“Now or when I get back?”
I took another long look at her, but she didn’t really have anything appealing about her, and the few pennies she was clutching in her palm I don’t think I could have gotten enough for a martini at one of the bars I normally frequent. The second hypothesis was called panspermia and did nothing more than throw the dead cat in the neighbor’s yard, because it still didn’t explain how life arose from inorganic substances, but just moved the problem to other planets, where it would be brought from by meteors. That little bit of training McTroy was talking about so I could take first place took no less than five years, but it was worth every moment I spent there.
