September 14, 2025 • 31 mins
Halloween is approaching, so we figure it's time for some SCARY CLASSIC SHOWS!
Lights Out was one of the earliest radio programs focusing on horror and the supernatural. It ran on several networks from 1934 to 1947 before making the transition to television. This episode, “Rocket From Manhattan,” was broadcast on September 20, 1945, and is set in the distant future year of… 2000!
Lights Out was one of the earliest radio programs focusing on horror and the supernatural. It ran on several networks from 1934 to 1947 before making the transition to television. This episode, “Rocket From Manhattan,” was broadcast on September 20, 1945, and is set in the distant future year of… 2000!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hudson Radio dot Com lumps some nicer hot you can't stop.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Writer, Yo, Thank.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
This is Archiobler. You and I are about to take
a trip back into time twenty thirty forty years, back
into a wonderful yesterday that some people call the Golden Asia.
Radio millions listen to the voices out of their radio
sets and in their own heads. In their own minds,
they saw the images and lived the emotions evoke by
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the playwright's words and the actors art. So let's go
back together into that other time, to September of nineteen
forty five, when your grandfather, or your mother, or perhaps
even you listen to my voice introducing a somewhat frightening
play titled Rocket from Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Lights Out, Everybody, and.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Later than you thing.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Lights Out brings you stories of the supernatural and the supernormal,
dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown. We
tell you this frankly, so if you wish to avoid
the excitement and tension of these imaginative plays, we urge you,
calmly but sincerely, to turn off your radio now.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Prophecy is an easy thing, for rarely is the prophet
brought to judgment. Tonight, I bring you a.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
False prophecy, a play set at this hour.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yes, one minute after ten Eastern peace time. But the
years have moved onward to the number of fifty five.
The place of our story is a great rocket speeding
away from the Moon, Yes, away, for the first trip
to the Moon has finally taken place, and a triumphant
airship is now rapidly returning to the mother Earth. Here, then,
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is a story about it tomorrow fifty five years hence
September twentieth, in the year of our Lord two thousand,
on board a rocket ship. A play that is I sincerely.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Hope, a very false prophecy, having lots of fun.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
The sky is sure as the living centres begun. We're
floating on our plastic boats. We're flying through the air.
The world is all our playground. We haven't got a care.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
Ah.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
I'm glad to be alive. Boys, I'm glad to be alive.
I'm riding on a rocket train, and soon I will arrive. Ah,
I'm glad to be alive, boys, and glad to be alive.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I'm riding on a rocket train, and soon I will arrive.
And I come and joining.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Yes, doctor, don't you think it's about time we have
a little celebration.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
There's a great deal of work to be done.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
What's over, doctor, twenty four hours more and we're back. Yes, doctor,
we'll be back. We've done it complete.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
In twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
If you're worried about our landing, I'm not.
Speaker 9 (05:00):
You were in Reynolds, No, sir, everything's imperfect.
Speaker 10 (05:03):
To assure, doctor's going to be a round trip anywhere.
There's twenty four hours before I have to worry about that.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Yes, doctor, it's a time for celebration.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Oh, I'm glad to be alive.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Boys, I'm glad to be alive.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
I'm riding on a rocket and soon I will rinald.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Are you men out of your minds?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You?
Speaker 9 (05:25):
Major? Russell Reynolds is still a boy, but you're a
mature man. Please act mature. I'll grant you that our
adventure has gone well.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well is right.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
We've been to the moon. My congratulation, Thank.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You, Major, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
I've put the metal on my other chair. Will you
men listen to me. We're forty eight thousand miles from
the iron headed.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Right for it.
Speaker 10 (05:45):
We're not there yet, Doc, pardon the expression, But you're
a gloomy Joe.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
I am a realist doctor. The possibilities of anything's going
wrong or remote. Surely we're entitled to relax a little
and relish the fact of what we've done.
Speaker 10 (05:57):
Yeah, we've done it, Doc. If we never get back,
we've done it. We've been to the moon and it'll
always be there on the books.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
I'm not interested in becoming an historical fact, mitjor Russell.
The data we've collected, that's my only interest. May I
ask you and Reynolds to get back to your post.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But everything's going like clockwork. Look at the gauges.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
But we are out of radio contact with the Earth.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yes, sir, but we are on course.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
Doc, What is wrong?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Wrong?
Speaker 9 (06:24):
What should be wrong?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Now? The kid's right, Doc. Ever since we made the
circle and started back, all these days you've been acting
as if we didn't make it.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
We've gone two hundred and forty three thousand miles and
we're three quarters of the way back and we're in, Doc,
We're in.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So what's the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (06:41):
How old will you major? When the Second.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
World War ended about five or second time?
