Contact (1997) ♦Movie Reaction♦ First Time Watching! 

We could rebuild Arecibo if we really wanted to. Carl is irreplaceable. But I still love the sentiment behind your comment.

​@@DurkMcGerkCarl lives on in our memories, and RU-vid.

@@3DJapan and our scientific concepts

Carl will be remembered for billions and billions of years.

A few weeks ago I finished my astronomy studies. I remember my spectrometry professor was obsessed with this movie. I remember every time he recommended we watch this movie when we talked about radio astronomy and stellar evolution. I saw it a week ago and I was a little disappointed. Especially during the ending. but now I'm about to start the book. For us astronomers, Carl Sagan is one of the best scientists and popularizers of all time. but we must say that sometimes his work can be a little boring. but his reflections on the advancement of science and the development of human civilizations are incredible.

Yeah, Prof Sagan has a way of doing that....

This film took the similar themes of Kubrick's 2001 but was able to present them in a way that easier to understand. This is probably as close as anyone has come to recreate the brilliance of 2001, at least on a thematic level.

​@@bjgandalf69he knew the truth that the moon is not a planet but an Ancient space station @Xenogenesis by Steve Quayle. More but comments get banned when one gets to the hidden esoteric truth.Saturn the black cube @The Ring makers of Saturn Who is mining there?

@GlizzyTrefoil "The world isn't so big." - Isn't that, ultimately, a matter of perspective?...

He's a tool

@@nicadi2005 > Absolutely a matter of perspective... to a microbe, a drop of water is the entire universe.

I've always liked it, too. It's not flawless, but the strong moments and ideas offset the missteps.

The issue wasn't its ideas or effects, it was its storytelling. It just wasn't as gripping a film as it should have been.

@@bigdream_dreambig And with such a strong concept, it's probably much more difficult to live up to the potential, too.

I saw it in the theater when it was released. I’m with you, I always thought it was great, even as a kid. I had weird autocorrects there haha it said, “I saw it in therapy theater when I was released.” 😂🤣😂

@@bigdream_dreambig It was more grounded, which I loved about it. Doing real science is boring 99.9+% of the time, which makes finding an actual alien signal that much more earth-shattering. It was also about weaving in themes, which can admittedly affect the pacing. But seeing this growing up as a skeptic, trying to reconcile rationality and science with my religious upbringing, it was deeper than I was ready for.

Kewl! I grew up in Socorro myself (way before this). Went there 2 or 3 times.

The more orbital telescopes that can be used in parallel, the "bigger" the potential lens can get. Sure, being so spread out limits resolution, but more photons over a larger area is what's important and every bit helps.

@@TheJamieRamone You could walk there. 🙂

Whim, you’re a little quirky and I love that about you.😎

@@cshubs Yeah but as a kid u prefer being driven there by ur parents. 😁

And every US gov / president of the past century or two besides a couple (like JFK).

very realistic : for those in power it's always about controlling the masses, keeping us calm, law abiding and tax paying.

Not till some pointed it out to him, in the special report he said he read. He plays a politician so well.

Always know where your towel is.

@@larrybremer4930 ....and don't panic.

@@larrybremer4930 and always disinfect your telephone.

@Stogie2112 That quote alone would be reason enough to recommend the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" be up next for a reaction on this channel...

@@larrybremer4930 Always keep your telephone clean.

Damn shame they wasted all that time cloning sheep back then, we coulda" used a few dozen more Carls.

As a teen "Cosmos" is what addicted me to science.

Carl Sayagain ?

@@earthwormandruw Billions and Billions

A paid misinformant ie a Schill @Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind & Adam 1414 channels..Wake up.

Such a sad day in history

F*&6ing James Bond!

Carl Sagan and Arthur C Clark. Two Scientists that each created among the best works in Science Fiction.

@@larrybremer4930 Agreed. 🚀

1984

V for Vendetta

I agree, and Arrival is one of my favorite movies from the last decade.

Although she did express herself the way you say, this fear usually really isn't so much about how big the world is so much as it's about how small you as an individual human are. Unfortunately, from that perspective, your new metaphor just makes things worse.

I agree we need to take care of the only little boat we have, and size is always relative.

jodorowsky is not ok in the head...

I know of a lot of people who work very hard to try to make the world smaller and less interesting than it really is. I have never understood that. I _love_ how big the universe is -- so many possibilities.

@@falcychead8198 Making the world smaller doesn't make it less interesting, at least according to those at the Large Hadron Collider.

@@commentatron Thing is that doesnt make the world smaller.. it makes it even bigger, when you realize the universe within matchs alot of the scale of the universe going out and the average size of things in reality puts us and the earth on the really really really big side of that average, its eye opening.

Except the representation we usually have of Pi is base 10. What if it was expressed in a different base? But whatever.

