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From: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Andromeda Strain question
Message-ID: <212@nrcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 15:34:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 15 15:34:44 1985
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Reply-To: terry@nrcvax.UUCP (Terry Grevstad)
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Summary: 

judith@proper.UUCP (judith) says:
>I haven't seen _The_Andromeda_Strain_ in a few years, but I began to wonder
>about this recently.  As the scientists who are to investigate the bug are
>taken deeper and deeper into the lab complex, they are progressively cleaned,
>shaven, disinfected, weaned from real food, etc. etc. etc., so they will be
>REALLY clean when they get to the lowest level.
>
>What for?
>
>They never interact with anything important except through waldos and other
>interfaces built to eliminate contact, so what's the difference?

Not only that, but I have it on good authority (various doctors and
nurses) that if they went through all that high level disinfecting
they would have been very dead.  Especially the part where they burn
off the top layer of skin.  That much burning over the entire body
would probably kill anything.



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                                                       Terry Grevstad
                                         Network Research Corporation
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