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2005-01-16 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Korora 2005-01-16 12:03:42 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fake all fake produced in a studio. As proof, where are the UFOs? Where are the little orange-drinking green aliens? And where is Jimmy Neutron?

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-16 8:56:13 AM|| 2005-01-16 8:56:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone ought to photoshop this photograph with a half-buried can of Bud Light. ;o)

Posted by badanov 2005-01-16 9:04:46 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2005-01-16 9:04:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Where are the puppet masters?

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-01-16 9:13:33 AM|| 2005-01-16 9:13:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Halliburton's behind it all. But if it didn't work, we'd have to blame Bush, of course.

Here's a link to an interesting article on how the ESA presented their findings. I was at work, so I was at the mercy of the internet, but this retired space scientist has some pointed things to say about European culture:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-05g.html

Posted by nada 2005-01-16 10:48:45 AM|| 2005-01-16 10:48:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The globular clusters have been photoshopped out.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-16 11:55:54 AM|| 2005-01-16 11:55:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm curious. The Earth is about 93M miles from the sun. Saturn is about 900M miles from the sun. Understand the inverse square law applied for light this seem very very bright indeed. So are we looking at illumination provided by the light reflected back from Saturn, thus the orangish glow?

Posted by Don 2005-01-16 12:14:23 PM|| 2005-01-16 12:14:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Even ordinary CCD's are very sensitive, especially when you are doing still photography with long exposure times.

Posted by HV 2005-01-16 2:02:49 PM|| 2005-01-16 2:02:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Can't kid me. The universe is flat and that moon is make of orange jello with chunks of something in it.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-16 2:05:08 PM|| 2005-01-16 2:05:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The reflected light from Saturn is still significantly weaker than direct sunlight. If The Sun was up, then the light was direct sunlight. Most likely ESA chose to land in sunlight.

Posted by Dishman 2005-01-16 2:05:23 PM|| 2005-01-16 2:05:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 bad - As you can see from this quickie attempt, there's not enough base image to really work with. Making the cans small enough to fit decently (that desired subtle effect you implied) in this very limited perspective and image size, yields lousy results - you have to make them so tiny as to be unrecognizable. Sigh. Good idea, though, heh. I considered using Heineken, but the following put me off...

nada nailed it: The ESA are a bunch of elitist wankers. If you haven't checked his Space.com link, well, you should. Rather eye-opening for those of us who have spent as little time in Europe as humanly possible (layovers only, heh)... Had they given us something to work with, like NASA does, it could've been fun, not to mention an interesting and even exciting event in human history.

Sorry...

Posted by .com 2005-01-16 2:59:37 PM|| 2005-01-16 2:59:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Quick note - the original image used for that Starbucks spoof was a nice large wide-angle pic. This is a massively cropped version to suit the author's purposes.

Posted by .com 2005-01-16 3:01:11 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:01:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 I dunno, .com, that looked like a pretty good start to me. What it needs is to give the Bud cans a heavy sepia cast to make them blend in more, and to de-focus the can images to match, as nearly as possible, the bad focus of the surrounding rocks. Go for it, Dude...

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-16 3:13:09 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:13:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Lol - making shit blurry is tres eazee, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-01-16 3:24:50 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:24:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah, just drink the Bud...

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-16 3:27:27 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:27:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 looks like teh inside of a Jar of Tang left open to moisture....waitaminute.....

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-16 3:46:51 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:46:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Worst case of smog I ever saw. Send the enviro wackos there to picket it.

Posted by ed 2005-01-16 3:47:15 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:47:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Tehran, six months from now.

Posted by Tom 2005-01-16 3:52:12 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:52:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Better? Heh, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-01-16 3:59:26 PM|| 2005-01-16 3:59:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Cans are kinda small...

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-16 4:02:51 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:02:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Cans are kinda small...
So the Titans don't like Colt45 40 ouncers.

Posted by ed 2005-01-16 4:25:52 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:25:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Where the hell are the rest of the images?
They've got.. what.. 5 released?

I hope NASA has archival copies of them.

Maybe they're just inept. I wouldn't put it past them to give their people time to write up the papers before they're released.

Posted by Dishman 2005-01-16 4:33:13 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:33:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 I should explain...
It's a short step from holding the raw data until the papers are done... to only releasing the raw data that supports the papers.
In other words, bad science.

Posted by Dishman 2005-01-16 4:41:30 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:41:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 I hope NASA has archival copies
Since the images are transmitted by Cassini to NASA ground stations, you could say NASA has the originals. Look for the American flag watermark in all the images.

Posted by ed 2005-01-16 4:41:47 PM|| 2005-01-16 4:41:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Final.

Posted by .com 2005-01-16 5:32:09 PM|| 2005-01-16 5:32:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Now, that's the ticket!

Posted by Dave D. 2005-01-16 5:43:53 PM|| 2005-01-16 5:43:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 ed - also depends upon the capacity of your average Titan, which might not conform to our current definition, heh. SNSFW

Posted by .com 2005-01-16 5:47:57 PM|| 2005-01-16 5:47:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 No sign of life; no Wal-Mart, no McDonalds

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-16 5:49:57 PM|| 2005-01-16 5:49:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 It looks a lot like Mars. In fact, I say that when the spacecraft got to Mars, they just said, "To hell with this," and stopped. "Who'll know the difference?"

.com's space.com link had a link to all the raw images down at the bottom. Start here. You realize the thing didn't live but a couple minutes, so this is probably all they have.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-01-16 8:59:32 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-01-16 8:59:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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