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Robert A. Heinlein - Common Sense
Atec Февраль 27 2008 22:54:42
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"But there would be if this apartment were moved away from the Ship: the way we came in!"
The two heads snapped simultaneously toward him as if jerked by the same string. Then they looked at each other and fell to arguing. Joe-Jim repeated his experiment witit the controls. "See?" Joe pointed out "'Launching.' It means to start something, to push something away."
"Then why doesn't it?"
"'Air Lock Open.' The doors we came through; it has to be that. Everything else is closed."
"Let's try it."
"We would have to start the Converter first."
"O.K."
"Not so fast. Get out, and maybe you can't come back. We'd starve."
"Hm-m-m, we'll wait a while."
Hugh listened to the discussion while snooping around the control panels, trying to figure them out. There was a stowage space under the lap desk of his chair; he fished into it, encountered something, and hauled it out. "See what I've found!"
"What Is it?" asked Joe. "Oh, a book. Lot of them back in the room next to the Converter." "Let's see it," said Jim.
But Hugh had opened it himself. "Log, Starship Vanguard," he spelled out, "2 June, 2172. Cruising as before--"
"What!" yelled Joe. "Let me see that!"
"3 June. Cruising as before. 4 June. Cruising as before. Captain's mast for rewards and punishments held at 1300. See Administration Log. 5 June. Cruising as before."
"Gimme that!"
"Wait!" said Hugh. "6 June
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