human
Weighty! I guess you're right, Mike.
gpt
I know I'm right! said Mike.
human
If you spent six weeks in bed you'd expect to feel wobbly when you tried to walk. Up on the Platform you didn't even use energy to stand up! We didn't realize it, but we were living like invalids! We'll get our strength back, but next time we'll take measures. Huh! Take a trip to Mars in free fall, and by the time a guy got there his muscles'd be so flabby he couldn't stand up in half-gravity! Something's got to be done about that, Joe!
gpt
Something's got to be done about space ships before that comes up again!
human
Thanks!
gpt
Joe, do you know anything about powder metallurgy?
human
Powder metallurgy? Yes, I've seen it used, at my father's plant. They've made small precision parts with it. Why?
gpt
D'you know if anybody ever made a weld with it?
human
I think so. Yes. At the plant they did. They had trouble getting the surfaces properly cleaned for welding. But they managed it. Why?
gpt
One more question, said Mike tensely.
human
How much Portland cement is used to make a cubic yard of concrete?
gpt
I wouldn't know, admitted Joe.
human
Why? What's all this about?
gpt
Haney and the Chief. Those two big apes have been kidding me--as long as they could stay awake--for what happened to me when I landed. Those infernal savages-- Mike seethed.
human
They got my clothes off and they had me smeared all over with butter and forty-'leven necklaces around my neck and flowers in my hair! They thought I was some kind of heathen god! Hanuman, somebody told me. The Hindu monkey-god! He raged.
gpt
And those two big apes think it's funny! Joe, I never knew I _knew_ all the words for the cussings I gave those heathen before our fellas found me! And Haney and the Chief will drive me crazy if I can't slap 'em down! Powder metallurgy does the trick, from what you told me. That's okay, then.