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minus one and tonight's story double there.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Our ships have down on the Fine Domerang right on schedule.
Camerine and I stood at the viewport and watched the
Big DOMERANGI official cross the field to our landing ramp.
He was dressed in a bright yellow tunic, green gray buskins,
and was wearing a.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Glittering jeweled diadem.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
He was walking in that ponderous.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Way those people always walked, and.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
It seemed like a long time before he actually reached
the ramp and primed it to the ship.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Welcome aboard, Greetings, gentlemen, I see you have come through
the trip in fine shape.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
My name is Clovis, I'm your liaison.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
While you are with her, my name's Marner. Lace to
meet you, and I'm Camridge. Well what happens now, flobesh You.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Have landed at a spaceport just outside our capital.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I have come to take you to your quarters.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
We are providing you the finest accommodations our planet can offer.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
We want your working conditions to be off the bed.
Glad to hear.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
The actual tests will begin as soon as you wish.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
May I offer you good luck? Oh, we won't need it.
It's not a matter of luck at all. It's brains,
brains and sweats.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Very well, this is what you are here to prove.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
It ought to be amusing in any case, whatever the
outcome may be.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
The whole weird deal had begun back on Earth, and
it started where most arguments like this start in a bar.
Cambridge and I are top engineers back home. And when
this visiting Domranghi made a few cracks about our civilization
being second rate in technology, we made a few choice
remarks about his own technology. Well, the thing got to
(04:52):
the news agencies and created quite a stir. It finally
led to a regular interplanetary controversy over who had the
best nicol brains, Earthman or Domrangi.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
So here we were Cambridge and I sitting in an.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Alien hotel room, millions of miles from home, staring glumly
at the walls.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well we're here, Miner, we're here, and we're going to
show them up and go home rich and famous.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You got that.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I hope we can show them.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We've got to.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Between the two of us, we can match anything to.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Throw at us. Well, can't we? Sure?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Sure we can m you know, just look at this.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Door mechanism, for instance, a simple cybernetic mechanism.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Yeah, ordinary gadget. Not nearly as efficient as our kind either.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's just the point. Apparently these Domerangi aren't half the
sharks they.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Think they are.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
We said we could duplicate anything they.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Showed us, right, Yeah, and they've got two of their
engineers on Earth trying the same stunt.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, So if our boys stick them and we dope
out everything they saw with us here, we've won the
state departments. Counting in our versatility, Miner, that's all we need,
verst hillody, cleverness and hard work.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
We will beat those silly looking pants right off them.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Cambridge always did remind me of a football coach talking.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
To his players at halftime. But at the moment I
was glad of it.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I needed reassurance, and his own confidence was infectious. I
cheered up, and by the next morning we were ready
to begin our part of the test. Foribash came to
see us again. Well, good morning, Foorbash, Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
According to agreements, we have equipped our most modern laboratory
for you. We will give you two preliminary problems. When
you have dealt with them. If you can deal with them,
we will give you a third problem.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And if we fail on any.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Of them, why then we shall proved our point fair enough.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But suppose we deal with all three, parsh how do
we win this thing? Do we just go on with
your projects until we miss?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh? No, no.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
According to the agreement between our governments, the test is
limited to three problems only.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The same is true for our team on your planet.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
We consider that if you do indeed complete all three projects,
you will have demonstrated your ability.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I don't like the way you say that. What's up
your sleeve?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Sleeve? I do not understand.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Never mind, never mind, just make any difference anyway. Just
let's get started and prove our point.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Yeah, I myself am most anxious to observe your attempt.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We return to X minus one and double there in
just a moment. Now back to X minus one. I'm
double there.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
The lab that was to be our workshop until we
won or.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Lost this contest was a sumptuous place, the sort of
research set up a sane engineer never even bothers to
dream about it. We stood there admiring it, Cambridge and I,
while flour of us waited for one of us to
say something.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, we're impressed.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Man, it won't be hard to pull off miracles in
a lab like this.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You're making it easy for us.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Plar vash.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
We are honest people. If you feel it cannot be
blamed on pool working conditions.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Okay, when do we start at one?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Observe your first dith.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
But that little plastic bottle is a content. It is
a decilator, a bit rubbed on each cheek, and you
do not need shave your beard for a week's time.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Here is the bottle duplicates the product.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
We're engineers, not camel never.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Mind, miner never mind.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay for mash that's the first project.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Give us a second at the same time. That way
we'll each have one to work on two projects at once.
