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

7 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 00:27:26 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- I shouldn't have taken James when I knew what a spoiled, unstable sort he was.

- Or Holtzinger, either, when I saw that he was too small to shoot a dinosaur gun.

- With a heavier gun, he'd probably have knocked the tyrannosaur down, and saved his own life.

[...]

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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