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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the Black Bartie two XINU one.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Fire from the far Horizons of the Unknown contaales of
(00:38):
new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of
the future adventures in which you'll live in a million,
could be years, of a thousand, maybe worlds. The National
Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxies Science Fiction Magazine with
them to Night The Light by Paul Anderson h X
(01:23):
minus one and to Night's Story The Light.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You really should feel highly honored, profession You're the only
person I've been.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Allowed to tell this too. Of course, there's a good
reason why you're being permitted to hear it. Why.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I think you'll see why before I finished. We're not
a gang of power, not even militarists. You know that.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Personally.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I'd like to tell it for the.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Whole world, but it could very well touch out of war,
and the war would mean the abs little end of civilization.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
There's one thing you should understand right from the start.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Just because I know enough math and physics, just because
I could pass.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The most rigid physical exam ever devised, that doesn't mean
I don't know anything about culture and art. When they
picked me the three man crew for the first landing
on the moon. They were a little condescending about that
side of my background.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
There the skipper turnam.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
As the engineer.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The other two members of my team were a little
leery of me just because I could talk about art
every now and then. They needn't have worried once we
left the space.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Station and got into war.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
But we didn't have much to do for several days,
but talk.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Look at it from this distance, you swear the ear
it was uninhabited and hanging like a big sapphire in
the inky black poetry?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
How would you ever quit spotting? Why are you writing
me all the time?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Beard?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Why they I'd all crushed as sia those who keeps
talking about art all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You think there's no connection between.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
The two, and no blame.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well there is.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I always start them.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
When you get up this high, you could make out
the continent. I can't tell where the sea ends, and
my land began.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The clouds flying all over the surface to make it tough.
I think that's Russia coming into view.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
With misgive theclding of the orbital schedule that should be
side brea emerging of will terminate.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The Are they watching us?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I wonder why they've got a space station.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
In their own but got telescopes on it.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Then I'll bet they're hoping that we smack into a
media iye it on after hope.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Maybe they've already arranged an accident. I doubted there. They
wouldn't risk sabotaging us.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It's not on a drift like this with the whole
world watching because of when I start a war, it will.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Make me laugh. Now, what is gonna start shooting when they.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Know the whole world will go up and smoke?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Tie to avenge three spaceman, a ten million.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Dollar unker ship and the air of chain reaction. One
sharp diplomatic note might set off the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Make our own government would.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Be sending us to the moon. If there were any
military advantage to the games.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Woman, then what's the idea?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Why are we doing this prestige? They hold up the
first satellite, don't the first space station.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Now we've got to be the first man to step
on the moon or the rest of the world will
start looking on it.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
In a second rate power Here you make a tund
like some kind.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Of all it is, and on this the net game
man kind never played one false move and bang the
whole world goes up in the mushroom clouds.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
How long will it go on? That's what gets me,
As long as there's a balance of power.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But on one side, Russia or Ruts find a really
new contract, something the other side doesn't even dream about.
Had they all over so far as they find it
before we do, that'll be too bad for us.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The Cold War will be over, so will we. Why
don't just shut up the two I've both park too much.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
It was the wrong thing to say. I knew out
there in the great quiet night.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We shouldn't carry our little hates, fear and greed out
beyond the sky and in the space.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Or pranks the fact that we can be burdened with
them and still reach the moon. Shoseph Man is bigger
than he knows.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I couldn't say.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Anyhow, if the whole world knows we made it our landings,
I hadn't been chosen exactly, But as you know, Professor,
we came down at the foot of the Lunar.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Alps, not far from the crater Playo.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
We don't those sense of pioneering.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
When we touched down, we.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Were tired of tent was nearly a hard breakneck job
go rockets, rocket of well, don on the moon.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
We're on the Moon, and we opened a few ports.
I want to see this star ahead. I'm bushed.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Looked at that. That's right, right, I didn't realize it
would be so bright. It's a cold, eerie light.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It's not like our deserts on anything on this bright horrors.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Dad, alright, that's enough gawking.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Our orders had to draw out to see who's first
on the moon.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Ah, and I'm a zoo drawers a friend, you think,
world professor. We drew lots, and of course everyone knows
who won.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I did. I was to be the first man ever
to set foot on the.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Moon, at least for a little while. That's what I believed.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You're listening to the light, the light attraction on X
minus warm all back to X minus wom and the light.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
We were in heavy space suits, of course, and it
wasn't any too easy to move.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
About even with the light gravity of the moon. I
stepped out of the air lot first, followed by there.
