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"Do so, Timmy," Lex said
He pushed SETGRIDS DNL, even though it was flashing
The screen answered:
WARNING: COMMAND EXECUTION ABORTED (AUX POWER LOW)
"What does that mean?" Tiers "That happened before It means auxiliary power is low You have to turn on main power"
"I do?"
He pushed ELECTRICAL MAIN
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Ti now?" Grant said The whole screen was starting to flash
Ti happened The screen continued to flash
Tim pushed MAIN GRID P He felt sick to his stomach with fear
MAIN POWER GRID NOT ACTIVE/AUXILIARY POWER ONLY
The screen was still flashing He pushed MAIN SET 1
MAIN POWER ACTIVATED
All the lights in the roo "Hey! All right!"
Tilanced at the video monitors, then back at the main screen
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Grant said so that Tim didn&039;t hear, he only heard the tension in his voice He was looking at Tim, worried
Ti at him He didn&039;t want to look at the videoin the lodge, and the raptors snarling He heard Malcolm say, "Dear God"
He pushed LODGE
SPECIFY GRID NUMBER TO RESET
For a frozen interminable moment he couldn&039;t remember the number, but then he remembered F4, and he pressed that
ACTIVATING LODGE GRID F4 NOW
On the videodown fro of the hotel room The monitor flared white Lex shouted "What did you do!" but ale caht between the bars, writhing and screa in a hot cascade of sparks while Muldoon and the others cheered, their voices tinny over the radio
"That&039;s it," Grant said, slapping Tim on the back "That&039;s it! You did it! "
They were all standing and ju up and dohen Lex said, "What about the ship?"
"The what?"
"The ship, " she said, and pointed to the screen
On the s beyond the bow of the ship were ht, as the ship turned left and prepared to dock He sa to tie up
Tim scrambled back to his seat, and stared at the startup screen
He studied the screen TeleCoht have so to do with telephones He pressed TELECOM RSD
YOU HAVE 23 WAITING CALLS AND/OR MESSAGES
DO YOU WISH TO RECEIVE THEM NOW?
He pushed NO
"Maybe the ship was one of the waiting calls," Lex said "Maybe that way you could get the phone nunored her
ENTER THE NUM13ER YOU WISH TO CALL OR PRESS F7 FOR DIRECTORY
He pushed F7 and suddenly names and numbers spilled over the screen, an enormous directory It wasn&039;t alphabetical, and it took a while to scan it visually before he found what he was looking for:
VSL ANNE B (FREDDY) 708-3902
Now all he had to do was figure out how to dial He pushed a row of buttons at the bottom of the screen:
DIAL NOW OR DIAL LATER?
He pushed DIAL NOW
WE&039;RE SORRY, YOUR CALL CANNOT BE COMPLETED AS DIALED
{ERROR-5981}
PLEASE TRY AGAIN
He tried it again
He heard a dial tone, then the tone of the nu automatically dialed in rapid succession
"Is that it?" Grant said
"Pretty good, Timmy," Lex said "But they&039;re almost there" On the screen, they could see the prow of the ship closing on the Puntarenas dock They heard a high-pitched squeal, and then a voice said, "Ah, hello, John, this is Freddy Do you read me, over?"
Tim picked up a phone on the console but heard only a dial tone
"Ah, hello, John, this is Freddy, over?"
"Answer it" Lex said
Now they were all picking up phones, lifting every receiver in sight, but they heard only dial tones Finally Tim saw a phone ht
"Ah, hello, control This is Freddy Do you read rabbed the receiver "Hello, this is Tim Murphy, and I need you to-"
"Ah, say again, didn&039;t get that, John"
"Don&039;t land the boat! Do you hear me?"
There was a pause Then a puzzled voice said, "Sounds like some damn kid"
Tim said, "Don&039;t land the ship! Come back to the island!"
The voices sounded distant and scratchy "Did he-naet-name"
Tim looked frantically at the others Gennaro reached for the phone "Let et his name?"
There was the sharp crackle of static "-got to be a joke or else-a frigging ha"
Ti on the keyboard, there was probably some kind of a way to find out who Freddy was
"Can you hear me?" Gennaro said, into the phone "If you can hear me, answer me now, over"
"Son," came the drawled reply, "we don&039;t knoho the hell you are, but you&039;re not funny, and we&039;re about to dock and we&039;ve got work to do Now, identify yourself properly or get off this channel"
Tim watched as the screen printed out FARRELL, FREDERICK D, (CAPT)
"Try this for identification, Captain Farrell," Gennaro said "If you don&039;t turn that boat around and return to this island immediately, you will be found in violation of Section 509 of the Uniform Maritime Act, you will he subject to revocation of license, penalties in excess of fifty thousand dollars, and five years in jail Do you hear that?"
There was a silence
"Do you copy that, Captain Farrell?"
And then, distantly, they heard a voice say, "I copy," and another voice said, "All ahead stern" The boat began to turn away froan to cheer Ti the sweat from his forehead
Grant said, "What&039;s the Uniform Maritime Act?"
"Who the hell knows?" Gennaro said
They all watched the screen in satisfaction The boat was definitely heading away frouess the hard part&039;s finished," Gennaro said Grant shook his head "The hard part," he said, is just beginning"
SEVENTH ITERATION
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"Increasingly, the e to
face its implications"
IAN MALCOLM
Destroying the World
They e, to a clean bed Hahtening up, "Well," he said, "at least disaster is averted"
"What disaster is that?" Malcol
"Well," Haet free and overrun the world"
Malcolm sat up on one elbow "You orried about that?"
"Surely that&039;s as at stake," Haet out and destroy the planet"
"You egomaniacal idiot" Malcol about? You think you can destroy the planet? My, what intoxicating power you must have" Malcolm sank back on the bed "You can&039;t destroy this planet You can&039;t even come close"
"Most people believe," Hammond said stiffly, "that the planet is in jeopardy"
"Well, it&039;s not," Malcolree that our planet is in trouble"
Malcolhed "Let me tell you about our planet," he said "Our planet is four and a half billion years old There has been life on this planet for nearly that long Three point eight billion years The first bacteria And, later, the first multicellular animals, then the first coreat sweeping ages of ani millions upon , flourishing, dying away, All this happening against a background of continuous and violent upheaval, es thrust up and eroded away, co, whole continents eEven today, the greatest geographical feature on the planet co to e over , in its time It will certainly survive us"
Ha time," he said, "doesn&039;t mean it is permanent If there was a radiation accident"
"Suppose there was," Malcolm said "Let&039;s say we had a bad one, and all the plants and ani hot for a hunred thousand years Life would survive somewhere-under the soil, or perhaps frozen in Arctic ice And after all those years, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would again spread over the planet The evolutionary process would begin again It ain its present variety And of course it would be very different from what it is now But the earth would survive our folly Life would survive our folly Only we," Malcolm said, "think it wouldn&039;t"
Haets thinner-"
"There will bethe surface So what?"
"Well It&039;ll cause skin cancer"
Malcolood for life It&039;s powerful energy It proe Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation"
"And many others will die out," Hahed "You think this is the first tien?"
"I know it&039;s necessary for life"