This is a unique time in our history, in the history of any civilization. It's the moment of the acquisition of technology, that's the moment when contact becomes possible.
You want to hear something nutty? I heard about these two guys that want to build something called an airplane. You get people to go in it and fly around like birds. Or what about what about breaking the sound barrier or rockets to the moon or atomic energy or a mission to mars? Science fiction, right?!
- Jodie Foster as Dr. Eleanor Arroway, Concact (1997)