Humanitarian
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CHAPTER 12Insight into the Human Body This emotional experience with my past had actually began to wear and tear on my nerves, and I became very thirsty. But I didn’t have to ask Dagolo for a drink. She noticed it herself. She asked me to go into my room because there would be a small can of fruit juice prepared for me, and I could stay there for a little while if I liked. She would call me at an appropriate time. Silently the door to my bedroom closed itself behind me. I was really stressed, but after I drank this cool fruit juice it really refreshed me and I felt much better. As I sat on the edge of my bed, I sort of drifted in front of me, as in reverie. I had not noticed that Dagolo had entered after me. Gently and gradually without hesitation she touched me and almost whispered: “Look,” she said, “what I have brought you.” I looked around and I noticed and looked at a youth, the youth that she had often talked about to me. Really, before me stood a being, a seeming Earth human who was not born on Earth. His bodily looks differed little from mine. Only the language was different. “So, you are the youth that was not born on Earth,” I said. I noticed when we shook hands and greeted each other, his reddish hair that reached down to his shoulders, moved back and forth when he moved his head. He looked great in his space suit, and suddenly he spoke to me, but I did not understand a word of what he was saying. He laughed heartily about that. He put his translation object on his head, and in seconds we overcame the language barrier. “I am Krotk and I grew up in the Mother Ship that you have seen on the viewing screen.” In such a way he introduced himself. He wanted to explain to me where he was born, but it created difficulties because I couldn’t follow him anyway. What he was explaining even with the translation gadget was unclear. “Dagolo explained to me that you are 15 years old. Do you know how old I am?” “No…” “According to the space ship time calculated, I am 130 years old, but according to Earth time I am 17 years old. I study the natural sciences and space technology. I will call you Andreas. Andreas, I was introduced from the Department of Research where they gave me orders to study the Earth human beings and I was committed to becoming your companion to the end of the remaining time.” It did not escape me that Dagolo was gradually disappearing. She left us to our own activities. She didn’t want us to be disturbed, and yet she watched us intently. “Come Andreas, we will sit ourselves over there.” Said Krotk, and he showed me a niche in the corner. Krotk guided me to a huge viewing screen, and he entered the information for the screen expertly. He instructed the computer to display views and demonstrations of my body. Promptly my body appeared on the viewing screen and was taken apart into many pieces, divided into sections. And it was demonstrated to me how it was calculated, how they calculate, and how they search in a living man’s body by techniques they had already mastered for a long time. Krotk asked the male being from Satanis to stand on top of the plate where I stood before. After that Krotk manipulated the computer and searched for the part to begin the demonstration with all the parts of the body. Very quickly the Satanis body positioned itself next to mine and I acknowledged and became aware that the right arm was missing on the Satanis, and that on his right leg the knee was missing. Now a technical design began to form Instead of the cut off limbs were fine technical drawings of microelectronic functions. Teams of functions appeared on the viewing screens, and the connections with our nerves to the missing limbs was shown. The connections from the artificial limbs to the nerve connections of the living body was shown and the synthetic limbs were connected. A drawing showed how if was measured, calculated and connected to all the living nerve cells of the human body I looked at the drawings of a very highly modest microelectronic process. Krotk told me how the accident happened. Now and then a visiting team came to the fruit plantation in the Mother Ship. One time he used an outside lift that carried him to the farthest part of the plantation. But since it was a small operation this particular lift was used rarely. And also because in the past some other small motorized equipment had damaged this lift unit. The two of these motorized bodies smashed his arm and his leg when they came together on the plantation. Microelectronic technicians and doctors built him new limbs that were not any different in function than the natural limbs, as well as the color and the normal limb as it would look. Everything was restored by our specialists. Download 4.07 Mb. Share with your friends:
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