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filthy
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  07:01:30   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Bigbrain, me ol' sport! Yer back! Excellent! It's excellent 'cause I have an elasmobranch that'll knock yer socks off:





Unknown elasmobranch(s)




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Randy
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  07:21:30   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Randy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by McQ

There was a raw image of Saturn published recently on the Cassini-Huygens mission that looked fake, or at least very odd, to the casual observer. It is this one:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/McQ14/Misc/PIA08362-br500.jpg

It appears that the planet itself is not inside the rings, but sitting on top or on in front of them. Maybe this was the inspiration for trying to claim faked photos of Saturn? Thought it was an interestingcoincidence that this new fakery claim came up just a few weeks after this photo was published.



Below is the original public posting from Astronomy Picture of the Day...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070306.html

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0703/saturnfromabove_cassini_big.jpg

Course, the nay-sayers ignorance of Photography 101 screams out with this one. Easy to see the camera's aperture was opened up a bit to capture the softer light reflecting from the rings, which by doing so caused the brighter direct sunlit surface to blow out.
The "floating planet above the rings" effect, again, is Photo 101, as we know. Concerning the lower part of the planet's over-exposure and so-called 'missing' ring detail....the camera can't handle the harsh contrast between the over-exposed surface and subtle ring detail.

One thing the image does give up in that area...look at the lowest part of the terminator (shadow) line, where one expects the curvature of the planet receding away from the sun to 'give up' a tiny bit of ring detail to the camera. Look close, there it is, where expected....


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Edited by - Randy on 03/18/2007 11:18:03
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McQ
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  08:55:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send McQ a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Randy

quote:
Originally posted by McQ

There was a raw image of Saturn published recently on the Cassini-Huygens mission that looked fake, or at least very odd, to the casual observer. It is this one:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a184/McQ14/Misc/PIA08362-br500.jpg

It appears that the planet itself is not inside the rings, but sitting on top or on in front of them. Maybe this was the inspiration for trying to claim faked photos of Saturn? Thought it was an interestingcoincidence that this new fakery claim came up just a few weeks after this photo was published.



Below is the original public posting from Astronomy Picture of the Day...

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070306.html

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0703/saturnfromabove_cassini_big.jpg

Course, the nay-sayers ignorance of Photography 101 screams out with this one. Easy to see the camera's aperture was stepped up a bit to capture the softer light reflecting from the rings, which by doing so caused the brighter direct sunlit surface to blow out.
The "floating planet above the rings" effect, again, is Photo 101, as we know. Concerning the lower part of the planet's over-exposure and so-called 'missing' ring detail....the camera can't handle the harsh contrast between the over-exposed surface and subtle ring detail.

One thing the image does give up in that area...look at the lowest part of the terminator (shadow) line, where one expects the curvature of the planet receding away from the sun to 'give up' a tiny bit of ring detail to the camera. Look close, there it is, where expected....





Yep. Good catch, Randy.

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marfknox
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  09:49:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hmmm... he obviously never took an advanced drawing class.

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Randy
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  11:22:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Randy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by filthy

Bigbrain, me ol' sport! Yer back! Excellent! It's excellent 'cause I have an elasmobranch that'll knock yer socks off:



http://www.sharkattacks.com/more8.jpg

Unknown elasmobranch(s)







Ehew!.....Not much left there. Shark attack. Wonder if he's wearing a Timex....Takes a licking, keeps on ticking.

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"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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Einstein-2
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  12:48:20   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Einstein-2 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Then that image is an artist work.

This is another artist work:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=613

Why did Huygens never take a REAL photo of Cassini?

Look at this REAL image:



SHADOW LINES:



THIS IS A REAL IMAGE, BUT THE SHADOW LINES ARE STILL WRONG.

THEY SHOULD BE PARALLEL BECAUSE OF THE ENORMOUS DISTANCE OF THE SUN, BUT THE NASA BUFFOON ARTIST HAS MADE A WRONG IMAGE.

