into polywater, instead of just part of it. Richard Feynman remarked that if such a material existed, then an animal would exist that would ingest water and excrete polywater, using the energy released from the process to survive. In fiction The story "Polywater Doodle" by Howard L. Myers (writing under the pseudonym "Dr. Dolittle") appeared in the February 1971 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It features an animal composed entirely of polywater, with the metabolism described by Richard Feynman. (The title of the story is a pun on "Polly Wolly Doodle".) Polywater is the central idea of the 1972 espionage/thriller novel A Report from Group 17 by Robert C. O'Brien. The story revolves around the use of a type of polywater to make people controllable and incapable of independent thought or action. The episodes "The Naked Time" (Star Trek) and its sequel, "The Naked Now" (Star Trek: The Next Generation) involve forms of polywater intoxication. In the original episode, a scientific research outpost falls victim to polywater, which causes the crew to become so incapacitated that they all died after shutting off environmental controls in the compound. In the sequel, a Starfleet vessel is discovered adrift, its crew frozen in various states due to polywater intoxication. In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, ice-nine was a form of water that was solid at room temperature, and solidified any water that it contacted, giving it the capability to destroy all life on Earth. See also Water memory Hard water N ray References Further reading Franks, F., Polywater MIT Press, 1981 4. M. De Paz, A. Pozzo, and M. E. Vallauri, Mass spectrometric evidence against "polywater" Chem. Phys. Letters, 7, October 1970 Discovery and invention controversies Forms of water Liquid water Pathological science Water chemistry controversies Science and technology in the Soviet Union