Key to the Universe

Adam Thornton IO · 17 Dec 2010, 20:22 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton (IO))
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:22:49 -0600
Subject: (urth) Key to the Universe
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:52:55 -0800, Son of Witz
<Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
> Third. I've really been chewing over the Apollo moon landing painting.
> We all seem to take it on face value that it is Neil or Buzz, an obvious
> nod to the extreme distance of time between Urth and Earth.  But really,
> the text does not disambiguate this depiction, so we have to admit that
it
> may NOT ACTUALLY be a painting of the Apollo Moon Landing. It may be a
> photo of an Urth empire astronaut pre-moon forrestation.  Wolfe may be
> giving us a double mind-fuck!

A couple years ago I looked and could not find any actual photo from the
Apollo missions that replicated the scene described.  

Adam

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