This is a Skullspace movie first for me: I've actually been wanting to see
this movie for some time. Andromeda Strain is a favourite book of mine.

RIP Michael Crichton. Without you I would have never had a healthy respect
for the dangers of space viruses and an illogical fear of Velociraptors.

- Jay Smith / @Sporked
On 2013-02-08 10:06 AM, "Justin Lacko" <[email protected]> wrote:

> For those of you who were around last year to watch Colossus: The Forbin
> Project (1970), I'll be playing a similar-styled movie tonight for anyone
> who's interested in watching. It's called The Andromeda Strain (1971).
>
> Andromeda Strain is about a virus that comes to Earth via a returning
> satellite that is deadly to life. A special team of scientists must work on
> finding a cure in a secret lab deep underground in Nevada. The movie
> focuses a lot of scientific procedure, and while some ideas are obviously
> fantastical, a lot of it reflects the actual scientific process - this
> makes the movie more realistic compared to some scientist in some movie
> saying "Set maximum photo-discombobulation to max outputs!!"
>
> The original soundtrack of electronic music came in really neat hexagonal
> packaging and was a very limited edition:
> http://weirdwardhoblog.blogspot.ca/2011/03/sound-and-vision-andromeda-strain-aka.html
> I will have a digital copy of the soundtrack available to share with
> anyone who is interested. (Bite me, RIAA)
>
> Wikipedia page (warning, spoilers):
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain_(film)
>
> IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/
>
> Rotten Tomatoes page: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/andromeda_strain/
>
> Hope to see you tonight!
>
> ~Justin
>
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