But this, all of this, is academic.
8 seconds sound clip from the Blade Runner (1982) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:24:50 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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[...]
- Ethyl methane sulfonate is an alkylating agent and a potent mutagen.
- It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table.
- Then a repressor protein that blocks the operating cells.
- Wouldn't obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication.
- So that the newly formed DNA strand carries a mutation and you've got a virus again.
- But this, all of this, is academic.
- You were made as well as we could make you.
- Look at you. You're the prodigal son.
- I've done questionable things.
- Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time.
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