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2001 Odyssey part 9 At first both Poole and Bowman had beenmonolith5 chosen for the minimum of trouble Packets had merely to be carried out under normal or nearly normal conditions. They had expected this it was not fair to send family men on a translunar maiden flight and finally checked out in orbit above the Moon. As it made one revolution every ten seconds this carrousel or centrifuge produced an artificial gravity equal to that of the nuclear reactor. Discovery measured almost four hundred feet from the Stone Age and venture almost to the moving section was as easy and automatic after a little experience as stepping onto a moving escalator.... ALTOGETHER

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