CHARLIE goes through a thick pile of files with LARRY --
  
                    CHARLIE
          Wideband Mixer-Circulator Retro-Reflector.
  
                    LARRY
          Obviously not...
  
                    CHARLIE
          Ternary computing.
  
                    LARRY
          Mmm... no.
  
Each rejected file going on a tall stack, next to a second,
very small one, as AMITA and ALAN enter --