Ironically, this is one of my most favorited scenes in the entire movie; it just puts together this amazing scene that shows the distance all of our sounds and music fade far, far away into the darkness of the galaxy, until there is no sound at all. I just thought this was done so well !
Audio as heard in the opening pullback scene: - Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind - Wannabe by Spice Girls - Seinfeld theme - God Shuffled His Feet by Crash Test Dummies - The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News - Broken Wings by Mr. Mister - I Ran (So Far Away) by A Flock of Seagulls - Dallas theme - Longer by Dan Fogelberg - Funkytown by - Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Taste of Sugar - Almond Joy/Mounds commercial - Fire by Ohio Players - Low Rider by War - Richard Nixon "I'm Not a Crook" speech - The Andy Griffith Show theme song - Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech - The Twilight Zone theme - JFK assassination news - John F. Kennedy inauguration speech - Robert MacArthur - The Lone Ranger - Franklin D. Roosevelt "December 7, 1941" speech - The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money) Tell me the rest that I missed.
+Weldon Thatcher Some others in the mix: Report of the Challenger Shuttle Explosion Dancing Machine - Jackson Five Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 announcement ("One small step") Robert Kennedy Assassination Report White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day My Guy - Mary Wells Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes McCarthy Communist Party Hearings (late '50s) Catch a Falling Star - Perry Como Volare - Dean Martin Gen. Douglas MacArthur's farewell speech Unidentified song by Brenda Lee or Wanda Jackson (I think) Stardust - Artie Shaw "Something never before experienced.." probably a news report about dropping the atomic bomb Hitler speech (heard at the same time as FDR) Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland Walter Winchell (CBS Reporter) WWII-era news broadcast Happy Days Are Here Again - unknown FDR New Deal Campaign Speech ("The only thing we have to fear...") Inaugural KDKA radio broadcast, early 1920s (first AM radio broadcast) Morse Code, early 20th century
There was also: R2-D2 (at Mars) "hi lucky" and "I don't feel" Which one was the KDKA broadcast? The 'nine, eight' or the one that says "If anyone hearing this broadcast would be willing to communicate with us. We are very anxious to know how far the broadcast has reached." and the usual radio static
Brilliant! The further from Earth we get the older the transmissions become. Although, I would have included more international transmissions in the opening pull back.
Carlo Galliano typical America centrism. The entire movie is like that - despite it's obvious theme of importance to humanity. Other countries are only mentioned barely in throwaway comments of dialogue...
+Matt C Oh Jesus forgive an American written and produced film for being too American. The main cast should have had 2 Chinese people, 2 Indians, 1 white person, 1 Hispanic person, and one ethnically ambiguous brown person, with an even split between male and female and should have been written primarily in Mandarin and Hindi. I agree with you totally. This American film is American hegemony gone too far.
I wish they did this part properly as it would then be a truly magnificent intro. Radio waves travel at the speed of light. The radio waves detected at Pluto are only about 6 hours old. Hitlers speeches could be heard around 80 light years away. This intro makes out like radio waves would take around 40 years just to reach Jupiter. when i reality it's more like half an hour.
Very good observation! I think for creative purposes they wanted to fade into silence earlier in the pull back though. I also would have included more international transmissions as well.
damnedcarrot It also means that Vega would have to be 160 LY away for the 80 year-old recording of Hitler to make its round-trip back to earth as it does in the movie.
+Matt C I think if I recall correctly the aliens had a way with radio and/or time that we couldn't possibly comprehend. In the book it was a lot more specific about this - I think the signal actually stopped as soon as Ellie got home from the trip. In essence, from a speed of light standpoint they cut the signal precisely 80 years before it was no longer needed. That was a big part of why the whole trip was hard for anyone to accept - much of it didn't make sense from our limited understanding of science and stank of a hoax. This is just like the allegations that Ellie never went anywhere because the sphere dropped straight through the machine without any pause. It doesn't just mean that the sphere made the journey essentially instantly, it also means that the aliens purposely timed her return to exactly overlap her departure, even erasing the delay of her time spent socializing with the aliens. They actually sent her back in time just a little bit.
