Artistically Altered Image

The Starmaker

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May 8, 2013, 1:19:45 PM5/8/13

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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20130506/pia17008-640.jpg
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-155

Finally, somebody had the sense to put in big white letters on those
"Artistically altered image" photos from the 'scientific community'.

Everu Hubble photo should be marked right on the photo with big white letters:

Artistically Altered Image

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20130506/pia17008-640.jpg

I'm guessing...
somebody said..
"There are people who will believe that you are looking at a real planet in your laboratory!"

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20130506/pia17008-640.jpg

Every picture, every image coming out of the 'scientific community' should be marked with the warning:

Artistically Altered Image

I prefer, "Somebody is messing with this photo." in big white letters.

How many people in the world knows what the word "Altered" means, ...(besides Wayne Throop)?

I mean really, who uses words like "artistically altered:?

Translation: "The bitch photoshoped it!!"

Translation: "Somebods messing wit dat photo."

No, no..it has been artistically altered.

What's is "artistikally"?

The Starmaker

"Look Mom, they put a planet in the laboratory!"
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/20130506/pia17008-640.jpg

"You stupid kid, you're just like your father!"

Quadibloc

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May 8, 2013, 5:44:50 PM5/8/13

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Objects in this photo may be farther away than they appear?

But it is true that some Hubble photos - particularly of nebulae and
galaxies - are formed from images taken at three particular spectral
lines, which are used for the red, green, and blue colors. So the
nebulae have more vivid colors than a natural light color image would
provide.

This helps scientists study the fine details more easily. It is not
intended to deceive.

John Savard

Quadibloc

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May 8, 2013, 5:48:25 PM5/8/13

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On May 8, 11:19 am, The Starmaker <starma...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Finally, somebody had the sense

That particular image

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-155

was obviously not real, made as a decorative image to illustrate a
concept - bringing exoplanets into the laboratory, in effect, by
studying their chemical composition.

Only your single-minded obsessive hatred of scientists could cause you
to see anything awful in this - or to think that the image in question
is typical of Hubble images in terms of its correspondence to reality.

John Savard

The Starmaker

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May 8, 2013, 5:56:06 PM5/8/13

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Like for example...
you see all those stars in Hubble photos? How many are "Artistically Altered Image" stars?
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/imagenes_universo/cosmos126_01.jpg

All of them? Looks to me like all of them!

But where is the disclaimer?

What else is...altered?

Why do they always take snapshots, not movies? Haven't NASA heard of video cameras yet? I'll let them borrow my cell
if it is because of a problem with ...budgets.

It's 2013, stop with these stupid photos and pasting it together!

The Starmaker

All the money at NASA is going to buying cocaine....

Quadibloc

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May 8, 2013, 9:56:26 PM5/8/13

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On May 8, 3:56 pm, The Starmaker <starma...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> Why do they always take snapshots, not movies?

Generally speaking, we don't see stars and galaxies move, so there's
no point.

John Savard

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May 9, 2013, 4:43:56 AM5/9/13

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On Wed, 08 May 2013 10:19:45 -0700, The Starmaker
<star...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>How many people in the world knows what the word "Altered" means

Ask my cat...

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May 9, 2013, 4:59:57 AM5/9/13

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You mean the "rays"? Anyone with an interest in photography beyond
sending pictures of his own dick to his mother knows about
diffraction, entirely an effect of the hardware used to take the
photo.

>But where is the disclaimer?
>
>What else is...altered?

If you had bothered to read the press release issued with the Hubble
image, you would have all the details of the making and processing of
the image.

>Why do they always take snapshots, not movies? Haven't NASA heard of video cameras yet? I'll let them borrow my cell
>if it is because of a problem with ...budgets.

Or perhaps the many hours needed to gather enough light for even a
single image, and the fact that you would have to take images over a
dozen lifetimes to capture visible change in even a small fraction of
distant cosmic objects.

>It's 2013, stop with these stupid photos and pasting it together!

You want some amazing video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5u5nXZqYq0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duoHtJpo4GY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1zH146iyiM

Dano

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May 9, 2013, 1:10:30 PM5/9/13

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Well done!

The Starmaker

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May 9, 2013, 1:33:36 PM5/9/13

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I'm talking about this paste up job:
http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-gigapixel-panorama-curiosity-solar-days-136-149#-358.04,2.96,8.0

why didn't they use a video camera?

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May 10, 2013, 1:49:42 AM5/10/13

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On Thu, 09 May 2013 10:33:36 -0700, The Starmaker

Because there aren't any gigapixel video cameras...? Look at the
detail in that image! And it's not as if rocks tend to jump around a
lot when they know they're on video...

Not that it wouldn't be cool to have a video camera on a Mars rover to
catch passing dust devils, though even that has been done with still
image cameras:
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/mars_06_20/mars_a2.gif

The Starmaker

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May 10, 2013, 12:52:14 PM5/10/13

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How do you know rocks don't jump on Mars? Maybe they jump when you're not looking...they could be aliens pretending to be a rock.

"Did you see that rock move?"

Greg Goss

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May 10, 2013, 3:40:20 PM5/10/13

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The Starmaker <star...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>How do you know rocks don't jump on Mars? Maybe they jump when you're not looking...they could be aliens pretending to be a rock.
>
>"Did you see that rock move?"

The guy holding the printout got sloppy. (1998 HP Singapore ad)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AoAJOF5GVQ

--
We are geeks. Resistance is voltage over current.

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May 11, 2013, 9:13:15 AM5/11/13

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On Fri, 10 May 2013 09:52:14 -0700, The Starmaker

"Don't blink!" - Dr Who

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May 11, 2013, 9:19:12 AM5/11/13

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On Fri, 10 May 2013 13:40:20 -0600, Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org> wrote:

>The Starmaker <star...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>How do you know rocks don't jump on Mars? Maybe they jump when you're not looking...they could be aliens pretending to be a rock.
>>
>>"Did you see that rock move?"
>
>The guy holding the printout got sloppy. (1998 HP Singapore ad)
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AoAJOF5GVQ

=}

Remembering Dr Carl Sagan describing the Viking Mars landers back in
1976, listing all the fancy science instruments designed to try to
detect obscure signs of life, then adding that there was also a camera
in case a Martian giraffe walked by..