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M doutdown for Blackbots X minus Fire for Days two
X minus one Fire from the far horizons of the Unknown,
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comtails of new dimensions in.
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Time and space.
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These are stories of a future adventures in which you'll
live in a million, could be years on a thousand,
maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company present.
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X minus one.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
A Wind is Rising by finn O'Donovan now X minus
one and a Wind is Rising. I've only been on
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Corella for eight months, not long for a season advanced
explavation man like myself, but long enough to know one
thing before long hour is gonna kill me.
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A native Corella. Maybe I was a little lady and.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
You have to live inside of steeling concrete capsule just
listening to that fantastic wind now twenty four hours a
day and begins to get you.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Anyway.
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I started them smanic. He was a corol and radio man.
Came up to my quarters to get me. Come to
a dirty brown and look something like big spiders with
five hairy tentacles.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
God urn.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well other earth man, curse girl, this surf man come
pretty quick. Okay, you got drum sugar, what formurrd do
something favorite get rump sugar.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
No, I don't have sugar, and upbeat it. Maybe you
got did meat no crack? Did meat?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
No?
Speaker 5 (02:36):
No meat?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I guess the slimy shape out of it? Hell? What wrong?
Come on all of me? Good? I don't think it's
good to a spy.
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Still, they have no feelings. You know that they have
no emotional nervous set up just the same.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't think it's screwed.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
So ho for you, for you will solve somebody by
your own standard to hurt yourself, even if the object
of your insult is a bad thing up and they
stare environment advanced exploration next to us. You're an anthropologist.
You stick to your stuff and I'll stick to mind.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Sorry.
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Now, what's the fuss about way water possible? What about it?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It isn't running? Why I've found it? Din't put a probium.
It must be blocked out.
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Of the storage. Than how could it be blocked out there?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Maybe the wind rolled a boulder at it. More likely
one of those spiders like Manic, was fiddling with it.
But ladies have been told last of tamper with the
water lining.
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They don't like us.
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They might thought you said they were incapable of feeling
like or dislike or any.
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Emotion I did.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I know they can't feel, but still somehow I get
the sensation that they resent us. I'm glad we're going
to get one of them and try the station.
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Regardless of that, we can't live with that water supply
cut out.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Listen to that wind that had been murdered out there.
I'll go to my chain. You wouldn't know what to
do if you got there. It seems quite simple now,
I come to think of it, equidial to a man's
job as a a bowlder. The wind gage re maybe
two miles an hour just to light breeze and toether.
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Maybe we all the way to the drops of the world.
That's past the game. Why don't we take him a
lot the gate, as he.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Knows the terrain, and like all these kind he's a
fantastic sailor. But they take those woven lamb bows out
on a hundred mile wheels with no.
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Tons at all.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
The breakways fourteen tons, and it has a diesel engine.
We don't need any sailors if they have to use
the steady and sail. I can handle it as well
as any spider man. Just a suggestion when you stick
do anthropology making the lots and we get the boot
out and need somnic to close the locks after us.
Slanic man Carl Cratl and I are going out in
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the heavy land car.
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What's the weather going to be like?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
We come up along they do more not anything.
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To be framed. He good shoogar. Help here you are stomach.
It's very good caring today. You've got shade on the truck.
We have a study. Will sail made of steel woven reeds?
More better, the more easy time. We know all about that.
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Open a lot, Mary ship. The boat, as we called it,
was armored like a tank and streamline. They had vision
slits of catapool glass and most of the fourteen tons
were scentered near the ground. It a sealed from dust
and had six giant fire made of woven steeling. Next,
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it was built to take the rocky terrain of the
planet Corrolla and navigating the gale force winds that patted
the planet.
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I stuck my tap into the cockpit and.
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We were ready.
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The wind indicator told me that the winds had risen
to ninety four miles an hour and rising. I looked
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out over the instrument panels. The Carla station had been
set down like an overturned.
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Bowl on a rocky plane.
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In order to get to the water storage tank, we
had to travel six miles immediately around the station where
our boulder battles luge spikes of concrete designed to stop
the boulders that the wind rolled off the mountains. I
shoved the boot of the gear and we were on
our way. Hang on, jee, here we go.
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The windows up to ninety seventy.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You suppose running for a storm, the gink that it
was fine sailing leather for a corella. Maybe arl, this
baby can take it. You see the pipeline yet, sand
is pretty thick in the vision of us. Here it
is about two points on the starboard bark and I
see it. Now, work our speed three miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Give us a little more oxygen in here. QUI, hey,
something becoming taught us. Looks like a boulder hard white.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, that was no boulder. That was one of those jinks.
Out for a sail and the land fits playful. Un
The next one scared us like that.
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Out shoot them, so help.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Me, I'll understand how they can save Those plimousy shifts
are those wooden rowers.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
What's our wind steed? Now, I'll written two miles an hour.
I think it's going to be a strong plate. There's
no point in turning back.
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Now.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
We can't live without water. One game if you are.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
What's the strongest storm we've ever recorded?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
All, let's see you in eight months. We've been here
about one.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Hundred sixty eight miles an hour. And let's dady, let's
go to navigate at the two hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
We'll be all right.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We had had two storms on Prella sincertment had been there.
The first one had almost wiped out the station. That's
why the hold the cops were built. The second round
level an entire mountain range on the other end of
the plane. By the time we reached the water tows tanks,
the wind was up to one hundred and fifteen miles
an hour.