Actually, this is illustrating radio emissions and their distance from the Earth at the time of the film. This is why the music becomes older and quieter as we zoom out. You can't actually hear the sounds in space, but this would be what you might be able to hear through a radio receiver that could decode the signals. :)
aww. now i want to see this awesome movie again. i saw it in the theatres the first time, and still remember how awed i was. I know its not super-deep, but its good enough for me.
The implication is that the sound waves would reach out that far, not light waves. That's why it's an audio track playing. I don't think the frame of reference is hearing things based on a local radio (in which case Ex0dus111's comment would apply), but rather from the perspective of what you would hear if the sound traveled. This seems to make sense given the calculation.
Radio waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, so they are technically "light"; tho they are on the non visible end of the spectrum. They generally move at the speed of light, but can have their speed hampered by things getting in their way. If it was to pass through some dense material on the way; this would slow it down. The sound we hear from a radio is the "translation" of the frequency's received by the antenna; turned into sound by the vibration of the magnets on your speakers.
Wow, I didn't know the planets were so close together, i thought they were milliones of miles apart, good thing I watch this accurate intro that proved me wrong
You technically would not hear the audio at all; unless you had a antenna on your camera, and were somehow translating the signal into sound on the speaker system. Once you surpassed the speed of light, you wouldn't hear the radio at all; since you would be going too fast for the data to catch up. That is unless past-light-speeds create some anomaly which we are currently unaware of; which could quite possibly be so. Quite possibly that once reaches a certain speed, time "wraps" over itself.
If I remember right closest star to us is about 45 light years away, the first radio broadcast was in 1895, so at best our radio transmission can be heard by a star 118 light years away from us and counting. Of course the signal gets weaker the further it travels from earth. There is also to consider that our solar system is rotating inside our galaxy, and our galaxy is moving out from the center of the universe, so our pin point location is constantly changing.
Movie is just giving the idea and you can't expect a movie to be very accurate. But, let's say you're moving with the camera and you hear the audio in correct time and distance. You would notice that audio is deforming. The camera is moving slowly at the beginning and starting to accelerate. Until the camera reaches the speed of light, you would hear the audio slowing down gradually. At speed of light, audio is freezed. When it becomes faster than speed of light, it will play backwards.
It may seem like that is what the movie is portraying... but the image isn't just zooming out, it is also moving back. We moved away from where earth was, and pulled back through the places you just mentioned.
Cool effect, but since radio signals travel at the speed of light, and the closest star to ours is only 4 light years away, radio signals from the 60ies should be WAY further out then Jupiter.
I can, while the idea is that our radio signals are still out there traveling the universe is correct. A) it's lost in other noise, "quieter" as it leaves, technically the waves are still going out there however. B) it travels faster than the video is showing (though in the grand scheme it hasn't gone that far). All those old radio/tv transmissions are already out of our system.
Anyone else notice how they made our moon ridiculously close to Earth and Mars about as close as our moon? 0:37 If our moon was that close, it would appear to fill most of the sky.
The sound in this video represents radio-waves. Radio-waves can be converted to sound but they are not sound themselves. Sound-waves are mechanical pressure waves that needs matter like air ore water to travel through. Radio-waves doesn't need that, because they are electromagnetic waves just like visible light. Radio-waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum and they travel at the speed of light.
no, radio signals aren't a form of vibration on the atmosphere like sound waves are. its actually an electromagnetic wave like light, only it has a longer period than visible light.
