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Universe Pale Turquoise, On Average

Posted by timothy on from the slashdot's-cosmic-color-scheme dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "AP is reporting that the average color of the universe is a "sprightly" turquoise-green. If only they'd known before the new iMacs came out! Link is to Salon.com."

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  1. Re:Indians knew this, I bet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or perhaps it could be because turquoise is abundant in the south west and stands out against the brown and red rock of the desert. Humans love rare, shiny things and turquoise was the SW tribes' version of gold.

  2. This is.... useless by cadallin451 · · Score: 2, Insightful
    How did this tell us anything we didn't already know? Aside from the "visible" spectrum being a small and arbitrary slice of the pie (woo, it's what humans can see, it must be important) we already knew that the majority of stars are massive bright blue ones, because the universe isn't out of large clouds of hydrogen for massive stars to form yet. Therefore it's obvious that the average of all visible light would be greenish.

    This discovery is like proclaiming the "average" of all the atoms currently existing is carbon or oxygen, its moronic.

  3. Re:The Color of the Universe by coyote-san · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This means that the HTML encoding (e.g,. in "bgcolor") is "#B1FFE1" - script kiddie biff'.

    My God, this means that the universe is someone's middle-school science faire project... and God himself is said student.

    It explains so much!....

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    For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken