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...doubling every 37 years. For the next 260 years, this increase can be taken care of by exterminating land wildlife, by intensive use of all crop space, by elimination of meat eating, and by the efficient harvesting of sea food. If marine wildlife is replaced by photosynthetic plankton, the earth's population can keep feeding itself while doubling three more times, until it reaches about 3,000 billion in A.D. 2334. Five times as many people can be taken care of by putting up vast satellite mirrors to reflect sunlight onto the polar areas, warming the whole earth...
...sciences, Clarke, who is Marine Biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is studying the processes and activities of marine life, especially plankton. Levine, a geneticist, is the author of Genetics, a widely-used college text...
...Plankton & Clam Larvae. In 1959, modestly financed by fisheries companies, Dr. Fujinaga set up a pilot prawn ranch in abandoned salt-evaporation ponds at Iku-shima on Shikoku Island. He now has 30 employees, and the place is jumping with prawns. The tiny just-hatched kurumas are coddled in indoor tanks and eat yellowish-brown Skeletonema plankton that have been grown in filtered sea water doped with chemicals. Other kinds of plankton, also specially cultured, carry them through the next stage. When they are one-quarter-inch long, they graduate to outdoor tanks and are fed clam eggs and larvae...
...today. Angostura Bitters were first brewed as a remedy for tropical stomach disorders and an antidote for scurvy. Coca-Cola began as a headache remedy. Biotherm, a popular European secret beauty preparation that is now spreading to U.S. cosmetic counters, was born when a French physician discovered plankton on the water of his sulphur bath at Aix-les-Bains. The first four-gallon barrel of Worcestershire sauce brewed up in Lea & Perrins' chemist shop tasted so bad that it was relegated to the cellar; only later was it retasted and found appealing (the length of time...
While the AEC and the military are claiming their blocks of information, a ship manned by scientists from the University of Washington is gathering fish, plankton and other oceanic fauna and flora to check for radiation effects. Specimens will be sent to Seattle for further study. A team from the U.S. Public Health Service is standing by to treat and study any unfortunate humans who tangle with test radiation...