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"We tried it out, of course, and while we can't get the intensities we expect, and can't really make any measurements of the gamma-ray energy impinging on the mercury it seems to absorb, and store that energy!" "What's next on the program, Buck?" "Finish those ships I have building. And I want to do some more development work. The Stranger will return within six months now, I believe.
Also, that fortress I mean, of course, bank is going to have a lot of lead-lined rooms." "I wish I could use the remaining money the Board gave me to lead-line a lot of those IP ships," said McLaurin wistfully. "Can't you make a gamma-ray bomb of some sort?" "Not without their atomic energy release. With it, of course, it's easy to flood a region with rays.
Meanwhile they amused themselves occasionally by planting a gamma-ray bomb in each of Mars' major cities. They made Mars uninhabitable for Solarians as well as for Mirans, at least until the deadly slow-action atomic explosives wore off, or were removed. Then the Mirans, after a lapse of three weeks while they dug in their toes on Jupiter, prepared to leap. Earth was the next goal.
Somewhere in Cairo there must be a company that used X-ray or gamma-ray photography to check large castings. It was a very common method of industrial quality control. Farid or Kerama would know of one, and he could arrange to have the cat X-rayed! It could be done immediately. Pleased with the idea, he paid attention to his surroundings for the first time since leaving the museum.
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