August 2, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, and this features Ernest Chappel.
Quiet Please for Today is called If I Should Wait
Before I Die. I'm a practical man. I want you
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to understand that I am practical, utterly practical, that I
believe nothing that cannot be proved beyond the shadow. But
I know that men live because the lives of many
of them impinge on me, who also live. I believe
that they die because I've seen them die pure knowledge.
I've devoted most of my forty seven years to its pursuit.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
The application of the knowledge I gained is a small
moment to me.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I may say that it's of no.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Moment, whatever the experiment. The deduction and proof of new
natural laws is the be all and the end all
is I believe the poets.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Put it, and their application is not my province.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's down here does not share my opinion.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Don's interest is in the applications of.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The laws that I and others have discovered improved.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
You don't care, doctor iverson whether a many men.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
And women die as the result of the application of
your discoveries.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It is a matter of no interest whatever to me.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Die, I wonder if you really mean I mean it implicitly.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You know what the world is doing your discovery.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Obviously I know something of what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I assure you it does not interest me.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It doesn't interest you that three men are curtling.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Their spirit in a satellite rocket as a result of
your research.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I am interested only.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
In the data they may bring back from outer space,
data on which.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I may base further research. It doesn't interest you that
those data may.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Become the basis for the building of purposes out there
in space, from which the Earth can be bombarded by
some of the new weapons that have derived from your studies.
I didn't invent the weapon Stoff. Other men did, using
your technical data as their concern. But does it interest
you that those three men may never come back to it,
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but they may be facing a horrible death out there,
seven hundred miles.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Away from this Earth alone out there in the day.
I have no time to contemplate their trouble spot.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
You sent them there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
They wouldn't be there but hadn't been for your formulas.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And your work.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I tell you again, that is their concern, not mine.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Do you know who they are done.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm very busy when I please go back to your office,
Nott me finish my work.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Ernst Macy and Dan Seems go away.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And your brother, my brother, your kid brother Edward. If
you're hand me that slide, please, will you listen to me.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
The other one? Please?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Doctor Anderson, I tell you that.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Hi an.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, yes, oh this is gone mad.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
When you sure? Yes he's here? No, I don't think so,
I'll tell him yeah, thanks, okay, doctor Anderson.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well that was Major Hilton.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Over at the center. They had another message from the
satellite rocket at fourteen.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Fifty five from your brother Edward?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What did you say from seven hundred miles out in
space from a rocket to spinish circling the Earth for
three months now alone out there in the cold void?
Such a little hope of ever coming back to warmth,
to light and friends from the dark and the cold.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Your brother Edward?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
He's dead.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Somewhere out there in space.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
He's dead.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Essential message? He died before he finished it. Tell my brother,
he said, tell my brother if I should wait before
I die, And he died before he finished it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Do you know what that means.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Do you hear me, your Brither.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Have me that note book? There? Will you no the
one with the brown cover.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Knowledge is all.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The application of the knowledge is unimportant unless it leads
to further knowledge. I have no theories of life or death,
or of creation. Explanation or the intensive explanation is futile
and unnecessary. There are no secrets of life or death.
They are chemical processes. Secure your demand. They exist, and
that's all. Perhaps someday by or one of my colleagues
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will discover the principles of this living and dying.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But there's a long, long apprenticeship.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Ahead of us before we can turn without face of science. Then,
in the meantime, there are problems to be solved, answers
to be proved, and it's of no importance what the
temporary use is made of the results of our researches.
This space rocket would have been useful without in shotting
the effects of cosmic radiation, but it's gone.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
We must dismiss it as an expedient of pales. Knowledge.
Knowledge is the goal.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
All else is unimportant.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Never forget that it's worth any price, doesn't it depend
just a little Doctor Anderson on who pays the price,
what the ones who die in the search. As long
as the important ones don't die or price is reasonable,
who is to decide which are the unimportant ones?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I am important as to yourself to the world.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The others are important to the world whose it wouldn't
be any world without them. Doctor, Well, in that sad
people like your brother, he was dispensable to science to
you personally?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Are you implying that I didn't love my brother?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Am I? I did? I want?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I Please don't try to involve me in an emotional experience.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Now I have work to do.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It might do you some good, Doctor Anderson.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
If you did get involved in an emotional experience, it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Might wake you up. I don't wake back. No, you're not.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I can explain what you mean by that. No, I
don't think.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I will, Doctor, I don't think, but I don't know
what you mean. You'll know what you're doing, I do.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You'll know that the application of.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Your research and experiment is producing the most frightful weapons
of the world as they ever seen.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
That's not my fault, that's application.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Again, Well, they wouldn't exist without what you.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Know, what you've proved.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
In that case, I am only helping my country. That's
what the others say.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
What of it? The others scientists in other countries they're
helping in my countries. Well, that's their privilege.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You realize that you and the others are.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Distilling destruction for the whole world, don't you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That's the fault of you, young military man. Were converting
pure research into weapons for walk my grandma.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But you are the ones that gave us that research.
