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Universe Beige, not Turquoise
ChazeFroy writes: "The universe is actually beige, not turquoise. Researchers at John Hopkins University initially reported it was turquoise, but the software they used contained a flaw that implemented a non-standard white index to arrive at the mint chocolate chip green color." The other color was much nicer than this beige.
That's why it's the natural color for all computer cases!
first turquiose, now beige.
would the real color of the universe please stand up?
... now I have to redecorate my apartment!
- Have a picture
...when she said "Beige, I think I'll paint the ceiling beige..."
be on the lookout for the new PBS special 'Beige : the color of the cosmos'. I heard they talk about how hawking and einstein were raised in beige rooms.
your jesus is another mans xebu. chew on that hypocrites.
The GIMP tells me that the colour of the universe is #FEF9E5 in hex. Now that's got to mean something :-p
Judging by the huge amount of feedback this one produced, not too many I'd guess. Heck, beige is about the most boring color in the universe. Now we know why.
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42........ Nope doesn't work. Beige... hmmm
Scientists should use this as an example of how to make their work accessable to the public.
With all the news centering on fluff and rather useless stories these days, we have ffinally found the solution to get people to read stories with "boring" content.. just add color!
Researchers recently discovered that the color you turn when the DMCA takes away your speech is blue. No wait, other report it's a shade of purple.. oh the controversy!
There was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
Never ask the lunatic if he's crazy.
Funny how the article doesn't mention why this *is* science or what is proven by this? Seems like a grad student *who has run out of ideas.*
And everyone knows the color of the universe is 42.
Even if it isn't as tasty...
though I've always been more of a butter pecan fan, so the beige is fine with me.
From a colour perspective, it makes much more sense than a shade of green. Every kid who's ever played with play-doh knows that if you mix a bit of this with a pinch of that to create new colours (which is essentially what you get from stars.. blue, red, green, yellow, etc), you eventually end up with that nasty brown lump of play-doh that ends up getting left under the couch for the dog to play with.
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Before you may cross the bridge you must answer these questions three.
Q: Where are you from?
A: Johns Hopkins University.
Q: What is your professtion?
A: We are astronomers.
Q: What color is the Universe?
A:It's green... no, it's beige AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee!
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Jeez, I didn't realize there were that many PC's out there...
I mean, I knew there weren't as many macs, but wow
Bill
Looks like it's an Intel universe after all...
Go here to look at the other page that the posted color link is comparing to.
Funny though, I think that the beige on black would have looked more white if the autor didn't comment in bright white text right next to the color.
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considering that we still only see a fraction of what there is to see. What will happen when the Hubble sees it better in the future?
I think its much easier to declare black with small bright spots. At least the public can understand that.
I am still curious as to what significance this really has overall. It appears from the article that it was just for the fun of it, so how does it become news? Originality?
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
. o O (Beige. I think I'll paint the universe beige.)
Use Plank's constant to find out what the peak wavelength at 3 degrees Kelvin (the cosmic bg temp) is. This is the color of the Universe, as it is the color you "see" in all directions (if your eyes could see this wavelength, that is).
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Yet more proof that we are living inside a massive computer.
Our top scients are actually concerned with this? What number was that project on the list? Who honestly gives a flying flip what color the universe is? Who are they, the friggin Martha Stewarts of the Astronomy world? Sheesh! And I thought I didn't have a life for playing computer games! Maybe they collaborated with the study on Medicinal Marijuana. I can see it now...
"Dude, look at the stars"
"Dude, if you like brought all the stars together, I'd bet you they'd be the color of hemp"
"No way man! That's far out!"
...I still can't believe that real equipment and time were used for this study, I'm sure it wasn't cheap, especially the man-hours. If I were a student there, I'd ask for my tuition back!
ever noticed that home carpets and interior + exterior walls are about this color too. 'off white' is quite popular in the paint + carpet industry
bleh
I was talking, not thinking. -D. Franz
Johns Hopkins Researchers Say Universe Much Blander Than Before
It's nice to see a respected source as space.com using headlines that sound more like The Onion.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
I wonder if I could make some dough by selling so-called "beige universe pants". Yeah.. really, it's a the latest fashion trend!!
