:24:01
Are you there?
:24:04
Come back.
:24:12
Are you there?
:24:14
Dad, this is Ellie.
:24:47
Hi, Kent.
What are you doing up so early?
:24:51
I was thinking...
:24:53
...we'd make a pretty good team.
:24:56
We could put together
an ad hoc SETI program.
:25:00
You know the Very Large Array
in New Mexico?
:25:02
It's a dynamite place to do SETI work--
:25:04
What are you talking about?
:25:09
Drumlin pulled the plug.
:25:11
We're homeless.
:25:26
It's true, you pulled the plug?
:25:27
You can't see it now,
but I'm doing you a favor.
:25:30
You're too promising a scientist
to waste your gifts on this nonsense.
:25:34
I don't consider what could be...
:25:36
...the most important
human discovery nonsense!
:25:39
400 billion stars--
:25:41
And two probabilities.
One, there's intelligent life...
:25:44
...but too far away
to contact in your lifetime.
:25:47
- And two!
- You're making a decision--
:25:49
There's nothing but gases and carbon
compounds and you're wasting your time!
:25:53
In the meantime,
you won't be taken seriously.
:25:56
Your career will be over!
:25:58
So what?