A monologue said by Ellie, from Contact
Well, when I was about eight years old, I was watching the sunset, and I asked my dad, "what’s that bright star over there", and he said that it wasn’t really a start at all, but it was actually a whole planet called Venus. (pointing to the sky) Which should be over there soon. He said, "you know why they called it Venus? because they thought it was so beautiful and glowing. And what they didn’t know is that it was filled with deadly gases and sulfuric acid rain", and I thought, "this is it, I’m hooked".You know, there are four hundred billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If only one out of a million of those had planets, and just of out of a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life; there would be literally millions of civilizations out there.
