November 19, 2025 • 44 mins
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a noteworthy attempt to revive in American radio dramas like Inner Sanctum (1941-1952) and Suspense (1942-1962). Radio dramas were widely considered "dead" 12 years prior to this series. CBS Radio Mystery Theater, or simply Mystery Theater, was created by Inner Sanctum creator Himan Brown and ran on CBS from 1974-1982. The show, much like older radio dramas, was introduced by a host (E.G. Marshall in this program), who steers us through the creaking door to start the episode. Many voices from the golden age of radio were featured, including Richard Widmark, Bret Morrison, Agnes Moorehead and many more. Find more classic, old-time radio series at Theater of the Mind - OTR | Spreaker | Apple | YouTube
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
CBS Radio Mystery Theater Presents. Come in.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Many of you, within the sound of my voice will
be present at the birth of the twenty first century.
Some among us were born a little too early for that.
We'll just have to sit around and guess what life
in the two thousands may be like. And one person's
guess is as good as another's, except for the scientists
who claim to have sort of an inside track on
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the future. They think, some of them, that they know
where we're headed.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mike, the instruments here are going crazy, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I think what we've been suspecting all along may already
be happening.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Doctor, I'm almost sure of it. Get into your choppers
and head north immediately. Don't stop for a thing. It
may be the end of the world.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Our mister. Drama Bottom of the World was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Arnold Moss. It stars Tony
Roberts and Christopher Tabori. It is sponsored in part by
Buick Motor Division and arm Allergy Relief Medicine. I'll evac
shortly with Act one. It's a peaceful spring morning. The
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year is sometime in some century of the future. Three
men are seated in the glass fishing boat powered motor
is speeding into the middle of a huge freshwater lake.
At this moment, they are some three miles from the
nearest shoreline.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The oldest of.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The three men smile at his two younger passengers, nods
and gears the motor down to a slow idol.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Bob, JJ, I think this is it coming, to tell
Doctor Burns, I've been here before.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes, there should be an ideal spot. So this is
where the fish are, Doctor Fitch. Of course they've never
failed me, not what's JJ? And I'm sure they'll go
operate today. Shall I cut the motor? Doctor, No, Bob,
keep it at idol.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's safer, Doctor Burns, Yes, Bob, I speak for JJ
as well as for myself. You mustn't think we don't
appreciate a man on a schedule as murderous as yours,
head of one of the most sensitive agencies in the
whole government, closing up shop for a whole morning just
to take two of his younger pro is off on
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a fishing trip.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
So we've been wondering, well, how shall I say it?
What you've done to deserve such special treatment?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Something like that. Yeah, why us, I'll first get your
lines over the side. Bob.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Let's see, you've been with the command how long three
and a half years, nearly four and and you JJ nearly.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Fifteen months now, the Strategic Sea.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Command, the SSC things.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You're both just about tops right here.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And that's why I brought you out here today to
the middle of this lake to talk only into badly
to fish. Is it safe? All the boat's been going
over from standistern clean, no listening devices. We'll keep the
motor idling, so what we say will be for our
ears only. I listen to both of you to begin.
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You both know what our energy situation is.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Of course, the last drop of oil was drained out
of the entire planet way back in the year nineteen
ninety eight, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Fissionable material for any nuclear energy is almost gone.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Fossil fuels exhausted, wind and tidal energy is neither dependable
nor sufficient, and.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Our last hope for energy from the Sun hasn't worked
out the way we'd.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Hope, not quite. You know that Back in the nineteen
seventies we started to investigate the possibilities of oil in
the South Polar area of the sub fridge its own,
but we failed.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It was impossible to reach whatever may have been there,
if there was anything to begin with.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's true. After all these years, we are trying again.
We are two weeks ago we started drilling. We're drilling
at this very moment for what could be billions of
barrels of oil. Our technology has improved to where we
think we may have an even chance of success in
the south.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Why are you telling this to us?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
What's that noise? Where do you come in by the
front door like everyone else? After all, it is a
private restaurant.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I'm told they have a new chef, Yes, who specializes
in preparing seafood. Yes, exactly, a little expensive, but it's
worth every set I eat, every chance.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I I think whoever was in that plane has gone,
so we can continue to answer your question, where do
you come in? The SSC is sending you both down
there to report on whatever progress we may be making. Yes,
but surely your technical crew keeps you informed. We're in
constant radio contact with him. Mike Gonzalez is one of
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the best of the whole command, not only an engineer,
but a bit of a poet too. Then excuse me
for asking, doctor, But they they are very much aware
of what we're up to. Their noses are out of
joint because of it, and they will stop at nothing,
absolutely nothing, to prevent us. That and something much more serious,
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which is the sub frigid ice sheet, as you well know,
covers over five million square miles. How thick it is,
how deep down it goes is anybody's guess. Anything that
would cause that huge continent, that solid block of blue ice,
to slip, to break up, to disintegrate, would mean the
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end of all of us, wouldn't it? Not? All the
way it probably happened twenty thousand years ago the last
I said. Any slippings of the ice sheet, any breaking
of this tremendous mass of mild, thick ice, would result
in gigantic tidal waves all over the globe, which would
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cause sea levels to be raised to one fifty feet.
We estimate hundreds of feet, maybe even thousands.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
What would happen to our cities. I suppose most of
them would wind up at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Of the sea. And that's only the beginning. As these
gigantic blocks of ice keep rushing to the north, melting
almost not at all, their quite snowy surface would reflect
solar energy back into space.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And the entire atmosphere around us would be chilled way
down below the freezing point, way way down below.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yes, but Doctor Burns, why would they consider doing anything
like that? And even if they could make it happen,
they'd be out of their minds. They would consider it, POB,
and they could make it happen.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
There's not enough space on this globe for both them
and us. Yes, but wouldn't that be the end of
the world for them too? Not very along shot, POB.
Unfortunately for us. Your job, my friends, is to prevent
this if you can. When do we leave, Doctor Burns
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tomorrow morning? Means I'm JJ, you have a nibble at
the end of your line. Put it in slowly, slowly.
Oh it's a big one.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Hold on to it, JJ, careful here it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Comes Forget the size of it. Oh, what a beauty
Wait a minute, don't touch it all right? What is
it fastened.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
On to its side?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Look a tiny microphone?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Did you ever see anything like this air down here?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
JJ?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Dever, Bob, it's first all my life, I'm able to
see the air.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm breathing it actually.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Greas it's the ice crystals falling through the air.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I remember reading about it lear air precipitation.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's called But look, look, this is Mike Gonzales waving
to us from cuts.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That's work checking.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Be with you in a minute, Mike.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Let they get you to the end.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
At you.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
He's right. Wow.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
We had to take a look at those huge boulders
for crazy formations. Sifted some oversized monster and twisted him
into those shapes in the.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Day is sixty feet high because they don't look real.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Worry Bob, JJ can sleep well like a top saying noise.
