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. Lazarus first had Gay Deceiver testify,
bringing her voice through Dora's circuits. They listened to Gay, examined her
projected tapes, light and sound, called in Zebadiah, took his testimony, called
Hilda in, asked for her best estimate of Zebadiah's anticipation of the bomb.
Hilda said, "Somewhere between a shake and a blink. You all know I can't do
better than that."
Dr. Jake declined to express an opinion. "I did not watch. As usual I was
backing up the spoken orders by setting the vernier controls. The penultimate
order, being a scram, aborted the run and then we went home. I did not set the
verniers, so nothing more appears on my tapes. Sorry."
Deety's testimony was almost as skimpy. "The scram order preceded the
explosion by an interval of the order of one millisecond." On being pressed she
refused to say that it was "of the close order." Burroughs persisted about it
and mentioned her "built-in clock." Deety stuck out her tongue at him.
The young man (an adolescent, really) called Pete said, "I vote
'insufficient data.' We need to place a rosette of sneakies around the site and
find out what happened before we can decide how close to the tick we can set the
rescue."
Jane Libby asked, "After the scram, was the nova bomb already visible from
the new point of sight, or did it appear after Gay's translation? Either way,
how does that fit the timing at Checkpoint Beta? Query: Is it experimentally
established that irrelevant transportation is instantaneous, totally nil in
transit time
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