Exactly. I sat there looking at the full moon and imagined Mel Gibson whipping the solar system through 14 days of celestial mechanics in the 12 hours elapsed in the script. In my mind it made this horrible grinding noise.
-- rec -- On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:07 PM, sarbajit roy <[email protected]> wrote: > Quote: > "*One thing they got wrong astronomically is a diddling point, but > "Apocalypto" depicts a Solar Eclipse one day then that night a Full Moon. > Nope, impossible! As any stargazer worth her telescope can tell you, Solar > Eclipsi are only possible when the moon is in the new phase, which is the > opposite of a Full Moon. Now I know Gibson wanted the artistic look of the > moonlight through the leaves in the forest, but this was glaringly > inaccurate. Especially if you're an amateur astronomer." > * > http://www.blackwebportal.com/wire/DA.cfm?ArticleID=2830 > > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think there is still much to be learned, especially about pre-contact >> North-South trade routes and, hence, cultural diffusion. I have a recent >> interest in, for example, the use/role of lienzos (see www.lienzo.ufm.edu) >> during that period. And there are relatively new discoveries at places >> likeEl Mirador<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mirador>in Guatemala. >> >> REC: Plz tell us more about how/why "The astronomy was impossible"? >> >> -tj >> >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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