Just saw "Contact"

[Lothar_GR]

What a great movie. I guess i will buy the book also.

One line from the movie stuck to my mind. Someone asks Dr.Arroway what would ask a "Vegan" if she could make to him just one question. She replies that she would ask him how they manage to evolve and how they passed their technological immaturity without destroying themselves

What would you ask? Would you ask the same?

[Don. Edwards]

Get the book if you can. It was much better. The book and the movie diverge in many places. The book has a totally better ending and leaves things wide open and not closed like the movie. I have a hard cover version of the book and will never let it go. Carl Sagan was a great author.

Don. Edwards

[buggs_moran]

I totally concur with Mr. Edwards. I also have a hardcopy of the book and enjoyed it far more than the movie. You should read his nonfiction books as well. I immensely enjoyed "Cosmos", "Billions and Billions" and "Pale Blue Dot". Lothar, if you can get your hand on a copy of the PBS series "Cosmos", you should. The special effects aren't modern but the message is dead on to this day. I watched it as a teenager and was never the same. As Carl says

If you know a thing only qualitatively (aesthetically), you know it no more than vaguely. If you know it quantitatively, grasping some numerical measure that distinguishes it from an infinite number of other possibilities, you are beginning to know it deeply. You comprehend some of its beauty and you gain access to its power and the understanding it provides.

[Malenfant]

What would I ask?

"Can you take me with you?"

[Dollan]

What would I ask?

"Why so cryptic? Take a few more decades, learn our language and cultures as best you can, and send us something that's straight forward, like 'This equation equals wormhole technology' or something!"

...John, always over-simplistic...

[PlutonianEmpire]

Ah, I love that movie. In fact, it is what inspired me to make a system around Vega in Celestia, but I'm currently in my OFF mode, so I guess I'll wait a few more months before completing it. lol.

[Hunter Parasite]

I totally concur with Mr. Edwards. I also have a hardcopy of the book and enjoyed it far more than the movie. You should read his nonfiction books as well. I immensely enjoyed "Cosmos", "Billions and Billions" and "Pale Blue Dot". Lothar, if you can get your hand on a copy of the PBS series "Cosmos", you should. The special effects aren't modern but the message is dead on to this day. I watched it as a teenager and was never the same. As Carl says

If you know a thing only qualitatively (aesthetically), you know it no more than vaguely. If you know it quantitatively, grasping some numerical measure that distinguishes it from an infinite number of other possibilities, you are beginning to know it deeply. You comprehend some of its beauty and you gain access to its power and the understanding it provides.

I have cosmos aswell, do you have Atlas of the sky too?

[buggs_moran]

I have cosmos aswell, do you have Atlas of the sky too?

Actually this is first I've heard of it. I did a little digging on the web and might get it for my classroom since it looks geared to first year Astronomy.

Thanks Hunter.

[jgrillo2002]

ooh. thanks for bringing this up

I am currently designing the Vegan Transport that was shown in the movie. there will be animations in this project such as the wormhole opening up







these are designed from looking at screencaps and studying its structure and the model is made by 3DS Max 7

[Malenfant]

Oh that looks spiffy. An animation would look very cool. I loved the part where it blew up in the movie too, when the spinning rings just go completely crazy as they lose cohesion and fly around all over the place...

[jgrillo2002]

heh. that terrorst is too much of a religous zealot

[Dollan]

heh. that terrorst is too much of a religous zealot

Being the son of Gary Busey, I'm not surprised that he was tearing things up!

...John...