Regardless of these small inconsistencies, they preserved that "Contact is indescribably more correct in its depiction of SETI than any Hollywood film in record." A harried workaholic, Michael Newman doesn’t have time for his wife and kids, not if he’s to impress his ungrateful boss and gain a nicely-deserved marketing. https://groups.google.com/g/j88-zapp/c/oYurLxIhLW0