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Yep. Most people do.
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Here.
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Thank you.
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You're welcome.
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Let me introduce our project
leader, Dr. Joshua Keyes.

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Thank you, thank you.
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Good evening. Good evening.
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Wow. This looks like a meeting
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for Nobel Prize Winners
Anonymous.

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I know you are all
the finest in your fields

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and have come a long way
to be here.

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So, I'll outline our program
over the next three months.

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Dr. Brazzleton will supervise
the building of a ship

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which is capable of reaching
the center of our planet.

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Once there, it will deliver
an explosive charge

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large enough
to restart its core.

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Dr. Zimsky will calculate
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the scale
of the explosion needed.

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This is a program I designed
to simulate the effect

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of nuclear detonations
on the core.

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If my calculations are correct,
a tiny nudge in any direction

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will force the core back
into its normal flow.

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What's a "tiny nudge"
in planetary terms?

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A thousand megatons,
give or take?

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Tops. Because any more than that
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would create
a core instability.

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We made a few monster warheads
in the 200-megaton range.

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Braz, do you think the ship
can handle five of these babies?

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Yeah. I can enlarge
the ejection pod...

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Forgive me,
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but, you know, I know
I'm not the expert here,

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but what if the core
is thicker or thinner?

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I mean, what if it's not
what you think it is?

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Isn't that going to affect
the way the explosions are...?

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Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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And what if the core
is made of cheese?

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This is all best
guess, Commander.

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That's all science is,
is best guess.

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So my best guess is
you don't know.

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With luck, irony will break
for the good guys for once,

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and the world's biggest weapons
of mass destruction

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will help save the world.
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The ship will be powered
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by a small experimental
nuclear reactor.

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It will be divided
into six compartments

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like cars on a train:
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The locomotive unit,
navigation compartment,

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living quarters, engineering,
bomb compartment


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