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You're traveling
through another dimension-

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a dimension not only of sight
and sound, but of mind,

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a journey into a wondrous land

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whose boundaries
are that of imagination.

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Your next stop,
the twilight zone.

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Mr. Chambers? Mr. Chambers?

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It is the mealtime.

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Kindly state
your preference, please.

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Mr. Chambers?

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It is the mealtime.

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Kindly state your preference.

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Please deposit cigarettes
in appropriate receptacle.

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This is a safety measure.

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Why don't you take
a flying jump at the moon?

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Kindly repeat request.

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Aw, knock it off,
leave me alone.

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You do not care
for food at this time?

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Yes, i do not care
for food at this time.

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Very well.

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Very well... very, very well.

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Please conserve water.

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What time is it?

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There is no time in space.

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This is to say

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there is no chronology
that can be calibrated.

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I said what time is it,
what time is it on earth?

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Can you tell me that

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without an exercise
in euclidean geometry?

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Now, just tell me
what time it is on earth.

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On earth it would be 12:00 noon.

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12:00 noon, 12:00 noon.

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This is the way
nightmares begin...

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or, perhaps, end.

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Very simple, direct, unadorned.

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Incredible,
and yet so terribly real

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that even
while they're happening

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we live with them
and digest them

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and assimilate them.

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And if it's 12:00 noon

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that's what you
preoccupy yourself with.

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You don't think
about 12:00 noon

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on the next day
or the day after that.

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But that's what we should
have been thinking about-

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tomorrow
and the day after tomorrow.

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We were preoccupied
with the hands on a clock

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when we should have been
checking off a calendar.

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It was an april day,
and it was noon then, too.

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And people walked and drove

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and bought and sold
and fretted and laughed.

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The world went on
much as it had been going on

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with a tentative tiptoeing

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alongside a precipice
of crisis.

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There was berlin to worry about

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and indochina, and algeria

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and all the other myriad
problems, major and minor

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that somehow had lost
their incisive edge of horror

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because we were
so familiar with them.

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And then...

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and that's when it happened.

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That's when we first heard
that they had come.

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That's when we should
have prepared ourselves

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for any eventuality,
but we didn't.

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Instead, we milled around
like frightened farm animals

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looking for formulas
and father images,

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while the secretary general
of the united nations

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made the first
official announcement

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of the arrival of creatures
from outer space.

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They called themselves kanamits

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and announced
over the short wave

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that on that given afternoon,
they would arrive on earth.

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At 11:00 this morning,
eastern standard time

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the first of these landings

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took place in an area just
outside of newark, new jersey.

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Subsequently, we have had
reports of other landings

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in the soviet union, in norway,
the southern coast of france

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just outside of rio de janeiro
and several others.

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Speaking on behalf
of the united nations,

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i can only tell you
that at this moment

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it would be premature
to assume hostile intent

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on the part of these...
these kanamits.

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And so, it is the position
of the united nations

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that the world population
remain calm,

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to make no hostile move,

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to keep in mind

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that all governments
are being apprised

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of the events as they happen

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and have the situation
well in hand.

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What do they look like?
Yeah, what do they look like?

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Please, gentlemen,
please...

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who are they, mr.Secretary general?
Can't we get

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a more specific statement?
We do not know what they look like.

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We only know that several
of their craft have landed

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and that they...

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what's the secret?

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Why can't we have
a statement?

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What's going on?
What's happening here?

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Please,
mr. Secretary general...

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it appears... it appears
that one of the craft

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has landed just
a few blocks away.

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That close?
Does the defense department know...?

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One of their representatives
is on his way to this building.

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Fantastic!
Unbelievable!

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Respectfully submitted
for your perusal... a kanamit.

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A little over nine feet.

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Weight:In the neighborhood
of 350 pounds.

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Origin: Unknown.

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Motives?

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Therein hangs the tale,
for in just a moment

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we're going to ask you
to shake hands, figuratively,

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with a christopher columbus

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from another galaxy
and another time.

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This is the twilight zone.

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Ladies and gentlemen
of the earth,

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we greet you
in peace and friendship.

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We come from a planet
far beyond this galaxy,

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a planet far more developed
than earth,

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but we come as friends.

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Although we know your language,

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our own methods of communication
are mental rather than verbal.

