Each an Explorer
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Each an Explorer"Each an Explorer" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was written in June 1956 and first published in issue #30 of Future. It was also reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. The story focuses on... In this article: Each an Explorer, Buy Jupiter and Other Stories, and Isaac Asimov |
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Wikipedia | September 14, 2009
SF '57: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy
...Cosmic Expense Account", by C. M. Kornbluth "The Far Look", by Theodore L. Thomas "When Grandfather Flew to the Moon", by E. L. Malpass "Each an Explorer", by Isaac Asimov "All About 'The Thing'", by Randall Garrett "Put Them All...
In this article: SF '57: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction And Fantasy, Theodore L. Thomas, Randall Garrett, Judith Merril, Robert Abernathy, Gnome Press, Robert Nathan, Ray Russell, and J. G. Ballard
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boston.com - Latest news | October 11, 2009
33rd annual Leif Erickson parade set for Sunday
...more than 1,000 years ago. Parade organizers told Foster's Daily Democrat they don't want to elevate Erickson above other explorers but feel each explorer should get an hour of praise. Information from: Foster's Daily Democrat,...
In this article: All rights reserved, University of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H, North America, and Associated Press
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Rail study commencing in Ashland
...coordinator Kevin Ryder. Starting next week, Allen teaches cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The program is in its second year, Ryder said, and each Explorer week also includes field trips to parks, beaches, and activities such as miniature golf.
In this article: Help!, Pulte Homes, and Appropriation
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | January 21, 2009
SUV AWOL at Detroit motor show
...Motor Co.aEUR™s Pilot surpassed it as the top-selling midsize SUV in the US At its current sales rate, Ford is probably losing money on each Explorer it sells, Wolkonowicz says. US lawmakers chided the automakersaEUR™ reliance on SUVs and...
In this article: Explorer, Detroit, United States, Chrysler, General Motors, Electric car, Toyota, and Gucci
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Realm of the Desert Sons
...in the completed oasis, the player with the tallest explorer must pay one water stone or remove the explorer from further scoring. Each explorer then claims an action icon by order of their height; if there are not enough action icons for...
In this article: Germany
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Windows Defender
...views of startup programs, currently running software, network connected applications, and Winsock providers (Winsock LSPs ). In each Explorer, every element is rated as either "Known", "Unknown" or "Potentially Unwanted". The first and...
In this article: Windows Defender, Microsoft, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Giant Antispyware, Internet Explorer, Windows Server 2003, Giant Company Software, Inc., SpyNet, and Microsoft Windows
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Each an Explorer is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was written in June 1956 and published in issue #30 of Future
The story focuses on Chouns and Smith, two members of the 'Exploration Teams', who are charged with exploring for new planets, especially those that are potentially habitable by humans. Whilst temporarily without their hyperspace drive, which has apparently broken down, they land on a planet with Earth-like gravity and atmosphere, and find an advanced agricultural civilisation, with grain-like plants tended by short four-legged beings.
The beings show the two visitors hyperspacial sighters - valuable instruments for galactic navigation - despite the planet never having been visited by humans before. They indicate that more of the instruments are to be found on the neighbouring planet and the explorers leave in a hurry to visit it; never stopping to consider the impossibility of the situation. On the second planet, they meet aquatic snake-like creatures who offer them more sighters.
Back in the spaceship, Chouns, who is known for his 'hunches', eventually realizes what's happened; that they've been telepathically 'conditioned' to transfer pollen from the plants (who are the real masters) on one planet to the other. The telepathic control of the plants coerced them into doing this by making them believe that two small rocks were actually valuable and that there would be more on the other planet. Chouns believes that he must immediately warn Earth of this threat, as he also realizes that one of the two animal species must have at one time been capable of interplanetary travel. However, the plants must have considered the technology of that civilization to be a threat and used their telepathy to destroy the perceived threat.
But what neither man realizes is that when they return to Earth they will bring spores with them to establish the plants on Earth as the potentially controlling intelligence.
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