:22:00
We have instruments so good,
they can tell the difference...
:22:04
between a whale breaking wind
and that sub blowing its tanks.
:22:08
No argument, General. I'm sure
we've got the best money can buy.
:22:14
- We're proud ofwhat we do here.
- You ought to be, Colonel.
:22:17
- The money is well spent.
- I don't doubt it for a minute.
:22:21
And you don't have to snow me.
:22:23
My committee doesn't deal
with appropriations...
:22:25
onlywith how
the appropriations are spent.
:22:28
You see it all around you.
Pretty impressive, isn't it?
:22:33
Truthfully, these machines
scare the hell out ofme.
:22:36
I don't like the idea
that every time I take offmy hat...
:22:38
some thing up there
knows I'm losing my hair.
:22:41
I want to be sure that thing
doesn't get any ideas ofits own.
:22:44
I see whatyou mean, but that's
a chanceyou take with these systems.
:22:47
Who says we have to take that chance?
:22:49
Who voted who the power
to do it this particularway?
:22:53
I'm the only one around here
that got elected by anybody.
:22:55
Nobody gave me that power.
:22:56
It's in the nature oftechnology.
:22:58
Machines are developed
to meet situations.
:23:00
Then they take over,
they start creating situations.
:23:02
- Not necessarily.
- There's always the chance.
:23:05
We have checks and counterchecks
on everything.
:23:09
Who checks the checker?
:23:10
Where's the end ofthe line?
Who's got the responsibility?
:23:13
- The president.
- No one.
:23:15
He can't know everything that's
going on. It's too complicated.
:23:18
Ifyou want to know,
that's what really bothers me.
:23:21
The only thing everyone can agree on
is that no one's responsible.
:23:30
Is something wrong, General?
:23:32
UFO sighted
near Hudson's Bay, sir.
:23:36
Whatyou're seeing, gentlemen,
is an unidentified flying object...
:23:38
picked up by our radar.
:23:40
Until we get positive identification,
we regard it as hostile.
:23:44
What doyou do about it?
:23:45
We've gone to Condition Blue,
which is our lowest form ofreadiness.
:23:49
At the same time, we've informed
those Vindicator bombers...
:23:51
thatyou saw in the air before.
:23:54
Theywill now start to fly
toward their fail-safe points.
:23:58
'' Fail-safe''?