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2000 Plus was an American old-time radio series that ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System from March 15, 1950, to January 2, 1952, in various 30-minute time slots. A Dryer Weenolsen production, it was the first adult science fiction series on radio, airing one month prior to the better-known Dimension X.
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00:00Central Operational Headquarters, Commander Dystra speaking.
00:03This morning at 400 hours, our electronic scanners picked up on oscillator frequency
00:09an unidentified spacecraft in sector K beyond the gravitational field of the planet Mars.
00:14Our calculations indicate that this craft will arrive in space sector G within the next 24 hours.
00:20Emergency directions to all defense units.
00:23Coordinate high-voltage destroyers to cover area G.
00:27All units on alert for assault action.
00:30To learn what happened when the strange craft from outer space came into sector G,
00:35listen in a moment to 2000 Plus.
00:502000 Plus.
00:59Adventures in the World of Tomorrow.
01:02Dramatic stories of science fiction from the years beyond 2000 A.D.
01:09Music.
01:16Today, the strange adventure of men who dared the unknown through interplanetary space.
01:23Worlds apart.
01:35And one thing more, Johnson.
01:36Your new alamoid space suit has been tested and it's everything you claimed it to be.
01:40Light, pliable, fireproof, a splendid product.
01:43We'll want 50 of them in time for the next space flight three weeks from now.
01:47Can you make it?
01:49Excellent.
01:50Good luck, Johnson.
01:51Yes?
01:52Your son is here, Mr. Granger.
01:53He wants to see you.
01:54Jim here?
01:55Well, tell him I can.
01:56All right, send him in.
01:57Yes, sir.
01:58And Miss Ames, tell Robert he can start punching tape for the mechanical pilot on Flight 17.
02:03Yes, Mr. Granger.
02:07Hello, Dad.
02:08How are you, Jim?
02:10Dad, I've come to ask a favor of you.
02:12A big favor.
02:13Well, talk fast, son.
02:14I'm very busy.
02:15What is it you want?
02:16I want to be assigned to Flight 17.
02:19What?
02:20Flight 17?
02:21To Neptune?
02:22Oh, are you crazy?
02:24No, Dad.
02:25I've been thinking about this for months.
02:26Well, you can stop thinking about it right now.
02:28There's no opening for you, sir.
02:30I happen to know there is, Dad.
02:32Golding's down with a bad case of acceleration, Ben.
02:34They'll need a new rocket engineer.
02:36But you're too young, too green.
02:38I've done 42 experimentals and three moon.
02:40I'm ready.
02:41Ready?
02:41Well, this is an uncharted trip, Jim.
02:44A trailblazer.
02:45You know what happened to the first flight to the moon, don't you?
02:48Ah, yes, sir.
02:48Crashed on the lip of a giant crypt.
02:50Yes, and the first ship that tried to reach Mars.
02:53Went haywire and shot off in a deep state.
02:55And still you want to make this first flight to Neptune?
02:58Yes, sir.
02:59Well, you have courage, son.
03:01I'll say that.
03:02But you're not going.
03:03Why not?
03:05Jim, it's not up to me.
03:06Captain Roberts chooses his own rocket engineer.
03:09You know, all I do is okay the man he selects.
03:13And I guess I'll be making the flight, Dad.
03:15You see, I persuaded Captain Roberts to select me.
03:33Captain Roberts on spaceship Phoenix on flight to Neptune,
03:36Neptune calling Marshal Granger, control station two.
03:41Roberts calling Granger.
03:43Are we still in contact?
03:45Roberts calling Granger.
03:48Will you read us?
03:49Granger, control station two.
03:51Will you read you, Roberts?
03:52We're still in contact.
03:53Go ahead, Roberts.
03:55Ready to report, sir.
03:56Proceed.
03:57At the end of 120 hours of flight, conditions are entirely normal.
04:02Crew and passengers have passed safely through five accelerations.
04:06We are cruising now at a speed of 12 galactic miles per second.
04:09Excellent, Roberts.
04:11Continue.
