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"You can't see much of it from here, but it's a complete space-ship in itself, capable of maintaining a dozen or fifteen persons during a two-weeks' cruise in space." "Why isn't it a good idea to retain them? Accidents are still possible, are they not?" "Of course, and there is no question of doing away with them entirely.
Into the cold waters the space-ship dove, and even before they could close over her, furious geysers of steam and boiling water erupted as the stubborn alloy gave up its heat to the cooling liquid. Endlessly the three necessary minutes dragged their slow way into time, but finally the water ceased boiling and Rodebush tore the ship from the lake and hurled her into the gaping doorway of her dock.
"Bad business," said Calhoun coldly. "That sort of thing usually costs lives, in the end. It could lead to massacre!" "Perhaps it has, in a way," said the doctor unhappily. "One doesn't like to think about it." He paused, and said; "Twenty years ago there was a famine on Dara. There were crop-failures. The situation must have been very bad. They built a space-ship.
The strange sun was found to have three large and easily located children, and observation showed that the crippled space-ship could reach the nearest of these in about five days.
Ship after ship of the Nevians plunged toward the speedster in desperately suicidal attempts to ram her down, but each met the same flaming fate before its mass could collide with the ship of the Terrestrials. Then, from the grouped submarines far below, there reached up red rods of force, which seized the space-ship and began relentlessly to draw her down. "What are they doing that for, Conway?
Through the red veil came stabbing tiny ball after brilliant ball, and only the most frantic dodging saved the space-ship from destruction in those first few furious seconds. And now the Nevian defenders of the Third City had secured and were employing the vast store of allotropic iron so opportunely delivered by Nerado.
If you had the brains of a pinhead, you would know that anything I can't do with a space-ship can't be done by a mob of ordinary gangsters. I'm telling you, Brookings, that you can't do it. My way is absolutely the only way that will work." "But five years, Doctor!" "I may be back in six months. But on a trip of this kind anything can happen, so I am planning on being gone five years.
Up this they climbed, one of the guards going first in the half darkness; then a trap-door above opened to douse them with warm ruddy light. They stepped out. And the scene that met them took them completely off guard. Friday gasped, and Carse so far lost his habitual poise as to stare in wonder. Soil! And a great glassy dome! Not a space-ship, this realm of Ku Sui.
It seemed to Cochrane that the space-ship wavered as if about to fall from its upright position. It was not designed to stand such violence as a fall would imply. Its hull would be dented or rent. It was at least possible that its fuel-store would detonate. But even if its fall were checked by still-standing trees about it, it could never take off again.
"With the limitless energy of the atom?" exploded Harrison. "They don't know about atomic energy. Probably never did. Must have used some other principle in their space-ship." "Then," snapped the captain, "what makes you rate their intelligence above the human? We've finally cracked open the atom!" "Sure we have. We had a clue, didn't we? Radium and uranium.
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