Mind Webs - Crisis - Edward Grendon
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Mind Webs - Crisis - Edward Grendon

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 10, 202626 min
  • Documentary
  • Fiction & stories

A surreal sci-fi series exploring speculative concepts, dreams, and philosophical what-ifs. Each episode is a cerebral journey into the mind’s deepest questions. This episode includes AI-generated content.

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the minutes and the usual formalities. You all know our subject. We are here to consider

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The This is Michael Hanson. My web story this time is Crisis by Edward Grunden, copyright 1951 by Street and Smith. Woodward looked at his graphs for the last time.

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They eliminated a few possibilities and indicated a good probability that three were valid. Some 57 other vectors were possible but not probable. And in a very few minutes he had to recommend a definite course of action on the basis of them, a recommendation that was almost certain to be accepted. The Council chairman

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called the meeting to order and waited until the 400 delegates became quiet. When he spoke, it was in a tired, quiet voice. At this special meeting, gentlemen, we will dispense with the minutes and the usual formalities. You all know our subject. We are here to consider the voice, the voice as the aliens have come to be known. To recapitulate briefly, we first

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