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قراءة كتاب No Moving Parts
تنويه: تعرض هنا نبذة من اول ١٠ صفحات فقط من الكتاب الالكتروني، لقراءة الكتاب كاملا اضغط على الزر “اشتر الآن"
and Bullard, although certainly tops in their fields, were not tops enough.
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bullard, com. rly.
43.4sc
president would like estimate of when door will be opened. you sure you can handle? emphasize that political situation now getting touchy. repeat touchy. r’thagna bar calling on president today to make demand that seed be planted on time. sure you don’t need more help?
cmd general
cmd general
no help needed. making progress, assure president. today found out metal in mechanism is very hard. in constant radio touch with fromer. passenger impatient but quieter. sleeps more now. this significant? quemos developing theory of mechanism. says will take time to work out. how much time we have? when must seed be planted?
bullard
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bullard, com. rly.
43.4sc
must have estimate when door opens. this an order. ambassador threatening war. can’t give deadline of seed planting time since subject very taboo. our biologists say r’thagna bar sleepy significant. may be prelude to seeding time. tell about quemos theory in next communication. will evaluate here. nice to know metal is hard. keep up good work. pressure here to send you help. president says whole federation praying for door to be fixed. says to hurry up.
cmd general
cmd general
no estimate possible. quemos theory almost complete. states that mechanism built on principle of worm gear. repeat. worm gear. today instructed fromer’s crew to jiggle moving parts of mechanism at random. parts would not jiggle. fromer states that r’thagna bar sleeps all time and color changes to blue and red on stomach. this significant?
bullard
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bullard, com. rly.
43.4sc
important you amplify last message. red and blue on stomach? why r’thagna bar undressed? investigate! president orders help sent. help on way. repeat. why r’thagna bar undressed?
cmd general
cmd general
fromer advises tell you ships physician has put r’thagna bar in refrigerator.
quemos
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bullard, com. rly.
43.4sc
take out of refrigerator! this an order! why undressed?
cmd general
cmd general
bullard making model of my drawings. ready soon. r’thagna bar out of refrigerator as requested but ships physician very angry and wants to put back in. color on stomach pink and yellow with blue squares. this significant?
quemos
It went on like this for several more days. Hansen, at first amused, was now alarmed and completely convinced that both Quemos and Bullard were thoroughly useless. The messages were his only source of information, since both “experts” were too immersed in their work to talk with him. As his alarm grew, he decided that he might at least try to strike up a friendship with someone on board Captain Fromer’s sealed ship—someone who might have something comforting to report. He called up the ship’s navigator.
“This is Hansen. How’re things going up there?”
“Ha!”
“What’s that mean? Good or bad?”
“It means,” the navigator said, while yawning, “that things are falling apart rapidly. In fact, in a day or two I don’t think it’ll make much