Re: What's wrong with this picture?

From: John Savard (jsavard_at_excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:35:42 GMT

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:27:12 -0500, Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com>
wrote, in part:

>Look at the two spaceships also; in fact, given the way it's hitting the
>Earth, the whole scene should maybe be in darkness.

That's it, then! It *is* night on that part of the Moon, so the
illumination on the Moon is coming from lights on another spaceship
behind the viewer of the painting.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html

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