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...past, I have gone into the center for an athletic physical and have been asked how I felt. When I said "fine" they said "great", and signed the form. Friends have gone in for a variety of ailments only to get the standard "two aspirins and lots of liquid" answer that is typical of an average encounter at U.H.S...
...each deposit is carefully analyzed and a sampling of the sperm counted in an electronic device to establish the semen's degree of fertility. The semen is then stored in thin plastic "straws," labeled, placed within a cigar-shaped aluminum container and chilled to -321° F. in liquid nitrogen. Sperm banks are inordinately careful to guard against unauthorized use of their resources. Donors are blood-typed, for instance, because certain substances are common to both individual sperm and blood and thus serve to identify "ownership" of the substance...
That chauvinism is displayed time and again, say exobiologists, by those who cannot conceive the possibility of life without water (which Sagan calls "liquid-water chauvinism"), without oxygen ("oxygen chauvinism") or in the presence of intense ultraviolet radiation ("ultraviolet chauvinism"). Yet life can indeed develop under conditions radically different from those on earth. It did, for example, evolve during untold eons on earth when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere. To those primitive forms of life, in fact, oxygen would have been a poisonous gas. Thus instead of requiring oxygen, Martian organisms, like some terrestrial bacteria, might thrive...
...even make room for a cup of coffee." For other stories he doesn't stop to comment but lets his subject give the punchline. In "A High Building In Singapore" the hero is walking down an unspecified San Francisco street watching his "mind functioning with the efficiency of a liquid pencil." He sees a "little girl who is really too small to be able to talk" but who's excitedly talking to her mother anyway. When he is close enough he finally overhears her say enthusiastically, "Yes, it was a high building in Singapore...
...reaches of space - ammonia, methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid - in various combinations. Then, keeping the gases completely free of water, the scientists exposed them to ultraviolet radiation and found that they combined to produce small quantities of some of the amino acids essential to life. Says Wollin: "Perhaps liquid ammonia, with its physical and chemical properties so similar to water, could serve as a solvent medium for waterless life...