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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mary, dear, read this; he is safe, exclaimed she." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God of heaven, accept a mother's grateful tears." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cannot you spare me, madam?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spare you. Oh, yes! q...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel--I am sure that you are innocent, or I should not have been here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bless you for that, Emma, bless you; those few words of yours have given me more consolation than you can imagine. Is it nothing to be treated as a felon, to be di...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I was last in this room, I was in company with a very strange personage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Male or female?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Female, replied Colonel G---." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Altogether it's a story ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She was now without a veil; and what do you think was her reason for the concealment of her person?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the beard of Mokhanna, how can I tell?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, colonel, said I, as he made a sudden stop," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I took great care of her until we arrived in London, saw her safe to the hotel in Leicester Square, and then took my leave. Whether Liston replaced her nose, and she is now _flanee_-ing a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go on, he said huskily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You were playing with Lord Nick?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange, he said to his father," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Could be the battery she is broken, eh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not this battery, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a brand-new one, a real keen development. An...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what, asked the Chairman of the Council," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Too fast to be a celestial object, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it one of the space platforms or a sputnik?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a parachute! Burl shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a rocket or something, braking to a stop above us, and coming down by parachute!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the nose of a message missile--dropped from a guided missile, Burl announced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And--look!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From California--and Moon Base--for _us_? gasped Burl, finally." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But why? What can they want of us?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only way to find out is to open it and see." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Looks...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does it say? What do they want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's unbelievable! It's--it's just so darned surprising! The dimness of the days, the drop in temperature--it wasn't just around here! It was all over the world!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "During the last week, a certain fraction of the Sun's light and energy reaching the Earth has been diverted. It has been bent or focused in much the same way that a lens bends light rays--and the point to which it has been directed is a spot only seven miles from here! Over that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It hurts," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a powerful vibrational effect. It may be a very dangerous concentration of the invisible rays of the Sun as well as of light." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Radiation?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No radioactivity, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whatever this is, it isn't that." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've got to get in, said Burl as they returned to the starting point," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This way. He opened his pack and took two cans of blasting powder from it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought these would come in handy. Lucky we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An automatic station, said Mark under his breath." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it's strictly automatic." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do we do now? asked Burl, after they had tried pulling all the levers on one particular switchboard without any results." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you have enough powder left to blow up the machinery?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had on...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It won't work," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm all right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must have absorbed an awful lot of that energy--or whatever it was," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dad! Burl shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It works! It works for me now!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must have been charged in a special way, he said excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's how they lock their devices...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're U.S. planes! gasped Burl, jumping to his feet and going to meet them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It must mean that they know we stopped the machines." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Obviously, said his father, striding with him to greet the h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would you mind, the general asked Burl," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll go along with anything you say." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well, the general smiled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll make our purposes clear to you aft...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think the time has come to acquaint you with the problem our world is facing. We may ask you to make a very personal decision, and we think you ought to know what may hang on it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is apparent that some race of beings, some species f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Measurements of the amount of Sun power being piped away, and of the effect of the magnetic disturbances used to create and maintain these stations, have shown that they will have a definite effect on the structure of the Sun itself. We have not yet completed all our calculation...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have in my company's experimental grounds one virtually untested vessel which may be able to make a flight to Mars, or any other planet, in the time allowed. This is the craft we refer to as A-G 17, the seventeenth such experiment, and the first to succeed. It is powered by a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I emphasize again the experimental nature of this ship. What its capacities are and how well it will work is still a matter of planning-book conjecture. We can prepare the ship to take off in one week's time. I do not think, judging from what Merckmann and Clyde have said, t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Colonel, we are holding you to your schedule. According to it, you can take off in five more days. Will you need any more time because of this addition to your crew?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not at all. We'll be loaded and ready on the hour I set. I'll take Den...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glad to have you with us, Burl. This is going to be quite a trip!