Last night Matt and I saw The Farnsworth Invention, the new Aaron Sorkin play about the invention of television. It got me thinking about the history of broadcasting, which then got me thinking about the opening scene of the movie Contact, which is one of the coolest movie openings ever — as we pull away from Earth, we come into contact with older and older radio waves, umtil we reach the silent infinite void that existed before anything was ever broadcast.

I looked for it on YouTube, and of course it’s there.