The engines didn't bother you too much, I hope well
after the flight over the main land, which he felt
whenever ram nothing for us stopped us from sleeping like
a couple of hits.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, let's go into the work.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Shocking whiter and a little warmer.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So hot coffee, Oh no thanks?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So we just finished breakfast day A little trouble you're breathing, JJ,
A little yeah. The altitude ten thousand feet above sea
level and just take things easy that your bodies get
used to it. Now, let's talk about ice sheet. It's
been thickening into a solid mass at the rate of
over five feet a year.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
How many years? No one knows for sure.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
We've already taken ice out of the drill hole. It's
twenty seven thousand years old.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Twenty seven thousand years.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Old, and we've only drilled down into a little over
a mile of ice. What makes everything so much more
difficult is that the whole sheet floats in constant motion.
Was that that, my friend, Maybe our biggest worry, maybe
our only real worry.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Did the ice cracking up?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It might be just that? But how? Why?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
What caused that?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
What was that noise? Mike?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That sound you just heard could well be the result
of a nuclear explosion somewhere down here at the bottom
of the world, maybe one thousand miles away. Our instruments
will indicate if I'm right, the second one in ten days.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
They are very methodical.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Then, if doctor Burns was right, a few.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
More blasts like that last woman, we may have to
close the book final chapter. We drove ourselves from the garden,
but it was.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Always possible to return up until now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Now it looks as though we may have planted seeds
in the dead soil of a lost world, a world
it may have to go on if it.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Goes on without.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Us, or we don't just sit here with our heads
in our hands, do we?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I mean, can't they be stopped someway an.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
He suggestions, Bob, time may have come for all of
us to hold our tents we as opposed to they
may have to give up this little piece of real
estate we call the world. It may only be a
matter of days. And meanwhile, we prepare to get out
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just as fast as we can, not only from this
place here, but from the entire planet, while we still
have the chance.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's been said that a man begins to live only
when he treats each new day as if it were
his last. Our three friends in the South Polar area
of some time in the future have the feeling that
every tick of the clock is bringing them closer and
closer to their inevitable end. That each of the next
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few days may indeed be not only their last, but
the last for most.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Of the world.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
They know our return shortly with that too. And God
saw everything that he had made, and behold it was
very good. And on the seventh day God ended his
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work which he had made Genesis chapters one and two.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
But turn a couple of pages.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
And we read, and the Lord said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth,
both man and beast, and the creeping things and the
fowls of the air, For it repenteth me that I
have made them. Might this be the thought going on
in the minds of the three men in the south
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polar area of the sub frigid zone, at some time
in the future, say this, and.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
To it may be only a matter of days. And meanwhile, meanwhile,
we prepare to get out just as fast as we can,
not only from this place here, but from the entire place,
And while we still have the chance, And the first
thing we do is to make contact look headquarters at SSC,
Doctor Birds, and then I'm almost certain that all hell
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will break loose up there. Here goes. We've got over
a thousand rocket ships on the alert, ready to take
off on an hour's notice, just for the Eastern seaboard alone.
Did you know that, Mike, each one capable of taking
on a thousand passengers total one million. That's quite a
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few people. A million, pretty small number for this particular job. Remember,
there are over ten billion of us all over the
globe calling O.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
D F SSC, calling odes.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I've got him.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I think, just clear this channel birds of.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
The strategic sneaker Man Operation D Freeze.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Are you there, o Ef, doctor Burns? That you Mike, Yes,
Doctor Burns. I'm just trying to get through to you.
I thought for a minute we might have jammed our wavelength.
Am I coming in clear?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Very clear?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
What the devil's going on down their mic?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Why do you last?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Doctor?
Speaker 7 (15:08):
We've got some of those strange readings we got last week.
The instruments are going crazy. In fact, there have been
two sets of readings this morning, only minutes apart.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
What's up, Mike.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I think that what we've been suspecting all along may
already be happening.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yes, I'm almost sure if it might.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
And they're putting just about everything that got into those explosions.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
What are your orders, Mike?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
How long would it take to dismantle every.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Bit of final equipment?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Three days?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Maybe four, depends four.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Mike, I want you and your crew to destroy every
piece of usable equipment. You've got everything right away, every motor,
every machine, every instrument except the radio.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Leave that for the last.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
When do we start right now?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Mike?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
We're at the point where every hour.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Every minute may count.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
You mean that we the sub frigid ice sheet has
already begun to slip, broken up in over a dozen places.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We'll follow your orders to the then head back.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Up here as quickly as you can.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Load your men into the choppers, head north for the
mother ship, which is waiting for you. I'm like wheel
radio your assignment to a specific spacecraft.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
On your way up here.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Mike, this is it, So shake the ice out of
your tails real fast, every one of you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Mike.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I heard them, and the.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Instruments of corn absolutely for certain.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
What's happened, Mike, what's happened?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Answer me?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Follow you?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Answer me? Answer? Come on, JJ, come on, wake up,
Wake up? JJ. You all right?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Oh sorry, I must have passed out.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
That last blast was a real big one, a lot
nearer than any of the previous ones. I think I
must have passed out myself for a couple of seconds.
Well I've see now, Mike, look out the window where
where our crew was drooing.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I don't believe it. It's not possible.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Every single one of the drill towers has collapsed.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And everything with them.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The shock of that last explosion just topple them over
drill towers, drills, drill pipes.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
The entire works like so many children's toys.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I've got to get out of here and see that
the crew is safe and know it will hurt.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, we'll go with you meantime.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Meantime, we got everybody into those choppers just as fast
as we can and head north of the mothership. And
then then JJ, we pray we can all of us
kind of our blessings so far, Thank Heavens. This mothership
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was waiting for us. Yeah, and here we are in it,
headed for where.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Any idea Mike specifically, No.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
All I know is that we're safe. We get on
one of the thousand rocket ships that are waiting for
all of us. We head out into space.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
In the direction of in the direction of where.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I guess is as good as mine, j Jane.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
There are a million.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Stars twinkling out there in space, other planets, other universes,
even other galaxies. They go on forever, wishing their way
around infinity. And we'll be speeding towards some tiny star
out there that we know an advance can sustain our
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kind of life. And that's the whole idea, start our
civilization all over again. How did they ever get to
the point where they could make all this happen?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Some accidental freak of nature then developed by a kind
of planned breeding into a completely new race, a race.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That can stand every extreme of temperature from two hundred
blow zero to two hundred above, and.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Their ability to survive either in the air or underwater.
How do we explain that?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
By some weird process of selective evolution, they manage to
breed themselves into cold blooded vertebrates who look just like us,
but act biologically like amphibia.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Like frogs, and sliment.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Exactly with both gills and lugs the same time, breathing
partly through those thick skins of those that nothing can penetrate, well,
almost nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I suppose their ability to change their voices at will
to sound exactly like us, or as if they were
speaking from underwater, has to do with the fact that
they are amphibians.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Maybe I wish we knew where we were, how close
we are to our destination, wherever it is.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They hadn't blacked out every portal, every window.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That's a security measure.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
J JA, Yes, I know that, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Will you please fasten your safety belts.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We're about to get some of our questions answered.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I think the captain has asked me to tell.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
You that we are within a few minutes of landing
in our predetermined face. After we land, you are asked
to remain seated until the aircraft has come to a
complete stop.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yes, but stop ware when you're about to find out.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
All occupants will then proceed across the east runway to
one of the rocket ships which.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Is awaiting you.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He hasn't said which one pass jj and when he
tells us which one, how do we find it? Proceed
across the east runway.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
We have just received from s SC headquarters the designation
of your particular rocket craft.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Here it goes.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
A rocket craft reserved for passengers aboard this ship is
Beta Epsilon number two oh three. I repeat Beta Epsilon
two oh three. It can be reached by boarding ramp
on your right across the east runway as you exit.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Thank you, Yeah, did you get all of that engine.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Boarding ramp c on our right across the east runway
to rocket craft Beta epsilon two oh three.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Couldn't be clear?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Now fasten your safety well, sorry, embrace yourselves for landing
here it comes. I wonder if doctor Burns is here
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to meet us, to get a one to one report
from us on what happened. I certainly hope.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So you got all your things jan j.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Uh huh, And we're about to come to a stop.
