They discover an alien organism on the satellite capsule, but it does not resemble any life as they know it. Exposing rats and monkeys to the organism results in death. The scientists autopsy the dead animals and test the samples in many ways, exhausting themselves in the process.
Hall interviews the old man who survived in Piedmont. He begins to believe that the acid levels in the human body may dictate whether a person can survive exposure to the organism.
As the scientists work around the clock, day after day, they become tired. They make mistakes, either missing vital messages or failing to run essential tests. Their investigations run into dead ends, and they are no closer to understanding the nature of the organism, which is codenamed the Andromeda Strain. While the scientists run their tests, the Andromeda Strain mutates into a new form that attacks rubber and plastics instead of humans.
Outside the laboratory, this mutated strain is responsible for a plane crash. Inside the laboratory, the new strain begins to destroy the sealants that protect the scientists and isolate the organism from the rest of the world.
The threat of contamination becomes real. Burton is exposed to the organism, but he does not die. Stone and Hall try to save Burton while Leavitt suffers from an epileptic seizure, a condition he hid from his colleagues.
The facility breaks down under the attack from the mutated Andromeda Strain. The nuclear weapon is armed, primed to detonate. The movie does end with an ominous warning about next time. The Andromeda Strain realizes that humans can make mistakes that kill. What they missed, based on recent events, is how little we as a country care.
Pop Culture. Yips and Twisties: Men and Mental Illness. Moving Pictures. In Kate , Ninjas Conquer Everything. The Quibbitses Are Coming. On Campus. When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. Many years prior to this incident, a group of eminent scientists led by Dr.
Jeremy Stone Arthur Hill advocated for the construction of a secure laboratory facility that would serve as a base in the event an alien biological life form was returned to Earth from a space mission. Stone and his team - Drs. Dutton, Leavitt and Hall David Wayne , Kate Reid , and James Olson , respectively - go to the facility, known as Wildfire, and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont an old wino and a six-month-old baby survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device should it manage to escape.
When a US satellite falls from orbit in the New Mexico desert, all but 2 inhabitants of a nearby town die mysteriously. A team of scientists are recruited to secure and study the satellite in a hermetically sealed facility underground, uncovering microscopic particles of alien origin in the process.
A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Unfortunately, the deadly Andromeda strain finds a way out of its cage. It leaks into the autopsy room, where Dr. Burton becomes trapped. In the ensuing panic, Mark Hall wracks his brain for a way to save Burton. Just as inspiration strikes him, Andromeda leaks out of the autopsy room and floods the laboratory.
The nuclear self-destruct sequence is initiated. Proving The Odd Man Theory that single men work well under pressure, Hall accomplishes three amazing feats in the three minutes before the self-destruct device is set to detonate. First, he figures out a preventive cure for Andromeda. Since the organism kills so quickly, any cure must come in the form of prevention. Before he can implement his cure, Hall notices that four minutes have elapsed, and Burton remains unaffected by the alien life form.
Thus, Hall has his second important realization. His cure is unnecessary. Hall realizes that Andromeda has already mutated into a harmless organism; the cure that the men worked so hard to achieve no longer applies to the ever-changing life form. Andromeda escapes harmlessly into the atmosphere, leaving Hall with his third and final problem. Once initiated, the nuclear device has a three-minute clock, which Hall must race to stop by inserting his key into one of the substations found on every level of the facility.
Unfortunately, Hall has been sealed into a room with no substation. He must break into the dangerous central core and evade the computer's attempts to prevent his escape. The automatic sensors shoot him with poisoned darts as he climbs up the core to Level IV. Hall fights off the paralysis caused by the darts just long enough to insert his key into an atomic substation and halt the nuclear detonation.
When Mark Hall comes to, Dr. Stone informs him he has saved the lab and everyone in it with only seconds to spare. This brings to an end the five-day Andromeda crisis.
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