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GUEST: Comic book and television writer Mark Evanier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A man in a parka, holding a metal pole with a red light on top, waves at a truck pulling up in the blinding snowstorm. Two men get out of the truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAre you the guys from Washington?\u201d Asks the man with the pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo you get many other visitors out here?\u201d asks one of the men from the truck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow long have you been onsite?\u201d asks the other man from the truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince this morning,\u201d replies the man with the pole. \u201cA Russian oil team called it in about eighteen hours ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow come nobody spotted it before?\u201d asks the second man from the truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReally not that surprising,\u201d says the man with the pole. \u201cThis landscape\u2019s changing all the time.\u201d

The three men walk in murky darkness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou got any idea what this thing is exactly?\u201d asks the man with the pole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d says the second man from the truck. \u201cIt\u2019s probably a weather balloon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man with the pole laughs. \u201cI don\u2019t think so,\u201d he says. \u201cYou know, we don\u2019t have the equipment for a job like this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow long do you think before we can start craning it up?\u201d asks the first man from the truck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dI don\u2019t think you quite understand,\u201d replies the man with the pole. \u201cYou guys are going to need one hell of a crane!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three men join a group of other men, one of whom is shining a flashlight over a very large aircraft wing, sticking out of the ice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A string of red lights on poles begin to form an outline of a very large plane under the ice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n



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Minute 002: The Guys From Washington<\/a><\/blockquote>