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A satellite brings back a deadly pathogen which scientists desperately try to figure out a cure for.

It’s got that oldie feeling, but with enough of a timeless element to make it really riveting.

• Trailer
• Inspired by The Andromeda Strain – (1969 book), by Michael Crichton
• Inappropriately rated: Rated G but with a topless woman, bare men’s bums, sex comments.

• This inspired The Andromeda Strain – (2008 show)

• 2023-12-01

2023-12-01 ∞

• 0:15 — Reading.

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  This film concerns the four-day history
  of a major American scientific crisis.

  We received the generous help of many
  people attached to Project Scoop [ 1 ] at Vandenberg
  Air Force Base and the Wildfire Laboratory in
  Flatrock [ 2 ] , Nevada. [ 3 ] They encouraged us to tell
  the story accurately and in detail.

• 4:15 — Piedmont, New Mexico – United States is fictional.
• 5:00 — Buzzard (they mean Vulture)
• 7:30 — FLIR
• 13:00 — San Francisco International Airport
• 13:30 — I don’t know what Onassis means.
• 13:45 — Appendectomy
• 17:00 — “The odd man hypothesis” is fictional.
• 18:15 — NASA
• 21:30 — With all that dust blown up, for sure that helicopter would have to be sterilized.
• 23:15 — They should be extra careful with what they touch. A splinter would compromise their suit.
• 24:00 — Inappropriately rated: Rated G but with a topless woman.
• 28:30 — Blood clotting
• 34:45 — The nuclear device is technically at ground level, and not above, so it could technically be okay to detonate.

• 36:00 —

  • Pot
  • Barley
• 36:45 — Bordello
• I forgot to mention Alaska earlier.
• 39:15 — Palm print
• 45:45 — Intravenous therapy
• 46:15 — Is that guy stupid?
• 46:45 — Inappropriately rated: Rated G but with bums.
• 49:15 — Ragweed Allergy
• 51:15 — AMA
• 53:00 — Nobody commented on having all their body hair burned off?
• 54:15 — Rudolph Karp and that bacteria reference might be fictional.

• 57:00 —

  • Hemlock
  • Hippocrates
• 59:00 — That was a reference to having a cigarette after sex. In this case anal sex, making this very inappropriately rated.
• 1:01:00 — Is that a sterile rat?
• 1:01:45 — Why would the rat die but the earlier vultures didn’t?
• 1:02:00 — Rhesus
• 1:06:00 — Time-sharing
• 1:07:00 — Light pen
• 1:10:15 — That suit should have a proper airlock, and not itself be one.
• 1:11:00 — Angstrom
• 1:15:15 — If he’s that anemic then maybe give him a blood transfusion.
• 1:18:45 — A nuclear magnascanner appears to be fictional.
• 1:20:45 — Elasticity (physics)
• 1:25:00 — Acidosis
• 1:25:45 — Careful you don’t get bit.

• 1:26:15 —

  • Bleeding ulcer
  • Aspirin, which makes it even worse.
  • Squeeze sounds like a liquor cocktail.
  • Sterno aha.
• 1:30:30 — That piece of paper should have been presented better, because as it was shown it would still be audible albeit muted.
• 1:31:45 — Big Head Pass, Utah (United States) appears to be fictional.
• 1:32:45 — Natural rubber
• 1:36:45 — Polychron appears to be fictional.

• 1:40:00 —

  • Diabetes
  • Insulin (medication)

• 1:55:30 —

  • Phenobarbital
  • Epilepsy
  • Seizure
  • Oxygen – pure oxygen
• 2:00:45 — Respiratory alkalosis
• 2:04:30 — Those lasers track slowly, and he also needs to worry about his eyes.
• 2:05:30 — Shouldn’t the laser continue firing?

• 2:08:45 —

  • Cloud seeding
  • Silver iodide

Footnotes

1. Project Scoop is fictional [ ↩ ]
2. Flatrock appears to be fictional. [ ↩ ]
3. “Wildfire” is fictional. [ ↩ ]