It's your dreams, not our I wish you'd stop talking
your dreams. Well, I wish, and you wish.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
What I remember what your brother sent to you from
way out there in space, you know, dying rocket ship,
a spaceship.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
That grew out of your dreams.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And I forgot it?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Why, doctor Anderson, you must remember me. No, it's like
that little prayer that kids in his bedtime on.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Your brother changed it.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Around a little.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
He knew what he was talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Do you remember it? Something sentimental? I remember I used
to say it on your children at night. Now I
may down to sleeper.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
If I should die before I wait.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That isn't what your brother said, dying out there in
the cold but dark.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I try to remember it. If I were you doctor.
Your brother said, if I should.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Wait before I die, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh yes it does, doctor. He was telling you to
wake up before you die. Wake up, doctor, before you die,
and the.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
World dies with you.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
There is nothing I can do. I committed myself to this,
and I've gone too far.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The other bush off and beverage and tell a plane.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
They have gone too fart. You they cannot stop.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's no dream, no dream at all.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
It is pure science. But if they have we averted
our dreams, not.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Dreams, what did they have perverted our studies, our equations,
our living thoughts, the weapons of destruction? It was not
our faults.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I was not my brother's keeper.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But he died far, far out there, in the illimitable
reaches of immeasurable cold, pot.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Ready cosmic dust rise and great hole clouds.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
There is no time.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
The alchemists tried for thousands of years to transmute base
metals into precious ones.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I only teared out their fumbling tact.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
But you succeeded.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You was the other. I didn't pollute the waters of Bikini.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
No. You sat in a snug office eight thousands miles away,
and the reports of the awful upevil of the sea
came to you, and you.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Read them and smiled.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You leaned back in your chair and smiled. They've proved
what will you could be proved, you said, You smiled.
This was not my fault. You dreamed the destruction leaped
from the floor of the sea, and the waters.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Were charreed with death, and you smiled in your dream.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
It was no dream, And your brother and two other
men shook hands with you and stepped into the rocket shell.
It was to be their tomb, and that tomb was
the reality of your dream. No, and you dream all
of more wonders upon the earth, upon this earth, that
one day you will destroy you with your own hand.
Dream grows brighter and brighter, until the whole universe should
plot it out, and you stretch out your hands for reality.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Who was only black, assentiously attentious?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Please, in thirty second, pro will be activated. In thirty seconds,
will be activated. Wa I tell you they don't know
not knock come over here to the window. No, I
must springer im thank those dons, desk quick, come on,
especially then this is project theaty over here.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Where you can see the whole second hurrying.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What is it? Second we're going to reach the moon?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
What second?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's the radar.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now the monoculars won't do you any good.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Here.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Watch, this is the project I heard about him?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Where did you hear about it?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
They've been talking, you know, have somebody's head for that.
Watch second?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Watch is it just another radar context we're going.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
To reach it?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We kept it a secret for so long.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Only ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
What he's going to do?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The beam is on.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Going to reach the moon.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
With the projective atomic vision? Productive?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Watch?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, doctor annis me no second second?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
If we do this one second? Hi?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I did a period of Wait, they're on the way.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It took a little time for the sound to reach it.
I watch, watch two hundreds of twenty thousand. Watch what's
the radar?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
That will happen?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
An explosion? We can see with the radar. I hope
it's nearly there now.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Second or two dreams those eyes?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Look, son, look, I pray.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Of a little es My son was dinat. One does
not always accurately to be the results of a protected experiment. Yeah, that, however,
is the purpose of experiments to prove or disprove the
theory of scientific conception. If as were possible to conduct
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all one's experiments personally, the margin of error would naturally
be reduced to the minimums. But when a large number
of other individuals entre into the operations, error and the
possibility of error is naturally modetized. You that's an interesting thought.
I'm just making over it in what racial most probable
error increase with the addition of new minds to ray
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particular projects and muster usupa.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
P phenomena.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I do not know exactly what went wrong. It's within
the realm of possibility that I might have made a
psych miscalculation myself, although actually I doubt that it's possible.
