THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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All the computer work. Finding materials to make astrogational equipment
and robo-pilots. Studying hyperspace theory?fortunately, there was an
excellent library here?and setting up classes, and teaching school. And
keeping in[Pg 137] touch with his father, on Poictesme. It was making
him nervous not to know what sort of foolishness the older and wiser
heads might be getting into.

The next morning, they began organizing work-gangs and setting up
committees. Three men, two girls and about twenty robots got an open-pit
iron mine started; as soon as the steel mill was ready, ore started
coming in. Anse Dawes had a gang looking for something they could build
a 350-foot interplanetary ship out of; Jacquemont and Mack Vibart were
getting plans and specifications and making lists of needed materials.
Conn gathered a dozen men and women and started classes in computer
theory and practice; at the same time, he and Charley Gatworth were
teaching themselves and each other hyperspatial astrogation, which was
the art of tossing a ship into some everythingless noplace outside