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'23kpc' Chapters 15-16: What to Believe: Not Quite the One Thing, Not Quite the Other
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'23kpc' Chapters 15-16: What to Believe: Not Quite the One Thing, Not Quite the Other

A pair of space-cruising insiders start to tease us with answers

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'23kpc' Chapters 15-16: What to Believe: Not Quite the One Thing, Not Quite the Other
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A large, colorful outdoor mural. The main focus seems to be the caricature of Albert Einstein's face in the center: he is smoking a pipe, and has his right hand raised to his chin in a thoughtful, questioning pose. But the thumb of that hand is pointing over his right shoulder in the direction of the other object of interest: a realistic light bulb which is both lying on a solid surface and in the PROCESS of falling. Fragments of broken glass are bursting upwards from the light bulb.
[Mural by graffitist Benzi Brofman. (Photo found on Flickr courtesy of the photographer, one “Loco Steve.” They made it available under a Creative Commons license allowing its reuse. with limited adjustments — I’ve done very little, just jazzed it up slightly — as long as one passes it along under the same terms to anyone else… as I do, here.) The capti…

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