We can pump oxygen in and waste material out. But there's one thing we can't simulate that's a very basic need. Man's hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness - that's one thing we haven't licked yet. Sign In. The Twilight Zone. Drama Fantasy Horror. Director Robert Stevens. Rod Serling. Top credits Director Robert Stevens. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Paul Langton Doctor as Doctor. James McCallion Reporter 1 as Reporter 1.
Carter Mullally Jr. Rod Serling Narrator as Narrator voice uncredited. Robert Stevens. Storyline Edit. A man finds himself walking down a country road, not knowing where nor who he is. He comes across a diner with a jukebox blaring and hot coffee on the stove - only there's no one there. He is not able to remember who he is or how he got there. After leaving the diner, he walks to the nearby town which also seems to be deserted.
He shouts into the bakery, then notices what he believes to be a woman watching him in a car from across the street. He tells her that he is unable to remember who he is and has not seen anyone since he woke up that morning or rather started walking down the road.
Upon approaching the car, he realizes that the "woman" is actually a mannequin who falls out. He hears a payphone ring and rushes to answer it, but there is no one on the other end or an operator. After inserting coins, the man only gets a recorded operating system. He checks the telephone directory, curious where all of the town's inhabitants and storekeepers are. When trying to leave the booth, he is unable to exit because he attempted to open it the wrong way. The man grows more and more unsettled as he wanders through the empty town, looking for someone—anyone—to talk to, all the while having the strange feeling that he is being watched.
Attempting to find someone, he goes into the police station. He talks into the police radio, joking that a strange man is walking through town, until he sees a smoking cigar in the ash tray.
There are no prisoners being detained in any of the jail cells, but he finds a few things in one cell: the faucet is still running, a towel, a razor, shaving cream and a shaving brush. After finding these things, h tells himself that he needs to wake up. As the cell door almost creaks closed, the man rushes out of the prison and into the town square, asking where everyone is. As he walks down the street, he hears the church bells ring just before entering a drug store.
After seeing no one come out of the church, he ducks inside the drug store and asks the invisible patrons if they would like a sundae. He talks to his reflection, apologizing that he cannot remember his name, and tells a tale about Ebenezer Scrooge, then wonders why he can't wake up from the nightmare he is stuck in. He then comes to several racks of books and spins them all around. He looks one of the racks and picks up a book called "The Last Man on Earth". After spinning the rack around and seeing the same book, he is spooked and leaves the store.
That night, he plays a game of tic-tac-toe with himself when several evening street lights switch on. After realizing all of the lights have turned on, he approaches the movie theater and realizes that the man in the poster a member of the air force is wearing a similar jacket as he is.
He comes to the conclusion that he must also be in the air force. He excitedly rushes in to tell the moviegoers his revelation, but there is no one to hear the news. The man begins to think that perhaps he is having this dream because of a bomb or another accident. Just then, the film begins to play with an airplane being seen flying on the projector screen.
He dashes upstairs hoping to find someone in the booth running the pictures, but instead there no one is seen. Even more spooked by this, the man heads downstairs only to smack into a reflection of himself in the mirror.
He then runs outside and trips over a curb, then a bicycle. After tripping over the latter, he believes the picture of an eye on the optometrists office is watching him and screams. He quickly gets up and runs down the street again, only to finally collapse next to a street crossing and presses the button labeled WALK.
It is revealed that the walk button is actually a panic button. A group of men is watching the proceedings of this experiment in a nearby room, and after the man panics, they break him up.
The broken clock he saw earlier in the cafe actually the clock, which he has repeatedly pounded, that was counting his time in the simulator. The man is really a training astronaut named Mike Ferris , confined to an isolation room located within an aircraft hangar for hours and 36 minutes, testing to see if he can stay sane cooped up in a small spacecraft for the duration of a trip to the Moon.
The town was a complete hallucination, an escape valve for his sensory-deprived mind. As Ferris is carried out of the hangar on a stretcher, he asks the doctor what went wrong. The doctor tells him that they are able to fix any problem but the need for companionship. Ferris sees the Moon above him, and says wistfully, "Hey! Don't go away up there!
Many of us may or may not be virologists now that we have become very informed and disinformed about viruses over the past three months. In any case, we certainly are all germaphobes now. On the other hand, even though most of us are staying healthy at home, we are all getting cabin fever, for sure.
One day soon, we will venture out of our cabins wearing surgical masks and bandanas and keeping our distance from all our germ-infested fellow humans. SPVs were newly created for the singular purpose of providing the Fed with a legal way to lend directly to Americans.
In other words, without any discussion or debate, the federal government has embraced Modern Monetary Theory MMT , which advocates unlimited government borrowing unless and until inflation heats up. Undoubtedly, there will be more packages to rescue state and local governments and to fund public infrastructure projects.
In my numerous conference calls with our accounts in recent days, I was frequently asked about the inflationary consequences of MMT-on-steroids. Yes, I acknowledged, it could all lead to Weimar-style hyperinflation. In my recent conference calls, I was also frequently asked about the prospects for globalization. Perhaps the biggest threat to globalization is that China and the US are already in the early stages of a Cold War with escalating cybersecurity and disinformation campaigns.
Many US companies are likely, either voluntarily or as a result of government decrees, to move their supply chains out of China. I am an entrepreneurial capitalist. In providing investment strategy research to institutional accounts, I have many competitors. So the forces of the competitive market compel me to work as hard as possible to satisfy my customers more than my competitors do. It does exist, especially in the United States in many industries.
However, it also coexists with crony capitalism. Actually, it can degenerate into crony capitalism and other variants of corruption.
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