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



This is part of the ancient religion of Egypt, not a filtration or interpretation. He's not making this data up, he's reporting it.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Mark Smart <marksmartus@gmail.com> wrote:
Sorry, I see now that in the video, he says the the stars point at the
place where the sun WILL rise the next morning, and not where the sun
is (although his diagram shows the stars and sun in the sky at the
same time, which is misleading). This happens once during the night
and is not true the rest of the time. He's filtering the data. Okay,
NOW I will stop...:)


On 8/4/08, Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> wrote:
> GAH!
>
> Please.
>
> Make.
>
> It.
>
> Stop.
>
> ~~ Dennis
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Stephen Goodman
> <spgoodman@earthlight.net>wrote:
>
>> I use Skyglobe.  Shareware, small and quick-loading.
>> http://www.sidewalkastronomy.com/skyglobe.html
>>
>> ----- 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>> http://cdbaby.com/cd/marksmart
>>> http://www.marksmart.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>


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Mark Smart
http://cdbaby.com/cd/marksmart
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