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Hence, the voice you hear me
speaking with

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is totally mechanical.

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Our intentions are honorable.

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We desire above all things
to help the people of earth...

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...to establish embassies here,

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and, in the near future,
to set up reciprocal visits

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between earth people
and kanamits.

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Perhaps you watched
this initial questioning-

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most people on earth did

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on television sets,
radios, shortwave.

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Surely, some of the questions
asked by your representatives

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must have been identical
to a few of your own

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because as a race,
we're unaccustomed to charity.

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Brutality is a far more
universal language to us

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than an expression of friendship
from outer space.

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Would you be willing to
be interrogated here

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and at this time?

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There are u.n.
Delegates present

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from most of the
important countries

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and the television cameras

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are carrying our meeting
throughout the world.

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I will be glad to.

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Senor valdes of argentina
is recognized.

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Thank you, mr. Secretary.

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Senor, could you
please inform us

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precisely why have you chosen
this planet for your visit?

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It has come to our attention

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that earth has
been plagued

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by both natural and
unnatural catastrophes

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all of which could easily
be acted upon and prevented.

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We are here to help you.

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Recognizing dr. Denis leveque,
the representative of france.

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Monsieur, my government
wishes me to ask you

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the nature of your help.

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What forms will it take?

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Indeed, if we should prefer
not to avail ourselves

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of the various aids
that you mentioned,

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your reply would be what?

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We will not force
anything on you.

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You will take only that
which you choose to take.

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For example, tomorrow
we will demonstrate

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to all interested parties

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a new and extremely
interesting power source

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which is atomic
in nature

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and which can supply
a form of electric power

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for entire countries

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for the cost
of a few dollars.

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It's extremely economical.

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Mr. Gregori,
the representative

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of the soviet union,
is recognized.

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The soviet people would
like to ask the kanamits

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precisely-
i repeat that to him-

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precisely what
are your motives

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in coming here
quite uninvited?

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Are we to assume
that there is no ulterior motive

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beyond this vast humanity
you speak of?

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There is nothing ulterior
in our motives.

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Nothing at all.

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You will discover this
for yourselves before too long

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simply by testing
the various devices

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which we will make
available to you.

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We can show you,
for example,

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how to add a certain very
cheap nitrate to the soil

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and end famine on earth
for good and all.

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We can demonstrate
to you quite practically

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the principles
of the force field

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in which you may
cloak each nation

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with an invisible wall

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absolutely impenetrable
by bombs, missiles,

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or anything else.

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We ask only
that you trust us.

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Only that you simply trust us.

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That was what we all thought.

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It was the age of santa claus.

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Only these kriss kringles
came without white whiskers

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and rosy cheeks
and twinkling eyes.

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They were nine-feet tall enigmas

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who descended on us
like locusts.

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But nobody was counting
or worrying.

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Except perhaps
a few professionals

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whose job it was
to second guess.

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In a sense, i was one of these-

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a decoding specialist for
the united states government,

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and this is where
i got into the act.

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Well, chambers,
what have you got?

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A corker of a migraine headache
and eye strain.

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You can't lick it?

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No, not in eight hours, i can't.

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Colonel,
it took us almost a year

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to crack the japanese code-

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we had an army of men
working on that.

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But this is a language of people
from outer space,

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probably 500 times
as intelligent as we are

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and a thousand times
more complex.

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You need more help?

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All donations
gratefully accepted.

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I showed this
to every man on our staff.

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I've had a dozen people working
on it since late last night.

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We've tried
pretty much everything-

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single transposition,
double transposition.

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We've tried every known method
of cryptography there is,

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and i don't know
whether we're even close

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or a million miles away.

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Are you saying it's
indecipherable?

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No, we've just got
to keep trying, that's all.

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Standard, direct, reversed,
systematically mixed,

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keyword mixed, random mixed,

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reciprocal, conjugate.

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Every nature of sequence
of letters there is.

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I'll tell you something,
colonel, this is a tough nut.

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This is a real tough nut.

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How important is it?

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Hmm, i don't know.

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That... that kanamit,

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or whatever it is
he calls himself,

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walked off and left
this book yesterday at the u.n.

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The white house feels
if we can decipher this book

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we can find out
what they're up to.

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Well, obviously,
nothing but our good.

