From: chinagreenelvis@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 3:08:41 PM UTC-4, luvprog wrote:   
   > Pulse CD   
   >    
   > The original CD cover features an "eye-like" machine that has clock pieces   
   inside, there is a planet in its centre, and on the outside it shows evolution   
   as it moves backwards. It starts in the sea, moves to the bacteria which   
   evolve into fishes, then    
   into egg type creatures, then into eggs that hatch birds, and birds follow the   
   trail of an aeroplane. There are six pyramids in the desert, and in the bottom   
   of the sea, one can observe a city in the shore.   
   >    
   > Early CD versions came with a flashing red LED on the side of the case. This   
   was designed by EMI contractor Jon Kempner, who was awarded the platinum disc,   
   using the now discontinued LM3909 LED flasher IC. The circuit was powered by a   
   single AA battery;   
    the battery life was stated to be over six months. Some versions were also   
   made with 2 AA batteries and later editions of the CD set did not feature the   
   blinking LED.   
   >    
   > "Essentially, it's a device which we thought was entertaining. It's an idea   
   of Storm Thorgerson's which related to Dark Side and the pulse, and it's a   
   live album so the box is "alive". After that, in terms of seriously deep   
   meanings, one might be    
   struggling a bit."   
   > — Nick Mason, [9]   
   >    
   > In April 2005, during a book signing of his biographical work Inside Out: A   
   Personal History of Pink Floyd, Nick Mason also asserted that the Publius   
   Enigma had been instigated by the record company rather than the band, and   
   that the prize for solving    
   the riddle would have been a "crop of trees planted in a clear cut area of   
   forest or something to that effect".[5]   
   >    
   > LED Light     Led Zeppelin   
   > Planet.          Plant   
   > Crop of trees planted.   Plant   
   >    
   > A sharpe eye has found Plant...he's my prize, when do I collect?   
      
   For some reason I thought I was reading a post by litewave, and would you know   
   it, I accidentally read it all the way to the end.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)