Tod Lauer wrote to me in an email a year after the encounter:
"It just occurred to me where else I had seen that incredible image of all of looking at MU69 in an incredible moment of discovery.. 2001: A Space Odyssey. My favorite movie, which remains an incredibly powerful vision and statement 50 years later. It is not like any movie made before or since. More than anything it's an invitation to your imagination. It is profoundly visible - the story told in images."