human
Except for being a little rougher, they're our own dear little mysterious pet, Rick said.
gpt
Are they dry yet?
human
They okay. You can take now.
gpt
Ask him if we can give him a present for helping us,
human
He say making statues fun, not work. He help you yesterday, so he not have to fix plaster. All even.
gpt
Now, Scotty asked,
human
One goes in my pocket, Rick replied.
gpt
I feel lost without a friendly little feline weighing down one side of my coat. We can leave the others here in a safe place, maybe inside one of the control cabinets.
human
Good idea. Going to tell Winston and the others about this morning?
gpt
Sure. Only I don't think we'll mention where the mama cat is hiding out. No use bogging them down with useless information. We'll tell Winston.
human
Not suspicious of the others?
gpt
Only the more people who know something, the more others are apt to find it out.
human
We've about decided the strange signals are not originating within the system. Now we're looking at the possibility that some local source is giving us interference. We thought we'd eliminated all outside noise, but perhaps something new came up after we finished checking.
gpt
There must be lots of stuff down there that puts out radio-frequency signals, even electric shavers and heating pads. How can you eliminate all of it?
human
We can't, in the sense of really cutting it out. But the antenna construction takes local interference into account. It's a tight beam design that should prevent overriding of the main signal by any random side effects. That's what Kerama and Winston are checking now. There's not a great deal for you to do until they're through. In a half hour we'll start to swing the antenna to see if we get an increase in the signal by a change in direction. Until then, why not take it easy?
gpt
We will.