Very well, gentlemen, as you wish. The second is a
trap for small house pets.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Oh like our mouse trap.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I do not know your mouse trap, but this is
a most ingenious device. Our house pests are color sensitive,
and this trap flashes colors as a lure to cash works.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
We use this for flames, We activate this device and
so on. Well as you can see, it is most versatile.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
We have supplied you with an ample number of vermin
of different sorts there and cages. They're at the rear
of the laboratory. I believe you had everything.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Else you need. You mean, this is all duplicate, these
two products. If you can, okay, and we'll let you
know the moment we finished. Yes, do that.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I didn't like the way he looked when he said
that there was a cash toll this somewhere, but I
didn't have time to think about where it might be.
Cambridge and I went to work on our project at once.
It wasn't nearly as hard as it should have been.
Within four days we summoned Poorbash back to the lab
do you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Mean to say you have finished already? Naturally?
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Say where you are forbash?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I want to show you something. All right, Cambridge, activate
the trap. Jack, all right, stand back, I'm going to
open the cages.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Oh no, no, no, don't, don't do it, vermin. They will
be everywhere right here they come now about your meg,
but they'll be everywhere. Close that sank where you are
and watch you see see that? But this is impossible.
All running to the team, play our trap. Look at that.
There is every laugh, one of them. Remarkable.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, we've improved on your model. We've built a better trap.
Your model only deals with one species at a time.
Ours handled every variety.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It really is father surprising. And I suppose now you
want to know about the devil later.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
That was easy, you know, for the equipment you gave
us chemical analysis as a snap. But I'm afraid we've
improved on the original model here too.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You have in what way the.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Used at the proper strength, this the pilatory of ours,
can last indefinitely.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
The effect seems to be permanent.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Indeed, this is a fairly impressive performance.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Gentleman. You may be interested.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
To know that your counterparts on Earth have also lasted
efforts to test successfully.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh, good program. So it all depends on the third test, then,
huh it does?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Indeed it shall we have that one? Now? Why waste time?
Is that it that thing on rollers that you've got
covered up back there? Yes? It permit me to remove
that cover A machine of some kind.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I recognize the type of piston valve relays tubes.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Right, let me plug it in for you. Here is
the outlet. Now I press the starting button.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
So what does it do the boat? You remove the
plug from the outlet?
Speaker 7 (12:41):
All right there, Hey, it's still going. Gentlemen, this is
our power source. We use it for transportation.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It's similar things, duplicated. This is your third problem.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well, have a try.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
I shall be both interested in the results, most interested.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Good days.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Cheers, Well, Tembridge, the machine's still going.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, I see.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I wonder can we build a perpetual motion machine?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
It was a challenge, all right, a greater challenge than
either of us had anticipated in our wildest dreams. Our
heads reeled with the enormity of the ideas. But we
worked and worked. I don't even know how long it was,
but I think it was about three weeks. Finally we
summoned Florovush, and he came into the laboratory to see
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our model in his side by side, both away with
no plugs in the walls.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
There it is you.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
You have actually done it.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Yes, been running a week now, and it shows no
signs of flowing down.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It actually works. But how a complex hyperspace function.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
We're making a full report, of course, I hope you
realize this is quite a stunting graphology.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
We didn't think we could do it until we had to,
so we did.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
I didn't think you could do it either. If this
little box on our model, have you examined it yet?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
No? That nearly threw us. Apparently it's tightly sealed. We
didn't waste time getting it open. We bypassed that. But
what is the darn thing anyway? That, gentleman, is our
power story.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
You're what a photoelectric amplifier that should keep the model
running for another two weeks?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Then then what don't you see?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
We do not have a perpetual emotion machine. We have
hoaxed you into inventing one for us.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We didn't really think you could.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
It took our best minds to rig up a model
convincing enough to fool you.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Well out that does it that and validates the whole agreement. Well,
now that we're through, we'll take our machine and go
back to her.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I am afraid that it's not possible.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
By a statute in effects here for more than seven
hundred years, any research done in the government lad is
automatically the property of the Domerange government.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I am sorry, but I shall have to confiscate your projects, gentlemen.