Life is a journey. . . enjoy it!
I'm glad to see those students are doing something productive with their time.
~.Evanrude
Are you sure they were't just looking at their pants?
The Universe also has Track lighting and a great disco beat.
No more can you talk about needle-nosed ships sliding through the Inky Blackness of space. Now it has to be the Oatmealy Beigeness.
It's a sodium lamp at the end of the tunnel, not a mercury vapor lamp.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
...For a minute there I was worried! The universe was clashing with the sofa.
So we now know what colour the universe is, but what I want to know is:
What flavour is it, and what does it sound like?
My guess is that it's salt and vinegar flavour and it sounds like D minor.
Say you had a big blue blob out in space. Since we are talking about the universe ... its a pretty big blue blob. Wouldn't all light behind that blob be skewed toward the blue end of the spectrum when viewed on the other side? Say there was a star behind that blob ... now the star is emitting white light, yet we see its color as blue. Does any of this cause a problem with their calculations or do I need to put the pipe down?
Now I can sleep better at night knowing that the universe is actually beige...
the question is not what color the universe is, but how to change it.
But most of the energy in the universe is NOT from the CMB. Remember the Stefan-Boltzmann law: energy per unit area goes like sigma T^4. 3 K is barely a blimp. The billions of stars in each of the billions of galaxies are at 1500 K or more (the sun is 5800 K, blue stars are hotter still). That T^4 comes in like a demon and means that most of the energy we perceive does NOT come from the CMB.
I like how the researcher says that he is open for suggestions on what to name the color as long as it isn't beige...
/. and the rest of the media shout, "The Universe is Beige!"
and then
The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm glad they cleared that up. For a while, there, I was really worried.
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits
non-standard white
WTF??????? What the hell is non-standard white?
Am I the only one who thinks that maybe these astronomers were inspired by illegal substances at college [Dude, I can see the universe]? After all they got UK artist Damien Hirst (of shark-in-formaldehyde fame) to do their clour calibration on beagle 2. This guy is a complete fruitcake, and with him on their side I am suprised that the clour of the universe was not "magenta with cyan polkadots"......
UK artist Damien Hirst is reported to have provided paintings to travel on the spacecraft. These would be used as test cards for the cameras
and I just got done accessorizing to the old Universe's dark, mudddy teal.
N
-- Watch the REAL Jon Katz.
... to beige now that we know the universe is not a minty green?
''But this is science. We're not like politicians. If we make mistakes, we admit them. That's how science works.''
:-))
This is brillant (sorry beige...
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Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
Just goes to show, the universe is a PC-clone, not a Macintosh.
Isn't it only that colour if you look at it from here? I mean, a lot of that light is billions of years old; the "colour" of the stars that produced it has probably changed since then. If you were looking at the universe from, let's say, some theoretical point 10 billion light years from its center, I bet it'd be a different colour. And if you could somehow average the colour of all the light that all its stars are producing at this very moment, then it'd be a different colour again.
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However, this isn't what you see from earth at all. Originally I thought they had simulated what would happen if you could "funnel" all the starlight on a dark night visible from Earth (or even outside our atmosphere) and created one beam from it. They've sort of done this, but in their model they've stopped the expansion of the universe and "corrected" the light to make it appear as if the universe is static and all those galaxies are not actually moving away from us.
So, I'm not sure what to make of this color - it's not one you'd ever actually see: it's not "real" in the sense you could measure it somewhere.
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Well, I guess that would be the distinction between the color of the universe and the color of space. The color of space is whatever wavelength is associated with 3 K. I'm thinking about things from the perspective of a viewer inside the universe, looking at an empty patch, rather than a viewer outside the universe, looking at the whole thing - which is nonsense, really, since there is no "outside the universe."
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Now it looks like I'm going to have to change my entire wardrobe AGAIN.