Solarmovies will do Mr. President. Just go to the website, search for "Contact" then choose the 4th video source link, (you might have to prove your human and type in a code) to watch the movie in decent quality. (warning: there are lots of pop up ads that you have to close since it's free, but once you close those windows and start watching the movie you'll be able to watch it all the way through undisturbed.) Hope this helps. :D
@martinaggie01 the camera is backing out from the center of the solar system outwards. So you see the sun over the horizon and the camera backs away so no Jupiter is after earth and further away from the sun so it's accurate. It was made with the help of Carl Sagan while he was alive so I'm sure he would have caught that as well haha
Well I think you were trying to say that sound travels much slower than light (which you would be correct). But sound is not what is being broadcasted over the radio. The radio waves are what would be sent out (and what would be picked up in space granted they were broadcasted that far) and would be traveling at the speed of light. Radio waves are just another form of light in the non-visible (to us) spectrum. (just google/wikipedia "electromagnetic spectrum")
That's true, it's actually a gravitational wave, but I still the original point of the movie intro might still be missed. Then again, it is a science fiction film. :P
That's true, but once it accelerates, the radio effect goes silent. My guess is, they found that the radio effect being played while it was panning out quickly just didn't have the same effect, and thus, artistic license ended up leading to scientific inaccuracy.
Thank you, I realized what they were doing, and then i was thinking... but,... radio waves are about the speed of light, if not the speed of light, I mean the sun would have gotten my "Hey what's up" 8 minutes ago.
The best hypnoting thing. Human are nothing, like dust in my house...now, i can't sleeping because i'm thinking about the universe and the sence of the human life... :)
nah bro you got it wrong humans are very important just like each atom of the universe. We are not a drop in the ocean, we are the ocean in a drop. Everything is connected. We are just the universe experiencing itself in human form.
Only complaint here is that, because of the very definition of "The speed of light" we would need to get light years away from Earth to get historical radio broadcasts, like Pearl Harbor (1997-1939=57 years, so 57 light years for this example) and our solar system isn't nearly one light year away.
The speed is increasing exponentially, but they should have stretched out the beginning. You wouldn't hear music from the 70's until you were 40 light years out, near the closest stars. Later, they should have spent more time showing galaxies receding, showing hundreds before fading out. Someone remake this intro!
+AlisBaggins2 Well, we don't yet have any credible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. So, it is reasonable to be skeptical on the matter. On the other hand, given all we currently know in science, it's certainly also reasonable, if not highly compelling, to think that intelligent life exists out there somewhere. Its a very rational supposition that stands in stark contrast to the entirely groundless belief in gods and devils that most people cling to.
+AlisBaggins2 Yes truly this trailer for a movie has shown us beyond a doubt that there is extraterrestrial life in the universe. Who could possibly think otherwise?
@Drivenut4 : FYI: Reportedly, the grave malfunction was caused by a defective "O"-Ring in one of the twin rocket-boosters. It leaked, spraying some of its super-hot exhaust onto the giant launch-fuel tank, which instantaneously combusted the tank and the _Challenger_ shuttlecraft, all hands lost, but at least they died quickly and didn't suffer at all, AFAIK.
AWESOME OPENING SCENE SHOWING TIME TRAVEL THRUGH THE DIFFERENT PERIODS FROM THE FUTURE BACK TO THE BEGINNING 13.7 BILLION YEARS AGO THE RENAISSANCE MEDIEVAL ANCIENT FLINSTONES AND THE DINOSAURS ARE SOME WHERE ALONG THOSE LINES
The Eagle Nubula, or M16/NGC 6611, is 6500 ly from earth. In zooming out, I don't think it was saying earth is in the eagle nebula. They would have known that as it was one of the most famous images at the time the movie was made. Aside from that, there's no reason to think that is what they meant. Earth isn't inside Jupiter, even though jupiter is shown after earth. I.e. Your zooming through space, which means you approach M16 with your back to it and then eventually pass it on your journey.
Sound travels much slower than sound... not sure if its enough difference to account for the difference of years (I'm sure if it isn't I'll get a long reply full of calculations), but yea.
