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[Contact] At the end of the film, why didn't they just send more people through the machine?

Instead of angrily (why??) grilling Dr. Arroway, why not just send more people through the journey? Would the machine have worked a second time? If not, why?
gpt
This has bugged me forever too, good scientists would see a trickle of data supporting her story in the 18 hours of static and would be jumping to send another pilot through. The project might need to be privatised and some crowdfunding sourced to get enough power etc. but almost any scientist would want more data.