Movies and telescopes

[madlori]

Last night I watched the Percy Jackson Lightning Thief movie. It was okay. I enjoyed it. But I kept feeling confuzzled because I'd had the impression that Percy Jackson was, like, twelve. I checked the Wik and yes, he's supposed to be 12 in the first book. Huh. Imagine if Chris Columbus had tried to age up the Harry Potter characters. The

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[cadey]

I also found out during the tweet FAQ that the Hubble has an exposure of less than one orbit (97 minutes) and the longest cumulative exposure was 11 days for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

[madlori]

Oh yeah? What else did they change? I haven't read them (was thinking about it, though).

[drewcypher]

My daughter, Zelda, picked these up after Potter and convinced me to read them. I made it through the Lightning Thief but only just. The author isn't much of a writer and tends to foreshadow things by saying, "I'm now foreshadowing something that will be important in about 40 pages." *yawn*

[airemay]

Wow- I only knew one of those, that you had to apply for time on the telescope. I had no idea it stayed in one place!

[headchef]

The Percy Jackson series is awesome! And the new series he started which is tied into Percy is looking pretty awesome too!

I have a friend who worked with a team who designed something on the Hubble. It was so long ago I don't remember what though!

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[39th_year]

This is why they invented the Internet--so I can look smarter at cocktail parties without having to do any actual work. Thank you.