:57:00
It's all right, sir. A commanding
officer doesn't need brains.
:57:03
Just a good loud voice, huh?
:57:05
Do I pull this switch
to make an image?
:57:07
Stop! You'd never survive.
:57:09
Our Belerephon skipper tried it,
and it was instantly fatal to him.
:57:14
Oh, I see.
So you're immune to this too?
:57:18
In my first attempt
at creating an image here...
:57:21
my brain pattern there
was scarcely any larger than yours.
:57:25
Afterwards, I lay unconscious
for a day and a night.
:57:28
Yet you came back
for a second go at it.
:57:32
It was a question
of science, Doctor...
:57:34
but you can imagine my joy
when I discovered that the shock...
:57:38
had permanently doubled
my intellectual capacity.
:57:43
Otherwise, my researches here
would have come to nothing...
:57:47
poor as they have been.
:57:51
Recently I have turned up
some rather puzzling indications...
:57:54
that in those final days
before their annihilation...
:57:58
the Krell had been applying
their entire racial energies...
:58:01
to a new project...
:58:02
one which they actually
seemed to hope...
:58:05
might somehow free them
once and for all...
:58:08
from any dependence
on physical instrumentalities.
:58:12
A civilization
without instrumentalities?
:58:14
Incredible.
:58:15
Dr. Morbius,
everything here is new.
:58:19
Not a sign of age or wear
on any of it.
:58:22
Young man, these devices,
self-serviced, self-maintained...
:58:26
have stood exactly as you see them
for 2,000 centuries.
:58:31
2,000 centuries?
:58:32
And during all this time,
what was their power source?
:58:35
That's a good question.
:58:37
May I draw your attention
to these gauges...
:58:41
all around here, gentlemen?
:58:44
Their calibrations
appear to indicate...
:58:46
that they are set
in decimal series...
:58:48
each division recording
exactly ten times as many amperes...
:58:51
as the one preceding it.
:58:53
Ten times ten
times ten times ten...
:58:55
times ten times ten,
on and on and on...
:58:57
row after row,
gauge after gauge.