"One million volts across ten megohms equals one hundred thousand microamperes. That's according to Ohm's Law."
"He's got the zero-madness, too," chuckled Walt. "It obtains from thinking in astronomical distances, with interplanetary coverages in watts, and celestial input, and stuff like that. Don, this thing may be handy some day. I'd like to develop it."
"I suggest that couple of stages of tube-amplification might help. Amplify it before transduction into electronic propagation."
"We can get four or five stages of sub-electronic amplification, I think. It'll take some working."
"O.K., Chuck. Cook ahead. We do not know whither we are heading, but it looks darned interesting."
"Yeah," added Walt, "it's a darned rare scientific fact that can't be used for something, somewhere. Well, Don, now what?"
"I guess we now progress to the office and run through a few reams of paper work. Then we may relax."
"O.K. Sounds good to me. Let's go."
Hellion Murdoch pointed to the luminous speck in the celestial globe. His finger stabbed at the marker button, and a series of faint concentric spheres marked the distance from the center of the globe to the object, which Murdoch read and mentioned: "Twelve thousand miles."