Daily Dialogue — September 14, 2018

“I must have gone through a wormhole.”

— Contact (1997), screenplay by James V. Hart and Michael Goldenberg, novel by Carl Sagan

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Outer Space.

Trivia: The remark made throughout the movie by different characters, that if humans were the only life in the universe, it would “be a terrible waste of space”, is a famous quote by author Carl Sagan. It references a statement by the Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), considering the potential worlds of other stars; “A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: Wormholes play a key role in the climatic sequence in the movie Contact.