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Yes. That's what we thought is the explanation first, but it's been going on now for the past 10 days.

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

You can hear this line at 00:31:19 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I'm afraid I don't know what you mean.

- For the past two weeks some extremely odd things have been happening at Clavius.

- Oh, really?

- Yes, yes.

- Well, for one thing, when you phone the base, all you can get is a recording which repeats that the phone lines are temporarily out of order.

- Probably having some trouble with their equipment or something like that.

- Yes. That's what we thought is the explanation first, but it's been going on now for the past 10 days.

- You haven't been able to contact anyone for the past 10 days?

- That's right.

- Oh, I see.

- There's another thing. Two days ago, one of our rocket buses was denied permission for an emergency landing.

- That does sound odd.

[...]

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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