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Anchor was Modern?

posted 11 years ago by rubencamacho78
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Great film but the only part that bugged me was, wasn't the use of attaching modern materials for an anchor against what Thor was trying to do. I mean, he threw out cable, then agrees with the anchor idea?

[–] jalbert1 11 years ago

By the time they hit the reef, the experiment was over. They had made it across the pacific, which was all they were trying to do. Thor wasn't about to risk killing all of them at that point just so they could say that made it over a reef with no modern equipment. And just because the stuff they used for an anchor was modern doesn't mean it was cheating. Dead weight is dead weight. Much different than if they had used the, much stronger than rope, steel cable.

[–] joakim_joensson 10 years ago

There are primitive anchors found dating back to at least bronze age, so there is nothing saying they could not have been used on balsa rafts 1500 years ago.

[–] liscarkat-2 10 years ago

Not to mention the radio, sextant, compass, watches, canned rations, charts showing where land and currents were, etc., etc. If Peruvians 1,500 years ago attempted a similar voyage, they had no idea what was out there, how far it was, or if anything existed at all.

[–] Strazdamonas 10 years ago

while they did use this to determine the time and place, it in no way effected where they were going though. as far as canned rations go, the perivians could have taken their own "smoked beef" or something like that, they probably went for simplicity there. also conserved food is found all the way back to egypt empire, so its not as new thing as we think, they just didnt use metal for it before.

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