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Wayne Crowder has the engineers, the industrial power, and the
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determination to make the first voyage into space. What he
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lacks is a way to propel the ship until a
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scientist arrives with an anti gravity solution and terms of
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his own. From NBC's Dimension X, this is episode forty
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four Vital Factor, adapted for radio by Howard Rodman from
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Nelson S. Bond's short story. Raymond Edward Johnson, Luis van Ruten,
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John McGovern, Guy Repp, Danny Acco, and Martin Wolfson are
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featured in the cast. First broadcast August sixteenth, nineteen fifty one.
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Here is the original broadcast.
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Adventures in Time and Space told in Tempture, the National
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Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of
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Astounding science Ficshure bring you Dimension X. I dont get
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anywhere on Earth as a man or a woman or
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a child who doesn't know the name of Wayne Crowder.
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I doubt whether as a human being who hasn't at
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one time or another used one of the crowded products,
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the can opener of a razor blade of the patent
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of Tooth Potter, dispatcher of the Crowder improved slideless fastener
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as a fortune in such products, and Wayne Crowder with
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a man to squeeze that fortune of any by penny,
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and he didn't. And in the magazines would write about
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men of business, he was described as a man of
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ice and stone, and ink and steel, no warm, and
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a heart that pomp blood, not.
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Feel human emotion.
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But he took some of his money and he built
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himself a cowering skyscraper, and he placed his private office.
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At the very peak.
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And he built a battery of buttons into his desk,
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so that when he wanted something, all he ever had
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to do was nice a button. And like genies springing
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out of the bottle, these proper personnel would come running.
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Yes, mister Crowder, Yes sir, right away, mister Crowver. Mister
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Crowder wants his engineers at once. Here I are engineer, sir.
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All right, close the door and get out now, gentlemen, saiddan, gentlemen.
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I hired you because you're the best engineers I was
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able to find. They tell me you can do anything.
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They tell me. If there's a scientific fact known in
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the world, even if he's discovered six hours ago, you gentlemen,
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are up on it. I don't want to put that
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to work. Gentlemen, I want you to build me a spaceship.
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What a spaceship, sir?
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That's right. I decided that I'm going to be the
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man who gives space flight to mankind. A question. Well,
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I don't yer, sir.
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We can design such a ship. That part's not too hard.
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The basic blueprint has been in existence for many years.
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The submarine is the model for the shape in the form.
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But yeah, but we have no way of providing the
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motor to power such a ship.
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When the ship's ready to fly, there'll be a motor.
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Sure. I don't like to contradict you, but you see, scientist,
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it's still been searching for a motor power for spaceships
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for decades now without success. You will have a ship,
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but we can't lift that ship from the Earth's surface.
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That is not to the point of free flight at
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any rate.
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And mister Crowder, you see.
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You'll be spending millions of dollars, hundreds of millions, perhaps
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for nothing.
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What's your name, Phillips, sir, you're fired. Go down to
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cashier and draw your pain and get out.
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But mister Crowder out.
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Nobody who works for me thinks of how much something costs,
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we use money. We don't let expense provide a rationalization
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for not beginning a project fell up pretty waiting for
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get out, gentlemen. Any other comments.
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That the ship will be built, of course, mister Crowder,
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But the fact still remains, we can't power you.
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Design the ship. I'll find the motor for you. Where, sir,
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that's a fair question. The answer is I don't know,
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but somewhere in the world as a man who does
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know the secret. Long before Henry Ford there was Leonardo
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da Vinci, and long before him there was Archimedes, and
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long before him there was some Stone Age genius who
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invented the wheel when the only thing the mob could
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conceived was dragging things around their backs. I want that motor,
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and I'll root out the man who has the theory
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which will let us build it. I'll find him, money
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will be available to him, an organization my backing, and
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we'll get what we want.
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You're going to be plagued with a host of crackpots, obviously,
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so it's going to be your job to separate the
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wheat from the chat.
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But anyone who shows up with a promising idea, no
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matter how fantastic, it sounds is going to have a
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chance to show what it can do.
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How quickly do you want this donec yesterday?
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Yes?
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Anything you need, well, mister Crowder will need construction yards, sir,
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and certain machinery and a great many materials.
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Of course a label for send me the bills. I
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don't want to be bothered with minor details.
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Yes, sir, one more thing, sir, Phillips says. We need him, sir.
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He's a top man on electronics. He's a vital cog.
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You know.
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I don't want Phillips working for me. That's clear. I
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hope who else in the country knows what he does?
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Not one in this country. So there's a man in Asia, though,
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get him. We've tried before, mister Crowder. He's working on
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an important project for his country.
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I'm not concerned with the tails, and I get that man.
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Pay what he wants, but get him.
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Tell you you don't understand.
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I understand man.
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If this man quits his job, that whole project will collapse.
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It means the welfare of many people, millions of people
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in his country. And he has a high sense of patriotism.
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Why that sense of patriots Now, that's all I don't
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want to see you again until you have a report
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of work in progress. Yes, as a man named Philip's
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going to draw his pay, I want two company policemen
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to meet him at the cashier's office and escored him
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from there, directly off the premises. And I want them
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to be emphatic about it, and notify the newspapers, the
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television and the radio networks, periodicals and the scientific journals
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that I'll receive the press in my office afternoon at
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three point thirty. I have an important announcement to make.
