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  • You may think of her as the "real-life Ellie Arroway" if you are a Contact fan.

    URSI Update #3 - SETI Nicole 2009

  • You may think of her as the "real-life Ellie Arroway" if you are a Contact fan.

    Archive 2009-02-05 Nicole 2009

  • Other female scientist characters who escape being mere sex objects in lab coat are Jodie Foster's Ellie Arroway in Contact, and Laura Dern's paleobotanist Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park.

    Women Scientists in the Movies Peggy 2007

  • Other female scientist characters who escape being mere sex objects in lab coat are Jodie Foster's Ellie Arroway in Contact, and Laura Dern's paleobotanist Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Peggy 2007

  • Sagan provides a valid statement of the principle when he has his central character, Dr. Ellie Arroway played in the film by Jodie Foster, make the remark, “All things being equal, the simplest explanation that accounts for the largest amount of the evidence is usually the correct one.”

    The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006

  • It was entitled Contact, the story of a smart, gritty radio astronomer named Ellie Arroway who has the immense good fortune to tune into the communications of an advanced, alien civilization light-years away from Earth—rather a pivotal event in human history.

    I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

  • And that is precisely what Kip Thorne suggested that Carl Sagan use in his novel to move Ellie Arroway across twenty-six light-years of space.

    I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

  • And that is precisely what Kip Thorne suggested that Carl Sagan use in his novel to move Ellie Arroway across twenty-six light-years of space.

    I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

  • It was entitled Contact, the story of a smart, gritty radio astronomer named Ellie Arroway who has the immense good fortune to tune into the communications of an advanced, alien civilization light-years away from Earth—rather a pivotal event in human history.

    I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

  • And that is precisely what Kip Thorne suggested that Carl Sagan use in his novel to move Ellie Arroway across twenty-six light-years of space.

    I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

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