If fissionable material reacts the greatest celerity of our atmosphere
as we know it is lacking, it is possible if
there were on the Moon certain elements unlearned to us,
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elements that do not show up in spectrometric analysis, elements
particularly amenable to the chain reaction of unprecedented violence. Mildly
shocking to realize the extent of the damage done by
Project Paton. However, I'm reminded of the theory of a
philosopher birthday that one must doubt everything outside the circle
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of one's own consciousness, and certainly I have the evidence
of my own consciousness. The image of the moon instantaneously
disappeared on the radar screen at the precise second when
my calculations showed that the projective.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Had reached the Moon's surface.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Then, although this is the time of the full moon
padre Nis now in succession, it has not appeared in
its customer's place.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
In the fremonage.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Therefore, I am led.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
To an inteluxible conclusion, which is corroborated by other hearsay evidence.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It is a fact, then I say that positively.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But the Moon has been utterly destroyed as a result
of project players. Never again the sweet moonlight of the lovers,
never more of the harvest moon rising above his own
October night.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
But science is vindicated. Science has done it.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Pure science went into the calculations. The great thinking machines
ground and chattered, and the data poured out. The data
that I alone knew would cop equations. No human mind
could imagine, beautiful, pure mathematical Fosse power beyond the concept,
the conception of the ones who die out.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Relations of mass and.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Energy, and the cosmic movements of all the planets allowances
for the gravitation of stars forty lights years away, corrections
for the rotation of the Earth, the absolute cold of
two hundred and forty thousand miles of space, pinpointed on
the great crater of Copernicus, that.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Man has gazed on and pondered since the.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
World began, and that no man shall ever see.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
In the hand of man has reached out into space
and found a target, pure pure thought, that sought out
the farthest.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Reaches of a mine.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The device, however, and in every harbor of the world,
the tides rushed out on the very floor of the
sea was plain to human eyes for one last month,
and far out on the breast of the ocean, great
tidal waves that overtook and destroyed.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Everything that floated.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Man has at last conquered space, and thousands dead for
miles in them from the shore.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
When the waters returned and the moon.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I did not know we would destroy the moon. I
tell you, I thought there would be.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
A small explosion that we could see. A man has
destroyed what God hath wrought. You've drained well night, doctor,
my scientist brother. It was an extredinal well done, well completed.
The lives of the price of progress, Sully, there will be.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
No more wars done.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Don't you want to say that we have proved that
modern war is so destructive that no nation can afford
the fighter, that's no dream.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yes, yes, you have proved that you.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Have destroyed one world of very pretty demonstrated there.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Was no world.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
It was the moon, the dead moon, dead, yes, gone, yes,
but perhaps it was a world, doctor Anderson.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Nothing the vegetation on the moon.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You knew that Dada proved it long ago, way back
in nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Well, why it did not have been people?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It couldn't be proved, It will never be proved.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Now there's only dust in our own world.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Can you think of this happened on our own world?
And look any man in the eyes.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I didn't intend that, but you accomplished I know it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
But you have other experiments in mind, I assume, Well,
not immediately, of course, of course they're not for years.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Now we have to go on.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Do you you know the end of it all?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We can't stop.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Now we started this thing, there's no turning back. The
point of no return exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
We have accomplished a thing that human minds could never imagine.
Will you have dreamed, and you're going around dreaming of destruction.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
On We'll take care next time, you will, of course
we will.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
This is a it's an unfortunate accident, an accident. Ten
million people killed on this continental rome, cities destroys, It
can never be rebuilt. The very moon, the ageless satellite
of the Earth, blown the dust.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Haven't you dreamed enough?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It is not a dream.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You will not wait before you die, before we die.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
What can I do?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You can stop it done?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It can't be stopped.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
It must be stopped.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Men wasn't put on earth to die by his own hand,
to be murdered by his fellow men.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
But what can I do?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We can't stop.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
We started a chain reaction among people.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know what chain reactions are.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You know what follows. You know that the simple fuse
lit by a tiny match can set off an explosion
that will destroy the world. There is nothing to be done. Nothing,
marsh Off and Beveridge and Delaplane and I I say it,
in all humanity.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
We know all there is to know about these cosmic forces.
We know more than any other women in the world.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
We do you for know how to.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Stop this this progress? I know I think they know,
but you won't stop. How well if you four could.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Agree to put a.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Side on, we can't.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
There is no hope. We must go on to destruction.
We must go on.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
How do you know you must go on? I know?
How do you know?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I have been told by the others.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yes, they'll go on if.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You give up, they will.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I know.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What if they died.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They are the directing brains of all the research in
their countries, and they died, They're programs will be sent back.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
So far.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
They won't die.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
They have died. Did you say, I said they have died.
