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Setting: Straker and Col. Freeman in the commander's car on their way to the research facility where Kelly has information for them about a new apparatus.
Freeman: How far is it now?
Straker: Around eight miles.
Freeman: Do you think it will work?
Straker: Well I think so [smiles], but then I always was an eternal optimist.
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Setting: Col. Freeman enters the commander's HQ office to find Straker behind the desk as the time set by NASA for the satellite launch approaches.
Freeman: Long day?
Straker: Long month!
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Setting: Straker and Lt. Ellis explain to the Moonbase staff how they hope to bring the next UFO into a complementary course with their satellite.
Straker: Lt Ellis has compiled an Interceptor schedule, but a lot of decisions will have to be made on the spot.
Foster: Does that mean we'll have to play this one by ear?
Straker: Right.
Foster: Isn't that dangerous?
Ellis: It involves a certain risk, Colonel.
Straker: A calculated risk, Lieutenant, based on a careful weighing of human factors as much as logic.
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Setting: Straker and Lt. Ellis talk about the project over a cup of coffee on Moonbase.
Straker: Well, here's to Project Discovery!
Ellis: Cheers.
Straker: You know, I want to thank you, Gay, for all the hard work you put into this project. And the long hours. You know, I think . . . I think you push yourself a little bit too hard. You're doing a fine job, Gay. A man's job. You don't have to do it any better because you're a woman. [As Col. Foster enters the room] And don't ever forget, you're a very attractive girl!
Ellis: Thanks for the coffee. [gets up] And....thank you. [leaves]
Foster: [as Lt Ellis leaves] Lieutenant.
Straker: Colonel Foster.
Foster: Sir.
Straker: When do we leave?
Foster: 18:00 hours tomorrow, sir.
Straker: Good. Let me give you a piece of advice, Paul. Don't ever judge a situation by the end of a conversation.
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Setting: Straker in Henderson's office with the general, discussing the failed project with its unscaled photographs.
Straker: You know, when you really think about it, everything in this office -- every object, even a speck of dust -- contains billions of particles, and each particle is made up of millions of atoms. A whole universe within these four walls. I walk along a beach. Stand with millions of grains of sand beneath my feet. Is everything we know -- this office, our world, the vastness of space itself -- inside one grain of sand on another beach, on another world, in another universe? Space is infinite. Both ways. Outward and inward.
Henderson: You can tell Kelly he'll get his appropriation. Maybe more than he expects. I get the picture.
Straker: A greatly magnified picture!
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Freeman: How far is it now?
Straker: Around eight miles.
Freeman: Do you think it will work?
Straker: Well I think so [smiles], but then I always was an eternal optimist.
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Setting: Col. Freeman enters the commander's HQ office to find Straker behind the desk as the time set by NASA for the satellite launch approaches.
Freeman: Long day?
Straker: Long month!
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Setting: Straker and Lt. Ellis explain to the Moonbase staff how they hope to bring the next UFO into a complementary course with their satellite.
Straker: Lt Ellis has compiled an Interceptor schedule, but a lot of decisions will have to be made on the spot.
Foster: Does that mean we'll have to play this one by ear?
Straker: Right.
Foster: Isn't that dangerous?
Ellis: It involves a certain risk, Colonel.
Straker: A calculated risk, Lieutenant, based on a careful weighing of human factors as much as logic.
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Setting: Straker and Lt. Ellis talk about the project over a cup of coffee on Moonbase.
Straker: Well, here's to Project Discovery!
Ellis: Cheers.
Straker: You know, I want to thank you, Gay, for all the hard work you put into this project. And the long hours. You know, I think . . . I think you push yourself a little bit too hard. You're doing a fine job, Gay. A man's job. You don't have to do it any better because you're a woman. [As Col. Foster enters the room] And don't ever forget, you're a very attractive girl!
Ellis: Thanks for the coffee. [gets up] And....thank you. [leaves]
Foster: [as Lt Ellis leaves] Lieutenant.
Straker: Colonel Foster.
Foster: Sir.
Straker: When do we leave?
Foster: 18:00 hours tomorrow, sir.
Straker: Good. Let me give you a piece of advice, Paul. Don't ever judge a situation by the end of a conversation.
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Setting: Straker in Henderson's office with the general, discussing the failed project with its unscaled photographs.
Straker: You know, when you really think about it, everything in this office -- every object, even a speck of dust -- contains billions of particles, and each particle is made up of millions of atoms. A whole universe within these four walls. I walk along a beach. Stand with millions of grains of sand beneath my feet. Is everything we know -- this office, our world, the vastness of space itself -- inside one grain of sand on another beach, on another world, in another universe? Space is infinite. Both ways. Outward and inward.
Henderson: You can tell Kelly he'll get his appropriation. Maybe more than he expects. I get the picture.
Straker: A greatly magnified picture!
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