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on elements other than carbon-it remained true that the only known intelligences were proteinaceous in nature. My research grants are all proper. Meanwhile, back in the spaceship, the crushed Botax was making a final effort to prove his case. Shuman, tall, distinguished, and Programmer-first-class, faced them fearlessly.

Has he indeed? Yes. Can't predict it. There was the problem there of the two-hour rotation period, which meant the stars whipped across the sky at an angular velocity twelve times that in Earth's sky. This plump, self-imprisoned extraterrologist was scarcely formidable enough to force a confession from anyone.