It'll be 100 feet high, travelling at 1,100 miles per hour. There will be a very large tidal wave moving quickly through the Atlantic Ocean. The smaller of the two comets, Biederman, will hit first, somewhere in the Atlantic Seaboard, probably off the waters of Cape Hatteras, in just under twelve hours, at 4:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time. We have now been able to calculate the comet's final trajectories, and we have determined where they're going to strike. If the world does go on, it will not go on for everyone. The comets are still headed for Earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop them.
So may the Lord bless you, may the Lord keep you, may the Lord lift his divine countenance upon you, and give you peace. Because I believe that God, whomever you hold that to be, hears all prayers, even if sometimes the answer is no. I know a lot of you don't, but I would like to offer a prayer for our survival, mine included. News stations around the nation are being faxed copies of the lottery procedure as we speak and they'll be broadcasting the details to you in a few moments. Crimes against persons or property will be dealt with swiftly and harshly. A national curfew begins at midnight tonight. The armed forces and the National Guard are working with local law enforcement. Beginning tonight and continuing tonight until the crisis passes, I am declaring a state of martial law. Other countries are preparing similar caves along whatever lines they feel are best to preserve their way of life. On August 10, a computer will randomly select 800,000 Americans, to join the 200,000 scientists, doctors, engineers, teachers, soldiers and artists who have already been chosen. We're storing seeds and seedlings, plants, animals, enough to start over. And that million people can survive there, underground, for two years, until the air clears, and the dust settles. So, in the soft limestone of Missouri, we've been preparing a network of immense caves, and they're almost finished. Unfortunately, the Titans cannot be launched until the comets are ony a few hours away, and while we are confident the missile attack will succeed, it is only prudent that we now take cautionary steps to ensure the continuation of our way of life, to guarantee that there will be enough of us left to rebuild a new world in the unlikely event that the comets do strike the Earth. If we can deflect these comets enough, they will bounce harmlessly off our atmosphere, and head on out into space. Our strategy has been twofold: First, our strategic missile command has been coordinating with the Russians a massive strike of Titan missiles to intercept the comets. Ever since the comet was discovered, we've been hoping and working for the best, but we've also been planning for the worst. Now we have to make some decisions together. We've lost communication with the Messiah spacecraft although we continue to track it visually.
There are now two pieces, one six miles wide, the other a mile and a half. This computer-enhanced radar image from Houston shows how the detonation succeeded, however, did not destroy the comet. It is my unhappy duty to report to you that the Messiah has failed.
Now, I can promise you this, Miss Lerner, all of you, everyone in this room and everyone listening to my voice, that at some point over the next ten months, all of us will entertain out worst fears and concerns.
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