04:12Astrogation reading.
04:13Take it, Sandy.
04:14Astrogator Lawson reporting.
04:16Our position in space-time units, 17 hours, four minutes to the Mars-Jupiter axis, sector G.
04:2323 degrees off the plane in the ecliptic.
04:26Exactly on course, Lawson.
04:28Well done.
04:29Rocket control.
04:31Take it, Jim.
04:32Rocket engineer Granger reporting.
04:34Average rocket discharge rate, 12.7.
04:37Attention level, 19%.
04:39Available supply, 300 hours with B2 safety factors.
04:43Good work, son.
04:45Congratulations, all of you.
04:46Keep it up.
04:47Thank you, sir.
04:48Signing off.
04:50Hi.
04:51Everything okay back in the lodge, Jim?
04:53Oh, quiet a few minutes ago when I passed through.
04:55How about that chess game?
04:57Those two physicists still at it?
04:59They're in no hurry.
05:0150,000 miles to a move.
05:03Hmm.
05:03Real thriller.
05:04And, uh, the music lovers?
05:06Wearing a groove in Beethoven's fist.
05:08You know, I don't see how anybody...
05:10Dick, yes?
05:11Watch your controls, pal.
05:12We've been swinging off course.
05:14Off course?
05:15Well, you're nuts, lad.
05:16I haven't taken my eye off the chart for a second.
05:18We've been right on the line.
05:19I'm telling you, we're off course, Dick.
05:21Six points.
05:22Better bring her back.
05:23You sure, Sandy?
05:24Am I sure?
05:26Oh, sorry, Sandy.
05:27Stupid question.
05:30Stand by for directional correction.
05:32Standing by.
05:34Lateral deviation, 6.2.
05:36Speed 12.
05:38Magnetic index, gamma 5.
05:40Port side and auxiliary rockets, 5, 7, 13, 15.
05:45Ready to discharge.
05:49Discharge.
05:57Oh, that's that.
05:58I still don't understand that.
05:59Wait a minute, Dick.
06:01Something wrong.
06:02Huh?
06:02Wrong?
06:03What do you mean?
06:03We're off again.
06:04What are you talking about?
06:06We swung in a line for a second, then we pulled right out again.
06:09Oh, but that's impossible, Sandy.
06:10There isn't any wind drift occurring out here in space.
06:13Anything in motion moves in a straight line until it comes within the magnetic field of some body.
06:17That's what I'm afraid of, Dick.
06:18Dick, I think we're caught in the toe of some tremendous mass.
06:20What mass, Sandy?
06:22The sun, Mars, Jupiter, everything's where it belongs, isn't it?
06:25There aren't any unknown bodies floating about.
06:27Maybe there are.
06:28Maybe there...
06:30Like what, Sandy?
06:32A comet.
06:33A comet?
06:34Yeah, a comet.
06:36That's what it must be.
06:38A wild, uncharted comet from outer space.
06:41Look, Dick, the atmosphere gauge is way up.
06:44We're not flying through a vacuum.
06:46Well, there's something else out there now, some sort of atmosphere.
06:50Gas.
06:51Hot gases forming the tail of the comet.
06:53You're right, Sandy.
06:54Listen.
06:55Hot gases?
06:57No, things too.
06:59Sounds like pellets of some kind.
07:01Stones.
07:01They're fragments, meteorites, all trailing behind the comet.
07:05We're caught, Dick.
07:06Caught right in the middle of it.
07:07The ship.
07:08I don't think it's been.
07:09We'll be dragged clean out of the solar system, perhaps out of the galaxy.
07:13Maybe not, Sandy.
07:14There's one chance.
07:14Maybe we can blast ourselves crazy.
07:18All right.
07:19All right.
07:20All personnel to emergency acceleration couches.
07:23Prepare to discharge all port-side rockets.
07:25Do you know what you're doing?
07:26A hundred and twenty-seven rockets going off at once.
07:29Well, you'll blow us a bit.
07:30That's our only chance, Jim.
