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- Is it still within operational limits right now?
- Yes. And it will stay that way until it fails.

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

You can hear this line at 01:10:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- And the melodramatic touch of putting Drs. Hunter Kimball and Kaminsky aboard already in hibernation, after four months of separate training on their own.

- You working up your crew psychology report?

- Of course I am. Sorry about this. I know it's a bit silly.

- Just a moment. Just a moment. I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit.

- It's going to go 100-percent failure within 72 hours.

- Is it still within operational limits right now?

- Yes. And it will stay that way until it fails.

- Would you say we have a reliable 72 hours till failure?

- Yes. That's a completely reliable figure.

- Then I suppose we'll have to bring it in.

- But first, I'd like to go over this with Frank and get on to Mission Control.

- Let me have the hard copy on it, please

[...]

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Sound Clip

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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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