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The opening scene of "Contact".



Interesting. [Never saw the movie, likely since I hate Jodie Foster and never cared for the scientist Sagan allegedly based her character on].


Honestly this got me thinking about my Dad during the moon landings.

It was one of the later landing, so I was like 11. We were watching in his sister's house during some family get-together like a birthday. My uncle [looked like Christopher Lloyd, dressed similar to the Honeymooner's Norton and talked like Archie Bunker] complained about the delay in each response from the guys on the moon.

I said maybe they had to think about their answers with so many people listening.

My dad said that they were responding as fast as possible because it took a second or two for the radio wave to get there and the same time for their answer to come back. His brother-in-law the oil burner repairman discounted it, but it intrigued me.

I asked him about it when we were leaving. I couldn't believe it took so long [a second being long to me] to get to the moon which looked so close.

He looked at the sky, found the north star and said that when the radio waves got to that star it would be about 2400 and there would likely be nothing much left our bodies on Earth.

Probably no one would even know we existed.



And, like God, he laughed.
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