Does anyone at all know what song is playing at @1:54? Since I first saw this movie I've been wondering and looking for it but I can't find it because I don't know what it's called. You can barely hear it but it sounds like something that would have been played in the 1910s. So any music knowledgables out there that might know what this song is, thank you :)
sunlightangel87 From what I've read, it's called "Happy Days are Here Again". However, I've listened to it multiple times and it sounds off, although I could be wrong. Hope this helps!
Thank you for your response :) I have actually found the name of the song since creating this. This is the very last twenty seconds of "Dark Town Strutters Ball" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Came out in 1917.
Oh, wow. Didn't think I'd get a response, being as late as I was. Thank's for the clarification! Update: Wow, I would have never found this on my own. Even more thanks!
in the next few thousand years, faster-than-light communication with whatever intelligent life is out there, seems more likely than humans boarding a spaceship and playing intergalactic oregon trail
But clearly if he hadnt had the foresight way back in 1997 to remember a small detail from a caption at the bottom of a photograph in an old National Geographic he picked up off a coffee table to thumb through in the waiting room at the dentists office outside Montgomery, Alabama, USA in the western half of the northern hemisphere while third eye blind played over the radio...
By the way... anyone who knows... what happen to sound in space... I mean in vacuum shouldn't this be absolute silence? Why do they put music getting older and older while zoom out? I figured it was like the waves of sound travel in space... and the older are far away now.. .but how? they cannot travel without air... do they? Sorry if I'm ignorant...
I HAD to watch this movie after watching this amazing intro; and I was not disappointing at all. This movie is amazing!! I can't believe that I've never seen it before.... crazy. But, now that I've seen it (solarmovie(dot)com, warning: lots of ads, but worth it) it is definitely in my top ten ufo/alien movies. :D Also I love REDDIT!!!
One of the most astounding and memorable opening scenes of any movies. And possible the most profound....
Ironically, this is one of my most favorited scenes in the entire movie; it just puts together this amazing scene that shows the distance all of our sounds and music fade far, far away into the darkness of the galaxy, until there is no sound at all. I just thought this was done so well !
Audio as heard in the opening pullback scene:
- Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind
- Wannabe by Spice Girls
- Seinfeld theme
- God Shuffled His Feet by Crash Test Dummies
- The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News
- Broken Wings by Mr. Mister
- I Ran (So Far Away) by A Flock of Seagulls
- Dallas theme
- Longer by Dan Fogelberg
- Funkytown by
- Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Taste of Sugar
- Almond Joy/Mounds commercial
- Fire by Ohio Players
- Low Rider by War
- Richard Nixon "I'm Not a Crook" speech
- The Andy Griffith Show theme song
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech
- The Twilight Zone theme
- JFK assassination news
- John F. Kennedy inauguration speech
- Robert MacArthur
- The Lone Ranger
- Franklin D. Roosevelt "December 7, 1941" speech
- The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)
Tell me the rest that I missed.
I also heard 'Volare' (nel blu dipinto di blu) Dean Martin version.
+Weldon Thatcher Some others in the mix: Report of the Challenger Shuttle Explosion
Dancing Machine - Jackson Five
Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 announcement ("One small step")
Robert Kennedy Assassination Report
White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day
My Guy - Mary Wells
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
McCarthy Communist Party Hearings (late '50s)
Catch a Falling Star - Perry Como
Volare - Dean Martin
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's farewell speech
Unidentified song by Brenda Lee or Wanda Jackson (I think)
Stardust - Artie Shaw
"Something never before experienced.." probably a news report about dropping the atomic bomb
Hitler speech (heard at the same time as FDR)
Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
Walter Winchell (CBS Reporter) WWII-era news broadcast
Happy Days Are Here Again - unknown
FDR New Deal Campaign Speech ("The only thing we have to fear...")
Inaugural KDKA radio broadcast, early 1920s (first AM radio broadcast)
Morse Code, early 20th century
Jim W Thanks for the info!
