>
> >>> "Lunar thin section" is a mis-label. If you go back one page, you
> >>> will see the same photo along with lots of pictures of thin
> >>> sections.
>
> >>> In the picture that had you fooled, there is a small photo of the rock
> >>> itself in an insert in the picture. The rest is an ordinary earth
> >>> scene with the shadow of someone. I think the purpose was to give
> >>> people some idea of the size of the rock itself.
>
> >>> Interested peoople can find more data on the actual sample
> >>> at:
http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/catalogs/apollo11/10065.pdf
>
> >>> As for the lunar vines, etc. on the little rock in the photo, your eye
> >>> is seeing patterns like one sees in clouds. See my post of yesterday,
>
> >>>
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.bio.paleontology/msg/e5a4a55d9fd7980e
>
> >>> for a link to a cloud picture featuring an ichthyosaur and a long-
> >>> necked plesiosaur craning its neck to watch the ichthyosaur leaping
> >>> out of the water and carrying a lot of the water along with it. Note
> >>> that the plesiosaur is itself rising out of the water, which is
> >>> flowing copiously down its side.
>
> >> Incidentally, those clouds are chock full of fossilized mammalian
> >> neurons.
>
> > They look like erythrocytes to me.
>
> If you look at a SEM photo of an erythrocyte, you will find that it's
> also full of mammal neurons.
Thanks for the jokes, both of you. Best laughs for me this week so