TALKING IN
SPACE, IT'S
ALL DONE
BY (A LOT OF)
MIRRORS
"Some people I like well-sort "I get cross with myself as of acrobatically. Like mummy well. Like when I'm doing and daddy's friends who come drawing and it turns out looking PACE craft will be, obla here and play with me and spin all silly and I know it isn't any me round by my ankles and good. That's the crossest I get." to call up each other throw me about."
She paused and considered and “talk” silently across the things she 10 million miles of space Gome more of lès.
using communications
Strict
A little of the unfairness of the adult world has already made itself known to Amanda,
"Some grown-ups are very strict. I don't like them when
they make you do things they tmust know you don't want to
do
"Like at partles, when some one starts a new game and a grown-up comes along and says 'small ones in the front, big children at the back."
"It makes me cross sometimes, because just because I'm tall for my age I have to stand at the back and wait for my turn."
Already she finds happiness from within herself rather than
expecting It to drop in her lap. She has found out the pitfalls of expectancy.
to
D
Ike drawing and acting and writing. I do italic writing technique now being daves and I have two books to write loped by American scion- in, one for my novel and one for tits, short stories."
Amanda's future is golden and It is called SOCOM. It is a quite positive: only a few details 1901 version of the old hello- are still undecided, because she graph-using mirrora to pick up says she changes proctically all sunlight and flash dot-and-dash her ideas regularly every three messages. years.
She wants to be an actress or
1
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Scientists believe it will have
an artist. And to live in the an important role to play ollee country with her parents and vehicles get into space, becauso her husband and two children. | the equipment needed for mirror "Actually," she said, "a Htile communications is much less 'while ago I wanted 60 children, than that for radio, but now I only want two but they mustn't be twina,"
Stories
EARTH FLASH
The bus rays and collected in mirror "acrials," go into a
In her concentrated efforts to modulator for coding into Inok forward nice explain something of what pulses, and then on to a second to be eight years old system of mirrors for despatch things," she said, "ike a play I means shall go to see next Saturday, or Amanda struggled through some through space. Mirrors at the going out to tea.
examples of what she would do receiving end focus the signals "But if it's something that's in certain circumstances.
on to a "detector." going to happen ages and ages She rejected a few storica
They go through a processing, away then I try not to look too halfway through. Then latched
to one. She
got quite hit. and aro finally read out. forward. Because sometimes I've on looked forward to something excited about it and seemed to The whole apparatus, fitted into ever so much for two months, or think it was very important. a spaceship, should weigh no even three months, and it hasn't "This isn't true or anything," been all that good when it's she said solemnly, "but just supposing I wanted to get into come"
the square to play.
tence
Bored
Amanda stopped eating cake and made the little brown horse walk through the shining brown of her hair. She thought about all the things she didn't like.
"When there's about 20 people
more than 40 pounds. It may be possible also, at certain times to uso SOCOM to communicato with Earth
1.!!
Engineering fiction?
"Now thero's a high with barbed wire all round the edge. If I wanted to get in quickly. I might climb over It may sound like it, but US instead of walking round to the relentists are convinced it will become tact. Tests which they gate.
"Well....just supposing I fell have just completed in the Call- off the top and hurt myself very formian desert- during which
wardy
Around the corners of a plece sitting in here all smoking and badly and It hurt for ages after-mirror units were perched on towers and the Well....the thing to. It's not top of 30%. of chocolate cake she told me not doing anything, and there's
only dull old music on the radio, that, I wouldn't try to climb over moon was used, us well as the about liking people.
to obtain suitably weak, And it's hot and stuffy and the fence again. It's just that "Actually," she said. "I like people for all sorts of different no one wants to get up even.. I'd be more cautious next time long distance power - have
proved that it is feasible. That's really bad.
reasons.
-{London Express Sarotos).
SULE:
Your
fun
really
starts
when
you're
there!
Have more time to be gay...more time to relax!
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