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what's its rate of climb sergeant twenty thousand feet a minute sir

phillips give me a reading on altitude and distance

i'll just do 10 miles speed 1000 miles an hour

it's 900 miles since time launching we'll be losing in a couple of minutes

she's right on course

dr rostov looks as if this atomic powered engine of yours is going to

outmode yet proportion we'll see general it's out of range sir

desert station calling top of the world come in top of the world

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hello desert station pip moving in on top of the world

altitude 23 miles speed 1800 miles an hour heading due

west on course is chartered she's practically over our heads right now

heading out to sea

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captain

altitude 38 miles speed 2 000 miles an hour

rocket approaching point for turnback this thing better work

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[Music] hello neptune we are waiting come in

over you get me neptune you get me this is

desert station we are waiting anything wrong

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the rocket isn't turning back the speed is fantastic

it's 100 miles past us 120 50

75 200. get them back desert station

calling neptune yes desert station

this is dr michael rostov are you sure your reading is correct are you sure you

haven't miscalculated no sir we're positive came in right on

schedule on its exact course where is it now

it's getting below the horizon it's gone

neptune's still standing by there's a station what orders

let them keep a clear channel yes sir there's a station calling neptune

stand by keep channel clear roger neptune standing by

over dr briggs traveling for three more hours

at its present rate of speed same fixed course where would you say it would

crash

somewhere within this radius not good is it not good but at least not a total

failure if we can ever recover it we'll find why it didn't come back gentlemen

you represent the armed forces you know what this test means

right now it's a failure

we've always managed to be first in the long race against time we proved that

with the atom bomb but if we don't recover this rocket and

make it work first or if someone else should recover it before we do

well you know the consequences it isn't the money we've spent

it's the time out of the lives of men like rostov and phillips and briggs

so thousands of hours spent in research by the men working under them

those hours represent a large portion of our nation's security

we don't get that rocket back we may never survive to know just how

much security we lost we'll need your full cooperation

i'll get an okay for a search party

simmons atomic energy commission lying to the white house please scramble

it

another demotus no thanks

coffee is bad for my sense of humor and with you i have to stay on my good

behavior you mind if i tear down a few of my inhibitions not at all that's what

it's there for me generally

joe's the name remember

don't let the ranks write you happen i guess i guess you don't seem to be

running out of inhibitions either drink your drink joe

marla tell me more about your being a flight instructor the boys you train to

fly what are they like today

they're great no more hot rotten occupy there's no

more flying by the seat of the pants these boys think

the day of the prop on planes is over these boys flying today have to know

their engineering aerodynamics what makes jet we're after the same kind of

brain power that mit is or carnegie tech gordon

hey wait a minute you had me doing this same show the

other night that's right i'd forgotten

it was let me see you were taking me up to the door to say

good night oh i remember

you wanted to come inside and show me how you simulated landings at ten

thousand feet oh sure what's the matter with me that

was tuesday night i saw him wednesday

yeah sure of course wednesday uh crash landings

parachute jumps tacos

i was tired that night joe you left me at the front door

oh no please don't get up i'll change the

record

the dinner was magnificent it was not good to sit after such a

heavy meal let's give the music a break shall we

very sweet of you to worry about my figure a woman appreciates such

thoughtfulness from such worries a person can develop

and sound what shape

you fly playing as well as you dance i manage

those simulated landings

well certainly took you a long time getting

around to that major it'll never happen again

the dog i don't hear anything maybe you better answer it

do you say so

yes pardon me man but is uh major nolan here

what is it sergeant

orders for you to report back to the base at once sir they'll have a plane

worry up for you at the flight line at once at once sir

all right sergeant come back soon joe

like a homing pigeon i'd like to finish our

discussion about simulated landings yeah

what time is it sergeant 2 30 sir they look a whole lot better to me at three