07:30Here goes.
07:31Five seconds.
07:36Discharge.
07:48Ranger, control tower, calling Spaceship Phoenix.
07:52Ranger calling Phoenix.
07:54Come in, Phoenix.
08:01Ranger to space patrol.
08:03Special alert.
08:04Spaceship Phoenix bound for Neptune.
08:06Missing 12 hours.
08:08May be lost or out of control.
08:10All units stand by to intercept signals, if any.
08:13Frequency, 40,000.
08:14Relay any information to Marshal Granger control tower, too.
08:18That is all.
08:19Oh, where are you, son?
08:21Where are you?
08:32What happened?
08:35Oh, my head.
08:38I've got to get up.
08:40I've got to see.
08:41Sandy.
08:43Sandy, get up.
08:44Come on, man.
08:45I'll give...
08:48Oh.
08:50Sandy.
08:53Dead.
08:57Dick, you're all right.
08:58Good.
08:59Yes, Jim.
08:59I'm all right.
09:00But Sandy...
09:01I know.
09:02Head cracked against the control panel.
09:04Three passengers are dead, but we're out of it, Dick.
09:07Something threw us clear of the comet, some centrifugal force.
09:09Help me up, Jim.
09:10Quick.
09:10I give you the control panel.
09:12Take it easy, Dick.
09:13All right.
09:13Here we go.
09:15Oh, my head.
09:18Jim.
09:19Jim, how's the power plant?
09:20Half the rocket engines are out.
09:22And the boosters seem to be okay.
09:24Good.
09:24We've got enough to operate on.
09:26Maybe.
09:26What do you mean?
09:27The nuclear overdrive is shot.
09:29Shot.
09:29Smacked by a meteorite.
09:31Jim, we've got to find out where we are.
09:32We can't afford to waste a unit of power.
09:35Do you know anything about astrogation?
09:36Not a thing.
09:37Beyond the moon, I'm lost.
09:38Oh, that's great.
09:39A crippled ship lost somewhere in space and a dead astrogator to show us the way.
09:44I'll have to make a wild stab at our position.
09:46What's your guess, Dick?
09:47Well, how can I guess?
09:48We may be near Neptune or way out near some far-off galaxy.
09:52Let's take a crack at that radio relay.
09:54Maybe we...
09:55I've been trying all along.
09:57Can't raise a thing.
09:58Keep trying.
09:58It's our only chance.
09:59Okay.
10:00I'll take a look through the port.
10:02See if I can make out anything.
10:03Spaceship Phoenix calling Earth stations Mars, Jupiter, Earth.
10:07Spaceship Phoenix.
10:08Are we coming through?
10:10Can't recognize a star, a planet, an astral body.
10:14Jim?
10:14Spaceship Phoenix.
10:16Can you hear us?
10:17Can you hear us?
10:18How long is it since we blanked out?
10:20Can't say, Dick.
10:21All our instruments went haywire.
10:23Spaceship Phoenix, flight 17 for Neptune in distress.
10:26Are we coming through?
10:28Answer us.
10:30We may have...
10:32Dick, listen.
10:33Spaceship Phoenix, you're coming through.
10:36We hear you.
10:37We've got them.
10:38They heard us.
10:39Oh, no, it can't be.
10:40Give me that mic.
10:41Hello?
10:42Hello?
10:43This is space flight 17.
10:44We're off our course and badly damaged.
10:47Opposition, unknown.
10:48We have located your position, spaceship Phoenix.
10:51Stand by, please.
10:53Jim, that's Earth.
10:53We'll blow and suck the world right back toward Earth.
10:56Hello, Phoenix.
10:57Are we still coming through?
10:59Like music, sir.
11:01Very well.
11:02We're going to bring you in on a beam if you're within range.
11:07Does the signal reach you?
11:10Please acknowledge.
11:11Got you.
11:12Got you perfectly.
11:13Good.
11:14Set your degravitators and disengage all engines.
11:17We're in free flight, sir.
11:19Struck all personnel to get into acceleration compensators.
