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To: upanddown who wrote (62461)	12/28/2004 2:48:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Good try. In fact I like that answer better than the correct one. But the message you gave was from Klaatu to mankind. The question I asked was about a message to the robot Gort. The real Movie Trivia line was spoken in the alien tongue, which felicitously seemed to contain only American English phonemes: "Gort: Klaatu barada nikto!". The spelling varies because not many people--including me--have read the script. This phrase informed the robot that Klaatu had been harmed by the Earthling bad guys and needed help. It turned the previously impassive Gort into an unstoppable juggernaut of destruction, kicking serious ass on the DCPD and US Army in his single-minded quest to reach his injured master. Klaatu made it back to his ship (though he had to be brought back from the dead with alien technology...talk about patents), but then took off into space after deciding that humans weren't yet ready for civilized contact with higher life forms, or else they wouldn't have shot him. Thank you for your research, John. And no, I don't think it's quite that unlikely that Sun will reach 10. Not a LOT more likely, but a little. --QS

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