Strap into your very own weird ball machine and help us guide Jodie Foster through a world of radio science, a dash of physics, and men who are garbage to women in the 1997 sci-fi epic "Contact!"

We attempt to siphon what science discussion we can out of a movie that you lovely listeners shanghaied us into watching, while managing to somehow make this a longer episode.

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