In the book, The Andromeda Strain there is a problem that faces mankind. This problem is a strange virus that comes to Earth from an unmanned satellite, which was in space. This satellite crashes into a small town in Arizona, which has a population of 38 people. When this satellite crashes into the Earth, it kills everyone, except for an old man and a two-month old baby. There are two scientists who have the job of going to the crash site and gathering up the remains from the satellite. While the two of them are attempting to do their job, they are mysteriously killed. The last thing that people on the other end of their radio heard was a loud scream, then static. The government, which was listening to what all was going on through the radio, thought that this was very strange. In the past, they had thought about there being a time when strange organisms from outer space would come to Earth, and try to take over. They decided that they would design a building that could be used to research the different things that they might come across in the future. This building would have to be very sterile so that the organisms couldn’t contaminate anything and destroy the Earth. The building was five stories high and each level was more sterile than the previous one. The building was located in the middle of nowhere underground, so that no one would know about it, unless they were on one of the teams that would be doing the r...
Military space probe seeking new weapons” as described in the book. It kills off the entire small town of Piedmont in western Arizona After it comes to earth, for the exception of a newborn baby and an old man. The Andromeda strain threatens to wipe out any and or all living creatures in its path unless one is vaccinated to protect themselves from it is produced.
...ary knew about the crash and that they were going to transport the wreckage to another military base. Many eyewitness accounts with similar details eliminate the possibility of merely a single person making up the entire event. The government’s contradictory reports demonstrate that their knowledge of the incident is dynamic and dependent on how they want the people to react. This matter is important because it raises the possibility that if the government is hiding information from the public about a spacecraft accident, there may be other incidents where the government is concealing the truth from the public. Despite the government’s best attempts to cover up the Roswell incident, eyewitness accounts from the common person validate the idea that an unidentified flying object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico and eternally changed the lives of several people.
Korff, K. K. (1997). The Roswell UFO crash: What they don't want you to know. Amherst, New Jersey: Prometheus.
This episode of The Twilight Zone “The Shelter”, focuses on a neighborhood set into mass hysteria because there has been an announcement over the radio that an unidentified flying object has been spotted flying towards America. This is assumed to be a plane carrying an atomic bomb because of the tensions that were happening at this time between Russia and America during the Cold War. The tensions at the time of production for this episode were very high as the Berlin Crisis of 1961 had just taken place the summer before. This Crisis is why the writer of the episode, Rod Serling wanted to create a fictional scenario where there was an immediate threat of a nuclear war. Rod Serling was a soldier during WW2 which influenced his future stories
...if it were cut off from power, a cafeteria, EMGOVSITCEN, which stood for Emergency Government Situation Centre, and was meant to be the eye and ears of the outside for the bunker, phone booths, a broadcasting studio, a decontamination center, a health center and confinement area, a dentist office, an emergency escape hatch and an emergency radio.
Serious security measures were set in place to protect the information discovered throughout the life of the “Manhattan Project.” The Jemez Mountains were chosen for the site of the “Manhattan Project” due to its remote location. All citizens of the Los Alamos Ranch School area, where the “Manhattan Project” was developed, received the same address so that military personnel could monitor all mail being sent in and out of the city. Numbers replaced names on all official documents. As a final precaution, workers knew nothing of the final product they were creating. Only what was needed to complete their jobs was told to the individuals (Wood “Men … Project”).
to see how the death rate was and whether it was a real problem. They
“The term ‘explode’ hardly does this event justice…” (pge 7) Yes this short but unsettling story “Chixculub” by T. Coraghessan Boyle starts out by talking about a comet. Throughout the story, it switches between the comet, and family that gets a disturbing call in the middle of the night. As the story continues, the comet and the downcast family become closely relatable by the end. As the Chixculub comet gets closer to earth, the family’s daughter hits closer to their heart as they find out she got in a terrible accident. Consequently talking about comets, something in this story that sticks out to me was that things hit harder than one may think.
Pete, an astronaut on the shuttle Atlantis, is speaking via satellite radio to NASA’s executive director, Dan Truman. Pete is completing maintenance on a satellite when it is struck by several small meteorites. Atlantis, Pete, and the Satellite are all destroyed by the meteorites. As Truman gives
It took until 1939 for the construction of over 75 structures on an area of six square kilometers in the suburb of Pingfan to be completed (Williams & Wallace, 1989). The compound consisted of an immense administrative building, multiple laboratories, dormitories for civilian workers, barracks, stables, barns, an autopsy and dissection building, green houses, three furnaces to dispose of bodies, and more (Harris, 2002). A special railroad connected the facility to Harbin, along with an air field that would as...
Barney, a teenage boy, and his parents rent a summer cabin in Dunstable. Him and his parents are staying in a house that belonged to Captain Latham. Captain Latham had a trading ship when Dunstable was an important port.
From page one, I was enthralled by the incredible dystopian Yancey created. Yancey did not create a dystopian like any other, this one is being taken over by aliens, also know as the “Others”. The first they heard of the Others is when there were satellite pictures of the mothership passing Mars, which is known as the Arrival. When this happened there was mayhem, humanity had no clue how to prepare or what they were preparing for, so they: had parades, rooftop parties, sit ins at the UN, the Security Council went in lock down, the president addressed the nation, and the majority of people went to Disney World. On the tenth day, the first wave came, that was lights out, a massive electromagnetic pulse wrenched through the atmosphere resulting in any form of electricity being cut out. As previously stated, the first wave killed about half a million people, but for the Others that was just the beginning. The second wave came and it was surfs up. Some type of metal slab came crashing from high orbit onto a major geological fault line, followed by a massive tsunami that wiped out the world coastlines. Only the lucky ones survived that attack, because approximately three billion people died. The attack that I personally think was the worst of them all, was the third wave. It was a virus known as “the blood plague” that took down most of humanity.
Menace II Society, a film about a young Black man who has lived the “hustler” lifestyle and is struggling to leave it, is a perfect example of deviance as the main character, Caine Lawson, and the characters around him violate many of society’s norms. Throughout the film, the characters swear incessantly, carry around guns and drugs as most people would carry around cell phones, commit street crimes, especially burglary and mugging, on a regular basis, and beat and kill people unscrupulously. The following quote captures just how deviant Caine and the other characters in this film were, “[Caine] went into the store just to get a beer. Came out an accessory to murder and armed robbery. It's funny like that in the hood sometimes. You never knew what was gonna happen, or when” (Albert Hughes). Why would Caine consider these crimes “funny”, or rather, so insignificant? What caused Caine to become so deviant? The answers to such questions were woven into the plot of the film and will be discussed in the following paragraphs.
Finally, in 1997, the US military admitted to lying about the object being a weather balloon. Instead they claim that the wreckage was part of a “top-secret experiment”(Mitton 11) involving some sort of balloon. Steve MacKenzie’s response, “if the object he tracked had been a weather balloon, secret or not, his superiors would have ordered him to ignore it.”(Dudley 35)
It created a gouge several hundred feet long and was scattered over a large area. Some of the debris had strange physical properties. He took some debris to show his neighbors then his son. Soon after that he notified the sheriff. The sheriff then contacted the authorities at Roswell Army Air Field Base. The are was closed off and the debris was eventually flown by B-29 and C-54 aircraft to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio.