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<p>I did a little digging - from the "Contact" movie's IMDB trivia
page:<br>
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<p>"William Fichtner's character, a blind astrophysicist with
enhanced hearing, is named Kent Clark, a play on the name of
Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent. The character is based on a
real-life blind SETI scientist, Kent Cullers"</p>
<p>From the Trade me listing:</p>
<p>"<span style="color: rgb(101, 96, 93); font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">My husband, Kent Cullers PhD, who was the first and ONLY totally blind from birth physicist. He was NASA's Team Leader for the SETI program and..."</span></p>
<p> Mike</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/08/2021 7:12 pm, David Closey
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Thanks so much for posting this
I had no idea the character in CONTACT was based on a real person
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