Thomas Rand, the celebrated philosopher, was an advocate of the system of ambulatory professors, which was adhered to in Kings College, Aberdeen down to the beginning of the present century (Old Stat Acc.
Against a background of jagged rock teeth was the bubble of the E-Stat housing--more than three-quarters of it being in the hollowed out sections below the surface of the miniature world which supported it, as Dane knew.
The E-Stat asteroid was of a reasonable size, but in their eyes it was a bleak, torn mote of stuff swimming through vast emptiness.
That might be regulation equipment for an E-Stat agent on a lonely asteroid--but he didn't quite believe it.
We hit the nearest E-Stat when we discovered that we were contaminated," Rip spoke with an assumption of patience.
He knew that Shannon was using every bit of his skill and knowledge to jockey them into the position where they could ride their tail rockets down to the scorched rock of the E-Stat field.
Well, it had been a good try, but there was no use expecting luck to ride their fins all the way, and they had had more than their share in the E-Stat affair.
Dane, wanting very much in his heart to be elsewhere, climbed down the ladder in Rip's wake, both of them spotlighted by the immovable beam from the Stat dome.
When she set down on theStat field she would be flaming a banner of trouble.
The space suit, which had been bulky and clumsy enough on the E-Stat asteroid under limited gravity, was almost twice as poorly adapted to progression on earth.
It would depend upon who manned the E-Stat and how fast the Free Traders could move once the Queen touched her fins to earth.
In the third Eclogue he says:-- "Nunquid vidisse furentem Stat menti.
Quod stat subtus, that which stands beneath, and (as it were) supports, the appearance.
It loves the fig-trees with nothing but leaves; it adores the stat magni nominis umbra.