I just stood there in the shadow of the ship,
looking at the weird light.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Lost in wonder every how long I stood there before
Bear spoke to me, well, go ahead, go ahead, once
make the speech.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You're the first man a little more, maybe the parents
speech they gave us, not like we haven't got to
make it matter with you kill the gap. Georgeted to
make the speeches. It's a smute though. Because I ordered
for the make it, I couldn't make a suggestion.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Why did you like the lot that the speech was made?
Let I thought that June, please be.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
As that that.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I gets out. I think, but get consider that the
speech made. I like, we got you. I saw a
guy like a sample. I'm gonna take.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Pictures, but I want to buy a double.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
So we went to work.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I got it some samples, and each time I did,
I left the little mark in the dust doll the surface.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The traces I like would probably last. So it's sun
Worth seemed like an act of desecration, though the landscape
was ugly enough.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
No, it's not food, which is looking about me?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Only alien? You know it was several hours before I could.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Really begin to see anything. I mean, if they that
long for my brain to start registering in.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Its strange, eerie place. I remember pausing the.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Rest a minute while I watched there, making adjustments on his.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Camera lens and slapping various bits of landscape. I don't
want to be a good one, No bear the thing
gets me the right. That's not t I mean asking
about basic story.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's kind I mean, or the quality of it it
itn't like anything I.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Ever thought, no one that can be photographed, cause a
photograph now a way to be that weird glass how
I like to get just.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Before a storm on And it isn't the same either.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Oh, I think I'll try enough for weather setting. What
do I mean though?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
There?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I don't think you can get the feel of the
side of the picture. What do you mean for that?
Such a paint laughably for centuries labor acts. That's too
hard your life for him? Cold hell hot? But you'll
shut up.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You're on your blast of ouse. Well, I suppose being
at a point this would hardly make a place for
a chat about art. We went back to the ship.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
After that, had a meal and a nap.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Before setting out for more explorations.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
We decided to take a look at the Plato Crater,
and conditions were right for it, so we set off,
all three of us this time.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I won't describe the walking detail.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It wasn't simply the landscape and the writing on the
moon you waited only one sixth as much as it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Is honored, while the nurse she remains the same. It
feels almost like walking underwater, but you can move very
fast once you got the hang of it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
After a while, we reached the crater wall, climbed it
and still.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Looking down, then turned on that saucy and let out
a yell and almost split my ear when I heard it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'm the speaker in my helmet.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Hey, look what's at the water out there? The four
of the crater that the rent Yes, I said that
they were right cool by talking about elements. They thought
they start.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Something to the blit the mist. That's to think the
latter that'll make it asking for them. They put them
with the athmosphere here hope, but they'll be missed them.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Maybe that put on the water table down on the
floor of the play. I ain't get that here. We
want to put out the port up there and break
your legs, so we have to carry a home. No
that you stay here and bring the.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Blak doll doesn't break anything wearing that space suited there
like say here, have your car.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Both off skip for half huh, Yeah, come on give
a week down put it up with the men.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
In the end we convinced Captain Bears, but he insistently.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Roped ourselves together before we made the descent.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Agonizing work that's getting on the lift of that crater,
but we made it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
We're stood there silently on the floor.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Of the crater, based in the cold, old and white ladies.
There's never been such a light on earth.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It seemed to pervade everything, drenching us cold and white
like black Simon made luminous. It was the light of
Nervana and somewhere sometime I had seen it before. I
stood there, unable to speak until another yell from.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Hands brought me to my senses with the wretch had
it can't be and look at the crater.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I'm telling me it's crazy. So it blights the blights
of a man. Oh that's only one of the cut
runner that cuts in the spaceship.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, uh.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Hm, they still here, I went, we can't tell by
steering at the tracks. They could be five hours or
five million years. But why haven't they told the world
plan haven't even.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Breached about What do you think I mean?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
If they've found something to play the liberally important thought
up with the Earth. Maybe right now they're planning their
neat move the last more I don't know. May that
they couldn't have done it, They couldn't have kept it secret.
