Questions tagged [the-andromeda-strain]
For use with questions about the 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton. The novel was adapted into a feature film in 1971 and a television miniseries in 2008.
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Help identifying movie where a virus sent from the future is encoded with a message
I have been struggling with trying to come up with this movie name for a while now, but being in the middle of a pandemic has made it next to impossible to google for "virus" related things ...
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Why did the Andromeda Strain start digesting rubber (polychron) and human bodies?
Michael Crichton's 1969 science fiction thriller The Andromeda Strain and the 1971 film of the same name ficticiously describe/depict a Phantom F-4 where a biological agent recovered from a satellite ...
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In The Andromeda Strain what was the thing in white that approached the satellite retreival team?
At the beginning of The Andromeda Strain a few military guys were sent to retrieve a downed satellite before it was apparent that there was an airborne virus killing everyone. They were just in a Jeep ...
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