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Gen gentlemen. You can finish your drinks later. Gentlemen of
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the press and ladies, it's my pleasure to be able
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to tell you that I'm in the process of constructing
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a spaceship. Any questions. Did you say a spaceship. That's right,
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that's what I thought you said. I knew the drinks weren't.
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That's strong. I expected it might be something of a
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shock to you, mister Crowder.
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Is this spaceship under construction now? It is well according
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to your plans.
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Is it intended for.
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Interstellar flight or merely for flight between planets?
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This is the beginning only, and my intentions are quite moderate.
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I expect the ship to be able to pursue a
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course between Earth and Mars or between Earth and Venus
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before the present any longer trips than I've gotten places
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you solved the problem of motive force, then no, I haven't.
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But what sort of you mean? You don't have any
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means of propulsion for the spaceship. That problem is not
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solved as yet will be. That's why I called you
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away in this afternoon. I want to announce that I
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have one hundred thousand dollars in cash waiting for the
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man or a woman who first brings me the basic
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idea for such a motor. That's all I have to
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say for now. Finish our refreshments, ladies and gentlemen. I'll
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let you know from time to time when things.
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Go mister crowded, One more question, play, yeah, do you
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have a name for the spaceship yet?
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No? Not? Yeah?
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Then let me suggest one. Yeah, Crowder's folly. What is
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your paper, Daily Time?
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Sir? And form the company police that, under no circumstances
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is any representative for the Daily Times ever to be
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allowed on company property. Again.
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Wayne Crowder is offering one hundred thousand dollars to any
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inventives can produce an engine capable of driving a spaceship.
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Wain Plowder is offering one hundred.
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Thousand doll ups to any velpie who can't produce an
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engine capable of driving a spaceship.
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It was Crowder's folly, but the word of what he
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wanted circulated to the far corners of the globe, and
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it was known in the white ice block ups of
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the Eskimos and in the grass based villages of Central
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Africa as well as place is less remote, and the
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crowded office became a mecca and the heaven for the
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lunatic fringe of humanity. Their blueprints and scale models clogged
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its corridors, and more applicants came to the great skyscraper.
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Well, I told you it a'll want these people in
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my offical. The screen got get out. Every time I
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opened that door, they surge in like a tidal wave.
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I haven't trugged support for you, sir.
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On the construction of the ship youry.
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I've spent thirteen million dollars for the yards, the equipment,
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including three gantry cranes, several dozen presses, thousands of guys
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and sofi. We had twelve thousand people working for us directly,
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not including subcontractors.
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And there lay before.
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What about the ship, mister Crowder. The ship is finished
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as far as we can go. Certain additional construction can
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be done now because it depends on a shape and
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the mass of the engine, and a type of fuel
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on the weight of that fuel.
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I see, all right, lay off everybody we don need.
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I voted.
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That's a miss crowded.
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Is it possible that no one will turn up with
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a motor?
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That's the one thing that's not possible. He will come
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money and determination will buy anything. Because the door anyway,
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Uh yes, it all of the property up. And to
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put a name on the forward end of the ship,
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I want letters in pure gold one foot high. The
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name of the ship is Crowder's folly. Get it done
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to day.
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The sun rose in the morning and glinted rose on
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the silver sheen of the hollow ship's skin. The sun
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set at night and grinted rose on the silver sheen
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of the hollow ship's skin. The golden letters on the
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proud hold out a fury of Crowder for the world
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to see. A start of fifty was employed as time
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went on in taking rust preventive measures to ensure the
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ship's well being. In a year, the first experiment seemed
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ready to bear fruit, and a test was held the
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atomic fish and motor.
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In exactly forty five seconds. Now we hold the test,
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Miss Crowder. The actual the motor is taking place three
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miles from here. Now, this dial here registers the nucleonic activity,
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and this dial right here is trust.
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Over here. This dial is.
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A measure of the effectiveness of the shielding in terms
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of outside radioactivity. That sound you hear is our generators
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right here building up power to supply the motor by
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remote control. Now, if this needle goes around to the
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park of the dial marked in red, there will be
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an explosion.
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Are there any questions? There's eight with attat.
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Watch the needlesi eight thousand, eighty five hundred, nine thousand,
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ten eleven, twelve fifteen. That's an overload doll side twenty.
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I don't know how much Hice and census.
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What happened? Your generator blew out?
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What kind of I take Your partners of the motor
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blew up?
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What are you talking about?
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I'd hear tom, You see, sir, It takes a while
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for the vibration is an explosion to travel three miles
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and then reach through fifteen feet of concrete.
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See well, other experiments in progress, let me know, and
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they're ready protesting.
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Yes, sir, mister Crowder, the inventor of that motor had
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to be with it, of course during the tests. But
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he has that is, he had a family.
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The fool know what he was doing. He understood the danger.
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I'll line up those experiments and don't turn anyone away
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if you seems to have the remotest possibility of success.
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Now I'm telling you my man will come. Money and
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determination will buy anything.