I must confess I'm a little concerned about the next
leg of this trip as well.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
We're all concerned, JJ, very much concerned. I can tell
you I'm a little terrified. It's taking them a halfy
long time to open those doors.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Well, what's holding them up?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Patients? JJ?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Patient? Are they're gonna keep us standing here all day?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Why don't they open the doors?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Gentlemen, may I ask all of you to please take
your seats once again? The captain informs us that there
is some slight difficulty in opening the doors from the outside.
Me wild please relax in your seats until the doors
are cleared.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I delay will be slight, right.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
What can be warm?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Any number of things?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
BA.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
The Captain has also asked me to make the following announcement.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Please listen carefully.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Once the doors are opened from the.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Inside of the.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Craft, please make your way to boarding ramp sea in
the reception hall, which is heated as quickly as you can.
Where the warmest clothes you have with you?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
What's he talking about? Heated? Warmest clothes? It's summer up here.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Place mufflers or scarves, whatever you may have available over
your mouths and noses. Breathe as little of the air
as possible.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
What's wrong with the air? Both of you them listen.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
That will be all for the moment.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I think I know what's happened. I'm sure the outside
temperature has already dropped so low that just breathing the
air for more than a minute or two will freeze
the tissues of the lungs into solid lumps of ice.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And the people in cities that are above sea.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Letter gentlemen, please stand by.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
We have succeeded in opening.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
One of the crisis doors. Prepared to disembark by sliding
down the emergency chute.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I can't wait to get out of here. Keep moving, Bob, please,
I'm easy, JJ. How easy? Best way, gentlemen, please, is.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The savage winner the experience.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Of our entire life. I don't think we'll be able.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
To bucket last another.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
It's not cripplings, not agrieve, there's no melting. It's not
a living soul.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Here there is not there?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
And there because are the maintenance man?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I mean to take ob the aircraft.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Why they standing there in those stakes positions? I think
they're all dead JJ posing stick into whatever position is
I must have been.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
What do we do?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Make a run for the reception hole recording rampy and.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I hope we get there, and if we.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Don't, then we join a group of stone cold statues
out there, those refrigerated corps. As we're staring at, I'll
get out first.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Here goes.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Our free scientists make a dash towards survival to catch
the transportation that will carry them away from a planet
that's quickly collapsing about them. This in the hope of
colonizing a brave new world in the outermost reaches of space,
a place safe from annihilation by a new race of
destructive beings who want the world for themselves.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I'll return shortly for that.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Three from chapter five of the Book of the Revelation.
And I saw a book written within and on the backside,
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sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel
proclaiming who is worthy to open the book? And no
man in heaven nor in Earth, neither under the earth
was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
No man today is privileged either to open that book
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of the future completely or to reveal what lies ahead
for all of us. But the scientists are doing their
best to peek, trying hard. Now we rejoin our three scientists.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I don't think I've ever run so fast in my
whole life.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Held Josh.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Halfway to this hall, I would sure i'd never make it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You're right back, a.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Little weak in the knees and very shorter breath, but
we did make it. What's more, where well on the
high ground. It's warm and comfortable here, and we don't
have to go outdoors again to get to the rocket ship.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I'm not sure I could go through that a second time.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Have you too noticed anything peculiar, anything special about the
people who seem to be moving toward Beta Epsilon.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Two or three? Peculiar?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
And I haven't had the chance to look. Well, when
you get the chance look, it may find a little surprise. Meanwhile,
I'm going to try to get.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
A call through to doctor Burns again.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
He's got to know that we've come through safely up
to this point, and the shape of a place we left.
What's happening, Mike, Nothing, absolutely nothing. This number doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Answer, right, do you suppose that?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I don't know how to say this, but they have
penetrated the Strategic Sea Command, but neither Burns nor the
s SC exists any longer. Where there's always a possibility.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You got no answer, Mike, No, nothing, The silence, dead silence.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Well we'd better move along to Beta Epsilon two O three.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
The ship is full.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
We've been sitting here over twenty minutes. Why don't they
take off, Get us off this ground, get the whole.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Thing over with.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I'm sure they're doing their best.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Ja Jack, you all that anxious to leave our little.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
World, and this is no round trip, you know, it's
one way, all the way.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
They're welcome to what's left. Good riddance, and let's fashion.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
I mean, we don't have much of a choice. We
couldn't possibly stay alive here.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
They can, but we can't.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, sooner or later, let's count ourselves among the lucky ones, lucky.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
To be able to leave there.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Millions of other men and women will never make it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You're both right, of course, you've got your way.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We're finally off.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So allong the world.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
To our new paradise. We walked through blindfolding, and the
noiseless doors glows after us forever. As to being among
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the lucky ones, as either of you had the time
or curiosity to take a peek at any of our
fellow passengers.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I have, and I must say I'm very impressed.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I've noticed too, some of the leading brains and creative
talents from all over.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The entire world.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I've already counted eight Moonstone Prize winners, half a dozen
recipients of the Literary Scroll of Honor, the presidents of
five different countries as I saw them as they were
coming on.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You know, this is quite.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Possibly the most distinguished load of passengers that ever existed.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
A thousand of them.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
About as many men as women. I go to, half
of them young enough to help populate a brand new world.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
What you might call extremely careful planning.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Indeed putting the leaders of the world, the ablest, the
most creative, best.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Minds and bodies.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I've seen a few gold medal athletes, all in the
same carrier, all headed for the same place. Absolutely brilliant,
and we.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Are lucky to have been chosen. Who is always thought
of this? Who is responsible for.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
It, Mike.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I have no idea, Bob, and I hope you're right
all right about Why about how brilliant an idea this was?
You'd you think Dr Burns would be on board, wouldn't you?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Maybe he's in one of the other sections of the ship,
which would slain why we couldn't reach you could be.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard Beta Epsilon two oh three.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
The captain has.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Asked me to tell you that our planned destination is
Galen two six eighty three of the galaxy of the Lepathy.
The physical properties of Galen two six eight three, it's
life supporting qualities, air, water, climate, extremes of temperature are
almost identical with those that we have left behind.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
That's comforting to quiety.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Jay.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
In the unlikely event that there should be any difficulty.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
In landing for any reason.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
May Toon two two one one of the same galaxy
will serve as backup. Flying time should be approximately.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
If you have any questions, members of the crew will
be happy to try.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
To answer them.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Galen two six' eighty three here we. Come well the following.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Time just please identify themselves by pressing BUTTON b at
the right of their. Seats Mister Michael, GONZALEZ, Jj porter
And robert.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
McDonald i've got the button right.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Here i'll get.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
It there is a voice message for you three gentlemen
kindly connected by pressing button as In, frank thank.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
You as In.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Frank here we are who could POSSIBLY, bodjj Missus, Burns Doctor,
burns what do you?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Know are you all? Right you say you.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Bob, yes we're just, Fine Doctor. Burns how about you?
