:16:03
Presumably this stuff is nonporous.
:16:07
Why did you pick me?
:16:09
You're an M.D., a talented surgeon
:16:12
who knows blood chemistries
:16:14
and you're single...
:16:15
the "Odd Man Hypothesis. "
:16:17
What the hell is that?
:16:19
Didn't you read the Wildfire material
:16:21
I've been sending you?
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Very little.
:16:23
I never went in much
for science fiction.
:16:25
Nor do I!
:16:38
It seems to me, General,
:16:39
Dr. Stone put one over on you.
:16:41
In fact, he made us all think
:16:43
his Wildfire Lab could handle
:16:45
contamination from outer space.
:16:47
I disagree with the senator from Vermont.
:16:50
Dr. Stone, a Nobel Prize winner,
:16:52
twice president of the
National Academy of Sciences,
:16:54
is well known here in Washington.
:16:56
Is the implication that Dr. Stone
:16:58
deliberately misled us?
:16:59
Perhaps not deliberately, Senator.
:17:03
I'm reasonably certain
:17:04
that before the night
:17:05
the Wildfire Team was mobilized,
:17:07
Dr. Stone didn't know Scoop existed.
:17:09
I'm astounded.
:17:10
Reasons of national security.
:17:12
Very smart.
:17:12
We've had experiences
with scientists before.
:17:16
Now, let's talk about
this famous letter
:17:19
Dr. Stone sent to the president
:17:20
some two years ago.
:17:21
From what you're saying,
:17:22
it was just a shot in the dark?
:17:25
Perhaps that's a little unfair, Senator.
:17:27
Dr. Stone and I were
consultants with NASA
:17:30
on the Lunar Receiving Lab.
:17:31
He wasn't completely satisfied.
:17:33
He felt a more advanced
lab was required.
:17:35
You mean more expensive, don't you?
:17:38
I call that Dr. Stone's $90 million
mash note to Uncle Sam.
:17:42
"In a true biological crisis
:17:44
which our exploration of
space could bring about,
:17:46
the present Lunar Receiving Laboratory
:17:48
might prove inadequate.
:17:54
I therefore urge
:17:55
the establishment of a facility
:17:58
to deal specifically
:17:59
with an extraterrestrial form of life.