[QUOTE]ALIEN conspiracy theorists are confident they've caught NASA in the act of covering up the fact we are not alone in the universe.
A video posted on YouTube yesterday showed how an image of Saturn's moons Dione and Titan, taken by NASA's Cassini orbiter, had been Photoshopped before being added to a Picture of the Day website.
In the video, "DominatorPS3" turned up the brightness levels on the photo to show that a "huge" object can be seen behind the smaller moon, Dione.
Clearly visible are brush strokes that show how the rainbow aura of the object has been blacked out.
"More solid proof of NASA/ government coverups," DominatorPS3 said.
"... and this is recent. You can do this yourself!!"
Of course, being the internet, it didn't take long for the truth to get out there, so to speak.
The person responsible for the manipulation, Emily Lakdawalla, told a forum of excitable theorists that she made the changes because of the way Cassini takes photos.
"Cassini takes colour pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green, and blue filters," she said.
"In the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did a simple color composite I would be able to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan.
"So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels."
She explained the process further at Planetary.org but it still wasn't enough for the alien hunters, particularly DominatorPS3.
"Thanks for the feedback and explanation," he said in a comment on the YouTube post.
"However I still remain sceptical because someone still could have ordered her to 'cut it or something out'.
"But thanks for putting that info up so others can read it; I am not trying to convince people what I believe."
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Fyi, Left is the image Nasa Released, Right is the image in high contrast, For you can see the photoshop.
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I like it shopped.
holy fuck
Would've been cool if it was either aliens or a secret colony we made :buddy:
In the end it was just some image inconsistencies that are caused by Cassini's way of taking a photo being very poorly fixed.
I bet they did it because there was somekind of ugly lense flare or other ugly mistake. Not aliens.
Interstellar swamp gas, comes up ugly on film. Case closed.
Just a mothership, nothing to worry about.
Lets hope its aliens
Seriously, people are dumb: "What, they photoshopped it? MUST be an alien ship then". Sure...
[QUOTE=glennman94;25328315]I bet they did it because there was somekind of ugly lense flare or other ugly mistake. Not aliens.[/QUOTE]
It actually explains what they were really hiding in the article
[QUOTE=aVoN;25328352]Seriously, people are dumb: "What, they photoshopped it? MUST be an alien ship then". Sure...[/QUOTE]
Their suspicion is understandable but their conclusion is dumb.
Mothership rush
Lens flare.
I want to see the original without it
If nasa was telling the truth they would have just released the original picture and have it all over with
It's not even a good photoshop
It's obviously exactly what Emily says it is, you can clearly see the red and green aura shopped away, and the blue filter is left over (you can see the blue aura above the moon).
Pretty hilarious how after she explained what the shop was for, people are still ignorant enough to 'stay sceptical'.
Photoshoped by a woman, what did you expect?
jk, but it's really badly shopped...
And the aliens-theory is pretty stupid imo, get serious people.
tbh to shut them up why didnt she release the unshop'd ones?
[QUOTE=kenji;25328682]tbh to shut them up why didnt she release the unshop'd ones?[/QUOTE]
Yeah good question.
[QUOTE=kenji;25328682]tbh to shut them up why didnt she release the unshop'd ones?[/QUOTE]
She probably would say something like "Its a government secret" just to sit back and watch the youtube videos come...
The biggest hole in this conspiracy theory is, why the fuck would they publicly release anything like this, if there was a chance of some information leaking.
The explanation they gave for the shop seems much more likely than "aliens"
I don't think they would risk Photoshopping an alien image a releasing it to the public.
Looks more like they edited it in Paint.
[QUOTE=kenji;25328682]tbh to shut them up why didnt she release the unshop'd ones?[/QUOTE]
Would fuel the alien consipracy even more "NASA releasing fake images instead of the real one"
Space Nazis?
Unicron is getting hungry...
I find it funny how something like NASA would release crappily edited photos like this.
Much more plausible scenario: Took out something like a lens flare to make the picture better to the general public.
I want to see the original photo on the NASA website before I believe anything.
Probably still won't.
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