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

Crap; just watch The Andromeda Strain – (1971 movie)

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• Inspired by The Andromeda Strain – (1969 book), by Michael Crichton

• Inspired by The Andromeda Strain – (1971 movie)

• YouTube > @theandromedastrain

Part 1 – 2008-05-26 ∞

• 1:00 —

  • Orion (constellation)
  • Draco (constellation)
  • Cassiopeia (constellation)
  • Big Dipper

• 1:45 —

  • Satellite
  • Radioactive decay
• 2:45 — Piedmont, Utah – (United States) appears to be fictional.
• 4:15 — Mining community
• 4:30 — North Korea

• 4:45 —

  • Homeland security
  • White House
• 7:00 — NASA

• 7:45 —

  • Thermography
  • Night vision
• 8:00 — NORTHCOM

• 8:15 —

  • Fundraising (Political campaign)
  • Environmentalism
• 9:30 — God damn they’ve already done so much to stretch this out.
• 9:45 — Well he was right up in his face.
• 10:00 — Let me guess, Communist Chinese media manipulation.
• 11:00 — She’s untrustworthy.
• 12:30 — A fatality rate of nearly 100% is awesome. Virulence burns out very quickly. This is why SARS-CoV-1 wasn’t as bad as it might have been.

• 14:00 —

  • Ocean floor
  • Manganese
  • Gold
• 14:30 — Baskin-Robbins
• 15:00 — The Pentagon

• 15:45 —

  • hit piece
    — It’s fucking hilarious that Wikipedia doesn’t have an article on Hit pieces, given that the media is rife with them.
  • Investigative journalism
• 16:30 — Biodefense
• 17:00 — Johns Hopkins Hospital

• 17:30 —

  • CDC
  • San Francisco Department of Public Health
• 19:00 — Humvee

• 21:00 —

  • Gulf War
  • Loch Ness Monster
  • Bigfoot
  • Biological warfare
  • Saddam Hussein
  • Iran – Iran–Iraq War
• 22:15 — Kuwait – Liberation of Kuwait campaign
• 22:45 — Paparazzi

• 23:30 —

  • Disease vector
  • SARS
  • West Nile virus
• 24:15 — Audubon Society

• 24:30 —

  • Deep sea mining
  • Hydrothermal vent
• 25:45 — Ahab is from Moby-Dick – (1851 book), by Herman Melville
• 26:00 — Betty Ford Center

• 26:45 —

  • Coronary (heart attack)
  • Asphyxia
• 30:15 — Radial artery

• 31:15 —

  • 1951 FL Panhead is a Harley-Davidson
  • Conservation and restoration of road vehicles
  • Suicide clutch – Tank shift, foot clutch
• 34:45 — How could the dog live when the town was gassed?
• 35:15 — What happened could have just blown over and the whole place is safe now.
• 36:45 — Let me get this straight. They’re presumably contaminated but they drive around and are walking right on into another place with unprotected people.
• 38:00 — They just vaguely got splashed, no it’s not safe for them to remove their helmets.
• 39:30 — Again, vaguely splashed. The fuck they’re doing all this wrong as hell.
• 40:45 — Why the everloving fuck would there be any sort of privacy?
• 42:30 — Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• 43:15 — Pyongyang regime makes no sense. It’s Kim Jong Il

• 45:00 —

  • Virus
  • Fungus
  • Bacteria
  • Parasitism
  • Prion
  • Southern California which wouldn’t be a loss at all.
• 45:30 — Utah National Guard
• 47:15 — Wow, they really sucked with that communications blackout.

• 49:30 — Elasticity (physics)

  • And again, wow this was delivered badly.

• 51:00 —

  • Ativan
  • IV
  • Basophil is a thing, but I don’t know what “basolyte” is.
  • Gastrointestinal bleeding
  • Whole blood
  • Blood plasma
  • Vitamin K
  • Blood test

• 53:30 —

  • Airborne transmission
  • Rhesus macaque
• 54:45 — This is brought to you by BlackBerry, a phone that few people have.

• 57:15 —

  • Coagulation
  • Anticoagulant
  • Heparin
  • Franz Nissl‘s staining method.
  • I don’t understand the reference to Cajal. Is it Astrocyte?
• 57:30 — Bucky balls

• 59:45 —

  • Old Faithful
  • Ulcer
  • grapefruit
  • Peptic ulcer disease
  • Aspirin, which makes it worse.
  • Sterno
  • Methanol
• 1:01:45 — Area 51
• 1:03:30 — Pink lady (medicine)

• 1:04:00 —

  • Formaldehyde
  • Formic acid
  • Rapid breathing
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Carbonic acid
  • Baby colic
• 1:05:00 — E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – (1982 movie)
• 1:05:15 — Buckminster Fuller

• 1:06:00 —

  • Black plague
  • Typhus
  • Smallpox
• 1:06:15 — Huh, what does racism have to do with anything?

• 1:13:00 —

  • Gravitational singularity
  • Wormhole

• 1:23:00 — This is just bad compared to The Andromeda Strain – (1971 movie)