Trapped On Venus
“ “Jennings? Fisk? Do you read me?” Stimson repeated over and over again. “We can hear you, but you don’t seem to be picking up our transmissions. Do you read us, Probe? Over...”
There was no answer. The astronauts continued with their work, unable to hear Stimson’s message. “I repeat, do you copy us? Probe, this is Stimson. Over?...”
There was no reply.
Stimson whirled in his chair, casting an anxious glance at his Chief Technical Officer, Adam Prescott.
The engineer stood calmly at a console ...behind him, monitoring a board full of data, intently analyzing what he could of the communications failure.
“Prescott? What is it?
What’s gone wrong? Can we get through to them?” Stimson asked, hopefully.
“I don’t think so, John. It looks like the failure is on their end. We’re getting a strong signal here, and all systems show fully operational – it must be that Fisk didn’t get the receiver modulator hooked up properly. They’re still transmitting, but they can’t receive." “Well, isn’t there anything we can do?MoreLess
There was no answer. The astronauts continued with their work, unable to hear Stimson’s message. “I repeat, do you copy us? Probe, this is Stimson. Over?...”
There was no reply.
Stimson whirled in his chair, casting an anxious glance at his Chief Technical Officer, Adam Prescott.
The engineer stood calmly at a console ...behind him, monitoring a board full of data, intently analyzing what he could of the communications failure.
“Prescott? What is it?
What’s gone wrong? Can we get through to them?” Stimson asked, hopefully.
“I don’t think so, John. It looks like the failure is on their end. We’re getting a strong signal here, and all systems show fully operational – it must be that Fisk didn’t get the receiver modulator hooked up properly. They’re still transmitting, but they can’t receive." “Well, isn’t there anything we can do?MoreLess
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