Speaker 9 (06:47):
And you, Reynolds, you weren't even born no, sir, I
was twenty one on that day in New Mexico when
they set off the first Chin reaction.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Twenty one, Doc, you mean to say you were in
at the beginning of it.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Of course he was. But doctor Chamberlain was one of
the original research men in the atomic bomb project back
in forty five, the only one of them alive today.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
What do you know, So that's why you wanted to
make this trip.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
I mean, yes, Major, you wanted it as a substitution
for what you missed as a boy, the excitement and
glory of war. Does That's true? And Reynolds here is
young and idealistic. The scientific wonder of it was what
he wanted. And I I was there at the birth
of an era. Now atomic power is driving me into space,
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back to the Earth where it all began. And I'm thinking, yeah, Doc,
it's not putting at any of this. We have no
time to discuss our emotions.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
There's work to be done.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Air speed twenty three four eighty six.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Air speed twenty three four eighty six, interior.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Temperature sixty eight point two.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Interior temperature sixty eight point two, that's it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yes, Any radio contact rolls don't say how about.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
That, Doc, unfortunate but not very vital. We're definitely on course.
Speaker 12 (08:35):
How much longer will it be?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Doc?
Speaker 10 (08:37):
Ten o us at the most ten o in the
middle of LaGuardia Field.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's where I'd like to land.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
I hope not that Texas.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Isn't that it sure shore, We'll hit the flats right
on the nose.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
If the Auxilary jets were they worked on the Moon.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
They will work on landing. We're the good luck boys, Doc,
we can't miss.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
You have the optimism of the sixteen year old Rember'd
you'd better get back to your old platphone content. Yes, Major,
check the jet temperatures.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Right jet fifteen eighty right jet fifteen eight, left jet
fifteen eighty three, Left jet fifteen eighty three, Speed twenty
four eight thirty.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Two, Speed twenty four eight thirty two. X I one
calling CQ, XI one calling CQ hello Hello Hello, XI
one calling CQ.
Speaker 10 (09:23):
XR one calling CQ hello hello Hello any lock, No, sir.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Put you a transmitter back on automatic.
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Yes, sir, why do you love Major?
Speaker 10 (09:35):
I was just thinking about how many millions of telescopes
it turned in our direction. Yes, what you said a
few hours ago. I mean about my wanting the excitement
and adventure.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
You know, I'm sixty years old, and I guess I
just lived for this chance. The army had nocayd my going, Wow,
here I am. Once we land, I'll admit, frankly, I'm
going to cash in on every bit of it and
have myself a time. You know something, I get the
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feeling kind of depressed when I think it'll soon be over. Well,
there's no reason for depression, is there.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
I couldn't answer that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
You've been wondering, undoubtedly, why ever since we left the moon,
I've been acting strangely.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
I've never believed in predestination, and yet there's been sort
of a motivation of faith in my life. Twenty one
I was part of that research team trying to adapt
atomic power to military purposes. When that first bomb went
off over the New Mexico desert, the newspaper man repeated
the words, what hath God brought? And no one quite knew.
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I've been waiting fifty five years for the answer. I
think I found it a few hours ago on the moon,
and it's an answer full of horror. Oh Renovce yes, sir,
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close the oxygen valve. That's why you're yawning. Oh, yes, sir,
two point two points of the major share sleeping.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yes, it's only a.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Few more hours, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, Well, we have.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
To put on our compression suits the way we did
on the takeoff.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Uh, doctor, may may I ask you something? Yes?
Speaker 11 (12:02):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (12:03):
Before you spoke of finding an answer on the moon,
and and then you didn't say any more. Well, I've
been thinking about it, and I was wondering if it
was something that the major couldn't understand, And that's why
you didn't speak of it further. No, you want to know, yes, sir.
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I I haven't lived anywhere as long as you two have,
but my life has been built around atomic power. My dad,
he was one of your men. Why ever, since I
was a child becoming a physicist like dad was and
you are, and doctor Oppenheimer and all the rest.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
Why that was it.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Now all of a sudden the way you spoke before,
as if all our research has been criminal?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Dude? Do you mean that? Dear collision radar?
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Get at it?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
What's better? What's better?
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Object? Approaching? Where fifteen degrees west? There it is meteorite.
It's a meteorite, it's all Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That was the closest it was.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
Indeed, these sardonic indeed to glide with a meteorite at
this point, now, journey, I use a stronger word than sardonic.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Doctor, Yeah, like faithful.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
It's all clear. Well, I I'd better get back to
new Reynolds. Reynolds, you asked me a question before, and
I want to answer it you too, Major Russell, I
want you to hear this. Sure Reynolds overheard what I
said to you that I'd found the answer to a
very old question on the moon. He said that he
felt that somehow I thought all of the research on
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atomic power had been criminal. No, young man, I don't
believe that criminal. To know more about a way of nature. No,
the answer I found was something else. I haven't even
an answer, perhaps only a theory. When we came within
one hundred miles of the Moon and then began to
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de accelerate to turn back, what did we see through
the observation forts Well, no, please let me tell you
what I saw. The craters of the moon, great gigantic craters,
And as we came closer and closer, the look of
them was so familiar, not because I had seen them
through telescopes and in photographs, but for some reason that
I couldn't quite understand craters of the Moon. And suddenly,
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at the very moment when it had come as close
as we dared, and our ship swung in an orbit
to return, suddenly I knew it was a memory of
another crater I had seen fifty five years before in
New Mexico from an observation plain high over the ground,
a few hours after the first atomic bomb had lit
the sky with a new sound. Yes, the crater in
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the crust of the Earth that bomb had left was
the same as the craters of the Moon. Do you
understand the crater our bomb had left on the Earth
was the same as the craters on the Moon.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So what I don't get it?
