What you're getting at is that you think our saucer friend must return to the Pole regularly to recharge his batteries.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Atomic Submarine movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:34:21 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- 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.
- If we are lucky enough to catch him with his power depleted.
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