Before boarding the spaceship, he tells Elliott "I'll be right here," pointing his glowing finger to his forehead.
In his interview with Spielberg on Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton suggested Close Encounters had another, more personal theme for Spielberg: "Your father was a computer engineer; your mother was a concert pianist, and when the spaceship lands, they make music together on the computer", suggesting that Roy Neary's boarding the spaceship is Spielberg's wish to be reunited with his parents.
So, you buy a ticket, then if the apocalypse does, in fact, arrive, you board the spaceship and it takes you to a brand new planet, one that's fit for humans.
Kevin Kelly, the founding editor of Wired magazine, does not see the future inhabited by HAL's – the homicidal computer on board the spaceship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
However, to a stationary observer watching the spaceship fly by, the spaceship appears flattened in the direction it is traveling and the clock on board the spaceship appears to move very slowly.
On the other hand, the crew on board the spaceship also perceives the observer as slowed down and flattened along the spaceship's direction of travel, because both are moving at very nearly the speed of light relative to each other.
Is it being hampered by non-sterile equipment on board the spaceship?
A science-fiction first-person shooter, Halo begins with murderous aliens boarding your spaceship.
In pursuit of such knowledge, I recently boarded a spaceship in the Times Square area.
It takes place on-board the first spaceship that will settle on an exoplanet".
Fei discovers that he is a descendant of Abel, a young boy who was a passenger on board the Eldridge, a spaceship that was being used to transport Deus, the core of an interplanetary invasion system created by a federation of space-faring humans, one that was deemed far too dangerous for use and was therefore dismantled and moved.
