Book: The The Andromeda Strain

Bacteria can take the form of spores, forming around itself a hard shell made of calcium salts. This shell enabled the organism to survive freezing and boiling point, and, if necessary, thousands of years without food. How would the shell combines the benefits of analiticheskoi of a space suit.

Levitova "Rule forty-eight" was formulated simply, "All scientists are blind."

Upon breaking open his meteorites, Rudolph Karp was able to isolate bacteria. He found that they constitute a ring-shaped organisms, rather like a tiny inner tube with a wavy surface, and is able to grow and multiply.

Just as the progress of human technology leads to the miniaturization of many things, and evolution to a more perfect stage, quite possibly, leads to smaller and smaller forms of life. By the way, these life forms have certain advantages over big: they need less raw material, less food, spaceflight cheaper.

All people, even the most objective, can't get rid of some innate prejudice when it comes to life challenges. One of those prejudices - the belief that complex life was larger than simple life. On Earth the development of the animal world were always from small to large, from simple to complex. And out of the Earth? In some other places, life might progress in the opposite direction, toward smaller and smaller forms.

The old medical rule: eliminate the symptoms - the disease will disappear.

Perhaps the fact that we bleed to death makes us human.

The problem kirk had grabbed on the fly and, skillfully operating on the original data gave the desired result; he could not make ends meet in their personal budget, but mathematics often turned to him for help in solving difficult abstract problems.

Colleagues awarded Burton the nickname Spotykach, whether because he was always stumbling, stepping on his untied shoelaces and worn cuffs of the pants, either because they had an amazing ability to accidentally stumble on the most important discoveries.

Leavitt was an inveterate pessimist. (He once confessed that at my own wedding, I could think of was how much alimony I will have to pay.) He was grumpy, irritable and very heavy; on the face of it, there was a sullen folds, and his eyes froze sadness it seemed as though those eyes gaze into the future, but I see there is a dull hopelessness. And yet Leavitt was considered, imaginative and not afraid to think broadly and boldly.

In its final form, Scoop was designed to orbit seventeen satellites, intended for the collection and delivery to Earth of extraterrestrial microorganisms.

Not many Americans know what magnitude reached in the US military chemical-biological research. The total government expenditure for the development of chemical and biological weapons exceeds $ 500 million per year. The Johns Hopkins University performed a program of comparative study of existing or potential diseases of interest for the conduct of bacteriological warfare, and the study of some chemical and immunological reactions to certain toxoids and vaccines.

Fort Detrick was built specifically for the development of new chemical and biological means of warfare. Only 15 percent held here of works are highlighted in scientific journals; the rest were classified, as all studies in the Harley. Harley is a top-secret institution dealing mainly by viruses over the last ten years there displayed many new items.

Jet propulsion laboratory has designed the satellite to output to lower limits of outer space and collect organisms and dust for study. The program was considered a purely scientific, started almost out of curiosity. The true purpose was quite different. It was a program designed for the discovery of new types of biological weapons.