The Andromeda Strain

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There was a book Called the And that book Was extremely expensive and of course Much more expensive for members In Japan

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And that's just such a perverse scenario that even in a Michael Crichton, Andromeda strain type book, it would be unbelievable.

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I remember in real time, I read the book. Rare for me to read a book before I see the movie, but I did that for the Andromeda strain of Michael Crichton before he was famous with Jurassic Park and whatever his doctor show was on TV.

The Andromeda strain was a sample return from space and it was a bug that got out of the capsule and it didn't bode well for the town where the capsule landed.

Well, watch out for Texas then because that's where the sample's going.

That's what they said about Andromeda stream.

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You may remember the novel, The Andromeda Strain, which came out right around that time, which was a bug from space that totally wreaked havoc.

And of course, I think that was Michael Crichton's first novel before he wrote Jurassic Park and a whole lot of other things.

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It still really holds up as a pretty good film.

The Andromeda Strain was, you know... For one.

Wait, wait, Chuck is too young. He won't remember.

Oh, heck no.

Okay, but you should.

The same guy who wrote Jurassic Park.

Oh, get out of Christian.

Michael Crichton.

And it was... Crichton.

Andromeda Strain was his first big breakthrough book and film.

And you know when he wrote that? While he was in medical school.

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It still really holds up as a pretty good film.

Oh, heck no. Okay, but you should. Okay. No. The same guy who wrote Jurassic Park.

And it was... Crichton. Andromeda Strain was his first big breakthrough book and film.

And you know when he wrote that? While he was in medical school.

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which by the way was picked up by Michael Crichton and became his famous book Andromeda string.

One of my favorite books of the era actually.

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Michael Crichton the same author of Jurassic Park.

And you know that has been a constant question. Just a little didn't know in the Andromeda strain there is a space probe that returns to earth, but it had been contaminated by a space virus, right and It basically killed everyone in the town where this thing landed and it became a major public health issue How to deal with it what they're doing why was it militarized was it a project what was going on?

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...if we go to the moon and we take our human microbes as hitchhikers with us to the moon. Unavoidable....and there is any life form at all that we don't know about on the moon our microbes might kill that life form and conversely if there's any life form on the moon we might bring it back with us.

...His question spawned a very large effort by NASA to deal with the possibility of one direction or another spreading disease which by the way was picked up by Michael Crichton and became his famous book Andromeda string.

One of my favorite books of the era actually.

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just read a Michael Crichton novel just once in your life

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You're gonna read Andromeda Strain, original Michael Crichton super hit. Andromeda Strain.

That's about like a space virus basically.

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I'm gonna read Andromeda Strain, original Michael Crichton, super hit and drama yeah. Oh, that's his original, my man.

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Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park and Congo and Sphere and Rising Sun and Andromeda Strain.