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Many scientists think that life appeared on earth when the atmosphere, instead of being its present mixture of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, contained methena, ammonia and hydrogen. These ingredients, still to be found in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn, slowly combined into larger and larger organic (carbon-containing) molecules, according to the hypothesis. At last one molecule, a complex protein, showed the ability to absorb other molecules and create replicas of itself out of their material. This "Adam molecule" was the first life; it could grow and reproduce itself...
Dentist Rodriguez sees little danger that indiscriminate use of his fluid will upset the earth's nitrogen cycle by cutting town the supply of decaying animal tissue. His formula, he admits, may never attain such worldwide acceptance...
From one danger, however, even the aqualung could not secure the divers--the drunken elation induced by nitrogen gas under the tremendous pressures of the depths. In the intoxication of the "zone of rapture", the diver may lose control, as one of the group did, and tear the aqualung from his back as an impulsive gift to a passing fish...
...rapture, which comes on at about 200 ft., is apparently caused by the oversaturation of the nervous system with nitrogen or carbon dioxide under the increased pressure. "The first stage," writes Cousteau, "is a mild anesthesia, after Which the diver becomes a god. If a passing fish seems to require air, the crazed diver may tear out his air pipe or mouth grip [and offer it to the fish] as a sublime gift...
Willy Knoblauch was a model worker at the hot carbide furnaces of the Piesteritz nitrogen plant in Communist East Germany. The comrade leaders of the plant union liked Willy. But Willy did not care much for them...