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What is this picture?

It's a spaceman.

Duh.

Ok, ok, something more.

I found a site, don't remember where, that was a collection of images from the 1950s and 1960s about space travel. The site was billed as a commemorative of the 50th anniversary of NASA, but in reality it was a bittersweet dip into nostalgia. The site author expressed what many of my generation feel: a sense of loss, and even betrayal. As children, we believed space travel was just around the corner. We'd surely live to see it, even to participate in it. Yet, here we are in the 21st century—the quintessential science fiction century—and we're still stuck on this mudball. The images (here are more) still conjure up the old feelings.

So, I chose this picture to represent me, because it expresses the times that created me.