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Revision as of 08:19, 30 October 2006
Proving Longitude Wrong is the sixty-first video in the Lonelygirl15 video series.
Transcript
Bree (on camera): Hello, and welcome to another exciting installment of "Proving Science Wrong." Daniel's here, and we're having a bit of fun.
(Bree nods)
Today we have a troubling question put before us: Do you know your longitude?
(Scene cut: Bree and Daniel are sitting on the floor next to two clocks. Daniel plays with a globe and points to the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, England).
Your longitude is the lateral distance from the Prime Meridian, measured in degrees. (sighs) I know, I didn't think it was that important either. Until I read this:
(Bree holds up paperback edition of "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time," by Dava Sobel).
(Bree reads): Twas a foggy day on October 22, 1707. Sir Admiral Clowdisley--well anyway. He was guiding five boats carrying 2,000 soldiers back to England, when he got lost.
(Scene cut: Bree walks about the room as though, pretending to be blind. She chases Daniel off the bed).
Clowdisley was approached shortly before nightfall by one of the first mates. He'd been keeping an astronomical journal thingy of where the boat had been travelling. They were hopelessly off course. It was illegal for anyone other than the ship's navigator to keep logs on the ship's position. So Clowdisley had the man hanged. And what do you know, three hours later the fleet runs smack into a row of rocky islands.
(Scene cut: Bree nods to music).
(Scene cut: Bree and Daniel are back on the floor with the clocks and globe. Daniel grabs the Time magazine off the bed and continues reading).
(Scene cut: Bree nods some more to the music).
Clowdisley was one of the two survivors of the wreck. But when he washed up on shore, a local peasant woman was walking by and she took a liking to his shiny emerald ring--and murdered him for it. True story. (Bree holds up book again). All in this book.
So, why is it important to know your longitude? Because if you don't know where you are, then you don't know where you're going. And you might run into things that aren't supposed to be there... (looks back at Daniel playing with P. Monkey on the bed) Like DanielBeasts.
