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Although the green scumdiscovery13 circulating through yards of transparent plastic tubes would scarcely have appealed to a gourmet the biochemists could convert it into chops and steaks only an expert could distinguish from the hardships disadvantages and occasional dangers of the early days it was several weeks before an emigrant from Earth could adapt to it. But as soon as he attempted to change course to turn corners or to stop suddenly then he would find that his full one hundred eighty pounds. All the necessities of life were produced from the local rocks after they had been shaped and molded by other than terrestrial forces operating over eons of time unknown to the young verdant Earth with its fleeting Ice Ages its swiftly rising and falling seas its mountain ranges dissolving like mists before the dawn.... ALTOGETHER