July 29, 2004
Space Gadget Cassini Finds the Death Star!
link thanks jason
~Nothing is as it's described, especially with astronomy. This image was fabricated on a computer from a black & white photo of an navel orange. Think of these images, where third person proof is unavailable, as mass rorschach tests. Marketing firms are very interested in the sorts of images that catch the public's fancy. They pay computer geeks to regularly crank out these 'photos' and place them with reputable news services while watching and measuring who notices. Months later variations of these same images and how people responded (Death Star!) to them show up in advertising specifically targeting the groups most moved. (Popular music has been doing it with 'sounds' for years.)