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More hassle before we could get rolling for Lucky Dragon Pressure-no
pressure suits. As Jinx put it: "Last night I okayed your using those leaky
sieves because it was Hobson's Choice- it was risk it, or leave you to die.
Today we could use them the same way-or we could even bring the buggy into the
hangar and load you in without using suits. Of course that wastes an awful mass
of air. Then do it again at the far end ... for an even greater air cost; their
hangar is bigger."
I said I would pay. (I didn't see how I could avoid it.)
"That's not the point. Last night you were in the cab twenty minutes... and
it took a full bottle to keep air around you. Late last night the Sun was just
barely rising; this morning it's five degrees high. Raw sunlight is going to be
beating against the side of that cab all the way to Lucky Dragon. Oh, Gretchen
will drive in shadow all she can; we don't raise dumb kids. But any air inside
the cabin would heat up and swell and come pouring out the cracks. So normal
operation is to pressurize your suit but not the cabin, and use the cabin just
for shade.
"Now I won't lie to you; if I had suits to sell, I would insist that you
buy three new suits. But I don't have suits. Nobody in this pressure has suits
for sale. Less than a hundred fifty of us; I would know. We buy suits in Kong
and that's what you should do."
"But I'm not in Kong
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