We'll see about that.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Furthermore, we are forced to confiscate you yourselves. We need
you to instruct us and how to build these machines.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Or rush Earth won't lodge a poll a trick like that.
This has caused for war?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I doubt it.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Why should a terrible war come about for the.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Custody of two men. I demand to see our console.
Of course, that is your right. I suppose I will
arrange it.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Well, there it was, Now that it was too late,
I knew what the cause of my uneasy feeling was.
The console from Earth was a white haired, sturdy gentleman
with a ruddy face and a suave manner.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
He came to see us in our hotel room that
same evening.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
Now, please rest assured, we shall make every effort to
extricate you. Do you realize what immense scientific prestige you've
given to Earth?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
M fat lot of good that does us? Now?
Speaker 9 (16:38):
Where authorities on Earth have kept me informed on the
progress of the two domrangi.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
They got through the first two projects as easily as
you two did. We already know that. What of it now?
Speaker 9 (16:51):
This is the delicate part of the hole as fair.
I hate to put it into words, but in fact
the people on the Earth end of this deal had
much the same idea as the domorrange.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You mean, another double cross. They put them to work
on perpetual motion too.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
No, not quite. They rigged up a phony anti gravity
machine and tell them.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
To duplicate it.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Good night. What happened?
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Nothing Yet? I'm told they're working on it very hard.
Sooner or later, if they're at all as clever as
you too, perhaps they'll hit on it. You'll just have
to be patient and sweated out until they do, and
we can make an even exchange.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Well of all the cock eyed situations. You mean, we
have to wait until they invent anti gravity.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Now, that's the general idea.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
In the meanwhile, as I say, I will insist that
you be shown every courtesy here on Domrang.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well, they may never discover a workable anti gravity then
what happens to that?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, honor, Yeah, you know
anything about tensor applications and gravitational fields.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
What are you driving at?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I'm thinking of the ideal labs they gave us. Do
you think those two Domoranki on Earth would mind taking
credit for someone else's anti gravity theory if they were
approached properly.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Hey, that's right. They must be as anxious to get
home as we are.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It. What in the world are you talking about, console, Would.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
You be above a bit of smuggling, diplomatic immunity and
all that.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We build the anti gravity machine, you smuggle it to
work and slip it to the domor Angi, then use
it as a talking point for the trade for what
do you say.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Well, I admit it does seem the only way out.
Very well, gentlemen, I'll do.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
My very best, but there seems to be just one hit.
What's that?
Speaker 9 (18:42):
You still have to invent that anti.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Gravity machine or we'll invent it all right, because you see,
we have to come on Cambridge, let's get the work
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X minus one has brought You Double Dare, a story
from the pages of Galaxy, written by Robert Silverberg and
adapted poor radio by William Welch. Featured in our cast
were Ralph Camargo as marnarth I, Bore Francis as Cambridge,
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Michael Ingram as Cloorbash, and Harvey Hayes.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
As the Consuls. This is Fred Collins speaking. This is
Bred Collins speaking.
This is Nightline. You're open door to people and places,
and this is Walter Keep Nightline invite you to listen
in on NBC's award winning science fiction series X minus one.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Calm down for Blast Off, X minus five for three
two X minus one Fire from the far horizons of
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the Unknown, comtails of new dimensions in time and space.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
These are stories of the future.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be
years on a thousand Navy Worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
in cooperation with Galaxies Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Heck minus Tonight Double Dare.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
But first hear this, how's the weather in your part
of the country. How'd you like to spend an evening
basking under warm traffic breezes in the sound of a
gently rolling surf. Well, that's the setting in which you'll
find yourself Friday night, as Monitor broadcasting from Spectacular Miami Beach,
introduces you to the beauty and glamour of Floridare and
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to the celebrities who make this resort area their winter headquarters.
On Saturday and Sunday, Monitor will capture the spirit of
Christmas season in music and songs as great choirs from
all over the country and from foreign land, join in
the singing.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Of Yule Tide carols.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Thebby reports on Christmas preparations in Bethlehem, West Germany, and Antarctica.