By that they could have taken off on a black
ship with a space station within the opposite side of
the planet. How I wait on the go way back
to the shiphard of course they'll have to know about
(12:34):
this and Washington immediate name. If they plan out we
know their secret. That could be enough bed that ticking.
The war got a call to be sure it.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Kept in butting and only hadn't been trouble making well
with them all just the Saints give But we've been
a further those tracks he where they lead to.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Way didn't bring any weapons. I'd be surprised to pay
were us can the SYS to me? But I thought personally, Leader,
if it wouldn't listen, we can't just go back to
the if never knowing for sure what these footprints are
cool let them how much looking can get do? Now?
If in one hot thing behind the lip of the crater,
when that happens, is going to get cold, colder than
(13:12):
anything you've ever imagined, but not eating of it myself
got for twenty minutes of the most against the cold,
like that really time to.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Get back of the ship. On it, Well, take the
time and get back and come. But let me follow
those footprints there. Get duke to me to why them
back that they granted God help me off. Bird and
(13:42):
Hernandez still rope together clid the crater side and disappeared.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Leading me alone. Sharing at the hot needlable's footprints of
a man, and I had to work fast, knowing that.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The sun would soon disappear and the awful cold begin
going on following the steps in the.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Still lifeless dust of the moon. At last I came
to the place I was looking for.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
It wasn't much to see.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
There was a long track of plowed dust.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
At a chipped stone where something had.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Landed and taken off again.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But and this was the astonishing thing, there was no
sign of a rocket blast. A few scars would taken
remote samples footprints, and I saw some one sometime had
landed here without rockets and had never told.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Anyone about it. I knocked up at the sky, saw the.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Rubby speck of Mars, and felt cold.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And the martians beaten.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Us to our own moons that I had to get
back now if every second long before I remained whittled
down my.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Champers, the ever reaching the ship again, I.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Was about to stock back when something caught my eye.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
A big junk of rock with something carved on it,
something unmistakable across.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
A million suns, wheeled and gritted above me. Then I knew.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I remembered where I had seen that weird light which
remained on the wall sometimes, and then I knew the truth.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I turned and started to run for the ship. I
almost didn't make it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
There had met me halfway, ripped off my pack and
connected another heating unit, Jack half Clane four.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I want you.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You call made those quick plants Twitter what I can
get up? I gotta go think it out. I wait,
A good joke on you. I back into the ship
where you let you have the whole boy, and it
better be good. Of course, Intelligence has been working night
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and day ever.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Since we returned and made our report. They know we
were telling the truth, and that's why you've been drafted.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Professor.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
We're going overseas together.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
You and I officially we're tourists.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You search the archives and look at you when you've
turned out something we can use, or we'll find it.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
We'll find something.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It couldn't have been done by a rocket. You see,
even if the physics had been known, which it wasn't.
The chemistry and metallurgy wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
But there was something else, anti gravity.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Maybe whatever it is, when we find it, the Cold
War will be over. And wheel of one. You don't
get it, professor, I'm I'm.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Shocked and grieved. You're a historian, a cultured man. All
right there.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Our first stop is a National Gallery in London, where
there's a painting called The Virgin of the Rocks. In
that painting you'll see a light, cold and pale and
utterly gentle, the.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Light which never shown on earth, a light training over
the mother and child.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
And the artist.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Professor, of course you know the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
The artist was Leonardo da Vinci.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Bood covens again, and I'll have another.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Word for you about X minus one.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
In a moment you have just heard X minus.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
One presented by the National Broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, which this
month features the conclusion of an exciting two part serial
Wolfbaine by Frederick Paul and C. M.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Cornblatt. Read it in Galaxy Magazine on your newsstand today.
X minus one has Brought You the Light.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
A story written by Paul Anderson and adapted.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
For radio by William Welch.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Featured in our cast were Carl Weber as the narrator,
David Kerman as Captain Baird, and Bob Hastings as Fernandez
with is Fred Collins. X minus one was directed by
George Wolfson and is an NBC Radio Network production.