i don't mean to sound personal sergeant but how just following orders major if i

hadn't come across this at your quarters i uh might not have found you for

another 30 minutes that was careless of me wasn't it

sergeant very careless of you sir

if you don't mind my saying so sir you're an awfully tough man to follow

i don't want any more complaints out of you sweetheart wooly gave you all new

parts now using and you yeah my blood you got half the

naughty spent over what happens wrong size

now you got a new one that fits use it be relaxed and satisfied sergeant tetlo

the ceo wants you want to leave us sitting here

practically naked if you want to wind up taking hot and cold bats in a

straitjacket that's your business mine is to take you to the ceo

you're coming waters

that's all they know they get him they give him you get him you're stuck and is

your travel podcast yeah

come on [Music]

for the next 30 days stay lost

[Music] i don't misunderstand me i don't want to

make you feel terrible but i always said i'd never die in a plane

now let me see

oh yeah she got married last month

yeah i'll keep them flying jackie while i'm i

leave i'll tell you all about it when i get back

lieutenant wilson one l or two

lieutenant daniel wilson yeah ceo i want you right away

dame said she voted last year maybe she lied i can't understand

about to go on leave fill my life with all kinds of contentment and peace what

happens my friend puts in a request for his friend to come hold his hand and

babysit for some scientists i lost out on a little contentment at peace myself

so why pick on me because i missed your ugly face danny boy i got lonesome

because he was so pleasant and uncomplaining those two delightful years

we spent living in that romantic south pacific jungle together yeah we got a

crash on an island that's loaded with guerrilla resistance they slap a gun in

one hand a knife in the other and at two seconds you're the south pacific

commando what a picnic you got liberated yeah i got liberated

look where it got me liberation it's a wonderful thing

a strength to it

sergeant how about some coffee

coming right up sir

[Music] yeah pardon me doc i brought you some

coffee oh thanks sergeant

smells good ah let me tell you doc everything about

this doll smells good just look at the fuselage really stacked huh you get a

loadout and get a little out of wing spread

listen to a sink i tend she's a dream doc my baby if she can only cook yeah

oh doc yeah i can see i haven't had much experience with things you know the

first thing you got to know never spoil my makeup

uh sergeant tell me where was that point we just passed over i'm the wrong guy to

ask doc you know looking out from high places makes little black spots to a

ballet in front of my eyes it gets me very dizzy and you in the air force

thank you man

got some coffee for you doc coffee

oh yes thanks that's just what i need about this time

but definitely

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yes

i don't know about you doc but these long trips always get me a little sleepy

figured a little coffee might keep us all awake

thanks sergeant when i feel myself getting tired i'll let you know

i should

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oh what characters as bad as playing a bunch of congressmen to visit the

warfront well really how you talk this is a posh assignment

we're hauling vips distinguished scientists

sergeant you should have brewed them some liquid hydrogen served with smashed

atoms on crackers yeah yeah i'll serve them one joker's taking pictures through

a window another one looks like he's writing the letter to einstein that

rust-off guy's playing games with him out but what do we do go chasing after a

rocket that's a naughty word sergeant top secret

hey take over

i'm gonna play boy scouts back there let you two aggravate each other

keep your roses happy

ultras he says my ulcers never had us a good flower

with me this trip

glad you're enjoying it dr well do we land anywhere

we'll be coming down in about three hours

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keeping check on us dr rostov afraid the air force will lose his way

partly may turn scientists can't afford to take chances

we try to evaluate every element but sometimes even that isn't enough

like a rocket not turning back when it's supposed to

the mechanical element the fraction of an inch a tiny

miscalculation there are always

unpredictables and i wouldn't know about that

my life's always dependent on the human elements

well i'll see you later [Music]

so

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[Music] we're going down to pick up some fuel

now all tight it's gonna be bumpy downstairs

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we're now approaching rocket's point of departure where neptune radar unit lost

contact

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rocket hit the ocean you'll see a dye marker covering the spot i'm going

upstairs so we can get a good look [Music]