HA, HA, HA
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Siberia
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  13:03:48   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Isn't there a way to block BigBrain for good?
Other than having him shot by the NASA buffoons, that is.

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Einstein-2
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  13:19:26   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Einstein-2 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Siberia

Isn't there a way to block BigBrain for good?
Other than having him shot by the NASA buffoons, that is.



Try to confute my statement instead of saying ...

Radius of the sun 700.000 km
Distance sun - Saturn: 1.492.000.000 km

Take AutoCAD and draw a vertical line 700.000 long.
Then draw a horizontal line 1.492.000.000 long.
Then draw a line that joins the two points.

Angular dimension: 0,026 degrees

Thank you for the attention.
Edited by - Einstein-2 on 03/18/2007 13:44:56
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R.Wreck
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  13:32:56   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send R.Wreck a Private Message  Reply with Quote
This reminds me, bigballs, you never have answered the question:

"Are there or are there not man-made satellites in Earth orbit?"

Well, how about it?

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Einstein-2
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  13:46:15   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Einstein-2 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by R.Wreck

This reminds me, bigballs, you never have answered the question:

"Are there or are there not man-made satellites in Earth orbit?"

Well, how about it?



This is out of topic, you are a troll.
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Randy
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  13:46:29   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Randy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Einstein-2

Then that image is an artist work.

This is another artist work:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=613

Why did Huygens never take a REAL photo of Cassini?

Look at this REAL image:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/saturn/images/PIA08362-th120.jpg

SHADOW LINES:

http://www.geocities.com/ameri1cano/saturno2.jpg
THIS IS A REAL IMAGE, BUT THE SHADOW LINES ARE STILL WRONG.

THEY SHOULD BE PARALLEL BECAUSE OF THE ENORMOUS DISTANCE OF THE SUN, BUT THE NASA BUFFOON ARTIST HAS MADE A WRONG IMAGE.

HA, HA, HA





"This is a real image, but the shadow lines are still wrong."
That line was worth repeating.
All you've done is succeeded in showing us, once again, your lack of grasping simple concepts/imagination.

Bigbrain, with the NASA Saturn image above, you are looking at a sphere (Saturn) with its shadowline projected on a equatorial plane(Saturn's rings). Jeez. Guess you missed out on high school trig, too?

Added....try this at home. Hold a basketball halfway below the edge of your dinner table. Shine a bright flashlight at the basketball from down the hallway. Note the shadow of the ball on the tabletop. Now, do you see the error in your ways?

"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."

"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Edited by - Randy on 03/18/2007 14:01:02
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marfknox
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  13:49:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
THIS IS A REAL IMAGE, BUT THE SHADOW LINES ARE STILL WRONG.
Why would the shadow on the sphere follow the same lines as the shadow on the flat rings?

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Einstein-2
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  13:58:55   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Einstein-2 a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:

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Bigbrain, with the NASA Saturn image above, you are looking at a sphere (Saturn) with its shadowline projected on a equatorial plane(Saturn's rings). Jeez. Guess you missed out on high school trig, too?



Go to school and study again, you don't understand anything about perspective.
Look at the light of the sphere of Saturn.
Where is the sun? Almost perpendicular to Saturn rings.
SHADOW IS WRONG, REALLY INCREDIBLY WRONG.

Study, little guy, study again.

Thank you for the attention.
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Hawks
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  14:22:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Hawks's Homepage Send Hawks a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Do you really have to ban him. He is SO funny. I mean, take this quote:
quote:
THEY SHOULD BE PARALLEL BECAUSE OF THE ENORMOUS DISTANCE OF THE SUN...

Almost made me fall out of my chair, that one.


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Dave W.
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Posted - 03/18/2007 :  14:38:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
There's funny, and then there's really, really annoying. It's quite obvious that not everyone who says things as ridiculous as bigbrain has been banned. We have all sorts of "entertainment" without needing to let those who flagrantly violate our forum rules stick around.

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