The Andromeda Strain
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1:42:01
I'm setting it at 800 angstroms,
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and I'm going to a higher magnification.
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Now we're getting somewhere!
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Yeah.
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But these can't be more
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than a few molecules in depth.
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That's the one, that silver one.
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This is a Villabach alert,
all levels.

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This is a Villabach alert.
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Electromagnetic waves are not
registering on the D.I.R.

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Sample in the button
and sealed, Charlie.

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Start the vacuum pump.
1:42:58
Stone, can I see you?
1:43:00
I have the results
of the growth cultures.

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No, we can't leave now.
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We have an Andromeda cell in the E.M.
1:43:06
Okay, Charlie, let's
put it on the screen.

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Let's run it through the computer
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for contrast expansion.
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Stone?
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What do you think?
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It looks like a crystal.
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Well, gentlemen, there's our answer.
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To what?
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How Andromeda functions
without amino acids.

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Crystalline structure.
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Yes.
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I've often thought
that living matter

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might be based on
crystals of some kind.

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All these wedge-shaped compartments,
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they'd serve to separate
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biochemical functions very well.
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It's dividing.

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