Fine we're certainly happy to hear your. Voice we tried
to reach you before we. Left we had a little, difficulty.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
That's understand under the.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
CIRCUMSTANCES i suppose you would like to know how we
are the. MOMENT i would like to know. Nothing, yeah
let me talk to, him Doctor.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Burns this IS. Jj the passenger list on this ship
seems to be very.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Special we thought you might be on. It OBVIOUSLY i am.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Not and of course none of you has any idea
why or half you that's.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
The matter with?
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Him he sounds.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Funny Mike gonzalez, here Doctor, Burns i'd like to venture a.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Guess why you're not?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Here?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yes are you free to, speak just answer yes or.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
No the answer yes.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yes now listen to, me the three of.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
You you've noticed that your fellow passengers are people most
capable of starting a new. Civilization they will never have that, chance.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Unfortunately why, not Doctor, burns.
Speaker 8 (34:51):
Because none of you will ever make a meet yet
On galen two sixty three or any place else talking about.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Me all know how efficient they, are do we?
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Not they are nothing less than diabolical in.
Speaker 10 (35:11):
Working out their. Plans that they do nothing without a
precise master. Plan So Beta epsilon two or three is
part of that, plan a plan to exterminate every.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Leader of the, world all at, once in one single.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
BLOW i don't believe, this be believe.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
It there's not a chance that even a few of
you escaping or. Surviving the end.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
For all of you will be complete and.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Final and very.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Neat but we're headed toward a beachhead On galen two
six eighty. Three isn't there any such a?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Place?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Yes there, is but not for.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
You in a short, while the rocket ship you're traveling
on will, explode but its integrated into.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Space not a shred.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Of any of you will. Survive that's not.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
Possible it's, possible because because that's the way we.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Landed we we those.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
That you call what's that?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Odor what is that like burning?
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Rubber no, Idea ladies and, Gentlemen you are not to
be alarmed by what seems to be the smell of burning.
Rubber it is routine at this, stage as is the
mild turbulence you may.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Be, experiencing, mild but being bounced around like, easy, easy.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Easy but he's making his way toward.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Us you're a gentleman to seeing your message. Satisfactorily, yes we,
Did thank you very. Much do you understand its? SIGNIFICANCE
i think we. Do then there's no point in pretending any.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Further one of us is keeping an eye on the.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
CREW i watched the.
Speaker 11 (37:01):
Passengers not that there's anything you could possibly do to
prevent what will. Happen it's a, question, yes how much
time do we have before minutes a very few, minutes
and what happens to you and the one up forward
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that's guarding the.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Crew we, Die we vanish along with the rest of.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
You we volunteered for.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
This, trip and the mechanism that will set the whole thing,
off the, explosion the disintegration.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Right, here right over your.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Heads the captain is the only one who would know.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
How to deactivate, it and he's.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Not free at the. Moment, now, gentlemen if you will excuse, ME,
jj what are you? Doing put on my.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Gun i'll get him, first then his friend up there.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
With the CREW.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Jj now we won't do any, good that's not the.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Matter excellent, marksmanship young.
Speaker 11 (37:56):
Man we're rather quaint old fashioned.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Bullets fuck me right over the.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Hut how, foolish how. Wasteful surely you.
Speaker 11 (38:05):
Know your bullets cannot penetrate.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Our skins, now but this. Cant and now the same
treatment for his friend up forward in.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
The cockpit with the Crew, MIKE, jj excuse me? Place
are you sure it's all?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Right General, dukes just make yourselves at. Home not too.
Crowded all three of us here in the control, room
a plenty of room and a much better. View if
it hadn't been for, you mister, McDonald and you lays a,
gun there wouldn't be any.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
View and you're the activation of their. Mechanism, general we're
all very. Lucky that's all over and in the. Past,
general it's once ahead of us that.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Counts look out, there coming right at, Us galen two
six eight.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Three that good re spec that tiny pinpoint pinpoint or NOT,
jj that's going to be our new.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Home that's a new.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
World for all of.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Us how long before we're inside its orbit a present?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
SPEED i make it one, hour twelve minutes and twenty
eight seconds before. Landfall good rye on. It it gets
bigger and bigger even while we watch.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
It it's like a.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Little blue green.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Ball we're traveling. Fast there's our, future all.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Right our future is in the hands of. Fate Ja
wait a, minute take another look At galen two six eighty, three,
gentlemen our future would now seem to be in our own.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Hands holy what?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Happened it was there and then it just kind of.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Disintegrated disappeared right in front of our.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Eyes there's nothing, there. Nothing we are we looking at
some kind of. Mirage, General, no, Sir it happens all the.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Time what one, minute there'll be a star no one's
ever seen, before just materializer before our. Eyes the next,
minute something like This galen star just blows up in our,
faces destroys itself and has never seen from. Again but
we get used to. It and why do you suppose
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a thing like that?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Happens what causes? That who can?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Tell every once in a while a star and people
on it turns to cosmic.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Dust, well what's our next, Procedure?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
General to from this point we're here to twenty eight
degrees thirty four minutes two seconds To starvard and hope
we can Reach mayton two to one, one and also
hope that it's still there when we get. There we've
got a, Question, GENERAL i know these stars sometimes have
had other names other than the designations we've given to. Them,
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curiosity would you know If galen two six eighty three
was ever called anything? Else were feeling it? Was let
me get the, book got your, reading, Lesses, Bob, yes,
sir see you can find it under G let's see, now,
sir here we Are galen two six eight. Three, yes
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it did have another name back in the nineteen seventies and, eighties.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Was known as The earth.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
HAS. Jj, Bob mike and our companions hurtled through space
bound for an obscure star hidden away in an endless.
Cosmos we wish them god. SPEED a journey that started
in the, frozen sterile wastes of one world will terminate
to retrust on the Less barren welcoming soil of a
mother where they can build an, exciting fresh new world
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by profiting from some of the mistakes of this.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
One i'll return.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Shortly you may find it of more than passing interests
that within the past two, years The institute Of Polar
studies Of Ohio State university suggested the possibility of some
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of the things.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
You heard in our.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Story In february nineteen seventy, seven At Edward's Air Force
base In, california a year's tests were begun at The
Dryden Flight Research center as.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
A prelude to an altogether new era in.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
SPACEFLIGHT a few days, later we read that The National
aeronautics And Space ADMINISTRATION nasa is accepting applications at The
Johnson Space center In houston for what they call mission.
Specialists just how special will these missions? Be our cast
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Included Tony, Roberts Christopher, Dabori William, griffiths And Robert. Maxwell
the entire production was under the direction Of Hymon.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Brown this IS. E.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
G marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater
for another adventure in the. Macabre until next, Time Pleasant
dreams
Speaker 7 (44:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Many of you, within the sound of my voice will
be present at the birth of the twenty first century.
