Trevor Bardette Quotes

Prof. Arthur Flanders Dave, if it is a meteorite, the chances are it's been hurtling around our universe for a good many centuries. The answer to your question lies buried in those centuries. We'll just have to dig for it.

Prof. Arthur Flanders You've got to remember, Dave, when this hit our atmosphere, it burned at such a fantastic temperature, that its metal-bearing compounds could have been altered - left ready to activate, to grow!

Chief Dan Corey Evacuate? The entire town?

Dave Miller Chief, the rocks are gonna come crashing through here like an avalanche over an anthill. There won't be a living thing left. You won't even be able to tell where San Angelo was.

Prof. Arthur Flanders When they're no longer confined to the walls of the canyon, when they break out into the valley floor, their rate of multiplication is going to be frightening.

Chief Dan Corey You mean they'll grow even faster?

Dave Miller Each one that shatters will make a hundred more.

Prof. Arthur Flanders When that hundred shatters, there'll be ten thousand of them. The third cycle will create a million. Unless we stop them, they'll spread over the whole countryside.

Dave Miller With enough rain, there's no boundary they can't cross.

Prof. Arthur Flanders No telling what went on inside of it. It's been gathering the secrets of time and space for billions of years.

Dave Miller Billions of years? And how long have we to unlock its most important secrets? Three hours or three minutes?