Alfred Hitchcock, Hearth the Kitt, Henry Farnda, and Glberta. Sherwood
are among the celebrities who will be visiting Monitor this
pre Christmas holiday.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So start your weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Right with Monitor on Friday night and stay with Monitor
all weekend long for celebrities, music, features, news and sports
over most of these same NBC radio stations. Now X
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minus one and tonight's story double there.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Our ships have down on the Fine Domerang right on schedule.
Camerine and I stood at the viewport and watched the
Big DOMERANGI official cross the field to our landing ramp.
He was dressed in a bright yellow tunic, green gray buskins,
and was wearing a.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Glittering jeweled diadem.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
He was walking in that ponderous.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Way those people always walked, and.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
It seemed like a long time before he actually reached
the ramp and primed it to the ship.
Speaker 7 (03:28):
Welcome aboard, Greetings, gentlemen, I see you have come through
the trip in fine shape.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
My name is Clovis, I'm your liaison.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
While you are with her, my name's Marner. Lace to
meet you, and I'm Camridge. Well what happens now, flobesh You.
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Have landed at a spaceport just outside our capital.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I have come to take you to your quarters.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
We are providing you the finest accommodations our planet can offer.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
We want your working conditions to be off the bed.
Glad to hear.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
The actual tests will begin as soon as you wish.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
May I offer you good luck? Oh, we won't need it.
It's not a matter of luck at all. It's brains,
brains and sweats.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Very well, this is what you are here to prove.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
It ought to be amusing in any case, whatever the
outcome may be.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
The whole weird deal had begun back on Earth, and
it started where most arguments like this start in a bar.
Cambridge and I are top engineers back home. And when
this visiting Domranghi made a few cracks about our civilization
being second rate in technology, we made a few choice
remarks about his own technology. Well, the thing got to
(04:52):
the news agencies and created quite a stir. It finally
led to a regular interplanetary controversy over who had the
best nicol brains, Earthman or Domrangi.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
So here we were Cambridge and I sitting in an.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Alien hotel room, millions of miles from home, staring glumly
at the walls.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well we're here, Miner, we're here, and we're going to
show them up and go home rich and famous.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
You got that.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
I hope we can show them.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
We've got to.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Between the two of us, we can match anything to.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Throw at us. Well, can't we? Sure?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Sure we can m you know, just look at this.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Door mechanism, for instance, a simple cybernetic mechanism.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Yeah, ordinary gadget. Not nearly as efficient as our kind either.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's just the point. Apparently these Domerangi aren't half the
sharks they.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Think they are.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
We said we could duplicate anything they.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Showed us, right, Yeah, and they've got two of their
engineers on Earth trying the same stunt.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, So if our boys stick them and we dope
out everything they saw with us here, we've won the
state departments. Counting in our versatility, Miner, that's all we need,
verst hillody, cleverness and hard work.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
We will beat those silly looking pants right off them.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Cambridge always did remind me of a football coach talking.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
To his players at halftime. But at the moment I
was glad of it.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I needed reassurance, and his own confidence was infectious. I
cheered up, and by the next morning we were ready
to begin our part of the test. Foribash came to
see us again. Well, good morning, Foorbash, Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
According to agreements, we have equipped our most modern laboratory
for you. We will give you two preliminary problems. When
you have dealt with them. If you can deal with them,
we will give you a third problem.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
And if we fail on any.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Of them, why then we shall proved our point fair enough.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
But suppose we deal with all three, parsh how do
we win this thing? Do we just go on with
your projects until we miss?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh? No, no.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
According to the agreement between our governments, the test is
limited to three problems only.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The same is true for our team on your planet.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
We consider that if you do indeed complete all three projects,
you will have demonstrated your ability.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I don't like the way you say that. What's up
your sleeve?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Sleeve? I do not understand.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Never mind, never mind, just make any difference anyway. Just
let's get started and prove our point.
