“An Aldebaranian, you mean? No. Forde in Washington tried out a couple of our tests on some of ’em, along with a whole series of psychological tests, but the results were meaningless. We simply haven’t licked the communications problem there. They’re intelligent but Irchevsky, our best xenobiologist, thinks they may not be rational at all, and that what looks like socially integrative behavior among humans is nothing but a kind of instinctual adaptive mimicry. No telling for sure. Can’t get an EEG on ’em and as a matter of fact we can’t even find out whether they sleep or not, let alone
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