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It's a kind of neutral colour, it would go well with almost any decorating scheme. Besides, you'd probably get sick of that turquoise colour after awhile. Beige is much more classic and versatile. If it yellows with age any, it would complement some antiques and a few jewel-toned throw pillows beautifully.
I approve. :)
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That will teach me to click on the links to read the story before replying. Pop up, under, everywhere! Weeeeeeeee
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The universe is a big beige box. Phreaky.
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KHAKI!... :)
Ok, this is seriously messing up my career as the new bob dylan.
:)
In a rainy cafe
on the midnight train
she thought about the him that I aint
in the turqoise universe,
with the boys
and the laser politicians...
say no to bombs!
can't rhyme beige
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley
From the article:
Suggestions for the name are welcome. As long as it is not 'beige'!
"I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives."
rage
Your grammar is bad.
And it was probably duplicate.
Stop whining.
I can see it now... the tagline: Galactic Kahki. Throw in some lame music, and we have a universal marketing campaign. booyah!
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
Damn, just as I finished camouflaging my spaceship. Now I'll have to start all over again.
Sorry I had my finger on the lens.. my bad.
Yes, beige. I was starting to worry about that greenish color. After all, there is only one explanation. The beige they are seeing is the color reflected from the walls of the lab our little petri-sized universe of an experiment is sitting in. We finally peered out and saw the walls...
It makes sense - Dell's conspiracy grows deeper by the minute! Dude, you're getting a universe.
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God isn't gay and has no gay friends, because they would have mocked him for his horrible taste. :P
I'll stick with the false-color images of the universe EM background as a nice blend of purple and black
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
*glances around her cubicle* Yup. The universe is beige.
Gee, I'm glad these guys aren't wasting their time with anything trivial like quantum mechanics or understanding the Big Bang or anything. I'm so much happier now that I can color coordinate.
Beta carotene is good for you.
No wait, beta carotene is bad for you.
"You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream." -- Sherwood Anderson
The universe is Beige.
I am Beige.
Therefore I am master of the universe!
Bow down before me you pesants!
3K being really rather a low temperature, the cosmic backround radiation is (way down) in the infrared, so I guess we can safely deduce that an empty patch of the night sky would be roughly, er, black.
It means with 6 percent of the galaxies reporting, Johns Hopkins has called the universe beige.
-- Nobody should take away Microsoft's freedom to innovate, particularly since they haven't used it yet
Further than that. It's microwave, so it's already into the radio.
The universe isn't beige, it's pink!
And your name is Barbie.
From the article:
> Suggestions for the name are welcome. As long as it is not 'beige'!
They should have known better than to say that!
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Dont tell any one and they wont know.
That color just simply won't go with my new pumps!
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. - Tennessee Williams
Please reply to this post with all your lame jokes.
I am an alum of hopkins (also getting my masters at a drive-thru hopkins- check my web url) and as an ex-tour guide I know for a fact that as a private institution Hopkins was second only to NASA in the amount of federal funding it receives for research (and it recent years it may have surpassed NASA).
I can honestly say I have never been more proud of the research being done by this fine, fine institution.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
If you subscribe to /. you'll be able to ignore articles which has as high of a who gives a fsck level as this one.
Kris Felscher
We've got enough youth, how about a fountain of "smart"?
Oh come on! Beige is so much less fun than the other one. It simply lacks personality. I am completely and categorically against recognizing this color to be The Color of The Universe, of which I am a lawful stakeholder (whether the others like it or not), and thus vote to reinstate the originally discovered color as the one to represent our universe.
Otherwise, I propose a class-action lawsuit against the scientists (what are they thinking?!) -- aren't lawsuits a good thing?
Anyone care to join me?
before we find out that the color is actually khaki, and there's some alternate universe next door that's colored IBM/corporate blue, and that our neighborhood of universes is actually some wageslave in a cubicle trying to figure out the question to 42.
Sigh. I miss Adams.
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yerricde has answered this question in a discussion where it is more on topic.
It's not a troll that challenges them. "It's the old man from Scene 24!"
