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Updated: May 19, 2025
Having listened through this, Ishie said: "At the point where Mike asks you about acceleration, you will now erase the rest of the conversation and substitute this comment from yourself: 'The lab is being accelerated by an external magneto-ionic effect. This will be your only explanation of acceleration applied to the ship. Now please repeat your conversation with Mike."
The second set was exact; created with drawing instruments on Mike's drafting board, and each of the component circuits would have created an effect that would have interlocked in the whole, but it would take the most erudite of persons to figure each into its effect, and its effect into the whole, and the effect of the whole was somewhat that somebody might someday figure out but would possibly cancel a magneto-ionic effect if such existed.
A real, honest-to-gosh space drive!" Millie gulped. It was far, far more than she had expected. Perhaps this was another form of disguise like the magneto-ionic.... "Are you sure?" Then she answered her own doubts. "Of course you're telling the truth now. That's not something you two would play games about." Then in awe "You've really got it!"
I hung around to see what would happen, and pretty soon Bessie asked the Cow about the same question but instead of getting the same answer, the Cow told her that an external magneto-ionic field was pulling us out of line. "So I went up to your engineering place. I rather thought you'd like to know what the Cow had told me but Dr.
"The computer records a continuous acceleration over the past eleven hours and forty-three minutes," he said, "and attributes it," he looked even more puzzled, "to a magneto-ionic effect?" There was a definite question in his voice. "It's only about six hundred forty pounds," he added. "It must be an external effect caused by the flare."
But they need somebody to tell the captain ... uh ... properly ... as soon as he's awake that is ... uh ... you know what I mean." "Whoa, yourself, girl. What's this space drive?" "Well, they didn't find out themselves until after it had wiped out Thule Base nearly ten hours after that, in fact. That magneto-ionic thing the Sacred Cow's been talking about they invented that real quick to cover up.
Besides, I can help with some of that glassware that disappeared out of my supplies several days ago. Oh yes, I knew it was gone and where it went but I figured any purpose you had was a good one, Ishie. "But for how I personally canceled the idea of your magneto-ionic effect from the flare it just happens that last night I was curious while everybody was asleep.
Then he sat back to listen through the recording again. This time when it came to the part about acceleration, without hesitation, the Cow referred blithely to the external magneto-ionic effect that was causing acceleration.
"That magneto-ionic effect canceler you dreamed up would probably cancel the six hundred forty pound magneto-ionic effect pull you dreamed up if such a thing existed. "What I want to know ... don't stop eating until you've decided whether you're going to let me in on your game or not ... is what really does exist? I might be of some help, you know."
But he would have to proceed with care, or he would key the plan before the time was ripe. There must be no great shake-up in personnel, or undue attention from Earth to the potentials of Project Hot Rod. Perhaps the saboteur's cover-story of a magneto-ionic effect would serve his ends as well at least until his comrades on Earth signaled that the time was ripe.
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