is set half a year later on a solar station. Mike and Greg have just come back from a much needed vacation, and are training robot QT-1, nicknamed “Cutie” to run the solar station and harness the energy of electrical storms without any humans presence on the station. Cutie is the highest quality robot ever created, and Mike and Greg are having troubles teaching the robot, as it believes he was not created by humans, and overlooks “the master”. This throws Mike and Greg into a huge problem, as Cutie is supposed to be trained and ready to go in a 2 days.
This really has me wondering if that by the time we do have robots working at our service and fulfilling jobs normally humans would do, will these robots have “errors” like this, and will they become so smart that they question their own existence? Personally I hope not, because in my mind it has humans vs. robots written all over it.
Eventually, Cutie over takes control of the robots running the station, and has them under command, and working under the rules of this so called “master” Cutie is praising. Mike and Greg have to get Cutie under control and running the station before the electrical storms hits, or the storm could go out of focus and destroy the station.
This future is one I would really like to see humans take forth. If we could
have our main source of energy supplied from electrical storms in space, then this could solve a lot of our energy problems down here. Electrical Storm power could take away usage of fossil fuels, preventing pollution. Unfortunately I fear this future may be too far away before we can stop any long-term negative effects our habits have caused.
In the end, Cutie shows that he can focus an electrical storm and harness its power. Despite the “errors” Mike and Greg ran into, they leave the station.
Again, I ran into some pretty confusing words in this chapter, but overall, it was understood. The author chose a funny way of using futuristic dialog. For example, phrases like “Jumping Jupiter”, and “Sizzling Saturn” are seen a lot.