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The Andromeda Strain

Posted by Mckilla1 - September 20th, 2009


This is my book report of The Andromeda Strain. The beginning is weird, just how i like it :D

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ENGAGE MESSAGE.
THE FOLLOWING IS A CLASSIFIED SUMMARY OF THE INCIDENT KNOWN AS THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN. THIS COPY ISSUED ONLY
TO AUTHORIZED PERSONS. THIS SUMMARY CONTAINS THE CONFLICTS THAT THE SCIENTISTS AT WILDFIRE HAD INCLUDING THE 10 SECONDS TO SPARE EVENT.
DISENGAGE.
ENGAGING ACTIVITY "ANDROMEDA FUNCTIONS"
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OVERLOAD. 601. ERROR.
DISENGAGING...
DISENGAGED.
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THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN
Report made by Michael Crichton
Summary created by Ian Bruno of B Block

This summary, or book report you might call it, is on the conflicts that the people of Wildfire faced
in their race against the clock to stop an alien virus from spreading. The report, known as "The Andromeda Strain," was created by Michael Crichton. This report and the summary have been created courtesy of the Wildfire Team, Jeremy Stone, Peter Leavitt, Charles Barton, and Mark Hall. This report contains conflicts that this team of four encountered, and eventually resolved. This all started with a project named Scoop. Scoop Satellites are meant to collect samples of the upper atmosphere. There was one satellite, Scoop VII, which had a problem. One small meteor or VERY small planet was collected, but it also threw the satellite off. It crash-landed near the town of Piedmont, Arizona. The town's people there took the satellite to the doctor, who opened it. This one the worst move in the world for them, for the virus killed all but two people. Leaving only two questions: Where did this virus come from? And how did these people survive?
The people of Wildfire gathered in Level V of the underground laboratory, each of them working on different things. They studied the organism known as Andromeda through autopsies, interviews with one of the survivors (for the other was an infant) and studying the organism itself. When studying the organism itself, they were completely confused, because it did not have ANY amino acids needed to survive! The whole team were confused by this, but resolved it quickly. Jeremy Stone prepared Andromeda for study under an electron microscope. With it, they discovered that this organism didn't need acids because it was a crystalline organism. Very strange, yet it made sense. Little did they know is that they already found the weakness.

An alarm sounded, the seal on the organism in autopsy had been broken. Burton was still in there.
He was alive, had contact with Hall and Stone. Leavitt had a seizure; he had epilepsy and didn't tell anyone.
But that's unimportant compared to what Burton was going through. Hall and Stone panicked to find out what to do. Then Hall found out in something alike to an epiphany. He explained that Andromeda could not survive in acid, which is what could kill it. The older man survivor had acidic blood, because he had an ulcer. But what about the baby, how did he survive? Another epiphany dawned on him (you can say that again...) the baby had alkaline blood from crying, preventing Andromeda from killing him. But he had to stop crying sooner or later, only meaning one possible explanation. Alkaline blood mutates Andromeda in a non-infectious form! They got Burton to breath as fast and as hard as he could, which mutated Andromeda into what I would call Andromeda Mark II. Making it a non-killer.
Another alarm sounded, the new harmless Andromeda was in the halls! The computer automatically started the self-destruct mechanism. They had five minutes to stop it, but they were in a section sealed off from control panels. Hall had the key to stop it, but the next station they could go to was two floors up. Hall had to go up the central shaft to Level III. But that shaft had, as someone who likes to say things in an epic way would say, LAZERS! These were built to stop escaped test animals. Hall would be all right as long as he didn't get hit in the spine. He does get hit, and has some trouble from the shock of getting hit. He eventually makes it to the station with ten seconds to spare. Yes, he stopped it, no explosion.
The Wildfire team told the whole story in great detail. The original copy was given to authorized personnel before release to the public. There was a typo in the copies released to the public that some pointed out. In the beginning it has a warning that says any unauthorized persons would be jailed and fined for reading it. There was no explanation for this... and the people who pointed it out disappeared. No one knows what happened to them, and no one says anything about the typo. So concludes this summary of "The Andromeda Strain".


Comments

i call top spot
:D

I'm the master here, ya dig?
I HAVE TOP SPOT YOUR SECOND

y do u talk

Yeah i had to change the report XC Fprget this one ever existed

O SHT MY REAL NAME IS IN HERE!!!!! O_O

I'MMA FIRIN' MAH LAZAR!