Favonio, I read all threads (and most links given on threads).
My request to the list administrator in #1 above was that there are clearly threads launched in the Open Mars section that don't belong there. Some threads evolve (like the two-way between yourself and Bill in APQ) to a state which doesn't belong there. Now, maybe it's my reading of it, but the Open Mars section oughtn't be a permanent catch-all for any number of half-baked (and often nonsensical) thoughts from the fringe element of this blog's membership. Or am I wrong?
The "A profane question" thread once again raises the issue of the true colour of Mars. It's been asked and, more importantly, answered here before. I'll expand on this, because it clearly upsets you so much.
In brief, there are no "true RGB" filters in existance. None that exactly mimic the colour receptors of the human eye. The ambient lighting on Mars is not the same as that on Earth. The perception of colour by humans is an extremely complicated process - much of it science, some of it art.
Here on this blog Hort has done some wonderful images that, to my mind, approximate what Mars might well look like if we were standing there. But we don't stand there, and to simply assume that a colour camera developed and designed for use on the Earth would accurately reproduce scenes if it were on Mars as the eye would see them neglects many elements of human colour perception. (Which is fair enough - it's an easy mistake to make.)
To have a go at Steve Squyres, as Bill seemingly does in that thread, suggesting that he is perhaps witholding information and/or simply chanting some JPL mantra moves the thread, to my mind, into an Against The Mainstream topic.
Hence my request. It's up to FMR to take a view. Do you have a problem with that?
