Published On Jul 26, 2021
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Carl Sagan is an absolute legend and a hero, and his book Contact and the movie it's based on is phenomenal. HOWEVER... we examined the central conceit of the story - that aliens pick up our radio signals and return a message with instructions to build a machine - and look at the stars inside the 100 light-year bubble around Earth where our radio waves have traveled. And the potential of this happening... Well, it isn't good.
Sorry Carl.
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The Contact opening scene: • Contact Intro Full HD
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/...
https://www.naic.edu/ao/blog/hunting-...
https://www.seti.org/seti-institute/p...
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ask_ast...
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy...
https://www.space.com/23772-red-dwarf...
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ch...
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14812
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/search-fo...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
https://earthsky.org/space/study-2034...