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And strangely enough, Crowder was right, because one day there
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came to his office a stranger, a small man. He
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looked even smaller in that tremendous room. He was an
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unusual visitor, and that he carried no briefcase, fat with blueprints,
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schematics or formerly. He was unusual in that he neither blustered.
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Coward nor deferred to his host.
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Or He was a pleasant little stranger bird, life of
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eye and movement, bright.
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And smiling.
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Powder.
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My name is Wilkins.
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I can power that ship you want, So of course
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what I have in mind will be anything like that,
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mean less anything like that meaningless for you. Flick, we'll
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rock My motor requires a difference here in my.
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Head, it so happens that I am presently opens, that
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I am presently supporting. Half a dozen people will make
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this a none of them been successful. What makes you
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think your idea will work?
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Simple enough? The common magnet? What electromagnetism? Utilization of the
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force of gravity or its opposite, in this case countergraphty.
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You're very much if you'll forgive me.
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Now, mister crowd, there's one thing more this.
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I've seen pieces of metal before.
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Thank you?
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How high from your desk would you say I'm holding it?
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I'm very sorry, mister Wilkins. Do you want to leave
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or do you want to be escorted out?
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This will only take a second. Say how high from
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your desk would you say? I'm holding this piece of metal?
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And if I let go, then in less than a
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second affraction of a second it should fall to you.
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Now, look, I don't want the surface of that death mind,
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But will it be?
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You?
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See? I have let go of the metal?
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Is that right?
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What good?
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Long?
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Many seconds ago it should have crashed to the desk?
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Am I right?
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This is.
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Well? If you want to speak to me anymore. I'll
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be right outside.
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But it hasn't fallen.
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That's right, sir, It hasn't fallen. Fluots, that's right, sir.
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How do you do it? Why don't you call your
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engineers and ask them. I'll wait outside, got me my
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engineers immediately?
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Oh right, mister Wilkins, yirre quite right. This piece of
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metal is appandlic counter gravity here. My engineers can give
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me no explanation.
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Thank you.
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What do you want?
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I want to build a spaceship using this material and
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to great expended. You're hundreds of the cost you be here,
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a city out there in your building yard, and three
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other things workshop expert, mechanical assistance, and an answer to
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one question.
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What is the question?
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Why do you want so much to build this ship?
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Frankly, because I love power, because I'm ambitious. I want
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to be the master not only of one world, but
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of worlds.
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That's an honest answer. And that's as far as you're
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thinking goes.
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What else is there?
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But there's my answer. I want to leave this planet
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and go to Mars because there are strange wonders there,
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because there will be scarlet sunsets, over balanced wastes, and
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in the starstrewn night, the thin cold air of a
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dying world stirring in restless size across the valleys of
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the dragonnells. He may laugh out loud if you wish,
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mister Crowtery, I prefer that to the peculiar, repressed smile
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you're exhibiting.
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Now.
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You're a very lucky man, mister Wilkin's scientific talent, because
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your talents, is a poet, are inferior and very sentimental. Well,
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all right, you're sentimental, isn't I'm man logic. No matter.
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We can work together, you and I. Your workshop will
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be ready by morning. If you need money on material
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as a personnel, just tell my engineers and you'll get it,
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or I'll know the reason why. And that's all, thank you, sir,
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Get me my engineers. Yes, mister crowd, we have fifty
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men working on preserving that useless hulk out there in
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the construction yard. Laid them off. Now, how many others?
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But the ship will deteriorate if we do that.
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Sir, Yes.
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How many other employees are still working for us on
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the project.
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About three thousands, including the people working on experimental motives.
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Get real them, but rid of them.
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Mister Crowder, I never thought you'd drop this project. You
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were so adamant on it.
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I'm not dropping anything but dead. Would you saw what
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Wilkins had to offer. He's my man and the rest
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is young.
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Mister Crowder, he might fail. We ought to have a
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minimum of protection together.
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I say, he won't fail. You'll just let everybody off
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that is needed. Give him two weeks paying my thanks
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for a thankless job well done. That's all, Yes, sir, I'll.
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Get it, John Sir.
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Forty years work, yes, and ten years or twenty years
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and I do the same thing. That's why you're an
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engineer and I'm an executive. That's why you work for me,
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because when I have to, I can be ruthless with
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my own miss stakes. What are you waiting for?
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I was just thinking, mister Crowder, what would happen to
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me if my usefulness to you were over? I've worked
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for you for thirty years now.
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Just don't give me any occasion to consider your usefulness terminator.
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That ouldn't be too word.
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Yes, but nothing, sir. I'll make the arrangements at once.
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Oh you what do you want?
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I tried to stop himself.
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Well, speak up, man, my name is your resistry. I
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am an electronic sex.
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Oh yes, I remember you're the Asian. Well, come in,
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come in? Do you want me?
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There?
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Never mine and mine? Just stay outside closed the door
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behind him. Yes, sit down, Tom, thank you. No, I
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want to give you a gift before I leave. Oh
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h you leaving? I thought we still needed you. I resigned. Well,
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I'm sorry to hear that. I'm told you're a good man.
