"Thomas A. Easton - The Biopump Solution" - читать интересную книгу автора (Easton Thomas A)

transport material over virtually any distance. And, if their operators stand on their heads, they can even
be used to transport materials uphill, for peristalsis is indifferent to gravity.
The only constraints on the Biopump arise from its need for impermeability, for the Biopump must
effectively isolate its operator from toxic or corrosive substances. The only influence allowed to cross the
plastic barrier of the Biopump must be that of the muscles of the operator's alimentary system.
If the Biopump is properly made of a thin, flexible plastic, when not in use the esophageal tube and
the reservoir will collapse into a thin layer against the walls of the esophagus and stomach. It will then not
interfere in any way with its operator's ingestion of food and drink, although its operator must, as a simple
safety precaution, refrain from all those foods, such as popcorn, nuts, and bony fish, which might tear,
puncture, or otherwise impair the integrity of the Biopump. The operator should also, of course, have
those teeth nearest the Biopump's input removed.
The applications of this device should be immediately obvious. Eminently portable, it will allow
motorists, at a moment's notice, to siphon gasoline into their automobiles, and scientists to experiment
anywhere on Earth. Inexpensive to produce, and virtually maintenance-free, it will give graduate students
new assistantship opportunities as their professors seek new ways to eliminate their dependence on
outside energy supplies and equipment suppliers for moving their solutions about. It will give industry new
ways to employ persons of little education or skill. And it will allow ecologically disruptive pipelines to be
replaced by lines of thousands of government bureaucrats and oil company executives, each one
equipped with a Biopump.