2010: The Year We Make Contact1984

Victor Milson:
You've double-checked this? Please say you haven't. [Floyd is silent] You aren't saying anything, Floyd.

Dr. Floyd:
Something incredible's happening up there. Discovery is being pulled towards Io, or pushed away from Jupiter, whichever. Sometimes it seems to be accelerating, and other times, it just seems to stop. I've never seen anything like it.

Victor Milson:
How long before it impacts on Io?

Dr. Floyd:
Two, two and a half years.

Victor Milson:
How could we be so goddamn wrong about the orbit?

Dr. Floyd:
Because we weren't wrong.

Victor Milson:
Well, if we weren't wrong, well then, terrific! Why the hell is it gonna crash?

Dr. Floyd:
I don't know. It's bizarre. Unless it's got something to do with that Monolith up there.

Victor Milson:
You see that building behind us? [points to the White House] I'm supposed to go in there and have lunch in half an hour. Course, there's one good thing about a reactionary President, he's not into health foods. Last one, we didn't lunch, we grazed. Wanna know what lunch is about? I'll tell you. We've got two more aircraft carriers off the coast of Honduras. The Russians are moving some of their big stuff. Now you've got the Joint Chiefs screaming about Russian satellites with anti-missile lasers on 'em, so we gotta send up our laser satellites to counteract theirs. So the President has come to the conclusion that the NCA should be placed under the jurisdiction of the Defense Department. Enough with the crazy scientists spending all this money trying to talk to Martians. So, here we are on your actual brink, my agency's going to become a part of the military, I've got a President with his finger poised on the button, and you want me to walk across the park and tell him we want to hitch a ride with those very same Russians. Have I missed anything?

Dr. Floyd:
That's about it.