Ten times 10, times 10, times 10, times 10, times 10 on and on and on, row after row, gauge after gauge.
9 seconds sound clip from the Forbidden Planet (1956) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:58:53 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Two thousand centuries. And during all this time, what was the power source?
- That's a very good question.
- May I draw your attention to these gauges all around here, gentlemen.
- Their calibrations appear to indicate that they are set in decimal series.
- Each division recording exactly 10 times as many amperes as the one preceding it.
- But there is no direct wiring that I can discover.
- And then when I activate the educator here... it registers a little more.
- But this much is negligible.
- Why, the total potential here must be nothing less than astronomical.
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