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Yes, doctor, what are you getting at? The crater in
that desert was a thousandth of the size of the
ones you're talking about. I suddenly began to think, was
it not possible that the Moon had gone through the
same evolutionary processes of our Earth before our Earth?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (15:41):
Wasn't it possible that men had come into being on
the Moon, developed their own civilization and known scientific progress
even as we have, but long before we earth men
had known it, say, Doc, you do understand these men
of the Moon had discovered the secret of atomic power
long before we did, and then had used it to
blast and to tear each other. Yes, and the craters
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on the Moon, that terrible devastation was the record of
the destruction of their civilization, a final war which had
burned up the very atmosphere and left the Moon a
dead planet circling endlessly through an airless sky. All right, doctor,
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presuming your theory is corrected, that the moonmen had started
through a war, a chain atomic reaction that they couldn't stop.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
What of it? It indicates that they were fools? Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Fools?
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Are we anywise?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Hudson River Radio dot com. Hudson River Radio dot com.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Air speed two for eighty two you'd better cut it down. Ride?
Speaker 9 (17:30):
How much about fifteen percent?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
You get anything? Reynolds?
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Would you come here a moment, Yes, sir? Would you
help me with us polte covering?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yes, he is there right, hard to take a look.
Speaker 13 (17:41):
Huh uh hhm there she is, Mama Earth Mentolds the.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Cameras, Yes, sir, how much should I run doctor put
it on automatic exposure.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Yes, six more out? Doctor, Oh there, sure we have
made a mistake and headed for Venus.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That was just a bad joke. Doc. Oh, there's no
two ways about it. The outline of the continents. We
can't make any mistake about that being our home address.
And wonder how much they can see of us? What
are ways? Six seven thousand miles out?
Speaker 10 (18:21):
You know, this reminds me of the time about twenty
five years ago the army set me up to one
thousand miles to take observation photographs. Well you remember how
the atomic reaction motives were there and we got up.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
About five hundred feet in the nature. What what? Look down?
Look what I don't see anything?
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Look, Reynolds, come here. What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Something wrong that? Doctor says Reynolds. Look do you see?
Speaker 13 (18:47):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What is it? I see it too? Right? Lights going
on and off? What's going on down there?
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Doctor? Are they signaling us?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Are they signaling it's six thousand miles? Why why should they?
Speaker 9 (19:00):
That's right, there's no such plan.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Look at it. It is lights going on and off.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
But there are from one area and you make out where.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
North America than they are signals The candle in the window.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Your own question. That's six thousand miles. Wait a minute,
are the explosions explosions? Major? Doctor is at it? Are
the explosions? I don't know?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
See q ce q Hello? Hello, hello, see kill say kill.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
I'm sorry, doctor, I can't raise any Doc dcor mare. Yes,
but look the closer we get, they are explosion.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Three more hours?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Well know, I want to know, now, Reynolds, what's the
matter with you? Why can't you make radio contact?
Speaker 9 (20:15):
I'm doing everything I can, Major, Major darc what are creates?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Look? Creates? Craters? At this aptitude, you couldn't foster each flesh.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
I do see them?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Okay, okay, what does it mean?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
What are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 9 (20:32):
For?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What does it mean to Major? Somebody coming through.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Im?
Speaker 14 (20:38):
I can only hear it?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Think what what? Please? Let me listen?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I did date.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Well, Reynolds, what is it? Tell us?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
What? Boy?
Speaker 11 (20:56):
I couldn't quite make up?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
He said said what tell us?
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Or he said, poor.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Last thing?
Speaker 9 (21:09):
The United States off the face of the earth?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Lasting m hmm.
Speaker 14 (21:16):
It's a joke, isn't it?
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
What are they send me? Now? What? Now?
Speaker 12 (21:51):
It began an hour ago, no warning, projectors, radio controlled,
point of origin.
Speaker 14 (22:06):
Unknown. Oh it's stopped again, the transmission enough.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
Where's the International police force? What's being done about it?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Doctor? Doctor? Here was an attack of that warning? Who
could it be? What's the idea?
Speaker 9 (22:20):
The explosions are increasing in treatment.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Let us let us anything more coming through?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Nothing? Yes?
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Yes, they started transmissioning.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
All right, let's have it quick.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
From the station in midwest. I can't get the call
at it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Who cares?
Speaker 15 (22:40):
He says, it's hell, ground shaking, No bombs landed near
but air reconnaissance, so god will I can hardly make out?
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Well, well it started.
