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Hence, the measuring-detecting-extracting device must be more structurally and functionally complex than a mere mica flake considered as a thin planar crystal.
But notice now that, compared to detecting the direction of the wind by the mica flake, a rather complex and subtle measurement must be made by any measuring device that is to detect the subtle displacement from equilibrium and that any device that is to use that displacement to extract work must be correspondingly subtle.
This is essentially a twilit remake of his wonderful 1977 thriller, The Late Show , in which a senior citizen shamus (Art Carney) wrestles with both a brutal murder and the innumerable humiliations of aging (they're connected), happily assisted by a New Age flake (Lily Tomlin, in her most exuberant screen performance).
Flake Fish Food The flake foods, TETRAMIN® and BIORIL®, are available at most pet supply shops.
(The flake food, TETRAMIN® or BIORIL®, can be used regularly as a substitute for trout chow in preparing food for daphnids, and can be used as a short-term substitute for trout chow in feeding fathead minnows.)