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Reminds me of the Andromeda Strain where a microbe of extraterrestrial origin digested the containment seals being used by the scientists who were trying to stu
by Geemail1802 1y ago
Reminds me of the Andromeda Strain where a microbe of extraterrestrial origin digested the containment seals being used by the scientists who were trying to study it.
- pavel_lishin 1y agoNot what I was thinking of, but another excellent example. Did they actually confirm that it was an extra-terrestrial bacteria? I thought they just scooped something up from the upper atmosphere during a test flight. [Edit: looked it up, you're totally right, I'm either mis-remembering the plot, or maybe the movie adjusted this element?]
- apothegm 1y agoYeah, my memory matches yours. Not extraterrestrial in the sense of “from another planet” but found when investigating the crash of a satellite or something to that effect.
- ahazred8ta 1y agoRelated: the 1999 Stardust probe retrieved interplanetary and interstellar dust particles, like the Andromeda probe was designed to do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)