Speaker 7 (07:34):
Yeah, I myself am most anxious to observe your attempt.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We return to X minus one and double there in
just a moment. Now back to X minus one. I'm
double there.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
The lab that was to be our workshop until we
won or.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Lost this contest was a sumptuous place, the sort of
research set up a sane engineer never even bothers to
dream about it. We stood there admiring it, Cambridge and I,
while flour of us waited for one of us to
say something.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well, we're impressed.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Man, it won't be hard to pull off miracles in
a lab like this.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You're making it easy for us.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Plar vash.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
We are honest people. If you feel it cannot be
blamed on pool working conditions.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Okay, when do we start at one?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Observe your first dith.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
But that little plastic bottle is a content. It is
a decilator, a bit rubbed on each cheek, and you
do not need shave your beard for a week's time.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Here is the bottle duplicates the product.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
We're engineers, not camel never.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Mind, miner never mind.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Okay for mash that's the first project.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Give us a second at the same time. That way
we'll each have one to work on two projects at once.
Very well, gentlemen, as you wish. The second is a
trap for small house pets.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Oh like our mouse trap.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
I do not know your mouse trap, but this is
a most ingenious device. Our house pests are color sensitive,
and this trap flashes colors as a lure to cash works.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
We use this for flames, We activate this device and
so on. Well as you can see, it is most versatile.
Speaker 7 (09:54):
We have supplied you with an ample number of vermin
of different sorts there and cages. They're at the rear
of the laboratory. I believe you had everything.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Else you need. You mean, this is all duplicate, these
two products. If you can, okay, and we'll let you
know the moment we finished. Yes, do that.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I didn't like the way he looked when he said
that there was a cash toll this somewhere, but I
didn't have time to think about where it might be.
Cambridge and I went to work on our project at once.
It wasn't nearly as hard as it should have been.
Within four days we summoned Poorbash back to the lab
do you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Mean to say you have finished already? Naturally?
Speaker 9 (10:43):
Say where you are forbash?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
I want to show you something. All right, Cambridge, activate
the trap. Jack, all right, stand back, I'm going to
open the cages.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Oh no, no, no, don't, don't do it, vermin. They will
be everywhere right here they come now about your meg,
but they'll be everywhere. Close that sank where you are
and watch you see see that? But this is impossible.
All running to the team, play our trap. Look at that.
There is every laugh, one of them. Remarkable.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Yeah, we've improved on your model. We've built a better trap.
Your model only deals with one species at a time.
Ours handled every variety.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
It really is father surprising. And I suppose now you
want to know about the devil later.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
That was easy, you know, for the equipment you gave
us chemical analysis as a snap. But I'm afraid we've
improved on the original model here too.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You have in what way the.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Used at the proper strength, this the pilatory of ours,
can last indefinitely.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
The effect seems to be permanent.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Indeed, this is a fairly impressive performance.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Gentleman. You may be interested.
Speaker 7 (11:54):
To know that your counterparts on Earth have also lasted
efforts to test successfully.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Oh, good program. So it all depends on the third test, then,
huh it does?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Indeed it shall we have that one? Now? Why waste time?
Is that it that thing on rollers that you've got
covered up back there? Yes? It permit me to remove
that cover A machine of some kind.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
I recognize the type of piston valve relays tubes.
Speaker 7 (12:23):
Right, let me plug it in for you. Here is
the outlet. Now I press the starting button.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
So what does it do the boat? You remove the
plug from the outlet?
Speaker 7 (12:41):
All right there, Hey, it's still going. Gentlemen, this is
our power source. We use it for transportation.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It's similar things, duplicated. This is your third problem.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Well, have a try.
Speaker 7 (13:01):
I shall be both interested in the results, most interested.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Good days.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Cheers, Well, Tembridge, the machine's still going.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yeah, I see.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I wonder can we build a perpetual motion machine?
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
It was a challenge, all right, a greater challenge than
either of us had anticipated in our wildest dreams. Our
heads reeled with the enormity of the ideas. But we
worked and worked. I don't even know how long it was,
but I think it was about three weeks. Finally we
summoned Florovush, and he came into the laboratory to see
(13:56):
our model in his side by side, both away with
no plugs in the walls.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
There it is you.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
You have actually done it.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Yes, been running a week now, and it shows no
signs of flowing down.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
It actually works. But how a complex hyperspace function.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
We're making a full report, of course, I hope you
realize this is quite a stunting graphology.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
We didn't think we could do it until we had to,
so we did.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
I didn't think you could do it either. If this
little box on our model, have you examined it yet?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
No? That nearly threw us. Apparently it's tightly sealed. We
didn't waste time getting it open. We bypassed that. But
what is the darn thing anyway? That, gentleman, is our
power story.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
You're what a photoelectric amplifier that should keep the model
running for another two weeks?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Then then what don't you see?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
We do not have a perpetual emotion machine. We have
hoaxed you into inventing one for us.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We didn't really think you could.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
It took our best minds to rig up a model
convincing enough to fool you.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Well out that does it that and validates the whole agreement. Well,
now that we're through, we'll take our machine and go
back to her.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I am afraid that it's not possible.
