Far-out Show (9781465735829)
to keep those as my privates until I
could review and decide what is good to let them know,” Nerber
noted.
    “I cannot assure you that is not so. You
manually adjusted my program as I was activating on arrival here,
My awareness is of those restraints but you are a trained zerpy
engineer so you know there could be commands blocked from my
awareness that are causing me to rodent you out as they seem to say
here, whatever that means exactly, but you get the driftingness of
it.”
    “Being without knowing how many competitors
made it to the surface and how much each has made done of the
challenges is much harder than I realized it would be. The show
wants me to be stressed, even frantic, to make good visual crowd
excitement but I now see how narrow of mindedness that attitude is
when I am the first to be here. Are the Ormelexian masses truly
only distracted by wild and crazy risks and grapplings in slippery
or sticky messes?”
    “Focus, Nerber. You agreed to come here on a
specific mission. You are obliged by duty to accomplish that if
doing so is a possibility thing. This is a programmed
encouragement-and-keep-you-acting-right message.”
    “Understood. I repeating am, that the
bottom-most lineage is good show material - and those not here are
not in the best position to decide what might fit into that
categorizing list.”
    “What do you need to know to attempt the
challenges?”
    “For a rough starting, better to know how the
inhabitant kinds decide and make sensing of their surroundings.
Being in danger makes good entertaining for those at home but being
harmed here with no medicinals to cure things is, I now see clear
most for sure, risky as to be so much of stupidity.”
    “My data bases include a full list of
materials that will function as medicinals in many situations.”
    “Based on materials found on Ormelex, not
here since we have never been here before to test and examine. Your
reassurance message was appropriately dispensed but made no sense
anywhere but on the home planet. It is foolish hardy to think those
who prepared it for you to deliver did not realize that and maybe
had a laugh at the silly business of what they were doing except
that they were being paid to follow their directives and store
messages that might be needfully used.”
    “Contest challenge the leading off one. Get
physical with a local of the most advanced species. What is the
problem?” Wilburps asked.
    “Three points for starting outs. What does
‘get physical’ mean with a type of being you know almost no facts
about? Second-most, how do I know what is ‘local’ with so little
input about this place but it is a rush-rush contest so I am to do
this without finding what is any distance away. Third-most
repeatings the second-most but is not just the same. Without taking
time to make visits around, who can judge what is the ‘most
advanced species’ and why bother to risk messiness or worst when
some dinglefingledorkpork of a celebrity judge may say your
actions fail the defining words and so were wasted risk to be
making?”
    “Your concerns are recognized as having some
value. Challenge the second-most?” Wilburps asked.
    “Recognized as having value but not as having
validity. Words that seem to mean but are only gas to move things
along.”
    “Your concerns are noted. Repeating the
challenge the second-most, create a monument that can be detected
by our planet’s zerpy in high-orbit by moving a mountain.”
    “Define mountain , what the word means
on Ormelex.”
    “Any bright object making itself or
reflectioning brightness that allows visual detection,” Wilburps
answered.
    “Define mountain . What the word seems
to mean on this place the inhabitants call Earth.”
    “No for-certain-sure definition is
available.”
    “State the most likely definition based on a
complete analysis of the intercepted information from here.”
    “Nerber, you are maybe wasting our time when
you should be rushing to make good

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