Meteor Page #3

Problem number two,

there are about 100 guys

stupid enough to resist using Hercules

because of what

it would mean politically.

- What am I supposed to do?

- Help me ride over them.

OK you son of a b*tch. I'll help,

but i want it straight up and down.

You've got my word.

Those rockets have got to be realigned

and we've got exactly five days.

I hope no one has been so foolish

to contact the Russians about all this.

It would be inadvisable...

No one would think of doing that

without your approval, Mr Secretary.

You can be sure they know all

there is to know about the meteor.

They don't know

what we're planning to do.

What we're discussing.

I hope it's still discussion.

General Adlon, I assure you

that no decisions have been made.

That's what this meeting's

been called for, to decide what to do.

You're in charge of Project Hercules.

If the result of this meeting

is to make use...

There's nothing else.

The only thing we've got is Hercules.

Dammit Hercules is not up there either,

as far as anybody but we are concerned.

It's got to stay that way.

We have never admitted to Hercules.

- If we admit to it now...

- We have to!

You can't keep the whole world

in the dark about what's going on.

Once they know that a five-mile hunk

of rock is gonna hit at 30,000 mph,

people will want to know

whatwe intend to do about it.

You're gonna tell the entire world

we have nuclear rockets out there

in direct contradiction to every

international agreement we've ever made?

That's an invitation to being called

liars and warmongers by every...

It's

international murder if we don't!

What do you wantto do?

You want to meet it

with BB guns and slingshots?

Please! Gentlemen!

Dr Bradley, would you please

tell us what would happen

if this meteor struck us?

A massive rock, one mile wide,

travelling at 30,000 miles per hour,

would cause a crater 50 miles across

and five miles deep.

Orpheus is five miles wide.

Its striking force is equal to...

...2,500,000 megatons of TNT.

That is ten orders of magnitude

above the largest earthquake

ever recorded.

It would throw into the

atmosphere five billion tons of earth,

and reduce solar radiation

for decades to come.

It could cause another Ice Age.

What if the thing doesn't hit?

There's some chance.

- Every scientific facility...

- You have been wrong!

You were wrong

to send Challenger II off its course!

I don't have to listen to this!

Please!

You're out of order!

At ease, gentlemen.

Dr Bradley, where are you going?

I need air.

I don't give a damn what Russia says

about America or vice versa!

I told you what's gonna happen

when that meteor hits!

If you think you can prevent it

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