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take the plunge.
More than a few, I think. I m going to have to get a new adviser.
Doctor Holt went through yesterday and took off for Mexico this
morning to start enjoying all that money he s saved up.
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I hadn t told Russell I was recording. I wanted him to act natural. I
would let him know before using any footage, of course. That s great.
Tell me more.
He spread his hands, palms up. We still don t know a damn thing.
All we can do is act like that character inAlice in Wonderland who
tried to believe several impossible things before breakfast.
Such as? I prodded.
How about little green men from Mars? At least the color matches.
Lee, when you have a phenomenon you can t measure, all you can do
is speculate. One theory is as likely to be right as the next one. Or as
wrong.
What s your opinion? I was forgetting this was for potential
publication. Talking to Russell was always fascinating.
My opinion? For what it s worth, I don t think God has anything to
do with the gates. I d rather believe in the Martians.
Seriously?
No, of course not.
I grinned. Actually, there was both a book and a movie back before
the Millennium about little green men from Mars invading earth.
They couldn t be measured, either. I was talking about one of
Grandpa s old science fiction novels. It was calledMartians go home .
Those aliens were obnoxious little gremlins.
Really? What was the final explanation?
I grinned some more. There wasn t any. One day they went back
where they came from.
Maybe the gates will, too. Seriously, Lee, most scientists don t like to
go out on a limb without some data.
How do you expect to get any?
Easy. I ll use the tabwebs for evidence.
We both laughed. The tabs had been crazy about aliens for the last
thirty years, at least, without a single fact to back them up. They still
wrote about the Roswell crash as if it had actually happened.
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We talked a while longer, relating stories we had each heard about
the gates. I actually had more to tell than he did. He hadn t watched
nearly as much news as I had.
I told him about the fundamentalist Muslim country in the Middle
East where they were executing any woman caught going through a
gate. But the gates were so well guarded there now surrounded
constantly by religious fanatics that that wasn t likely to happen.
He told me that none of the astronomical or weather satellites had
recorded so much as a blip at the time the gates appeared. If they
came from outer space, it was by some means other than distortion of
space or the electromagnetic spectrum.
Then he wanted to hear more about Messilinda. He rolled his eyes
when I described her seducing me. Some guys have all the luck. I
barely have time to eat right now, much less have a sex life. For the
life of me, though, I can t see anything special about you that would
cause her to drop her panties the first time you met.
Actually, she wasn t wearing any. Did you hear about Forbes asking
Congress to start up the clipper production line again?
About time, Russell grumbled. I agreed with his sentiments. As a
kid, I had wanted to be an astronaut, but the financial crisis a few
years ago had killed manned space travel. Now the mystery of the
gates was stirring interest in outer space again.
Indonesia is threatening to invade the Philippines.
I heard about that. Muslims versus Catholics. Nothing new there.
What I m worried about is all the religious mania right here at home.
Yeah, I agreed. Bible-belt mentality never dies. If we knew
anything about what happens to people who don t come out of the
gates, we could&
Russell snapped his fingers. Hey! Here s a story I ll bet you haven t
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