Radial Parsecs of Noise Pollution

March 13, 2008 By Tom

While we’re in the midst of the proofing, tweaking, brain-numbing stage of dealing with all the excruciating minutiae that’ll allow us to get Issue 40 of WIE out the door and off to the presses, I thought I’d post this short clip of the awesome opening scene from the movie Contact, since I was thinking about it this morning and then happened to see it this afternoon in a post on Posthuman Blues. (Add that to the annals of exceedingly minor synchronicities.)

It’s also related to the next issue’s main feature article, an in-depth interview with the authors of The View from the Center of the Universe, although the clip unfortunately ends right before the really Kosmocentric part — where the camera pans back (many gigaparsecs) to show all of the cosmic imagery contained inside little Ellie Arroway’s eye (read: consciousness)…

Actually, I just found a clip with the above sequence in reverse, which zooms into Ellie’s eye. Now that’s more like it! (But you should watch the original first.)

P.S. I’ll reply to the latest comment on my post below as soon as I get the 20+ minutes required to do the question justice…


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