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- What happened to the lights?
- Well, there's no current while we're in transition.

5 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 00:08:19 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, shall we get cracking?

- After you.

- Let's get going. All set! We'll slam the hatch and off we go.

(HATCH SLAMMED AND LOCKED)

- What happens?

- Nothing, till the force field is built up.

- Ah, there she goes.

- What happened to the lights?

- Well, there's no current while we're in transition.

- I don't feel well.

- There's usually a touch of vertigo. I shouldn't worry about it. shoot for?

- Look, where do you shoot for? I mean, with dinosaur. What is the best shot?

- Well, you don't try for his brain, you know. They don't have any.

- Well, to be exact, they have a little bump about the size of a tennis ball on the top of their spines, and you're not likely to hit it when it's imbedded in a six-foot skull.

- Try for the heart. They have big hearts, over a hundred pounds.

- An exploding shell in the heart will slow them down, at least.

- Oh. Oh, I see.

[...]

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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