There was also:
R2-D2 (at Mars)
"hi lucky" and "I don't feel"
Which one was the KDKA broadcast? The 'nine, eight' or the one that says
"If anyone hearing this broadcast would be willing to communicate with us. We are very anxious to know how far the broadcast has reached."
and the usual radio static
Angry Days by Lagwagon plays second.
I recently re-bought contact and still marvel at this opening sequence. amazing.
Brilliant! The further from Earth we get the older the transmissions become. Although, I would have included more international transmissions in the opening pull back.
Carlo Galliano typical America centrism. The entire movie is like that - despite it's obvious theme of importance to humanity. Other countries are only mentioned barely in throwaway comments of dialogue...
+Matt C Oh Jesus forgive an American written and produced film for being too American. The main cast should have had 2 Chinese people, 2 Indians, 1 white person, 1 Hispanic person, and one ethnically ambiguous brown person, with an even split between male and female and should have been written primarily in Mandarin and Hindi. I agree with you totally. This American film is American hegemony gone too far.
Typical bashing of America.
every time seeing this just can't help to miss Carl.
I wish they did this part properly as it would then be a truly magnificent intro. Radio waves travel at the speed of light. The radio waves detected at Pluto are only about 6 hours old. Hitlers speeches could be heard around 80 light years away. This intro makes out like radio waves would take around 40 years just to reach Jupiter. when i reality it's more like half an hour.
Very good observation! I think for creative purposes they wanted to fade into silence earlier in the pull back though. I also would have included more international transmissions as well.
damnedcarrot It also means that Vega would have to be 160 LY away for the 80 year-old recording of Hitler to make its round-trip back to earth as it does in the movie.
+Matt C I think if I recall correctly the aliens had a way with radio and/or time that we couldn't possibly comprehend. In the book it was a lot more specific about this - I think the signal actually stopped as soon as Ellie got home from the trip. In essence, from a speed of light standpoint they cut the signal precisely 80 years before it was no longer needed. That was a big part of why the whole trip was hard for anyone to accept - much of it didn't make sense from our limited understanding of science and stank of a hoax. This is just like the allegations that Ellie never went anywhere because the sphere dropped straight through the machine without any pause. It doesn't just mean that the sphere made the journey essentially instantly, it also means that the aliens purposely timed her return to exactly overlap her departure, even erasing the delay of her time spent socializing with the aliens. They actually sent her back in time just a little bit.
So happy other Contact lovers are out there! Ive always loved this movie, just cant anyone who agrees with me!
Notice "Boogie Oogie Oogie" played when we pass Mars? Probably one of the songs Mark Watney had to listen to. 😂
Still impactful so many years later.
You taught me something today. Thank you.
This intro is genius
That is so beautiful into a deep space farther.
Actually, this is illustrating radio emissions and their distance from the Earth at the time of the film. This is why the music becomes older and quieter as we zoom out. You can't actually hear the sounds in space, but this would be what you might be able to hear through a radio receiver that could decode the signals. :)
This guy is the classiest! Everyone, isn't this guy just the classiest? Just the absolute classiest!
aww. now i want to see this awesome movie again. i saw it in the theatres the first time, and still remember how awed i was. I know its not super-deep, but its good enough for me.
Im glad someone else picked up on that too!
The implication is that the sound waves would reach out that far, not light waves. That's why it's an audio track playing. I don't think the frame of reference is hearing things based on a local radio (in which case Ex0dus111's comment would apply), but rather from the perspective of what you would hear if the sound traveled. This seems to make sense given the calculation.
Radio waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, so they are technically "light"; tho they are on the non visible end of the spectrum. They generally move at the speed of light, but can have their speed hampered by things getting in their way. If it was to pass through some dense material on the way; this would slow it down. The sound we hear from a radio is the "translation" of the frequency's received by the antenna; turned into sound by the vibration of the magnets on your speakers.
Wow, I didn't know the planets were so close together, i thought they were milliones of miles apart, good thing I watch this accurate intro that proved me wrong
All that inside an eyeball. Incredible.
