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would ask. This took several hours.



The memory part of the machine functioned in three ways: It presented the results with the help of its
interpretation cells as the final product in pictures, spoken words and printed signals. At the same time all
these answers were conserved as permanent records. The typed answer tape was wound on a reel
automatically and marked with appropriate cues to its content. Sound and image were put on a parallel
tape, where they were recorded and synchronized by electronic impulses.



RhodanтАЩs preliminary examination provided an incredible result.There were more than 22 billion
possibilities from which mankind had to choose some sensible path for the future. But in no way was it
simply a question of one solution being right and all the others wrong. The scale ranging from advantage
to disadvantage ran across the screen in a wide spectrum. After more than a hundred further selective
processes, there remained on the positive side more than a thousand possibilities. Rhodan had to search
for additional limiting questions to narrow the field to the vital last question.



Many hours went by. His physical exertion was minimal; yet he perspired profusely under the immense
mental strain of the experiments he was conducting.



Late that evening that he received the answer to the threat of a new invasion. The answer came almost
as a byproduct. He repeated the experiment five times before he could finally accept the solution with all
its implications. тАжthe invasion is already taking placeтАж!



Rhodan called Bell via radio.



"HowтАЩs it going with Peking, Reg?"



"They are hard to deal with. TheyтАЩre wasting my time with lots of petty details."



"LetтАЩs discuss this purchase of land for our territory at a later time. Something much more urgent has
come up in the meantime. Leave your station at once and go aboard the space sphere. Instruct Manoli
and our three friends from the secret defence services to join you there right away. The ship must be
ready to start within the next ten minutes. No one is to leave the ship, even if I should turn up late. Give
the alarm for the whole base."The crew managed to get the Arkonide ship ready within ten minutes. Yet
Rhodan did not arrive on board until midnight. He joined his crew in the command center.