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I want you to understand what's behind this gift. I
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was working on a power project in my country, which
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would have meant a tremendous rise in the standard of
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living for millions of my people. I was unable to
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resist the money you offered.
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Had you resisted even more money, it would have been
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forthcoming up placed no limit on your worth to me.
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I understand.
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But you see I did not come without a sense
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of guilt because there was no one in my country
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who could take my place.
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I would assume, man.
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And now I discovered that what I did was for nothing.
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The spaceship on which I work is being dispensed.
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That's right.
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So I have been corrupted by you at a whim.
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I think you have too much power, sir. I think
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you use your power for evil, selfish purpose selfish.
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Yet only sentimentality is evil.
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I think otherwise, and so in order that you shall
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not corrupt anyone else, I have this gift for you.
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Here you are, sir, and just one more shot for good,
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measure to make sure you are really dead.
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Good. The man on his way out, by the name
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of Job is ushually an engineer. He's not to be molested.
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He probably won't stop the cashiers, so I want to
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check for six months hour in advance. Mailed to his
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arm address, A man showed a certain quality of ruthlessness
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which is deserving of recognition. And you have the chap
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of the company police. Bring me a new bulletproof vest.
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This one seems to have been dented in two places.
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A new spaceship, according to Wilkins plans, as executed by
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Crowder's engineers, was finished within four months. It was small,
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It was shaped like a disk. It gleamed brightly even
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in the smoky haze of an October sunset. Inside Crowder
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and mister Wilkins, in a small cubucle oft the heart
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of the machine, were surrounded by many instruments of a
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complicated nature. Outside, huge crowds gathered to witness the test.
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They stirred and murmured, waiting restlessly as inside the control
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room of the craft, Wilkins installed the final secret part
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he had not revealed to those who built his driving operations.
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Well, Wilkins, what's holding us up?
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Nothing now or the sentiment? Perhaps? But I wish to
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look once more on familiar scenes here. Now the screening
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is removed. Look look at the people out there.
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Never mind looking out there, Let's leave that thing closed.
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You're a sentimental food. Are you afraid? Or did you
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decided that last minute that your invention won't work?
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It will work? Oh, sit down, this crowdy, do me
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a favor when I press this button? Will you please
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press the button on the arm of the chair you're
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seated on. I'll tell you when turn.
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On your motor, I want to hear its roar and
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feel its tug as we got loose from her its
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gravity and fly outward into space. That might be a
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moment in which I share your sentimentality.
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Pressure button, el, sir, Thank you.
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This is all hawks. I'm beginning to distrust you, Wilkins.
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When are we're going to take off? You said at
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five shop, and it's two minutes after five.
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Now, well do we move?
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Don't way, it's crowd. We're already moving. The button you
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pushed was to nullify the effects of acceleration. That if
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you don't mind, I'd like to open the screen again.
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Now if you care to look for.
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Yourself, Welkins, we're in space. Look down at Earth. How
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far we've come.
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It's no bigger in toy boon.
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A time a firefly moon man. Wilkins, you've done it. Yes,
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I swore to be the first man of Cocas Bait,
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and I've done it. Triumph of power and ambition and
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sentinel blast centerment. Your model and dreaming would have died
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on Borne Except for me. I made this possible, Welcons,
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don't ever forget that. My capital, my forcefulness, my will.
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Look out there space stars that never were seen from there.
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But this is only the beginning.
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We will build a large amounto one great enough to
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hold a hundred man of thousand in cargo. Besides, I'm
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the master of the planets. Wilkins. Turn back now, No
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what I said, turn back? No, We've proved the ship
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can fly in our turnback. I'm going to start working
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once in preparation for the long flight to come, so
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we will go on. What are you doing to find me?
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Are you crazy? I'll break your puny little body in
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the piece.
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Mister Caro, Can you control this ship? Would you like
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to be stratted out here in space? Just a drift
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in space without control? Would you like that.
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Turn back?
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No, you're crazy, You're crazy crazy?
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No.
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Sentimental Yes, your money and ambition paved the way, that's true,
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but the sentiment was the vital factor that sent me
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to you. You'll forgive me if I remove these primitive clothes?
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Oh are you?
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Is it all right? Mister Crowder? There is no need
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to be so terrified because you've had your first close
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look at a Martian going home?
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You heard another adventure into the unknown world of the future.
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The world of a private detective.
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Receives many strange assignments, but none has ever received one
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quite like that given to the investigator we're going to
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tell you about next week as he bring you From
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the pages of a September issue of Astounding Science Fiction,
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untitled Story.
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Dimension X is presented each week by the National Broadcasting
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Company in.
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Cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of the magazine Astounding
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Science Fiction.
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Today, dimension X has presented The.
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Vital Factor, written for radio by Howard Rotman from the
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story by Nelson Bond, featured in the ca Asked, where
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Raymond Edward Johnson as crowd, John McGovern as the engineer,
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and Looy Van Rutten as the Martian. Your host was
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Norman Rose. Music by Albert Burman. Dimension X is produced
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by William Welch and directed by.
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Fred Way Dragnet. The story of Your Police Force is
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next on NBC.
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Dimension X has brought us Vital Factor. Good night and
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thank you for joining us at the radio dial.