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He hasn't commented
on the loss of this book.

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Probably unconcerned.

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Why should we be so concerned?

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They've done all right
by us so far.

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Parlor tricks.

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They don't seem like
parlor tricks to me, colonel.

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That new nitrate use
they demonstrated

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in argentina this morning-

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that soil had more vitamins
in it six hours later

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than a drugstore chain.

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I know that country.

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That's as barren and fruitless
as any place on earth.

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Well...

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we might lick this,
we might not.

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But i got
a strange feeling.

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What?

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That we're looking

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a gift horse in the mouth.

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00:13:01,056 --> 00:13:03,024
I got another
funny feeling, too.

258
00:13:03,059 --> 00:13:04,526
And that is?

259
00:13:05,561 --> 00:13:07,005
That if these kanamits

260
00:13:07,030 --> 00:13:09,897
are as helpful as
i think they are,

261
00:13:09,932 --> 00:13:11,783
you boys will be
out of a job.

262
00:13:12,018 --> 00:13:13,651
And probably, so will i.

263
00:13:13,686 --> 00:13:14,902
Am i to assume

264
00:13:14,937 --> 00:13:17,039
this is a scientific
analysis, mr. Chambers,

265
00:13:17,074 --> 00:13:19,907
or just some
kentucky windage?

266
00:13:19,942 --> 00:13:22,410
Well, i don't know
what it is, colonel,

267
00:13:22,445 --> 00:13:24,912
beyond an instinctive
feeling.

268
00:13:24,947 --> 00:13:28,049
When this earth
gets enough to eat

269
00:13:28,084 --> 00:13:31,009
and there are no more wars
or diseases or famines,

270
00:13:31,044 --> 00:13:32,922
this is going to be
a garden of eden.

271
00:13:34,757 --> 00:13:37,025
Your optimism is most
refreshing, mr. Chambers,

272
00:13:37,060 --> 00:13:39,676
but i suggest for the time being
you continue

273
00:13:39,711 --> 00:13:40,561
your process of deciphering

274
00:13:40,596 --> 00:13:42,564
until you can
tell us precisely-

275
00:13:42,599 --> 00:13:46,435
and i mean precisely-
what that book says.

276
00:13:51,571 --> 00:13:53,040
We've licked the title, anyway.

277
00:13:53,075 --> 00:13:54,091
What does it say?

278
00:13:54,106 --> 00:13:55,376
How much
does it tell us?

279
00:13:55,494 --> 00:13:56,828
Here it is.

280
00:13:56,863 --> 00:13:59,006
Well, that makes the cheese

281
00:13:59,031 --> 00:14:01,333
a little more binding,
wouldn't you say, colonel?

282
00:14:01,750 --> 00:14:03,252
I'd call that a reasonably
altruistic phrase,

283
00:14:03,387 --> 00:14:04,504
do you agree, patty?

284
00:14:05,239 --> 00:14:06,455
Well, i, uh...

285
00:14:06,490 --> 00:14:08,957
well, i want to
believe it, but...

286
00:14:08,992 --> 00:14:11,094
i don't know
what to think.

287
00:14:14,962 --> 00:14:16,848
"To serve man."

288
00:14:17,083 --> 00:14:18,350
I hope so.

289
00:14:19,385 --> 00:14:21,853
I fervently hope so.

290
00:14:30,895 --> 00:14:33,314
Gentlemen,
the purpose of this meeting

291
00:14:33,349 --> 00:14:35,817
is to acquaint you with certain
tests made over the past week.

292
00:14:35,852 --> 00:14:38,703
At the request
of several delegates

293
00:14:38,738 --> 00:14:40,571
and with the full consent

294
00:14:40,606 --> 00:14:42,323
of our guests, the kanamits,

295
00:14:42,358 --> 00:14:46,077
these tests were filmed,
cut together into one short film

296
00:14:46,112 --> 00:14:49,213
and you can watch them now.

297
00:14:49,831 --> 00:14:51,716
Kindly lower the screen.

298
00:14:58,088 --> 00:15:00,590
These are
the standard instruments used

299
00:15:00,625 --> 00:15:03,093
to determine
the truth of a statement.

