Word: squid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aeronautics and astronautics. In the life sciences center, for" example, electrical engineers, physicists, chemists, mathematicians, medical men, biophysicists, biochemists, microbiologists and electron-microscope experts all pool their skills. The life sciences center is a prime customer for Chilean fishermen, who ship to Cambridge the nerve fibers of a giant squid found off Chile's coast. The size of the fibers makes them relatively easy to work with, and M.I.T.'s life scientists, combining their efforts, have become more or less familiar with most of the chemical molecules that make the fiber work. Their ultimate aim: to understand...
...extraterrestrial races were once generally loathsome, but now most of them are a good deal more mannerly than human beings. A wry corollary is the now typical story of Earthlings, as far advanced scientifically as they are retarded morally, who burst BEM-like upon the ancient, saintly and helpless squid-creatures of Alpha Centauri...