Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:41:07 -0500 Message-ID: <55A0825A.1973@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 19:41:30 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written, Subject: Re: Near True References: <55871A72.769A@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 23.241.144.149 X-Trace: sv3-3PwFyzUxZPHr474zP4J208TmDY+Ylx0OInJXT4y+der/z/LlNylQMdfb5gd2PxdUaKJ4dugtbaF1Wwn!6xjHjqA9utNE/zoZ5e0sgGFx2JfOIMJ4maViVWdudji6mUrSxoLE7iT1RXOKEzD1caXfzV9ZdxTW!pa7xHqZewkQ= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2154 Xref: aioe.org alt.astronomy:270810 sci.physics:506229 sci.physics.relativity:356667 rec.arts.sf.written:415864 pcardinale@volcanomail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 1:11:33 PM UTC-7, The Starmaker wrote: > > What does "Near True" mean? > > > > NASA publishes 1st 'near-true color' images of Pluto > > http://rt.com/usa/268678-nasa-first-pluto-images/ > > > > > > > > With these guys and their fraudalent picutres...nothing from them is > > nearest to the truth. I woud say billions and billions of miles away > > from the Truth....youknowatimean? > > It means that the colors in the image are nearly the same as what you would see if you looked directly at Pluto with your eyes. > Often in space probes, the color channels used for imaging don't necessarily correspond to the spectral sensitivities of the human eye. Scientists are often interested in >images made from parts of the spectrum outside the range of human vision. >Color images made in such a manner are referred to as "false" color. >The purpose is utilitarian, but idiots think the purpose is deception. It's called "false" color because it's....false.