Reason: year later, Powell and Donovan are on a space station seeing if the robot Cute can be trusted to take over the management of the space station. This particular space station converts energy and beams it down to Earth and the colonies. The problem is that cutie doesn't beleve in Earth since he has no evidence of it, and only believes in what he can reason out. So cutie starts worshipping the power converter but his mathod of worshipping works out perfectly, and so everyone loves robots even when they turn out to be religious fundamentalists