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The Andromeda Strain Page #5
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a postmortem on it anyway.
Housekeeping to level 5.
Clean sweep schedule "B" now in effect.
Germfree animal technicians,
So, okay.
Isolate and identify.
Right. You and I'll scan
the capsule, Ruth.
Charlie, you work on these in autopsy.
Open the S.L., Ruth.
Adjust S. Y. System
for aseptricity as follows.
Points 2-A at 5.
Points 9 through 12 at plus 1.
Plus 3, plus 6 at minus.
Run an initial vector study, Charlie.
Find out how the disease
enters the body.
Charlie?
Yes.
then autopsy. Incredible.
Dutton, be careful.
Let our distinguished surgeon
handle the knife.
Fine, but not for a while.
First, I'm a pediatrician
and a geriatrist.
Take it easy.
Charlie will have a technician.
What's been done for them?
Just plasma for the old man,
dextrose for the baby.
Your therapy?
No. Medcom's.
Do I call you Miss Medcom?
If you like, Dr. Hall.
My name's Karen Anson.
Good. I couldn't cope with two machines.
How does this work?
You're lucky.
Medcom's got one of the best minds here.
It's a medical data analyzer
that can diagnose as well as prescribe.
It's hooked up to the
Every console and
instrument in Wildfire
is plugged into the main computer
on a time-sharing basis.
All our key lab studies
are done on automated machines.
It's hard to come
by in those suits.
Have you worked in them?
Not for real.
But I've been drilling for three months.
Thank God for an expert.
This sort of thing's new to me.
It's new to all of us.
Until now, Wildfire's been like a game.
We've even had simulation
biowar games here
with live subjects... volunteers.
I mean, I'm scared.
I never believed
Well, it has happened.
I'll need some lab tests.
Use this to check off
what you want.
Just touch the pen to the screen.
You draw the bloods,
I'll do the physicals.
Use the bar.
automatically behind you.
The only way you might possibly
break your suit is with a scalpel,
and a surgeon isn't likely to do that.
Bio-safety to S.L.
Reconfirm red R.D.P.
Status before transfer.
Second scan completed.
Score, nothing to nothing.
Go to 100 power.
No, Ruth.
Use only one microscanner.
You being paid by the hour?
in one half the time.
There's less chance of missing something
when we both concentrate on one screen.
Let's go directly to the inside.
We can assume they put
the Scoop on the thing
They sure got what
they were looking for.
We're not here to make accusations.
We have a job to do
purely as scientists.
Maybe not so pure.
Continue the scan, Ruth, on the outside.
No, don't do that.
We'll use the hands.
Nothing can happen, sir.
I'm faster than the hands.
I want you out of the hot room.
B.Z. Doris to I.Z. Alice.
S.D.T. Energy output
is 1.8 to 3.0 joules
with rate two to three milliradians.
And we still need those blankets.
No sweat, sir.
Those cages are airtight.
I wish you would sweat
a little more, Toby.
Sweat is a safeguard against some
kinds of bacteria and carelessness.
Use the hands.
Wow!
Transmitted by air, as we thought.
Now we've got to determine its size.
Could be a gas or some kind of a virus.
We'll use a hundred
angstrom filter to begin.
About the size of a small virus.
All systems go, sir.
Whatever it is,
it's larger than a virus.
We'll try a one micron filter.
Hang in there, baby.
He must be pretty big.
I'm gonna get me a fly swatter.
Do that.
Here goes with two microns.
Uh-huh.
Nasty.
At least we'll be able
to get a good look at it.
Dutton to Stone.
We've just found out its size:
About two microns in diameter.
Big enough to be a complete cell.
Interesting.
There's a good chance it's alive.
Airborne transmission?
Yes. What have you found?
So far nothing.
won't scan on the inside
because he says...
All right, Ruth.
Thanks, Charlie. Keep at it.
It's pointless to go on scanning outside.
If it's two microns in diameter,
it would've showed up at 440.
True, but we didn't know
that before, did we?
We'll start with five power on the inside.
Stick to established procedure.
Establishment gonna
fall down and go boom.
Switch to manual, Ruth.
The interior's too irregular
to probe on automatic.
More light, huh?
Half normal. Severely anemic.
Wake up, sir.
Can you hear me?
What's your name?
Jackson.
What?
Jackson.
Stay awake, Mr. Jackson.
Stay awake!
Tongue blade.
Sixty-eight
degrees on 1-4-0-7.
Sixty-one
on 1-2-0-3.
Loss rate is minus 0-0-12.
Please copy and confirm
all receiving locks.
You can tell you're a bachelor.
What was that?
I didn't say anything.
How the bugs get into the body.
I assume it was inhaled.
Not likely it's absorbed
through the skin.
That's what we'll find out now:
The mechanism of death.
We'll look at a
replay of that at speed 6.
That tells us
what we want to know, Hall.
The organism is inhaled.
The clotting begins in the lungs
and spreads outward.
I didn't think it possible.
I didn't think the total volume
of blood could solidify that fast.
I hoped maybe one crucial clot
might form in the brain,
which was what made them go insane,
and then the rest of the
blood clot more slowly.
We'd have a chance to cure that.
Cure what?
We don't know what it is.
Stone and Leavitt haven't been
able to isolate the hellish thing.
Of course they will in time.
Of course.
Hold it.
At the edge of that
shadow, I think...
Me too.
It's an indentation.
Yes, about the
size of a pencil point.
Go to 40.
Go to 60.
Jeremy,
do you think maybe...
Maybe it's
just a grain of sand.
Go to 80.
What about the bits of green?
Paint.
For God's sake!
Pistachio ice cream!
There's no basis to
assume it's anything yet.
You're too good a scientist not to
be thinking the same thing I am.
If this is
really something new,
some brand-new form of life...
The best hope of cracking it
is to be grindingly thorough
with the help of computer number one.
Okay? Now let's get on with it.
Hold it.
More pistachio?
I count four patches.
Keep going.
I'll computerize the coordinates.
Let's take a look
at the rock at 100.
I doubt that's what
knocked the capsule off trajectory.
Unless the rock was going
at tremendous speed,
or unless it's terribly heavy.
For Pete's sake, Ruth,
it can't be that heavy.
Hall and I could lift the capsule.
However, it's possible the
rock is different in space:
Out there it might do anything.
Maybe it has elastic properties
we don't even know yet.
Let's have a look
at the green patches.
They must've come off the rock,
if it is rock.
You know something?
They do look like spatters of paint.
Let's go back to the rock
and see it at 440.
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