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I’m curious as to what you guys thought of the movie Contact. How well does it stand up to science and physics?
LLD1231 said:I’m curious as to what you guys thought of the movie Contact. How well does it stand up to science and physics?
pinball1970 said:If it is the Jodie Foster one then awesome. Not seen the other one (2018)
Is there a new Contact movie coming in 2018?? Contact 1997 is a great movie!
mfb said:I'm not sure. How could you have an influence on digits of pi? It is a mathematical constant that doesn't depend on the physical laws in our universe.
Or do I misunderstand what the book did? I just saw the movie.
I interpreted it as "The aliens didn't want the humans to have a clear record of what exactly happened."pinball1970 said:It irritated me her camera only recorded static, if it was a stand-alone device why would it pick only static up?
pinball1970 said:It irritated me her camera only recorded static, if it was a stand-alone device why would it pick only static up?
Transmitting information remotely back to mission control through a worm hole would probably be an issue but I can’t see why bog standard images and videos could not be used on Vega
mfb said:I interpreted it as "The aliens didn't want the humans to have a clear record of what exactly happened."
That is more plausible, frustrating but plausible.jedishrfu said:I interpreted this to mean the forces that she was subjected to were electromagnetic in nature and so scrambled what was recorded on her magnetic tape device.
If however the recording was an SSD then the forces caused it to record only static perhaps by scrambling the signal from the camera component to memory or scrambled it directly in the SSD as a kind of EMP effect but not enough to burn it out.
pinball1970 said:That is more plausible, frustrating but plausible.
pinball1970 said:Then why go to all that trouble?
“Hey we’re here! We want to make contact and this is the plans to build a machine to reach us but when you get here no images or recordings please.”
The consequences were no one believed her when she got back and she was made out to be a liar and fraudster.
If it was an accident and the aliens were fine with evidence why didn't they give her some evidence of the trip? They knew the capsule would appear to just fall through the machine, it was easy to see that the question about evidence would come up.jedishrfu said:I interpreted this to mean the forces that she was subjected to were electromagnetic in nature and so scrambled what was recorded on her magnetic tape device.
If however the recording was an SSD then the forces caused it to record only static perhaps by scrambling the signal from the camera component to memory or scrambled it directly in the SSD as a kind of EMP effect but not enough to burn it out.
mfb said:If it was an accident and the aliens were fine with evidence why didn't they give her some evidence of the trip? They knew the capsule would appear to just fall through the machine, it was easy to see that the question about evidence would come up.
mfb said:If it was an accident and the aliens were fine with evidence why didn't they give her some evidence of the trip? They knew the capsule would appear to just fall through the machine, it was easy to see that the question about evidence would come up.
That was my interpretation as well: It was not an accident that the recording got scrambled.stevendaryl said:For whatever inscrutable reason, the aliens wanted there to be no evidence of her trip.
Borg said:Just imagine what a mess the ending would have been with the recording intact. I think that you could have similar ratios of believers and non-believers with the non-believers thinking that the proof was faked. For me, the original ending is better because you have people questioning what happened based on a lack of proof rather than a world where people choose not to believe even when presented with the truth. Movies should be an escape from reality.
The movie Contact explores various scientific concepts such as extraterrestrial life, space travel, and the search for intelligent life in the universe.
While the movie does incorporate scientific concepts, it also takes creative liberties and is not entirely scientifically accurate. For example, the wormhole travel depicted in the movie is currently only theoretical and has not been proven to exist.
The movie depicts scientists as curious, open-minded individuals who are dedicated to seeking knowledge and understanding of the universe. However, it also explores the conflicts and challenges that scientists face in their pursuit of truth.
The movie sparked discussions and debates within the scientific community about the possibility of extraterrestrial life and the future of space exploration. However, it did not have any major impact on scientific research or discoveries.
The movie is inspired by real-life events and theories, such as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program and the Drake equation, which attempts to estimate the number of intelligent civilizations in the universe. However, the specific events and experiments depicted in the movie are fictional.