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In essence, the riddles presented by the Old Galactic Station appeared to be solved. The three made up their secret report to the U-League.
Incredibly, he realized, they had been gone only thirty-odd Galactic Standard days, and in that time Alvyn Karffard had done an incredible amount of work. He had gotten the spaceport completely cleared of rubble and debris, and he had the woods cleared away from around it and the two tall buildings.
"Why, what's wrong?" "Nothing really bad," Gefty assured her. He added, "I think. But take a look at the Federation dateline." Kerim peered at the screen, frowned. "But ..." "Uh-huh." "Why, that ... that's almost ..." "That," Gefty said, "or rather this is the day after we started out from the Hub, headed roughly Galactic west. Three weeks ago. We'd be just past Miam." He knuckled his chin.
At no point is it probable that he would find the separate suns much more aggregated or greatly farther apart than they are in that part of the Milky Way which our sun now occupies. Looking forth on either side of the "galactic plane," there would be the same scattering of stars which we now behold when we gaze at right angles to the way we are supposing the spirit to traverse.
All the facts since ascertained fit in with this conception, to which Proctor added arguments favouring the view, since adopted by Barnard and Easton, that the stars forming the galactic stream are not only situated more closely together, but are also really, as well as apparently, of smaller dimensions than the lucid orbs studding our skies.
"And that plasmoid unit now appears to have been almost certainly the key unit of the entire Old Galactic Station the unit that kept everything running along automatically there for thirty thousand years." He glanced at Quillan. "Someone at the door. We'll hold it while you see what they want."
He busied himself with those astrogational chores which began with orienting oneself to galactic directions after leaving a planet which rotates at its own individual speed. Then one computes the overdrive course to another planet, from the respecting coordinates of the world one is leaving and the one one aims for.
We certainly see brilliant patches of closely-crowded stars, in great numbers, in this galactic zone, and the fact that these temporary stars almost uniformly appear in that zone renders the suggestion here made quite as rational, in the way of speculation at least, as that of "vapory celestial matter" suddenly condensed into a star of the first magnitude, as Sir.
Their instincts and interests lay in trading and politics, not in the life sciences, and plague after plague had swept across his home planet in the centuries before Hospital Earth had been admitted as a probationary member of the Galactic Confederation. But as long as Dal could remember, he had wanted to be a doctor.
And the second world where the ruins of a giant city had stood choked with jungle vegetation, where he had made a blowgun from tubes of rustless metal as a weapon gift for small winged men but were they men? Both had been remnants of that ancient galactic empire. "Some things could so remain," he answered soberly. "If we find them, we must be careful. But first a good site for the rancheria."
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