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Math to Crack Deep Impact Blurry Vision Problem
starexplorer writes "NASA announced that they believe they have a solution for the Deep Impact mission's blurry vision problem: math. Although the craft will still snap blurry pictures of the Tempel-1 comet, mathmetical manipulation will help scientists clear up the images once they make their way back to Earth. A special report and viewing guide are also available at SPACE.com."
using the same words, i made a much better headline.
"blurry vision math to impact deep crack problem"
Although the craft will still snap blurry pictures of the Tempel-1 comet, mathmetical manipulation will help scientists clear up the images once they make their way back to Earth.
Scientists will also use Photoshop to remove any zits, butt dimples, and eyebags the comet may be suffering from.
Math in space you say? What will they think of next?!
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The solution to my blurry vision problem is to keep the number of vodka-sodas in the single digits.
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If NASA were smart and hired poets, they would just look at the blurry images and say, "Interesting".
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Years ago I tried to warn people that Tempel 1 was an alien monitoring post, and that it we needed to study it to discover their origins so we could be vigilant for their return. I was locked up for years. Now that I've escaped I find that they're smashing a rocket into it! While this at least proves I wasn't crazy, it's not going to help anything. Any civilization that has the technology to maintain a link to an outpost in a remote star system without it being detected by civilian scientists probably has the ability to defend itself against what it would probably perceive as aggression. While I'd like to believe that their advances have made them peaceful and even merciful, recent events on Earth suggest that the best we can hope for is millenia of enslavement.
There's no failure quite as dissatisfying as a complete and total solution to the wrong problem.
"The table-sized, 820-pound (372-kilogram) impactor is scheduled to smash into the comet's nucleus at 23,000 mph (37,000 kilometers) per hour"
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
enhance...enhance...
"We will alter images to make them clear"
-NASA
My answer: no WAY! Really?
After spending the millions and waiting for years, isnt it a LITTLE apparent that work will be done on images to make them clear? Does it require a press conference to announce the very apparent?
"Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
They're always able to make blurry photographs sharp, and it only takes about 10 seconds...
-- Andyvan
Oh give it up. This is so OLD. I've seen this "picture enhancement" being used in the movies all the time. You know, when there's this blurry picture and then suddenly it's "enhanced" and is crystal-clear?
Or on that Alias documentary where the CIA didn't have an audio feed so they had this program that would decipher words by lip reading at this obscene angle from a camera on the ceiling?? This stuff is so easy these days...
You'd think NASA would have this down pat... Maybe it's the budget cuts...
If you couldn't tell, then it must not have worked very well.
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I found that if you take the film out of the camera after the picture is taken, and then either blow on it or flop the picture back and forth irt will make it develop far quicker and much clearer.
Maybe we could get some of the aliens from area 51 to hitchhike onboard and take care of that for us!
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Will NASA be allowed to use a calculator to solve the math problem?
Is the idea of finding math. :) I love the article summary that makes it sound like NASA just sort of lobbed the thing into space, found it had blurry vision, and started looking an old drawer in the corner of the lab: "History. Nope, not helpful. Biology? Nope, no use. Psychology? We'd better send that one to the public relations dept. Math. Hey, that might be a good idea..."