actuators...
EXT. SHIP - PLANETS ATMOSPHERE - DAY
And airbrakes deploy. She manages to kill the roll. But the
ships still coming in nose-high.
INT. NAV-BAY - MAIN CABIN
OWENS
...showing no major water bodies...maximum
terrain, 220 meters over mean surface...
largely cinder and gypsum with some
evaporite deposits....
JETTISON DOORS CLOSE behind Owens, segregating him from the
passenger compartment
My Favorite Martian Script
Mars surface ops, this is Houston. Were go for data.
Copy, Houston. Base pedal temp good. Remote pedal actuator good.
Probe primary and auxiliary transponders a-okay.
Shunt voltage three zero.
D.S.N. uplink rate is now 113.
Copy. Well see if we can better that for you.
This is the probes
We need all the data we can get.
Uh, standby. Were getting a low current level here
The remorseless drought had lasted now for ten million years, and would not end for another million. The reign of the terrible lizards had long since passed, but here on the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for survival had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight. In this dry and barren land, only the small or the swift or the fierce could
-- TERMINATOR 2 SCRIPT --
1 ext. city street - day 1
Downtown L.A. Noon on a hot summer day. On an EXTREME LONG LENS the
lunchtime crowd stacks up into a wall of humanity. In SLOW MOTION they
move in herds among the glittering rows of cars jammed bumper to bumper.
Heat ripples distort the torrent of faces. The image is surreal,
dreamy... and like a dream it begins very slowly to
dissolve to:
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