Why weren’t the buildings in front of him arrayed in perfectly parallel lines? Damn, must be the curvature of the Earth. Definitely, the curvature of the Earth. Hmmmm, you know, with all those satellites staring down on the planet, why isn’t there a photograph of the Earth? Not just a photograph, but a color photograph. Not just the Earth, but the WHOLE Earth. If there were a picture of the whole Earth, man, that would change everything. Thus began Brand’s campaign of heckling NASA into releasing a color photograph of the whole Earth. He soon hitchhiked east to sell buttons on college
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