@@kilroy987 In the book, the message appeared in base 11! Not a base most sentient creatures would choose organically, because it's a prime number. Those appear a lot in all the messages in the book. Besides, I'm pretty sure a message in the wrong base would still trigger statistical methods looking for non-random data.

I too was blown away by that thought when I first read the book until i realized something about irrational transcendental numbers like pi. Since pi theoretically never terminates and never ends in a repeating string of numbers - any non infinite string of numbers should be contained in pi somewhere. So the string of numbers making a circle in base 11 like in the book is actually in there somewhere. Your name encoded in ASCII is in there. The string of numbers that would make up this RU-vid video in H.264 mapped to base 10 is in there. There are a few websites that let you search strings of numbers in the first few 100million-billion places in pi so you can basically find any 6-7 alpha numeric string in ascii in pi. Example: the word YOU in ascii is 897985 and found at position 440267 while TUBE is 84856669 in ascii and found at position 58131944 Something kind of wild to think about.

@@paratus04 Haha, I had to look up that thing about base 11 to reply to kilroy, so I JUST NOW saw someone talking about the same thing as you. Apparently Carl Sagan said or wrote something to the effect that the message is pi was statistically extremely early -- you'd expect it to take much longer to randomly appear. But yeah, infinity gets weird for combinatorial problems. If you divide planet Earth up into voxels one Planck length wide, that's a discrete pattern you can search for elsewhere. It's possible to do the math to figure out how far on average you'd have to travel into the infinite universe to find a "parallel" (or at least, identical at the quantum level) world.

You get to the end and the message simply says... 'Do not machine wash, warm iron only, colors may run'

Good point.

@@hanskneesun123 apparently they did, but didn’t want to correlate the meaning: at the end it wasn’t a surprise to anyone that there was still eight hours of static.

A false Naradigms @ Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind & Adam 1414 channels.Wake Up.

He was also Aragorn in the 1978 animated Lord of the Rings.

My kid has no clue what those roles are so I said: The Great Dragon Kilgharrah (She is a Merlin fan)

Never thought about the chair breaking away. Nice catch.

@@THOMMGB Thanks!

Yes❤

facts

This book is amazing! I liked the movie, but the book includes so much more. Very much worth the time to read.

I'm wearing my Pi shirt right now... the answer was right under my nose!!!

Did you really just give away the ending of the book?😂

A few weeks ago I finished my astronomy studies. I remember my spectrometry professor was obsessed with this movie. I remember every time he recommended we watch this movie when we talked about radio astronomy and stellar evolution. I saw it a week ago and I was a little disappointed. Especially during the ending. but now I'm about to start the book. For us astronomers, Carl Sagan is one of the best scientists and popularizers of all time. but we must say that sometimes his work can be a little boring. but his reflections on the advancement of science and the development of human civilizations are incredible.

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“It does not matter how beautiful your guess is or how many people believe it, or how smart those believers are. It does not matter how much we wish something was true. What counts is only what is supported by evidence, rigorously and skeptically examined” - Carl Sagan

I couldn't have summarized Sagan's theme any better. It is interesting that an agnostic scientist came up with a theme that actually supports belief in a higher power. I personally believe that science is the ultimate religion as the more we find out how intricate and beautiful the universe is, the more the existence of a Supreme being makes sense.

@@bjgandalf69 Agnostics are also atheists by definition, as they also do not believe in any god or gods.

@@bjgandalf69 I disagree with everything you said.

Agreed! When I see reaction videos that are under 30 mins, I don’t even bother.

@@emilywilhite5807 I agree also. If it's long, we're watching at home, we can pause it if we need to. More is better in reactions.

@@emilywilhite5807 - exactly, I mean why even bother? Seems kind of insulting too, when you get a 28 minute reaction to a 3hr movie.

As an atheist, i'm shocked someone 'fessed up to being an atheist.

@Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind & Adam 1414 channels Live UFO's @gina Marie Colvin Hill channel moon videos

​@@wal6377 People look at you funny if you say you are agnostic even!

You're not in the 5% anymore, being an atheist now is about as edgy and free thinking as getting a neck tattoo.

Not sure where he got 5% from but it was never that low. I thinks it's 25% now.

@@russellward4624 The number quoted in the movie may have been way off. Who could really know? It was just used as an example of how propagandists use numbers like that to sway others into thinking their way. You see that every night in the nightly news when you hear "reporters" quoting supposedly accurate numbers about the attitudes of the country. Or economic statistics. I don't hear a lot of my fellow boomers expressing a willingness to question established beliefs, but it does seem like younger generations are increasingly doing so. My nephews turned out more like me in that way.

@@russellward4624 Either way, the good news is that non-belief in a god has been growing for some time.

I don’t necessarily believe it to be true that less people believe in god today than 20/30 years ago. Social media has made it easy to attack/belittle/cancel people you disagree with coupled with some tin foil hat stuff…