:25:02
Well, come now, Miss Clayton.
Let me show you my lab.
:25:04
- Are you interested at all, Doctor?
- Yes, of course.
:25:08
I've put all I own into this.
:25:11
It's my life.
:25:13
Everything that I have and care for is here.
:25:16
Unfortunately, part of it has been destroyed.
:25:20
I see.
:25:22
What's in the vial, Professor?
:25:24
A nutrient.
You mean a synthetic?
:25:26
A completely nonorganic
food concentrate.
:25:30
Medicine has lengthened the life span,
and people live longer.
:25:34
But the food supply remains fairly static.
:25:38
World population is increasing
at the rate of 25 million a year.
:25:44
An overcrowded world.
:25:46
That means not enough to eat.
:25:49
The disease of hunger,
like most diseases, well, it spreads.
:25:53
There are 2 billion people
in the world today.
:25:56
In 1975 there will be 3 billion.
:25:58
In the year 2000,
there will be 3 billion 625 million.
:26:04
The world may not be able to produce
enough food to feed all these people.
:26:07
Now perhaps you'll understand
what an inexpensive nutrient will mean.
:26:13
Well, not many of us look that far
into the future, sir.
:26:16
Our business is the future.
:26:18
No man can do it on his own, of course.
:26:20
You don't pull it out of your hat
like a magician's rabbit.
:26:24
Well, you build on what hundreds of others
have learnt before you.
:26:29
I thought that synthesis was impossible
without a bonding agent...
:26:32
to hold everything together.
:26:35
And we use the simplest of all: the atom.
:26:38
Let me show you.
:26:48
That's an isotope, isn't it?
A radioactive isotope.
:26:51
Ammoniac.
:26:52
- And that's what binds your solution?
- Binds it and triggers it.
:26:56
Using it, Eric's dream and mine
may be a reality before...