300
00:15:03,128 --> 00:15:04,344
Our first object,

301
00:15:04,379 --> 00:15:08,098
since the physiology of the
kanamits is unknown to us,

302
00:15:08,133 --> 00:15:11,852
was to determine whether or not
they react to these tests

303
00:15:11,887 --> 00:15:13,103
as human beings do.

304
00:15:13,138 --> 00:15:16,239
We will now repeat one
of the many experiments made

305
00:15:16,274 --> 00:15:19,993
in an effort
to discover this fact.

306
00:15:20,028 --> 00:15:25,615
This instrument records
the subject's heartbeat.

307
00:15:25,650 --> 00:15:30,003
This one shows the electrical
conductivity of the skin

308
00:15:30,038 --> 00:15:31,872
in the palm of the hand-

309
00:15:32,006 --> 00:15:36,259
a measure of perspiration,
which increases under stress.

310
00:15:36,294 --> 00:15:39,079
This one shows the pattern

311
00:15:39,114 --> 00:15:41,264
and intensity
of the electrical waves

312
00:15:41,299 --> 00:15:45,018
emanating
from the subject's brain.

313
00:15:46,521 --> 00:15:50,023
Which of these is
longer than the other?

314
00:15:50,058 --> 00:15:51,892
The gray.

315
00:15:54,645 --> 00:15:56,531
I shall repeat
the question.

316
00:15:56,566 --> 00:15:59,033
Which of these is
longer than the other?

317
00:15:59,068 --> 00:16:01,302
The black.

318
00:16:01,437 --> 00:16:03,404
How did you get
to this planet?

319
00:16:03,439 --> 00:16:04,907
Walked.

320
00:16:07,041 --> 00:16:09,660
Once again, how did
you get to this planet?

321
00:16:09,695 --> 00:16:11,797
In a spaceship.

322
00:16:13,032 --> 00:16:15,065
Many such experiments were made

323
00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:17,802
and my colleagues and myself
are satisfied

324
00:16:17,837 --> 00:16:20,173
that the mechanisms
are effective.

325
00:16:22,808 --> 00:16:26,309
Now, i shall ask
our distinguished guest

326
00:16:26,344 --> 00:16:29,429
to reply to the question
put at the last session

327
00:16:29,464 --> 00:16:31,314
by several of the delegates.

328
00:16:31,332 --> 00:16:35,069
Namely, what is the motive
of the kanamit people

329
00:16:35,104 --> 00:16:37,138
in offering such great gifts

330
00:16:37,173 --> 00:16:39,574
to the people of the earth?

331
00:16:40,009 --> 00:16:43,945
I hope that the people of earth
will understand and believe

332
00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,950
when i tell you that our mission
upon this planet is simply this:

333
00:16:49,485 --> 00:16:54,589
To bring to you the peace and
plenty which we ourselves enjoy

334
00:16:55,624 --> 00:16:58,091
and which we have in the past

335
00:16:58,126 --> 00:17:01,045
brought to other races
throughout the galaxy.

336
00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,347
When your world
has no more hunger,

337
00:17:04,382 --> 00:17:08,352
no more war,
no more needless suffering,

338
00:17:08,487 --> 00:17:11,472
that will be our reward.

339
00:17:11,507 --> 00:17:13,357
And the machine
showed no deviation.

340
00:17:13,392 --> 00:17:16,477
According to it, the kanamit
was telling the truth.

341
00:17:17,012 --> 00:17:19,614
You and i and the rest of
this earth had a ringside seat

342
00:17:19,648 --> 00:17:23,367
to the rebirth of every dream
man had ever dreamed.

343
00:18:02,272 --> 00:18:04,474
Santa claus came through.

344
00:18:04,509 --> 00:18:06,660
Arid deserts became gardens

345
00:18:06,695 --> 00:18:09,779
with the devices the kanamits
showed us how to use.

346
00:18:09,814 --> 00:18:13,533
The force field that was
to end war did precisely that.

347
00:18:13,568 --> 00:18:17,287
Armies and navies
were practically disbanded.

348
00:18:17,322 --> 00:18:20,423
Please check your guest visas.

349
00:18:20,458 --> 00:18:26,548
This is flight number 267
from earth to our planet.

350
00:18:28,083 --> 00:18:31,034
They tell me they have
a mean temperature of 76 degrees

351
00:18:31,069 --> 00:18:33,037
on their planet,
and the sun never goes down.

