Andromeda Strain Day 2 Summary
The Andromeda Strain: Day 2, Chapters summary
Chapter 5: The Early Hours
Manchek leaves a message saying it is vital to call Wildfire alert. The five scientists who have been alerted are Jeremy Stone, Peter Leavitt, Charles Barton, Christian Kirke, and Mark Hall.
Stone is handed a file called PROJECT SUMMARY; SCOOP. He also remembered the conference he attended a few years ago that was about the probability of contact between man and alien life forms. He concluded that the most probable contact would be with a simple rather than complex life form, such as a bacteria or a virus.
Stone wrote a paper arguing that space probes carried with them the possibility that extraterrestrial organisms would contaminate the earth. He and a group of expert presented a petition to the U.S. president in 1965, proposing a facility be established that can deal with an alien life form, should it present itself. The goal was to segregate it, analyze it and protect earth life from it.
On the other hand, the scoop report’s aim was to collect any organisms that live in the upper atmosphere of the earth. On the surface, it is a purely scientific project, but its real purpose is to discover new biological weapons.
Chapter 6: Piedmont
Stone and Burton are flown by helicopter to Piedmont and they proceed in examining the situation. Although the bacteria is airborne, they have received no reports of any more deaths. As the helicopter flies over Piedmont, the pilot drops gas canisters to kill the buzzards that are still clustered over the corpses.
Chapter 7: “An Unusual Process”
The men stand in the silent street. They ponder to what had happened to the dead. Many wore nightclothes and did not look as if they died in pain. Burton and Stone speculate that they may have died through suffocation. They eventually found a town doctor, Alan Benedict, dead at his desk. The satellite is there and has been opened. They assessed him and cut his corpse, only to find there was no bleeding, only
Chapter 5: The Early Hours
Manchek leaves a message saying it is vital to call Wildfire alert. The five scientists who have been alerted are Jeremy Stone, Peter Leavitt, Charles Barton, Christian Kirke, and Mark Hall.
Stone is handed a file called PROJECT SUMMARY; SCOOP. He also remembered the conference he attended a few years ago that was about the probability of contact between man and alien life forms. He concluded that the most probable contact would be with a simple rather than complex life form, such as a bacteria or a virus.
Stone wrote a paper arguing that space probes carried with them the possibility that extraterrestrial organisms would contaminate the earth. He and a group of expert presented a petition to the U.S. president in 1965, proposing a facility be established that can deal with an alien life form, should it present itself. The goal was to segregate it, analyze it and protect earth life from it.
On the other hand, the scoop report’s aim was to collect any organisms that live in the upper atmosphere of the earth. On the surface, it is a purely scientific project, but its real purpose is to discover new biological weapons.
Chapter 6: Piedmont
Stone and Burton are flown by helicopter to Piedmont and they proceed in examining the situation. Although the bacteria is airborne, they have received no reports of any more deaths. As the helicopter flies over Piedmont, the pilot drops gas canisters to kill the buzzards that are still clustered over the corpses.
Chapter 7: “An Unusual Process”
The men stand in the silent street. They ponder to what had happened to the dead. Many wore nightclothes and did not look as if they died in pain. Burton and Stone speculate that they may have died through suffocation. They eventually found a town doctor, Alan Benedict, dead at his desk. The satellite is there and has been opened. They assessed him and cut his corpse, only to find there was no bleeding, only