Re: This is probably the source
Rush was indeed taken in, but I don't know who sent him the picture. It could have been a trusted source who was also taken in. Hey, it took me a minute or two of looking at it to get past "cool!" and smell a rat, and this is what I do for a living. Probably 90 percent of people would have accepted it without thinking twice. I didn't do the numbers like MrPex did, but I've generated a lot of space illustrations and have a pretty good instinct for what the Earth looks like from different distances.
I found the identical shot on one other web page, but its source was not attributed.
I wonder if Rush is going to mention this on his show today.