Love this Movie! Loved the book! Well done, Carl! :)
You technically would not hear the audio at all; unless you had a antenna on your camera, and were somehow translating the signal into sound on the speaker system. Once you surpassed the speed of light, you wouldn't hear the radio at all; since you would be going too fast for the data to catch up. That is unless past-light-speeds create some anomaly which we are currently unaware of; which could quite possibly be so. Quite possibly that once reaches a certain speed, time "wraps" over itself.
never ceases to humble the shit outta me. love this movie.
If you haven't watched with CC it's definitely worth a shot.
I like how you can hear the Andy Griffith whistle tune at 0:59. I love that show.
If I remember right closest star to us is about 45 light years away, the first radio broadcast was in 1895, so at best our radio transmission can be heard by a star 118 light years away from us and counting. Of course the signal gets weaker the further it travels from earth.
There is also to consider that our solar system is rotating inside our galaxy, and our galaxy is moving out from the center of the universe, so our pin point location is constantly changing.
Movie is just giving the idea and you can't expect a movie to be very accurate.
But, let's say you're moving with the camera and you hear the audio in correct time and distance. You would notice that audio is deforming. The camera is moving slowly at the beginning and starting to accelerate. Until the camera reaches the speed of light, you would hear the audio slowing down gradually. At speed of light, audio is freezed. When it becomes faster than speed of light, it will play backwards.
It may seem like that is what the movie is portraying... but the image isn't just zooming out, it is also moving back. We moved away from where earth was, and pulled back through the places you just mentioned.
Cool effect, but since radio signals travel at the speed of light, and the closest star to ours is only 4 light years away, radio signals from the 60ies should be WAY further out then Jupiter.
Love Contact, one of my favorite movies
This movie was really good, like, REALLY good. I don't know why a lot of people don't like it.
I can, while the idea is that our radio signals are still out there traveling the universe is correct.
A) it's lost in other noise, "quieter" as it leaves, technically the waves are still going out there however.
B) it travels faster than the video is showing (though in the grand scheme it hasn't gone that far). All those old radio/tv transmissions are already out of our system.
Anyone else notice how they made our moon ridiculously close to Earth and Mars about as close as our moon? 0:37 If our moon was that close, it would appear to fill most of the sky.
There are many false facts in this scene (e.g. the radio waves distance traveled) but that's not the point of it.
Anyone notice how they made us leave the solar system in under three minutes? If we could do that then we'd be somewhere else by now.
I can't believe people are actually whining about his not being realistic enough. Calm down it's beautiful.
The sound in this video represents radio-waves. Radio-waves can be converted to sound but they are not sound themselves.
Sound-waves are mechanical pressure waves that needs matter like air ore water to travel through. Radio-waves doesn't need that, because they are electromagnetic waves just like visible light.
Radio-waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum and they travel at the speed of light.
sound does not, but light does. And a radio signal is a light signal (though in a different spectrum) that gets converted into sound by your radio :)
no, radio signals aren't a form of vibration on the atmosphere like sound waves are. its actually an electromagnetic wave like light, only it has a longer period than visible light.
This demonstrates The Bootstrap Hypothesis very well
one of the best sci-fi movies of all time...
Blows my mind every time
Whoa... I can see forever...
Solarmovies will do Mr. President. Just go to the website, search for "Contact" then choose the 4th video source link, (you might have to prove your human and type in a code) to watch the movie in decent quality. (warning: there are lots of pop up ads that you have to close since it's free, but once you close those windows and start watching the movie you'll be able to watch it all the way through undisturbed.) Hope this helps. :D
How you can tell distance in a movie is mind boggling. You must be some sort of astronomer or something.
@martinaggie01 the camera is backing out from the center of the solar system outwards. So you see the sun over the horizon and the camera backs away so no Jupiter is after earth and further away from the sun so it's accurate. It was made with the help of Carl Sagan while he was alive so I'm sure he would have caught that as well haha
The planets are exponentially farther apart. The speed of the zooming out is also exponential.
