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Scientists: Space Is Color of Latte
AP via Yahoo ^
| 6/22/02
| ANGELA POTTER
Posted on 06/22/2002 6:26:39 AM PDT by Rebelbase
BALTIMORE (AP) - Good news for coffee lovers: Space, the final frontier, is the color of a latte. So say astronomers Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry at Johns Hopkins University.
In January, the two determined that the universe was a sprightly pale turquoise, then after discovering a glitch in their software in March, they realized that the average color was actually a milky brown.
Not knowing what to call it, besides beige, they solicited suggestions, prompting nearly 300 e-mails with ideas including Big Bang Beige, Cappuccino Cosmico, Galactic Gold and Infinite Sand.
The winner? Cosmic Latte.
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What ever happened to a good ole' cup of joe?
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posted on
06/22/2002 6:26:39 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: Rebelbase
Come on. This has gotta be something out of the Onion.
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posted on
06/22/2002 6:40:42 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
To: Rebelbase
What did they expect ... pink?
To: Rebelbase
AKA "Mud".
To: Rebelbase
Yeah, and if you average all the colors in the world around you you get.........brown.
Take a look at any of the Hubble photos and realize that this whole average all the colors thing is just so bogus.
And yes I know that there is a lot of false color in some of those photos......but not all of them.
To: apochromat
bubble gum blue ;-)
To: Rebelbase
Now they can finally pick the carpeting?
Gee, give these scientists some playdoh, and there's no telling what they'll discover next.
To: apochromat
And this cost how many of our tax $$$ to discover?
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posted on
06/22/2002 6:53:42 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
To: Rebelbase
Yes, I would like a Cafe Cosmos Grande with extra Milky Way!
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posted on
06/22/2002 7:01:04 AM PDT
by
X-USAF
To: TheBigB
Everybody knows it's the color of cheese.
To: Rebelbase
I know some Americans say "latte" to mean a kind of coffee, but latte means milk in Italian. And this article would be much more interesting if space actually looked like milk.......
; ^ P
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posted on
06/22/2002 8:17:31 AM PDT
by
Siobhan
To: Rebelbase
Good news for coffee lovers: Space, the final frontier, is the color of a latte. Latte means "milk" in Italian. They must mean Cafe Latte.
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posted on
06/22/2002 10:12:30 AM PDT
by
SunStar
To: Politically Correct
What's that a picture of, the Ol' Blue Eyes Nebula?
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posted on
06/22/2002 10:43:25 AM PDT
by
Dan Day
To: Rebelbase
Pale turquoise is so last week's color of the Universe.
To: X-USAF
I dont know, but they should have sold the naming rights to pay for it. The universe could be the color of Starbuck's Mocha Latteā¢
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posted on
06/22/2002 2:03:15 PM PDT
by
Blackyce
To: Rebelbase
Link to the site with the actual color. You have to scroll down about halfway through the site to see the color they think is the one:
CLICK HERE.
To: Dan Day
To: Rebelbase
The AP journalists got this wrong. The scientists actually think the color of the universe is very close to white hence the name latte.
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posted on
06/22/2002 3:28:35 PM PDT
by
Blackyce
To: Rebelbase
With all the Starbucks, Tullys, Peetes, Java Cities and other upscale coffee houses, my favorite coffee still comes from the local donut house. I'm with you on this one.
To: Rebelbase
they realized that the average color (of space) was actually a milky brown Hmmmm. Take a pale beige filter and look at it in the dark - looks black, then look at it in front of a 300 Watt light bulb - looks white. These amazing scientists are telling us it's somewhere in between those. I'm thinking these scientists are operating with dim bulbs.
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