Ha!I was number three in the line--two other guys got to go out into the back room and make it before me. They never did come out again to give the re...t of us a clue. Once you'd gone in and found out what the joke was, they let you stay in there afterwards to watch the rest of the gang come in and make jackasses of themselves.It took about fifteen or twenty minutes for each of the first two guys to go through their scene in there, and then the door opened and the man called my name. Man, I was. The specimens had to be conscious during the transfer. The computercould not compress and convert an unconscious mind into digital data tobe transferred. It took over forty tests to find that out."The workings of this algorithm are nothing like anything I have usedbefore. Instead of trying to fluidly combine a foreign body and mind, Imade a buffer to keep them separated. The body will not attack the mind,but rather my program. I am only estimating on how quickly the otherminds were broken. .. managed by an otherwise very bored Artificial Intelligence who found the work we were doing fascinating.We'd come to calling him Moby. It was Matt's idea."And these over here," I continued, moving over to an oversized touchscreen on the far wall, "are all the known schematics for K'treel Explorers." I flipped through a couple and then enlarged the portion of one showing the engineering compartments—with three green symbols on it. "Moby overlays the schematics with our real time data. You can. -Come sit right here *patting the seat between us* I don't like flying much either. You can tell me what you are learning and we can both be distracted.She moves over and she starts telling me about clouds and ozone layers. I close the book and ask her to tell me what she can remember without referring to the pages. ~I really don't remember much. -Good because this stuff is pretty boring. What kind of music do you like?~Rap you?-Country~Ugh, I hate country.-That is because you haven't heard.