Andromeda Strain - 1971

Arapahoe SG

This movie is intense and scientifically it will still "Wow" your interest.

There are 2 version of Andromeda Strain. I recomend to watch The 1971 version. It is faithful to the book.

In the 1971 version of the movie, It introduced several methodology of total sterilize body germ and bacteria. And had already introduced Bio matrix scaning.

The Andromeda Strain (1969), by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood, while in other people inducing insanity, mostly ended in suicide or murder-suicide

Oh by the way its found in Youtude.

Shorter ninja SG

I heard about it but have not read the book nor watch the movie.The strain I see here is people committing suicide in Japan like nobody's business,my neighbor's son just took his own life last week.

Arapahoe SG

Just to get a interest in this movie.......please check out todays news...

Just to note....this guy probably have access to information that we normal folks don't.

Scientist Desk of Stephen Hawking.

LONDON (AFP) - – Aliens may exist but mankind should avoid contact with them as the consequences could be devastating, British scientist Stephen Hawking has warned.

"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," said the astrophysicist in a new television series, according to British media reports.

The programmes depict an imagined universe featuring alien life forms in huge spaceships on the hunt for resources after draining their own planet dry.

"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach," warned Hawking.

The doomsday scenario is suggested in the series "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" on the Discovery Channel, which began airing in the United States on Sunday.

On the probability of alien life existing, he says: "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational.

"The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."

Glowing squid-like creatures, herds of herbivores that can hang onto a cliff face and bright yellow predators that kill their prey with stinging tails are among the creatures that stalk the scientist's fantastical cosmos.

Mankind has already made a number of attempts to contact extraterrestrial civilisations.

In 2008, American space agency NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space to send a message of peace to any alien that happens to be in the region of Polaris -- also known as the North Star -- in 2439.

But the history of humanity's efforts to contact aliens stretches back some years.

The US probes Pioneer 10 and 11 were launched in 1972 and 1973 bearing plaques of a naked man and woman and symbols seeking to convey the positions of the Earth and the Sun.

Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, each carry a gold-plated copper phonogram disk with recordings of sounds and images on Earth.

Shorter ninja SG

They should have a remake of a 70s movie....forgot the title.About a train carrying some deadly virus which was planned to collide with another train......maybe it was called 'The Cassandra Crossing' if my memory serve me right.

Arapahoe SG

there is a 1986 andromeda strain that is shown on the net.

i enjoyed this stories is interesting that they exlpore the possibilities that if an alien virus landed how would one create a solution to contain the virus.

To know more about Astronomers and Astrophysic go read the book beyond UFOS writen by Professor Jeffrey Bennett. A lot of up to date info....