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Raiders of the Lost Ark - How Long Is the Staff of Ra?
Indy and Sala take the headpiece to the staff of Ra to a translator. They ask him if the headpiece says anything about how long the staff should be. On one side the translator says the staff should be six ka-dong (sp) in length; which Sala translates as "about 72 inches." Divide 72 by six, that means a ka-dong is about 12 inches (one foot) in length. Then the translator flips the headpiece over and says "subtract one ka-dong to honor the Hebrew God for whom..." Which means that the total length of the staff should be 5 ka-dong or 5 feet. When Indy takes the staff into the map room, it is at least his height, and I'm pretty sure Harrison Ford is more than 5 feet tall.
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Contributed By: dkildea on 05-26-2000 and Reviewed By: Webmaster
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J3X007 writes:
Actually, he would have to compenstae a few inches for the hole that he stuck the stick in.
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dkildea writes:
Which just further proves my point. According to headpiece the staff should have been 5 feet long. Assume the hole is 12 inches deep, if Indy compensated for this, the staff would have been 6 feet tall, with one foot in the hole, so it would still appear to be 5 feet. If he didn't compensate then the staff would have been 5 feet long with one foot in the hole, thus appearing to be only four feet tall. Either way, way shorter than Indy.
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The Tizzinatrix writes:
The staff was five ka-dongs. None of the instructions said to compensate for the hole. The hole wasn't 12 inches (1 ka-dong) deep definitely, but Harrison Ford certainly is much taller than five feet. Big mistake.
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Honey Monster writes:
Surely if the staff was 5 ka-dong (60 inches) and the ka-dong itself on top of the staff is 12 inches then this makes 72 inches (6 foot). This is the height of Harrison Ford.
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menteur66 writes:
Doesn't precession dictate that any calculation made two thousand years ago may not allow for the fact that the sun would be a couple of degrees out? The Earth takes about twenty six thousand years to do a complete "wobble" but it would probably have been enough to make them dig in the wrong place.
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Davo100 writes:
If the instructions say to make the staff 5 feet long, then you make it 5 feet long. Whoever wrote the instructions on the head would have allowed for the hole depth.
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Sarah writes:
Actually, 72 inches is six feet. Harrison Ford is 6'1" tall, or 73 inches. I don't know how they could have missed this.
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Homadefilms writes:
Since the headpiece was created for the sole purpose of pointing out the location of the Ark in a maproom designed for the same purpose, I would assume that the creators of the headpiece were already compensating for the depth of the hole when they put the instructions on the headpiece.
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