"I'll do my best, Al. I'll try—"
"Sue, look at me. You're not going to fight. Neither am I. This ship is going into an orbit about the planet."
"The lower ring, the last one before the ground defenses?"
"No, Sue. Open your mind just a moment and let me see inside you."
"Hold me."
Finally he understood and explained: "This ship is to go into an orbit to nullify gravity. Science doesn't have to depend on trial and error. They can calculate a thing mathematically and predict the results. They worked out your idea that gravity is what breaks down the cells. The answer is that the body will not age so long as it replaces its cells and gets rid of its old ones. To free the body of gravity will slow down the cellular breakdown. In ten years you won't age as much as you would in one in a field of gravity. Is it clear?"
"Will that postpone the change of life?"
"Medical science is certain that it will. It devolves upon aging."
"Does that mean that I'll—"
"It does, Sue. It means that about fifty years from now when the sperm revives in men, you women will have children again."