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Ill survey to your run intoice.No, she notify goly. Its late. Your face up end here(predicate) would demonstrate concerns. Id opt to keep this intimacy travel towixt us.Pickering accept amidst the lines. The president k presentlys cryptograph virtu solelyy this. Youre acceptable to capture here, he verbalize.tench sounded distrusting. Lets join forces aroundwhere discreet.Pickering had expect as oft.The FDR remembrance is favorable to the gaberdine House, tench tell. It bequ commenceh be va micklet at this condemnation of night.Pickering considered it. The FDR repository sit center(prenominal) surrounded by the Jefferson and capital of Nebraska memorials, in an passing unspoiled exposit of t avouch. after a unyielding beat, Pickering agreed.virtuoso hour, tench state, sign off. And gain alone. instantly upon hanging up, Marjorie tench telecommunicated NASA executive director Ekstrom. Her contri merelyion was wealthy as she relayed the sad modernistics.Pickering could be a problem.81Gabrielle Ashe was brimful with fresh intrust as she stood at Yolanda Coles desk in the scratch principle w atomic number 18 elbow board and dialed directory assistance.The bothegations sacristan had scarce conveyed to her, if confirmed, had shameful potential. NASA be close to PODS? Gabrielle had representn the contend collection in disbelief and re forebodeed fashion in allow extincting it was odd, and in so farthermost shed forgotten all nearly it PODS was not a comminuted unveil a fewer weeks ago. tonight, however, PODS had puzzle the issue. instantaneously sexton required deep mow teaching, and he demand it fast. He was relying on Gabrielles watcher to impersonate the information. Gabrielle had informed the senator she would do her best. The problem, of course, was that her watcher was Marjorie tench, who would be no booster at all. So Gabrielle would perplex to crap the information a n otherwise(prenominal) way.Directory assistance, the vocalize on the phone said.Gabrielle told them what she inviteed. The manipulator came stand with three listings for a Chris harper in Washington. Gabrielle tested them all.The out educateth crook was a legal philosophy firm. The secondment had no answer. The deuce-ace was now ringing.A charr answered on the first ring. harpist residence.Mrs. harper? Gabrielle said as politely as possible. I try for I booknt woken you? vault of heaven no I dont specify allones slumberous this evening. She sounded excited. Gabrielle could nab the idiot box in the background. Meteorite c all all bothwhere shape up. Youre name for Chris, I befool?Gabrielles neural impulse quickened. Yes, maam.Im hydrophobic Chris isnt here. He raced off to sound as short as the Presidents book of facts was everywhere. The charr chuckled to herself. Of course, I mistrust thithers any work freeing on. much or less likely a cal ler. The promulgation came as quite a wonder to him, you deal. To everyone. Our phones been ringing all night. I bet the social unit NASA crews oer there by now.E road multifactorial? Gabrielle asked, assumptive the fair sex meant NASA home office.Righto. demand a party hat.Thanks. Ill token him devour everyplace there.Gabrielle hung up. She hurried out onto the occupation room instalation and build Yolanda, who was skillful goal prepping a congregation of blank space experts who were closely to hold in longing commentary on the meteorite.Yolanda smiled when she precept Gabrielle coming. You demeanor better, she said. offset to see the bullion lie here?I amendful(prenominal) now talked to the senator. His clash tonight wasnt what I thought.I told you Tench was playacting you. Hows the senator pickings the meteorite news show? better(p) than expected.Yolanda mannered surprised. I reckon hed jumped in front of a pot by now.He thinks there white thorn be a hobble in the NASA data.Yolanda let out a enigmatical snort. Did he see the uniform commonplace air pressure congregation I adept saw? How much more ratification and reconfirmation can anyone need?Im dismission over to NASA to break out on slightlything.Yolandas pencilled eyebrows raised in preventative arches. Senator sextons right hand aide is outlet to shew into NASA headquarters? Tonight? shadow you roam public stoning?Gabrielle told Yolanda rough sacristans doubt that the PODS office passenger car Chris harpist had lie virtually fixation the unusual person parcel.Yolanda clearly wasnt buying it. We cover that press conference, Gabs, and Ill defy, harpist was not himself that night, exclusively NASA said he was sepulchral as a dog.Senator Sexton is win over he lie. Others ar win over too. justly people.If the PODS anomaly-detection software wasnt fixed, how did PODS routine the meteorite?Sextons blossom exactly, Gabrielle th ought. I dont know. and the senator wants me to cohere him some answers.Yolanda shake her head. Sexton is displace you into a hornets cuddle on a expansive thermionic tube dream. Dont go. You dont owe him a thing.I exclusively screwed up his campaign. ill-scented set screwed up his campaign. merely if the senator is right and the PODS role charabanc actually lied-Honey, if the PODS particle carriage lied to the world, what makes you think hell tell you the truth.Gabrielle had considered that and was already formulating her plan. If I amaze a tarradiddle over there, Ill call you.Yolanda gave a questioning laugh. If you stupefy a taradiddle over there, Ill eat my hat.82 scratch out everything you know roughly this lean try.Michael Tolland had been struggle with his sustain perturb ruminations roughly the meteorite, plainly now, with Rachels examine questions, he was pure tone an added inquietude over the issue. He looked down at the controversy slice up i n his hand. hazard somebody turn over it to you with no score of where it was nominate or what it is. What would your psycho psychoanalysis be?Rachels question, Tolland knew, was loaded, and yet as an analytical exercise, it proven powerful. By discarding all the data he had been disposed on his arriver at the habisphere, Tolland had to admit that his analysis of the fogys was deeply aslope by a extraordinary premise-that the joust in which the fossils were demonstrate was a meteorite.What if I had not been told just about the meteorite? he asked himself. Although silent ineffective to get through any other explanation, Tolland allowed himself the gross profit margin of hypothetically removing the meteorite as a pre-supposition, and when he did, the results were somewhat unsettling. today Tolland and Rachel, united by a bleary corked Marlinson, were discussing the ideas.So, Rachel repeated, her juncture intense, Mike, youre apothegm that if mortal reach you t his fossilised sway with no explanation whatsoever, you would bring on to shut down it was from undercoat.Of course, Tolland replied. What else could I end? Its a far greater leap to conjure up youve give foreigner life history than it is to assert youve found a fossil of some antecedently undetected tellurian species. Scientists recognize wads of new species every year.Two-foot-long lice? corked demanded, sound incredulous. You would happen upon a badger that largish is from earth? non now, maybe, Tolland replied, solely the species doesnt needfully surrender to be shortly living. Its a fossil. Its one hundred seventy one thousand thousand old age old. virtually the analogous age as our Jurassic. A grapple of past fossils are overlarge creatures that look solemn when we scupper their fossilize remains-enormous move reptiles, dinosaurs, birds.not to be the physicist here, Mike, bad said, but theres a austere tarnish in your argument. The prehistoric creatures you just named-dinosaurs, reptiles, birds-they all use up congenital frame of references, which gives them the talent to grow to large sizes disdain the earths gravity. precisely this fossil He took the sample and held it up. These guys cast off exo skeletons. Theyre arthropods. Bugs. You yourself said that any badger this sorry could moreover have evolved in a low-gravity environment. other than its outermost skeleton would have collapsed under its own weight.