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Did you see those recent Mars pictures?
2004-01-09, 9:34 AM #1
[http://www.massassi.net/etc/mars.jpg]
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2004-01-09, 9:35 AM #2
So there IS life on Mars!

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2004-01-09, 9:36 AM #3
Heh. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]


Whats even more interesting, though, is the fact that the blue spots on the sundial appear red in that photo. Reason? A red filter was applied over the image. Why? Because thaty photo wasnt taken on Mars. It was taken on Earth.

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2004-01-09, 9:38 AM #4
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bobafett765:
So there IS life on Mars!</font>


I think you're quite mistaken, sir. I mean, life...at Massassi?

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2004-01-09, 9:38 AM #5
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:

Whats even more interesting, though, is the fact that the blue spots on the sundial appear red in that photo. Reason? A red filter was applied over the image. Why? Because thaty photo wasnt taken on Mars. It was taken on Earth.
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Flame war ahead...

Heh, nice Brian [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-01-09, 9:42 AM #6
Thats cute...
2004-01-09, 9:47 AM #7
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
Heh.
Whats even more interesting, though, is the fact that the blue spots on the sundial appear red in that photo. Reason? A red filter was applied over the image. Why? Because thaty photo wasnt taken on Mars. It was taken on Earth.
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uh, what sundial?

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2004-01-09, 9:50 AM #8
If they put a red filter over something blue, shouldn't it turn out purple?
2004-01-09, 9:52 AM #9
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">uh, what sundial?</font>


Bottom middle of the image, on the rover. The object that appears to be a small joystick with a circle drawn around it.


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2004-01-09, 9:59 AM #10
Uhm.. and why are they suppose to be blue?
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2004-01-09, 10:02 AM #11
To allow for fine-tuning of the colorization of the photographs. Since sunlight scatters differently through the Martian atmosphere than Earth's, colors tend to look different from one place to another. With a color "target", whose color is already known in a terrestrial environment, the colors can be adjusted in the image to approximate what we would see if we were standing on Mars, or, for that matter, Earth.


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2004-01-09, 10:04 AM #12
NOBODY CARES!

Nice pic Brian.

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2004-01-09, 10:06 AM #13
give it up jeeze, the lander is on mars. i know it might be far fetched if humans were goin but its a machine. if we're capable of sending machines so far out that they can graph n map 100's of OTHER galaxies, and have machines with technology that can do that so well. i think we can build a machine that can go to a planet next door.

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2004-01-09, 10:34 AM #14
We send up a highly advanced space probe.. to Mars.. with a SUNDIAL !! I love it [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2004-01-09, 10:37 AM #15
There is no intelligent life in space after all... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2004-01-09, 10:39 AM #16
I knew it. Add him to the map, Spork [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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2004-01-09, 11:27 AM #17
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Whats even more interesting, though, is the fact that the blue spots on the sundial appear red in that photo. Reason? A red filter was applied over the image. Why? Because thaty photo wasnt taken on Mars. It was taken on Earth.</font>

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Since sunlight scatters differently through the Martian atmosphere than Earth's, colors tend to look different from one place to another. With a color "target", whose color is already known in a terrestrial environment, the colors can be adjusted in the image to approximate what we would see if we were standing on Mars, or, for that matter, Earth.</font>


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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">If they put a red filter over something blue, shouldn't it turn outpurple? </font>


Same thing was said about the moon, it being faked and all, but every far-fetched piece of evidence these people come up with has an explanation. Honestly, it's tiring hearing the same conspiracy theories over and over again.
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2004-01-09, 11:33 AM #18
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wolvie17:
give it up jeeze, the lander is on mars. i know it might be far fetched if humans were goin but its a machine. if we're capable of sending machines so far out that they can graph n map 100's of OTHER galaxies, and have machines with technology that can do that so well. i think we can build a machine that can go to a planet next door.

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Don't mean to be all conspiracy like but couldn't anyone just make that up?

I mean that i could claim that theres a galaxy which is shaped as a star a 29847.2 million light years away from here.




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2004-01-09, 12:33 PM #19
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by GBK:
Heh. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]


Whats even more interesting, though, is the fact that the blue spots on the sundial appear red in that photo. Reason? A red filter was applied over the image. Why? Because thaty photo wasnt taken on Mars. It was taken on Earth.

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He read this off Slashdot, being a festering hole of OSS.

Anyway, the only problem is they don't check anything on that site, and someone later explained why it is the way it is in quite depth.

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2004-01-09, 1:13 PM #20
They went into an in-depth explanation of the color argument on the news...if any of you still watch that.

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2004-01-09, 1:24 PM #21
It's red because of the color of the sky. Look at shadows outside when it's a cloudless day - what color are they? Blue, or at least, they have a blue tint to them.

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2004-01-09, 1:49 PM #22
Will this be added to the Massassi map?


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2004-01-09, 1:53 PM #23
Someday when humans are all over Mars or other planets, you people who doubt EVERYTHING (some doubt the Space Station) that deals with space, will be still in your rooms going "but... but... but..." while the rest of us are not on Earth.

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2004-01-09, 1:55 PM #24
Ahh, so it did see me!

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2004-01-09, 3:25 PM #25
I thought the edges looked a little fuzzy [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]
2004-01-09, 3:34 PM #26
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sats:

Don't mean to be all conspiracy like but couldn't anyone just make that up?

I mean that i could claim that theres a galaxy which is shaped as a star a 29847.2 million light years away from here.
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You could claim it, sure, but could you fake a picture like this:
[http://blargh.mine.nu/test/92/7.jpg]

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2004-01-09, 3:50 PM #27
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sol:
Someday when humans are all over Mars or other planets, you people who doubt EVERYTHING (some doubt the Space Station) that deals with space, will be still in your rooms going "but... but... but..." while the rest of us are not on Earth.

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Good.

Whats so good about living on Mars? Would you rather live on a beatiful planet with WATER and an ATMOSPHERE and other life, on a rocky wasteland with nothing to see or look at where you need to where a suit to go outside?
2004-01-09, 3:54 PM #28
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Noble Outlaw:
You could claim it, sure, but could you fake a picture like this:
[http://blargh.mine.nu/test/92/7.jpg]

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Actually... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]
For those of us who aren't astronomers, that doesn't look too different from looking at a christmas tree through a kolidascope (sp?)

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2004-01-09, 4:03 PM #29
Yay, Massassi Map update is complete!

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2004-01-09, 4:05 PM #30
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Raoul Duke:
Would you rather live on a beatiful planet with WATER and an ATMOSPHERE and other life, on a rocky wasteland with nothing to see or look at where you need to where a suit to go outside?</font>


As long as there arent any other people there I would rather have a nice quiet wastland than a paradise iunvested with people.



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2004-01-09, 4:54 PM #31
Well as an ammature astronomer, i can tell you when i look at those maps to know which way to point my telescope to look where. *gasp* it tells me where what im looking for is. yeah i guess they coulda spend millions of hours making the maps here from earth, but i doubt they did that simply because no one has the time.

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2004-01-09, 5:29 PM #32
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wolvie17:
Well as an ammature astronomer, i can tell you...</font>


awww poor wolvie must be tired.
it's "amateur" silly [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

That pic of the millions of galaxies is just awe inspiring. And some people know there are billions of stars for each of the billions of galaxies, and still say we're the only intelligent life?
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2004-01-09, 6:06 PM #33
Mmm, gravitational lensing....


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