The Andromeda Strain
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Biocheck 66 plus 9 minus OL-5.
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LEO control to KEEPSAKE 5.
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The pressure integrity check
runs 2.54 G-CM to the second.

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Please confirm.
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A new form of life.
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Like Rudolph Karp's bacteria.
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Fools!
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They refuse to believe
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life exists in meteorites.
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I showed them at the Astrophysics
Conference what I just showed you.

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But no, even with a microscope,
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they are blind.
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What do I have to do?
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Hit them over the head?
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I'm glad you're amused, gentlemen,
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but it might just turn out to be true.
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During this symposium,
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we'll discuss the possibility
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that intelligent life
on a distant planet

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may be no larger than a flea.
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Perhaps no larger
than a bacterium.

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Time to wake up, sir.

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