Speaker 14 (23:00):
An hour ago, everything, Bernie, Oh it's stopped again.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
There's nothing doctor, doctor, in Heaven's name, what do you
think it's all about? Stop standing out of the window
and talk to me. What are they doing? What do
you mean? What are they doing? They're bombing us, blasting us.
It's war. But who you gotta find out, Reynolds, find
out who? Why? It's no use, there's no transmission after
those bombs. Where are they coming from? Can't you tell
by the trajectory.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
At this distance? And what difference does the face of
the enemy make it It's happening. That's all.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Smash them.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I always said we should have smashed them, exterminated them
fifty years ago.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Oh, they were so peaceful for so many years, and
the flashes are increasing in frequent.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Let us get on that radio.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
I'll try and get to know who the devils. We
had agreements with everyone, the international devils.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Follow up them, call them devils. I don't even know
who they are, reneralds. You got anything? No, No, I don't.
M hm, doctor faster, Let's get down there faster. Let's
open it up again.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
You know better than that rendering atmosphere increased speedily, burn
up like a meteorite.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
But I'm an army man all my life. I'm coming troop.
What what.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
The bonds?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Nothing can I can hardly make an eypeout it.
Speaker 14 (24:25):
Panic paratroopers who last message from United States.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Of it's ended. There is no more.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
If we'd only get down there fast fashion, only five
hundred more miles. Look at it down there, our air
force protective measures.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
What happened to them? What happened? Doctor?
Speaker 9 (25:24):
You?
Speaker 10 (25:24):
Why don't you say something? We'll just sit there for
hours watching. This isn't a scientific experiment going on down there.
They're blasting us.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
To pieces us us our atomic bombs. A great secret,
Hold it over the world and have peace forever. You
said that, yes you. I was a kid. Then I
heard you say it over the radio when they gave
you a medal. Hold it over the world and have
peace forever. Well, what do you got to say? Now?
Speaker 9 (25:51):
They had a wonderful fifty five years? What everybody had
a wonderful time?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Reynolds, what's the matter with him? He's gone off?
Speaker 9 (26:01):
Let him finish. First. We hung the criminals fifty five
years ago, and as soon as their body stops, when
you left the crowd and each went back to his
own house and shut the door, you.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Said the peace would hold forever.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
I I said it because I thought that when the
secret was put away, the people of the world would
remember the terror. I said to myself. Now, surely, now
that they've seen the possibility of the disintegration of their earth,
they'll be drawn together once again into the family of men,
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as it must have been in the beginning. I forgot
what years could do. I forgot how quickly forgetfulness comes.
I forgot that only a few years Hiroshima and Nagasaki
would be only yesterday's sensations for a nation eager for
sensations for today. You keep asking me who's sending those
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bombs against us?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Who?
Speaker 9 (26:59):
I tell you, we're sending them against ourselves. Yes, because
had we made our way of life something more than
a confused dream of shining machines and happy endings, those
bombs of hatred and revenge would not be flying it.
I said the peace would hold forever, because I thought
that out of that war at last men had learned
that there was no defense against hatred and revenge, but
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the defense of education for the unity of people. It
was a race, gentleman against time, and we wasted our
last fifty five years running backwards on a track of
chromium and plastics. And so we've lost forever.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
No, we've never lost.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Look, the blasts are increasing in frequency. There's nothing left. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We'll start someplace else. We're built out your luck.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
The color of the blast, Oh, dear God, why doctor,
it's nitrogen, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Nitrogen? Were fools, the everlasting fools.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
I've won the blasts more and more.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
He started something they couldn't end. The color of the blasts.
They've set off hydrogen.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Atom I I don't know what we used.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Uranium, plutonium, and when the initial blast was over, that
was all but hydrogen. That's part of life. One reaction
sets off the other like setting off an endless chain
until look down there, blast faster and faster.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
They're spreading the fools.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
God help the fools, God help the fools.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
Who who it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Happened?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
The sheet of flame around the earth? Doctor? Tell me
what is it? What was it? Tell me?
Speaker 10 (29:00):
It burned up all the atmosphere, burned up, Ralph, what
did he mean?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
The chain reaction burned up all the air?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (29:16):
Major?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Major? The left chack alright, it's all right, all right?
Where are we going? And we go down there.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
There's no air, no life, The moon, the earth the same.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Uh? How much fuel?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
There's the gage two three hours? Yes, yes, I think
that's right, isn't it? Major?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (30:01):
What what do we do?
Speaker 9 (30:05):
You asked that question? Now the major no longer asks it.
Do you know the answer? Major?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Sure, we'll circle around then we'll crash.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
Come no, no, no, no, no, I don't be all right,
my boy, my words again, have peace.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Forever.
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Hudson Radio dot Com lumps some nicer hot you can't stop.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Writer, Yo, Thank.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
This is Archiobler. You and I are about to take
a trip back into time twenty thirty forty years, back
into a wonderful yesterday that some people call the Golden Asia.
