Contact within the next 100 Years

From: Rick Knight (rknight@platinum.com)
Date: Mon Jul 14 1997 - 09:33:06 MDT


     James Rogers queried:
     
     
     "Why would the next 100 years be any more special than the last
     million? Or the next million? On someone elses timetable it should
     make no difference."
     
     I respond:
     
     Perhaps I'm still drifting in my fantasy haze from yesterday's viewing
     of Contact but I think Sagan (Zemeckis?) pose an interesting theory in
     that only since the middle of this century have we been sending
     broadcast signals that could travel out of this solar system and reach
     other systems over a period of decades. It may be akin to the tired,
     semi-conscious scientist when his orangutan utters what sounds like an
     intelligible sound, he snaps to full alertness.
     
     This new film, more than any other sci-fi flick in several years
     (since Spielberg eeked it out of me with Close Encounters as a kid),
     touched me at the very core of my being.
     
     Insignificance is a relative thing but maybe in this vast nothingness,
     best efforts are acknowledged. Maybe someone's just waiting for us to
     wake up. Loneliness and communion might not be a human-centric thing.
     
     Regards
     Rick
     
     
     



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