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Now that says it none of us.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I've got to put on air SOT and repair of
the damage means blowing out the line.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's my turn.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
What do you know about mechanical things. I'll go out,
Pas mc nylon wrote to me in Winchet.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
As I go along, I lank at the brood in
the leader of the concrete breaker. Maybe all the way
till the wind dies down. And it isn't dying down,
it's rising wave. Radio Slanic of the station, get a report.
You think you'll give us a straight answer? I crossed him.
He osmelic. This is narrowshav drawling smanic, man, man. How
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long is this wind.
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Trying to keep up?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
I love the cap? Maybe when longer.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
More than two hours?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay, plating is going out to fix the pipe. We'll
be back in an hour if everything holds. Okay, all right,
I'm ready. Lock my helmet, can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Okay, open the chamber.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
There.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I go.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Outside the wind fronted and roared like breaking the serve. Once.
I was almost blown free, but the lion held.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
By the time I crawled back into the ship. I
cleared the water lions, but my soup were shredded. My
air extracted was clogged with dust.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
The wind was up to one hundred and forty five
miles an hour. I'm still rising you all right?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah, all right, let's get this thing going. I'm starting
to shiver in the wind. All right, what's wrong? I
can't start the injury here?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Let me try m sand sand in the bearings and
the injectors every place. She'll never saw.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
God great, Now we have to sail her back, fox,
I said, we have to sail her back at wind
speeds like this. But we like sailor, a little d
about the Atlantic and a geo.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But what else can we do? Put out the axudaractor
and write it up on one good bold, and we'd gorners.
Come on, raise the sailor.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Okay, every santor, hang on, here we go. You raised
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the steel sail.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
And packed into the wind. Sugged by a wind that
had now.
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Reached one hundred and seventy five miles an hour.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
The fourteen ton boots soon picked up to a speed
of forty.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Miles an hour, even reached down and heeled over. I
couldn't hold her and I had to winch out the
steel and.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
She was staking her up. Then it began to happen.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
The thing we see it the most.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
What's that the winds cars the rocks at him one.
As long as we're not cat size, who'll be okay?
If she's here? He at forty five long?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
No coping the rock smar survivor turn your oxygen math Wait.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Man, she's forty a long now seventy five miles an hour.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Please with the mover to me tell him about I
can't hit her up now.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Up, No you at the time, came mistress. The Bolders,
they hit the savy block, you'll hit it for the cliffs.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Waiting the sheet again, we'll head a conversation.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
No use, I can't hit it up. We have to
run with the way in the pen. Run the cliffs
are going ahead.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
That dragon Americans they handle maybe the slowest in the
bus a fowl. I mean boot that way in the dragon,
I said, I mean he's able to hit it up.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Now those cliffs. Oh, book is that it doesn't cornell
the landships sailings on the station like with.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
The pine hands and over the usually keep away from
the station and about turning the walking off. Watching the sheet,
I'm gonna hit a pie. What was the bolder shipped
the mask, holding the ball toward the cliff, could ring
an ankle. Yes, I'll play it'll fowl and hold it
three Robert work. Yeah, I'm gonna Tony. Now I'm gonna
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just fighter, and I think we're anker.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
What the person of those boers.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
We will not say somethinger here. Why I'm gonna try
to do again?
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Not all maybe it's a ball the shot, but baby,
what's come on?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Baby's gone gone, she's drying, she's un one of them
going to anchor one of us.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
What's coming in?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Somehow the engine coughed and feed us back to the station.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
The boat of the fence was completely sloping, and one
side of the capital was dented by a huge rock.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
But otherwise were still holding. The winds were up to
two hundred and twelve miles an hour at the time.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
I wasn't crawling landship for more by their long vines
on the leaf side of the station, and more ships
were coming in every minute. We said, into the tube
and enter the capsule. Welcome men, you have nice sen
shut off you from me, ginks men, not please, you'll
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tell us the weather would hold Old Correll and saying
one can predict weather but not do something or bolted.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Very true. We almost died out there. You wouldn't have
been planning anything like that would.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Is moments understone.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
No, but the understand this cracker, get out of here,
get out before I Why I rug We had off
at this gun.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Very difficult for s Manna to be with our heads.
Impossible to eat sugar or dead meat for almost three
weeks before a new head grow.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
And it joins his people.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Now for summer festival, Now you do that front.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Of wait about a flock? Did you say summer.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Festival is ancient careering festival when summer and we go
sail away to caverns and firowish caverns. Yes, we live
in caverns for three months. In that way we have
shifted safety from what from winds? After summer is overcome
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winter storms full storm over here about to start in the.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Moment, now about to start. But you call what we've
been having?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
The windows two hundred thirty eight holes an hour right now,
the boats were them that both the defensive level, the
plantations are quacking.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Very regrettable.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Perhaps you'd like to come stay with art in caverns.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Being sugar impossible, we need oxygen, food our old water.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
Very regretable.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Indeed, where maybe you don't stay and colonize a planet
after all? Yet really big wind starting to rise now,
might not go to buy smell a thanks for.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Your help, might not do favor. Glad to have.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
You got you gang, You.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Have just heard x minus one presented by the National Broadcasting.
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Company, X minus one has brought you A Wind Is.
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Rising, a story written by Finn O'Donovan and adapted for
radio by George Lefferts.
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Featured in our.
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Cast were Less.
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Damon as Clayton, Bert Collin as Nerisha, and William Griffiths
as Smanic.
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This is Fred Collins X minus one.
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We're directed by George woodsas and is an NBC Radio
Network production.
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We pause now for station identifications. All for station identification.