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Re: Very OT: Zeitgeist, The Movie... WAS... Semi-OT: Int'l Travellers' Laptops Confiscated...



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Smart" <marksmartus@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 16:16 PM
Subject: Re: Very OT: Zeitgeist, The Movie... WAS... Semi-OT: Int'l 
Travellers' Laptops Confiscated...


>> How do you think they're stretching it? I think they're just explaining 
>> how
>> the archeoastronomers saw it. I suppose without peripheral lighting, the
>> night sky must've been an awesome sight to behold on a nightly basis.
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> I also just realized that in the wintertime, the constellation of
> Orion rises in the east after sunset, so there is no way its stars can
> be visibly pointing at the rising sun at sunrise.
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> There are a couple of cool online planetarium sites, try it. Orion is
> not in the sky at all at sunrise even in Bethlehem on December 25th in
> the year 0000. Where did he get this stuff?
>
> The Zeitgeist filmmaker's credibility is now at zero. Time do do other
> stuff, I have wasted too much time on this crap!
>
> -- 
> Mark Smart
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