11:24We'll land at our base port in approximately four hours.
11:36100 feet.
11:37Prepare for landing.
11:38Granger to engine room.
11:40Landing jets for a nap.
11:41Discharge.
11:4550 feet.
11:46Release airlock.
11:47Switch on landing lights.
11:5010 feet.
11:51Prepare to land.
11:55Contact.
11:55Cut motors.
11:59Ah.
12:00We've landed, Jim.
12:01We made it.
12:01Don't I know it.
12:02Come on, pal.
12:03Out you go.
12:04Oh, take your time.
12:05We're in no rush now.
12:06You may not be, but I am.
12:08In a rush to get down and kiss good old terra firmer.
12:11Oh, boy, does this air smell good.
12:14What a spaceport, Jim.
12:17I didn't know we had anything anywhere that looked like this.
12:20I don't care what it looks like.
12:21All I know is that...
12:22Here comes someone.
12:23Hello?
12:24Hello there.
12:25I'm Captain Roberts of the Phoenix.
12:27Are we glad to see you?
12:29Then bring what?
12:30Hey, what's the idea?
12:32Well, you don't understand.
12:33I said I'm...
12:33Don't move.
12:35Captain Roberts, you and your crew and your passengers are all under arrest.
12:40Elf and Smith, take over the ship and seal all the exits.
12:43No one has to leave.
12:45Captain Roberts, you and your companion come this way, please.
12:58By what authority are we being held prisoners?
13:01I want to know.
13:02I have the right to demand it, no.
13:05Captain Roberts, you are hardly in a position to demand anything.
13:11Well, what is my position, sir?
13:14The title is Commander.
13:15Commander Dyster.
13:17Commander?
13:18Commander, you know that you will be held responsible for any harm to my passengers or ship.
13:24There's no cause for alarm, Captain.
13:27Or threat.
13:28I'm simply holding you here at Green Valley for a short while, till we check your credentials.
13:34You've inspected our ship.
13:36You know we carry no contraband.
13:38Since when does an American have to have his credentials checked in his own country?
13:42I've already explained to you that this entire area, all 500 square miles of it, is government property, devoted exclusively
13:50to secret research projects.
13:52Now, is it perfectly obvious why we can't allow you and your passengers to walk about freely?
14:00Maybe, but it isn't obvious why we're not allowed to use the visiphone.
14:04Why we can't call our base, report our safe landing.
14:08Perhaps not, Captain Roberts.
14:09But then, government regulations often are obscure.
14:14Commander Dyster, we were met with guns and suspicion.
14:18Now, you say that was because secret research is going on.
14:21Yet, when you contacted us above the Earth's atmosphere, you offered to bring us in here.
14:27Why did you make that offer if you didn't want us here?
14:30Would you rather be back in space, floundering about in your crippled craft?
14:35That can be arranged.
14:38You haven't answered my question.
14:40We brought you in for two reasons.
14:44First, to save your lives, if you turned out to be harmless.
14:49Second, because it is our policy to apprehend all craft entering our space sector.
14:55We have enemies.
14:57The high-handed methods you use, I can see why.
15:00Not high-handed, Captain Roberts.
15:01But, during your detainment here, you and your company will be accorded full courtesy.
15:08We appreciate your courtesy, but we demand the right to contact Chicago here, now, and on that visiphone.
15:14I'm sorry, that is impossible.
15:16Donna.
15:17Yes, Commander Dyster?
15:18Arrange for suitable accommodations for Captain Roberts and his crew.
15:24The interview is closed.
15:25Commander Dyster, I...
15:26That is all, Captain.
15:34Send out a special bulletin to the Science Institute.
15:38To all chiefs of the following departments.
15:40Astrogation, navigation, anthropology, astronomy.
15:43Is there anywhere in this solar system, or in adjoining constellations, a body known as planet Earth, or America?
15:53Is there any community, area, or experimental station known as Chicago?
16:11I won't do it, Dick.
16:12I won't take this lying down.
16:13No?
16:14What are you going to do about it?