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Wayne Crowder has the engineers, the industrial power, and the
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determination to make the first voyage into space. What he
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lacks is a way to propel the ship until a
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scientist arrives with an anti gravity solution and terms of
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his own. From NBC's Dimension X, this is episode forty
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four Vital Factor, adapted for radio by Howard Rodman from
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Nelson S. Bond's short story. Raymond Edward Johnson, Luis van Ruten,
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John McGovern, Guy Repp, Danny Acco, and Martin Wolfson are
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featured in the cast. First broadcast August sixteenth, nineteen fifty one.
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Here is the original broadcast.
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Adventures in Time and Space told in Tempture, the National
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Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of
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Astounding science Ficshure bring you Dimension X. I dont get
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anywhere on Earth as a man or a woman or
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a child who doesn't know the name of Wayne Crowder.
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I doubt whether as a human being who hasn't at
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one time or another used one of the crowded products,
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the can opener of a razor blade of the patent
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of Tooth Potter, dispatcher of the Crowder improved slideless fastener
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as a fortune in such products, and Wayne Crowder with
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a man to squeeze that fortune of any by penny,
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and he didn't. And in the magazines would write about
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men of business, he was described as a man of
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ice and stone, and ink and steel, no warm, and
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a heart that pomp blood, not.
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Feel human emotion.
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But he took some of his money and he built
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himself a cowering skyscraper, and he placed his private office.
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At the very peak.
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And he built a battery of buttons into his desk,
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so that when he wanted something, all he ever had
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to do was nice a button. And like genies springing
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out of the bottle, these proper personnel would come running.
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Yes, mister Crowder, Yes sir, right away, mister Crowver. Mister
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Crowder wants his engineers at once. Here I are engineer, sir.
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All right, close the door and get out now, gentlemen, saiddan, gentlemen.
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I hired you because you're the best engineers I was
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able to find. They tell me you can do anything.
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They tell me. If there's a scientific fact known in
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the world, even if he's discovered six hours ago, you gentlemen,
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are up on it. I don't want to put that
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to work. Gentlemen, I want you to build me a spaceship.
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What a spaceship, sir?
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That's right. I decided that I'm going to be the
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man who gives space flight to mankind. A question. Well,
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I don't yer, sir.
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We can design such a ship. That part's not too hard.
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The basic blueprint has been in existence for many years.
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The submarine is the model for the shape in the form.
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But yeah, but we have no way of providing the
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motor to power such a ship.
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When the ship's ready to fly, there'll be a motor.
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Sure. I don't like to contradict you, but you see, scientist,
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it's still been searching for a motor power for spaceships
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for decades now without success. You will have a ship,
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but we can't lift that ship from the Earth's surface.
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That is not to the point of free flight at
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any rate.
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And mister Crowder, you see.
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You'll be spending millions of dollars, hundreds of millions, perhaps
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for nothing.
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What's your name, Phillips, sir, you're fired. Go down to
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cashier and draw your pain and get out.
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But mister Crowder out.
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Nobody who works for me thinks of how much something costs,
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we use money. We don't let expense provide a rationalization
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for not beginning a project fell up pretty waiting for
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get out, gentlemen. Any other comments.
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That the ship will be built, of course, mister Crowder,
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But the fact still remains, we can't power you.
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Design the ship. I'll find the motor for you. Where, sir,
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that's a fair question. The answer is I don't know,
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but somewhere in the world as a man who does
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know the secret. Long before Henry Ford there was Leonardo
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da Vinci, and long before him there was Archimedes, and
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long before him there was some Stone Age genius who
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invented the wheel when the only thing the mob could
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conceived was dragging things around their backs. I want that motor,
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and I'll root out the man who has the theory
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which will let us build it. I'll find him, money
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will be available to him, an organization my backing, and
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we'll get what we want.
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You're going to be plagued with a host of crackpots, obviously,
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so it's going to be your job to separate the
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wheat from the chat.
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But anyone who shows up with a promising idea, no
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matter how fantastic, it sounds is going to have a
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chance to show what it can do.
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How quickly do you want this donec yesterday?
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Yes?
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Anything you need, well, mister Crowder will need construction yards, sir,
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and certain machinery and a great many materials.
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Of course a label for send me the bills. I
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don't want to be bothered with minor details.
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Yes, sir, one more thing, sir, Phillips says. We need him, sir.
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He's a top man on electronics. He's a vital cog.
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You know.
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I don't want Phillips working for me. That's clear. I
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hope who else in the country knows what he does?
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Not one in this country. So there's a man in Asia, though,
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get him. We've tried before, mister Crowder. He's working on
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an important project for his country.
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I'm not concerned with the tails, and I get that man.
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Pay what he wants, but get him.
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Tell you you don't understand.
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I understand man.
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If this man quits his job, that whole project will collapse.
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It means the welfare of many people, millions of people
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in his country. And he has a high sense of patriotism.
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Why that sense of patriots Now, that's all I don't
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want to see you again until you have a report
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of work in progress. Yes, as a man named Philip's
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going to draw his pay, I want two company policemen
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to meet him at the cashier's office and escored him
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from there, directly off the premises. And I want them
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to be emphatic about it, and notify the newspapers, the
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television and the radio networks, periodicals and the scientific journals
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that I'll receive the press in my office afternoon at
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three point thirty. I have an important announcement to make.
