Crack in the World

Steele:
Tomorrow I'm taking this suit back to the tailor!

Simpson:
How do you feel?

Dr. Ted Rampion:
Medium rare.

Sir Charles Eggerston:
The question now is not who is to blame, but how we can stop the catastrophe.

Dr. Ted Rampion:
At present we don't know any way we can stop it. First, we have to learn to understand the natural forces involved, and if possible, find some way to control them in the time that is permitted to us.

Sir Charles Eggerston:
What is being done? Now?

Dr. Ted Rampion:
Every university, every scientist, every thinking military leader is helping us.

Sir Charles Eggerston:
Is there anything that we can do?

Dr. Ted Rampion:
Pray.

Dr. Ted Rampion:
What's the hurry Stephen? Can't you wait for another Nobel Prize?

Sir Charles Eggerston:
A crack in the world?

Sir Charles Eggerston:
Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Dont let this fall apart. We have work to do. We must hear Dr Rampion complete his report. You were saying that the crack is extending to the east.

Dr. Ted Rampion:
Along the Macedo Trench. It's following a geological flaw in the Earth's crust, known as the Macedo Fault. That runs from here, to the tip of India, veers off towards Indonesia, and terminates off the Australian continental shelf.

Sir Charles Eggerston:
How do you know that the crack will stop there?

Dr. Ted Rampion:
We don't.

Sir Charles Eggerston:
What if the crack keeps going? Right around the world? What happens then?

Dr. Ted Rampion:
Where the land masses split, the oceans will be sucked in, and the colossal pressure generated by the steam will rip the Earth apart, and destroy it.

Indian Ambassador:
You mean, the world will come to an end?

Dr. Ted Rampion:
The world as we know it, yes.

Dr. Ted Rampion:
Suppose the Macedo trench splits open under the ocean? A crack a thousand miles long, bringing superheated magma in contact with the ocean... Earthquakes, tidal waves, mass destruction on an apocalyptic scale!

Dr. Stephen Sorenson:
How many men have the opportunity to turn the page of history? Newton, Pasteur, Einstein...