Radio millions listen to the voices out of their radio
sets and in their own heads. In their own minds,
they saw the images and lived the emotions evoke by
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the playwright's words and the actors art. So let's go
back together into that other time, to September of nineteen
forty five, when your grandfather, or your mother, or perhaps
even you listen to my voice introducing a somewhat frightening
play titled Rocket from Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Lights Out, Everybody, and.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Later than you thing.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Lights Out brings you stories of the supernatural and the supernormal,
dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown. We
tell you this frankly, so if you wish to avoid
the excitement and tension of these imaginative plays, we urge you,
calmly but sincerely, to turn off your radio now.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Prophecy is an easy thing, for rarely is the prophet
brought to judgment. Tonight, I bring you a.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
False prophecy, a play set at this hour.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yes, one minute after ten Eastern peace time. But the
years have moved onward to the number of fifty five.
The place of our story is a great rocket speeding
away from the Moon, Yes, away, for the first trip
to the Moon has finally taken place, and a triumphant
airship is now rapidly returning to the mother Earth. Here, then,
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is a story about it tomorrow fifty five years hence
September twentieth, in the year of our Lord two thousand,
on board a rocket ship. A play that is I sincerely.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
Hope, a very false prophecy, having lots of fun.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
The sky is sure as the living centres begun. We're
floating on our plastic boats. We're flying through the air.
The world is all our playground. We haven't got a care.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
Ah.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
I'm glad to be alive. Boys, I'm glad to be alive.
I'm riding on a rocket train, and soon I will arrive. Ah,
I'm glad to be alive, boys, and glad to be alive.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I'm riding on a rocket train, and soon I will arrive.
And I come and joining.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Yes, doctor, don't you think it's about time we have
a little celebration.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
There's a great deal of work to be done.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
What's over, doctor, twenty four hours more and we're back. Yes, doctor,
we'll be back. We've done it complete.
Speaker 9 (04:56):
In twenty four hours.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
If you're worried about our landing, I'm not.
Speaker 9 (05:00):
You were in Reynolds, No, sir, everything's imperfect.
Speaker 10 (05:03):
To assure, doctor's going to be a round trip anywhere.
There's twenty four hours before I have to worry about that.
Speaker 9 (05:09):
Yes, doctor, it's a time for celebration.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Oh, I'm glad to be alive.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Boys, I'm glad to be alive.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
I'm riding on a rocket and soon I will rinald.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Are you men out of your minds?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You?
Speaker 9 (05:25):
Major? Russell Reynolds is still a boy, but you're a
mature man. Please act mature. I'll grant you that our
adventure has gone well.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well is right.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
We've been to the moon. My congratulation, Thank.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
You, Major, Thank you.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
I've put the metal on my other chair. Will you
men listen to me. We're forty eight thousand miles from
the iron headed.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Right for it.
Speaker 10 (05:45):
We're not there yet, Doc, pardon the expression, But you're
a gloomy Joe.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
I am a realist doctor. The possibilities of anything's going
wrong or remote. Surely we're entitled to relax a little
and relish the fact of what we've done.
Speaker 10 (05:57):
Yeah, we've done it, Doc. If we never get back,
we've done it. We've been to the moon and it'll
always be there on the books.
Speaker 9 (06:05):
I'm not interested in becoming an historical fact, mitjor Russell.
The data we've collected, that's my only interest. May I
ask you and Reynolds to get back to your post.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But everything's going like clockwork. Look at the gauges.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
But we are out of radio contact with the Earth.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yes, sir, but we are on course.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
Doc, What is wrong?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Wrong?
Speaker 9 (06:24):
What should be wrong?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Now? The kid's right, Doc. Ever since we made the
circle and started back, all these days you've been acting
as if we didn't make it.
Speaker 10 (06:32):
We've gone two hundred and forty three thousand miles and
we're three quarters of the way back and we're in, Doc,
We're in.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
So what's the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (06:41):
How old will you major? When the Second.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
World War ended about five or second time?
Speaker 9 (06:47):
And you, Reynolds, you weren't even born no, sir, I
was twenty one on that day in New Mexico when
they set off the first Chin reaction.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Twenty one, Doc, you mean to say you were in
at the beginning of it.
Speaker 9 (07:00):
Of course he was. But doctor Chamberlain was one of
the original research men in the atomic bomb project back
in forty five, the only one of them alive today.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
What do you know, So that's why you wanted to
make this trip.
Speaker 9 (07:13):
I mean, yes, Major, you wanted it as a substitution
for what you missed as a boy, the excitement and
glory of war. Does That's true? And Reynolds here is
young and idealistic. The scientific wonder of it was what
he wanted. And I I was there at the birth
of an era. Now atomic power is driving me into space,
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back to the Earth where it all began. And I'm thinking, yeah, Doc,
it's not putting at any of this. We have no
time to discuss our emotions.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
There's work to be done.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Air speed twenty three four eighty six.