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Gen gentlemen. You can finish your drinks later. Gentlemen of
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the press and ladies, it's my pleasure to be able
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to tell you that I'm in the process of constructing
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a spaceship. Any questions. Did you say a spaceship. That's right,
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that's what I thought you said. I knew the drinks weren't.
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That's strong. I expected it might be something of a
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shock to you, mister Crowder.
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Is this spaceship under construction now? It is well according
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to your plans.
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Is it intended for.
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Interstellar flight or merely for flight between planets?
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This is the beginning only, and my intentions are quite moderate.
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I expect the ship to be able to pursue a
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course between Earth and Mars or between Earth and Venus
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before the present any longer trips than I've gotten places
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you solved the problem of motive force, then no, I haven't.
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But what sort of you mean? You don't have any
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means of propulsion for the spaceship. That problem is not
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solved as yet will be. That's why I called you
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away in this afternoon. I want to announce that I
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have one hundred thousand dollars in cash waiting for the
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man or a woman who first brings me the basic
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idea for such a motor. That's all I have to
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say for now. Finish our refreshments, ladies and gentlemen. I'll
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let you know from time to time when things.
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Go mister crowded, One more question, play, yeah, do you
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have a name for the spaceship yet?
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No? Not? Yeah?
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Then let me suggest one. Yeah, Crowder's folly. What is
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your paper, Daily Time?
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Sir? And form the company police that, under no circumstances
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is any representative for the Daily Times ever to be
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allowed on company property. Again.
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Wayne Crowder is offering one hundred thousand dollars to any
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inventives can produce an engine capable of driving a spaceship.
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Wain Plowder is offering one hundred.
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Thousand doll ups to any velpie who can't produce an
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engine capable of driving a spaceship.
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It was Crowder's folly, but the word of what he
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wanted circulated to the far corners of the globe, and
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it was known in the white ice block ups of
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the Eskimos and in the grass based villages of Central
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Africa as well as place is less remote, and the
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crowded office became a mecca and the heaven for the
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lunatic fringe of humanity. Their blueprints and scale models clogged
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its corridors, and more applicants came to the great skyscraper.
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Well, I told you it a'll want these people in
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my offical. The screen got get out. Every time I
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opened that door, they surge in like a tidal wave.
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I haven't trugged support for you, sir.
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On the construction of the ship youry.
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I've spent thirteen million dollars for the yards, the equipment,
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including three gantry cranes, several dozen presses, thousands of guys
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and sofi. We had twelve thousand people working for us directly,
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not including subcontractors.
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And there lay before.
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What about the ship, mister Crowder. The ship is finished
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as far as we can go. Certain additional construction can
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be done now because it depends on a shape and
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the mass of the engine, and a type of fuel
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on the weight of that fuel.
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I see, all right, lay off everybody we don need.
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I voted.
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That's a miss crowded.
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Is it possible that no one will turn up with
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a motor?
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That's the one thing that's not possible. He will come
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money and determination will buy anything. Because the door anyway,
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Uh yes, it all of the property up. And to
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put a name on the forward end of the ship,
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I want letters in pure gold one foot high. The
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name of the ship is Crowder's folly. Get it done
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to day.
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The sun rose in the morning and glinted rose on
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the silver sheen of the hollow ship's skin. The sun
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set at night and grinted rose on the silver sheen
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of the hollow ship's skin. The golden letters on the
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proud hold out a fury of Crowder for the world
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to see. A start of fifty was employed as time
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went on in taking rust preventive measures to ensure the
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ship's well being. In a year, the first experiment seemed
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ready to bear fruit, and a test was held the
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atomic fish and motor.
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In exactly forty five seconds. Now we hold the test,
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Miss Crowder. The actual the motor is taking place three
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miles from here. Now, this dial here registers the nucleonic activity,
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and this dial right here is trust.
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Over here. This dial is.
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A measure of the effectiveness of the shielding in terms
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of outside radioactivity. That sound you hear is our generators
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right here building up power to supply the motor by
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remote control. Now, if this needle goes around to the
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park of the dial marked in red, there will be
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an explosion.
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Are there any questions? There's eight with attat.
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Watch the needlesi eight thousand, eighty five hundred, nine thousand,
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ten eleven, twelve fifteen. That's an overload doll side twenty.
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I don't know how much Hice and census.
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What happened? Your generator blew out?
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What kind of I take Your partners of the motor
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blew up?
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What are you talking about?
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I'd hear tom, You see, sir, It takes a while
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for the vibration is an explosion to travel three miles
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and then reach through fifteen feet of concrete.
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See well, other experiments in progress, let me know, and
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they're ready protesting.
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Yes, sir, mister Crowder, the inventor of that motor had
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to be with it, of course during the tests. But
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he has that is, he had a family.
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The fool know what he was doing. He understood the danger.
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I'll line up those experiments and don't turn anyone away
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if you seems to have the remotest possibility of success.
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Now I'm telling you my man will come. Money and
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determination will buy anything.
