Yes, yes. We harness energy on a small scale by cutting magnetic lines of force. Supposing Cyclops does it on a super-scale?
14 seconds sound clip from the The Atomic Submarine movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:34:03 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- And then on July 3rd, Dr. Kent and Sir Ian held an urgent discussion with Reef and the Skipper.
- The North Pole is the positive end of the biggest magnet of all, the Earth itself.
- That may be oversimplifying it, but, uh...
- Now our present tactics are useless.
- But suppose we place ourselves between Cyclops and the Pole.
- In such a way as to prevent him returning to the Pole to, as you put it, recharge his batteries.
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