posted 10-05-99 02:52 PM ET
The young assistant held the baby tightly, while he himself was forever marked by the small metal pieces in his head."Arethe baby ready for joining the Consciousness?"
"Yes., programmer."
Programmer Hansen now turned her attention towards another scienist standing besides a computer console.
"Report, status."
"We've kept an close eye on a lot of cummunication. But much of it are just irrelevancies. We're trying to determine the source of the signals, so we can dispatch a comm signal."
"Keep working. What about the fungus and the mind worms?"
"The fungus and the mind worms are just wild beasts, as long as we keep rational, there should be no danger in them."
Now, programmer Hansen concentrated on an introducory speech, since the uni-brained humans laid so much weight on emotion.
Of course, she would never do so.