 What does Jones likely think Evans is up to when he finds him?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction June 1959. The light from the star that died when the meteor was created fell on Earth before the first lungfish ventured from the sea. It drilled a small, neat hole through the casing of the steam turbine, and volitized upon striking the blades. The shaft tried to tie itself into a knot, and the blades, damaged and undamaged were spit through the casing. It was two days to sunrise, where Evans stood. It was just before sunset on a spring evening in September in Sydney. The shadow line between day and night could be seen from the Moon to be drifting across Australia. Evans, who had no watch, thought of the time as a quarter after Australia. Evans was a prospector, and like all prospectors, a sort of jackknife geologist, selenologist, rather. Once he followed a stampede to Yellow Crater, where he thought for a while that he had a fortune in chromium. Evans was about three hundred miles east of Williamson Town, the site of the first landing on the Moon. Evans was due back at Williamson Town at about sunset, that is, in about sixteen days. In seventeen days he might be missed, but in seventeen days it would be dark again, and the search for him, if it ever began, could not begin for thirteen more days. "Well, man, 'tis a fine spot you're in now," he told himself. By the light of this, he reinspected the steam system, and found about three gallons of water frozen in the condenser. This one had a tank and coils of tubing in the center of a curved reflector that was positioned to radiate the heat of the steam into the cold darkness of space. When the meteor pierced the turbine, the water in the condenser began to boil. Evans sealed the turbine from the rest of the steam system by closing the shut-off valves. Carefully he poured a cup of his drinking water into a pipe that led to the boiler, and resealed the pipe. The water that he had poured into the boiler quickly turned into steam, and the steam turned the generator briefly. The sun rose on Williamson Town at about the same time it rose on Evans. They might have appeared to waver slightly, if they were behind outflung corona flares. When Director McIlroy came into his office, he found it lighted by the rising sun. This was to allow the air-conditioning system to function properly, and to prevent air loss in case of the highly improbable meteor damage.
 He thought his oxygen machine was meant to be a temporary survival tool
 He saw that he was setting up a mine to start collecting water  He thought he had found a new source of crystals  He thought he was already dead  He thought his oxygen machine was meant to be a temporary survival tool