The Andromedia Strain

The Andromedia Strain

The Andromeda Strain is a novel written by Michael Crichton. It was later turned into a movie in 1971. The Andromeda Strain is an amazing story of a weird disease that came down from space. The disease was named "The Andromeda Strain".Sometime during the year   1971 a satellite, codenamed "Scoop",crash landed   in a little town in the southwestern United Sates known as Piedmont, Arizona. When the United States Army went to pick up Scoop, almost the whole town was dead, it looked like the whole town had been frozen in place, except on old man and a baby who had died almost instantly from an unknown cause. The Army realized that an deaths were probably the result of the crashed satellite, so the Army sent men, clothed in the latest technological bio-hazard suits, to retrieve Scoop. The Army retrieved the only two surviving humans and the remains of the crashed probe and brought them back to the secret lab known as "Wildfire."
The scientists at Wildfire were amazed by what they saw. After spending countless hours examining the satellite with an electron microscope, they discovered minute particles of what looked like   paint.   Since this was the only unusual thing on the satellite, the scientists assumed that it was the strange carrier of the disease. The scientists cut away a single molecule of this unusual substance and saw that it was a pure crystal life form, the perfect form to live in space. The crystal used everything, wasted nothing, and grew in every substance known to man. To make matters worse, it grew and multiplied at an incredible rate. The scientists recognized the potential of this lethal crystal to envelope the globe if not contained.
Now that the scientists at Wildfire knew   what caused the Piedmont deaths, all that remained was to figure out how to control it. They ran the crystal through several different tests, but it grew and flourished on every known substance, including penicillin. Since no new deaths related to this crystal form were...