16:15Think of something.
16:16I'm certainly not going to sit around putting my thumbs while the great Dyster checks our credentials.
16:20I don't like the looks of this place any better than you do.
16:23Well, a secret project, he says.
16:25For all we know, it may be the headquarters of some gangster out there.
16:29There are a lot of things about this Green Valley setup that bother me.
16:32Nothing definite.
16:33I just get a feeling that everything's a little lopsided.
16:37As if I were looking at it through a Coney Island mirror.
16:40Oh, easy now, Jim.
16:41You'll be going bats if you're...
16:43Dick, I've got it.
16:44Got what?
16:45That visit phone.
16:46If we can get into Dyster's office some way, we can phone home.
16:49Oh, no, no.
16:50You're way off, Jim.
16:51There isn't a chance in a million.
16:52Why not?
16:52This room's not locked.
16:53They've finished work for the day.
16:55We saw everybody leave.
16:57All right.
16:58All right, we'll try it.
16:59But, Jim, watch your step, will you?
17:02I feel sort of responsible for you.
17:16Here's the office.
17:17So far, so good.
17:18Try the door.
17:21Open.
17:21Inside, fast.
17:24It's right dark in the air.
17:25Now, where was that rhythm phone?
17:27Oh, it's right here.
17:28Put the call in, but don't light the scanning cone.
17:30I'll use this pocket flash.
17:32You listen for anyone approaching.
17:34Here goes.
17:36Your call, please.
17:38Get me Marshall Granger in Chicago.
17:41Chicago?
17:42Where is that?
17:43Chicago, Illinois, USA.
17:45Come on, operator.
17:46U-S-A?
17:48What place is that near?
17:50Didn't you hear me?
17:51I said USA.
17:52I will check it, sir.
17:53If you...
17:54Come on, Jim.
17:54Drop it quick.
17:55We'd better get out.
17:56There's two ladies in the car to stand back here in the corner.
18:01Come on.
18:03Hello?
18:05Someone is here.
18:06Please come forward.
18:09I know you are here.
18:11I can hear your heartbeats.
18:14There are two of you there in the back.
18:16Please come forward.
18:19Oh, this is very childish.
18:23Now, that is better.
18:25Now we can put on the lights.
18:28Good evening, Commander Dystroom.
18:30Captain Roberts.
18:32Congratulations, sir.
18:33A very impressive trick.
18:35Hearing a heartbeat across the 40-foot room.
18:37Trick?
18:38Not at all, sir.
18:39If it seems strange to you, your hearing must be impaired.
18:43You know why we're here, I suppose.
18:46It's obvious.
18:47You are trying to use the Viziphone against orders.
18:49You gentlemen have abused your privileges as guests.
18:53Now, you will be held prisoners under lock and key.
19:11I've brought you your food, gentlemen.
19:13It's about time.
19:14Well, this is a fancy touch.
19:16A woman jailer.
19:18My name is Donna, Captain Roberts.
19:20I'm Commander Dystroom's assistant.
19:22We just remembered you hadn't had any food tonight.
19:24That's very touching.
19:26Thank you very much.
19:27Take it easy, Jim.
19:28She's just carrying out orders.
19:30Donna, it was very kind of you to bring us this food,
19:32but there's something we need even more.
19:35What is it?
19:36We need some information.
19:38We're going mad.
19:39Well, if there's anything I can tell you...
19:42Anything.
19:43You can start talking now and continue all night.
19:46First, where is this place?
19:48Where are we?
19:50You're in Green Valley, Captain.
19:52Green Valley.
19:52Green Valley.
19:53Where is Green Valley?
19:54What continent is it on?
19:55What is it bounded by?
19:57I'm sorry.
19:58I can't answer that.
20:00You're wasting your breath, Dick.
20:01She won't talk.
20:02Then tell me this.
20:04How long have you been here?
20:06All my life.
20:07I was born here.
20:0857 years ago.
20:11Fif...
20:13You look like 20.
20:15How old is Dystroom?
