LIA Research and Development Department

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Sender: Sanjo Jiraki
Rank: Director of R&D
Location: CLASSIFIED
Encryption: 3DS
Recipient: Liberty Intelligence Agency R&D
Topic:Phase One Experimentation

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Greetings

Today marked the beginning of the experimentation phase. I moved the organisms to a suitable environment within the ship, and I started testing different ways to feed the organisms. At first, I did a smear of organisms on an agar petri dish, making sure to keep the surrounding area and myself sterilized. I prepared around 9 different petri dishes, with a control of Glucose. It turns out the the organisms can only feed on substances with trace amounts of ethanol, which was consistent with my hypothesis. Considering that alien organisms are, well, alien, their physiology is expected to be quite different than the physiology of one of our own cells. It appears that they have a constant growth rate that only relies on trace amounts of ethanol. It doesn't boost growth if more ethanol is introduced, in fact, the rate of growth in Vodka (almost 99% ABV in some areas) was the same growth rate as Wine (16% ABV). This suggested to me that ethanol is just a slight requirement to feeding, and that another molecule consistent with most or all alcoholic beverages is feeding the organisms. Either way, I've optimized growth and can now analyze the gases emitted from the organisms.

Goals for tomorrow:

• Analyze gas from the organisms
  
• Attempt to find its chemical properties
  
• Start the first round of combustion
  
• Increase gas production (if successful in combustion)
  

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Good day.

Director of R&D Sanjo Jiraki

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