This allows it to escape captivity, and grow into a large airborne mass. While under observation at a top-secret research facility, the organism mutates into a form that is not deadly to humans, but does destroy rubber. It instantly kills the population of the small town in Nevada where it landed, and then is isolated by a team of government scientists. It arrives on our planet via a crashed space probe - it was human explorations that found it, but it is encountered on Earth rather than in space. It's also hard to classify it as a visitor or as something humans encountered in outer space. It is hard to tell whether the extraterrestrial in Andromeda Strain is intentionally hostile or friendly. Technology fails humans in this film on several levels - it is classified research technology that brought the andromeda strain to our planet, yet both medical and scientific procedures prove useless when trying to combat it. Everything in the Wildfire facility is squeaky clean and perfectly manufactured. Rather, it is the source (and the solution) to the problem at hand.Īndromeda Strain presents a very sterile version of science and technology. Like 2001, technology does not hold importance as technology. Many scenes are reenactments of scientific procedures, such as the scientific team's manipulation of Andromeda samples underneath a high-powered microscope. Andromeda Strain is unique in that hard science is at the center of the development of its plot, and not just thrown in for good measure.

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