{"id":12912,"date":"2013-01-03T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12912"},"modified":"2013-01-03T03:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T08:00:33","slug":"its-all-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12912","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s All a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2013\/01\/02\/just-because-i-can-open-thread\/\">Just Because I Can<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To render those images interpretable, to make them available for communication to each other, we need to perform an act of translation.  That\u2019s what\u2019s going on above, when you see images labelled \u201cgamma ray\u201d or \u201cradio continuum\u201d with your own eyes, dressed up in lively shades of red and yellow, purple and blue.<\/p>\n<p>To some (and now I\u2019m getting to it) such coloring is a lie, propaganda with which NASA and space scientists in general trick us into paying for the observatories in space and on earth that generate the data behind the fibs.  To sane people, it\u2019s what you do to help you think about and understand what it is you\u2019re looking at\/for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Scientists represent information in (one hopes) useful ways.  At a fundamental level, false-color is not any different than a chart or a graph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Because I Can To render those images interpretable, to make them available for communication to each other, we need to perform an act of translation. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on above, when you see images labelled \u201cgamma ray\u201d or \u201cradio &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12912\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}