Hall realizes that the alcoholic Jackson survived because his blood was acidic from drinking Sterno, and that the baby lived due to his blood being too alkaline from constant crying, suggesting that the organism, Andromeda, can survive only within a narrow range of blood pH. Unknown to other team members, Leavitt's research on the germ is impaired by her undisclosed epilepsy.
Stone, who created the Wildfire laboratory, is accused by Dutton and Leavitt of designing the lab for biological warfare research. Hall tries to determine why the elderly man and the baby survived.Ī military jet crashes near Piedmont after the pilot radios that his plastic oxygen mask is dissolving. The microbe contains chemical elements required for terrestrial life ( hydrogen and carbon) and appears to have a crystalline structure, but lacks the DNA, RNA, proteins, and amino acids present in all forms of terrestrial life, and directly transforms energy to matter with no discernible byproducts. The team studies the organism using animal subjects, an electron microscope, and culturing in various growth media in an attempt to learn how it behaves.
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The greenish, throbbing life form is assigned the code name "Andromeda." Inhaled through the lungs Andromeda kills animal life almost instantly via a blood clot in the brain and blood clotting causing asphyxiation and appears to be highly virulent.
Hall is entrusted with the only key that can deactivate the device, the theory being that an unmarried male is the most dispassionate person within a group to make critical decisions in a crisis.īy examining the satellite with powerful cameras, the team discovers the microscopic alien organism responsible for the deaths in New Mexico. If the organism threatens to escape, the Wildfire facility includes an automatic nuclear self-destruct mechanism to incinerate all infectious agents. Upon arrival, they undergo extreme decontamination procedures, descending through four disinfection levels to a fifth level where laboratories are located. Ruth Leavitt, who are summoned to a top-secret underground facility, code named Wildfire, located in Nevada. In addition to Stone and Hall, the elite team also includes Dr. Stone and Hall retrieve the satellite and find two survivors, a 69-year-old alcoholic man named Peter Jackson and a six-month-old infant, Manuel Rios. Two other townspeople have committed suicide after going insane. They soon discover that almost all of the victims' blood has crystallized, causing rapid death. They find that the town's doctor had opened the satellite in his office and that all of his blood has crystallized into a powder. Mark Hall, a surgeon, are dropped in Piedmont by helicopter. Suspecting that the satellite has brought back an alien organism, the military activates an elite team of scientists. A military recovery team from Vandenberg Air Force Base tries to recover the satellite but is unsuccessful. government satellite crashes near the small rural town of Piedmont, New Mexico, almost all of the town's residents die. Jeremy Stone as he testifies before the United States Senate Committee on Space Sciences:Īfter a U.S.
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