It's impossible they did.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
How do you know they died.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
When they died on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean,
when everybody else died on.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
The Atlantic Ocean in the tighter way. Yes, you disposed
of them very neatly. I didn't you kill them, just
as you killed all those others? My business to know
about that?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Fctor Anderson, partial.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
BEVERI another brand.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
You have no rivals now, doctor Anderson?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Why that's right there.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
In front of the world.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
What's left of him? There's nobody to carry on their work?
Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I know? Now?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Now? What were they coming here for?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I didn't say they were coming here. They were, though
I know they were.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
But what.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Why were they coming here? Don't you know, doctor Ryson?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
To kill me? To murder me?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Of course they knew me. They heard about project their time.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
They knew if they murdered me, that would stop all
our developments here, and they would ally themselves against us,
and without the weapons that I could devise, they would.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Why they'd win the war?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
What war, doctor Anderson?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
What?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
What?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
What?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Why they declared war on us?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
No? They wouldn't declare war on us?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
They just why they just destroy us overnight?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
But no, they weren't coming here to kill you.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I know they were, No, But then they were coming
here to make a deal with you, a deal.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yes, they were afraid of what of the thing that
killed them type of way, but that they didn't know
what it was to be.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
But they well maybe they were afraid of it. Maybe
they were afraid of what you'd do next.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
They'd better be afraid. Oh they're not anymore. They didn't. Oh, yes,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well remember what your brother said, Yes, I remember?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
But what why they awoke.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Before they died? Doctor Amay?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It didn't do them any good? No, it didn't know
it certainly didn't because you didn't. Await.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Now you're the only one left.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You know all the secrets.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
You know more than any other man in the whole world.
I do, don't I it's in your power now to
go ahead and do things that the others can't duplicate.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
But they can't even come near. It's my patriotic duty,
is it. I've got to Why don if I can
tell you some of the things I've I've already planned
some of the most amazing things. What I tell you,
your mind couldn't even begin to comprehend what I can do.
I'm not worry about competition, and I thrive. But there
may not be any place.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Left for you to do these wonderful things. Doctrines, why not?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Why?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
There might not be any world left?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Don't you see?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
But I can't just sit here. No, of course I
can't stagnate.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I agree. I spent my whole life studying, learning, thinking,
and studying again. I've gone farther into nuclear fission.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Than any other man in history. I know more than
even they knew.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
See A mean that I.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Should give this all up and just sit here? Not
at all?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Doctrines?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Listen to me? I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
There's one little thing, one simple little operation.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
One why It's as simple.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
As turning a Swiss the wrong way. Yes, it would
neutralize every single atom of fissionable material in the world today.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Really, I mean it. It would neutralize every stockpile in
the world and.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Would be a hundred years before anybody could.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Prepare even one little bomb.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Do you realize that there's only one catch in it?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
What you?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
If you are still around you and only you in
all the world, could well?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Shall I say? Unnutralize it? That's right? Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And you want me to give it all up? Yes,
I can't do it. Don I've explained that to you.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
There's but there's nobody left to carry on but me,
nobody but you. That's right, Doctor Anderson.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Do you want to die?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
What I say? Do you want to die? Die? Bye?
I've never you've already thought about bang? Done? You know that?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Not personally?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I mean, that's right, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Bringing death to a great many other people.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Will billify to our brother Edward, I didn't. I'm your
brother too, Sam, I'll die too, and.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Everybody else will die, and you'll die by your hand
If you don't give it up. I'll die. Wait, but
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I tell you you're still dreaming.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Say I know you, I'm not dreaming.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It isn't too late to wake up. Say I'm not dreaming.
Yes you are, Sam, and it's time to wait. I
tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
The title of.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Today's Quiet Please story is If I Should Wait Before
I Die?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Written and directed by Willis Cooler. The man who spoke to.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You was Ernest Chapel, and my brother.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Donald was played by Don Briggs.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
As usual, musics for quiet Pleas is played by Albert Gramma.
I have for wor worried about next week if you
can get through the door.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Here is our writer, producer, Willis Cooper.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Thank you for listening to client.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Please.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Next week I have a story.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
For you about the man who knew everything, And so
next week at the same time, I am quietly your
as Ernest Chapelin. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company,
WJZ and WJZ FM, New York.
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper, and this features Ernest Chappel.