Speaker 9 (08:16):
Air speed twenty three four eighty six, interior.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Temperature sixty eight point two.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Interior temperature sixty eight point two, that's it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yes, Any radio contact rolls don't say how about.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
That, Doc, unfortunate but not very vital. We're definitely on course.
Speaker 12 (08:35):
How much longer will it be?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Doc?
Speaker 10 (08:37):
Ten o us at the most ten o in the
middle of LaGuardia Field.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
That's where I'd like to land.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
I hope not that Texas.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Isn't that it sure shore, We'll hit the flats right
on the nose.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
If the Auxilary jets were they worked on the Moon.
Speaker 10 (08:50):
They will work on landing. We're the good luck boys, Doc,
we can't miss.
Speaker 9 (08:55):
You have the optimism of the sixteen year old Rember'd
you'd better get back to your old platphone content. Yes, Major,
check the jet temperatures.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Right jet fifteen eighty right jet fifteen eight, left jet
fifteen eighty three, Left jet fifteen eighty three, Speed twenty
four eight thirty.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
Two, Speed twenty four eight thirty two. X I one
calling CQ, XI one calling CQ hello Hello Hello, XI
one calling CQ.
Speaker 10 (09:23):
XR one calling CQ hello hello Hello any lock, No, sir.
Speaker 9 (09:28):
Put you a transmitter back on automatic.
Speaker 11 (09:31):
Yes, sir, why do you love Major?
Speaker 10 (09:35):
I was just thinking about how many millions of telescopes
it turned in our direction. Yes, what you said a
few hours ago. I mean about my wanting the excitement
and adventure.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
That's true.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
You know, I'm sixty years old, and I guess I
just lived for this chance. The army had nocayd my going, Wow,
here I am. Once we land, I'll admit, frankly, I'm
going to cash in on every bit of it and
have myself a time. You know something, I get the
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feeling kind of depressed when I think it'll soon be over. Well,
there's no reason for depression, is there.
Speaker 9 (10:15):
I couldn't answer that.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (10:19):
You've been wondering, undoubtedly, why ever since we left the moon,
I've been acting strangely.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
I've never believed in predestination, and yet there's been sort
of a motivation of faith in my life. Twenty one
I was part of that research team trying to adapt
atomic power to military purposes. When that first bomb went
off over the New Mexico desert, the newspaper man repeated
the words, what hath God brought? And no one quite knew.
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I've been waiting fifty five years for the answer. I
think I found it a few hours ago on the moon,
and it's an answer full of horror. Oh Renovce yes, sir,
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close the oxygen valve. That's why you're yawning. Oh, yes, sir,
two point two points of the major share sleeping.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yes, it's only a.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Few more hours, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes, Well, we have.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
To put on our compression suits the way we did
on the takeoff.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yes, of course.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Uh, doctor, may may I ask you something? Yes?
Speaker 11 (12:02):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (12:03):
Before you spoke of finding an answer on the moon,
and and then you didn't say any more. Well, I've
been thinking about it, and I was wondering if it
was something that the major couldn't understand, And that's why
you didn't speak of it further. No, you want to know, yes, sir.
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I I haven't lived anywhere as long as you two have,
but my life has been built around atomic power. My dad,
he was one of your men. Why ever, since I
was a child becoming a physicist like dad was and
you are, and doctor Oppenheimer and all the rest.
Speaker 11 (12:44):
Why that was it.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Now all of a sudden the way you spoke before,
as if all our research has been criminal?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Dude? Do you mean that? Dear collision radar?
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Get at it?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
What's better? What's better?
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Object? Approaching? Where fifteen degrees west? There it is meteorite.
It's a meteorite, it's all Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
That was the closest it was.
Speaker 9 (13:24):
Indeed, these sardonic indeed to glide with a meteorite at
this point, now, journey, I use a stronger word than sardonic.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Doctor, Yeah, like faithful.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
It's all clear. Well, I I'd better get back to
new Reynolds. Reynolds, you asked me a question before, and
I want to answer it you too, Major Russell, I
want you to hear this. Sure Reynolds overheard what I
said to you that I'd found the answer to a
very old question on the moon. He said that he
felt that somehow I thought all of the research on
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atomic power had been criminal. No, young man, I don't
believe that criminal. To know more about a way of nature. No,
the answer I found was something else. I haven't even
an answer, perhaps only a theory. When we came within
one hundred miles of the Moon and then began to
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de accelerate to turn back, what did we see through
the observation forts Well, no, please let me tell you
what I saw. The craters of the moon, great gigantic craters,
And as we came closer and closer, the look of
them was so familiar, not because I had seen them
through telescopes and in photographs, but for some reason that
I couldn't quite understand craters of the Moon. And suddenly,
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at the very moment when it had come as close
as we dared, and our ship swung in an orbit
to return, suddenly I knew it was a memory of
another crater I had seen fifty five years before in
New Mexico from an observation plain high over the ground,
a few hours after the first atomic bomb had lit
the sky with a new sound. Yes, the crater in
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the crust of the Earth that bomb had left was
the same as the craters of the Moon. Do you
understand the crater our bomb had left on the Earth
was the same as the craters on the Moon.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So what I don't get it?
