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So, that's the story. Of course, I don't understand the mathematics, but the idea's rather easy to grasp.

10 seconds sound clip from the X Minus 1 - A Gun for Dinosaur by L. Sprague de Camp classic radio drama series.

You can hear this line at 00:26:57 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

(GASPS IN HORROR)

- Good Lord, look at that. Ghastly, isn't it?

- Where did it come from?

- I'm not sure. But I rather think it came from the Middle Cretaceous era. It wasn't here a moment ago.

- Ghastly mess. Looks as if every bone was pulverized and every blood vessel burst. I dare say.

- But that's his gun all right. It's James... there's no doubt of it.

- So, that's the story. Of course, I don't understand the mathematics, but the idea's rather easy to grasp.

- Nobody had shot us when we first emerged on the twenty-fourth of April, eighty-five million B.C., so, of course, that couldn't be changed.

- The instant James started to do anything that would make a paradox, the space-time forces snapped him forward and ripped him to bits.

- Well, they know a good deal about that now and there's a safety margin of five hundred years between each trip.

- You can't have paradoxes, you know... just isn't done.

- And, you see, I'm a lot more careful now.

[...]

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X Minus One Sound Clip

X Minus OneQuotes with audio samples from the old-time science fiction radio drama series "X Minus One" that was broadcast from 1955 to 1958 on NBC.

Actors: Fred Collins (Announcer), Wendell Holmes, Bill Zuckert, Peter Capell

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