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June 17, 2000
SIXTY TIMES HIGGS - bamboo book
SIXTY TIMES HIGGS
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...In deep black space along Sixty Times Higgs, field generated by enveloping, isolating by rock welling, and a month away of destinations, he woke up and looked around as the lighting rubbed sleep from the eyes and gazed at the sterile walls, white indirect light around the edges of the ceiling colored walls that were totally bare. Back the covers and rolled and shivered as he left his room and walked down the hall to the dimly lit main room, he plopped into the couches and into the fireplace glowing low and looked around rose above the soft hum of the hips of machinery. Paced his way through engineering at each station stopped, squinted at the screen, as he moved along, annoyed and started talking to himself and headed for the bridge. Laid out constellations, darkened overhead floating in no space, distorting each station, lit by its pale displays. A low, circular pad to mark location in the eerie silence of the cavity dome, the brilliant trees of white light and subdued red dots on the deck. Things seem quieter than they really are in our gospel-like wreckage, staring intently, leaning over the deck of the bridge. So you can make more of one word don't know a thing but horn shrugged, but inside, sweeping motion hands hitting the steel plate. "Then tell me what you do know." Out of tolerance, but only by a little and tolerances have offset each other, down to sub-light and pull apart. Twenty-four hours younger brother in the kitchen too hungry to shower and dress on a bathrobe and hurried down the hall for breakfast at the kitchen table. I can put my hand right through it as you poured a glass of milk we're going to miss you until we get home, besides, sip on his milk and shrugged.
We have other plans. Chief physicist Schwarz, knelt down and peered into the cavity generator, a miracle of design, look at each other in astonishment, shook his head. Doctored the logs, blown into space across a hundred million kilometers but a half-hearted smile. What do you want to do? Maxwell drops to 0.5c, reported to bridge and ready to proceed. "Accelerating" Holding position. Chief physicist Schwarz dragged Katy over the bulkhead, in the storage bay and gather components, insulated wire, connectors, a spindle optical tiptoeing around, present by present. As he quickly ushered Katy out, he whispered. Tired and confused but see only a blur and his probe getting strange readings. I was sub-light, now squinting. He glowed with pride as despite the stern looks all that he could do to keep up as he nibbles his way through and stood stiffly. Even so wandered back towards the table and looked at it, suspecting something from his science fair on. In confinement, charged, probably confiscated, suddenly gone way beyond, but new. Chief physicist Schwarz down the hallway, slumped over in his chair and prayed that they returned to the main quarters, smiled, paid their respects and left. I am in astrometry, working intently had taken me days readings and make sense of sensors, coaxed it out into selectrons. A cloud of massive clouds peered at the clouds harshly gulped and tried to smile. I found the way and I have paid a visit I come clean about down three times in five years instead of one month.
We could all get mighty hungry. Look harder. Unexpected and very welcome enter synchronously to superlight once more, escorted them to the third swirl of clouds. Two days of furious construction in the well lit hangar-like area and gently "landed" his craft onto the deck, as the promised gravity gradient came through a doorway on the far side. That brought a smile to his face.
© Fortunato Caragliano
Posted by lck at June 17, 2000 05:08 PM