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're one of the expedition, then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yep. They're taking me as their chief astrogator. And don't think it's because I'm any great shakes at it, either! It's just that I'm still young enough to take the kind of shoving around these high b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up and dress, the colonel greeted him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're taking you out to look the ship over. Detmar will come along and explain the drive." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will read _Magellan_, said Lockhart, following Burl's eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We decided that that would be the appropriate name for it. For what we are going to have to do with it is not just to make a simple trip to explore another planet, but to ci...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are having our equipment and supplies flown up to a town twenty miles away and then trucked in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why didn't you leave this ship where it was built--in your plant in Indiana--and load it from there?" }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Negating gravity is not a simple matter like inventing a magic sheet of metal that cuts off the pull of the Earth, such as H. G. Wells wrote about, Oberfield had explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is impossible because it ignores all the other laws of nat...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Finally got the special, sealed-engine jeep stowed away, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was afraid we weren't going to get it in time. The Moon-base people had ordered it, and they're going to holler bloody murder when they find out we appropriated it." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For once, we've got lifting power to spare, was Russ's comment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody knows what we're going to need on the various planets, so Lockhart is simply piling aboard everything he can think of. You'd be amazed at the space we have for stora...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nobody knows whether this is going to be necessary. But we're taking no chances." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're losing weight," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold up, his buzzing eardrums heard someone say--possibly Oberfield." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We don't need to accelerate more than one g. Take it easy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did everything go all right?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Better than we might have expected for a first flight," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're latching on to the Sun's grip now. We're falling toward the Sun; not just falling, but pulling oursel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's Mercury, said Russ, pointing it out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The smallest planet and the closest to the Sun. After we leave Venus, we'll have to visit it. We know there's a Sun-tap station there--and because it's so close to the Sun--its orbit ranges be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can know an awful lot about an enemy if you know what he didn't do as well as what he did do. If you figure out what you yourself should have done under the same circumstances, and know he didn't do, why, that gives you some valuable hints as to his deficiencies. As we see i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now why was that? And the third clue, why didn't they have a repair system available, or at least some sort of automatic antiaircraft defense?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The builders didn't expect an air attack, said Burl slowly," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And that, too, suggests that only one ship was originally involved here. Of course, maybe they came back with more the second time, but it still looks as if the main force hasn't arrived. And won't, until after the Sun novas." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's happened?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're not going to make our connection with Venus, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Our generators didn't operate exactly as we had hoped. We haven't been able to slow down enough, the pull of the S...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think we've got the problem licked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's up? asked Burl." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If we shoot past Venus, we should still be able to come to a stop, fall away from the Sun and maybe catch up with Venus again. It ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would have been better to tackle this one last instead of taking it on first." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but on the other hand, was Haines's comment," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mercury's station is probably one of the most important--loc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's not as cold as we might suppose, said Oberfield after his first readings." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a certain amount of heat all along the rim of the dark side. Radiation, I suppose, as well as the fact that there's a certain amount of wobbling done...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It can't be too far in, it can't. How could they build it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The accumulators and the transmitters, said Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll have to get them both." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Getting the transmitters will be easy, said Haines." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After we shut off...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a distortion, as there was at the Andes station, that would make it hard to hit. But I imagine we could do it if we tried hard enough. But that isn't what we want at first. It's important, very important, that we get pictures and details of this station from inside. We c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've already noticed a buildup of heat from the solar radiation on the skin. And the heat radiating from Mercury is accumulating too fast. We can't get rid of it if _both_ sides of this ship are going to be heated up. As soon as you make your landing, I'm taking the ship back t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See anyone?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sun-tap Station Mercury is dead," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A signal of some kind--a warning probably. My guess is that it was an alarm tipping off the remote control masters of this place that it was out of commission. Help me with the photo stuff; I think we'd better get out of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This must have been their primary station, said Russ thoughtfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No matter what they seek to channel from the Sun on other planets, it is from here that the first and strongest diversion of solar energy must have been coming. This sta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our prober rockets, carrying unmanned instruments, rather definitely indicate that the planet has a day about twenty Earth-days long. Even though it's shielded by the clouds, it must be miserably hot near the surface." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll soon find ou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Watch out for mountains," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No tides have ever moved these waters, commented Russ quietly to Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no moon to pull and sway them. The motion of this world, so slow in the passage of its day, hardly disturbs the water." }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unclean, the whole place looks unclean, Lockhart said finally." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've got work to do. Let's find the Sun-tap station." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've seen no animals or birds, said Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you suppose there are any?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think so. From the look of this world, life probably isn't developed that far. You won't find animals until the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With no direct Sun to aim at, this station seems to be directed toward a nonfocused system of light diversion, Lockhart announced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The wrecking crew please get under way!