Maybe they got it wrong, but does it matter if the moon is half or full if
you can see realistic actors speaking Yucatec Maya in an authentic
environment? The Maya Hierogylphs are phonetic signs which encode this
language. If you watch documentations like "Cracking the Maya Code" ( see
http://bit.ly/9l4fop ), you wonder how they might have lived, and what they
may have thought. Mel Gibson's film shows it.
-J.
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Critchlow
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Palenque, Chichen Itza and more
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 <sroy...@gmail.com> 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
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