Quiet Please for Today is called If I Should Wait
Before I Die. I'm a practical man. I want you
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to understand that I am practical, utterly practical, that I
believe nothing that cannot be proved beyond the shadow. But
I know that men live because the lives of many
of them impinge on me, who also live. I believe
that they die because I've seen them die pure knowledge.
I've devoted most of my forty seven years to its pursuit.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
The application of the knowledge I gained is a small
moment to me.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
I may say that it's of no.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Moment, whatever the experiment. The deduction and proof of new
natural laws is the be all and the end all
is I believe the poets.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Put it, and their application is not my province.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It's down here does not share my opinion.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Don's interest is in the applications of.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The laws that I and others have discovered improved.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
You don't care, doctor iverson whether a many men.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
And women die as the result of the application of
your discoveries.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It is a matter of no interest whatever to me.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Die, I wonder if you really mean I mean it implicitly.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
You know what the world is doing your discovery.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Obviously I know something of what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I assure you it does not interest me.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It doesn't interest you that three men are curtling.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Their spirit in a satellite rocket as a result of
your research.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
I am interested only.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
In the data they may bring back from outer space,
data on which.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I may base further research. It doesn't interest you that
those data may.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Become the basis for the building of purposes out there
in space, from which the Earth can be bombarded by
some of the new weapons that have derived from your studies.
I didn't invent the weapon Stoff. Other men did, using
your technical data as their concern. But does it interest
you that those three men may never come back to it,
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but they may be facing a horrible death out there,
seven hundred miles.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Away from this Earth alone out there in the day.
I have no time to contemplate their trouble spot.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
You sent them there.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
They wouldn't be there but hadn't been for your formulas.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And your work.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I tell you again, that is their concern, not mine.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Do you know who they are done.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I'm very busy when I please go back to your office,
Nott me finish my work.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
Ernst Macy and Dan Seems go away.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
And your brother, my brother, your kid brother Edward. If
you're hand me that slide, please, will you listen to me.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
The other one? Please?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Doctor Anderson, I tell you that.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Hi an.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Okay, yes, oh this is gone mad.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
When you sure? Yes he's here? No, I don't think so,
I'll tell him yeah, thanks, okay, doctor Anderson.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well that was Major Hilton.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Over at the center. They had another message from the
satellite rocket at fourteen.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Fifty five from your brother Edward?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What did you say from seven hundred miles out in
space from a rocket to spinish circling the Earth for
three months now alone out there in the cold void?
Such a little hope of ever coming back to warmth,
to light and friends from the dark and the cold.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Your brother Edward?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
He's dead.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Somewhere out there in space.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
He's dead.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Do you hear me?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Essential message? He died before he finished it. Tell my brother,
he said, tell my brother if I should wait before
I die, And he died before he finished it.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Do you know what that means.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Do you hear me, your Brither.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Have me that note book? There? Will you no the
one with the brown cover.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Knowledge is all.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The application of the knowledge is unimportant unless it leads
to further knowledge. I have no theories of life or death,
or of creation. Explanation or the intensive explanation is futile
and unnecessary. There are no secrets of life or death.
They are chemical processes. Secure your demand. They exist, and
that's all. Perhaps someday by or one of my colleagues
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will discover the principles of this living and dying.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
But there's a long, long apprenticeship.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Ahead of us before we can turn without face of science. Then,
in the meantime, there are problems to be solved, answers
to be proved, and it's of no importance what the
temporary use is made of the results of our researches.
This space rocket would have been useful without in shotting
the effects of cosmic radiation, but it's gone.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
We must dismiss it as an expedient of pales. Knowledge.
Knowledge is the goal.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
All else is unimportant.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Never forget that it's worth any price, doesn't it depend
just a little Doctor Anderson on who pays the price,
what the ones who die in the search. As long
as the important ones don't die or price is reasonable,
who is to decide which are the unimportant ones?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I am important as to yourself to the world.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
The others are important to the world whose it wouldn't
be any world without them. Doctor, Well, in that sad
people like your brother, he was dispensable to science to
you personally?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Are you implying that I didn't love my brother?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Am I? I did? I want?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
I Please don't try to involve me in an emotional experience.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Now I have work to do.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It might do you some good, Doctor Anderson.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
If you did get involved in an emotional experience, it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Might wake you up. I don't wake back. No, you're not.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I can explain what you mean by that. No, I
don't think.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I will, Doctor, I don't think, but I don't know
what you mean. You'll know what you're doing, I do.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
You'll know that the application of.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Your research and experiment is producing the most frightful weapons
of the world as they ever seen.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
That's not my fault, that's application.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Again, Well, they wouldn't exist without what you.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Know, what you've proved.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
In that case, I am only helping my country. That's
what the others say.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
What of it? The others scientists in other countries they're
helping in my countries. Well, that's their privilege.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
You realize that you and the others are.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Distilling destruction for the whole world, don't you.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
That's the fault of you, young military man. Were converting
pure research into weapons for walk my grandma.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But you are the ones that gave us that research.
