The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (30 page)
"Actually, I think it's just noticed something. Hang on."
| TELL HIM IT POINTS TO A NEW FORM OF COSMOLOGY WHICH THEY DID NOT CONSIDER. INFINITE RANGE IS PROBABLY POSSIBLE WITH EXISTING HARDWARE. TELEPORTATION OF MATTER IS PROBABLY POSSIBLE. |
Prime Intellect paused a moment, and the words
PROBABLY
were replaced with
DEFINITELY
.Lawrence blinked, then typed into the little-used keyboard of his console,
| Is this true? |
| YES. |
"It says it will give you the stars," Lawrence said flatly."What? You been eating mushrooms, Lawrence? Lawrence?"
| What will it take to implement this? |
| LET ME TRY SOMETHING. |
"It says it will give you the stars. It says your faster than light chips can be made to work at infinite range. It says you can teleport matter."Now there was a long, long pause. "That's bullshit," Stebbins finally said. "We tried everything."Lawrence heard a small uproar through the phone, an uproar that would have been very loud on Stebbins' end. Men were arguing. A loud voice (Military Mitchell's, Lawrence thought) bellowed, "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN?" Then there was the faint pop of a door slamming in the background.