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"It is a simple bolide, but one of such enormous dimensions that the Earth's attraction has made it a satellite." "What!" cried Ardan, "another satellite besides the Moon? I hope there are no more of them!" "They are pretty numerous," replied Barbican; "but they are so small and they move with such enormous velocity that they are very seldom seen.
Who can say what is still in store for us? Another bolide may shunt us off our ellipse and even send us to the Moon's surface." Then seeing Barbican shake his head ominously and his countenance become more and more depressed, this true friend tried to brighten him up a bit by feigning to take deep interest in a subject that to him was absolutely the driest in the world.
The Yo-Yo, Captain Vann Humfort; she had been reported twice, once in company with the Starhopper, and once with the Enterprise. She bore a blazon of a feminine hand dangling a planet by a string from one finger; a good ship, and an able, ruthless captain. The Bolide; she and the Enterprise had made a raid on Ithunn.
I felt certain that it was a bolide from space, one of those fiery visitors of stone and iron that collide occasionally with our Earth, and that somewhere before us, in the country we were approaching, it would be found. "Later a few straggling shooting stars appeared.
There were a couple of Mardukan ships there, and they had the Victrix fixed up enough to do some fighting. They ran the Bolide out." A study of the time between the destruction of the Enterprise and Yo-Yo and the appearance of the Bolide could give them a limiting radius around Audhumla. It did; seven hundred light-years, which also included Tanith.
Therefore, I maintain that if our Projectile had struck that bolide, its velocity, suddenly checked, would have given rise to a heat capable of completely volatilizing it in less than a second." "Not a doubt of it!" said the Captain.
As he spoke, printed copies were being received in the platform personnel office, at Special Order Squadron headquarters on Earth, aboard the cruiser Bolide in high space, and aboard the newly landed cruiser Scorpius. Rip listened, spellbound. "Foster, R.I.P., Lieutenant, SOS. Serial seven-nine-four-three. Assigned SOS Four. Change orders, effective this date-time. Cancel Earth leave.
"Hang the air for spoiling our fun! So we must remain shut up in our Projectile?" "Not a doubt of it!" "Oh Thunder!" roared Ardan, suddenly striking his forehead. "What ails you?" asked the Captain, somewhat surprised. "Now I know what that bolide of ours is! Why didn't we think of it before? It is no asteroid! It is no particle of meteoric matter! Nor is it a piece of a shattered planet!"
Few pilots have ever, or will ever, see a deluxe model bolide but when they do they'll never forget it. It's like someone shooting a flare in front of your face. Enough of meteors and back to our experienced observers. The example of pilots and bolides holds true in many, many other cases. Take high flying jets for example.
One or two that were missing had been probably struck and carried off by a fragment of the exploded bolide. Of the Earth nothing as yet could be seen.
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