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You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
3 K blackbody radiation, I'm guessing, falls into the ELF category. Peak wavelength is most likely in the order of kilometers. But it's STILL a wavelength, damnit!
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This makes sense given the fact that the combination of all colors results in white light. You would think that something as large as the universe would have an almost equal distribution of the different wavelengths of visable light. The beigeness could be a result in the shift of wavelength related to the universe expanding(everything moving away from us).
Then the universe would in fact be turqoise, caused by all those original iMacs.
In the parent article, the author asks for suggestions for a name to this color, and explicitly asks for people not to suggest "beige." (Perhaps he/she views it as the easy way out.)
Any other suggestions?
Now I have to redo my decor to match the universe again! What am I supposed to do with all of this ugly turquoise green furniture?!!?!
"You have the option of insanity. I do not. And that makes me crazy!" - Brian to Angela, My So-Called Life
Do we know which software package they used?
Otherwise my webbrowser wouldn't be able to display it.
Sarcasm aside, I believe you are getting your semantics all jumbled up. What they took was an average. It is as "real" as any statistical measurement. They did correct for the relative velocity of the objects producing the light which may or may not have been a good idea.
On another note. They are actually taking a measurement that is spanning time. An interesting followup to this research would be a project where one takes the light from objects within a certain radius and averaged that. In effect this gives you an average light during a specific age of the universe.
I want to know: Is the universe getting more beige with time?
So now we find that the universe is simply off-color?
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Hi this is Glazebrook here (honest!)
I am a regular slashdot reader for my sins. Finally an incentive to actually sign up.
I am amused to see the story got on the front pages this time, sorry that I had to be wrong to achieve this feat!
hope you all read the web page and about the science of starlight (and color!)
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~kgb/cosspec/
and it's much more complicated than 'averaging 3 numbers'. The color is a volume-averaged - deredshifted (otherwise it would not be very meaningful) sum of all starlight. Those of you with www skills will be able to track down the origin of the erroneous software I will not deprecate it here.
Karl
p.s. the color suggestions are poring in, my favorite so far is 'cosmic latte'
... skin!
Positive that our entire universe is just a speck on the nose of guy selling newspapers on a busy streetcorner in some infinitely larger universe...
...or not.
This once again re-affirms the premise that nerds and their "beige boxes" rule the world.
All that work and analysis just to discover the universe is the same color as the vinyl siding on my parent's house...
Why stick with beige?
Switch to Apple's new, turqoise, translucent iUniverse, featuring the power of six billion PowerPC G5 processors. =P
jrbd
As long as the answer is still 42, I'm OK. I just have to go out and buy a new matching towel. Anyone want to buy a turquoise towel set?
We know for sure the universe was coded in windows.
What does a hooker say during sex?
"Harder. Faster!"
A girlfriend?
"Slower, deeper."
A housewife?
"Beige, I think I'll paint the ceiling beige."
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
More drivel from academicians.
DMT_spork
You know, maybe it's because they complained about "beige" and then called it something horrid like "I11 E Gamma."
OK, how about
- Putty
- Toast
- Sand
- Grits with Redeye Gravy
- Natalie Portman's Naked Flesh in March
The really scary thing is that it does indeed look like the precise color of my company-issued IBM PIII/800 workstation.I can see the fnords!
(reality distortion field takes effect)
Researcher 1: Hey, I think the universe is that greenish color.
Jobs: It's called Bondi, you twit!
Researcher 2: Nah, I think it's more bluish.
Jobs: (Jumping up and down furiously) AQUA! AQUA! AQUA!
Researcher 1: Let's just call it turquoise.
(after Jobs returns to Cupertino to plot his domination of the universe's color...)
Researcher 2: What the hell were we thinking? The universe is beige, not turquoise! Duh! We'd better change our report. What? 'It looks like you're trying to change the color of the universe?' Stupid paper clip.
> The other color was much nicer than this beige.
:
and, to quote the webpage (http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~kgb/cosspec/)
> Suggestions for the name are welcome. As long as it is not 'beige'!
Hmmmm.....
