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.
Geemail1802 · 2h 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 · 23m 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?]
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?]