In Chapter 19 Arthur Mancek receives a telephone call at his home concerning the recent crash of a training mission near Big Head, Utah. The plane left San Francisco heading for Topeka, went off course, and flew through Area WF (The Piedmont zone) before crashing. Mancek wonders why they didn’t drop the bomb on that town, and why the Wildfire team didn’t protest and then in Chapter 20 in the spectrometer room, Burton vaporizes a piece of the black rock and a piece of the green flecks in order to figure out the elemental composition of each. Each element produces a different specter of light, and this data can be fed into the computer and analyzed. In another room, Leavitt is feeding the rock and organism into the amino-acid analyzer, trying to figure it out. Chapter 19 was interesting because they were trying to figure out what happened to the plane that crashed.
Pgs. 237-245
No comments:
Post a Comment