They also mention that it should be difficult to tell the color from white on a white background (as it is on the webpage above, not on black as referenced in the article). However, I can't say I found it difficult at all. It's quite a yellowish off-white, and easy to see.
-misao
Just where might you be standing pray tell if you were looking at all that is from nowhere that is not yet?
-- Each tock of the Planck clock is a new world and here we are still life. --
Yet another example of getting too "cute" with interpreting the data.
I can only imagine how far off they would have been if they used an X-10 to collect the original data ...
So does this mean that various racist organizations are gonna be complaining about living in a "mud" universe?
Color coordination is a bitch with beige. What should I wear to the next Big Bang?
Beige is such a bland color. How is our universe ever gonna attract another universe if it's such a bland color. Now, universe X14, that's a universe with a sense of color.
Did they account for the color shift caused by the atmosphere? Remember, these are the same type of guys who used metric instead of English measurements on Mars.
Why aren't there any other color universes? This is a beige conspiracy against universes of color.
I'll stop now.
To celebrate the occasion of my 1000th post, I will post no more forever on Slashdot. Goodbye.
Then this must mean... Martha Stewart is God!
This reminds me of the old joke:
What's the difference betweeen a mistress, a prostitute, and a wife?
The mistress says, "Are you done ALREADY?!?"
The prostitute says, "Arey you done YET?"
The wife says, "Beige. I think I'll paint the ceiling beige..."
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Why in the world is it has it been so hard to find a more, er, inspiring color.
Okay, let me get this straight...
Planes hit the world trade center and it collapses, which cuts the space budget to nearly nothing.
In response to this crisis of public interest and outreach for funding space exploration, we go to the effort of determining the color of the universe, but get it wrong.
But public confidence in space research is restored when the scientists assure us that the universe is, in fact, beige.
Sagan's ashes must be accreting in anguish over this.
No, again: microwaves. These guys are millimeters to centimeters wavelength. (To convert, remember Wien's law: 0.29cm-K/T = peak wavelength) T = 2.78 K, so peak wavelength ~ .1cm = 1 mm.
I would've sworn it was black! ...coincidence? I think not! Also, is there a soundtrack?
Who picked beige?
Now what is the sound of the universe? I bet it's that James Brown beat every song has. James 'Brown'
How about "SunTan" ©? Har Har, get it - Sun (as in stars)...Tan (as in Beige)...
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
This is a shamless plug, and one for which I'm obviously going to be modded into oblivion, but...
http://www.cafepress.com/universehue
This is simply a public service for anyone who wants one. I'd be stunned if I sold even one. Feel free to grab the graphic for whatever purpose, though, I've left the © notice off for a reason.
My
Limekiller
>``It looks like beige,'' he said. ``I don't know
>what else to call it. I would welcome
>suggestions.''
>In January, Baldry called the turquoise ``cosmic
>spectrum green.'' But the pair offered no fancy
>name for the new beige hue.
How about Cosmic Spectrum Off White?
Those guys need a better monitor if they think that beige square looks white on the black background.
The color swatch at space.com is WRONG! The correct hex code taken from the academic page is #fff8e7 (which is gamma corrected assuming a display gamma of 2.2 which is only an average for various available monitors).
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Umm, on my color calibrated Apple Studio Display, its quite easy to see, and its clearly beige -- actually more in the Crayola "Flesh Tone(TM)" range.
I will have to disagree with that. The CMB is in fact likely to be the dominant source of the cosmic energy density in competition with the infrared light from the first burst of star formation.
a &p age=93
The Stefan-Boltzmann law gives the energy _per area_. But the area of the CMB (the entire sky) is a whole lot bigger than the area of all the stars in the Universe, and this makes all the
difference
The cosmic energy density is distributed something like this:
Cosmic infrared BG: 0.1-1.0 eV/cm3
CMB: 0.4 eV/cm3
Other radio: 1 micro eV/cm3
Intergalactic visible light: 0.01 eV/cm3
and well, actually the matter in the Universe gives the biggest part: 100 eV/cm3
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It's even worse. While they did correct for the red-shift, they did not apparently correct for the "lateness" of the light. Since we are seeing galaxies a few billion LY away in the colors they had a few billion years ago, we are not really averging their current colors. Earlier stars form from the basic gasses of the big bang were hotter and bluer. Later stars have heavier atoms, and are not quite as hot, and so they shine at a lower temperature, hence more red. So if we could correct for the time it takes for light to travel, and see the current light right now it might be more red (certainly more if you do include red-shift in this), or less red (if red-shift made it redder than age).
