"You say it easy, Steve, but how can you build all those things, with nothing to work with?"
"It's going to be a real job—I'm not try to kid you into thinking it'll be either easy or quick. Here's the way everything will go. Before I can even lay the first length of the penstock, I've got to have the pipe—to make which I've got to have flat steel—to get which I'll have to cut some of the partitions out of this ship of ours—to do which I'll have to have a cutting torch—to make which I'll have to forge nozzles out of block metal and to run which I'll have to have gas—to get which I'll have to mine coal and build a gas-plant—to do which...."
"Good heavens, Steve, are you going back to the Stone Age? I never thought of half those things. Why, it's impossible!"
"Not quite, guy. Things could