Some among us were born a little too early for that.
We'll just have to sit around and guess what life
in the two thousands may be like. And one person's
guess is as good as another's, except for the scientists
who claim to have sort of an inside track on
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the future. They think, some of them, that they know
where we're headed.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Mike, the instruments here are going crazy, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I think what we've been suspecting all along may already
be happening.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Doctor, I'm almost sure of it. Get into your choppers
and head north immediately. Don't stop for a thing. It
may be the end of the world.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Our mister. Drama Bottom of the World was written especially
for the Mystery Theater by Arnold Moss. It stars Tony
Roberts and Christopher Tabori. It is sponsored in part by
Buick Motor Division and arm Allergy Relief Medicine. I'll evac
shortly with Act one. It's a peaceful spring morning. The
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year is sometime in some century of the future. Three
men are seated in the glass fishing boat powered motor
is speeding into the middle of a huge freshwater lake.
At this moment, they are some three miles from the
nearest shoreline.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The oldest of.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The three men smile at his two younger passengers, nods
and gears the motor down to a slow idol.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Bob, JJ, I think this is it coming, to tell
Doctor Burns, I've been here before.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes, there should be an ideal spot. So this is
where the fish are, Doctor Fitch. Of course they've never
failed me, not what's JJ? And I'm sure they'll go
operate today. Shall I cut the motor? Doctor, No, Bob,
keep it at idol.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's safer, Doctor Burns, Yes, Bob, I speak for JJ
as well as for myself. You mustn't think we don't
appreciate a man on a schedule as murderous as yours,
head of one of the most sensitive agencies in the
whole government, closing up shop for a whole morning just
to take two of his younger pro is off on
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a fishing trip.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
So we've been wondering, well, how shall I say it?
What you've done to deserve such special treatment?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Something like that. Yeah, why us, I'll first get your
lines over the side. Bob.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Let's see, you've been with the command how long three
and a half years, nearly four and and you JJ nearly.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Fifteen months now, the Strategic Sea.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Command, the SSC things.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You're both just about tops right here.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And that's why I brought you out here today to
the middle of this lake to talk only into badly
to fish. Is it safe? All the boat's been going
over from standistern clean, no listening devices. We'll keep the
motor idling, so what we say will be for our
ears only. I listen to both of you to begin.
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You both know what our energy situation is.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Of course, the last drop of oil was drained out
of the entire planet way back in the year nineteen
ninety eight, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Fissionable material for any nuclear energy is almost gone.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Fossil fuels exhausted, wind and tidal energy is neither dependable
nor sufficient, and.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Our last hope for energy from the Sun hasn't worked
out the way we'd.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Hope, not quite. You know that Back in the nineteen
seventies we started to investigate the possibilities of oil in
the South Polar area of the sub fridge its own,
but we failed.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It was impossible to reach whatever may have been there,
if there was anything to begin with.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's true. After all these years, we are trying again.
We are two weeks ago we started drilling. We're drilling
at this very moment for what could be billions of
barrels of oil. Our technology has improved to where we
think we may have an even chance of success in
the south.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Why are you telling this to us?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
What's that noise? Where do you come in by the
front door like everyone else? After all, it is a
private restaurant.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I'm told they have a new chef, Yes, who specializes
in preparing seafood. Yes, exactly, a little expensive, but it's
worth every set I eat, every chance.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I I think whoever was in that plane has gone,
so we can continue to answer your question, where do
you come in? The SSC is sending you both down
there to report on whatever progress we may be making. Yes,
but surely your technical crew keeps you informed. We're in
constant radio contact with him. Mike Gonzalez is one of
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the best of the whole command, not only an engineer,
but a bit of a poet too. Then excuse me
for asking, doctor, But they they are very much aware
of what we're up to. Their noses are out of
joint because of it, and they will stop at nothing,
absolutely nothing, to prevent us. That and something much more serious,
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which is the sub frigid ice sheet, as you well know,
covers over five million square miles. How thick it is,
how deep down it goes is anybody's guess. Anything that
would cause that huge continent, that solid block of blue ice,
to slip, to break up, to disintegrate, would mean the
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end of all of us, wouldn't it? Not? All the
way it probably happened twenty thousand years ago the last
I said. Any slippings of the ice sheet, any breaking
of this tremendous mass of mild, thick ice, would result
in gigantic tidal waves all over the globe, which would
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cause sea levels to be raised to one fifty feet.
We estimate hundreds of feet, maybe even thousands.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
What would happen to our cities. I suppose most of
them would wind up at the bottom.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Of the sea. And that's only the beginning. As these
gigantic blocks of ice keep rushing to the north, melting
almost not at all, their quite snowy surface would reflect
solar energy back into space.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
And the entire atmosphere around us would be chilled way
down below the freezing point, way way down below.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yes, but Doctor Burns, why would they consider doing anything
like that? And even if they could make it happen,
they'd be out of their minds. They would consider it, POB,
and they could make it happen.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
There's not enough space on this globe for both them
and us. Yes, but wouldn't that be the end of
the world for them too? Not very along shot, POB.
Unfortunately for us. Your job, my friends, is to prevent
this if you can. When do we leave, Doctor Burns
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tomorrow morning? Means I'm JJ, you have a nibble at
the end of your line. Put it in slowly, slowly.
Oh it's a big one.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Hold on to it, JJ, careful here it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Comes Forget the size of it. Oh, what a beauty
Wait a minute, don't touch it all right? What is
it fastened.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
On to its side?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Look a tiny microphone?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Did you ever see anything like this air down here?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
JJ?
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Dever, Bob, it's first all my life, I'm able to
see the air.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I'm breathing it actually.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Greas it's the ice crystals falling through the air.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I remember reading about it lear air precipitation.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's called But look, look, this is Mike Gonzales waving
to us from cuts.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That's work checking.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Be with you in a minute, Mike.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Let they get you to the end.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
At you.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
He's right. Wow.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
We had to take a look at those huge boulders
for crazy formations. Sifted some oversized monster and twisted him
into those shapes in the.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Day is sixty feet high because they don't look real.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Worry Bob, JJ can sleep well like a top saying noise.
The engines didn't bother you too much, I hope well
after the flight over the main land, which he felt
whenever ram nothing for us stopped us from sleeping like
a couple of hits.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Well, let's go into the work.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Shocking whiter and a little warmer.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
So hot coffee, Oh no thanks?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
So we just finished breakfast day A little trouble you're breathing, JJ,
A little yeah. The altitude ten thousand feet above sea
level and just take things easy that your bodies get
used to it. Now, let's talk about ice sheet. It's
been thickening into a solid mass at the rate of
over five feet a year.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
How many years? No one knows for sure.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
We've already taken ice out of the drill hole. It's
twenty seven thousand years old.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Twenty seven thousand years.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Old, and we've only drilled down into a little over
a mile of ice. What makes everything so much more
difficult is that the whole sheet floats in constant motion.
Was that that, my friend, Maybe our biggest worry, maybe
our only real worry.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Did the ice cracking up?
Speaker 2 (10:50):
It might be just that? But how? Why?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
What?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
What caused that?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
What was that noise? Mike?
