Explorers Page #3

Here's the thing

I thought we could use.

It's beautiful.

She needs a little work.

I think this used to be called

a Tilt-A-Whirl.

Oh, it's perfect!

We can all fit in here too.

Yeah, well...

...how are we gonna

get this thing home?

It's got wheels. We'll roll it.

Turn it around. Turn it around.

Come on.

That's my foot, you idiot.

Sorry.

That's enough. That's enough.

That's all right.

Oh, that's enough. That's enough.

No more. It's fine here.

- What time is it?

- I don't know.

- I got a test tomorrow.

- It's so late.

- So do I.

- Mrs. Doyle hates me.

OK.

So who would like to tell us something

about carbon dioxide?

Ben.

Carbon dioxide.

That's what you breathe on Mars.

They have dust storms

for months there, you know.

- And...

- Stupid.

And the temperature's 50 below.

And that's what you'd breathe

on Mars.

- What a geek.

- What is he talking about?

And...

- Trisha.

- What?

Carbon dioxide is formed

during respiration, combustion

and decomposition.

Are you crazy? I'm here!

Stop it.

Some of you have not brought in

your field-trip permission slips.

Let me just remind you,

they have to be in by Wednesday.

Now, yesterday we briefly covered

the field of physiology.

Would anyone like to review that

for us today?

Tonight, we launch.

All right.

Very good. Not so good. Very good.

Easy test. Very high curve.

Of course, there's always

an exception.

That's three strikes in a row, Woods.

What's the problem here?

- Very good. Very good.

- Just stupid, I guess.

Not so good. Very good.

Don't you feel, I don't know,

like something big is about to happen?

Well, maybe. But, I mean,

we really haven't been

- very scientific about this, you know.

- Wolfgang.

- Well, listen, it might be dangerous.

- Don't you believe in anything?

Have a little faith, will you?

Hey, come on!

- That's not funny.

- All right. Cool it.

I swiped some beer

so we can name it something.

It's good beer.

My dad drinks a lot of it.

Why don't we call it...

We'll call it the Jules Verne.

No, no. We can...

We could call it the Einstein.

Now, that's a great name.

Oh, come on.

Come on. What do you wanna call it,

the Lori Swenson?

Well...

- I have an idea.

- And what's that?

How about the Thunder Road?

- It's from a Bruce Springsteen song.

- It's not bad.

Not bad? It's perfect.

The Thunder Road.

I christen thee the Thunder Road.

The Thunder Road!

- Oh, now it breaks.

- Let's go.

I knew we should have put hinges

on this thing.

- Come on, you got it. Let's go.

- I'm going to take it very easy at first

because something might happen,

and we all could get killed.

Stop talking about getting killed

all the time. It's gonna be great.

Well, what if the ship falls apart, OK?

She won't, she's a good ship.

- Yeah, don't be so paranoid.

- All right, OK, fine.

- Ready?

- Yeah.

Flashlight.

Systems check.

Air pressure.

OK. We're OK there.

Check.

Twelve-volt system.

Check.

- Exterior illumination.

- Check.

And...

...drive system's response.

Oh, wow.

Here's my launch-area graphic.

See, since the Thunder Road's

inside the field now,

I'm going to plot our movement

relative to an outside stationary point,

which is the creek.

There we are.

- That makes sense.

- OK.

Harness strength.

- Oh, come on, check. Let's go!

- Wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait.

Supplies. We need supplies

before we go any...

- Look. Supplies, check. Supplies.

- Are you nuts?

- Everything.

- Oh, come on, come on.

- Let's go.

- You nut. Are you crazy?

- We need to go. Come on.

- All right. Fine.

- Exterior illumination, off.

- No, no! It'll be cooler if it's on.

Are you? The whole world's

gonna see these lights. I mean...

All right. We'll turn them off

when we get out of the creek.

It'll be cooler.

OK. Fine. Your way. Fine.

- All right, masks on.

- Let's go. Masks on.

OK. We'll be able to talk briefly

after the field is on.

Make sure that you breathe through

these hoses most of the time, all right?

We're gonna run out of oxygen

pretty fast in this thing.

All right, everybody ready?

- Ready.

- Ready.

- Check, check, check.

- Will you stop checking? Let's go!

Let's boogie.

Field, on.

Wow.

OK, let's go...

...down and to the right.

Hardly feels like we're moving at all.

Great suspension on this thing.

It feels like a dream, doesn't it?

I mean, it's all so perfect.

Funny. I never have dreams.

Oh, everybody has dreams.

I don't.

Gee.

I wish I'd gone to the bathroom.

I can't believe this.

We must be going over

and I haven't even used

one-tenth of our power yet.

Wow.

Where should we go?

Where's all the action

on Friday night?

The drive-in.

Bloodshed is my life.

Pain, my pleasure.

Now is the time for destruction.

You see them flying there?

That's what they call

a "traveling matte".

How do you know?

All these movies use them.

It's standard.

May the power be with us.

They attack again.

But they will not touch

my Carla.

Oh, Starkiller. This is great.

You mean, you've seen this?

Yeah, the blond guy is Starkiller,

and he spends the whole movie

blowing up aliens.

Carla!

Explosions in space?

It's impossible!

Oh, what do you mean?

You can hardly see the strings.

He was like my father.

Do you see what I mean?

He was my father.

Carla.

Oh, Starkiller.

- Wow, does she take her clothes off?

- Yeah, but she's got three navels.

Don't you think we're a little close?

That looks so fake.

We're right in front of the screen.

Get us out of here!

OK.

What's happening?!

- Not so fast! Not too low!

- It's not making any sense!

- Turn us around!

- You're gonna kill us, you idiot!

- Why don't you drive it. I'm trying!

- Turn us around.

- Hey, what's the deal? I gave you a 20.

- It was not.

We're gonna hit that! Hold on!

What the..?

Starkiller, you are being

taken from behind.

Burn in hell, alien maggots!

You shall not possess our women,

slime-bred vermin!

Smooth move, Ex-Lax.

- Do you wanna drive?

- Well, yeah.

I heard they were gonna

tear it down anyway.

At least, I think I did.

Well, it's working OK now.

Now let's go back.

- Oh, come on!

- Come on, not yet!

Let's see some more.

Yeah, open her up.

Let's see what she can do.

- Are you serious?

- Yeah.

- Come on.

- I'd say she's done enough already.

- No, she hasn't...

- Oh, come on.

What's that?

OK, Charlie, what do we do now?

We order it down.

Unidentified craft,

you're in direct violation

of controlled airspace.

- What are they saying?

- Probably something like,

- "You're under arrest. "

- I repeat,

you must land immediately.

Jesus! Did you see that?

I don't know what I saw, Charlie.

Gordon, there was something inside.

Didn't you see it?!

I swallowed my gum.

- That guy saw us for sure.

- Oh, that's just great!

What if he reports us, and the police

come to our house and arrest us?

- Then we'll have a criminal record.

- Big deal.

Even if he did report us,

who's gonna believe him anyway?

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