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the campus enclave." "They didn't, and the Firsters got six of them," J.J.
said. "And that seemed to be the first incident in a new wave of terrorism.
The- bleeding hearts say we can stop the bloodshed by getting out of space.
Leave the useless, empty planets alone. Come home to Earth and work together
to make it livable. But we're a little late for that. We've used her up, and
she's just a shell. We've given her too much of a human load to carry. Too
many people, not enough common sense. Do you know that one of the latest
terrorist groups kills lumber cutters in the name of freedom for trees?"
J.J. snorted and continued. "Trees, for Christ's sake. Trees have rights.
Trees have as much right to live as we. I don't know what they expect us to
use to replace the products of the forests, which is the only area where man
ever was worth a damn in competition with nature, in that he figured out how
to grow trees faster than nature. But they want us to quit killing trees.
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say it's murder and against the individual It in acts.%l '-sounds like the
crowded-rat syndrome to me," Apinsaid.
We can see that," J.J. said. "They can't. Space is last hope. We're going to
lose that hope unless we
go down into the atmosphere of Jupiter and bring at ship back with us,"
IA." Dom grunted. "Dom, you're the best hull man in the service, and,
1111!..;,& lberefore, the best in the world. Youre a pressure
If YQU can design a hull for a thousand atmo-
you can design one for three thousand." "There's the matter of power," Dom
said. "We get impossible figures just trying to furnish enough
f such a ship." _power or We'vegot a power plant. It's new and it's untest4
but we've got it."
The newk?" Dom asked. It will be like riding an exploding bomb." "Whee."
"You're the man, Flash," J.J. said. "You're on the spot. You can pull in
anyone you want to work with YM "Art Donald." "He's already here." "Doris and
Larry Gomulka." "Doris is on the way. Larry is finishing a project and will be
here within a week." trl "That's a good start," Dom said. "The team you
used to develop the deepwater hull." "Will there be budget problems?" "Not on
this one, Flash. We're going to shoot the
works."
clothes at "Good, I'll start by charging some work the company store."
20 Zach Hughes "They'll be deducted from your pay.,, "You're
all heart," Dom said. "Ohl we're very generous here in DOSEWEX.,11 J.j. said.
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@;,,Vbices awakened Dom. He was back in the hospital tate dosage of the dru
which were heahIng his
gs so rapidly that he felt, as -he came out. of sleep,
only an itch under the bandages. His head was He'd taken a sedative to knock
thoughts of a thousand-atmosphere pressure huff from his He was not ready to
open his eyes and face the
I guess he's showing his age," J.J. Barnes said.
said ,.,',Plus atotal lack of alertness and ambition," 'her voice. oo much R&R
in the big city," J.J. said.
opened one eye. They were standing at the of hia bed, I.J. in uniform, Art
Donald in jeans AlInd pullover. Art was a shattered shell of a man who MI