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That sound you just heard could well be the result
of a nuclear explosion somewhere down here at the bottom
of the world, maybe one thousand miles away. Our instruments
will indicate if I'm right, the second one in ten days.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
They are very methodical.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Then, if doctor Burns was right, a few.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
More blasts like that last woman, we may have to
close the book final chapter. We drove ourselves from the garden,
but it was.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Always possible to return up until now.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Now it looks as though we may have planted seeds
in the dead soil of a lost world, a world
it may have to go on if it.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Goes on without.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Us, or we don't just sit here with our heads
in our hands, do we?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
I mean, can't they be stopped someway an.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
He suggestions, Bob, time may have come for all of
us to hold our tents we as opposed to they
may have to give up this little piece of real
estate we call the world. It may only be a
matter of days. And meanwhile, we prepare to get out
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just as fast as we can, not only from this
place here, but from the entire planet, while we still
have the chance.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's been said that a man begins to live only
when he treats each new day as if it were
his last. Our three friends in the South Polar area
of some time in the future have the feeling that
every tick of the clock is bringing them closer and
closer to their inevitable end. That each of the next
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few days may indeed be not only their last, but
the last for most.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Of the world.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
They know our return shortly with that too. And God
saw everything that he had made, and behold it was
very good. And on the seventh day God ended his
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work which he had made Genesis chapters one and two.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
But turn a couple of pages.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
And we read, and the Lord said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth,
both man and beast, and the creeping things and the
fowls of the air, For it repenteth me that I
have made them. Might this be the thought going on
in the minds of the three men in the south
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polar area of the sub frigid zone, at some time
in the future, say this, and.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
To it may be only a matter of days. And meanwhile, meanwhile,
we prepare to get out just as fast as we can,
not only from this place here, but from the entire place,
And while we still have the chance, And the first
thing we do is to make contact look headquarters at SSC,
Doctor Birds, and then I'm almost certain that all hell
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will break loose up there. Here goes. We've got over
a thousand rocket ships on the alert, ready to take
off on an hour's notice, just for the Eastern seaboard alone.
Did you know that, Mike, each one capable of taking
on a thousand passengers total one million. That's quite a
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few people. A million, pretty small number for this particular job. Remember,
there are over ten billion of us all over the
globe calling O.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
D F SSC, calling odes.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
I've got him.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I think, just clear this channel birds of.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
The strategic sneaker Man Operation D Freeze.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Are you there, o Ef, doctor Burns? That you Mike, Yes,
Doctor Burns. I'm just trying to get through to you.
I thought for a minute we might have jammed our wavelength.
Am I coming in clear?
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Very clear?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
What the devil's going on down their mic?
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Why do you last?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Doctor?
Speaker 7 (15:08):
We've got some of those strange readings we got last week.
The instruments are going crazy. In fact, there have been
two sets of readings this morning, only minutes apart.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
What's up, Mike.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
I think that what we've been suspecting all along may
already be happening.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yes, I'm almost sure if it might.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
And they're putting just about everything that got into those explosions.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
What are your orders, Mike?
Speaker 5 (15:36):
How long would it take to dismantle every.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Bit of final equipment?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Three days?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Maybe four, depends four.
Speaker 7 (15:45):
Mike, I want you and your crew to destroy every
piece of usable equipment. You've got everything right away, every motor,
every machine, every instrument except the radio.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Leave that for the last.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
When do we start right now?
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Mike?
Speaker 6 (16:01):
We're at the point where every hour.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Every minute may count.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
You mean that we the sub frigid ice sheet has
already begun to slip, broken up in over a dozen places.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
We'll follow your orders to the then head back.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Up here as quickly as you can.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
Load your men into the choppers, head north for the
mother ship, which is waiting for you. I'm like wheel
radio your assignment to a specific spacecraft.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
On your way up here.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Mike, this is it, So shake the ice out of
your tails real fast, every one of you.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Mike.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
I heard them, and the.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Instruments of corn absolutely for certain.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
What's happened, Mike, what's happened?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Answer me?
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Are you all right?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Follow you?
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Answer me? Answer? Come on, JJ, come on, wake up,
Wake up? JJ. You all right?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Oh sorry, I must have passed out.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
That last blast was a real big one, a lot
nearer than any of the previous ones. I think I
must have passed out myself for a couple of seconds.
Well I've see now, Mike, look out the window where
where our crew was drooing.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I don't believe it. It's not possible.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Every single one of the drill towers has collapsed.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
And everything with them.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The shock of that last explosion just topple them over
drill towers, drills, drill pipes.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
The entire works like so many children's toys.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I've got to get out of here and see that
the crew is safe and know it will hurt.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, we'll go with you meantime.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Meantime, we got everybody into those choppers just as fast
as we can and head north of the mothership. And
then then JJ, we pray we can all of us
kind of our blessings so far, Thank Heavens. This mothership
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was waiting for us. Yeah, and here we are in it,
headed for where.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Any idea Mike specifically, No.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
All I know is that we're safe. We get on
one of the thousand rocket ships that are waiting for
all of us. We head out into space.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
In the direction of in the direction of where.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I guess is as good as mine, j Jane.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
There are a million.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Stars twinkling out there in space, other planets, other universes,
even other galaxies. They go on forever, wishing their way
around infinity. And we'll be speeding towards some tiny star
out there that we know an advance can sustain our
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kind of life. And that's the whole idea, start our
civilization all over again. How did they ever get to
the point where they could make all this happen?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Some accidental freak of nature then developed by a kind
of planned breeding into a completely new race, a race.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
That can stand every extreme of temperature from two hundred
blow zero to two hundred above, and.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Their ability to survive either in the air or underwater.
How do we explain that?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Who knows?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
By some weird process of selective evolution, they manage to
breed themselves into cold blooded vertebrates who look just like us,
but act biologically like amphibia.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Like frogs, and sliment.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Exactly with both gills and lugs the same time, breathing
partly through those thick skins of those that nothing can penetrate, well,
almost nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I suppose their ability to change their voices at will
to sound exactly like us, or as if they were
speaking from underwater, has to do with the fact that
they are amphibians.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Maybe I wish we knew where we were, how close
we are to our destination, wherever it is.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They hadn't blacked out every portal, every window.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
That's a security measure.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
J JA, Yes, I know that, gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Will you please fasten your safety belts.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We're about to get some of our questions answered.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I think the captain has asked me to tell.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
You that we are within a few minutes of landing
in our predetermined face. After we land, you are asked
to remain seated until the aircraft has come to a
complete stop.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yes, but stop ware when you're about to find out.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
All occupants will then proceed across the east runway to
one of the rocket ships which.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Is awaiting you.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
He hasn't said which one pass jj and when he
tells us which one, how do we find it? Proceed
across the east runway.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
We have just received from s SC headquarters the designation
of your particular rocket craft.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Here it goes.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
A rocket craft reserved for passengers aboard this ship is
Beta Epsilon number two oh three. I repeat Beta Epsilon
two oh three. It can be reached by boarding ramp
on your right across the east runway as you exit.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Thank you, Yeah, did you get all of that engine.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Boarding ramp c on our right across the east runway
to rocket craft Beta epsilon two oh three.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Couldn't be clear?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Now fasten your safety well, sorry, embrace yourselves for landing
here it comes. I wonder if doctor Burns is here
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to meet us, to get a one to one report
from us on what happened. I certainly hope.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
So you got all your things jan j.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Uh huh, And we're about to come to a stop.
