re the andromeda strain in article c pvp l chinet chi il us dhartung chinet chi il us dan hartung writes just had the opportunity to watch this flick on a e some years since i saw it last wow the wwii channel did something not wwii i was very interested in the technology demonstrated in this film for handling infectious diseases and similar toxic substances clearly they faked a lot of the computer robotic technology certainly at the time it was made most of that was science fiction itself let alone the idea of a space germ the graphics capabilities of the computers were very faked for movie audiences who have not ability or patience with numbers the book was more realistic in that respect in all respects actually the robotics are still out of range but not impossible quite coincidentally actually this is what got me wanted to see the movie again i watched a segment on the otherwise awful how d they do that dealing with a disease researcher at the cdc s top lab there was description of the elaborate security measures taken so that building will never be cracked so to speak by man or nature short of deliberate bombing from the air perhaps and the researchers used spacesuits similar to that in the film sf and i ve always wondered how crichton escapes this classification is usually ahead of science in both prediction and precaution nasa s decontaimination processes were supposedly taken to prevent sf story disasters i mean nasa scientists were often sf readers and sometimes writers and felt pre warned by their reading i m curious what people think about this film short of silly is such a facility technically feasible today i think the film still holds up among the best of sf films but that isn t saying a whole lot as far as the plot and the crystalline structure that is not life as we know it that s a whole nother argument for rec arts sf tech or something yep
