2/10/07

"Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!"

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1133k said...

"Klaatu barada nikto" originates from the 1951 Cold War-era science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The phrase was used to stop the robot Gort from destroying the Earth: "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" There is no known translation, although "Klaatu" is the name of the humanoid alien protagonist in the film, and "nikto" is Russian for "nobody / no one." According to the first issue of the magazine Fantastic Films which offered a translation of Klaatu's alien dialogue, the phrase appears to translate somewhat loosely as "I (Klaatu) die, repair me, do not retaliate."