I must confess I'm a little concerned about the next
leg of this trip as well.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
We're all concerned, JJ, very much concerned. I can tell
you I'm a little terrified. It's taking them a halfy
long time to open those doors.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Well, what's holding them up?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Patients? JJ?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Patient? Are they're gonna keep us standing here all day?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Why don't they open the doors?
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Gentlemen, may I ask all of you to please take
your seats once again? The captain informs us that there
is some slight difficulty in opening the doors from the outside.
Me wild please relax in your seats until the doors
are cleared.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
I delay will be slight, right.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
What can be warm?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Any number of things?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
BA.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
The Captain has also asked me to make the following announcement.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Please listen carefully.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Once the doors are opened from the.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Inside of the.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Craft, please make your way to boarding ramp sea in
the reception hall, which is heated as quickly as you can.
Where the warmest clothes you have with you?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
What's he talking about? Heated? Warmest clothes? It's summer up here.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Place mufflers or scarves, whatever you may have available over
your mouths and noses. Breathe as little of the air
as possible.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
What's wrong with the air? Both of you them listen.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
That will be all for the moment.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
I think I know what's happened. I'm sure the outside
temperature has already dropped so low that just breathing the
air for more than a minute or two will freeze
the tissues of the lungs into solid lumps of ice.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
And the people in cities that are above sea.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Letter gentlemen, please stand by.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
We have succeeded in opening.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
One of the crisis doors. Prepared to disembark by sliding
down the emergency chute.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I can't wait to get out of here. Keep moving, Bob, please,
I'm easy, JJ. How easy? Best way, gentlemen, please, is.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
The savage winner the experience.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Of our entire life. I don't think we'll be able.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
To bucket last another.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
It's not cripplings, not agrieve, there's no melting. It's not
a living soul.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Here there is not there?
Speaker 5 (24:46):
And there because are the maintenance man?
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I mean to take ob the aircraft.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Why they standing there in those stakes positions? I think
they're all dead JJ posing stick into whatever position is
I must have been.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
What do we do?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Make a run for the reception hole recording rampy and.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I hope we get there, and if we.
Speaker 9 (25:10):
Don't, then we join a group of stone cold statues
out there, those refrigerated corps. As we're staring at, I'll
get out first.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Here goes.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Our free scientists make a dash towards survival to catch
the transportation that will carry them away from a planet
that's quickly collapsing about them. This in the hope of
colonizing a brave new world in the outermost reaches of space,
a place safe from annihilation by a new race of
destructive beings who want the world for themselves.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I'll return shortly for that.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Three from chapter five of the Book of the Revelation.
And I saw a book written within and on the backside,
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sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel
proclaiming who is worthy to open the book? And no
man in heaven nor in Earth, neither under the earth
was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
No man today is privileged either to open that book
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of the future completely or to reveal what lies ahead
for all of us. But the scientists are doing their
best to peek, trying hard. Now we rejoin our three scientists.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I don't think I've ever run so fast in my
whole life.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Held Josh.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Halfway to this hall, I would sure i'd never make it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You're right back, a.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Little weak in the knees and very shorter breath, but
we did make it. What's more, where well on the
high ground. It's warm and comfortable here, and we don't
have to go outdoors again to get to the rocket ship.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I'm not sure I could go through that a second time.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Have you too noticed anything peculiar, anything special about the
people who seem to be moving toward Beta Epsilon.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Two or three? Peculiar?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
And I haven't had the chance to look. Well, when
you get the chance look, it may find a little surprise. Meanwhile,
I'm going to try to get.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
A call through to doctor Burns again.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
He's got to know that we've come through safely up
to this point, and the shape of a place we left.
What's happening, Mike, Nothing, absolutely nothing. This number doesn't.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Answer, right, do you suppose that?
Speaker 3 (28:24):
I don't know how to say this, but they have
penetrated the Strategic Sea Command, but neither Burns nor the
s SC exists any longer. Where there's always a possibility.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You got no answer, Mike, No, nothing, The silence, dead silence.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Well we'd better move along to Beta Epsilon two O three.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
The ship is full.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
We've been sitting here over twenty minutes. Why don't they
take off, Get us off this ground, get the whole.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Thing over with.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
I'm sure they're doing their best.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Ja Jack, you all that anxious to leave our little.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
World, and this is no round trip, you know, it's
one way, all the way.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
They're welcome to what's left. Good riddance, and let's fashion.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
I mean, we don't have much of a choice. We
couldn't possibly stay alive here.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
They can, but we can't.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Well, sooner or later, let's count ourselves among the lucky ones, lucky.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
To be able to leave there.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Millions of other men and women will never make it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
You're both right, of course, you've got your way.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
We're finally off.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So allong the world.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
To our new paradise. We walked through blindfolding, and the
noiseless doors glows after us forever. As to being among
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the lucky ones, as either of you had the time
or curiosity to take a peek at any of our
fellow passengers.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
I have, and I must say I'm very impressed.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I've noticed too, some of the leading brains and creative
talents from all over.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
The entire world.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
I've already counted eight Moonstone Prize winners, half a dozen
recipients of the Literary Scroll of Honor, the presidents of
five different countries as I saw them as they were
coming on.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You know, this is quite.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Possibly the most distinguished load of passengers that ever existed.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
A thousand of them.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
About as many men as women. I go to, half
of them young enough to help populate a brand new world.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
What you might call extremely careful planning.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Indeed putting the leaders of the world, the ablest, the
most creative, best.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Minds and bodies.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I've seen a few gold medal athletes, all in the
same carrier, all headed for the same place. Absolutely brilliant,
and we.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Are lucky to have been chosen. Who is always thought
of this? Who is responsible for.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
It, Mike.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
I have no idea, Bob, and I hope you're right
all right about Why about how brilliant an idea this was?
You'd you think Dr Burns would be on board, wouldn't you?
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Maybe he's in one of the other sections of the ship,
which would slain why we couldn't reach you could be.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard Beta Epsilon two oh three.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Listen.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
The captain has.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Asked me to tell you that our planned destination is
Galen two six eighty three of the galaxy of the Lepathy.
The physical properties of Galen two six eight three, it's
life supporting qualities, air, water, climate, extremes of temperature are
almost identical with those that we have left behind.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
That's comforting to quiety.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Jay.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
In the unlikely event that there should be any difficulty.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
In landing for any reason.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
May Toon two two one one of the same galaxy
will serve as backup. Flying time should be approximately.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That's all.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
If you have any questions, members of the crew will
be happy to try.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
To answer them.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Galen two six' eighty three here we. Come well the following.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Time just please identify themselves by pressing BUTTON b at
the right of their. Seats Mister Michael, GONZALEZ, Jj porter
And robert.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
McDonald i've got the button right.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Here i'll get.
Speaker 7 (33:12):
It there is a voice message for you three gentlemen
kindly connected by pressing button as In, frank thank.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
You as In.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Frank here we are who could POSSIBLY, bodjj Missus, Burns Doctor,
burns what do you?
