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Eighteen hours in the pod and....


She never needed to piss or defecate? Was she wearing diapers? If so, wouldn't the amount of urine or feces indicate a prolonged journey? If no diapers, was there a toilet in the pod?

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garyleigh-661-284912

Why is your name so stupid, just like your question?

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RE: The expiration of bodily fluids
her body was in the pod for 1 minute so she would not have needed to use the bathroom

Her consciousness travelled whereever the aliens were and I think they manipulated time or else time moves faster there and so that what would happen on earth in a minute would take 18 hours up there
I am thinking whatever recorded the static was linked to her mind and therefore consciousness and thus recorded her experience from that point of view
It was static because how do human machines record consciousness? They do not have the technology to do so.

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I don't remember it being 18 hours?

She boards the POD, and the countdown begins and she enters the wormhole. The entire sequence takes up around 8 to 10 minutes, but the people observing from outside the launch pad only see about 6 seconds of activity as the POD lands in the water BUT after they review the tapes they discover that it had been recording for several minutes so there's an accounted timeline but unfortunately no footage

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The recorder that she had on her recorded for 18 hours. That's where the 18 hours number comes from. This is pointed out a couple of times.

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Did the book elaborate on this further or did the politicians just tuck it away in a warehouse like they did with the Ark of the Covenant?

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They said it was 18 hours of static.

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remember that CHAIR they installed? It's a toilet

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Don’t know how many times I thought, ‘this film was good but it could have been great if only it added a few defecation and urination scenes’. Missed opportunity for Foster to really stretch her acting chops.

Maybe the aliens included a few blueprints for this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2017/02/16/astronauts-can-boldly-go-in-their-spacesuits-after-space-poop-challenge-gets-record-response/

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The pod allowed one to travel intergalactically. It actually changed her anatomy and composition to do this such that physically she did not need to leave the pod to go to another galaxy
It also stretched time such that one minute could be experience as 18 hours while inside it. SO her body had experienced only one minute of being alive so no need to poop or pee. But her consciousness had experienced 18 hours.Her body and mind were operating in two different times.

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Well there weren't many Stuckey's along the way and I didn't see her tuck into a roadside cantina for a brew or a shot of tequila. For what it's worth, she was probably fed a compact diet to reduce the mass in her colon, and probably made poopies before she left. I can go eighteen hours without having to piss and/or defecate, as long as I steer clear of the Beef Vindaloo or the Rosarita refries. So can a lot of people, I imagine. It's not too hard.

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It would have been a magnificent first impression for the aliens if the 'dad' had walked onto the beach as she's on her haunches with her pants down in the middle of backing out an enormous steamer at the water's edge.

It was a really pretty setting for a poop, on par with Rick's private spot in Rick and Morty. https://wallhere.com/en/wallpaper/1738043

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You are an idiot.

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