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Text summary: (click to open) TIC.
Doc Robin and Avi now look at the clock with renewed curiosity.
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“I’m gonna run some scans,” says a determined Doc Robin.
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Doc Robin runs some tests with a portable scanner. Three lights on the back only return red.
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“Well,” Doc Robin says, “it doesn’t qualify as a life form any more than the individual planks of wood do.”
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“But between the pattern of the irregularities in its rhythms, and the direction of the angular signature of its transportation matrix...” TOC. TIC. “I’d have to reverse the polarity of some of these neutron flows to make sure, but...”
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Tired of the technobabble, an exasparated Avi asks “Doc, please just give me the headline here.”
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"It’s...”