And not even a nickel-iron meteorite could produce a field as intense as this.

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7 seconds sound clip from the 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:48:13 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- I appreciate the way you've handled this thing.

- The way we look at it, it's our job to do this thing the way you want it done. We're only too happy to be able to oblige.

- Have you seen these yet?

- Have a look. Here's what started the all thing.

- Oh, yeah.

- When we first found it, we thought it might be magnetic rock, but all the geological evidence was against it.

- And not even a nickel-iron meteorite could produce a field as intense as this.

- So we decided to have a look.

- We thought it might be the upper part of some buried structure. So we excavated out on all sides, but unfortunately, we didn't find anything else.

- And what's more, the evidence seems pretty conclusive that it hasn't been covered by a natural erosion or other forces.

- It seems to have been deliberately buried.

- Deliberately buried.

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Actors: Keir Dullea (Dr. David Bowman, Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole), William Sylvester (Dr. Heywood Floyd), Douglas Rain (HAL 9000)

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