[Music] we're now in zone where rocket ran out

of fuel

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[Music] dead end

dead end

[Music] island to your left i'm swinging over it

so you can take a look

[Music] the rust off breaks i've picked up

something the gagger's jumping all over the place

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hey what happened we're losing altitude fast

something's going crazy all the magnetic controls are conked out the electrical

system's shot the whole panel is dead joe instead as

we'll be if you don't dish this baby and bail out start to get back and take care

of the others i'm going to try and make that island yes sir

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now we have to hit the silver count three and four i'll meet you down below

you're okay you're okay doctor the man

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i'm only lending this dolly a major bring her back to me in one piece

she won't double cross you major

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so

peter

you okay willie yeah i'm all right but she's washed up she'll never bounce her

tail again got the first aid kit brenda's bleeding you did a beautiful

job major i didn't think we had a chance thanks i like living too this will hurt

for a minute yeah that's what i always tell my kids what went wrong i don't

know magnetic instruments the radio

everything they just stopped cold that's strange just before we crashed

the geiger registered intense radio activity

what do you make of that we're over something hot other than that

your guess is as good as mine hey i hope that guy didn't get smashed

no still working but there's nothing

hey my watch is going to stop before but now it's going

come on let's go out and take a look at the south sea paradise

doesn't look too forbidding seems rather peaceful talk to some of our guys who

crashed in new guinea during the war headhunters cannibals sound there may be

a park but i'm not gonna depend on it and maybe we ought to try to get the

radio work and he'll let somebody know where we are we're under orders not to

break radio silence until we find the rocket oh that's just fine pet hunters

cannibals break out the guns and ammunition sergeant yes round up what

food we have better check all your equipment take only the essential things

looks like we might be camping out for a while

so

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who knows they were being set up for pigeons

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this ain't gonna be such a bad leave

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[Music] too bad we don't know their language

yeah she might be able to help us i know a couple of melanesian dialects i'll try

them out on you know english from missionary school

island over there where my people go your people left why

firebird fly over village send out flame and smoke the rocket it must be the

rocket we're in luck earth tremble people frightened leaving boats

uh this firebird where did it land on sacred mountain home of gods chiefs

say spirit angry at bird make earth tremble why didn't you leave with the

rest of them rocks fall down my father hurt

brother and i stay until he die

but who are you we came after that firebird to take away

its evil they can do that if you could take us to where it landed no no no no

sacred mountain taboo uh if you show us where this firebird came down we can

break its spell it'll never fly again you sure your people can come home and

live in peace again i show way too sacred mountain but it is

taboo you will not come back

their sacred mountain home of gods i mean that's where the fire bird went

couldn't land on a nice soft beach gotta pick the top of a mountain

well there's nothing yet but any radioactivity would be shielded

from us by the mountain aren't you coming with us no

we'll see that nothing happens do you sacred mountain taboo no one ever come

back from home of god

that's the first damn ever so run on you joe

you must be losing your touch

so

well looks like we start climbing it seems we have no alternative one

thing nobody can say we're not getting plenty of exercise on this trip who

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hey you can't even see the top you get busy up there sergeant you want

to bail out you've always got your parachute yeah what happens if it's dark

you don't get lost your life matches on the way down

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maybe you can make it briggs yeah i'll be alright

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you made it oh boy you made it

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okay

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seems like we've been climbing for days there's no top to this rock pile you got

an appointment somewhere what's the matter doc anything wrong

no i'm just making a check with the geiger

getting anything slide ready very slight

from the rocket let's hope so

hey doc is your head clear sure

i wish i could say mine was well

let's go huh so soon come on get your packs on you got an appointment

someplace yeah with a rocket

come on

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poison gas

now i know what she meant about i'm not coming back some kind of corrosive gas

generated from the earth oh great me with only a parachute i should have

brought a gas mask probably caused by internal pressures

there seems to be considerable volcanic activity

my little death trap you all right to go on

yeah sure watch the little poison gas

we gotta find another way you feeling strong enough briggs

perhaps you shouldn't continue please don't worry about me i'll be all

right

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since when did a little noise keep you awake since you and a rocket came into

