 Why does Eppel indicate an orange light when scanning the planet?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, March 1961. Naturally they did not get results at once, nor did they expect to; it required a fine adjustment. But they were disappointed that they found nothing for several hours as they hovered high over the rotation. There was one more test to run, one very tricky and difficult of analysis, that with the Extraordinary Perception Locator. The E. P. Locator had been designed by Glaser. It was for this reason that Glaser used that model no more, but built others more amenable. And there was no denying that the Extraordinary Perception Locator (or Eppel) was a contrary machine. On Earth it had read Positive on a number of crack-pots, including Waxey Sax, a jazz tootler who could not even read music. He then narrowed to a smaller area (apparently one individual, though this could not be certain) and got very definite action. Finally it signaled the result, the most exasperating result it ever produces: the single orange light. They called it the "You tell me light." The Little Probe hovered stationary in the light and the moon-town came up under the dawn. "Not a building, not two sticks or stones placed together. There was a man and a woman, and they were clothed either in very bright garments or in no garments at all, but only in a very bright light. I don't understand that light that surrounds them.
 It wants the crew to make their own judgement, because it doesn't know what to make of it.
 It wants the crew to make their own judgement, because it doesn't know what to make of it.  It senses Ha-Adamah's perception.  It senses the "Old Serpent's" perception.  It senses that an omnipotent being.