It's your dreams, not our I wish you'd stop talking
your dreams. Well, I wish, and you wish.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
What I remember what your brother sent to you from
way out there in space, you know, dying rocket ship,
a spaceship.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
That grew out of your dreams.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And I forgot it?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Why, doctor Anderson, you must remember me. No, it's like
that little prayer that kids in his bedtime on.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Your brother changed it.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Around a little.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
He knew what he was talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Do you remember it? Something sentimental? I remember I used
to say it on your children at night. Now I
may down to sleeper.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
If I should die before I wait.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
That isn't what your brother said, dying out there in
the cold but dark.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
I try to remember it. If I were you doctor.
Your brother said, if I should.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Wait before I die, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh yes it does, doctor. He was telling you to
wake up before you die. Wake up, doctor, before you die,
and the.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
World dies with you.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
There is nothing I can do. I committed myself to this,
and I've gone too far.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
The other bush off and beverage and tell a plane.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
They have gone too fart. You they cannot stop.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's no dream, no dream at all.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
It is pure science. But if they have we averted
our dreams, not.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Dreams, what did they have perverted our studies, our equations,
our living thoughts, the weapons of destruction? It was not
our faults.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I was not my brother's keeper.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But he died far, far out there, in the illimitable
reaches of immeasurable cold, pot.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Ready cosmic dust rise and great hole clouds.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
There is no time.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
The alchemists tried for thousands of years to transmute base
metals into precious ones.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I only teared out their fumbling tact.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
But you succeeded.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You was the other. I didn't pollute the waters of Bikini.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
No. You sat in a snug office eight thousands miles away,
and the reports of the awful upevil of the sea
came to you, and you.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Read them and smiled.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You leaned back in your chair and smiled. They've proved
what will you could be proved, you said, You smiled.
This was not my fault. You dreamed the destruction leaped
from the floor of the sea, and the waters.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Were charreed with death, and you smiled in your dream.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
It was no dream, And your brother and two other
men shook hands with you and stepped into the rocket shell.
It was to be their tomb, and that tomb was
the reality of your dream. No, and you dream all
of more wonders upon the earth, upon this earth, that
one day you will destroy you with your own hand.
Dream grows brighter and brighter, until the whole universe should
plot it out, and you stretch out your hands for reality.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Who was only black, assentiously attentious?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Please, in thirty second, pro will be activated. In thirty seconds,
will be activated. Wa I tell you they don't know
not knock come over here to the window. No, I
must springer im thank those dons, desk quick, come on,
especially then this is project theaty over here.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Where you can see the whole second hurrying.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
What is it? Second we're going to reach the moon?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
What second?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's the radar.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now the monoculars won't do you any good.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Here.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Watch, this is the project I heard about him?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Where did you hear about it?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
They've been talking, you know, have somebody's head for that.
Watch second?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Watch is it just another radar context we're going.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
To reach it?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
We kept it a secret for so long.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Only ten seconds.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
What he's going to do?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The beam is on.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Going to reach the moon.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
With the projective atomic vision? Productive?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Watch?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, doctor annis me no second second?
Speaker 2 (12:54):
If we do this one second? Hi?
Speaker 5 (13:01):
I did a period of Wait, they're on the way.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It took a little time for the sound to reach it.
I watch, watch two hundreds of twenty thousand. Watch what's
the radar?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
That will happen?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
An explosion? We can see with the radar. I hope
it's nearly there now.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Second or two dreams those eyes?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Look, son, look, I pray.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Of a little es My son was dinat. One does
not always accurately to be the results of a protected experiment. Yeah, that, however,
is the purpose of experiments to prove or disprove the
theory of scientific conception. If as were possible to conduct
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all one's experiments personally, the margin of error would naturally
be reduced to the minimums. But when a large number
of other individuals entre into the operations, error and the
possibility of error is naturally modetized. You that's an interesting thought.
I'm just making over it in what racial most probable
error increase with the addition of new minds to ray
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particular projects and muster usupa.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
P phenomena.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I do not know exactly what went wrong. It's within
the realm of possibility that I might have made a
psych miscalculation myself, although actually I doubt that it's possible.
