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Updated: May 17, 2025
Get out of that suit quick, because ye don’t want to miss what’s aboot to happen." With his own hands he unlocked the complicated belt with its gadgets and equipment, disconnected the communicator and ventilator, and then unfastened the lock clips that held top and bottom of the suit together. Rip slipped the upper part over his head and stepped out of the bottom. "Thanks, Commander.
Joe Kivelson got the square box he had brought down from the ship along with the log, fussed a little with it, and then launched it out the disposal port. It was a radio locator. Sometimes a lucky ship will get more wax than the holds' capacity; they pack it in skins and anchor it on the bottom, and drop one of those gadgets with it.
"I take it," Retief said, "that the casino is a front for his political activities." "He makes plenty off it. This PAFFL is a new kick. I never heard about it until maybe a couple months ago." Retief motioned toward a dark shed with an open door. "We'll stop here," he said, "long enough to strip the gadgets off these uniforms."
"I'm MacFife. Get out of that suit quick, because ye don't want to miss what's aboot to happen." With his own hands he unlocked the complicated belt with its gadgets and equipment. Rip slipped the upper part over his head and stepped out of the bottom. "Thanks, Commander. I'm one grateful Planeteer, believe me!" "Come on. We'll hurry right across ship to the opposite valve.
Gail and Soames went out into the now fully fallen night. Soames said gruffly: "We'd better walk closer together. "When we're married," he said abruptly, "I doubt we'll hide many things from each other. We'd better start being frank right now. The kids' belts may have been taken away, but they've got sensory-transmission gadgets just the same. Zani was using one when we went in the cottage."
Ed Baylis started to tell me, but I ... well, never mind." "Charley," the old man said. "What do strong men have to do with " "Let me tell you, professor," Charley said. "People don't care about strong men any more; there are too many gadgets around. Nobody has to be a strong man; nobody wants to watch one. They're useless. See?" "Everyone can be his own strong man," the old man said.
The boys ate like starved men, talking a steady stream between bites. Rick sighed and let out his belt. "Well, that's our story. What's yours?" Steve stirred his coffee thoughtfully. "I can make it short. We don't know the whole story yet, but we will by the time I get back to St. Thomas. Have you two any idea what these brass-ball gadgets are?"
Naturally, the static scream was mentioned in Washington. As naturally, the discovery of a crashed spaceship came up. It was important. It should be reported. It was. The Gissell Bay director went into details about the children and about the gadgets they'd selected to be salvaged when they destroyed their ship. A complete account preceded Captain Moggs to Washington, but not to the military.
The closest scrutiny revealed no trace of "gadgets" or of any artifice that had enabled him to thus lift the filled bowl. A small bribe could not tempt him to reveal the secret, and in such cases I make it a rule to try the trick exactly as I have seen it done. I took a similar bowl, filled it with rice, and stabbed it with a table knife. Gently at first and then more firmly.
Wheels that lift and depress and swing the muzzle, and gadgets with figures, and other scales which play between the map and the gadgets, and atmospheric pressure and wind-variation, all worked out with the same precision under a French hedge as on board a battleship where the gun-mounting is fast to massive ribs of steel it seemed a matter of book-keeping and trigonometry rather than war.
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