars, remember?
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They're not doing me out of this. Besides, you're too
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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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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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A ramp?
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It's pulling me forward like a conveyor belt.
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It's beginning to rise into the air. Get a move on, Johnny.
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Get into that ship. Get into that ship fast.
472
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Made it. Locked in.
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Now what? There's no one here.
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Nothing except that dancing light.
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I'll follow.
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It.
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Enter, Earthman.
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Well, how can I? 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. There is nothing to fear.
487
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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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00:25:48.740 --> 00:25:54.819
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!
497
00:26:05.259 --> 00:26:08.799
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.
502
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But our world is at peace now.
503
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Your peace is not peace.
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It is a thin cloak which covers the hates and
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fears and savagery of primitive beings.
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Observe, Dixon. On this large, busy screen, we have for
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hours been viewing your people... In many parts of your earth. Watch.
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The senator.
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Listen.
510
00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:02.599
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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00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:13.119
You must not be deceived. He's only one man. The
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rest of us are different.
516
00:27:14.549 --> 00:27:20.130
Are you? Look at this. From another part of your civilized.
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00:27:22.990 --> 00:27:25.150
You have been a traitor to our party. You've been
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guilty of bourgeois thinking.
519
00:27:26.990 --> 00:27:29.099
You have sold us out to the enemies of our people.
520
00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:31.359
You will pay the penalty.
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00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:33.940
But first you will confess.
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00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:35.319
Confess!
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Confess!
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00:27:38.539 --> 00:27:41.359
That's a backward part of our planet. It's not fair
525
00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:42.220
to judge by them.
526
00:27:42.500 --> 00:27:47.980
Then we reveal a more civilized area. The country of
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your birth.
528
00:27:50.009 --> 00:27:54.009
No, Lord, no! The law be damned!
529
00:27:54.210 --> 00:27:56.490
Time's too good for him! Hang him, I say, hang him!
530
00:27:56.529 --> 00:27:57.150
The rope!
531
00:27:57.349 --> 00:27:59.250
String him up from the highest tree in the square!
532
00:27:59.450 --> 00:28:00.410
Linch him! Linch him!
533
00:28:00.470 --> 00:28:00.990
Linch him!
534
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:10.779
Now you know why we shall not reveal ourselves to you.
535
00:28:11.980 --> 00:28:16.430
If you are like this, to these of your own kind,
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00:28:17.549 --> 00:28:18.650
what will you think.
537
00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:25.109
What will you do when you see us, strange.
538
00:28:25.210 --> 00:28:25.750
As we are?
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Don't go.
540
00:28:28.349 --> 00:28:30.990
We know you may be different from us, but we
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can all meet in peace.
542
00:28:32.369 --> 00:28:38.119
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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00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:02.359
man of Earth, and give them the message from Mars.
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The End.
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THE END.
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THE END.
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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. This is the
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United States Armed Forces Radio Service.
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THE END.
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THE END.
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That was 2000 plus with When the Worlds Met. Until
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the next visit to classic radio, good night. Follow old-time
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