20:1692.
20:18And he can hear a heartbeat at 40 paces.
20:21Ah, my hearing's even better.
20:24Listen.
20:25Do you hear the dogs barking in the distance?
20:30Nuts.
20:30These people are a terrific hoax,
20:32or we've wandered into some weird,
20:33out-of-this-world madhouse.
20:35Good night, daughter.
20:36Good night, gentlemen.
20:37I wouldn't try anything foolish.
20:45Shangri-La.
20:46Yes, that's where we must be.
20:47The place someone wrote about back in the 20th century.
20:49If you ask me, it's probably the place.
20:51Dick, Dick, listen.
20:52Huh?
20:53Granger.
20:54Roberts.
20:54The window.
20:55There's someone below.
20:58Hello there.
20:58Who is it?
20:59It's me, Reynolds.
21:00Reynolds, the chess-playing physicist.
21:02Reynolds, how'd you get out?
21:03What are you doing down there?
21:05I escaped while the others distracted the guard.
21:07I'm making a dash for it.
21:08Dash for what, Reynolds?
21:09There's a small plane at the far end of the field.
21:11I spotted it this afternoon.
21:12Will you come with me?
21:13It's pitch black out there.
21:15You'll never find it.
21:15I'll find it if I have to feel my way.
21:17You're mad, Reynolds.
21:18We've got to get away, Roberts.
21:19Don't you understand?
21:20This place, it's unnatural.
21:22I've seen things that have made my hair stand on it.
21:24Now, Reynolds, listen to me.
21:25Don't go now.
21:26Perhaps tomorrow everything will be on.
21:27No, not tomorrow.
21:28Now.
21:28Are you coming, Roberts?
21:30Ranger?
21:31Very well.
21:32When I come back with help, I hope you're still alive.
21:34Now, wait, Reynolds.
21:34Come back.
21:36Gone.
21:37I hope he knows what he's done.
21:38Dr. Reynolds, you are out of bounds.
21:41That's dyster.
21:42Come back, Dr. Reynolds.
21:44We cannot permit you to go any further.
21:48Last warning, Dr. Reynolds.
21:50Do not go near that place.
21:52There isn't a light on anywhere.
21:53How do they know where Reynolds is?
21:55Stay yourself.
21:56Stop that man.
22:07I think you're foolish to refuse the food we've been sending you.
22:10You haven't eaten all day.
22:12Please put it down, Dawn, and go away.
22:14Commander Dyster wishes me to express his regrets.
22:18The injury to Dr. Reynolds was most unfortunate.
22:21Tell Commander Dyster he'll pay for this.
22:23Tell him I said...
22:23The electronic beam merely paralyzes temporarily.
22:27It leaves no permanent mark.
22:28Dr. Reynolds will recover.
22:30How do they manage to hit him in the dark?
22:33Oh, I...
22:33I don't understand.
22:36We see very well in the dark.
22:38Well, good night, gentlemen.
22:40Please eat your food.
22:41Well, Commander Dyster will be offended if you don't.
22:46Mustn't offend Dyster, must we?
22:48Well, here goes this tray.
22:49I can't wait.
22:50It's foolish, really.
22:51We only get weak if we don't eat.
22:53Too weak to help ourselves if an opportunity comes along.
22:56Yeah, I guess you're right.
22:58Feel a little light-headed already.
23:00Yeah, hand me that jug of milk.
23:02Oh, here.
23:03Pour one for me, too, will you?
23:05Three days we've been here.
23:06They could have checked our credentials a dozen times.
23:09There.
23:10Happy landing.
23:11I'm bottom's up.
23:12Jim, look out.
23:14What is it, Dick?
23:16Why'd you knock the glass out of my hand?
23:17Did you see the color of that milk?
23:19Green.
23:20Green?
23:22Green milk?
23:23Poison.
23:23That's all I can think of.
23:24Of course.
23:25Please eat your food, she kept saying.
23:27Come on, let's open that window and get rid of this tray.
23:31Here it goes.