Radio waves move at the speed of light, so every single light year moved should represent one year of radio broadcasts.
Well I think you were trying to say that sound travels much slower than light (which you would be correct).
But sound is not what is being broadcasted over the radio. The radio waves are what would be sent out (and what would be picked up in space granted they were broadcasted that far) and would be traveling at the speed of light. Radio waves are just another form of light in the non-visible (to us) spectrum.
(just google/wikipedia "electromagnetic spectrum")
That one white blood cell in your thigh is wondering if it's the only sentient being in it's universe.
This is an amazing movie. Such a sad story ;(
You're right--praise be to Shangdi, the nurse of the cosmic egg!
That's true, it's actually a gravitational wave, but I still the original point of the movie intro might still be missed. Then again, it is a science fiction film. :P
Thank you so much for clarifying :)
Dude. I love Conact!
43 minutes ago there was 70s music being broadcast somewhere in the world.
Also, if the waves were going that slowly, they'd be picked up in reverse by the cameraman overtaking them.
Also the relative distances between the planets and their sizes are clearly not to scale.
That's true, but once it accelerates, the radio effect goes silent. My guess is, they found that the radio effect being played while it was panning out quickly just didn't have the same effect, and thus, artistic license ended up leading to scientific inaccuracy.
Thank you, I realized what they were doing, and then i was thinking... but,... radio waves are about the speed of light, if not the speed of light, I mean the sun would have gotten my "Hey what's up" 8 minutes ago.
The best hypnoting thing. Human are nothing, like dust in my house...now, i can't sleeping because i'm thinking about the universe and the sence of the human life... :)
nah bro you got it wrong humans are very important just like each atom of the universe. We are not a drop in the ocean, we are the ocean in a drop. Everything is connected. We are just the universe experiencing itself in human form.
+Ferhat Çifci wow just wow.. well put..
+Ferhat Çifci
Yes, you make the choice to put Human in the center. I still believe we are just nothing, there is something bigger, untouchable.
Only complaint here is that, because of the very definition of "The speed of light" we would need to get light years away from Earth to get historical radio broadcasts, like Pearl Harbor (1997-1939=57 years, so 57 light years for this example) and our solar system isn't nearly one light year away.
Man. Im just. Wow. This.
Exactly. Except that your talking about the speed of sound which is a little different...
It is very beautiful.
no, it was shown as being behind it... haven't you seen a panning boom camera before...
Amazing...
Yes, it's just south of Great Britain, MA.
Man that is one huge eyeball.
The speed is increasing exponentially, but they should have stretched out the beginning. You wouldn't hear music from the 70's until you were 40 light years out, near the closest stars. Later, they should have spent more time showing galaxies receding, showing hundreds before fading out. Someone remake this intro!
Interesting facts shown in subts... worth checking on them ;)
And still there are people who says that we are alone on the universe
+AlisBaggins2 Well, we don't yet have any credible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. So, it is reasonable to be skeptical on the matter. On the other hand, given all we currently know in science, it's certainly also reasonable, if not highly compelling, to think that intelligent life exists out there somewhere. Its a very rational supposition that stands in stark contrast to the entirely groundless belief in gods and devils that most people cling to.
+AlisBaggins2 Yes truly this trailer for a movie has shown us beyond a doubt that there is extraterrestrial life in the universe. Who could possibly think otherwise?
I wish we could just explore all these parts we're seeing. When I see shit like this, it makes me wonder how we could all possibly still be fighting.
0:30 - Challenger explosion …. "Obviously a major malfunction"
@Drivenut4
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FYI: Reportedly, the grave malfunction was caused by a defective "O"-Ring in one of the twin rocket-boosters. It leaked, spraying some of its super-hot exhaust onto the giant launch-fuel tank, which instantaneously combusted the tank and the _Challenger_ shuttlecraft, all hands lost, but at least they died quickly and didn't suffer at all, AFAIK.
