Rubisco
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, a line every 2 nm. About 7,000 side by side would span the width of a human hair.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Rubisco, to save everyone time.
- Height
- 11.7 nm, standing on end.
- Weight
- 0.90 attograms
- Build
- Sixteen parts: eight big, eight small. Same from the front as from the side.
- Habits
- Grabs carbon dioxide to make sugar, about three a second. Most enzymes manage a thousand.
- Weakness
- Sometimes grabs oxygen instead, by mistake.
- Known for
- Over 700 million tons of it on Earth, all told.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked SPINACH in the fridge at HQ.
of them in a cup of raw spinach, give or take.
Leaves vary. You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Rubisco, No. 39. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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