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We have the time of arrival of the sound waves and the detectors, and also the arrival time of the impact waves on the seismograph.

9 seconds sound clip from the The Thing from Another World movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:14:45 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What shutter speed were you using?

- 1,000th of a second.

- Moving pretty fast, wasn't it?

- Here, at 6:14, it's moving upward. At 6:15, it drops to the earth and vanishes.

- A meteor might move almost horizontal to the earth, but never upward.

- And it isn't a meteor.

- That's obvious.

- How do you determine the distance to the point of impact from here?

- By computation.

- It's quite simple, captain.

- We have the time of arrival of the sound waves and the detectors, and also the arrival time of the impact waves on the seismograph.

- By computing the difference, it becomes quite obvious that they were caused with a traveling object. And the distance from here's approximately 48 miles.

- You lost me, but I'll take your word for it.

- One thing, doctor. 20,000 tons of steel is an awful lot of metal for an airplane.

- It is for the sort of airplane we know, captain.

- Yeah, we'd better be going.

- I thought you'd think so.

- Redding will check every quarter hour.

[...]

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Revisit the sci-fi classic "The Thing from Another World" with our collection of sound clips featuring iconic quotes from the 1951 movie.

Actors: Margaret Sheridan (Nikki Nicholson), Kenneth Tobey (Captain Patrick Hendry), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Arthur Carrington), Douglas Spencer (Scotty)

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