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22 P: That is right. The equivalent would be a magnet. Riding a magnetic field. D: I imagineitwill bea long ime before thepople of Earth can duplicate thesefeats. P: Not so long. Not so long as one might think. There are people working with this energy right now. This is not so far away in Earth's evolution. There is a train inJapan which uses arough analogy ofthis phenomenon. It is suspended on magnetism. It is propelled along a magnetic field. There are magnets where the conventional tracks would be, they hold electro-magnets. And the magnets are alternatively turned on and off, with the magnets always moving toward the destination, which allows the train to be pulled along. The magnets on the train are repelled from the magnets which make up the track, and will this way propel the train or rather its magnetic field toward its destination. D: Then your ship operateson a similarprinciple? P: Somewhat similar. There is a pull on the end of the ship toward the destination and arepulsion on the end of the ship from the point which hasjust been left. So that the these currents naturally pull the ship in the direction that the ship is polarized. D: Then itis not a magnet, but it is similarin principle. D: What do you do when you take theseflights with the ship? P: We do explorations, colonizations, supplies, helping, teaching. There are regular routes. There are the exploratory routes, the teaching routes. There are manufacturing routes where there are manufacturing-companies is not the right word-there are manufacturing facilities on other planets. D: Doyou mean you transportthesefinished goods back andforth? P: The finished goods, yes. There are trade routes, which should not come as a surprise. The cosmos is populated much more than the common person has any inkling of, or any idea about. The cosmos is extremely populated and well-traveled and utilized. The area of our home planet is more populated in what would be called "inhabited" planets. There are more inhabited planets per sector ofspace. In other words, it's a crowded place there. It really is. D: Iwas wonderingif the Earthwas on one of those routes. P: No. They were not even aware of the existence of this planet at aban ~ that time. The Keepers ofthe Garden P: That is correct.