For the following two hours, I was very busy, so I paid no attention to the silence, nor to the emptiness. For starters, I conferred with Hans and Vadim. I woke Hans up, so he was slurring and mumbling some nonsense about rain and low pressure. He was fairly useless. As to Vadim, I had to spend some time to convince him that I was not joking and not trying to pull his leg. It was especially difficult considering that I kept breaking into a nervous laughter. Eventually, I convinced him that I was laughing for a different reason. At that point, he also got serious and told me that his lead robot stops spontaneously, but that actually is not surprising; it’s hot, the work is being done in extreme conditions, so the system didn’t have enough time to accommodate. Could my problems be ca
