THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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The sane people, if that was what they were, were being busy. They were
putting a set of Abbott lift-and-drive engines together, and Conn's
computer class was estimating the mass of the finished ship and the
amount of energy needed to overcome gravitation and give it constant
acceleration from Koshchei to Poictesme. They were learning, by trial
and error, largely error, how to build a set of pseudograv engines. And
they were putting together a hundred and one other things, all of which
was good training for the time they'd be ready to start work on
/Ouroboros II/.

Jerry Rivas had found a contragravity craft which seemed to have been
used by some top official for business and inspection trips, had
gathered a crew of non-specialists who weren't urgently needed at Port
Carpenter, and set out to circumnavigate the planet. It worked just the
reverse of expectation. He found a big uranium mine, with an