If fissionable material reacts the greatest celerity of our atmosphere
as we know it is lacking, it is possible if
there were on the Moon certain elements unlearned to us,
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elements that do not show up in spectrometric analysis, elements
particularly amenable to the chain reaction of unprecedented violence. Mildly
shocking to realize the extent of the damage done by
Project Paton. However, I'm reminded of the theory of a
philosopher birthday that one must doubt everything outside the circle
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of one's own consciousness, and certainly I have the evidence
of my own consciousness. The image of the moon instantaneously
disappeared on the radar screen at the precise second when
my calculations showed that the projective.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Had reached the Moon's surface.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Then, although this is the time of the full moon
padre Nis now in succession, it has not appeared in
its customer's place.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
In the fremonage.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Therefore, I am led.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
To an inteluxible conclusion, which is corroborated by other hearsay evidence.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
It is a fact, then I say that positively.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But the Moon has been utterly destroyed as a result
of project players. Never again the sweet moonlight of the lovers,
never more of the harvest moon rising above his own
October night.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
But science is vindicated. Science has done it.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Pure science went into the calculations. The great thinking machines
ground and chattered, and the data poured out. The data
that I alone knew would cop equations. No human mind
could imagine, beautiful, pure mathematical Fosse power beyond the concept,
the conception of the ones who die out.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Relations of mass and.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Energy, and the cosmic movements of all the planets allowances
for the gravitation of stars forty lights years away, corrections
for the rotation of the Earth, the absolute cold of
two hundred and forty thousand miles of space, pinpointed on
the great crater of Copernicus, that.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Man has gazed on and pondered since the.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
World began, and that no man shall ever see.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
In the hand of man has reached out into space
and found a target, pure pure thought, that sought out
the farthest.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Reaches of a mine.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
The device, however, and in every harbor of the world,
the tides rushed out on the very floor of the
sea was plain to human eyes for one last month,
and far out on the breast of the ocean, great
tidal waves that overtook and destroyed.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Everything that floated.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Man has at last conquered space, and thousands dead for
miles in them from the shore.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
When the waters returned and the moon.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
I did not know we would destroy the moon. I
tell you, I thought there would be.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
A small explosion that we could see. A man has
destroyed what God hath wrought. You've drained well night, doctor,
my scientist brother. It was an extredinal well done, well completed.
The lives of the price of progress, Sully, there will be.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
No more wars done.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Don't you want to say that we have proved that
modern war is so destructive that no nation can afford
the fighter, that's no dream.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yes, yes, you have proved that you.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Have destroyed one world of very pretty demonstrated there.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
Was no world.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
It was the moon, the dead moon, dead, yes, gone, yes,
but perhaps it was a world, doctor Anderson.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Nothing the vegetation on the moon.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You knew that Dada proved it long ago, way back
in nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Well, why it did not have been people?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It couldn't be proved, It will never be proved.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Now there's only dust in our own world.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Can you think of this happened on our own world?
And look any man in the eyes.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
I didn't intend that, but you accomplished I know it.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
But you have other experiments in mind, I assume, Well,
not immediately, of course, of course they're not for years.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Now we have to go on.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Do you you know the end of it all?
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We can't stop.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Now we started this thing, there's no turning back. The
point of no return exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
We have accomplished a thing that human minds could never imagine.
Will you have dreamed, and you're going around dreaming of destruction.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
On We'll take care next time, you will, of course
we will.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
This is a it's an unfortunate accident, an accident. Ten
million people killed on this continental rome, cities destroys, It
can never be rebuilt. The very moon, the ageless satellite
of the Earth, blown the dust.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Haven't you dreamed enough?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It is not a dream.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
You will not wait before you die, before we die.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
What can I do?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You can stop it done?
Speaker 2 (20:17):
It can't be stopped.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
It must be stopped.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Men wasn't put on earth to die by his own hand,
to be murdered by his fellow men.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
But what can I do?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
We can't stop.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
We started a chain reaction among people.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know what chain reactions are.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
You know what follows. You know that the simple fuse
lit by a tiny match can set off an explosion
that will destroy the world. There is nothing to be done. Nothing,
marsh Off and Beveridge and Delaplane and I I say it,
in all humanity.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
We know all there is to know about these cosmic forces.
We know more than any other women in the world.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
We do you for know how to.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Stop this this progress? I know I think they know,
but you won't stop. How well if you four could.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Agree to put a.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Side on, we can't.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
There is no hope. We must go on to destruction.
We must go on.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
How do you know you must go on? I know?
