The Andromeda Strain (1971): Watch Cell Part 2

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Stone? What do you think?
It looks like a crystal.
Well, gentlemen, there's our answer.
To what?
How Andromeda functions without amino acids.
Crystalline structure. Yes.
I've often thought that living matter...
might be based on crystals of some kind.
All these wedge-shaped compartments,
they'd serve to separate biochemical functions very well.
It's dividing.
In a vacuum, bombarded by electrons? It shouldn't even be alive!
That's what I wanted to tell you. The growth program...
shows Andromeda can live on anything.
Only gas and light affect it.
You didn't get any no-growth results on the cultures?
None. Look.
The poorest growth occurs in pure oxygen...
incubated under infrared light.
Andromeda grows best in carbon dioxide and hydrogen...
incubated under X rays.
No excretions.
No waste of any kind. You'd expect that.
Andromeda's perfect for existence in outer space.
Consumes everything, wastes nothing.

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