More Things I’ve Learned from TV

(Why SETI started searching elsewhere)

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Remember the movie Contact?

Basically, the story line was this: while searching for intelligent life, a young woman had sex with one of those rare non-celibate televangelists, and then he never returned her calls, so naturally she decided to launch herself into outer space. Then, as often happens, she met a psychotic trillionaire who agreed to pay for the whole project. Later, after not being assassinated by Gary Busey’s brother, she strapped he...