Contact audiobook read by Jodie Foster

Someone on the forum may be interested in this. I enjoyed this as much as the film, if not more.


http://cgi.ebay.com/Contact-Audiobook-read-Jodie-Foster-/270611081427?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_Audiobooks&hash=item3f01ad68d3#ht_500wt_1147

Yeah, it's good.

...The array’s greatest claim to fame was in the movie Contact — it was where Jodi Foster first “heard” sounds of alien life. But here in reality, the VLA isn’t used for seeking evidence of alien life. (A caustic sign in the visitor center explaining this also said, “sorry Jodi”. I’m sure she’s all broken up about it.) It’s about visualizing radio signals, “seeing” UV energy and X-Rays, which is how astronomers study and map what’s happening in outer space. Or rather, what’s happened: by the time this energy reaches earth, it’s evidence of events long since past. Like, for example, explosions that occurred at the very beginning of the universe...

here

Where have you gone, Carl Sagan, our planet turns our lonely eyes to you….. Woo, woo, woo.

Alien hunter, who inspired Jodie Foster's role in film Contact, retires after 35 years of watching the skies

The scientist who inspired Jodie Foster's character in the film Contact is retiring after 35 years of studying the universe for signs that we are not alone.

Astronomer Jill Tarter, 68, announced today that she will stand down as head of the non-profit Center for Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Dr Tarter was the inspiration for Carl Sagan’s novel Contact which led to the 1997 film starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. Foster played Dr Eleanor Arroway, a SETI scientist chosen to make contact after she finds evidence of extraterrestrial life...



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2148239/Jill-Tarter-retires-SETI-35-years-looking-aliens.html#ixzz1vibuimtb

Thanks, Eugene!

It must be nice to be able to retire.