Forgive me because it’s been a while, but when the scientists receive a transmission back from the aliens and they zoom out to show a picture of Hitler, for some reason physically startled me. I guess I just wasn’t expecting that to be the transmission and wasn’t sure if it meant the aliens were hostile at that point in the movie. Just sort of a WTF moment for me. Not a bad movie at all. Was fun seeing it in theaters.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dyns367ExE
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/09/will-hitler-be-the-first-person-that-aliens-see.html
I'm kinda curious what the world would be like with Nazi Germany in charge. Probably won't be as today with the slow decline of societies as a whole.
Humanity would have become Terrans as portrayed in Star Trek Discovery. We would be united and out roaming the Cosmos. Searching to pick a fight with everybody and enslave whoever along the way. I think there was an episode of Star Trek Voyager where Janeway had a warship? I vaguely remember it, hmmm.
shareThe film uses the video purely for dramatic purposes, and to embolden the characters in the story that have reason to supress or nay-say the event. There would have been radio broadcasts many decades prior to 1936. Perhaps the interval of time between radio and TV was a 'tipping point' prompting the sending back of the message, along with the plans for the IPV.
shareThe 1936 Olympics video is in the novel too. The explanation given is that it was the first TV broadcast with a strong enough signal to be received a long distance away from the Earth. But I agree it serves a dramatic purpose too.
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