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I originally heard about this
when I was working for NASA.
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Common, ordinary remote-control unit.
Yeah? Everyone's got one, right?
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Here's the kicker.
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This instruction disk hooks you
into the Sword of Damocles,
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the ultimate defensive weapon system.
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You see that?
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A ring of satellites
encircling the earth.
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Attached to each satellite
is a mega neutron bomb.
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When detonated, each satellite
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unleashes an intense
electromagnetic pulse,
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but EMP doesn't harm a living thing.
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But it does shut down every known
power source, all electrical devices,
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cars, aeroplanes, toasters,
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computers, everything...
even batteries.
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But this... makes this
an aiming device
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that gives the user
incredible accuracy.
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You can pinpoint precisely
what you want to shut down.
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A taxi cab in Buenos Aires,
the entire country of Spain. Amazing.
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You could shut down the whole planet,
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send it right back to the Dark Ages.
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- He's dead.
- I agree.
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Plissken's been dead before,
but he never stays down.
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The mission's scrubbed, Commander.
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I shouldn't have let you
talk me out of that air strike.
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Well, it's on now, effective
immediately. Full-scale.
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Target Los Angeles.
Flatten it. Burn it.
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No!
:49:40
What did you say?
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Cuervo Jones is holding
all the cards now, sir.
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He sees our aircraft,
he pushes that button... kaboom!
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There goes our aircraft
AND the United States.
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We don't even know if he knows
how to work the goddam thing.
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Snake Plissken, American outlaw.