Quotes

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Col. Robert Iverson: Being a leader isn't about ability. It's about responsibility. Maj. Rebecca Childs: Got it, sir. Col. Robert Iverson: No you don't, Beck. I mean, you're not just responsible for the good ones. You've got to be responsible for the bad ones. You've got to be ready to make the shitty call. Maj. Rebecca Childs: What makes you think I'm not? Col. Robert Iverson: Because you're so damn good. You haven't hit anything you couldn't beat. I mean, hell, you were the one who figured out how to save the space shuttle. You made me, you made the rest of NASA just look like an ass. It's just you're used to winning... and you're not really a leader until you've lost.

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Col. Robert Iverson: People. Doctors Zimsky and Keyes? You guys are our resident geophysicists, so what do you make of this? Dr. Conrad Zimsky: The mantle is a chemical hodgepodge of, a, variety of elements... Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Say it with me: "I don't know."

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Serge Leveque: Excuse me Dr. Brazzelton, when do you think the ship will be operational? Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: When I get my fabrication methods perfected, twelve... ten years. Ten years. General Thomas Percell: What would it take to get it done in three months? Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: $50 billion, I... [laughing] General Thomas Percell: [deadpan] Will you take a cheque? Dr. Josh Keyes: You should use a credit card. You get miles. General Thomas Percell: Hmm.

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Zimsky: M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. A perfect acronym if ever there was one. Josh: Beautiful.

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Beck: Hey guys, we're closing in on the inner core. Josh: The nukes are ready. The timers are on. Beck: Great. Let's start dropping them. Zimsky: No. The bombs are not built for these pressures. That's why they were in that pod. If you send them out now, out of that casing, they'll be crushed instantly. Beck: And I assume we have a plan D. Josh: Plan D is Virgil's compartiments. We put a nuke in each section of Virgil and then eject the individual sections. They should stay intact long enough for the nuke to go off. [Braz sighs] Josh: What? Braz: The Virgil is not designed to eject undamaged compartments. [shows them an animation] Okay, these are the ejection mechanisms holding each compartment in place. They're all connected by one master hydraulic gear, kind of like keys on a keyring. What we have to do, we have to unlock the piston. That will release the compartments so the bombs can be jettisoned. Zimsky: Where's the master gear? Braz: In the crawl space we used to get out earlier.

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Beck: You know what makes me really, really angry? Bob, Serge, Braz, Zimsky. No one's every going to know what they did or why they died. Josh: Unless, it all got out somehow. Beck: That's unthinkable. Josh: Yeah. [they smile at each other]