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Hadden, a billionaire in multiple high-tech industries with an obsessive personal interest in the concept of immortality, suggests that Ellie check for phase modulation. The final piece of the message is discovered when S. R. At the conference, Ellie meets Devi Sukhavati, a doctor who left India to marry the man she loved, only to lose him to illness a year later. The participants reach a consensus that the machine is a dodecahedron-shaped vehicle with five seats. Shortly after, Ellie travels to Paris to discuss the machine with a newly formed consortium. Although dismissing Rankin's outbursts, Ellie is intrigued by Joss' worldview.

A lifelong religious skeptic, Ellie tries to convince Joss of her faith in science by standing near a heavy Foucault pendulum and trusting that its amplitude will not increase. With no way of decoding the 30,000 pages, SETI scientists surmise that there must be a primer that they have missed.Īt the President's insistence, Ellie agrees to meet with two religious leaders, Billy Jo Rankin and Palmer Joss.

A third message is discovered describing plans for an advanced machine. With the help of her Soviet colleague Vaygay Lunacharsky, Ellie is able to set up redundant monitoring of the signal so that a telescope remains pointed at Vega at all times. Ellie begins a relationship with Presidential Science Advisor Ken der Heer. The President of the United States meets with Ellie to discuss the implications of the first confirmed communication from extraterrestrial beings. Further analysis reveals information in the polarization modulation of the signal: a retransmission of Adolf Hitler's opening speech at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, the first television signal powerful enough to escape Earth's ionosphere.

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To his surprise, the project discovers a signal containing a series of prime numbers coming from the Vega system 26 light years away. This puts her at odds with most of the scientific community, including Drumlin, who tries to have the funding to SETI cut off. She eventually becomes the director of 'Project Argus', a radiotelescope array in New Mexico dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Ellie refuses to accept him as a family member and concludes that her mother only remarried out of weakness.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Ellie receives a doctorate from Caltech supervised by David Drumlin, a well-known radio astronomer. A man named John Staughton becomes her stepfather and does not show as much support for her interests. In sixth grade, her father and role-model Theodore ('Ted') dies.

Dissatisfied with a school lesson, she goes to the library to convince herself that π is transcendental. The film concept was subsequently revived and eventually released in 1997 as the film Contact starring Jodie Foster.Īs a child, Eleanor 'Ellie' Arroway displays a strong aptitude for science and mathematics.

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The only full work of fiction published by Sagan, the novel originated as a screenplay by Sagan and Ann Druyan (whom he later married) in 1979 when development of the film stalled, Sagan decided to convert the stalled film into a novel. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced, extraterrestrial life form. Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan.