Contact

Science at the Movies

Jan 14, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 3

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Episode description

We're kicking off new year with an all-time favourite! Robert Zemeckis' Contact from 1997.

There's so much going on in the movie, where do we start? Freda is rude enough to mention Fourier transforms, Abby tries to hear what the Universe (or maybe Pulsars) is trying to say and we play tribute to Arecibo.

I like it's bigness!

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Extra stuff 4 the extra listeners:

Carl Sagan supercut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmafy_v8g8&t=73s

Arecibo Collapse from Now This

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h-f9PNe_ww

Can space slow down cancer?

https://newatlas.com/medical/low-gravity-kill-cancer-cells-space/

Eugene Hecht's Optics, buy used:

Australia:

https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-au/books/eugene-hecht/optics/9780201838879