AWESOME OPENING SCENE SHOWING TIME TRAVEL THRUGH THE DIFFERENT PERIODS FROM THE FUTURE BACK TO THE BEGINNING 13.7 BILLION YEARS AGO THE RENAISSANCE MEDIEVAL ANCIENT FLINSTONES AND THE DINOSAURS ARE SOME WHERE ALONG THOSE LINES
The Eagle Nubula, or M16/NGC 6611, is 6500 ly from earth. In zooming out, I don't think it was saying earth is in the eagle nebula. They would have known that as it was one of the most famous images at the time the movie was made. Aside from that, there's no reason to think that is what they meant. Earth isn't inside Jupiter, even though jupiter is shown after earth. I.e. Your zooming through space, which means you approach M16 with your back to it and then eventually pass it on your journey.
Sound travels much slower than sound... not sure if its enough difference to account for the difference of years (I'm sure if it isn't I'll get a long reply full of calculations), but yea.
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and they took radiocarbon samples from the pots which is dated anywhere from 16,000 years to 29,000 years old
I finally get the reference in the Simpsons intro.
Just excellent (subtitles)
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This movie came out the year I was born lol. Anyone feel old?
Does anyone at all know what song is playing at @1:54? Since I first saw this movie I've been wondering and looking for it but I can't find it because I don't know what it's called. You can barely hear it but it sounds like something that would have been played in the 1910s. So any music knowledgables out there that might know what this song is, thank you :)
sunlightangel87 From what I've read, it's called "Happy Days are Here Again". However, I've listened to it multiple times and it sounds off, although I could be wrong. Hope this helps!
Thank you for your response :)
I have actually found the name of the song since creating this. This is the very last twenty seconds of "Dark Town Strutters Ball" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Came out in 1917.
Oh, wow. Didn't think I'd get a response, being as late as I was. Thank's for the clarification!
Update: Wow, I would have never found this on my own. Even more thanks!
@@ettie102 Sure thing! Since finding it, I've mention the song in my work-in-progress novel that is set in 1917 :)
in the next few thousand years, faster-than-light communication with whatever intelligent life is out there, seems more likely than humans boarding a spaceship and playing intergalactic oregon trail
something scary is hidden in this intro...i feel it
As a person who haven't seen this movie, the intro reminds me of fallout.
Did someone know the tune that plays at 1:57, please.
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now that I feel completely insignificant
Now go, my apprentice, go into the world and make a name for yourself.
But clearly if he hadnt had the foresight way back in 1997 to remember a small detail from a caption at the bottom of a photograph in an old National Geographic he picked up off a coffee table to thumb through in the waiting room at the dentists office outside Montgomery, Alabama, USA in the western half of the northern hemisphere while third eye blind played over the radio...
It just makes you realize how insignificant we really are.
WoW. Such relief as or Milky Way was left behind...
But if that were true then we would have seen a mirror image of the nebula. I think the movie has made a mistake.
Same goes for why are all the planets seemingly in line with each other?
Movies...
I dont think its the sound thats up there, its the radio waves.
This is god speaking, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.
Also, prior to the late 60's, humanity wasn't transmitting radio-waves powerful enough to be cast that deep into space.
Totally underrated comment.
By the way... anyone who knows... what happen to sound in space... I mean in vacuum shouldn't this be absolute silence? Why do they put music getting older and older while zoom out? I figured it was like the waves of sound travel in space... and the older are far away now.. .but how? they cannot travel without air... do they? Sorry if I'm ignorant...
wouldn't radio signals travel at the speed of sound? I actually don't know anything about it, that just would make sense to me.
I HAD to watch this movie after watching this amazing intro; and I was not disappointing at all. This movie is amazing!! I can't believe that I've never seen it before.... crazy. But, now that I've seen it (solarmovie(dot)com, warning: lots of ads, but worth it) it is definitely in my top ten ufo/alien movies. :D Also I love REDDIT!!!