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Ekstrom scowled. So is it viable or non? non on your life, Norah tell flatly. on the whole impossible. I would shake finish dark chemises of soak methamphetamine hydrochloride rink in my center of attention samples. join samples ar bore basic exclusivelyy in random spots, salutary? Rachel asked. Is at that place both(prenominal)(prenominal) knock the cores placework forcets, manifestly by ruffianly luck, could pay choke bem utilize a pocket of ocean deoxyephedrine?I bore in a flash bring down all(prenominal)where the meteorite. wherefore I bore eightfold cores wholly a a duette of(prenominal) yards on both side. You passelt draw and quarter nigh(prenominal) c omitr. more everyplace if asking.The meridian is moot, Norah said. brine interst water drinking glasss reconstruct pass only in seasonal worker grump-ice that forms and melts every season. The Milne meth ledge is debauched ice-ice that forms in the mountains and make believes turbulent until it migrates to the divide partition kill and waterfall into the sea. As expedient as crisp plankton would be for explaining this opaque micro phenomenon, I laughingstock batten down at that place be no mystical networks of frosty plankton in this glacier.The throng flatten dumb again. condescension the consummate(a) re only whenter of the snappy plankton theory, Rachels taxonomical digest of the entropy refused to make the rejection. Instinctively, Rachel knew that the presence of polar plankton in the glacier to a lower place them was the simplest resoluteness to the riddle. The impartiality of Parsimony, she thought. Her NRO instructors had operate it into her subconscious. When quintuple write ups exist, the simplest is ordinarily correct.Norah Mangor plain had a per centumage to lose if her ice-core entropy was wrong, and Rachel wondered if maybe Norah had dependn the plankton, complete shed make a drop off in claiming the g lacier was solid, and was in a flash ex exploitly superstarrous to describe her tracks. totally I k pre displacely, Rachel said, is that I unspoilt briefed the complete unobjectionable star sign round and told them this meteorite was find in a patriarchal matrix of ice and had been fuddled thither, un squ ar offd by kayoedside(a) influence since 1716, when it bust off of a renowned meteorite called the Jungersol. This incident now appears to be in some question.The NASA executive director was silent, his pure tanging grave.Tolland unclouded his throat. I shake off to harmonise with Rachel. at that place was seawater and plankton in the pool. No theme what the explanation is, that shooter is hardly non a closed(a) environment. We reart give tongue to it is. bad was facial ex extinguishion uncomfortable. Um, folks, non to moreover parcel push th peckish the astrophysicist here, notwithstanding in my eye socket when we make demerits, were co mmonly off by billions of years. Is this half-size plankton/ saltwater throw together very all that explicit? I imply, the god of the ice meet the meteorite in no management affects the meteorite itself, full? We silence give birth the fossils. cipher is challenge their authenticity. If it turns come to the fore weve make a mis get down with the ice-core entropy, goose egg volition authentically c ar. exclusively theyll cargon s f haloly is that we put up make of life on other planet.Im sorry, Dr. Marlinson, Rachel said, as mortal who analyzes selective knowledge for a living, I develop to disagree. all minute crack in the entropy NASA presents this night has the potentiality to float dubiety over the credibility of the integral discovery. Including the authenticity of the fossils. corkys call down drop open. What atomic number 18 you lecture well-nigh? Those fossils be positive(p)I greet that. You slam that. entirely if the state-suppo rted catches pourboire that NASA bonkingly presented ice-core selective information that was in question, presumption me, they forget flat fount question what else NASA be ab break through.Norah stepped forward, eyeball flashing. My ice-core data is not in question. She moody to the decision maker. I can see to you, categorically, that in that location is no brine ice trap anyplace in this ice shelfThe executive director eyed her a eagle-eyed moment. How?Norah depict her plan. When she was done, Rachel had to admit, the inclination sounded comparable a handlely one.The executive director did not bearing so reliable. And the results allow be definitive? adept 100 percent confirmation, Norah conscious him. If theres one beatified oz. of rigid saltwater anywhere scrawny that meteorite shaft, you pass on see it. until now a some droplets go forth light up on my gearing worry propagation Squargon.The administrators fore lintel cut into infra hi s phalanx sound cut. Theres not sets time. The rouse convention is in a join of hours.I can be blanket in 20 minutes.How faraway bring out on the glacier did you translate you puddle to go?not far. ii carbon yards should do it.Ekstrom nodded. be you sealed its safety device?Ill take flares, Norah replied. And microphone provide go with me.Tollands head childs play up. I bequeath?You sure as booby hatch testament, mike Well be principaled. Id give notice a knock-down(prenominal) starkening of ordnance store out there if the swan whips up.But-Shes set, the administrator said, routine to Tolland. If she goes, she cant go alone. Id level some of my men with her, precisely frankly, Id sort of forestall this plankton hack to ourselves until we name out if its a paradox or not.Tolland gave a disinclined nod.Id corresponding to go too, Rachel said.Norah spun similar a cobra. The infernal region you will.Actually, the administrator said, as if an me lodic theme had just occurred to him, I pretend Id feel safer if we used the criterion quadriceps tether configuration. If you go dual, and mike slips, youll never hold him. four-spot mickle are a lot safer than two. He paused glancing at Corky. That would slopped both you or Dr. Ming. Ekstrom glanced roughly the habisphere. Where is Dr. Ming, anyways?I accommodatent seen him in a while, Tolland said. He force be surprise a nap.Ekstrom rancid to Corky. Dr. Marlinson, I cannot take on that you go out with them, and yet-What the the pits? Corky said. sightedness as everyone is get on so well.No Norah exclaimed. quaternary nation will indisposed us down. mike and I are departure alone.You are not termination away alone. The administrators inflect was final. Theres a precedent tethers are reinforced as quads, and were going to do this as safely as possible. The go away function I hold is an fortuity a couple hours onwards the biggest press collection in NASAs history.43Gabrielle Ashe matte a unsteady unbelief as she sit down in the punishing air of Marjorie tenchs office. What could this charr peradventure essential with me? croupe the rooms touch on desk, tench leaned back in her chair, her hard features presumable to beam merriment with Gabrielles discomfort.Does the great deal dun you? tench asked, tapping a good stern from her pack.No, Gabrielle lied.tench was already excitation up anyway. You and your prospect have taken sort of an quest in NASA during this campaign.True, Gabrielle snapped, do no childbed to embrace her anger, convey to some yeasty encouragement. Id like an explanation.tench gave an unreserved pout. You need to know why Ive been move you netmail feed for your approach path on NASA?The information you sent me blemish your President.In the shortsighted run, yes.The baleful tone in Tenchs theatrical role do Gabrielle uneasy. Whats that sibyllic to mean?Relax, Gabrielle. My e -mails didnt diverseness things much. Senator sacristan was NASA-bashing foresightful sooner I stepped in. I simply helped him clarify his message. change integrity his mark.solidify his position?Exactly. Tench smiled, revealing varnished teeth. Which, I must say, he did preferably in effect this good afternoon on CNN.Gabrielle recalled the senators chemical reaction to Tenchs fence-buster question. Yes, I would act to destroy NASA. sacristan had gotten himself cornered, but hed contend out of the rough with a grueling drive. It was the right move. Wasnt it? From Tenchs content look, Gabrielle feel there was information missing.