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And strangely enough, Crowder was right, because one day there
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came to his office a stranger, a small man. He
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looked even smaller in that tremendous room. He was an
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unusual visitor, and that he carried no briefcase, fat with blueprints,
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schematics or formerly. He was unusual in that he neither blustered.
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Coward nor deferred to his host.
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Or He was a pleasant little stranger bird, life of
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eye and movement, bright.
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And smiling.
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Powder.
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My name is Wilkins.
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I can power that ship you want, So of course
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what I have in mind will be anything like that,
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mean less anything like that meaningless for you. Flick, we'll
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rock My motor requires a difference here in my.
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Head, it so happens that I am presently opens, that
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I am presently supporting. Half a dozen people will make
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this a none of them been successful. What makes you
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think your idea will work?
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Simple enough? The common magnet? What electromagnetism? Utilization of the
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force of gravity or its opposite, in this case countergraphty.
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You're very much if you'll forgive me.
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Now, mister crowd, there's one thing more this.
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I've seen pieces of metal before.
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Thank you?
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How high from your desk would you say I'm holding it?
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I'm very sorry, mister Wilkins. Do you want to leave
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or do you want to be escorted out?
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This will only take a second. Say how high from
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your desk would you say? I'm holding this piece of metal?
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And if I let go, then in less than a
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second affraction of a second it should fall to you.
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Now, look, I don't want the surface of that death mind,
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But will it be?
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You?
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See? I have let go of the metal?
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Is that right?
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What good?
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Long?
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Many seconds ago it should have crashed to the desk?
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Am I right?
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This is.
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Well? If you want to speak to me anymore. I'll
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be right outside.
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But it hasn't fallen.
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That's right, sir, It hasn't fallen. Fluots, that's right, sir.
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How do you do it? Why don't you call your
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engineers and ask them. I'll wait outside, got me my
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engineers immediately?
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Oh right, mister Wilkins, yirre quite right. This piece of
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metal is appandlic counter gravity here. My engineers can give
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me no explanation.
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Thank you.
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What do you want?
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I want to build a spaceship using this material and
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to great expended. You're hundreds of the cost you be here,
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a city out there in your building yard, and three
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other things workshop expert, mechanical assistance, and an answer to
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one question.
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What is the question?
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Why do you want so much to build this ship?
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Frankly, because I love power, because I'm ambitious. I want
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to be the master not only of one world, but
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of worlds.
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That's an honest answer. And that's as far as you're
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thinking goes.
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What else is there?
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But there's my answer. I want to leave this planet
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and go to Mars because there are strange wonders there,
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because there will be scarlet sunsets, over balanced wastes, and
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in the starstrewn night, the thin cold air of a
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dying world stirring in restless size across the valleys of
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the dragonnells. He may laugh out loud if you wish,
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mister Crowtery, I prefer that to the peculiar, repressed smile
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you're exhibiting.
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Now.
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You're a very lucky man, mister Wilkin's scientific talent, because
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your talents, is a poet, are inferior and very sentimental. Well,
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all right, you're sentimental, isn't I'm man logic. No matter.
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We can work together, you and I. Your workshop will
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be ready by morning. If you need money on material
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as a personnel, just tell my engineers and you'll get it,
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or I'll know the reason why. And that's all, thank you, sir,
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Get me my engineers. Yes, mister crowd, we have fifty
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men working on preserving that useless hulk out there in
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the construction yard. Laid them off. Now, how many others?
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But the ship will deteriorate if we do that.
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Sir, Yes.
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How many other employees are still working for us on
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the project.
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About three thousands, including the people working on experimental motives.
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Get real them, but rid of them.
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Mister Crowder, I never thought you'd drop this project. You
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were so adamant on it.
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I'm not dropping anything but dead. Would you saw what
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Wilkins had to offer. He's my man and the rest
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is young.
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Mister Crowder, he might fail. We ought to have a
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minimum of protection together.
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I say, he won't fail. You'll just let everybody off
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that is needed. Give him two weeks paying my thanks
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for a thankless job well done. That's all, Yes, sir, I'll.
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Get it, John Sir.
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Forty years work, yes, and ten years or twenty years
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and I do the same thing. That's why you're an
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engineer and I'm an executive. That's why you work for me,
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because when I have to, I can be ruthless with
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my own miss stakes. What are you waiting for?
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I was just thinking, mister Crowder, what would happen to
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me if my usefulness to you were over? I've worked
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for you for thirty years now.
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Just don't give me any occasion to consider your usefulness terminator.
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That ouldn't be too word.
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Yes, but nothing, sir. I'll make the arrangements at once.
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Oh you what do you want?
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I tried to stop himself.
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Well, speak up, man, my name is your resistry. I
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am an electronic sex.
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Oh yes, I remember you're the Asian. Well, come in,
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come in? Do you want me?
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There?
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Never mine and mine? Just stay outside closed the door
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behind him. Yes, sit down, Tom, thank you. No, I
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want to give you a gift before I leave. Oh
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h you leaving? I thought we still needed you. I resigned. Well,
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I'm sorry to hear that. I'm told you're a good man.
