THE COSMIC COMPUTER

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"I wish we could stop that, somehow. Listen; I have it. Merlin never was
on Poictesme; Merlin was a space-station a few thousand miles
off-planet; there was a crew of operators aboard, and they communicated
with Force Command by radio. When the War ended, they took it outside
the system and shot off a planetbuster inside her. No more Merlin. How
would that be?"

His father shook his head. "Wouldn't do. If anybody believed it, which I
doubt, they'd just quit. The market would collapse, everybody would be
broke, it would just be the end of the War all over again. Conn, we
can't let it stop now. We're going too fast to stop; if we tried it,
we'd smash up and break our necks."

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