![]() ![]() He argues that since simple organisms are far more common than complex ones it is more likely that contact between humans and other life forms will come in the form of bacteria. Merrick, an English biophysicist, at a symposium. The consequences of such contact are disturbing when one recalls that 3 per cent of all earth bacteria are capable of exerting some deleterious effect upon man.” ![]() “These considerations lead me to believe that the first human interaction with extraterrestrial life will consist of contact with organisms similar to, if not identical to, earth bacteria or viruses. He is shortly to find out that on this particular night, something has definitely happened. Lieutenant Edgar Comroe is bored with his job as control officer at nights for Mission Control for Project Scoop at Vandenberg Air Force Base. At this point, Shawn and his colleague Private Crane, have no idea that they are about to stumble on a disaster. They are about to descend to eat the corpses in the town. Lieutenant Shawn’s first sight of the buzzards flying over Piedmont. “In the light of the full moon, he could see them, big birds, gliding in slow circles over the buildings, passing like black shadows across the face of the moon.” ![]()
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