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Updated: June 7, 2025
That would do, and they could cut into it horizontally instead of drilling straight down. He pointed to it. "Let's have a hole straight in for six feet. And keep it straight, Kemp. Allow enough room for a lining of nuclite. Koa, cut a sheet of nuclite to size." Kemp's torch already was slicing into the metal. Rip asked, "Can you weld with that thing, Kemp?" "Just show me what you want, sir."
The only thing I could think of was getting into air so I could have my arm treated. Commander, we’ve moved the asteroid. Now we have to correct course. And we have to get some new equipment, including nuclite shielding. Also, sir, I’d appreciate it if you’d let my men clean up and eat. They haven’t been in air since we left the cruiser."
"I ought to be busted to recruit," he told them. "I knew this asteroid was thorium, and that thorium is radioactive. If I had used my head, I would have added nuclite shielding to the list of supplies the Scorpius provided. We could have had enough of it to protect us while around our base, even if we couldn’t be protected while working on the charges.
Trudeau arrived with a pole made by lashing two crate sticks together. Rip gave directions as they formed a cylinder of nuclite. Kemp spot-welded it, and they pushed it into the hole. Nunez found a small piece of material in one of the earlier craters. It would provide some neutrons to start the chain reaction.
Trudeau arrived with a long pole he had made by lashing two crate sticks together. Rip gave directions as they formed a cylinder of nuclite. Kemp spot-welded it, and they pushed it into the hole, forming a lining. Nunez found a small piece of material in one of the earlier craters. It would provide some neutrons to start the chain reaction.
Rip ordered a survey and found the best place on the dark side to make a new base. The Planeteers cut out a cave with the torch, lined it with nuclite, and moved in their supplies. It would be their permanent base to the end of the trip. The sun was very hot now. On the sunny side of the asteroid the temperature had soared far past the boiling point of water.
It was not necessary to take to the landing boat for these blasts. The Planeteers retired to their cave, which was now lined with nuclite as a protection against radiation. Rip watched his dosimeter climb steadily as the radiation dosage mounted.
"It means the ship has got to return in time to give us some nuclite shielding, or we’ll be the laughingstock of the Special Order Squadrons—the detachment that started a job the spacemen had to finish!" There was something else that Rip didn’t add, although he knew the Planeteers would realize it in a few minutes. Probably some of them already had thought of it.
The only thing I could think of was getting into air so I could have my arm treated. Commander, we've moved the asteroid. Now we have to correct course. And we have to get some new equipment, including nuclite shielding. Also, sir, I'd appreciate it if you'd let my men clean up and eat. They haven't been in air since we left the cruiser."
It was not necessary to take to the landing boat for these blasts. The Planeteers retired to their cave, which was now lined with nuclite as a protection against radiation. Rip watched his dosimeter climb steadily as the radiation dosage mounted.
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