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Heretofore most of her paintings had such a still contemplative depth within the glint of the eyes of prostitutes and street people who could pull down lightning; movement had the fading lines of ripples in a pond; hard movements belied the simple pleasures; pallid colors delineated the richness of form in a world of vanquished color; friendship was portrayed with discomfited and inexplicable sense of betrayal; people were stoic mannequins straining about in contorted action and exhibiting eyes of consternation at being in ceremony and societal roles that were not what they had imagined them to be; Antarctica was a resplendent distant background in contrast to the war ravaged Middle East with its oil wells ablaze; and in stores where customers headed for scanners with an incessant array of things, these people were as blue as waves, curled and dashing as foaming breakers, in movement seemingly happy but in practice discontent.
That's why we're giddy and why we have even a trace of weight. Centrifugal force! Ready for the current?" There was a tiny click, and the battery light dimmed. But a vision screen lighted faintly. The stars it showed were moving specks of light. The sun passed deliberately across the screen. Baird switched to other outside scanners. There was power for only one screen at a time.
The aim is also to ensure respect for the volunteers, who can be confident their work will be used not just for decades but for centuries. Volunteers can network through mailing lists, weekly or monthly newsletters, discussion lists, wikis and forums. Donations are used to buy equipment and supplies, mostly computers and scanners.
The pilot was just in the process of telling him that he was crazy when one of the scanners in an aft blister called in; he and the other scanner could also see the UFO. Being a photo ship, the RB-29 had cameras loaded cameras so the logical thing to do would be to take a picture, but during a UFO sighting logic sometimes gets shoved into the background.
But he saw the starkly impossible. He pressed the navigation-room button. "Radar room reporting," he said urgently. "The Plumie ship is fast to us, in contact with our hull! Both ships are spinning together!" He was trying yet other scanners as he spoke, and now he said: "Got it! There are no lines connecting us to the Plumie, but it looks ... yes!
"A flitter," Webber had informed him, "just doesn't have room for the complicated apparatus that such scanners require. Seeing is a luxury you dispense with in a flitter. We'll see when we get to Sako." After a moment he had added, "If we get to Sako." Kieran had merely laughed then, and had promptly gone to sleep.
But Webber shoved him roughly on into a clump of squat trees that were the color of sherry wine, with flat thick leaves. "Don't move," he said. Paula was hugging a tree beside him. She nodded to him to do as Webber said. "They have very powerful scanners." She pointed with her chin. "Look. They've learned." The harsh warning barks of the men sounded faintly, then were hushed.
I talked to Fred Hausinger, the maintenance boss; he doesn't like it, either." "Well, I'm no nuclear physicist," Melroy disclaimed, "but all that alpha stuff looks like a big chunk of Pu-239 left inside. What's Fred doing about it?" "Oh, poking around inside the reactor with telemetered scanners and remote-control equipment. When I left, he had a gang pulling out graphite blocks with RC-tongs.
Hawkes passed his card before the robot's photonic scanners and the robot clicked acknowledgement, stepping to one side and letting Hawkes pass. It turned to Alan and said, "May I see your card, please?" "I don't " "He's with me," Hawkes said. "A learner." A man in a dirty gray smock came up to them. "Evening, Max. Hinesy was here already and told me you weren't coming in tonight."
The aim is also to ensure respect for the volunteers, who can be confident their work will be used for many years, even generations. Donations are used only to buy equipment and supplies, mostly computers and scanners. And then let’s remember that all the books scanned in are proofread twice, by two different people, to make sure they are 99.9% accurate.
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