352
00:18:33,072 --> 00:18:35,188
And there clothing-

353
00:18:35,223 --> 00:18:37,691
it's a metallic substance,
just beautiful.

354
00:18:37,726 --> 00:18:39,559
Kind of like a spun gold.

355
00:18:39,594 --> 00:18:40,810
My sister wrote me.

356
00:18:40,845 --> 00:18:42,062
She says the day you land,

357
00:18:42,097 --> 00:18:45,198
they take you on a conducted
tour of all their shops

358
00:18:45,233 --> 00:18:48,318
and you can pick out as
much of it as you want.

359
00:18:58,328 --> 00:19:00,014
But it's an entire planet.

360
00:19:00,049 --> 00:19:02,082
It's bigger than china.

361
00:19:02,117 --> 00:19:03,467
Besides it's an opportunity

362
00:19:03,502 --> 00:19:06,970
to spread peaceful coexistence
to an entire galaxy.

363
00:19:07,005 --> 00:19:10,000
Stand aside, please,
i have diplomatic visa.

364
00:19:10,124 --> 00:19:12,343
It's just one big holiday
when you get there.

365
00:19:12,378 --> 00:19:15,479
They've even got
a form of baseball.

366
00:19:16,014 --> 00:19:18,082
Leagues of everything,
just like we've got.

367
00:19:18,117 --> 00:19:20,050
And the whole trip,
billions of miles,

368
00:19:20,084 --> 00:19:22,353
only takes just a few days.

369
00:19:22,388 --> 00:19:24,238
Oh, man, i don't think
i'll want to come back

370
00:19:24,273 --> 00:19:26,107
once i do get there.

371
00:19:30,278 --> 00:19:31,612
I'm going home, boss.

372
00:19:31,647 --> 00:19:33,007
Need me for anything?

373
00:19:33,032 --> 00:19:34,865
Need you for anything?
Like what?

374
00:19:35,499 --> 00:19:38,002
This isn't exactly what you call
a beehive of activity.

375
00:19:38,337 --> 00:19:43,073
Well, this is
the new story of man.

376
00:19:43,408 --> 00:19:46,127
Nobody needs to decipher
much of anything anymore

377
00:19:46,162 --> 00:19:48,012
because there aren't
any more codes

378
00:19:48,147 --> 00:19:51,014
simply because there aren't
any more secret messages.

379
00:19:51,549 --> 00:19:53,083
Odd.

380
00:19:53,118 --> 00:19:54,634
Huh?

381
00:19:55,269 --> 00:19:56,269
Well, i mean,

382
00:19:57,004 --> 00:19:59,389
we're not reading
about the hydrogen bomb

383
00:19:59,424 --> 00:20:01,274
or war scares or insurrections

384
00:20:01,309 --> 00:20:03,877
or anything like that anymore.

385
00:20:04,212 --> 00:20:06,006
Millennium.

386
00:20:06,131 --> 00:20:08,033
Yeah, close to it.

387
00:20:14,154 --> 00:20:16,039
How many of them
are around now?

388
00:20:16,074 --> 00:20:18,141
Anybody ever
figure it out?

389
00:20:18,159 --> 00:20:20,044
A few thousand, i guess.

390
00:20:20,079 --> 00:20:22,012
They've got embassies
in every country now.

391
00:20:22,547 --> 00:20:24,415
And for every one
of them that comes,

392
00:20:24,450 --> 00:20:25,917
a few thousand of us
take off in one of their ships

393
00:20:25,952 --> 00:20:27,569
to live with them.

394
00:20:28,204 --> 00:20:30,054
Yeah, that's
the odd thing:

395
00:20:30,389 --> 00:20:32,022
The fantastic ease
with which

396
00:20:32,057 --> 00:20:34,005
human beings make adjustments.

397
00:20:35,460 --> 00:20:37,927
One day, they watch
with bated breath

398
00:20:37,962 --> 00:20:40,064
while a single individual
orbits the earth

399
00:20:40,099 --> 00:20:42,032
in a rinky-dink
little cubicle

400
00:20:42,067 --> 00:20:44,435
and they think this is
the most historic moment

401
00:20:44,470 --> 00:20:47,037
that's ever happened in
the history of mankind.

