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.The Green Room is Venus's mostvaluable experimental station."Bigman screwed up his small face and yelled vehe-33mently, "I'll have the law on them.I'll make a Council case of it.They can'tfeed me yeast without telling me, like I was a horse or a cow or a - "He ended in a flurry of sputtering."I am guessing," said Lucky, "that yeast has some connection with the crimewave on Venus.""Guessing, are you?" said Morriss, dryly."Then you haven't read our officialreports.I'm not surprised.Earth thinks we are exaggerating here.I assure you, however, we arenot.And it isn't merely a crime wave.Yeast, Lucky, yeast! That is thenub and core of every-thing on this planet."A self-propelled tender had rolled into the living room with abubbling percolator and three cups ofsteaming coffee upon it.The tender stopped at Lucky first, then Bigman.Morriss took the third cup, put his lips to it, then wiped his large mustacheappreciatively."It will add cream and sugar if you wish, gentlemen," he said.Bigman looked and sniffed.He said to Morriss with sharp suspicion, "Yeast?""No.Real coffee this time.I swear it."For a moment they sipped in silence; then Morriss said, "Venus, Lucky, is anexpensive world to keep up.Our cities must make oxygen out of water, andthat takes huge electrolytic stations.Each city requires tre-mendous powerbeams to help support the domes against billions of tons of water.The city ofAphrodite uses as much energy in a year as the entire continent ofSouth America, yet it has only a thousandth the population."We've got to earn that energy, naturally.We've got to export to Earth inorder to obtain power plants, specialized machinery, atomic fuel, and so on.Venus's only product is seaweed, inexhaustible quantities of it.Some weexport as fertilizer, but that is scarcely the answer to theproblem.Most of our seaweed, however, we use as culture media for yeast,ten thousand and one varieties of yeast."34Bigman's lip curled."Changing seaweed to yeast isn't much of an improvement."Page 14 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Did you find your last meal satisfactory?" asked Morriss."Please go on, Dr.Morriss," said Lucky.Morriss said, "Of course, Mr.Jones is quite cor ------- ""Call me Bigman!"Morriss looked soberly at the small Martian and said, "If you wish.Bigman isquite correct in his low opinion of yeast in general.Our most importantstrains are suitable only for animal food.But even so, it's highly useful.Yeast-fed pork is cheaper and better than any other kind.The yeast is high incalories, proteins, min-erals, and vitamins."We have other strains of higher quality, which are used in cases where foodmust be stored over long periods and with little available space.On longspace journeys, for instance, so-called Y-rations are fre-quently taken."Finally, we have our top-quality strains, extremely expensive and fragilegrowths that go into the menus of theGreen Room and with which we can imitate or im-prove upon ordinary food.Noneof these are in quan-tity production, but they will be someday.I imagine yousee the whole point of all this, Lucky.""I think I do.""I don't," said Bigman belligerently.Morriss was quick to explain."Venus will have a monopoly on these luxurystrains.No other world will possess them.Without Venus's experience inzymocul-ture ----- ""In what?" asked Bigman."In yeast culture.Without Venus's experience in that, no other world coulddevelop such yeasts or maintain them once they did obtain them.So you seethat Venus could build a tremendously profitable trade in yeaststrains as luxury items with all the galaxy.That would be important not onlyto Venus, but to Earth as well to the entire SolarConfederation.We are the most over-35populated system in the Galaxy, being the oldest.If we could exchange a poundof yeast for a ton of grain, things would be well for us."Lucky had been listening patiently to Morriss's lec-ture [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.The Green Room is Venus's mostvaluable experimental station."Bigman screwed up his small face and yelled vehe-33mently, "I'll have the law on them.I'll make a Council case of it.They can'tfeed me yeast without telling me, like I was a horse or a cow or a - "He ended in a flurry of sputtering."I am guessing," said Lucky, "that yeast has some connection with the crimewave on Venus.""Guessing, are you?" said Morriss, dryly."Then you haven't read our officialreports.I'm not surprised.Earth thinks we are exaggerating here.I assure you, however, we arenot.And it isn't merely a crime wave.Yeast, Lucky, yeast! That is thenub and core of every-thing on this planet."A self-propelled tender had rolled into the living room with abubbling percolator and three cups ofsteaming coffee upon it.The tender stopped at Lucky first, then Bigman.Morriss took the third cup, put his lips to it, then wiped his large mustacheappreciatively."It will add cream and sugar if you wish, gentlemen," he said.Bigman looked and sniffed.He said to Morriss with sharp suspicion, "Yeast?""No.Real coffee this time.I swear it."For a moment they sipped in silence; then Morriss said, "Venus, Lucky, is anexpensive world to keep up.Our cities must make oxygen out of water, andthat takes huge electrolytic stations.Each city requires tre-mendous powerbeams to help support the domes against billions of tons of water.The city ofAphrodite uses as much energy in a year as the entire continent ofSouth America, yet it has only a thousandth the population."We've got to earn that energy, naturally.We've got to export to Earth inorder to obtain power plants, specialized machinery, atomic fuel, and so on.Venus's only product is seaweed, inexhaustible quantities of it.Some weexport as fertilizer, but that is scarcely the answer to theproblem.Most of our seaweed, however, we use as culture media for yeast,ten thousand and one varieties of yeast."34Bigman's lip curled."Changing seaweed to yeast isn't much of an improvement."Page 14 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Did you find your last meal satisfactory?" asked Morriss."Please go on, Dr.Morriss," said Lucky.Morriss said, "Of course, Mr.Jones is quite cor ------- ""Call me Bigman!"Morriss looked soberly at the small Martian and said, "If you wish.Bigman isquite correct in his low opinion of yeast in general.Our most importantstrains are suitable only for animal food.But even so, it's highly useful.Yeast-fed pork is cheaper and better than any other kind.The yeast is high incalories, proteins, min-erals, and vitamins."We have other strains of higher quality, which are used in cases where foodmust be stored over long periods and with little available space.On longspace journeys, for instance, so-called Y-rations are fre-quently taken."Finally, we have our top-quality strains, extremely expensive and fragilegrowths that go into the menus of theGreen Room and with which we can imitate or im-prove upon ordinary food.Noneof these are in quan-tity production, but they will be someday.I imagine yousee the whole point of all this, Lucky.""I think I do.""I don't," said Bigman belligerently.Morriss was quick to explain."Venus will have a monopoly on these luxurystrains.No other world will possess them.Without Venus's experience inzymocul-ture ----- ""In what?" asked Bigman."In yeast culture.Without Venus's experience in that, no other world coulddevelop such yeasts or maintain them once they did obtain them.So you seethat Venus could build a tremendously profitable trade in yeaststrains as luxury items with all the galaxy.That would be important not onlyto Venus, but to Earth as well to the entire SolarConfederation.We are the most over-35populated system in the Galaxy, being the oldest.If we could exchange a poundof yeast for a ton of grain, things would be well for us."Lucky had been listening patiently to Morriss's lec-ture [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]