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On our way back, he mentioned that the mother ship was now under way, but did not reveal our destination. | had been aware of no movement whatsoever, nor had | heard any additional sound. Back in the laboratory, all the men were still operating the instruments in front of them. | noticed on one of the screens varying lines shaping, disappearing and reappearing in new formations. The lines would then be replaced by round dots and long dashes, which would quickly form into various geometrical figures. At the same time, other screens were showing different colors of changing intensities, some in flashes and others in waves. Figures would form on them from time to time. These, too, changed rapidly in size and shape. Everything was ee nS Dan Pa a vast mystery to me. ?The men are registering with their instruments what is taking place on the screens,? the Saturnian pilot explained, ?all of which will later be made into educational records.? Curiosity prompted me to ask what had become of the two disks which we had watched leave the ship. The pilot explained, ?The disks are now hovering above a certain inhabited spot on Earth and registering the sounds emanating from that spot. This is what you are seeing on the screen as shown by the lines, dots and dashes. The other machines are assembling this information and interpreting it by producing pictures of the meanings of the signals, together with the original sounds. ? It must have been obvious that | understood none of it too well for Zuhl further explained, ?Everything in the Universe has its own particular pattern. For example, if someone speaks the word ?house,? the mental image of a dwelling of one kind or another is in his mind. Many things, including human emotions, are registered in the same way. ?By the use of these machines, we know even what your people are thinking, and whether or not they are hostile toward us. For if there are harsh, frightening words, or even thoughts, these will picture themselves in that manner and our recorders will pick them up accurately. In the same way, we know who amongst you will prove friendly and receptive. Everything in the endre Universe moves by ?vibration,? as you have called it on Earth?or, more recently, ?frequencies.? It is by these frequencies or vibrations that we learn the languages of other worlds.? During his explanation, | watched the screens and the ever-changing patterns. | thought it all looked comparatively simple, and wondered why our scientists on Earth had not stumbled upon this same procedure long ago. As | fathered this thought, without expressing it in words, my companion answered, ?They have, to some extent. This is not very different from your tape and other kinds of recordings. The principle is the same, only we have carried it further. Instead of stopping with the gathering together of the many frequencies for sound reproduction alone, we are now able to translate them into picture form as well. You do this in a small way in the entertainment which you call TV. But in this, too, you are still bound by your limited knowledge.? During the time that he was explaining this to me, he had been intently watching the many screens. As he finished his explanations, he suggested that we go to the disk room to watch the return of these little messengers.