Contact Page #4
- PG
- Year:
- 1997
- 150 min
- 3,351 Views
An altogether different sort of hallway, reflecting the
imagination and individuality of its occupants. The walls
are covered with whimsical graffiti ("anthropocentrism is
a 17 letter word;" "WATCH FOR FLYING POTATOES") and 3
A.M. paintings of alien sunsets; the MUSIC is coming from
behind a door covered in Tolkien and comic book art.
As Ellie enters this strange new world she begins to hear
animated voices coming from a room at the end of the hall.
VOICE #1 (V.O.)
... radio luminosity?
VOICE #2 (V.O.)
I dunno, maybe a post-spectral
starburst or something.
EVERYBODY (V.O.)
Right, right --
VOICE #3 (V.O.)
E+A is an elliptical? How can you
tell it's being lensed? Pass me the
Fruity Pebbles.
VOICE #4 (V.O.)
Well I guess you'd have to check
other elliptical galaxies, Mr.
Wizard --
As Ellie peers around the corner we see six or seven
STUDENTS, mostly male, of mixed nationality and race,
passing around cereal which they eat from the box. A
primitive (circa 1980) home-built personal computer glows
in the b.g.; a door opens onto a terrace and the
California night beyond. They stop, look up at Ellie --
ELLIE:
I -- uh --
(clears her throat)
I was looking for Koestler Hall?
GUY (STUDENT)
This is it. Hey, do you know the
average radio-luminosity of an E+A
elliptical galaxy?
ELLIE:
Um... I'm not sure.
(hesitates)
Maybe you could deduce it from
lensing a post-spectral
starburst...?
GUY:
(beat, then to his
friend)
See, I told you!
(to Ellie)
Want some Fruity Pebbles?
Carcinogenic, but totally worth it.
Ellie takes the box, and as she tentatively enters the
room -- nibbles on the cereal -- she slowly sits. Smiles.
The argument rages on. She's home.
DEEP SPACE - MESSAGE
We ROAR by a rapidly rotating, flashing pulsar. Cosmic
dust filters the light into the shifting spectrum of
colors...
DAVID DRUMLIN, 42, fit, sardonic -- and the world's
foremost radio astronomer -- leads a group of grad
students past the first Jet Propulsion Lab radio
telescopes at Goldstone. Ellie lags behind talking to
PETER VALERIAN, who is about as good-looking as an
astronomer should be allowed to be.
ELLIE:
... Drumlin said you're been down at
Arecibo for the last year.
PETER:
It's beautiful but it does get a
little lonely. Sometimes I think
the reason we build these things in
such godforsaken places isn't to
avoid excess radio traffic but
because we're all such pathetic
antisocial misfits... Speaking of
which:
How're you getting on withthe old man?
ELLIE:
He's an incredible prick but I never
learned so much in my life.
PETER:
(smiles)
That's what they all say.
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