This reminds me of a novel I read - whose title I won't mention, due to spoilers - where one alien civilization effectively caused the collapse of another one by infecting them with an engineer bacteria that ate all of their super-conductors.
ne0flex · 6m ago
Was curious what book this is, so I copy-pasted your summary and prefaced it with "what book is the one" and it gave me the correct title and author. Looking forward to reading this!
stjo · 18m ago
It must be quite a title if it is more revealing than the summary itself.
amluto · 7m ago
It’s a rather famous sci-fi universe by a well known author, and I don’t think this particular revelation would spoil much of it.
Geemail1802 · 3h ago
Reminds me of the Andromeda Strain where a microbe of extraterrestrial origin digested the containment seals being used by the scientists who were trying to study it.
pavel_lishin · 1h ago
Not what I was thinking of, but another excellent example.
Did they actually confirm that it was an extra-terrestrial bacteria? I thought they just scooped something up from the upper atmosphere during a test flight. [Edit: looked it up, you're totally right, I'm either mis-remembering the plot, or maybe the movie adjusted this element?]
apothegm · 9m ago
Yeah, my memory matches yours. Not extraterrestrial in the sense of “from another planet” but found when investigating the crash of a satellite or something to that effect.
Did they actually confirm that it was an extra-terrestrial bacteria? I thought they just scooped something up from the upper atmosphere during a test flight. [Edit: looked it up, you're totally right, I'm either mis-remembering the plot, or maybe the movie adjusted this element?]