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2.65sand our home world was nearing total destruction.
1.9s(CATS MEOWING IN AGONY)
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1sMAN: Shut up!
4.45s(WINDOW SLAMS SHUT) But the technology to save our planet was lost.
4.24sLost, that is, until I heard you speak at Mars University.
4sSo, you called my thesis a fat sack of barf, and then you stole it?
1.37sWelcome to academia.
3.34sHe intends to siphon off Earth's rotational energy!
1.82sEarth will come to a stop, and...
2.77sHalf of you will cook, and half of you will freeze.
4.87sEarth will be one big McDLT. We just got that commercial last year.
1.77sOh, yeah, smarty paws?
6.09sYou may have built the ratchet, but you can't reach the core without 4,000 miles of superconducting wire.
1.92s(GASPS) The ball of yarn!
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1.34s
1.57sQuite.
4.84sEven so, you'd still need a tremendously powerful static charge to trigger the process.