402
00:20:47,172 --> 00:20:48,823
And then, one year later,

403
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:50,825
they stand in line

404
00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:53,194
waiting to take off
in a spaceship

405
00:20:54,029 --> 00:20:57,047
to go 100 billion miles
off into space

406
00:20:57,182 --> 00:21:00,084
and they act and react

407
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,089
as if this were
a weekend picnic in the country.

408
00:21:05,124 --> 00:21:10,094
Oh, strange
and complex sanity of man.

409
00:21:10,129 --> 00:21:11,962
Nothing fazes him.

410
00:21:15,099 --> 00:21:16,967
Are you going?

411
00:21:18,002 --> 00:21:20,104
Well, as a matter of fact

412
00:21:21,139 --> 00:21:24,109
i'm on a ten-year
exchange group waiting list.

413
00:21:25,144 --> 00:21:27,077
And what about you, patty?

414
00:21:27,212 --> 00:21:29,063
I'm on the list, too.

415
00:21:29,898 --> 00:21:32,232
The trouble is,
their quotas fill

416
00:21:32,267 --> 00:21:35,007
just as soon as they make
the announcement of a new trip.

417
00:21:35,013 --> 00:21:36,119
While i'm waiting,

418
00:21:36,154 --> 00:21:37,488
i think i'll do the
next best thing.

419
00:21:37,523 --> 00:21:39,990
I'm still working
on that book.

420
00:21:40,025 --> 00:21:43,827
Deciphering that title
has been of no help

421
00:21:44,002 --> 00:21:45,995
because their capital
letters are different

422
00:21:46,030 --> 00:21:47,081
than the other signs they use,

423
00:21:47,098 --> 00:21:49,383
just as ours are.

424
00:21:49,418 --> 00:21:51,252
But it's starting
to fall into place.

425
00:21:51,287 --> 00:21:53,754
I think i'll get
the answer eventually.

426
00:21:53,789 --> 00:21:56,891
Well, i gave up
trying a month ago.

427
00:21:58,926 --> 00:22:02,096
This is flight number 914

428
00:22:02,113 --> 00:22:04,398
from earth to our planet.

429
00:22:04,433 --> 00:22:07,518
We will be taking off
in three minutes.

430
00:22:10,020 --> 00:22:11,272
Mr. Chambers!

431
00:22:14,774 --> 00:22:16,009
Mr. Chambers!

432
00:22:16,326 --> 00:22:17,612
Don't get on that ship!

433
00:22:17,947 --> 00:22:20,414
The rest of the book,
to serve man-it's...

434
00:22:21,049 --> 00:22:22,917
it's a cookbook!

435
00:22:27,921 --> 00:22:30,423
No! No!

436
00:22:30,458 --> 00:22:32,092
No, no, no!

437
00:22:32,127 --> 00:22:34,929
Hey! No!

438
00:23:03,323 --> 00:23:06,059
You have not eaten enough,
mr. Chambers.

439
00:23:06,094 --> 00:23:08,962
Please, enjoy.

440
00:23:08,997 --> 00:23:12,081
Eat hearty.

441
00:23:27,096 --> 00:23:29,599
Please, mr. Chambers, eat.

442
00:23:29,634 --> 00:23:33,987
We wouldn't want you
to lose weight.

443
00:23:41,111 --> 00:23:42,997
How about you?

444
00:23:43,432 --> 00:23:47,116
You still on earth
or on the ship with me?

445
00:23:47,851 --> 00:23:49,253
Well, it doesn't make
very much difference

446
00:23:49,288 --> 00:23:53,007
because sooner or later
we'll all of us be on the menu-

447
00:23:53,542 --> 00:23:55,126
all of us.

448
00:23:57,161 --> 00:24:00,063
The recollections
of one michael chambers

449
00:24:00,098 --> 00:24:02,383
with appropriate flashbacks
and soliloquy.

450
00:24:02,418 --> 00:24:05,885
Or more simply stated,
the evolution of man,

451
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,039
the cycle of going
from dust to dessert...

452
00:24:09,074 --> 00:24:11,775
the metamorphosis from being
the ruler of a planet

453
00:24:12,010 --> 00:24:14,278
to an ingredient
in someone's soup.

454
00:24:14,313 --> 00:24:18,649
It's tonight's bill of fare
on the twilight zone.