{"id":896,"date":"2012-04-05T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/04\/05\/astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-gets-james-cameron-to-fix-a-scientific-inaccuracy-for-the-3d-version-of-titanic\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T16:43:00","slug":"astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-gets-james-cameron-to-fix-a-scientific-inaccuracy-for-the-3d-version-of-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/04\/05\/astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-gets-james-cameron-to-fix-a-scientific-inaccuracy-for-the-3d-version-of-titanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson gets James Cameron to fix a scientific inaccuracy for the 3D version of Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-lqInWQd3Rko\/T33L3DtdtvI\/AAAAAAAABMQ\/Xzfcp0Z_mcc\/s1600\/ScreenHunter_01%2BApr.%2B05%2B12.41.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 400px;height: 207px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-lqInWQd3Rko\/T33L3DtdtvI\/AAAAAAAABMQ\/Xzfcp0Z_mcc\/s400\/ScreenHunter_01%2BApr.%2B05%2B12.41.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5727958447834380018\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><br style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a style=\"font-family: georgia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slashfilm.com\/astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-james-cameron-change-titanic-3d\/\">SlashFilm<\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"> recently posted a great article about how Neil deGrasse Tyson noticed that the sky in the scene were Rose (Kate Winslet) is floating on a plank and gazing at the sky. According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, the sky is completely inaccurate for the time of night on that particular date (April 15, 1912 at 4:20 AM).<\/span><br style=\"font-family: georgia\"><br style=\"font-family: georgia\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">Below is an interesting video in which Neil deGrasse Tyson describes the mini saga which finally resulted in a phone call from a guy who works post production for James Cameron. The call was requesting his assistance on a sky upgrade for the 10 year anniversary release of the film. This sky grade is also used in the 3D version of Titanic. Skip ahead to 26:00 or 26:10 for the bit about Titanic. Neil deGrasse Tyson is quite a funny guy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SlashFilm recently posted a great article about how Neil deGrasse Tyson noticed that the sky in the scene were Rose (Kate Winslet) is floating on a plank and gazing at the sky. According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, the sky is completely inaccurate for the time of night on that particular date (April 15, 1912 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[28,133,138,150,301],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-films","category-news","tag-3d","tag-film-studies","tag-films","tag-funny","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}