Marking Time

By Libra

Evening skyscape

Photo: view over the Trossachs taken while out walking.
 
If you enjoy fast moving, surreal, loud violent films then you will like Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny.
 
I don’t.  But I agreed to see this film since it’s the last that 80 year old Harrison Ford will make.
 
For the first half hour of the film you see a de-aged Harrison Ford from the 1980s, thanks to AI, and the effect is eerie. No wonder Hollywood writers and actors are on strike.
 
The story on which the film is based , the  Antikythera mechancism , first discovered off a shipwreck in the Greek sea in 1901, is far more interesting than this film. 
 
For it is the first known mechanical  computer dating back to
178-204 BC

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