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. Candy, said Ty. Go on.I ve got two tranq guns in my pocket.Getback to the city and tell everyone what we ve seen.Just in case.you know. I m not going, Candy said stubbornly. You two are no match forthe otters.124 Oh, you d be surprised, said the Doctor, his voice steely and deter-mined. Especially without your sonic thing. Oh, who needs gadgets? Told you before, the Doctor said, tappingthe side of his head. Greatest tool in the galaxy. Someone was being a bit unkind, Candy couldn t help but joke.He threw her a sharp look. Please, Candy just go.Tell the settlers what we ve found.We llbe back honest. Why not come with me now, then? Because I want to find out more about what s going on.Candy s shoulders fell she knew that he wouldn t give up untilshe d gone. Right, she said eventually. Fine.Just.you know. And beforeshe could stop herself, she gave him a kiss on the cheek. Come back,yeah? Yeah, he smiled. Trust me. What, cos you re a doctor? No, cos I m the Doctor! Now get moving!Candy glanced back down the slope: the wave of otters was closer,much closer.With a quick squeeze of Ty s hand, she headed backtowards Sunday City.The otters approached in a broad wave, pausing fifty metres orsoaway. Oh.now that s interesting. The Doctor gestured down theslope.The otters, like a sea of brown fur, were parting moving aside toleave a clear path through the centre of them. Come into my parlour. whispered the Doctor. Am I the only oneto get the feeling we ve been set up here?Ty glanced to the left and the right and saw that the otters, with-out being noticed, had executed a perfect pincer movement, slippingbehind them.Trapping them. I think we re being invited in for a cuppa.125 We re not going, are we? said Ty. It d be rude to refuse. You re mad, said Ty. No, said the Doctor primly. very well brought up.Come on Justif we don t hurry, the tea ll be stewed.And there s nothing worse thanstewed tea. Apart from death at the claws of a thousand otters, she pointed outas the Doctor stepped forward and began to descend the slope. Yes, he said airily over his shoulder. There is that.Down on the mud flats, the half-dozen humans went about their busi-ness silently, like robots.And the otters parted further, funnelling theDoctor and Ty to the edge of the water, which slopped gently up ontothe bank and then dropped back, dark and oily, reflecting the growingclouds above them.Ty shuddered. If they think I m going swimming, she said, then they re out oftheir tiny minds. Oh, I don t think they have tiny minds at all, the Doctor said. Notthe slimeys at any rate.In fact I think they have rather large ones.Nottheir own, granted, but still pretty big.Think of them as time shares.He looked down at her and smiled. SETI! Ty cried and snapped her fingers. Not settee-SETI! Thatcomputer thingy.But that was abandoned years ago.My grandpawas really into it.Grandma kept complaining about him leaving thecomputer on all the time. Knew you d get there eventually, said the Doctor. SETI theSearch for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.So, Professor Benson, tellme what you know about it while we wait for the sandwiches andcakes to arrive. This is just so s you can look all smug and clever, isn t it? Go onthen: it was some sort of government scheme American I think to look for alien signals, radio messages. She looked at the Doctor. Right?He just smiled.126 And cos it needed loads of computing to analyse the signals, theycame up with a sort of time-share plan.People all around the world ordinary people with computers at home sort of logged on to thisnetwork and let their computer do some of the work for them.I mright, aren t I? Gold star, Professor, beamed the Doctor. So you re saying that the slimeys are like that but with brains? It fits the evidence.And, as a scientist, you know that that s whatscience is all about looking at the evidence and coming up with atheory that fits it.In their natural state, I bet they re pretty stupid tiny little brains [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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. Candy, said Ty. Go on.I ve got two tranq guns in my pocket.Getback to the city and tell everyone what we ve seen.Just in case.you know. I m not going, Candy said stubbornly. You two are no match forthe otters.124 Oh, you d be surprised, said the Doctor, his voice steely and deter-mined. Especially without your sonic thing. Oh, who needs gadgets? Told you before, the Doctor said, tappingthe side of his head. Greatest tool in the galaxy. Someone was being a bit unkind, Candy couldn t help but joke.He threw her a sharp look. Please, Candy just go.Tell the settlers what we ve found.We llbe back honest. Why not come with me now, then? Because I want to find out more about what s going on.Candy s shoulders fell she knew that he wouldn t give up untilshe d gone. Right, she said eventually. Fine.Just.you know. And beforeshe could stop herself, she gave him a kiss on the cheek. Come back,yeah? Yeah, he smiled. Trust me. What, cos you re a doctor? No, cos I m the Doctor! Now get moving!Candy glanced back down the slope: the wave of otters was closer,much closer.With a quick squeeze of Ty s hand, she headed backtowards Sunday City.The otters approached in a broad wave, pausing fifty metres orsoaway. Oh.now that s interesting. The Doctor gestured down theslope.The otters, like a sea of brown fur, were parting moving aside toleave a clear path through the centre of them. Come into my parlour. whispered the Doctor. Am I the only oneto get the feeling we ve been set up here?Ty glanced to the left and the right and saw that the otters, with-out being noticed, had executed a perfect pincer movement, slippingbehind them.Trapping them. I think we re being invited in for a cuppa.125 We re not going, are we? said Ty. It d be rude to refuse. You re mad, said Ty. No, said the Doctor primly. very well brought up.Come on Justif we don t hurry, the tea ll be stewed.And there s nothing worse thanstewed tea. Apart from death at the claws of a thousand otters, she pointed outas the Doctor stepped forward and began to descend the slope. Yes, he said airily over his shoulder. There is that.Down on the mud flats, the half-dozen humans went about their busi-ness silently, like robots.And the otters parted further, funnelling theDoctor and Ty to the edge of the water, which slopped gently up ontothe bank and then dropped back, dark and oily, reflecting the growingclouds above them.Ty shuddered. If they think I m going swimming, she said, then they re out oftheir tiny minds. Oh, I don t think they have tiny minds at all, the Doctor said. Notthe slimeys at any rate.In fact I think they have rather large ones.Nottheir own, granted, but still pretty big.Think of them as time shares.He looked down at her and smiled. SETI! Ty cried and snapped her fingers. Not settee-SETI! Thatcomputer thingy.But that was abandoned years ago.My grandpawas really into it.Grandma kept complaining about him leaving thecomputer on all the time. Knew you d get there eventually, said the Doctor. SETI theSearch for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.So, Professor Benson, tellme what you know about it while we wait for the sandwiches andcakes to arrive. This is just so s you can look all smug and clever, isn t it? Go onthen: it was some sort of government scheme American I think to look for alien signals, radio messages. She looked at the Doctor. Right?He just smiled.126 And cos it needed loads of computing to analyse the signals, theycame up with a sort of time-share plan.People all around the world ordinary people with computers at home sort of logged on to thisnetwork and let their computer do some of the work for them.I mright, aren t I? Gold star, Professor, beamed the Doctor. So you re saying that the slimeys are like that but with brains? It fits the evidence.And, as a scientist, you know that that s whatscience is all about looking at the evidence and coming up with atheory that fits it.In their natural state, I bet they re pretty stupid tiny little brains [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]