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Usage examples of bobbles.

We know the Peace is almost as scared of bioresearch as they are that someone might find the secret of their bobbles.

Of course, they discovered the Americans were just as mystified as everyone else by the strange silvery bubbles, baubles — bobbles?

Then the Authority had miraculously appeared, announcing itself as the guardian of peace and the maker of the bobbles.

Like so much of what had happened to Colonel Kaladze in the last half century, it would have been impossible without the bobbles, in particular the Vandenberg one: The doubled sunlight was as intense as could be found at any latitude, and the high obstacle the Dome created in the atmosphere caused more than 250 centimeters of rain a year in a land that was otherwise quite dry.

But even for the smallest bobbles, we estimate a time constant of decay greater than ten million years.

And in one regard, I can be more specific and encouraging: Most bobbles do not contain nuclear explosions.

And large bobbles-even if they contain 'fossil' explosions — will be harmless.

For instance, we estimate the equilibrium temperature produced by a nuke inside the Vandenberg or Langley bobbles to be less than one hundred degrees.

When it comes to survival, the rules of evidence become an art, and Avery felt with dread certainty that someone, somewhere, had figured how to cancel bobbles.

They don't want anyone making bombs or bobbles and starting another War.

Have you considered the possibility that someone has discovered how to destroy bobbles, that we are seeing their experiments?

That research had produced the bobbles, force fields whose generation took a minimum of thirty minutes of power from the largest nuclear plant in the lab.

But now, after all these years, when we see bobbles being burst, we have rediscovered him.

For fifty years, bobbles and the one up ahead, in particular — had haunted him.

The bursting bobbles were not the work of some anti-Peacer underground.