This Island Earth (1955)
Jeff Morrow: Exeter
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Quotes
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Exeter : ...the neutrino could be described as the missing link between matter and energy.
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Exeter : Yes, they're concentrating all their attention on Metaluna. Those flashes of light... they're meteors... hundreds of them! Intense heat is turning Metaluna into a radioactive sun. Temperature must be... thousands of degrees by now. A lifeless planet. And yet... yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope. Yes, a sun. Warming the surface of some other world. Giving light to those who may need it. Now, into the converter tubes! Ruth, you take the first tube. You the next.
Dr. Cal Meacham : What about you?
Exeter : I'll use the third tube.
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The Monitor : Then you know that shortly we can expect Zagon to commence and sustain an all-out attack. Our ionization layer must be maintained until our relocation is effected.
Dr. Cal Meacham : Relocation? To where?
The Monitor : To your Earth.
Exeter : A peaceful relocation. We hope to live in harmony with the citizens of your Earth.
Dr. Ruth Adams : In harmony!
The Monitor : Our knowledge and weapons would make us your superiors, naturally.
Dr. Cal Meacham : Then why haven't your "superior" brains solved the problem of synthesizing uranium?
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Exeter : Suppose then for the time being we call a truce, as scientists at least, Meacham. Ruth, don't tell me that, as a woman, you're not curious about our destination.
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Dr. Cal Meacham : What do you think of Mr. Mozart, Exeter?
Exeter : I'm afraid I don't know the gent... My mind must have been wandering. Your composer, of course.
Dr. Cal Meacham : "Our" composer! He belongs to the world.
Exeter : Yes, indeed.
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Exeter : Exeter: Ruth, don't tell me that, as a woman, you're not curious about our destination.
Dr. Ruth Adams : Ruth: Where are we going?