my life yeah but look at all the trouble it kept you out of

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so

your family yeah

the girls 12 boys 16. fine looking kids

we have quite a story to tell them when we get back

yes

i hope i will i'm sorry that going's been so rough

well that's what i get for sitting on my big

fat blueprints and helping to build guided missiles

i should have listened to my wife she's been after me for years to get in

condition

i guess they needed to say their guards were angry tonight

ever been married major i've come close to it a couple of times

one way or another how come he never got pinned down

what does some wife tell him what dames he should or shouldn't go out with

not joe

up there on the rock [Music]

what did you say up there a monster i've never seen before

i think he's getting rocket happy

you sure it wasn't just your imagination and rather it had been

about all i see is spots

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stay with me baby

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rustic

restaurant restaurant restaurant on it's brakes

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ah

how did it happen i'm not sure

i think it was his heart why didn't you yell

there wasn't time it was unexpected i

tried to hold him but i didn't have the strength

another one of your unpredictables

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it's a dead end

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that's the only way

up think you can make that and you

don't worry about me

i'll be there do better a long way down

touch that over to me

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[Music] hey you guys hey it's a dead end over

there gotta make this jump

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be the very top where

all right now i know how high is up

look at that what's the matter

look [Music]

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i got colorblind it was 20 20 vision [Music]

what do you make of it doc i don't know i

i'm almost afraid to say not like any jungle i've been in or ever

will be major you're looking at a kind of world that

hasn't existed for millions of years it's sort of like a like a lost

continent oh you could call it that i guess here

have a mountain in the middle of the sky volcanic dust

it's almost as if time forgot this place everything indicates a throwback to

prehistoric times look at that foliage think of the tremendous internal

pressures causing such steaming pools and the continuous activity at such

altitude must be terrific as powerful as a

stockpile of hydrogen bombs yeah but it doesn't make sense

the air's thin sure but you can breathe without your lungs screaming for help

and we're miles above sea level it's all the plants major practically pure oxygen

but look at this haze somebody got lost in for some soft light put a green bulb

in the sun yeah like in a nightclub only they forgot to bring on the dames huh

you know what the atom bomb did to the atmosphere major

those same forces could exist here who is that to say

if we find that rocket it may have a someday all living back in the world

like this one i'll worry about that when the time

comes hey phillips take a fix

see if he can pick up a reading on the rocket somewhere

all right you got the airplane sergeant yes sir

you got yourself an uproar over something joe what's eating you

private weight what is it clobbering this little dream world maybe

man what do you think of rostov mustaf

oh he's a cold fish you know those big brains

oh i see

you think that he i don't think anything yet

i never did buy that guy even before we took off

why do we know anything about the rocket

there's willy no

only three guys know what makes it work but i'll stop phillips and briggs

now briggs is gone anything happens to phillips that just

leaves rostov he could sell us any bill of goods maybe

he didn't want that rocket to turn back

see what you make of this hey major we picked something up

that's it phillips what's the rundown definite signs of

radioactivity but much too powerful to be coming from

the unit in the rocket morphing there somewhere

we may have hit something important major

uranium it explains a lot of things why the

plane went out of control when we flew toward the island and the geiger we must

have entered a field of radiation then when we dropped below the mountain we

passed out of it it lost its effect hey

my watch stopped again does that stuff act like a magnet

that stuff is the most mysterious element in nature the most dangerous

the most unstable the most valuable yeah babies cry for it but our job concerns

finding the rocket not prospecting for uranium when the rocket ran out of fuel

it was inevitably drawn to these fields if it ran out of fuel

simmer down joe so i'll apologize if i'm wrong

all right it's the only lead we have let's follow it

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did you get him sergeant i'm starving to death and that thing's

