that everyone was direly searching for????? My guess is that Mt. Everest was what that island formed around since it's the highest piece of rock in the world. The remains of the two people found there after the discovery were clearly East Asian. That's a clue.
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The map tattoo on Enola's back is in Chinese traditional characters (or Japanese Kanji). The characters in the middle surrounding the arrow are actual coordinates for longitude and latitude. While one number is not quite readable, the others give almost exact coordinates for Mount Everest, which is Latitude 27° 59' N Longitude 86° 56' E. The movie coordinates give: Latitude 27 or 28° 58' N Longitude 86° 56' E.
(Info from the Trivia board).
In the long version of the film we see at the end a plaque on the ground of Edmund Hillary and Mount Everest.
Why they would edit these ten seconds out of the short version is mind boggling.
Yeah, but longitude has no meaning if you have no fixed point from which to measure it. It only works now because it's based off Greenwich.
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Yea, it's much more in line with the older expanding and contracting Earth hypothesis. The reason we see matching rock strata across oceans was the Earth used to be smaller and expanded. If it then contracted all the land would be closer to the center and the water that collected would cover it. It wasn't until the Cold War mapping of the ocean by the military did we get strong evidence for continental drift.
shareIn the version that is not edited, when they get to dry land, there is a plaque on the ground that says something like
here is Mt. Everest that Edmund Hillary was the first to climb to the peak, whatever.
Yikes. I never bothered watching this movie because the premise and the characterizations were to cheesy for my liking.
So the world flooded over and the water levels were so high that they almost covered the Himalayan plateau? What a joke
Well , you just have imagine Aliens came along and terraformed the land and made it all level , and this resulted in the flood - if you want a more realistic scenario.
Even using that Sci-Fi logic, the whole "Aliens came to Earth to destroy humanity" trope has worn thin, even by 90s cinema standards which btw was more into grey Aliens investigating humanity through abductions
shareThere isn't that much water in existence. The premise is ridiculous.
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