On the Black Bartie two XINU one.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Fire from the far Horizons of the Unknown contaales of
(00:38):
new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of
the future adventures in which you'll live in a million,
could be years, of a thousand, maybe worlds. The National
Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxies Science Fiction Magazine with
them to Night The Light by Paul Anderson h X
(01:23):
minus one and to Night's Story The Light.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
You really should feel highly honored, profession You're the only
person I've been.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Allowed to tell this too. Of course, there's a good
reason why you're being permitted to hear it. Why.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I think you'll see why before I finished. We're not
a gang of power, not even militarists. You know that.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Personally.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I'd like to tell it for the.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Whole world, but it could very well touch out of war,
and the war would mean the abs little end of civilization.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
There's one thing you should understand right from the start.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Just because I know enough math and physics, just because
I could pass.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
The most rigid physical exam ever devised, that doesn't mean
I don't know anything about culture and art. When they
picked me the three man crew for the first landing
on the moon. They were a little condescending about that
side of my background.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
There the skipper turnam.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
As the engineer.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The other two members of my team were a little
leery of me just because I could talk about art
every now and then. They needn't have worried once we
left the space.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Station and got into war.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
But we didn't have much to do for several days,
but talk.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Look at it from this distance, you swear the ear
it was uninhabited and hanging like a big sapphire in
the inky black poetry?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
How would you ever quit spotting? Why are you writing
me all the time?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Beard?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Why they I'd all crushed as sia those who keeps
talking about art all the time.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
You think there's no connection between.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
The two, and no blame.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well there is.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
I always start them.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
When you get up this high, you could make out
the continent. I can't tell where the sea ends, and
my land began.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
The clouds flying all over the surface to make it tough.
I think that's Russia coming into view.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
With misgive theclding of the orbital schedule that should be
side brea emerging of will terminate.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The Are they watching us?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I wonder why they've got a space station.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
In their own but got telescopes on it.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Then I'll bet they're hoping that we smack into a
media iye it on after hope.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Maybe they've already arranged an accident. I doubted there. They
wouldn't risk sabotaging us.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It's not on a drift like this with the whole
world watching because of when I start a war, it will.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Make me laugh. Now, what is gonna start shooting when they.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Know the whole world will go up and smoke?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Tie to avenge three spaceman, a ten million.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Dollar unker ship and the air of chain reaction. One
sharp diplomatic note might set off the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Make our own government would.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Be sending us to the moon. If there were any
military advantage to the games.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Woman, then what's the idea?
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Why are we doing this prestige? They hold up the
first satellite, don't the first space station.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Now we've got to be the first man to step
on the moon or the rest of the world will
start looking on it.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
In a second rate power Here you make a tund
like some kind.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Of all it is, and on this the net game
man kind never played one false move and bang the
whole world goes up in the mushroom clouds.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
How long will it go on? That's what gets me,
As long as there's a balance of power.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But on one side, Russia or Ruts find a really
new contract, something the other side doesn't even dream about.
Had they all over so far as they find it
before we do, that'll be too bad for us.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
The Cold War will be over, so will we. Why
don't just shut up the two I've both park too much.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
It was the wrong thing to say. I knew out
there in the great quiet night.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We shouldn't carry our little hates, fear and greed out
beyond the sky and in the space.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Or pranks the fact that we can be burdened with
them and still reach the moon. Shoseph Man is bigger
than he knows.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
I couldn't say.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Anyhow, if the whole world knows we made it our landings,
I hadn't been chosen exactly, But as you know, Professor,
we came down at the foot of the Lunar.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Alps, not far from the crater Playo.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
We don't those sense of pioneering.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
When we touched down, we.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Were tired of tent was nearly a hard breakneck job
go rockets, rocket of well, don on the moon.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
We're on the Moon, and we opened a few ports.
I want to see this star ahead. I'm bushed.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Looked at that. That's right, right, I didn't realize it
would be so bright. It's a cold, eerie light.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It's not like our deserts on anything on this bright horrors.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Dad, alright, that's enough gawking.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Our orders had to draw out to see who's first
on the moon.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Ah, and I'm a zoo drawers a friend, you think,
world professor. We drew lots, and of course everyone knows
who won.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I did. I was to be the first man ever
to set foot on the.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Moon, at least for a little while. That's what I believed.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
You're listening to the light, the light attraction on X
minus warm all back to X minus wom and the light.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
We were in heavy space suits, of course, and it
wasn't any too easy to move.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
About even with the light gravity of the moon. I
stepped out of the air lot first, followed by there.
