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Maybe this was already done but I was wondering if we ever left a work of art, painting or sculpture, on the moon to show what earthlings do.
If not, do you have a suggestion of what would be a good representation. Of course, it doesn't have to be Western Art, since that is only a slice. Plenty of indigenous peoples' art would be included. It could be called the Moon Art Project!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)recumbent next to each other. They're so warm and friendly!
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)Return of the Prodigal Son is magnificent...
AndyS
(14,559 posts)CTyankee
(63,771 posts)Earth-shine
(3,858 posts)Let them figure it out.
Why do you think they'll stop at the moon before coming to Earth?
Emile
(21,909 posts)They going to use the moon and spy on us?
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)but if I do I will explore the subject further.
Maybe "they" would have a reason
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...it might be that Earth's 1 Gee is on the high end of life in the Universe. Maybe--and this is wild speculation which I don't take too seriously--the UFO visits appear so much like hit-and-run raids is that they--whoever "they" are--can't endure our gravity for long periods of time...
LastDemocratInSC
(3,625 posts)The Apollo 15 crew, Dave Scott and Jim Irwin, left a figurine and memorial card in honor of the astronauts and cosmonauts who had died up to that time, August 1971. At Hadley Rille.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut
Charlie Duke, lunar module pilot on Apollo 16, left a photograph of his wife and children in the soil.
Gene Cernan, commander on Apollo 17, wrote a note to his daughter, Tracey, in the soil, under the edge of a huge boulder.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)It strikes me that, as an art historian, I thought of representational art, not something by Warhol or Picasso (altho Guernica might be a interesting one to leave).