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Two small blips were visible one the Jupiter probe missile, the other the recovery missile moving on courses that would soon intersect. Just as Bud returned to the compartment, several of the watchers gave startled gasps. "Another blip coming in from nine o'clock!" Admiral Walter exclaimed. "What's that?" Tom stared at the new blip.
He went back to the supply room and told Koa which boats were to be used, instructed him to get the supplies aboard, then made his way to Commander O'Brine's office. O'Brine was not in. Rip searched and found him in the astroplot room, watching a 'scope. Green streaks called "blips" marked the panel, each one indicating an asteroid. "All too small," O'Brine said.
Here Tom had used his spectromarine selector to restore the ancient buildings. Tom, Hank, and Arv went back to the airfield and soon took off in the diving seacopter. Landing on the water, they submerged and began the undersea detection test. Tom manned the sonarscope personally, eager to conduct as careful a search as possible. "Getting any blips, skipper?"
The electronic amulet to which he referred had been issued to all Enterprises personnel and family visitors who used the private gate. The amulets were contained in slender bracelets and were designed to trap radar impulses. This prevented them from showing up as blips on the giant detector radarscope mounted on the main building.
Rip watched and saw several blips on it that indicated asteroids. They were all small. He watched, interested, as the cruiser overtook them. Once, according to the screen, the cruiser passed under an asteroid with a clearance of only a few hundred feet. "You didn’t miss that one by much," Rip told the space officer. "Don’t have to miss by much," he retorted.
He went back to the supply room and told Koa which boats were to be used, instructed him to get the supplies aboard, then made his way to Commander O’Brine’s office. O’Brine was not in. Rip searched and found him in the astro-plot room, watching a ’scope. Green streaks called "blips" marked the panel, each one indicating an asteroid. "All too small," O’Brine said.
Rip watched and saw several blips on it that indicated asteroids. They were all small. He watched, interested, as the Scorpius overtook them. Once, according to the screen, the cruiser passed under an asteroid, with a clearance of only a few hundred feet. "You didn't miss that one by much," Rip told the space officer. "Don't have to miss by much," he retorted.
We have no aircraft on this earth that can at will so handily outdistance our latest jets. But good UFO reports cannot be written off with such answers as fatigued pilots seeing a balloon or star; "green" radar operators with only fifteen years' experience watching temperature inversion caused blips on their radarscopes; or "a mild form of mass hysteria or war nerves."
Within the radar's range there were hundreds of tiny blips. Some were marked with a nimbus apiece. They were friends. Many, many more were not. The Mekinese fleet, too, could determine its own numbers in comparison to the defending fleet.
But then there were more blips, in greater numbers. Fist-sized chunks flicked through their vehicles almost simultaneously. Air puffed out. Their rings collapsed under them the sealer was no good for holes of such size. At once, the continued spin of the bubbs wound them, like limp laundry, into knots.
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