As I worked on this piece, I could not stop fascinated with Ellie Arroway, xổ số 30 ngày the heroine of Carl Sagan’s e-book, “Contact” (and pictured on web page two). There is a scene in the 1997 movie adapted from the book through which Arroway, lying atop her automotive in the new Mexico desert, hears the primary tentative pulses of an alien civilization’s greeting. She races again to the lab, shouting instructions to her colleagues as she goes, trying to verify the array of radio telescopes stays tuned to the sign. I still argue it’s probably the most exciting scenes in modern American cinema. It made alien contact seem not just plausible, but imminent.

Tickets to the very first Super Bowl in 1967 cost a median of $10 (more than $83 in 2022 cash). In the year 2000, Super Bowl tickets still averaged less than $500 when adjusted for inflation. However in the final two a long time, ticket prices have risen astronomically, and fans often pay double or triple face value – generally even more – on the secondary market [supply: DePietro].

In 2013 a Treasury Inspector Basic report steered that the IRS elucidate its guidelines about what constitutes political exercise in an effort to shed some mild on dark cash. However when the company tried to take action, congressional Republicans blocked the effort in a rider hooked up to an omnibus spending bill in December 2015 [source: Watson]. One other rider in the identical bill prevented the SEC from forcing companies to reveal their donations to shareholders [supply: O’Donnell].