The first rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
#1: I know you must think this is all very unfair. Maybe that’s an understatement. What you don’t know is I agree. I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don’t live in that world.
#2: Funny, I’ve always believed that the world is what we make of it.
#1: We pose no threat to them. It would like us going out of our way to destroy a few microbes on some ant hill in Africa.
#2: Interesting analogy. And how guilty would we feel if we went and destroyed a few microbes on an ant hill in Africa?
#1: What are you studying up there?
#2: Oh, the usual. Nebulae, quasars, pulsars, stuff like that. What are you writing?
#1: The usual. Nouns, adverbs, adjective here and there.
1. What happens now? 2. You go home.
1/_Are you familiar with the concept of Occam’s Razor, Miss Arroway?
2/_Yes sir,… All things being equal, the simplest explanation is probably the correct one
First rule in government spending: Why build one, when you can have two at twice the price? Only, this one can be kept secret.
Controlled by Americans. Built by the Japanese subcontractors, who also happen to be recently acquired wholly owned subsidiaries
of Hadden Industries. They still want an American to go, Doctor. Wanna take a ride?
I’m not against technology, Doctor. I’m against the men who deify it at the expense of human truth.
Ironically, the thing that people are most hungry for — meaning– is the one thing that science hasn’t been able to give them.
The question that I’m asking is this: Are we happier…the human race? Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home, we surf the Web…but at the same time, we feel emptier, lonelier, and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history. We’re becoming a synthesized society…in a great big hurry to get the next…[fades away, with outspace look at the Earth]
We’re looking for meaning. What is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think will fill these holes in our lives. Any wonder that we’ve lost our sense of direction?.
Yes, um, it is our belief that the message contains instructions for building something, some kind of machine.
A machine? That does what, Doctor?
Well, we don’t know, it might some type of, uh, uh, advanced, uh, communication device,
or it could be a teaching machine of some kind, or, uh, it might turn out to be some kind of a transport.
A transport?
There’s no proof of that.
The fact is, you don’t know what it does. It could be anything. It could be a Trojan Horse, we build it, and out pours the entire Vegan army.
Why bother even risking the personnel? It could be a weapon.
Right. Some kind of a doomsday machine.
Exactly. Every time they detect a new civilization, they fax down these construction documents from outer space.
We poor saps build whatever this thing is, and blow ourselves to kingdom come.
But I guess I’d say if it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space.
Clever girl.
CQ, CQ,this is W9GFO. Is anybody out there?
CQ, this is W9GFO. CQ, this is W9GFO here. Come back?
Earl Grey, no sugar, no milk, I believe.
Ellie, still waiting for E.T. to call?
ellie: dad, do you think there’s people on other planets?
ted: i don’t know, sparks. but i guess i’d say if it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space.
Explain this to me: If the source of the signal is so sophisticated, why the remedial math?
Exactly, why don’t they just speak English?
Yeah, well maybe because seventy percent of the planet speaks other languages. Mathematics is the only truly universal language, Senator.(
I find it convenient to keep my interests mobile. Anyway, I’ve had my fill of life on the ground.
I had an experience. I can’t prove it. I can’t even explain it.
But everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am, tells me that it was real.
I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever.
A vision of the universe that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how rare and precious we all are.
A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are not, that none of us, are alone.
I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever. A vision of the universe that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how rare and precious we all are. A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, that we are not, that none of us, are alone.
I’m ok to go..if you can hear me i’m ok to go!
I’ve had my eye on you a long time. I consider you one of my most valuable long term investments, and when it comes to my investments, I always do my homework.
It could be instructions to familiarize ourselves with their colonization procedures.
It could be instructions to familiarize ourselves with their colonozation procedures.
Kent:(he’s blind)Nice to smell you again Mr. Kitz
Mr. Kitz:You too.
Nice to smell you again Mr. Kitz. Never pegged him as a Polo man.
Nice to smell you again sir
Palmer: Do you love your father? Ellie: Yes. Palmer: Prove it.
Science fiction. You’re right, it’s crazy. In fact, it’s even worse than that, it’s nuts. You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an airplane, you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it’s ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon? Atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? Look, all I’m asking is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture. To take a chance on something that just might end up being the most profoundly impactful moment for humanity, for the history… of history.
See, in all of our searching, the only thing that makes the emptiness bearable is eachother.
Small moves Ellie, small moves.
So many governments, business interests, even religious leaders that would like to see me depart this Earth. I’ll grant them their wish soon enough, but before I do, I wish to make a small contribution, a final gesture of good will to the people of this little planet who have given me… from whom I have taken so much.
So there’s life on other planets. That’s sure going to change the Miss Universe contest.
Staring at static on TV for hours at a time. Listening to washing machines. Did you really think these stories wouldn’t get out?
The Universe is a pretty big place, it’s bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
There are 400 billion stars out there in our galaxy alone. Now if only one out of a million of those stars had planets. Alright? And if just one out of a million of those had life. And if just one out of a million of those had intelligent life…there would be literally millions of civilizations out there.
This isn’t a person-to-person call. You can’t possibly think that a civilization sending this kind of message would intend it just for America.
This one could be controlled by Americans, built by Japanese sub-contractors; who also happen to be newly acquired, wholly owned subsidiary of Hadden Industries. They still want an American to go Doctor…..Want to take a ride?
Twenty million people died defeating that son of a bitch and he’s our first ambassador to outer space?
You could call me a man of the cloth, without the cloth.
You want to classify prime numbers?
You’re an interesting species, an interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
[Tagline] A message from deep space. Who will be the first to go? A journey to the heart of the universe
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