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"Just where are those other planets?"

"Oh, they&039;replaces," the Ra: "Real planets don&039;t let the the chuckles, Doc continued, "Are those planets off at the edge of nowhere - the planets of another star, lasses seenly

"No, they&039;re not that," the Rao and the trip only took two days"

Doc was not to be diverted "Are they little tiny planets that are hiding behind the sun or the moon or perhaps Jupiter, in a sort of per behind trees in a forest?"

"No, they&039;re not that either," the Ra his shoulders afresh, but nevertheless beginning to sound a shade defensive "They don&039;t hide behind anybody&039;s skirts - not the, you can bet - as big as Earth I&039;ve visited six of therunted "Are they by any chance planets that are concealed in hyperspace and that pop out conveniently once in a blue ?"

Noas Doc as getting the chuckles, though he ignored those, too

"You&039;re being negativistic," the Raht too theoretical Those other planets are just out there, I tell you"

"Well, if they&039;re just out there," Doc roared softly, "why can&039;t we just see them?" His head was thrown back in triulasses had slipped down his nose a bit

There was quite a pause Then: "Black-negativistic," the Ramrod amended loftily "Be a waste of time to tell you how soht curve around theer

"Letthe whole audience "I a to consider any idea whatsoever - even that there&039;s an alien planet lurking in our solar system But I want some hint of a rational explanation, even if it&039;s that the planet exists in hyperspace I give Charles Fulby - (he waved toward the Ramrod) - a fractional plus score for his screens notion"

He subsided, breathing victoriously The Little Man took this opportunity to pop up fronarok at the end of the front row and say: "Only ten , but keep watching, please Re planets are exciting, but just one little saucer, witnessed by a whole symposium, would be a real triu his flashlight toward town from the mesa top near the Superstition Mountains After all, he was supposed to try to save his own life But now, growing tired of that duty, he looked up again at the stars, dia the full eclipse, and he named them without effort, and then lost hi there in the foreground like soe-blackened silver There was always soht sky He could easily lie here and watch all night without a rowing greater, and the rock beneath hih Bundy rose frori toward the moon: "One more puff and then - poof! I&039;ll be there, just like John Carter"

High said: "Don&039;t forget your spacesuit"

Pepe said: "I&039;ll take a big lungful of pot and live on that" He waved toward the stars "What&039;s all that black billboard of jewelry advertising say, High?"

High said: "Billboard! That&039;s ht, going every way there is"

Arab, still on his cushion before the tent, and now trickling down his gullet a few drops of ht, oh my sons?"

Pepe called back: "Beautiful as a silken serpent, oh h Earth&039;s cold silent shadow at her sedate pace of fortyinto Asa Holco their tails in Jake Lesher&039;s loins, or the horlands, or the ato to heat the boilers of the "Prince Charles," or the wavicles carrying their coded pictures to Spike Stevens&039; cave, or Wolf Loner&039;s unconsciousits s in the rhytho; she would be doing it a billion years hence Some day, astronomers said, obscure tidal forces would draw her so close to earth that racking internal tides would shatter her, turning her into sos of Saturn But that, astronomers said, was still a hundred billion years away