Alternating Currents
“That will bring our overall temperature up to sixty degrees, give or take a degree according to Engineering’s best guess. And that’s the maximum the human body can stand - that’s right, Broderick ?’ The surgeon quickly translated into the Fahrenheit scale; a hundred and forty degrees or so.
‘That’s right, sir,’ he said. ‘If we can stand that much,’ he added reluctantly after a moment. ‘It hits that on Earth in a couple of places - around the Dead Sea, Aden, places like that. But it isn’...t sustained heat; it drops considerably after dark.’ The Captain nodded sombrely. ‘We’ll hope,’ he said, ‘that we’ll find ourselves out of this before we hit sixty degrees. If we don’t - well, at least we won’t starve or suffocate. You understand, gentlemen, that the odds are against us. I suggested to Lieutenant Ciccarelli that it was a million-to-one-shot. He said I was an optimist. But one chance in a million, or a billion, or whatever the number may be, is better than no chance at all.MoreLess
‘That’s right, sir,’ he said. ‘If we can stand that much,’ he added reluctantly after a moment. ‘It hits that on Earth in a couple of places - around the Dead Sea, Aden, places like that. But it isn’...t sustained heat; it drops considerably after dark.’ The Captain nodded sombrely. ‘We’ll hope,’ he said, ‘that we’ll find ourselves out of this before we hit sixty degrees. If we don’t - well, at least we won’t starve or suffocate. You understand, gentlemen, that the odds are against us. I suggested to Lieutenant Ciccarelli that it was a million-to-one-shot. He said I was an optimist. But one chance in a million, or a billion, or whatever the number may be, is better than no chance at all.MoreLess
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