Speaker 9 (15:21):
Yes, doctor, what are you getting at? The crater in
that desert was a thousandth of the size of the
ones you're talking about. I suddenly began to think, was
it not possible that the Moon had gone through the
same evolutionary processes of our Earth before our Earth?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yes?
Speaker 9 (15:41):
Wasn't it possible that men had come into being on
the Moon, developed their own civilization and known scientific progress
even as we have, but long before we earth men
had known it, say, Doc, you do understand these men
of the Moon had discovered the secret of atomic power
long before we did, and then had used it to
blast and to tear each other. Yes, and the craters
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on the Moon, that terrible devastation was the record of
the destruction of their civilization, a final war which had
burned up the very atmosphere and left the Moon a
dead planet circling endlessly through an airless sky. All right, doctor,
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presuming your theory is corrected, that the moonmen had started
through a war, a chain atomic reaction that they couldn't stop.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
What of it? It indicates that they were fools? Yeah,
that's it.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
Fools?
Speaker 9 (16:44):
Are we anywise?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
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Speaker 3 (17:25):
Air speed two for eighty two you'd better cut it down. Ride?
Speaker 9 (17:30):
How much about fifteen percent?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
You get anything? Reynolds?
Speaker 9 (17:33):
Would you come here a moment, Yes, sir? Would you
help me with us polte covering?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yes, he is there right, hard to take a look.
Speaker 13 (17:41):
Huh uh hhm there she is, Mama Earth Mentolds the.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Cameras, Yes, sir, how much should I run doctor put
it on automatic exposure.
Speaker 10 (17:57):
Yes, six more out? Doctor, Oh there, sure we have
made a mistake and headed for Venus.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
That was just a bad joke. Doc. Oh, there's no
two ways about it. The outline of the continents. We
can't make any mistake about that being our home address.
And wonder how much they can see of us? What
are ways? Six seven thousand miles out?
Speaker 10 (18:21):
You know, this reminds me of the time about twenty
five years ago the army set me up to one
thousand miles to take observation photographs. Well you remember how
the atomic reaction motives were there and we got up.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
About five hundred feet in the nature. What what? Look down?
Look what I don't see anything?
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Look, Reynolds, come here. What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Something wrong that? Doctor says Reynolds. Look do you see?
Speaker 13 (18:47):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
What is it? I see it too? Right? Lights going
on and off? What's going on down there?
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Doctor? Are they signaling us?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Are they signaling it's six thousand miles? Why why should they?
Speaker 9 (19:00):
That's right, there's no such plan.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Look at it. It is lights going on and off.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
But there are from one area and you make out where.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
North America than they are signals The candle in the window.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Your own question. That's six thousand miles. Wait a minute,
are the explosions explosions? Major? Doctor is at it? Are
the explosions? I don't know?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
See q ce q Hello? Hello, hello, see kill say kill.
Speaker 9 (20:02):
I'm sorry, doctor, I can't raise any Doc dcor mare. Yes,
but look the closer we get, they are explosion.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Three more hours?
Speaker 10 (20:11):
Well know, I want to know, now, Reynolds, what's the
matter with you? Why can't you make radio contact?
Speaker 9 (20:15):
I'm doing everything I can, Major, Major darc what are creates?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Look? Creates? Craters? At this aptitude, you couldn't foster each flesh.
Speaker 9 (20:25):
I do see them?
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Okay, okay, what does it mean?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
What are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 9 (20:32):
For?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
What does it mean to Major? Somebody coming through.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
Im?
Speaker 14 (20:38):
I can only hear it?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Think what what? Please? Let me listen?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I did date.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Well, Reynolds, what is it? Tell us?
Speaker 9 (20:51):
What? Boy?
Speaker 11 (20:56):
I couldn't quite make up?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
He said said what tell us?
Speaker 9 (21:03):
Or he said, poor.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Last thing?
Speaker 9 (21:09):
The United States off the face of the earth?
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Lasting m hmm.
Speaker 14 (21:16):
It's a joke, isn't it?
Speaker 11 (21:19):
Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
What are they send me? Now? What? Now?
Speaker 12 (21:51):
It began an hour ago, no warning, projectors, radio controlled,
point of origin.
Speaker 14 (22:06):
Unknown. Oh it's stopped again, the transmission enough.
Speaker 10 (22:11):
Where's the International police force? What's being done about it?
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Doctor? Doctor? Here was an attack of that warning? Who
could it be? What's the idea?
Speaker 9 (22:20):
The explosions are increasing in treatment.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Let us let us anything more coming through?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Nothing? Yes?
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Yes, they started transmissioning.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
All right, let's have it quick.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
From the station in midwest. I can't get the call
at it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Who cares?
Speaker 15 (22:40):
He says, it's hell, ground shaking, No bombs landed near
but air reconnaissance, so god will I can hardly make out?
Speaker 11 (22:56):
Well, well it started.
