:20:00
Frequency 9.85.
:20:03
Harmonics in the green.
:20:06
G-level 1.1.
:20:09
- 5%.
- Confirmed. We are at 5%.
:20:12
David, how's it looking to you?
:20:14
Okay. I'm going to take a look
and show you what we got.
:20:17
Instrumentation looks good.
:20:19
We have a good picture
from Dr. Drumlin's PRD.
:20:23
Hope you guys are seeing
what I'm seeing.
:20:26
All systems are go.
:20:29
This is really something!
:20:31
For purposes of this test...
:20:33
...Dr. Drumlin will be on top of the
Gantry crane that's over the Machine.
:20:37
We've got some video animation...
:20:39
...to show just how this Machine--
it is thought--will work.
:20:43
The passenger pod will release.
:20:44
It will come down through the center of
the rings and into the Machine's core.
:20:49
The question everyone
here is asking is...
:20:51
...what happens then?
:20:53
Some believe the rings function as some
sort of an accelerator or something...
:20:58
...sending its energy into the pod...
:21:00
...making it rocket away
at near light speed.
:21:03
Others believe it might open up
a doorway to some other dimension.
:21:08
Who's right?
:21:09
That's what today's test is all about.
:21:12
- 35%.
- Subsystems ready?
:21:14
40% normal acceleration.
:21:16
Confirm 40%.
:21:17
Controllers stand by
to initiate drop sequence...
:21:20
...on my mark.
:21:22
All systems ready for drop sequence.
:21:24
45%.
:21:27
We're in 45%.
:21:30
Verify closure.
:21:33
46.
:21:35
All controllers stand by to initiate
IPV drop sequence. On my mark.
:21:40
48%.
:21:42
I'm feeling a very strange vibration.
:21:45
- Are you feeling it down there?
- Gerry, can you confirm?
:21:48
Everything looks good.
:21:50
Crew Ops?
:21:51
Nothing wrong.
:21:52
We see nothing abnormal here.
:21:54
No good. Hold sequence.
I'll take a direct reading.
:21:57
What's he talking about?
:21:59
Can anyone say grandstanding?