Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides appearance of "Old Bill", the pirate who tries to share his rum with a cat, was also filmed but cut. Pintel and Ragetti were originally supposed to make an appearance, but director Rob Marshall opted out of the idea as he feared their roles would be cut. Cook resigned in September 2009 after working for Disney for over 38 years. Depp's faith in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" was somewhat shaken after the resignation, with Depp explaining that "There's a fissure, a crack in my enthusiasm at the moment. It was all born in that office". Depp also
Discourse on the Tides Discourse on the Tides "Discourse on the Tides" () is an essay written by Galileo Galilei in 1616 as a letter to Alessandro Orsini that attempted to explain the motion of Earth's tides as a consequence of Earth's rotation and revolution around the sun. The same ideas form an important part of Galileo's "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems". Galileo's theory was in fact erroneous, as proven by future scientific research. Galileo composed "Discourse on the Tides" while in Rome and appealing for papal acceptance of the teaching of Copernican theory. The letter is thus not just an explanation