The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Trevor Bardette: Prof. Arthur Flanders
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Quotes
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Dave Miller : Professor, can you figure how long it'll take the water to reach the wash after it's released?
Prof. Arthur Flanders : I'll have to know how far away it is.
Martin Cochrane : Two and seven tenths miles from dam to city limits. If it's dull or statistical, I've written about it.
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Prof. Arthur Flanders : You've got to remember, David, when this hit our atmosphere, it burned at such a fantastic temperature, that its metal-bearing compounds could have been altered - left ready to activate, to grow!
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Prof. Arthur Flanders : No telling what went on inside of it. It's been gathering the secrets of time and space for billions of years.
Dave Miller : Billions of years. And how long have we got to unlock its most important secrets - three hours or three minutes?
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Prof. Arthur Flanders : Dave, if it is a meteorite, chances are it's been hurtling around our universe for a good many centuries. The answer to your question lies buried in those centuries. We'll just have to dig it out.
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[Prof. Flanders puts on his coat]
Dave Miller : When can you leave?
Prof. Arthur Flanders : [putting on his hat and smiling] I'm all packed.
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Chief Dan Corey : Evacuate? The entire town?
Dave Miller : Chief, those rocks are gonna come crashing through here like an avalanche over an anthill. There won't be a living thing left. You won't even be able to tell where San Angelo was.
Prof. Arthur Flanders : When they're no longer confined within the walls of the canyon, when they break out onto the open valley floor, their rate of multiplication is going to be frightening.
Chief Dan Corey : You mean they'll grow even faster?
Dave Miller : Each one that shatters will make a hundred more.
Prof. Arthur Flanders : When that hundred shatters, there'll be ten thousand of them. The third cycle will create a million. Unless we can stop them, they'll spread over the whole countryside.
Dave Miller : With enough rain, there's no boundary they can't cross.
