A Welcome Discovery: Puzzle Solved
May. 6th, 2007 09:52 pmYou'll recall that I made a claim that a museum exhibit from the movie 2010 was misidentified. When challenged by Miriam Posner of the American Museum of the Moving Image, I began to doubt this claim.
Certainly the globe of Io was mislabeled as the Moon. However, the spaceship model is not the Leonov as I had thought at first. Instead it is the Discovery. Just not the entire Discovery...


( To understand, see these photos )
This means that, if you like to play the "Kevin Bacon"/"Erdös Numbers" game under the operation of "has been photographed in front of the same miniature as," well, I am just one step away from Sir Arthur.
Certainly the globe of Io was mislabeled as the Moon. However, the spaceship model is not the Leonov as I had thought at first. Instead it is the Discovery. Just not the entire Discovery...


( To understand, see these photos )
This means that, if you like to play the "Kevin Bacon"/"Erdös Numbers" game under the operation of "has been photographed in front of the same miniature as," well, I am just one step away from Sir Arthur.