children running wild
In the sun
Like a forest is your child
Growing wild
In the sun
Doomed in his innocence
In the sun
Gather your children to your side
In the sun
Tell them all they love will die
Tell them why
In the sun
Tell them it's not too late
Cultivate, one by one
Tell them to harvest
And rejoice
In the sun
How far out do they go before they blow?
About six miles.
We should feel a hefty jolt.
- I want a front-row seat when they go!
- I'll bet you do.
Lowell, do you have to eat
that stuff in here? It stinks.
You never let up, do you?
Oh.
Now you hurt his feelings.
I'd like to know what
any one of you knows about real food.
What do you mean, real food?
Out of the dirt? That's real food?
That's right. This happens
to be nature's greatest gift.
To a celibate, maybe.
Come on, you guys.
Maybe he knows something we don't.
Lowell, give me a slice
of that cantaloupe.
Don't ask Lowell for a slice.
I'd be delighted to give you a slice of it.
Just sit down and shut up.
Sit down. Sit down!
And shut up and leave me alone,
all of you, and let me eat.
What's the big deal? I can't see
the difference between that and this.
You don't see the difference?
The difference is that I grew it.
That's what the difference is.
I picked it and I fixed it.
And it has a taste, and it has some colour
and it has a smell.
It calls back a time when there
were flowers all over the earth.
There were valleys, and there were
plains of tall green grass...
..that you could lie down in,
that you could go to sleep in.
There were blue skies
and there was fresh air.
There were things growing everywhere,
not just in domes...
..blasted millions of miles out into space.
Look at that stuff. How can you guys sit
there and say anything to me about this?
Look at this crap! Look at that!
Dried, synthetic crap!
You've become so dependent on it,
I bet you can't even live without it.
Why would we want to, Lowell?
Don't you realise how pitiful that is,
what you just asked me?
On earth, everywhere you go,
the temperature is 75є.
Everything is the same.
All the people are exactly the same.
Now, what kind of life is that?
- So why do you wanna go back?
- Because it's not too late to change it.
What do you want, Lowell?
There's hardly any more disease.
There's no more poverty.
Nobody's out of a job.
That's right. Every time we have
the argument, you say the same thing.
You give me the same three answers.
"Everybody has a job."
That's always the last one.
But you know what else there is
no more of? There is no more beauty.
There's no more imagination and no
frontiers left to conquer. You know why?
One reason why. The same attitude that
you guys are givin' me in this room today.
And that is: nobody cares.
Look on the wall behind you.
Look at that little girl's face.
I know you've seen it.
But you know what she's never
gonna be able to see?
She's never gonna be able to see
the simple wonder of a leaf in her hand,...
..because there's not gonna be any trees.
Now, you think about that.
If people were interested, something
would've been done a long time ago.
- Are you ready?
- Yeah. Yeah, I'm ready.
Hey, wait. Wait a minute. I don't think
you guys understand what this means.
Please don't blow up the domes.
- Which one first?
- Outboard cluster first. Let's hit six.
- They're not disposable.
- I haven't got any choice, Lowell.
They're not replaceable.
Where's that tube?
- Ow! My hand.
- Hey, are you all right?
- You better get Lowell to fix that for you.
- Damn.
- Really.
- Yeah.
Will you help me?
Oh, yeah.
What are you doing?
Nothing.
Get on in here now.
(man on PA) Valley Forge. Safe-distancing
manoeuvre in five minutes.
Valley Forge, please stand by...
..for 1000 hours safe-distancing
manoeuvre in five minutes.
I'm gonna need your help for that,
you know, Lowell?
OK?
OK?
- There you go.
- Thank you.
Here.
Set gyro at 4406.
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