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Breckenridge and Lynn returned together to Cheyenne, where that evening
Laszlo listened with a sullen mistrust to Lynn's description of coming
events.
Laszlo said, "While you were gone, Chief, I've started putting
five experimental models of humanoid structure through the testing
procedures. Our men are on a twelve-hour day, with three shifts
overlapping. If we've got to arrange a conference, we're going to be
crowded and red-taped out of everything. Work will come to a halt."
Breckenridge said, "That will be only temporary. You will gain more
than you lose."
Laszlo scowled. "A bunch of astrophysicists and geochemists around
won't help a damn toward robotics."
"Views from specialists of other fields may be helpful."
"Are you sure? How do we know that there _is_ any way of detecting
brain waves or that, even if we can, there is a way of differentiating
human and humanoid by wave pattern. Who set up the project, anyway?"
"I did," said Breckenridge.
"_You_ did? Are you a robotics man?"