Re: [ccp4bb] crystallography movies

2010-04-15 Thread Gary Ratner
Well, the original movie was reasonably well done. But the made for TV version is deeply rewarding, for all the wrong reasons, being "so bad, it's good". SPOILER ALERT: Read no further if you want to truly enjoy the the silliest four minutes in the history of made-for-television movies, specific

[ccp4bb] crystallography movies

2010-04-15 Thread james . phillips
Both the original movie and the made-for-TV movies of "The Andromeda Strain" had short references to crystallography, the first in how the strain was organized, the second in how a message from the future was encoded in buckyball nanotechnology crystal. Perhaps this is why they are my favorite s