Why even bother to risk personnel? Why not send some kind of doomsday machine? Every time an emerging technological civilization announces itself by broadcasting radio waves into space they reply with a message. The civilization builds it and blows itself up. No expeditionary force needed.
Contact (1997)
CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS
A screenplay character in Contact (1997).
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Why even bother to risk personnel? Why not send some kind of doomsday machine? Every time an emerging technological civilization announces itself by broadcasting radio waves into space they reply with a message. The civilization builds it and blows itself up. No expeditionary force needed.
scene 70 — INT. CAMP DAVID - BRIEFING ROOM - DAY