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And then there was a tornado in the sky.
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l feel magnificently sleepy.
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The date meter on the spaceship.
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What did it read after Earth's destruction?
:43:18
Nineteen...
:43:20
seventy... three.
:43:24
And before?
Before the white light and the tornado?
:43:27
Thirty-nine...
:43:29
fifty... something.
:43:40
- Before the white lightand the tornado?
- Thirty-nine...
:43:44
fifty... something.
:43:48
- So?
- You have evidence, Mr President,
:43:50
that one day talking apes will dominate
this Earth and destroy it by 3950-something.
:43:56
l doubt that we shall still be in office by then.
:43:59
And according to the NASA experts,
:44:01
who are still subjecting
the spaceship to microscopic scrutiny,
:44:05
the precise year ofwhat
you merely infer to be Earth's destruction
:44:08
is recorded on the flight synthesizer as 3955.
:44:13
AD, presumably.
:44:15
Now, what do you expect me
and the United Nations,
:44:18
though not necessarily
in that order, to do about it?
:44:23
Alter what you believe to be the future
by slaughtering two innocents,
:44:27
or rather three,
now that one ofthem is pregnant?
:44:30
Herod tried that and Christ survived.
:44:33
- Herod lacked our facilities.
- He also became very unpopular.
:44:37
Historically unpopular.
And we don't want that to happen, do we?
:44:41
- Are you saying...
- l am saying that our two visitors
:44:44
seem to be very charming, peaceful people,
or rather, creatures, and the voters love them.
:44:50
Do you want their progeny
to dominate the world?
:44:53
Well, not at the next election, no.
:44:56
But, one day, ifthe progeny turn out
as well as the parents, who knows?