The Andromeda Strain
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1:54:00
But he's not.
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There must be a connection!
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They both stayed alive at Piedmont
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breathing the same air.
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One's blood too alkaline,
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the other too... acid.
1:54:15
Yes. Yes!
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Dutton, I'm turning off the oxygen.
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Breathe fast and hard.
1:54:23
No, Jeremy!
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Don't let him cut off my oxygen.
1:54:25
No! The air in that room is loaded...
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Air doesn't matter.
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Blood does. That's the answer.
1:54:39
I need 30 seconds
to run a growth program.

1:54:42
He could die in 30 seconds.
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Besides, Leavitt checked
all the growth programs.

1:54:46
She might have missed something.
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Epileptics blank out.
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I want to see how the
growth of Andromeda

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is affected by blood
chemistry. The pH...

1:54:52
Oh, damn!
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You do it.
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Excellent.
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The graph's practically
straight up and down.

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That means Andromeda can only exist
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within a narrow range of pH.
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A very narrow range.
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On either side of the
tolerance range, no growth.

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Nothing, right?
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It's exterminated.
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Dutton, our troubles are over.
1:55:30
Look at your console.
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It grows within
a narrow range of pH.

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A very narrow range.
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If your blood's abnormal,
if it's too acid or alkaline,

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Andromeda can't survive
in the body.

1:55:41
So breathe as fast as you can.
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Go into respiratory alkalosis.
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Yes, fine.
1:55:50
That'll shoot your
blood chemistry to hell.

1:55:52
It's what happens to the baby
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when he cries too much,
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or the old man on Sterno.
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How do you feel?
1:55:59
Okay.

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