![]() The alien message does bring humanity together, encouraging us to focus on the fact that we’re all humans, we’re all from Earth. There’s even some crowdsourcing happening, when scientists are unable to crack the code, they make chunks of it available to the public to see if any armchair cryptographers can figure it out. It was interesting to watch Ellie fight with US Military head honchos (and win) when it came to working with Soviet scientists to figure out the message. Ellie and her fellow scientists are used to sharing discoveries and knowledge with the global scientific community, but world power governments would prefer to keep everything secret. Receiving an alien message is one thing, but how the world reacts to it is what’s important. Much of this is gone through very quickly, as Sagan is trying to get to the meat of the story. ![]() And underneath that are other messages, including thousands of pages of indecipherable writing. Embarrassing, to say the least, that the first image aliens get of us is Hitler. What was the Vegan’s first image of Earthlings? Hitler, welcoming people to the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Underneath the prime numbers message is a visual image of some of the first powerful television signals to leave the Earth’s atmosphere. There’s got to be more to it than someone shouting prime numbers, right? Of course there is. The message comes from Vega, and at first all we hear is a pattern of prime numbers. This is of course, a novel about first contact, so it’s not a spoiler to tell you that an alien message is received. ![]() Obsessed with SETI (The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), Director Arroway was able to ensure her “farfetched” sky scanning projects got the majority of the telescope time. She took them apart as a child, and as an adult became one of the only female radio telescope directors. ![]() Time waits for no one, and aliens don’t wait for the invention of the i-pad.Įleanor Arroway always loved radios. We went to the moon on the computing power of a Commodore64, which means I can completely believe that all that’s needed to translate an alien message is a radio telescope, a sliderule, and a fax machine. Ellie has to drag a telefax machine around with her when she travels. not the new ones they made off the old soundtrack) on your Netflix.Ĭontact was written in the 1980’s, and the only thing that made it feel dated was that cell phones and e-mail never show up. Don’t know who Carl Sagan is? the horror! Get thee to his wikipedia page, pronto! And then put Cosmos (the original. ![]()
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