Lawrence F. Willard

Name: Rabbits Have Long Ears
Author: Lawrence F. Willard

Rabbits Have Long Ears

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“Rabbits Have Long Ears”, is a work by Lawrence F. Willard. It explores elements such as dredge, Montresig and planet.

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

“ Ah, my dear Montresig, the crux of the matter is that we can tell about them, I believe, from listening to them. Judging from the reports I got from Communications, this is the talkingest planet in the galaxy. They are utilizing the entire radio spectrum we know and, I suspect, some portions of it we don't know. All they do is talk. There must be millions of individuals on that planet jabbering in a dozen different languages. Our language technicians have decoded two of the major tongues already and have fed the information to the main computer. ”

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

“ With a look of surprise on his face he slumped to the barroom floor.'"
"What do you make of that?" asked the Commander.
"I'd have been surprised, too," said Montresig.
"They're bloodthirsty giants," said the anthropologist. "If that's a pocket weapon they'd be so big you couldn't get one into this hold.
"I don't believe it," said the Commander. "I think there's something wrong somewhere. Possibly guns come in various sizes. This could be a stationary weapon, perhaps, to blow buildings apart instead of people, though I can't figure out why anybody would want to. ”

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

“ I don't imagine, however, that we've located our long lost ancestors or our mythical home planet. There doesn't seem to be a race in this galaxy that walks upright on two good legs with two arms, two eyes, nose, mouth and other standard equipment."
"Could be we'll find one this time," said the Commander. "We know it's an oxygen planet, and that there are intelligent beings there, judging from the cities we can see and their use of radio."
"Maybe," grumbled Montresig, "but they won't be men. If they're not slugs they'll be talking fish or intellectual spiders, or something equally repulsive. ”

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

“ Commander signaled the dredge operator and waited a reasonable length of time before he was informed that something was wrong with it and that it would be some time before repairs could be made.
"I give up," said Commander Losure. "I have orders not to land on a questionable planet and I've learned my lesson. Either that computer has a few loose connections or those people are broadcasting pure nonsense. I just don't believe in giants, much less in scientific ones. Get ready to leave, Montresig, and see that you make an accurate written report of this whole situation." ”

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

“ I'm going to send the dredge back once more to make sure we aren't being misled."
"I think you're wrong," said Montresig. "All evidence does point to a race of giants, evil creatures at best, even if maybe they do have two eyes, a nose and a mouth like us. Not that I don't think it's a good idea to send the dredge back," he added hastily at the sight of Commander Losure's glowering countenance.
The Commander signaled to the dredge operator again and they waited while he returned the gun to wherever he got it and fished for something else from the surface of the green planet. ”

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

“ Anyway, you should know that it is against our code of ethics to cause harm to any intelligent being. That dredge is set to reject any living creature capable of a high order of thought and that control is sealed against our use. ”

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

“ Montresig introduced the newly-thawed anthropologist to him on the dredge room balcony and Commander Losure briefed him on the importance of his job.
"We don't believe this race has any connection with ours," said the Commander. "It's too savage. And yet, we haven't found another race as far advanced in science, nor one that appears to be so similar to ours. ”

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

“ We've been trying to do that for hundreds of years without success and so far as we've been we've never found another race in the galaxy as far advanced technologically as ours. These people don't even have space flight. ”

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

“ The idea is to bring back artifacts that might tell us something about the people of the planet... maybe they have a written language and have something that approximates our scrolls, maybe they have drawings. I'd especially like to snag one of the visual image receptors our communications engineers think they have."
"The dredge operator is ready," said Montresig. "The computer controls have been switched to this balcony and the stasis beam has been checked."
Commander Losure looked up at the dredge operator in his glassed-in booth high on the opposite wall of the hold. ”

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Lawrence F. Willard, Rabbits Have Long Ears

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