Too much energy was needed for the long trips. Certainly they, and all others like them, were fully entitled to share In the glory that was Multivac's.įor decades, Multivac had helped design the ships and plot the trajectories that enabled man to reach the Moon, Mars, and Venus, but past that, Earth's poor resources could not support the ships. They fed it data, adjusted questions to its needs and translated the answers that were issued. It had to be, for nothing human could adjust and correct it quickly enough or even adequately enough - so Adell and Lupov attended the monstrous giant only lightly and superficially, yet as well as any men could. Multivac was self-adjusting and self-correcting. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face - miles and miles of face - of that giant computer. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light.
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