THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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the place as soon as the company's chartered; in the meantime, send in
everything else you can get views of."

They set up a regular radio-and-screen watch after that. Charley
Gatworth and Piet Ludvyckson, both of whom were studying astrogation in
hopes of qualifying as space officers after they had a real spaceship,
elected themselves to that duty; it gave them plenty of time for study.
Jerry Rivas and Anse Dawes, with whomever they could find to help them,
were making a systematic search. They looked first of all for
foodstuffs, and found enough in the storerooms of three restaurants on
the executive level to feed their own party in gourmet style for a year,
and enough in the main storerooms to provision an army. They even found
refrigerators and freeze-bins full of meat and vegetables fresh after
forty years. That surprised everybody, for the power units had gone dead
long ago. Then it was noticed that they were covered with collapsium.
Anything that would stop cosmic rays was a hundred percent efficient as
a heat insulator.