Quantum of Science

Even those not keen on the western movie genre nor movie-lovers, know about the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, a 1957. movie starring Burt Lancaster (Wyatt Earp) and Kirk Douglas (Doc Holliday). The better informed ones know that the movie is based on a real event – a shootout that lasted 30 seconds with 30 shots fired, on October 26, 1881. in a small town of Tombstone, Arizona. Why write about the shootout at O.K. Corral on this blog? Be patient, continue reading and learn something. This showdown between the frontier marshals and a group of cowboys who refused to obey the laws had a distant echo in the modern American history. That was a time when the Wild West started losing some of its' wildness and the beginning of law enforcement. Cowboys were less considered to be loners with the occasional livestock protection jobs, and more to be scatterbrains, bullies and people who opposed the introduction of the rule of law to territories they occupied, limited as their...

Čak i oni koji ne vole žanr vestern filmove niti su filmofili, znaju za Obračun kod O.K. Korala, film iz 1957. u kojem glume Burt Lancaster (Wyatt Earp) i Kirk Douglas (Doc Holliday). Oni bolje upućeni znaju da se film zasniva na stvarnom događaju - pucnjavi koja je trajala 30 sekundi, u kojoj je ispaljeno 30 metaka, a odvila se za u gradiću Tombstone u Arizoni, 26. oktobra 1881.  Zašto na blogu o nauci pisati o obračunu kod O.K. korala? Budite strpljivi, nastavite čitati i naučite nešto.  Ovaj obračun između frontier marshals i grupe kauboja koji se nisu htjeli pokoriti zakonima imao je dalekog odjeka na savremenu istoriju SAD. To je već period one istorije Divljeg zapada, kada je on gubio svoju divljinu i kada su se počeli sprovoditi zakoni. Kauboji su sve manje bili usamljenici koji su imali povremene nadničarske poslove čuvanje stoke, a sve više su se pod tim nazivom podrazumijevali razni vjetropiri, kabadahije, ljudi kojima nije odgovaralo uvođenje države pr...