Which seems like a paraphrase of a scene in Contact, on why scientists ("egghead types" in the movie) believe aliens would be friendly to us. Ellie: "We pose n

Which seems like a paraphrase of a scene in Contact, on why scientists ("egghead types" in the movie) believe aliens would be friendly to us. Ellie: "We pose no threat to them. It would like us going out of our way to destroy a few microbes on some ant hill in Africa." Drummond: "Interesting analogy. And how guilty would we feel if we went and destroyed a few microbes on an ant hill in Africa?" I know many find that movie cliche, but I actually loved it. One of my favorites. The book was superior, but the movie got a lot of my friends talking about science in a non-judgmental way, and as a total space nerd, that made my day.