been feeding off me for four hours like i was something sent up from room

service

pick up any late news flash from the home front doc

how's everybody at the pentagon happy what'd you say

oh nothing i just wondered if you guys still had the jitters

oh well from its activity we're moving into a hotter zone

well at least we won't freeze tonight

well with that rockets near the uranium fields we're getting pretty close

i show a concentration of almost 20 thousand mrs

hey mars how about a short translation for the common man doc miller antkins

milly who it's like taking your temperature sergeant only this shows how

hot a zone is with radioactivity how dangerous is the area don't worry major

we're safe enough but if the uranium in those fields were refined we'd have been

dead hours ago well raise your flaps that rocket won't

find us

i joined the air force

all right let's take a 15-minute break oh 15 minutes

break out the russian sergeant yes

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hey joe we've got

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these company are fresh they're not more than an hour old that's

fine so they're fresh but what do they fit

nothing human i ever saw not even my top sergeant had feet that big

i've seen tracks like these before yeah where

in the museum they're brought usaurus tracks

bruh funny bronzer what hard to believe isn't it major

my calendar says 20th century a d not a 100 million bc

i appreciate your feelings major but you can't change what we've just seen

or what may lie ahead

come on let's get our patch we gotta move

you sure we're still on fix i'll make another check if you like

all right on course good

hey doc more bruno get more tracks and they're

going the same way we are that's right

hey doc i think there's some other way to get to

those uranium fields huh maybe why don't you look for it i'm going to

follow the needle okay

hey doc i think i'll stick with the needle too

huh

hey run a source

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[Music] get up the tree

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so

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that thing's got more armor than a tank

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get him out of here

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just keep an eye on all in one piece baby i may be needing you yet

too bad i couldn't have gotten a picture of that animal this afternoon

pictures you're lucky you weren't killed

do probably account for all this that how do you explain it

who can't explain it it's an impossibility

yet here we are right in the middle of it

it's where i always wind up an animal we saw this afternoon hasn't

existed for millions and millions of years

it had disappeared before a man was ever heard of

what's the matter with it i don't know i'm supposed to be dead

you know what a miracle is lieutenant sure can you explain it no

i can't explain what happened this afternoon either

well thanks for straightening the whole thing out doc you took the words right

out of my mouth and what a relief

oh goodnight well corey wanted your watch

strange and rather frightening out there

take any of those rocks harness its stored up energy

convert it into a power plant we could build a whole new world

or destroy the one we've got

ironic but here we are sleeping on top of the richest uranium field known to

man gives one a real cozy feeling

if you don't mind having nightmares you are a cynical suspicious man aren't

you nolan

maybe

oh baby

what a little dream yeah

and your shape

perfect everything

everything about you beautiful beautiful

it's just one thing about you baby maybe just if you just have propellers

instead of jets

you're perfect

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sergeant danny from fellows are gone [Music]

hey you were on god why didn't you watch who

rostov and phillips are gone i did i never closed my eyes all night

maybe your lunch is right i didn't know

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it wait for me

[Music] what are you doing his foot became

lodged in the rocks i wasn't able to free him by myself what's the idea

coming out here alone keep your voices down look

[Music] it's been hanging around for hours ever

since i discovered dr phillips

get down get out of sight [Music]

well it's no good noise will only attract them we'll have to sweat it out

[Music] go ahead and go

do your good you got us trapped into this now go

ahead and yell loud

what's a few more lives you've crazy stupid uranium happy

[Applause] shoot for the eyes

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so

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sergeant keep your eye on them [Music]

get his leg up [Music]

