Literature

Contact

Carl Sagan · 1985

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3,226·Classic

41 yrs

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1

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Why it endured

A scientist detects a signal from an alien civilization and must navigate the political, religious, and scientific implications of first contact.

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Andrej KarpathyAI researcher & former Tesla AI Director

Did the creator of the universe give us a message? For example in the book "Contact", Carl Sagan, there's a message for any civilization in digits in the expansion of Pi and base 11, eventually, which is kind of an interesting thought.

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