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I want you to understand what's behind this gift. I
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was working on a power project in my country, which
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would have meant a tremendous rise in the standard of
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living for millions of my people. I was unable to
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resist the money you offered.
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Had you resisted even more money, it would have been
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forthcoming up placed no limit on your worth to me.
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I understand.
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But you see I did not come without a sense
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of guilt because there was no one in my country
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who could take my place.
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I would assume, man.
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And now I discovered that what I did was for nothing.
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The spaceship on which I work is being dispensed.
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That's right.
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So I have been corrupted by you at a whim.
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I think you have too much power, sir. I think
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you use your power for evil, selfish purpose selfish.
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Yet only sentimentality is evil.
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I think otherwise, and so in order that you shall
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not corrupt anyone else, I have this gift for you.
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Here you are, sir, and just one more shot for good,
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measure to make sure you are really dead.
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Good. The man on his way out, by the name
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of Job is ushually an engineer. He's not to be molested.
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He probably won't stop the cashiers, so I want to
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check for six months hour in advance. Mailed to his
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arm address, A man showed a certain quality of ruthlessness
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which is deserving of recognition. And you have the chap
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of the company police. Bring me a new bulletproof vest.
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This one seems to have been dented in two places.
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A new spaceship, according to Wilkins plans, as executed by
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Crowder's engineers, was finished within four months. It was small,
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It was shaped like a disk. It gleamed brightly even
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in the smoky haze of an October sunset. Inside Crowder
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and mister Wilkins, in a small cubucle oft the heart
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of the machine, were surrounded by many instruments of a
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complicated nature. Outside, huge crowds gathered to witness the test.
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They stirred and murmured, waiting restlessly as inside the control
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room of the craft, Wilkins installed the final secret part
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he had not revealed to those who built his driving operations.
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Well, Wilkins, what's holding us up?
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Nothing now or the sentiment? Perhaps? But I wish to
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look once more on familiar scenes here. Now the screening
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is removed. Look look at the people out there.
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Never mind looking out there, Let's leave that thing closed.
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You're a sentimental food. Are you afraid? Or did you
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decided that last minute that your invention won't work?
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It will work? Oh, sit down, this crowdy, do me
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a favor when I press this button? Will you please
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press the button on the arm of the chair you're
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seated on. I'll tell you when turn.
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On your motor, I want to hear its roar and
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feel its tug as we got loose from her its
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gravity and fly outward into space. That might be a
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moment in which I share your sentimentality.
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Pressure button, el, sir, Thank you.
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This is all hawks. I'm beginning to distrust you, Wilkins.
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When are we're going to take off? You said at
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five shop, and it's two minutes after five.
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Now, well do we move?
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Don't way, it's crowd. We're already moving. The button you
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pushed was to nullify the effects of acceleration. That if
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you don't mind, I'd like to open the screen again.
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Now if you care to look for.
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Yourself, Welkins, we're in space. Look down at Earth. How
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far we've come.
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It's no bigger in toy boon.
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A time a firefly moon man. Wilkins, you've done it. Yes,
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I swore to be the first man of Cocas Bait,
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and I've done it. Triumph of power and ambition and
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sentinel blast centerment. Your model and dreaming would have died
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on Borne Except for me. I made this possible, Welcons,
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don't ever forget that. My capital, my forcefulness, my will.
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Look out there space stars that never were seen from there.
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But this is only the beginning.
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We will build a large amounto one great enough to
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hold a hundred man of thousand in cargo. Besides, I'm
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the master of the planets. Wilkins. Turn back now, No
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what I said, turn back? No, We've proved the ship
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can fly in our turnback. I'm going to start working
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once in preparation for the long flight to come, so
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we will go on. What are you doing to find me?
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Are you crazy? I'll break your puny little body in
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the piece.
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Mister Caro, Can you control this ship? Would you like
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to be stratted out here in space? Just a drift
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in space without control? Would you like that.
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Turn back?
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No, you're crazy, You're crazy crazy?
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No.
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Sentimental Yes, your money and ambition paved the way, that's true,
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but the sentiment was the vital factor that sent me
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to you. You'll forgive me if I remove these primitive clothes?
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Oh are you?
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Is it all right? Mister Crowder? There is no need
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to be so terrified because you've had your first close
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look at a Martian going home?
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You heard another adventure into the unknown world of the future.
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The world of a private detective.
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Receives many strange assignments, but none has ever received one
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quite like that given to the investigator we're going to
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tell you about next week as he bring you From
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the pages of a September issue of Astounding Science Fiction,
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untitled Story.
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Dimension X is presented each week by the National Broadcasting
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Company in.
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Cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of the magazine Astounding
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Science Fiction.
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Today, dimension X has presented The.
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Vital Factor, written for radio by Howard Rotman from the
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story by Nelson Bond, featured in the ca Asked, where
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Raymond Edward Johnson as crowd, John McGovern as the engineer,
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and Looy Van Rutten as the Martian. Your host was
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Norman Rose. Music by Albert Burman. Dimension X is produced
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by William Welch and directed by.
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Fred Way Dragnet. The story of Your Police Force is
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next on NBC.
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Dimension X has brought us Vital Factor. Good night and
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