22nd September 2005, 3:16 PM
Ugh, Contact... that movie was TERRIBLE! So the main lesson of that movie is, if someone tells you an extremely unlikely story in place of a much more likely explanation in their defense, go with it because you MIGHT be wrong? Sure, I'll remember that next time a murderer wants to get off scott free because he was actually being posessed by a demon.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)