"Contact" intro--zooming out through time

Visually similar to the "Powers of Ten" vid, this movie opening sequence gives us an idea of how far radio waves take to travel through space. The farther out in the solar system we go, the older the tv/radio broadcasts.
(A minor technically: the radio goes back in time too fast. We are hearing radio shows from years gone by before we ever leave the solar system. However, it only takes light about 6 hours to go from the Sun to Pluto, so really at that distance we'd hear radio from 6 hours before. Just chalk it up to artistic license!)

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