susceptible to utter destruction that is; how thin the layer of atmosphere around earth is.” Swickert said, “It’s no bigger than an orange peel in thickness as compared with the earth—no, thinner,” he said, “than an orange peel.” And we were about to contaminate that out of existence. It enhanced their thinking about a lot of things, earthward.

McLuhan: You’re saying, it enhanced their awareness of the earth as a delicate and precious heritage.

Forsdale: Swickert said, “There’s nothing else out there that has green, blue and brown on it, nothing else that could be seen.” Earth was the only place which had green and blue in addition to brown. Everything was brown or gray. He also said, by the way, if you’re from outer space, what would you point for if you were landing and didn’t know what