The Andromeda Strain
“Stone glanced at the others and saw they were tired; no one, including himself, was getting enough sleep.“We’re going at this too hard,” he said. “We don’t need to work around the clock, and we shouldn’t do so. Tired men will make mistakes, mistakes in thinking and mistakes in action. We’ll start to drop things, to screw things up, to work sloppily. And we’ll make wrong assumptions, draw incorrect inferences. That mustn’t happen.”The team agreed to get at least six hours sleep in each twenty-fo...ur-hour period. That seemed reasonable, since there was no problem on the surface; the infection at Piedmont had been halted by the atomic bomb.Their belief might never have been altered had not Leavitt suggested that they file for a code name. Leavitt stated that they had an organism and that it required a code. The others agreed.In a corner of the room stood the scrambler typewriter. It had been clattering all day long, typing out material sent in from the outside. It was a two-way machine; material transmitted had to be typed in lowercase letters, while received material was printed out in capitals.No one had really bothered to look at the input since their arrival on Level V.MoreLess
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