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Know are you all? Right you say you.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Bob, yes we're just, Fine Doctor. Burns how about you?
Fine we're certainly happy to hear your. Voice we tried
to reach you before we. Left we had a little, difficulty.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
That's understand under the.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
CIRCUMSTANCES i suppose you would like to know how we
are the. MOMENT i would like to know. Nothing, yeah
let me talk to, him Doctor.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Burns this IS. Jj the passenger list on this ship
seems to be very.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Special we thought you might be on. It OBVIOUSLY i am.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Not and of course none of you has any idea
why or half you that's.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
The matter with?
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Him he sounds.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
Funny Mike gonzalez, here Doctor, Burns i'd like to venture a.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Guess why you're not?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Here?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Yes are you free to, speak just answer yes or.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
No the answer yes.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yes now listen to, me the three of.
Speaker 8 (34:35):
You you've noticed that your fellow passengers are people most
capable of starting a new. Civilization they will never have that, chance.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Unfortunately why, not Doctor, burns.
Speaker 8 (34:51):
Because none of you will ever make a meet yet
On galen two sixty three or any place else talking about.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Me all know how efficient they, are do we?
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Not they are nothing less than diabolical in.
Speaker 10 (35:11):
Working out their. Plans that they do nothing without a
precise master. Plan So Beta epsilon two or three is
part of that, plan a plan to exterminate every.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
Leader of the, world all at, once in one single.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
BLOW i don't believe, this be believe.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
It there's not a chance that even a few of
you escaping or. Surviving the end.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
For all of you will be complete and.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Final and very.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Neat but we're headed toward a beachhead On galen two
six eighty. Three isn't there any such a?
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Place?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
Yes there, is but not for.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
You in a short, while the rocket ship you're traveling
on will, explode but its integrated into.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Space not a shred.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Of any of you will. Survive that's not.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
Possible it's, possible because because that's the way we.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
Landed we we those.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
That you call what's that?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Odor what is that like burning?
Speaker 7 (36:25):
Rubber no, Idea ladies and, Gentlemen you are not to
be alarmed by what seems to be the smell of burning.
Rubber it is routine at this, stage as is the
mild turbulence you may.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Be, experiencing, mild but being bounced around like, easy, easy.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Easy but he's making his way toward.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Us you're a gentleman to seeing your message. Satisfactorily, yes we,
Did thank you very. Much do you understand its? SIGNIFICANCE
i think we. Do then there's no point in pretending any.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Further one of us is keeping an eye on the.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
CREW i watched the.
Speaker 11 (37:01):
Passengers not that there's anything you could possibly do to
prevent what will. Happen it's a, question, yes how much
time do we have before minutes a very few, minutes
and what happens to you and the one up forward
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that's guarding the.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Crew we, Die we vanish along with the rest of.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
You we volunteered for.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
This, trip and the mechanism that will set the whole thing,
off the, explosion the disintegration.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Right, here right over your.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Heads the captain is the only one who would know.
Speaker 11 (37:40):
How to deactivate, it and he's.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Not free at the. Moment, now, gentlemen if you will excuse, ME,
jj what are you? Doing put on my.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Gun i'll get him, first then his friend up there.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
With the CREW.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Jj now we won't do any, good that's not the.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Matter excellent, marksmanship young.
Speaker 11 (37:56):
Man we're rather quaint old fashioned.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Bullets fuck me right over the.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Hut how, foolish how. Wasteful surely you.
Speaker 11 (38:05):
Know your bullets cannot penetrate.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Our skins, now but this. Cant and now the same
treatment for his friend up forward in.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
The cockpit with the Crew, MIKE, jj excuse me? Place
are you sure it's all?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Right General, dukes just make yourselves at. Home not too.
Crowded all three of us here in the control, room
a plenty of room and a much better. View if
it hadn't been for, you mister, McDonald and you lays a,
gun there wouldn't be any.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
View and you're the activation of their. Mechanism, general we're
all very. Lucky that's all over and in the. Past,
general it's once ahead of us that.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
Counts look out, there coming right at, Us galen two
six eight.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Three that good re spec that tiny pinpoint pinpoint or NOT,
jj that's going to be our new.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Home that's a new.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
World for all of.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Us how long before we're inside its orbit a present?
Speaker 3 (39:11):
SPEED i make it one, hour twelve minutes and twenty
eight seconds before. Landfall good rye on. It it gets
bigger and bigger even while we watch.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
It it's like a.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Little blue green.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Ball we're traveling. Fast there's our, future all.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Right our future is in the hands of. Fate Ja
wait a, minute take another look At galen two six eighty, three,
gentlemen our future would now seem to be in our own.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Hands holy what?
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Happened it was there and then it just kind of.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Disintegrated disappeared right in front of our.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Eyes there's nothing, there. Nothing we are we looking at
some kind of. Mirage, General, no, Sir it happens all the.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Time what one, minute there'll be a star no one's
ever seen, before just materializer before our. Eyes the next,
minute something like This galen star just blows up in our,
faces destroys itself and has never seen from. Again but
we get used to. It and why do you suppose
(40:23):
a thing like that?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Happens what causes? That who can?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Tell every once in a while a star and people
on it turns to cosmic.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Dust, well what's our next, Procedure?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
General to from this point we're here to twenty eight
degrees thirty four minutes two seconds To starvard and hope
we can Reach mayton two to one, one and also
hope that it's still there when we get. There we've
got a, Question, GENERAL i know these stars sometimes have
had other names other than the designations we've given to. Them,
(41:00):
curiosity would you know If galen two six eighty three
was ever called anything? Else were feeling it? Was let
me get the, book got your, reading, Lesses, Bob, yes,
sir see you can find it under G let's see, now,
sir here we Are galen two six eight. Three, yes
(41:33):
it did have another name back in the nineteen seventies and, eighties.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Was known as The earth.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
HAS. Jj, Bob mike and our companions hurtled through space
bound for an obscure star hidden away in an endless.
Cosmos we wish them god. SPEED a journey that started
in the, frozen sterile wastes of one world will terminate
to retrust on the Less barren welcoming soil of a
mother where they can build an, exciting fresh new world
(42:14):
by profiting from some of the mistakes of this.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
One i'll return.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Shortly you may find it of more than passing interests
that within the past two, years The institute Of Polar
studies Of Ohio State university suggested the possibility of some
(42:43):
of the things.
Speaker 5 (42:44):
You heard in our.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Story In february nineteen seventy, seven At Edward's Air Force
base In, california a year's tests were begun at The
Dryden Flight Research center as.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
A prelude to an altogether new era in.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
SPACEFLIGHT a few days, later we read that The National
aeronautics And Space ADMINISTRATION nasa is accepting applications at The
Johnson Space center In houston for what they call mission.
Specialists just how special will these missions? Be our cast
(43:20):
Included Tony, Roberts Christopher, Dabori William, griffiths And Robert. Maxwell
the entire production was under the direction Of Hymon.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Brown this IS. E.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
G marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater
for another adventure in the. Macabre until next, Time Pleasant
dreams
Speaker 7 (44:05):
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