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  11.

  Vladi and Kurt had almost triumphally welcomed when I had reached the laboratory. They were eccitatissimi. They made me a general check-up, but very deepened.

  «It will owe andar on light» Vladi told me.

  He/she quickly spoke.

  «It would be to say?» I asked.

  «Almost without body» it said Kurt rehandling something to my back.

  This was me new.

  «As it would be?»

  The thing shook me a tantino.

  «The only two forms propelled you proper and already available they are on the orbital station intercittadina. The employees use them to the maintenance of the external surface of the station. Activity extraveicolare, understands? Reactors are small Williamson, every it is suitable to push the mass of a man for few G. Dobbiamo to reduce its weight because the motor can bring her/it to the accelerations that serve.»

  «You have said that they are two» I observed.

  «Yes» it said Kurt. «It will use them both. But it will have to go himself/herself/themselves behind also a reserve of oxygen and food stuff for his/her brain. You/he/she can give him that want us quite a lot time to find our astronauts. Through web we are able of monitorare all the systems of their vehicle: they perfectly work. There is no consumption of oxygen to the inside, neither there has been in the last hours. Or I am inside, dead, or they are out of some part.»

  «Understands» I said. «In that it almost consists that? I want to say. The wills also have to move me, down there.»

  «Be'.» it mentioned Vladi burdens embarrassed. «The doctor Of the you/he/she has had to improvise. Four very light arts, strong spherical body, few more than a braincase.»

  It showed me the components: they were on a table against the opposite wall. Every arm had double articulation: elbow and wrist, could say. But the similarity with the human braccias ended there. Even the my paradoxical iron corpaccio seemed that of a man, if compared with that stuff.

  «A fottuto spider» I observed flatly.

  The boys were cleared the voice to uneasiness.

  «Gravity is of little superior to a bystander of that terrestrial, down there» it said comprehensive Vladi. «It doesn't serve a strong body.»

  «I will have to enter there inside.»

  I alluded to the steel box that was at once head and trunk of my future body. It seemed me to be next to an attack of claustrophobia, but Kurt didn't allow me to think.

  «It will be easy» it said, attracting my attention. «Its brain is already wired.»

  This distracted me mine despite.

  «Yes» it said Kurt. «It has a complete interface with the systems elettromeccanici. You treats only. ugh. to connect well the cables of the new hardware to the. general terminal block.»

  Kurt snickered, making to understand me that the things were a pochino more complicated than this way.

  It was the first time that Kurt spoke of me to so mechanistic way. Instead of bothering me the thing it reassured me.

  «It will maintain his/her sensors» it said Vladi.

  Takings to fumble behind of me: you/he/she was doing me something on the back, but I didn't succeed in understanding what. Its hands raced rapidses, I felt the vibrations that were propagated up to my sensitive hands.

  «The extremity of those new braccia has five fingers radially prepared around the palm; it will have tactile feelings but any thermal perception. The visual sensors are the same. Any conventional hearing, only so that electromagnetic. It will directly have a good transmitting station on board, it will be to the place of his/her voice in the field of the audible one. The brain will float in a dense physiological solution with nourishing and oxygen. The acceleration won't be a problem.»

  «Doctor Berliz would have liked to speak to her, but it is not in the city» Kurt joined in conversation.

  «I will be well» I affirmed, above all to convince myself. Everything went too much fast.

  «I now have to extinguish her/it for some» it said Vladi.

  «You owe cos.?» I started.

  The world became dark of a line and I sank in the irresponsibility.