Wednesday 30 June 2021

No Moon






The Time Machine (2002) - Moon Breaking Scene

Astronaut TAYLOR :

OK. We're here to stay.


Astronaut LANDON :

Well, where are we? 

Do you have any notion, skipper?


Astronaut TAYLOR :

We're 320 light years from Earth on an unnamed planet in orbit around a star in the constellation of Orion.

Is that close enough for you?


Astronaut DODGE :

That could be Bellatrix.


Astronaut LANDON :

It’s too white for Bellatrix.


Astronaut DODGE :

You didn't have time to read the tapes. 

So you really don't know, do you?


Astronaut LANDON :

What went wrong? 

We weren't programmed to land in the water.


Astronaut TAYLOR :

The Question is not so much 

where we are as when we are.



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Astronaut LANDON :

It doesn't add up. 

Thunder and lightning, and no rain

Cloud cover at night.


Astronaut DODGE :

That strange luminosity, yet no moon.

If we could just get a fix.


Astronaut TAYLOR :

What would that tell you? 

I've told you Where You Are and When You Are.


Astronaut LANDON :

All right, all right.


Astronaut TAYLOR :

You're 300 light years

from your precious planet.


Your loved ones are dead and

forgotten for twenty centuries.


Twenty. Even if you could get back, they'd think you were something that fell out of A Tree.


Astronaut DODGE :

Taylor, quit riding him.


Astronaut TAYLOR :

There is just one reality.

We are here and it is now.


You get hold of that, 

or you might as well be dead.


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