The on-set sequences are savagely satirical, as a diva feeds her dog caviar while Stracci looks on, actors in the Crucifixion scene pick their noses or laugh at inappropriate moments, and crew members call out for the crown of thorns as if it were hardware.
The centerpiece of the gala evening, and of the exhibit, was a huge crown of thorns that hung from the ceiling.
Glen De'ath from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and colleagues determined that tropical cyclones - 34 in total since 1985 - were responsible for 48% of the damage, while outbreaks of the coral-feeding crown-of-thorns starfish accounted for 42%.
Although it is a natural inhabitant of the Great Barrier Reef, the crown-of-thorns has, in recent years, undergone several population explosions.
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The remaining two-fifths, they say, was predation by the crown-of-thorns starfish.
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John Gunn, head of AIMS, said it was difficult to stop the storms and bleaching but researchers could focus their short-term efforts on the crown-of-thorns starfish, which feasts on coral polyps and can devastate reef cover.
The big question: Where in the heck would this enormous crown of thorns be going once the Bible Experience no longer had a use for it?
There are also props from the show, like a crown of thorns used on location in Morocco in the spring of 2012and a chalice from the same set.
The World Wildlife Fund offers a commercial tour in Palau, Micronesia on which snorkelers can help their guide remove the invasive crown-of-thorns starfish, which every day eat their weight in coral polyps from fragile reefs.
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Reflecting off of the thorns is a shadow of a modern crown "to represent the King of Kings, " said Mr. Burnett.
They had spent months on it, secretly collecting firewood, carving it -- the cross and the body -- using radio wire for a crown of thorns.
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