Subject: Re: The symbols on the black box From: astronut@athena.mit.edu (Robert M Sanner) Date: 1991-04-20, 02:28 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: > >In article <1991Apr16.232200.10104@odin.corp.sgi.com> sjohnson@texas.vlsi.sgi.com (Scott Johnson) writes: >> >> >> >>Well, I've been reading about this "paw print" long enough. It is >> >>definitely not a paw print, but a circle with four smaller circles >> >>above it. I took the time to freeze frame the ol' VCR to check all >> >>of the symbols as well as draw them out myself. >> >> >> >> >> >> o o >> >> o .--. o >> >>: : >> >>: : >> >> .__. > > > >Well, it looks like a stylized paw print to me... The symbols of the > >Zodiac, for the most part, are extremely stylized versions of the object > >they represent. Other possibilities: solar eclipse with Bailey's Beads, > >crop circles. But it's probably irrelevant now that the box has been > >opened. > > I'm a bit behind in the postings, so forgive me if this has already been pointed out, but why couldn't this "paw print" be (yet another) symbol for Jupiter? The planet itself, with its four Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) would be all ancient star gazers would be able to discern... rob