The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind

David Stockhoff · 02 Jul 2010, 16:24 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:24:31 -0400
Subject: (urth) The mystery of the image of	an astronaut cleaned	by
	Rudesind
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Yeah, except it's not rising over anyone's shoulder.

I suppose I should clarify that I think it's plain that "visor of gold" 
doesn't mean that at all. It just needs to be dominated almost entirely 
by a solar/moonscape reflection.

Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 7/2/2010 9:51 AM, James Wynn wrote:
>>
>>> It's true that the figure holds the flag. But you have to allow for
>>> some poetic license as far as visor color and earth distance.
>>
>> _Maybe_ visor color since it is not "entirely gold". But there's no
>> requirement for Urth size is there?
>
> I think "entirely gold" is meant to convey the entire visor is gold 
> colored, rather than merely a gold band across the eyes or some other 
> arrangement of detail.  Speaking of the visor, if you click to show 
> the full resolution of the second image linked, you can see another 
> astronaut (apparently Harrison Schmitt) rather than "nothing more".
>
> Schmitt also took this iconic image
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg
>
> which may be the source of Rudesinde's peculiar possessive reference 
> "*your* blue Urth".
>

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