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Updated: June 1, 2025
When Ishie asked the computer: "How could this effect be canceled?" and listened to a long syllogistic outline which, if condensed to a single, understandable sentence meant simply "by reversing the field in respect to the lab with a magnet on board the lab." Ishie heaved a great sigh of relief, and said, "Now, Mike, we can go to work.
The magnetic field effect, Ishie had explained; but this three-phase RF generator that puzzled him for a while. Then he remembered some theory. Brute strength alone would not cause the protons to tip.
Blackhawk and I had better start construction on this device immediately, without waiting for you to complete the check-out. That may save us invaluable time." "Of course," said the captain. "What assistance will you need?" "Of the greatest priority," replied Ishie gravely, "is access to the machine shop. The solar flare should be about wearing itself out." "Oh ... of course. It may be."
Mike heaved a huge sigh of relief. He had been afraid he would have to argue Ishie into this point of view. "Speaking of math, Mike, you're no slouch at it yourself, if you figured out all those orbit co-ordinates in your head, and arrived at an exact figure on the amount of thrust. It would be very nice for our future investigations if we had some method of putting the Cow to work on this."
That reading could go on for hours, which we may not have," commented Ishie. "Perhaps we could disregard so narrow a differential...." "In your opinion, doctor," the captain asked, "would it be safe to return the personnel to the rim?
On the bridge, from the time that Mike and Ishie had left, the picture of what was occurring had grown more ominous by the minute. More than the vague, official messages had been flooding in from Earth. At the captain's command, the communications officer had opened up a channel for news broadcasts, and put it on the speaker so they could all hear.
Mike hadn't checked to find out. Bessie and her relief operators were watching the prisoners through a video display on the Sacred Cow's console, and would report anything unusual that went on to Captain Andersen. Mike, Ishie, Millie, Paul and Tombu had completed the new Confusor drive units, and they were nearly installed.
From there the pair back-tracked Mike's original path to the inspection plate in the engineering quarters, and so into his own bailiwick, where they found Ishie standing on catlike guard, a wrench in one hand, waiting for whatever might come up. "Confusion say," the grinning Chinese physicist declared, "two for one is good luck."
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