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. Two misses in sequence counted as one "death" by "lost on the
Moon"-something that happened too often in the early days... and still happens
today. Luna is a big place, bigger than Africa, almost as big as Asia- and every
square meter of it is deadly if you make just one little mistake.
Definition of a Loonie: a human being, any color, size, or sex, who never
makes a mistake where it counts.
By our first rest stop I had "died" twice through missing ranging marks.
At five minutes past fifteen Aunt Lilybet let her bus roll to a stop, then
switched on a transparency that read: REST STOP- TWENTY MINUTES-and under it:
Late Penalty-One Crown per Minute.
We all got out. Bill grabbed Aunt Lilybet's arm and put his helmet against
hers. She started to shake him off, then listened. I didn't try to check on him;
twenty minutes isn't long for a rest stop when it involves coping with a p-suit.
Of course this is even harder for females than for males, and more time
consuming. We had a woman passenger with three children... and the right arm of
her suit ended just below the elbow in a hook. How did she cope? I resolved to
outwait her, so that the fine for being late would be assessed against me,
rather than her.
That "refresher" was dreadful. It was an airiock leading to a hole in the
rock, attached to the home of a settler who combined tunnel farming with ice
mining
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