OT: Contact

[Raging Deadstar]

I personally myself do believe that there is life out there. Although if it is more advanced, the same or less than us can be anyones guess (and if we could even compare their advancement to ourselves is mindboggling.)

Although, if there is life out there i personally believe there's very little chance of us meeting them, and more than 99% sure it won't be in my lifespan, or for a great length time. The complications are too great for us as a species.

But the film had some good points (i had a quick read up of it to refresh my memory) and if done better (maybe sticking closer to the book it wa sbased on) may have been much cooler.

I'd watch it again though

[Renegade 13]

The universe has been around for (give or take) 14 billion years. Humanity has been around a fraction of that. There may have, at one time in the distant past been alien life. There may be now. But the distances are too great.

Also, we can not concieve of life different from out own very well. So who really knows?

Back to the movie: I still think it wasn't too bad. I even saw it twice. But some people say I have weird taste, so....

[Narrew]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
All that religious mumbo jumbo was certainly detracting...

I would normally agree with you, but in this case, Jodi's character didn't believe in God and questioned what's his names proof that his God was real, he said Faith and yet at the end, it was Faith that she had to use to convince everyone what she experienced was real. Anyway, I thought it was a clever thread inside the movie.

I also agree, reluctantly, that we are alone, unless there is a civilization that uses tight beam communications.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

1: The universe is infinite.
2: Therefore, no matter the ratio of races/stars, as long as the second is not infinite, their are an infinite number of races.

[henk brouwer]

Originally posted by Renegade 13:
Its a very well done movie. I felt that they left themselves a lot of room for a sequel, but never got around to it. Maybe it wasn't a huge success, so a sequel never got made. Too bad.

They could easily have made a sequel since the movie seems to end somewhere halfway the story.

The Book by Carl Sagan went on for quite a while (read it ages ago, hope I remember this correctly) *spoilers ahead*. Later in the story a huge discovery was made regarding the number pi (3,14~) which was always believed to be build up of random numbers when you precicely calculate it.
They discovered that after calculating to like the 10E-10000th digit, binary code started showing up wich formed, when written out, a circle. The only explanation was that god apparently put his autograph somewhere in the number pi, a natural constant, proving his existence.

Indeed lots of religious mumbo-jumbo in this movie, usually not really my thing, but I thought it was a good movie (but the book was better)

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
1: The universe is infinite.
2: Therefore, no matter the ratio of races/stars, as long as the second is not infinite, their are an infinite number of races.

Speculation, no proof.

[Stone Mill]

I enjoyed this movie. I liked the irony weaved into it.

As for Foster fans... I think she's cute too... but fellas, you are out of luck... you don't have the right equipment for her...