Sunshine - The Urgency of Their Mission
Mace:
Do I have to spell it out for you? We have a payload to deliver to the heart of our nearest star. We're delivering that payload because that star is dying. And if it dies, we die. Everything dies. So that is our mission. There is nothing, literally nothing, more important than completing our mission. End of story!
Trey:
He's right.
Mace:
He's right? Of course I'm right! Is anyone here seriously considering otherwise?
Searle:
May I put a counter-argument?
Mace:
No!
Searle:
Captain?
Kaneda:
Go ahead.
Searle:
It would, of course, be absurd to alter our trajectory to assist the crew of the Icarus I. Even if we knew that some or even all of that crew are still alive, their lives are entirely expendable when seen in the context of our mission. As are our own lives.
Mace:
Exactly.
Searle:
However, there is something on board the Icarus I that may be worth the detour. As you pointed out, Mace, we have a payload to deliver. A payload, singular. Now, everything about the delivery and effectiveness of that payload is entirely theoretical. Simply put, we don't know if it's gonna work. But what we do know is this: if we had two bombs, we'd have two chances.
Kaneda:
You're assuming we'd be able to pilot Icarus I.
Searle:
Yes.
Trey:
Which is assuming that whatever stopped them completing the mission wasn't a fault or a damage to the spacecraft.
Searle:
Yes.
Mace:
It's a lot of assumptions.
Searle:
It is. It's a risk assessment. The question is: does the risk of a detour outweigh the benefits of an extra payload?
Mace:
We'll have a vote.
Searle:
No. No, we won't. We are not a democracy. We're a collection of astronauts and scientists, so we're gonna make the most informed decision available to us.
Mace:
Made by you, by any chance?
Kaneda: [''Long pause'']
Made by the person best qualified to understand the complexities of payload delivery: our physicist.
Capa:
Shit.
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The Martian - Weighing Decisions in Life and Death
Annie Montrose:
But if something goes wrong?
Vincent Kapoor:
Then we lose the crew.
Bruce Ng:
So what, we either have a high chance of killing one person, or a low chance of killing six people. How do we make that decision?
Vincent Kapoor: [pointing to Teddy]
We don't. He does.
Mitch Henderson:
Yeah, bullshit. It should be Commander Lewis call.
Teddy Sanders:
We still have a chance to bring five astronauts home safe and sound. I'm not risking their lives.
Mitch Henderson:
Let them make that decision.
Teddy Sanders:
Mitch, we are going with option one.
Mitch Henderson:
You goddamn coward.
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The Martian - Assessing Critical Repairs for Space Mission
Mitch Henderson:
He's not even got to the bad parts yet.
Vincent Kapoor:
Well, let's get to the bad parts.
Bruce Ng:
We need to remove the nose LR, the windows, and the whole of panel 19.
Vincent Kapoor:
You want to take the front of the ship off?
Bruce Ng:
Sure. The nose alone is 400 kilograms.
Vincent Kapoor:
You want to send a man into space without the front of his ship?
Bruce Ng:
Well, no. We are going to have him cover it with HAB canvas. The hull is mostly there to keep air in. Mars atmosphere is so thin, you do not need a lot of streamlining. By the time the ship is going fast enough for air resistance to matter, it'll be high enough that there will be practically no air.
Vincent Kapoor:
You want to send him into space under a tarp?
Bruce Ng:
Yes. Can I go on?
Vincent Kapoor:
NO!
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The Martian - The Mystery of Project Elrond Explained
Annie Montrose:
What the hell is "Project Elrond?
Vincent Kapoor:
I had to make something up.
Annie Montrose:
But "Elrond?
Mitch Henderson:
Because it's a secret meeting.
Annie Montrose:
How do you know that; why does Elrond mean secret meeting?
Bruce Ng: [[The Lord of the Rings]
The Council of Elrond. It's the... it's... it's... from ]. It's the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.
Teddy Sanders:
If we are going to call something Project Elrond, I would like my code name to be Glorfindel.
Annie Montrose:
Okay, I hate every one of you.
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Doctor Strange - Consequences of Ignoring Forbidden Knowledge
Mordo: [Bursting in]
STOP! Tampering with continuum probability is forbidden!
Strange:
I was just doing exactly what it said in the book!
Wong:
And what did the book say, about the dangers of performing that ritual?
Strange:
I don't know, I hadn't gotten to that part yet.
Mordo:
Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings! Spatial paradoxes, time loops! You want to get stuck experiencing the same moment over and over again forever, or never having existed at all?!
Strange:
They really should put the warnings before this stuff.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness - The Power and Threat of the Scarlet Witch
Wong:
The Scarlet Witch is a being of unfathomable magic. She can re-write Reality as she chooses — and is prophesied to either rule or annihilate the cosmos.
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Avengers: Endgame - Assembling the Avengers for the final battle
Doctor Strange:
Is that everyone?
Wong:
What, you wanted more?
Captain America: [he summons Mjolnir]
Avengers... ...assemble.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home - Wong's Request for Distance from Conflict
Wong: [[w:Stephen Strange (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Doctor Strange]
(To ]) Just.... Leave me out of this. (Steps through portal)
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