Speaker 7 (15:17):
By a statute in effects here for more than seven
hundred years, any research done in the government lad is
automatically the property of the Domerange government.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
I am sorry, but I shall have to confiscate your projects, gentlemen.
We'll see about that.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
Furthermore, we are forced to confiscate you yourselves. We need
you to instruct us and how to build these machines.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Or rush Earth won't lodge a poll a trick like that.
This has caused for war?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I doubt it.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Why should a terrible war come about for the.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Custody of two men. I demand to see our console.
Of course, that is your right. I suppose I will
arrange it.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Well, there it was, Now that it was too late,
I knew what the cause of my uneasy feeling was.
The console from Earth was a white haired, sturdy gentleman
with a ruddy face and a suave manner.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
He came to see us in our hotel room that
same evening.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
Now, please rest assured, we shall make every effort to
extricate you. Do you realize what immense scientific prestige you've
given to Earth?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
M fat lot of good that does us? Now?
Speaker 9 (16:38):
Where authorities on Earth have kept me informed on the
progress of the two domrangi.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
They got through the first two projects as easily as
you two did. We already know that. What of it now?
Speaker 9 (16:51):
This is the delicate part of the hole as fair.
I hate to put it into words, but in fact
the people on the Earth end of this deal had
much the same idea as the domorrange.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
You mean, another double cross. They put them to work
on perpetual motion too.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
No, not quite. They rigged up a phony anti gravity
machine and tell them.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
To duplicate it.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Good night. What happened?
Speaker 9 (17:17):
Nothing Yet? I'm told they're working on it very hard.
Sooner or later, if they're at all as clever as
you too, perhaps they'll hit on it. You'll just have
to be patient and sweated out until they do, and
we can make an even exchange.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Well of all the cock eyed situations. You mean, we
have to wait until they invent anti gravity.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Now, that's the general idea.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
In the meanwhile, as I say, I will insist that
you be shown every courtesy here on Domrang.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well, they may never discover a workable anti gravity then
what happens to that?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, honor, Yeah, you know
anything about tensor applications and gravitational fields.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
What are you driving at?
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I'm thinking of the ideal labs they gave us. Do
you think those two Domoranki on Earth would mind taking
credit for someone else's anti gravity theory if they were
approached properly.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
Hey, that's right. They must be as anxious to get
home as we are.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
It. What in the world are you talking about, console, Would.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
You be above a bit of smuggling, diplomatic immunity and
all that.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, no, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
We build the anti gravity machine, you smuggle it to
work and slip it to the domor Angi, then use
it as a talking point for the trade for what
do you say.
Speaker 9 (18:31):
Well, I admit it does seem the only way out.
Very well, gentlemen, I'll do.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
My very best, but there seems to be just one hit.
What's that?
Speaker 9 (18:42):
You still have to invent that anti.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Gravity machine or we'll invent it all right, because you see,
we have to come on Cambridge, let's get the work
Fred Collins again, I'll have another word about X minus one.
(19:07):
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You have just heard X minus one presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine.
Galaxy Magazine Science Editor Willie Lay discusses medical problems of
space travel in the current issue of Galaxy. Read Willie
Lay's article as well as the many thought provooking stories
similar to Knight's Tale of Fiction based on Facts of
(20:30):
the Future. Galaxy magazine on your news stand today. Tonight
X minus one has brought You Double Dare, a story
from the pages of Galaxy, written by Robert Silverberg and
adapted poor radio by William Welch. Featured in our cast
were Ralph Camargo as marnarth I, Bore Francis as Cambridge,
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Speaker 3 (20:57):
As the Consuls. This is Fred Collins speaking. This is
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