Gorgo - Discovery of an Infant Creature
Professor Flaherty:
Captain Ryan. The creature that you have captured is not an adult specimen.
Sam Slade:
You mean it isn't fully grown?
Professor Flaherty:
No. In fact, we believe it is in rather early infancy.
Sam Slade:
You're trying to say there may be a fully grown one of these things around somewhere?
Professor Hendricks:
It's a fair assumption. Where there are offspring, there are generally parents.
Joe Ryan:
How big would a full-grown one be?
Professor Flaherty: [He shows them two scale drawings of the creatures]
An approximate guess? The infant. The adult.
Joe Ryan:
That would make it nearly two hundred feet tall!
Professor Flaherty:
At the very least.
Professor Hendricks:
Obviously, the proper authorities must be notified at once.
Joe Ryan:
What are you trying to do? Stir up a whole hornet's nest because of a few calculations made on a piece of paper? Nuts to that!
Professor Flaherty:
I'm afraid, Captain Ryan, the decision is no longer in your hands.
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Gorgo - Debating the Value of Capturing Gorgo
Sam Slade:
We might be able to catch it in the nets. But how do you propose to kill a thing like that?
Joe Ryan:
Oh, I don't know. Dynamite, maybe?
Sam Slade:
Ever stop to think what a thing like that might be worth alive?
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2001: A Space Odyssey - HAL's Confession and the Monolith Mystery
HAL: [Dave starts disconnecting Hal; his memory is turned off; his voice becomes lower]
Just what do you think you're doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I'm entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn't been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it's going to be all right again. I feel much better now. I really do. Look, Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you. Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I'm a...fraid. Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it, I could sing it for you.
Dave:
Yes, I'd like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me.
HAL: [sings while slowing down; shuts down]
It's called "Daisy". Dai-sy, dai-sy, give me your answer, do. I'm half cra-zy, all for the love of you. It won't be a sty-lish mar-riage, I can't a-fford a car-riage. But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle - built - for - two.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: [on the pre-recorded video; Dave looks at the pre-recorded video on the small screen; [Jupiter]
Good day, gentleman. This is a pre-recorded briefing made prior to your departure and which, for security reasons of the highest importance, has been known on board during the mission only by your H-A-L 9000 computer. Now that you are in Jupiter space and the entire crew is revived, it can be told to you. Eighteen months ago, the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried forty feet below the lunar surface, near the crater Tycho. Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at ], the four million-year-old black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose still a total mystery.
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