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NoiseOfKnowing
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 17:15:04 (PST)
I wanted to mark the 10th anniversary of Sagan's passing. I just got a job at NASA this past
year, and his influence is part of the reason that I'm here.
NoiseOfKnowing
Saturday, December 02, 2006 at 12:24:17 (PST)
Did any of you participate in the official Contact website chat room when the movie was first released?
NoiseOfKnowing
Saturday, December 02, 2006 at 12:20:44 (PST)
I'm amazed that there are still people so enthusiastic about this movie ten years later. It
just shows how some movies can be so much apart of us.
Al
Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 17:39:51 (PDT)
"Elmer."
mdot
Sunday, September 24, 2006 at 17:14:22 (PDT)
What was the name of the crash/test dummy?
Mr. Smith
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 16:12:56 (PDT)
This movie is so cool... I love it. Jodie Foster is a great actress.
Johnny
Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 18:23:58 (PDT)
I'm in the Air Force and yes...that plane used in the movie does exist. Its a Navy/Marine plane.
Very few of them exist due to the costs and because better planes are being built and used as I type this.
Back to the movie.....EVERYONE MUST READ THE BOOK!!!
The book answers alot of the repeated questions on here.
The aliens recreated her childhood painting and her father so she would not panic. This was
humans first contact with an alien and they knew to approach it slowly.
They also know that we are not completely ready for more in our current timeline. They know
that we have too many beliefs and some are still actually willing to kill for those beliefs.
Humanity still has a long way to go before we can truly rid ourselves of believing in fake
creators. Eventually we will learn that science proves all....mathmatically. Math is the
one thing you can NEVER prove wrong. Its impossible to do so.
One of the best movie/book to date!!!!
Walt
Saturday, August 05, 2006 at 20:09:34 (PDT)
This is probably the ONLY movie that intrigued me SO MUCH that I couldn't find anything
wrong with it. And believe you me... I've seen it six times crawling through it with a
fine tooth comb just looking for something to pick apart.
But all I ended up doing was pick my own brain apart trying to find that something... (* GRIN *)
This movie makes the viewer ask so many questions, ponder so many things, challenges many
of the basic concepts which we (as humans) consider or tend to believe to be true, but in
which we have no real factual evidence to prove... "blind faith (if you will)" in
that we blindly believe things to be true regardless of whether they are provable or not
just because that's what many of us want to believe is true.
I really enjoyed every part of the movie... all the way to the end when Jody Foster (Ellie)
conscribes to Occam's Razor theory that the simplest explanation tends to be the best
scientifically sheerly due to the fact that she had no supporting evidence to back up
her experience.
But the kicker of that movie which really knocked my shoes off was that very last part
where the video tape which she had turned on all the time in the time-travel machine had
nothing but static noise on it... several hours worth even though she wasn't in the pod
for that amount of time.
At first, I thought it might just be the standard static that comes on all new VCR tapes,
but she only had the camera on for a short period of time. Thus there should have been
some kind of change between the time the Camera was actually ON and the time after it
was turned OFF.
Of course, this is a movie... but you can get so wrapped up into it that you forget about
it being a movie and just want to follow the story through to the end wondering in
bewilderment where it will lead.
The movie was brilliantly concieved, very thoroughly and thoughtfully planned and layed
out and sticks to facts through out from beginning to end in an attempt to prove
everything. It includes so many real facts that it only adds credibility to that which is fiction.
I loved it and will probably watch it again and again at least another 6-10 times.
Cheers,
Walt
Jonathan Cassidy
Friday, June 23, 2006 at 18:00:34 (PDT)
Is there a connection between The Machine and our bodies? I see it. Does anyone else?
Jonathan Cassidy
cjonath1@nycap.rr.com
~Emily~
Saturday, June 10, 2006 at 22:52:39 (PDT)
this was a very interesting movie, at first when i saw this movie i thought it was really
boring but when the movie went on i was really attached to it! i really think this is a
good movie, this movie has inspired me! i want to study science and technology, i love
my science class!
i saw this movie in my 7th grade science just last year and now in my 8th grade year i
finally found it and i am going to buy it, cause i really like this movie!
one question though how did you come up with a movie this intereting?
Ella of the Philippines
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 08:12:39 (PDT)
The movie and the novel had been a big life-changer of mine. It opened my eyes to a
much larger pace and it made me hold on stronger to my convictions. Ironically, this
"sci-fi" story had taught me more about life, love and faith than other religious
documents (no offense). Im not asking for a sequel to the movie. I think the movie
should be left un-sequeled, but I encourage others to read the book to have a deeper
view on the hole story. I cant imagine my life without having bumped into this story.
