"Allen Steele - Orbital Decay" - читать интересную книгу автора (Steele Allen)

"Yeah, uh-huh. I know what you mean. But, y'know, if we were to let
the cat out of the bag . . ."

"Five years in Leavenworth, like that." Bob snapped his fingers.

"Unauthorized disclosure of security-sensitive information--Don't even
think about it, jarrett."

"No, I mean if someone were to release that, uh, info . . . y'know, if
that happened, and someone were to take a poll and ask everyone how
they felt about it, I'd bet that most people would say this was the
right thing to do."

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John blew out his cheeks derisively. "Yeah, I bet. You know what kind
of shit would hit the fan if this got out? What Congress would say?

The ACLU?

The UN? Come back to reality, pal...."

"Besides, if it got out, it'd just render the system useless," Bob
added, nodding his head. 'Something like this has to be kept secret
for it to work."

He paused, staring up at a CRT screen over his head displaying a
graphic representation of low-orbital space above Earth. "Okay, birds
One and Two are coming into position. We should be hearing from Meade
any minute now."

He pulled his headset up from around his neck and fitted it over his
cranium, pulling the microphone into place in front of his mouth.

"Anyway. so I feel sorry for the guy," Dave continued, gently lowering
himself into his own chair and strapping his torso into place. "I
think he's really getting nutty for going back home."

"So who isn't?" John said. He adjusted his own headset and touched
glowing buttons on his console, which changed its liquid crystal
display. "Man, I've been up here nine months now and my wife and kids
still think I'm in Ecuador." f

Dave said nothing. He gazed through the big port in front of him at
Earth spiraling below them. He spotted a wink of reflected light
moving across the planet, just above the Caribbean.