I just stood there in the shadow of the ship,
looking at the weird light.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Lost in wonder every how long I stood there before
Bear spoke to me, well, go ahead, go ahead, once
make the speech.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
You're the first man a little more, maybe the parents
speech they gave us, not like we haven't got to
make it matter with you kill the gap. Georgeted to
make the speeches. It's a smute though. Because I ordered
for the make it, I couldn't make a suggestion.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Why did you like the lot that the speech was made?
Let I thought that June, please be.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
As that that.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I gets out. I think, but get consider that the
speech made. I like, we got you. I saw a
guy like a sample. I'm gonna take.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Pictures, but I want to buy a double.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
So we went to work.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I got it some samples, and each time I did,
I left the little mark in the dust doll the surface.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
The traces I like would probably last. So it's sun
Worth seemed like an act of desecration, though the landscape
was ugly enough.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
No, it's not food, which is looking about me?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Only alien? You know it was several hours before I could.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Really begin to see anything. I mean, if they that
long for my brain to start registering in.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Its strange, eerie place. I remember pausing the.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Rest a minute while I watched there, making adjustments on his.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Camera lens and slapping various bits of landscape. I don't
want to be a good one, No bear the thing
gets me the right. That's not t I mean asking
about basic story.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
That's kind I mean, or the quality of it it
itn't like anything I.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Ever thought, no one that can be photographed, cause a
photograph now a way to be that weird glass how
I like to get just.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Before a storm on And it isn't the same either.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Oh, I think I'll try enough for weather setting. What
do I mean though?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
There?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
I don't think you can get the feel of the
side of the picture. What do you mean for that?
Such a paint laughably for centuries labor acts. That's too
hard your life for him? Cold hell hot? But you'll
shut up.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You're on your blast of ouse. Well, I suppose being
at a point this would hardly make a place for
a chat about art. We went back to the ship.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
After that, had a meal and a nap.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Before setting out for more explorations.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
We decided to take a look at the Plato Crater,
and conditions were right for it, so we set off,
all three of us this time.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I won't describe the walking detail.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I can't.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It wasn't simply the landscape and the writing on the
moon you waited only one sixth as much as it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Is honored, while the nurse she remains the same. It
feels almost like walking underwater, but you can move very
fast once you got the hang of it.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
After a while, we reached the crater wall, climbed it
and still.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Looking down, then turned on that saucy and let out
a yell and almost split my ear when I heard it.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I'm the speaker in my helmet.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Hey, look what's at the water out there? The four
of the crater that the rent Yes, I said that
they were right cool by talking about elements. They thought
they start.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Something to the blit the mist. That's to think the
latter that'll make it asking for them. They put them
with the athmosphere here hope, but they'll be missed them.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Maybe that put on the water table down on the
floor of the play. I ain't get that here. We
want to put out the port up there and break
your legs, so we have to carry a home. No
that you stay here and bring the.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Blak doll doesn't break anything wearing that space suited there
like say here, have your car.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Both off skip for half huh, Yeah, come on give
a week down put it up with the men.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
In the end we convinced Captain Bears, but he insistently.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Roped ourselves together before we made the descent.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Agonizing work that's getting on the lift of that crater,
but we made it.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
We're stood there silently on the floor.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Of the crater, based in the cold, old and white ladies.
There's never been such a light on earth.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It seemed to pervade everything, drenching us cold and white
like black Simon made luminous. It was the light of
Nervana and somewhere sometime I had seen it before. I
stood there, unable to speak until another yell from.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Hands brought me to my senses with the wretch had
it can't be and look at the crater.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
I'm telling me it's crazy. So it blights the blights
of a man. Oh that's only one of the cut
runner that cuts in the spaceship.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, uh.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Hm, they still here, I went, we can't tell by
steering at the tracks. They could be five hours or
five million years. But why haven't they told the world
plan haven't even.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Breached about What do you think I mean?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
If they've found something to play the liberally important thought
up with the Earth. Maybe right now they're planning their
neat move the last more I don't know. May that
they couldn't have done it, They couldn't have kept it secret.
