"L. E. Modesitt - Timedivers -Timegods - 03 - Timegods' World" - читать интересную книгу автора (Modesitt L E)

"Lorinda? What in Hell is going on planetside?" The intercom speaker carried a male
voice.

"Tell you in a demistan. It looks like an impossible planetary cold wave." Her voice was
hard, clipped, her eyes still on the sensor data.

"A cold wave? Are you all right?"

"Stop patronising me, Harlon. This many data points don't lie. We've lost all temperature-
sensitive remotes in four dozen subsectors. They all showed near-instantaneous
temperature drops of eight hundred degrees."

"That's impossible."

"Malfunction in sensor, epsilon five . . .

"Malfunction in sensor . . ."

Lorinda cut off the audio warning system.

"Did you hear those, Harlon? Tell me which is less impossible--identical malfunctions of
nearly a hundred randomly located sensors on eight different remote nets . . .
simultaneously? Or one hundred severe temperature anomalies?"

"The whole system must be shot to hell . . ." came his reply.

"That could be, but there's an easy enough way to check. Have meteorology check the
changes in surface winds. If it's not the sensors, there will be severe local changes."

"You think so?"

'I know so . . . if it's climate-caused. Check it out."

She shifted her monitoring to another early malfunction, which showed the same pattern
of abrupt heat loss, followed by a gradual return toward normal Mithradan levels.

Her fingers began a series of calculations, based on the proximity of the apparent
temperature drops to each other. With each input, and the resultant analysis, the frown on
her face became more severe.

She removed the damper from the bank of display screens, and the module turned
twilight-purple again. The light was so depressing that she immediately reblanked the
screens. Lorinda hesitated a moment when the last screen analysis scripted out in front of
her. Then she touched the intercom.
"Control central, this is monitoring. Analysis of sensor malfunction patterns indicates event
is planet-based and not created from system failure."

"How do you know, monitoring?"

"Analysis of temperature gradients between malfunctions. Something . . . somethings . . .