Plot-The Andromeda Strain

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Five biophysicists start a program called Project Wildfire, which gives proper sterilization to any possible contaminated space probe. Two years later, Project Scoop sends 17 satellites to the outer layer of the atmosphere to collect any possible organisms for study. One satellite unexpectedly falls into Piedmont, Arizona and when it is retrieved, bodies are scattered everywhere and the only two survivors are an old man and a baby. Four scientists are called upon to investigate and the satellite along with the two survivors, are taken to a top-secret impenetrable fortress-like laboratory.

After going through 5 levels of sterilization, the scientists made it down to the 5th floor where they could study the organism that wiped out a whol

e town and why the two survivors survived. The survivors and the satellite were studied in separate sealed off, plastic rooms. While studying the organism that did this, they found out that it killed by causing your blood to clot rapidly to the point where it is clotted solid. What's even more amazing is that it did this in a matter of seconds. Now the scientists had to find out what the two survivors had that made them immune to the organism. While talking to the old man, they found out that he drank Sterno and that gave him acidosis, which means his body was more acidic than it should be. The baby took the other extreme; it was alkalotic from crying constantly and raising its breathing rate, which means its body was more basic than nor

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Piedmont Arizona, Project Scoop, Project Wildfire, , means body, Andromeda Strain,

Approximate Word count = 502
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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