Posted on 08/15/2010 5:19:21 PM PDT by wendy1946
This one requires a bit of a geek trick; nonetheless I was able to start with the ESA (European Space Agency) image which people are talking about and produce pretty much what they claim to be seeing using the Windows version of GIMP: darken substantially, raise contrast substantially, and then desaturate for hue...
A typical web description of the problem...
A totally simple-minded Youtube description of techniques required to undo and/or fix the problem.
The actual ESA image in question as the public sees it.
Relevant Section:
What I get from the lower left region of that image with GIMP:
What IS all that stuff?? I've got absolutely no idea, except that it pretty obviously isn't natural or any sort of a trick of light or shadow.
Was ESA deliberately trying to hide this stuff or was the glare of the sun sufficient without any sort of an ESA conspiracy, again no real way to know. This was with ten minutes of work on my part, Joseph Skipper's website contains several shots of the same stuff with a bit more work than that put into them, e.g.
Basically, nobody in the science communities which follow this stuff out there trust these government space agencies any more and whenever an image appears more than a bit interesting people will check it out with photoshop, the GIMP or whatever, and it isn't rare that this sort of thing turns up.
obviously its an alien base, or maybe a casino.
Maybe it’s a secret government base. An alternative to Gitmo?
Altering photos to prove they’ve been altered?
LOL
The site of the Obamas’ next vacation?
I think it says “multipass”.
Adjusting lighting and contrast is not altering anything.
No here we have definitive proof of Big foot...
Or Noah's Ark...
Anyhow its one of the two or posibly something else...
now where did I put my bong...
Don’t worry, I just opened photoshop to adjust the lighting and contrast “without altering anything”. LOL
Actually it is the very definition of altering something.
al·ter verb
1. to make or become different in some respect; change
Its a crappy photo to start with and it appears to be heavily pixelated which takes curves and makes them appear straight and sharp.
The magic of pixelation. Notice how it never turns straight lines into curved lines?
The idea that ‘pixellation’ could create the effects you see when you alter the contrast in that ESA image is idiotic.
Hint: You’re seeing jpeg artifacts overlayed over a 3d generated topology. Not that you will want to believe that though.
i dont know what it is, but i know obama supports putting a mosque next to it.
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