Spaceship Earth Sculpture Collapses
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Kate | Thursday, January 4, 2007 |
Spaceship Earth has made an early crash landing:
A million-dollar stone sculpture, intended to remind future generations of the Earth’s fragility, made its point a bit early — just three months after its unveiling, it collapsed. The 175-ton “Spaceship Earth” lay in ruins at Kennesaw State University after mysteriously falling to pieces last week. The engraved phrase “our fragile craft” was still visible amid the debris.
“Kind of ironic,” said Mary-Elizabeth Watson, a university employee. “I had no idea it was made up of so many pieces.”
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“How can stone collapse by itself?” [Finnish-born sculptor who goes by one name] Eino asked. “I’m devastated.”
Even more ironic – the notion that we should heed symbolic messages from people who are paid a million bucks to stick rocks together… and fail.
UPDATE (James Joyner): My wife sent along a link to an AJC write-up on the story that has some interesting photos:
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After:
About the Author: Kate is a freelance commercial and automotive airbrush artist living in Saskatchewan, Canada. She was one of the original guest bloggers at OTB in November 2004 and soon joined the permanent stable, contributing through January 2007.
Eventually, she turned to writing full time at her own blog, small dead animals, which was voted the Best Canadian Blog in the 2004 Weblog Awards and has been generally considered that country's best blog ever since.
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Aaahh, my alma mater. The Fighting Owls with another brilliant decision!
“How can stone collapse by itself?” [Finnish-born sculptor who goes by one name] Eino asked.
"gravity" It's a basic characteristic of the space ship named earth.
Obviously caused by Global Warming
Quick. Someone tell Pam Geller she has a new graphic for her blog.
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