Labels:book | bulletin board | lodestone | poster | reckoner | sky OCR: launch Gibbs sat in front of her main monitor a modified Sony Trinitron no less -and fingered the micro phone OK Colonel. We ready to roll on this thing?" "That's affirmative, Lieutenant. We're ready for launch; once she's off the ground it's your ball game "All right, she heard Duke say. "Launch it." The Trinitron showed neutral dark green, as it would continue to do until the missile ' c bow cameras were on; she couldn' switch them on until the missile was in the air, since it was feared that the violence of the launch might disturb the electronics. Therefore, the only clue Gibbs had that the missile had in fact, been launched was the small five-digit altitude readout at the bottom JO the righthand monitor. She watched the numbers climb: 00000 00300 00900 011450. Colonel Duke's raspy voi ...
