Contact, whether with those around us or with those in space, involves an image in the mind of the other being different. What Stanislaw Lem states in Solaris is that contact between humans and extraterrestrial life is impossible until we change not only this mentality, but also our reluctance to accept differences with each other. One thing Solaris suggests is that it is man's inherent racism and critical nature. it prevents us from understanding extraterrestrial intelligence. This is no clearer than in Chapter 3 – The Visitors – when Kris Kelvin meets his first visitor at the station: “I saw a gleam in the whites of his eyes and heard the soft clicking of his barefoot. She wore nothing but a braided yellow skirt. Stanislaw Lem also makes a connection in Solaris between communication with extraterrestrials and religion, directly comparing contact with extraterrestrial life to the concept of reaching heaven. This is what Chapter 11 does, when Kelvin says: “Over the years, Contact has become sanctified. It has become the paradise of eternity. (Lem 11.168) However, Solaris scientists were just as far from understanding the ocean, which is arguably the most important form of extraterrestrial life on Solaris, as we are from understanding God. Most Solaris scientific texts are read by Kelvin, in which he will expand on the text by stating that one Solarist thought this, and another thought something else, but in the end, those Solarists always determine that they are wrong and admit that they don't have a definitive understanding of Solaris at all. At the end of the novel, Kelvin suggests that the ocean might be some kind of "imperfect God", but we don't know enough about him to be able to definitively say whether his intentions are malicious or not.