[ __ ] down you get them out

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do all you scientists lose your marbles every now and then

i'm sorry that caused you so much trouble lieutenant

i woke up a little earlier than the rest of you this morning it seemed to swell a

chance to grab some pictures i was lucky mike followed me

you think i'd let you get yourself killed in a prehistoric jungle

we've been friends too long

well the uh the legs feeling better come on let's keep walking huh

thanks not disturbed because it's still bc

instead of a d no i'm convinced

i also said if i was wrong i'd apologize well that's not necessary

don't ask me why at the beginning i had you figured for

playing on the wrong team i know

i'm a russian i'm used to it almost my whole life has been a witch

hunt one way or another first it was hitler and one of his

concentration camps then my wife and unborn child died in

another with russian-made barbed wire

it doesn't change them much a lot of guys are finding that out every

day all respect for my country lies dead in

those camps i hope to go back and resurrect it

someday no country can survive when

it loses the respect of its own people or of the world

you go back mike the way you want to go back

too many guys on our side fighting for the same thing

even if heaven forbid it means pushing buttons

on more rockets like the one out there somewhere

heaven forbid joe

same unknown vapors we ran into coming up the mountain

being forced through the earth are tremendous pressures

too much pressure with no safety valve and if they should ever react with the

uranium fields quite a fourth of july

that's it that's what

it's the end of the road mcgregor can't take us any further

it means that we are right in the middle of the uranium deposits and they seem to

extend for miles and how do we find the rocket i wish i

knew it could be any place

maybe we could wander around up here for weeks

come on let's get out of this graveyard

hey joe i don't know how long these guys will

hold out they got pleats in their pants they're

holding so fast what's eating you you heard what philip said you know what

chances we have we're beating our brains out for

something we may never find we don't even know where to look now if

the rocket's up here it'll rot before anybody can get to it you bored

yeah i'm bored we're down to our last few rounds of ammo

worried no

run out of bullets i got a new secret weapon

see any more of those fugitives in mizzou

i'll just walk up to him and kill him with spit ah who wants to be a dead hero

are you speaking for yourself danny for them

maybe i'm saying what they don't want to say

the lieutenant seems to think you've got something on your minds

i'll give you a chance to unburden yourselves

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well i have we're low on food we're low on water and

we're low on ammunition maybe we're getting a little low on

nerves but i got news for you

i walk around with my guts twisted up same as you

i want to clear out of here the same as you

i didn't ask to be trapped in this rat race but as long as i'm here i'll try

and finish

anybody who wants to knock it off now feel better major

well don't just stand there major we got a rocket to find

baby you ain't getting any lighter

so i'll spit in her eye

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ah

[Music] hey i wanna have a piece of that big

buzzer would make good eating let's find out

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i think it fell right around here [Music]

hey look

oh what a mad passion i love you let's get to it

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take it easy big slob get away from that keep your voices down stay out of sight

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they can't stick around forever they should drop dead they should have a few

million years ago they may be here for days

hey rostov how much time will you need to get the

unit out of the rocket depends on how much damage we find

ordinarily 10 maybe 15 minutes might do it another five to get the data off the

light recording instruments can you knock off the whole works in half an

hour it should give us plenty of time i think i've hit an angle to get rid of

them it's going to be rough but it might work

danny you and willie circle the animals getting back to the rocks and boulders

and start shooting it might bait them away from the rocket long enough for

rostov and phillips to move in we're going to shoot the works on this

we don't do it the first time we've had it

hope you got plenty of spit i run out you'll know it willie

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so

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incredible mic maximum thrust registered 9.5 and i designed the controls for 2.5

a team of those animals out there couldn't have turned it back what does

that mean was this rat race worth it or not

eminently major now that we have these we'll know how to design the next one

no more unpredictables

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keep watch it may come back

want a way to go baby you couldn't help me

you'll make it all right kid

cigarette

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now take it slow and easy on the way down

we've left enough behind us i don't want to leave anymore

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how's the leg holding on i'll make it

you mike all right but if willie were here i'm sure he'd have more to say

yeah he'd probably say

hey it's gonna rain

let me call with that umbrella how you like that

we have to move fast the whole mountain's blowing up under us

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so

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now

so

go

do

so

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better this way than to have it go on living with us

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you