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Updated: May 26, 2025
They've given us light, both ultra-violet and visible, sound, infra-sound, and electricity I don't know what's left unless they give us a new kind of X-rays, or Hertzian, or infra-red heat waves, or...." "That's it, heat!" exclaimed Seaton. "They produce heat by means of powerful wave-generators and by setting up heavy induced currents in the armor. They can melt arenak that way."
"And a tenth of an inch of that stuff will stop a steel-nosed machine-gun bullet?" "Stop it! A tenth of an inch of arenak is harder to pierce than fifty inches of our hardest, toughest armor steel. A sixteenth-inch armor-piercing projectile couldn't get through it. It's hard to believe, but nevertheless it's a fact.
As he spoke he held up his third finger, upon which gleamed the royal jewel of Osnome in its splendid Belcher mounting of arenak as transparent as the jewel itself and having the same intense blue color. "I know the name, 'faidon, but that's all I seem to know." "That's about all that anybody knows about them.
"Why not throw away this soft metal, steel, and build it of arenak, as it should be built? You have plenty of salt," suggested Dunark. "Fine! We have lots of salt in the galley, haven't we, Mart?" "Yes, nearly a hundred pounds. We are stocked for emergencies, with two years' supply of food, you know."
"Do you suppose we can handle the heat with our refrigerators?" asked Crane. "Probably. We have a lot of power, and the new arenak cylinders of our compressors will stand anything. The only trouble will be in cooling the condensers. We'll run as long as we have any water in our tanks, then go dive into the ocean to cool off. We'll try it a whirl, anyway."
I went over to investigate, thinking probably I could find out something useful. It had the whole front end cut or broken off, and that made me curious, because no imaginable fall will break an arenak hull. I walked in through the hole and saw that it was one of their fighting tenders a combination warship and repair shop, with all of the stuff in it that I've been telling you about.
The current was applied and the great spherical mass apparently disappeared, being transformed instantly into the transparent metal arenak. Then indeed had the Earth-men a vehicle such as had never been seen before!
He's got a hen on, you can bet your shirt on that what gravels me is he's aiming at the girls, not at us or the job." "I should say that someone had aimed at you fairly accurately, judging by the number of bullets stopped lately by that arenak armor of yours. I wish that I could take some of the strain, but they are centering all their attacks upon you."
Their offensive weapons are almost irresistible they have generators that burn arenak as though it were so much paper, and a series of deadly frequencies against which only a copper-driven ray screen is effective, and even that does not stand up long." "How come you lasted till now, then?" asked Seaton. "They have nothing like the Skylark, and no knowledge of intra-atomic energy.
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