Posted on 12/29/2013 2:24:00 PM PST by logic101.net
and the film was too crazy for them, that says something
Film inaccuracies could be an interesting thread all by itself.
Isn’t 500M miles roughly equivalent to 12 light years?
Its a little over 5 AU. Jupiter is about 480,000,000 miles out.
I just went and read about 50 of them on some website, not interesting any more. lol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien_tourism
New Zealand has made a fortune off tourists going to Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets. You’d think Morocco would have enough sense not to let those Tattooine sets rot.
I enjoy nature as much as the next guy, but I find abandoned hulks and real ghost towns more interesting to look at than more trees. On the other hand, piles of dumped trash are just disgusting.
12 light years is 70.8 trillion miles give or take. Still smaller than all outstanding debt liabilities incurred by the US federal government.
Funny, after they filmed Escape from New York, it still
looked just like New York.
How about them private planes?
That’s......quite a distance.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.