By that they could have taken off on a black
ship with a space station within the opposite side of
the planet. How I wait on the go way back
to the shiphard of course they'll have to know about
(12:34):
this and Washington immediate name. If they plan out we
know their secret. That could be enough bed that ticking.
The war got a call to be sure it.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Kept in butting and only hadn't been trouble making well
with them all just the Saints give But we've been
a further those tracks he where they lead to.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Way didn't bring any weapons. I'd be surprised to pay
were us can the SYS to me? But I thought personally, Leader,
if it wouldn't listen, we can't just go back to
the if never knowing for sure what these footprints are
cool let them how much looking can get do? Now?
If in one hot thing behind the lip of the crater,
when that happens, is going to get cold, colder than
(13:12):
anything you've ever imagined, but not eating of it myself
got for twenty minutes of the most against the cold,
like that really time to.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Get back of the ship. On it, Well, take the
time and get back and come. But let me follow
those footprints there. Get duke to me to why them
back that they granted God help me off. Bird and
(13:42):
Hernandez still rope together clid the crater side and disappeared.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Leading me alone. Sharing at the hot needlable's footprints of
a man, and I had to work fast, knowing that.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
The sun would soon disappear and the awful cold begin
going on following the steps in the.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Still lifeless dust of the moon. At last I came
to the place I was looking for.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
It wasn't much to see.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
There was a long track of plowed dust.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
At a chipped stone where something had.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Landed and taken off again.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
But and this was the astonishing thing, there was no
sign of a rocket blast. A few scars would taken
remote samples footprints, and I saw some one sometime had
landed here without rockets and had never told.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Anyone about it. I knocked up at the sky, saw the.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Rubby speck of Mars, and felt cold.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And the martians beaten.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Us to our own moons that I had to get
back now if every second long before I remained whittled
down my.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Champers, the ever reaching the ship again, I.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Was about to stock back when something caught my eye.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
A big junk of rock with something carved on it,
something unmistakable across.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
A million suns, wheeled and gritted above me. Then I knew.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I remembered where I had seen that weird light which
remained on the wall sometimes, and then I knew the truth.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I turned and started to run for the ship. I
almost didn't make it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
There had met me halfway, ripped off my pack and
connected another heating unit, Jack half Clane four.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I want you.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
You call made those quick plants Twitter what I can
get up? I gotta go think it out. I wait,
A good joke on you. I back into the ship
where you let you have the whole boy, and it
better be good. Of course, Intelligence has been working night
(15:54):
and day ever.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Since we returned and made our report. They know we
were telling the truth, and that's why you've been drafted.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Professor.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
We're going overseas together.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
You and I officially we're tourists.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You search the archives and look at you when you've
turned out something we can use, or we'll find it.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
We'll find something.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
It couldn't have been done by a rocket. You see,
even if the physics had been known, which it wasn't.
The chemistry and metallurgy wasn't there.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
But there was something else, anti gravity.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Maybe whatever it is, when we find it, the Cold
War will be over. And wheel of one. You don't
get it, professor, I'm I'm.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Shocked and grieved. You're a historian, a cultured man. All
right there.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Our first stop is a National Gallery in London, where
there's a painting called The Virgin of the Rocks. In
that painting you'll see a light, cold and pale and
utterly gentle, the.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Light which never shown on earth, a light training over
the mother and child.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
And the artist.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Professor, of course you know the answer.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
The artist was Leonardo da Vinci.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Bood covens again, and I'll have another.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Word for you about X minus one.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
In a moment you have just heard X minus.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
One presented by the National Broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine, which this
month features the conclusion of an exciting two part serial
Wolfbaine by Frederick Paul and C. M.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Cornblatt. Read it in Galaxy Magazine on your newsstand today.
X minus one has Brought You the Light.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
A story written by Paul Anderson and adapted.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
For radio by William Welch.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Featured in our cast were Carl Weber as the narrator,
David Kerman as Captain Baird, and Bob Hastings as Fernandez
with is Fred Collins. X minus one was directed by
George Wolfson and is an NBC Radio Network production.
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