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Now call me naive, but I just don’t get it. Where are they going to store this artificial sun? It’s life size. That’s going to take one hell of a big warehouse.
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It’s like the Lewis Carroll bit about having constructed a 1:1 map of England which was wonderfully accurate but impractical since, when laid out, it covered the whole of the country. Here’s the entry in Wikipedia: “Lewis Carroll, in Sylvie and Bruno (1889), made the point humorously with his description of a fictional map that had “the scale of a mile to the mile.” A character notes some practical difficulties with such a map and states that “we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well.”
• Posted at 2:55 pm on May 24th, 2008 by Laurence Vittes.