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I always thought it was plaid.
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Thank goodness for this type of research.
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Is there any scientific use for knowing the color of the universe? I can't imagine one. Who paid for this? (probably my grossly overtaxed self in some indirect way).
11*43+456^2
Johns. Yes, with an "s" at the end!
mark
JHU class of 1997
This anonymous poster is entirely correct, and the parent is incorrect. I'd mod him up myself, if I had any moderator points left.
Bob
Science, like Nature, must also be tamed, with a view turned towards its preservation.
According to the article, they took the colors from 200000 galaxies and averaged them to find beige. However, this does not take into account all of the empty space in between, which is an integral part of defining the universe. Perhaps they should go back to the simulation again, and add in an amount of black proportional to the volume of space in the universe not taken up by celestial bodies. Then we would know whether or not the human eye can really even see the universe, or if will just appear as nothing from a sufficiently large distance.
Uhhh, we made another mistake. After having reviewed our software yet another time, and fixing the error, we have determined that the universe is indeed invisible. Sorry to all of you attempting to paint your houses the color of the universe...
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
as a consequence of the accumulation of all these errors.
IIRC, white is representative of young suns. So a white galaxy would be made up mostly of young suns. So what if all these galaxies put together result in a near-white color? Does that mean the collective age of the galaxies is quite young? Or, at the least, capable of much more energy?
;) ]
[note: I avoided the use of the word "stars" so I could avoid Hollywood puns
No I'm not trolling.
Here's an example of where averages mislead. The interesting thing about color is not the average, but the contrast between colors. Trust me; I'm renovating my house right now. Or trust anybody who's stared too much at the sun.
universe is actually beige, not turquoise
Further proof that it's a PC universe, not a Macintosh universe...
Beige spelled out in hex would be 42 65 69 67 65
...
... so a mere correction would be that the answer to
the universe is basicly 42 hex...
... just some deep thoughts
--red
That color looks an awful lot like my tower...
AHH, it's HyperVac!
(obscure reference to Asimov)
Karma: \Kar"ma\, n. [Skr.] (Buddhism) One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence.
"Let's make a dent in the Universe." - Steve Jobs
Apple started with gray computers. The universe is gray. Apple now has turquoise (or used to) computers. The Universe should be turquoise. Where's the freakin' dent? Grr...!
..I just had my room repainted to mach the color of universe and now they tell me that I did all of that for nothing..
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Their work with colors and spectrums and such can be used to tell what kind of elements there were and gain a better understanding of the early times of our universe.
Then they were like..."HEY! Let's average these all together just for fun." Then it got all popular cause the media jumped on it.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
(* They've sort of done this, but in their model they've stopped the expansion of the universe and "corrected" the light to make it appear as if the universe is static and all those galaxies are not actually moving away from us. *)
In that case, the true color is probably grey (or dim white) because whatever wavelength peaks are in typical groups of stars will be spread out among the spectrum, thus flattening (blurring) any spectrum spikes.
The human eye picks up a relatively narrow band of frequencies. The red-shift probably brings all kinds of spikes in and out of this range depending on distance.
Thus, if you average all the spikes as they are shifted around, you don't get spikes.
Table-ized A.I.
and:
page
sage
age
phage (a biology term IIRC)
cage
gauge
You are as wrong as the fumps who said it was mint colored.
Table-ized A.I.
When I was little, I had a name for this color: POIPOISE (poy'-pus). Why name a color that already has a name? Now I see that is was possibly due to my deep connections with the cosmos.