Speaker 14 (23:00):
An hour ago, everything, Bernie, Oh it's stopped again.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
There's nothing doctor, doctor, in Heaven's name, what do you
think it's all about? Stop standing out of the window
and talk to me. What are they doing? What do
you mean? What are they doing? They're bombing us, blasting us.
It's war. But who you gotta find out, Reynolds, find
out who? Why? It's no use, there's no transmission after
those bombs. Where are they coming from? Can't you tell
by the trajectory.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
At this distance? And what difference does the face of
the enemy make it It's happening. That's all.
Speaker 11 (23:34):
Smash them.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I always said we should have smashed them, exterminated them
fifty years ago.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Oh, they were so peaceful for so many years, and
the flashes are increasing in frequent.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Let us get on that radio.
Speaker 10 (23:46):
I'll try and get to know who the devils. We
had agreements with everyone, the international devils.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Follow up them, call them devils. I don't even know
who they are, reneralds. You got anything? No, No, I don't.
M hm, doctor faster, Let's get down there faster. Let's
open it up again.
Speaker 9 (24:03):
You know better than that rendering atmosphere increased speedily, burn
up like a meteorite.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
But I'm an army man all my life. I'm coming troop.
What what.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
The bonds?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Nothing can I can hardly make an eypeout it.
Speaker 14 (24:25):
Panic paratroopers who last message from United States.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Of it's ended. There is no more.
Speaker 10 (25:15):
If we'd only get down there fast fashion, only five
hundred more miles. Look at it down there, our air
force protective measures.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
What happened to them? What happened? Doctor?
Speaker 9 (25:24):
You?
Speaker 10 (25:24):
Why don't you say something? We'll just sit there for
hours watching. This isn't a scientific experiment going on down there.
They're blasting us.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
To pieces us us our atomic bombs. A great secret,
Hold it over the world and have peace forever. You
said that, yes you. I was a kid. Then I
heard you say it over the radio when they gave
you a medal. Hold it over the world and have
peace forever. Well, what do you got to say? Now?
Speaker 9 (25:51):
They had a wonderful fifty five years? What everybody had
a wonderful time?
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Reynolds, what's the matter with him? He's gone off?
Speaker 9 (26:01):
Let him finish. First. We hung the criminals fifty five
years ago, and as soon as their body stops, when
you left the crowd and each went back to his
own house and shut the door, you.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Said the peace would hold forever.
Speaker 9 (26:15):
I I said it because I thought that when the
secret was put away, the people of the world would
remember the terror. I said to myself. Now, surely, now
that they've seen the possibility of the disintegration of their earth,
they'll be drawn together once again into the family of men,
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as it must have been in the beginning. I forgot
what years could do. I forgot how quickly forgetfulness comes.
I forgot that only a few years Hiroshima and Nagasaki
would be only yesterday's sensations for a nation eager for
sensations for today. You keep asking me who's sending those
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bombs against us?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Who?
Speaker 9 (26:59):
I tell you, we're sending them against ourselves. Yes, because
had we made our way of life something more than
a confused dream of shining machines and happy endings, those
bombs of hatred and revenge would not be flying it.
I said the peace would hold forever, because I thought
that out of that war at last men had learned
that there was no defense against hatred and revenge, but
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the defense of education for the unity of people. It
was a race, gentleman against time, and we wasted our
last fifty five years running backwards on a track of
chromium and plastics. And so we've lost forever.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
No, we've never lost.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Look, the blasts are increasing in frequency. There's nothing left. Nothing.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We'll start someplace else. We're built out your luck.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
The color of the blast, Oh, dear God, why doctor,
it's nitrogen, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Nitrogen? Were fools, the everlasting fools.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
I've won the blasts more and more.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
He started something they couldn't end. The color of the blasts.
They've set off hydrogen.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Atom I I don't know what we used.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
Uranium, plutonium, and when the initial blast was over, that
was all but hydrogen. That's part of life. One reaction
sets off the other like setting off an endless chain
until look down there, blast faster and faster.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
They're spreading the fools.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
God help the fools, God help the fools.
Speaker 11 (28:37):
Who who it.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Happened?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
The sheet of flame around the earth? Doctor? Tell me
what is it? What was it? Tell me?
Speaker 10 (29:00):
It burned up all the atmosphere, burned up, Ralph, what
did he mean?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
The chain reaction burned up all the air?
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (29:16):
Major?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Major? The left chack alright, it's all right, all right?
Where are we going? And we go down there.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
There's no air, no life, The moon, the earth the same.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Uh? How much fuel?
Speaker 9 (29:49):
There's the gage two three hours? Yes, yes, I think
that's right, isn't it? Major?
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (30:01):
What what do we do?
Speaker 9 (30:05):
You asked that question? Now the major no longer asks it.
Do you know the answer? Major?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Sure, we'll circle around then we'll crash.
Speaker 9 (30:23):
Come no, no, no, no, no, I don't be all right,
my boy, my words again, have peace.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Forever.
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