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going down with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The wall is electrically charged, said Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "From the looks of it, to keep off something. Perhaps some kind of native life. But what? I'm sure there's nothing of a highly organi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This I've got to get a sample of," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hey!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's alive! he shouted, and grabbed for the knife in his belt. In vain he tried to slash out." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's like a giant amoeba that engulfs its food! Get it off me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done! called Boulton to Burl from the cabin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on up before something else comes along!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The oxygen, the other tank, turn it on!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a wonderful place for biologists to study! Venus will be a Mecca for scientific learning!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But not for anything else, I don't think, said Burl." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anyway, we're in for another experience now...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pluto!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pluto! Why, that's the end of the line! The most distant planet, said Oberfield, shocked." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll have to go there--all the way!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Both poles are enlarged! It's winter on _both_ hemispheres! And that's impossible!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The greenish-blue areas can scarcely be seen. Where they should be, there're darker patches of brown, against the yellowish-red that now seems to be the desert areas. It seems to be winter on both sides and it looks bad. It looks to me as if Mars were a fast-dying world." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now the margin of warmth and light has been cut. It has been just enough to keep both polar caps frozen, to prevent water from reaching the fertile regions, and the cold has advanced enough to bar the growth and regeneration of plant life. If the Sun-tapping on Mars is not stopp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you suppose, Lockhart queried the others," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Sun-tap station is under the city! said Lockhart, shocked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's been built beneath the streets somewhere, and the Martians walk around above it and let the masts alone! They must be the builders!" }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like the looks of this at all, said Lockhart finally." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suspect a trap. Yet we've got to land and get at that base. I'm going to take the ship out into the desert beyond the city and let a scouting squad go in first." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We haven't met any Martians yet, came Ferrari's voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Apparently they aren't interested in investigating us even now. And here we are rolling right up to the city limits." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're crossing the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's the Sun-tap station. It's generating distortion. We'll have to wait until they return," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There they are!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait till you see this fellow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, it looks like a giant insect!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "More like a kind of lobster, was Ferrati's answer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But this is it. This is one of the city dwellers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't like...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They looked at us, and didn't even act as if they saw us. When we stopped one, it squirmed out of our grasp and walked away. Finally we took this fellow, simply grabbed him off the street, tied him up, stuffed him in the jeep and kidnaped him. And do you think anybody cared or t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burl's right. It must be a sort of insect." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This whole civilization seems to be insectlike, if you ask me, said Burl." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's like a huge anthill, or a big bee-hive. It seems complicated, and the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How, he asked Russ," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not necessarily, said Russ." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Remember, these creatures are operating without opposition--they are really the highest type of life here. The need to conserve water and conti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These creatures have no lights, remarked Boulton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They must use their feelers indoors." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, but look, said Burl, reaching out a hand to a little globe set on a pole in the floor. He touched it...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All right, men, snapped Haines," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hey, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's alive! cried Haines, as he saw that Boulton was still breathing, his breath whistling back and forth through the oxygen mask. Quickly Haines examined him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His heart's all right. He's just been knocked unconscious." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They see us now, muttered Haines." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't like it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Sun-tap builders did it, said Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They must have booby-trapped the place against intruders....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't let ourselves get stopped, or even hole up. That A-bomb's going to go off in about twenty minutes, and we'd better be back at the ship before then," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must be Boulton, Russ yelled to Burl above the roar of their passage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He must be charged with the irritating vibration." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've got some sort of organized action going, he called to Haines...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The debris of an exploded planet, was the comment Russ made to Burl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the most likely explanation. Anyway, he added," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glad to know it. I may have a task for you soon, then." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got a job for you men," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "While you were on Mars and we were waiting for you, I took the opportunity to examine the outer shell of this ship. You know, of course, that we are constantly being bombarded by cosmic dust, the micrometeorites that always prove troublesome to the Earth satellites and space pla...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on out there as long as you can! Lockhart's been knocked unconscious! We're trying to get into the engine room and take back control!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who's in the engine room? Take control from whom?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will all members of the crew report their present positions to me? Haines?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burl, it looks as if you're elected. You seem to be the only one in the right place. There's a hatchway into the nose of the ship from the outside. It's just below the central circle. Can you see it? How close are you to it?" } ]