JR
Monday, May 22, 2006 at 22:02:33 (PDT)
I suggest you all read the following paper:
http://www.casualentropy.com/Documents/Interstellar_Comm_Link.pdf
It examines the technical hurdles involved in an interstellar communication link via
radio. For those of you interested in radio astronomy and SETI, it provides a solid
theoretical foundation. In particular, it analyzes several examples of how to
practically communicate with other star systems.
Iulius from Romania
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 01:13:45 (PDT)
I couldn't figure out why she made stops along the way
I think "they" wanted to give her the measure of infinity; what sensations could
she gain in an no-stop direct travel ro the "enviroment" she landed in the end?...
(sorry if my english is kind of rusty, i'm from Romania. Thx)
Was there something specific I was supposed to learn about Ellie's comments as she was
flying through each wormhole?
Yes, something very specific I would say; and that is, in an wormhole time is no longer
linear, the distorsions of it creating hypotetically strange effects. As coexisting two
different moments of your timeline (life) in the same space - because the words u bearly
understand are words from next frames of the movie. "I did not belive..." if i
remember correctly, is one of the sentences she say then, and later a few minutes, when
she see the entire Galaxy. Too sad i dont have the movie recorded so i can verify that one.
Is this because the pod wasn't meant to include a chair at all, as Ellie suggested
earlier in the film?
Exactly that's why. :)
When Ellie finally lands, what is the significance of the "goo" she touches when
she reaches out toward the beautiful scenery? It seems to be all around her -- it is her
pod, transformed? Is it a device or room that the aliens have created in order to reflect
an environment she can emotionally digest? If so, why does her "father" seem so
real, real enough that she can touch him and he can kiss her? It's as if he walked through
the "goo" walls and became concrete, yet the alien is taking the form of something
it isn't... Or is it an alien at all? Why would an alien be interested in kissing her on
the forehead to make her feel better? Was it just reading Ellie's thoughts and doing what
she so desperately wanted or is the "alien" really her father? Was the alien world
really heaven?
Here u touched the most difficult and phylosophic part of the entire movie. Hope my English
knowdledges help me trough that one!....
Well, first of all the whole journey could be a suggested one from the "aliens",
lets say it could be an induced dream in a 16 hours long suspended fraction of a second,
because it's obvious time was somehow extended there (the camera recorded 16 hours of noise),
but it's not clear that tha capsule with Ellie really traveled! maybe in that suspended momen,
Ellie had a dream - controlled by THEM - and the whole machine was in fact just a "time
stopper" and/or an dream receiver?... fact is, that in dreams that landscape or feeling
u touch somebody can be achieved, in a dream sky can be translucid and near, the dream is
the best way possible to communicate with a person if someone could induce it and controll it.
The alien is her father in the same way as you or a star or any form of energy can be my
father, deceased in y 2000... because the primary form of existing, and i understand here
the subtile energetic form, is maybe for ever, never to dissapear entirely, and the soule
can be integrated part of the entire universe or of God - who knows?
Anciend hindu had that theory, that God made the world by modeling himself. So u and me and
the stars and the sand or grass, we all are made from His body and energy. Bible say: no
sandkorn moves without knowdledge of God. Connect the two, and Bible is true because evan
the sandkorn is God. So - was it Ellies father?
It was God, it was an alien, it was Ellies father - it was all together maybe, whatever... :)
Umm
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 20:05:01 (PDT)
I've always loved this movie ever since I was little. I saw it tonight on HBO and I finally
understood what happened! WOW. I can't wait to watch it again. (I always wondered why the
dad was there or what happened...:S)
Umm
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 20:04:37 (PDT)
I've always loved this movie ever since I was little. I saw it tonight on HBO and I finally
understood what happened! WOW. I can't wait to watch it again. (I always wondered why the
dad was there or what happened...:S)
carlos
Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 16:46:51 (PDT)
Is there anyway that we can make Hollywood make the sequel to this movie? This is one of the
best movies...the dialoque, the acting (LOVE JODIE! especially at the court hearing at the
end), and the cinematography. SEQUEL! SEQUEL! SEQUEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please.
Drew(South Africa)
Sunday, April 16, 2006 at 02:33:57 (PDT)
All time favorite movie. i love jodie foster. will keep n watching it forever
tonito
Thursday, March 09, 2006 at 15:43:11 (PST)
I really loved the movie, I never get tired of it. I think it touches everyone on their
own way and beliefs.
Plutus
Monday, February 20, 2006 at 10:51:39 (PST)
Does anyone know what type of plane was used to transport Jody Foster to the ship in the
movie "Contact"?
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