How do you know?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
I have been told by the others.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Yes, they'll go on if.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
You give up, they will.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I know.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
What if they died.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
They are the directing brains of all the research in
their countries, and they died, They're programs will be sent back.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
So far.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
They won't die.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
They have died. Did you say, I said they have died.
It's impossible they did.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
How do you know they died.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
When they died on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean,
when everybody else died on.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
The Atlantic Ocean in the tighter way. Yes, you disposed
of them very neatly. I didn't you kill them, just
as you killed all those others? My business to know
about that?
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Fctor Anderson, partial.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
BEVERI another brand.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
You have no rivals now, doctor Anderson?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Why that's right there.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
In front of the world.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
What's left of him? There's nobody to carry on their work?
Are you sure?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I know? Now?
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Now? What were they coming here for?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I didn't say they were coming here. They were, though
I know they were.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
But what.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Why were they coming here? Don't you know, doctor Ryson?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
To kill me? To murder me?
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Of course they knew me. They heard about project their time.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
They knew if they murdered me, that would stop all
our developments here, and they would ally themselves against us,
and without the weapons that I could devise, they would.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Why they'd win the war?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
What war, doctor Anderson?
Speaker 5 (23:36):
What?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
What?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
What?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Why they declared war on us?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
No? They wouldn't declare war on us?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
They just why they just destroy us overnight?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
But no, they weren't coming here to kill you.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I know they were, No, But then they were coming
here to make a deal with you, a deal.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yes, they were afraid of what of the thing that
killed them type of way, but that they didn't know
what it was to be.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
But they well maybe they were afraid of it. Maybe
they were afraid of what you'd do next.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
They'd better be afraid. Oh they're not anymore. They didn't. Oh, yes,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well remember what your brother said, Yes, I remember?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
But what why they awoke.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Before they died? Doctor Amay?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It didn't do them any good? No, it didn't know
it certainly didn't because you didn't. Await.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Now you're the only one left.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You know all the secrets.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
You know more than any other man in the whole world.
I do, don't I it's in your power now to
go ahead and do things that the others can't duplicate.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
But they can't even come near. It's my patriotic duty,
is it. I've got to Why don if I can
tell you some of the things I've I've already planned
some of the most amazing things. What I tell you,
your mind couldn't even begin to comprehend what I can do.
I'm not worry about competition, and I thrive. But there
may not be any place.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Left for you to do these wonderful things. Doctrines, why not?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Why?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
There might not be any world left?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Don't you see?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
But I can't just sit here. No, of course I
can't stagnate.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I agree. I spent my whole life studying, learning, thinking,
and studying again. I've gone farther into nuclear fission.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Than any other man in history. I know more than
even they knew.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
See A mean that I.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Should give this all up and just sit here? Not
at all?
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Doctrines?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Listen to me? I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
There's one little thing, one simple little operation.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
One why It's as simple.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
As turning a Swiss the wrong way. Yes, it would
neutralize every single atom of fissionable material in the world today.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Really, I mean it. It would neutralize every stockpile in
the world and.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Would be a hundred years before anybody could.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Prepare even one little bomb.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Do you realize that there's only one catch in it?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
What you?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
If you are still around you and only you in
all the world, could well?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Shall I say? Unnutralize it? That's right? Yes?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
And you want me to give it all up? Yes,
I can't do it. Don I've explained that to you.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
There's but there's nobody left to carry on but me,
nobody but you. That's right, Doctor Anderson.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Do you want to die?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
What I say? Do you want to die? Die? Bye?
I've never you've already thought about bang? Done? You know that?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Not personally?
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I mean, that's right, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
But you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Bringing death to a great many other people.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Will billify to our brother Edward, I didn't. I'm your
brother too, Sam, I'll die too, and.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Everybody else will die, and you'll die by your hand
If you don't give it up. I'll die. Wait, but
I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I tell you you're still dreaming.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Say I know you, I'm not dreaming.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
It isn't too late to wake up. Say I'm not dreaming.
Yes you are, Sam, and it's time to wait. I
tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
The title of.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Today's Quiet Please story is If I Should Wait Before
I Die?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Written and directed by Willis Cooler. The man who spoke to.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
You was Ernest Chapel, and my brother.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Donald was played by Don Briggs.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
As usual, musics for quiet Pleas is played by Albert Gramma.
I have for wor worried about next week if you
can get through the door.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Here is our writer, producer, Willis Cooper.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
Thank you for listening to client.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Please.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Next week I have a story.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
For you about the man who knew everything, And so
next week at the same time, I am quietly your
as Ernest Chapelin. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company,
WJZ and WJZ FM, New York.
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