23:32Compliment to Jim Grayson.
23:33Ah!
23:36Well?
23:37Well, what?
23:38When is it going to land?
23:40I didn't hear a sound.
23:41Did you see it as it went down?
23:43That heavy metal tray, that big jug, the glasses?
23:46They didn't fall, Jim.
23:48They sort of floated down.
23:49As if...
23:50As if somebody had messed around to the force of gravity.
23:53They reduced the pull of the earth here at Green Valley, Dick.
23:56Maybe that's one of their secret projects.
23:58An anti-gravitational force.
24:00Dick.
24:01Dick, I'm going to find out.
24:03What are you climbing up on that windowsill for?
24:04Dad, if it works for a tray full of dishes, why won't it work for me?
24:07I'm going to jump out, Dick.
24:09There's only one way to find out.
24:10Take a big jump.
24:11Just walking around doesn't give the answer.
24:12It's three stories.
24:13You'll land smack on those rocks below.
24:15Well, if I make it, you follow.
24:16And if I don't...
24:16Ah, don't do it.
24:17Ah, wait.
24:17Don't jump.
24:18Hold on, Dick.
24:18I'll be asleep.
24:31Jim.
24:33Jim, you there?
24:34Here I am, Dick.
24:35We made it, all right.
24:37I can't believe it.
24:39You hurt?
24:40Just a bruise.
24:41It was like...
24:41It was like a jolt at the end of a parachute jump.
24:44I think I'm going out of my mind, Jim.
24:45And all those, those fantastic things that have happened since we landed here.
24:50The visiphone operator who never heard of Chicago or the USA.
24:53And Dicester who could hear a heartbeat across the room.
24:56And see you in the dark.
24:57Donner, 57 years old, looking like a chorus girl.
25:00Green milk.
25:00And a reduced gravitational pull.
25:03I don't like it.
25:04I want to get out.
25:05And there's our ship out in the middle of the spaceport, prepared and ready to go.
25:08Hey, maybe we could...
25:11Dick.
25:12I just noticed something.
25:14Yeah?
25:14Last night when Randall...
25:16Last night it was pitch dark, but now...
25:19Now there's a full moon.
25:20What's so strange about that?
25:22Take another look at that sky.
25:25There.
25:26Over the rim of a horizon.
25:28Another moon.
25:30A second moon.
25:33What fools we've been.
25:36Don't you see what this means?
25:38We're not on the Earth at all.
25:40We've landed on some alien planet.
25:42We must get to Dicester at once.
25:51Yes, that is it.
25:53That explains the things that puzzled us.
25:56Your reference to Chicago, to the Earth.
25:59The small, strange differences between us.
26:01It's not the differences that bother me now, Dicester.
26:05It's the uncanny, incredible similarity between your planet and ours.
26:11Is it so incredible, Captain Roberts?
26:13We've shown you our astronomical charts.
26:16Our planet, Vesta, is exactly opposite the Earth, on the other side of the sun.
26:21Yeah.
26:22That's why we never discovered each other.
26:23We are 90 million miles distant from the sun.
26:27You are...
26:2893 million miles.
26:29Well, no doubt, both planets split off from the sun at the same time.
26:32Vesta is a little smaller than the Earth, and that fact, plus its nearer distance to the sun, gives us
26:39less gravity.
26:40But otherwise, our development has paralleled yours completely.
26:45Even in appearance and culture and language.
26:48You've reached precisely the same stage of development we have.
26:51Oh, it simply proves, Granger, that similar conditions may produce the same results.
26:56One thing still bothers me.
26:58Yes?
26:59How do you stay so young?
27:01So vigorous?
27:02That, it is simple.
27:04We live in peace and harmony.
27:07Our only concern is interplanetary threats.
27:11That's why you were so...
27:13so rough on us, precisely.
27:16Well, now that we understand each other, may I use your visibone?
27:21You want to call Chicago.
27:24No, no, no.
27:26I want to call our crew and passengers and tell them to get ready for the journey home.
27:46Thank you for joining us.
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