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The Truth is Out There (or is it?)
A bit of a 'hypothetical' that a few friends and I were discussing
recently... You go for a walk in the woods with your digital camera in your backpack. Suddenly a flying saucer appears overhead - you immediately grab your camera and fire off a dozen shots before the UFO disappears. When you get home you connect the card to your computer and find all the shots are perfect! At last - evidence that aliens are real. Now you are Agent Mulder. Your job is to prove beyond doubt that the pictures are genuine. In the days of film that would be relatively easy, but with digital, assuming the images are still on the card, is it possible to say definitely that what is there is what was captured by the lens, with no possibility that the image has been edited? For the sake of the exercise, let's overlook the possibility of the UFO itself being faked, as happened regularly with film. What do you think? Paul |
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Paul Bartram wrote:
A bit of a 'hypothetical' that a few friends and I were discussing recently... You go for a walk in the woods with your digital camera in your backpack. Suddenly a flying saucer appears overhead - you immediately grab your camera and fire off a dozen shots before the UFO disappears. When you get home you connect the card to your computer and find all the shots are perfect! At last - evidence that aliens are real. Now you are Agent Mulder. Your job is to prove beyond doubt that the pictures are genuine. In the days of film that would be relatively easy, but with digital, assuming the images are still on the card, is it possible to say definitely that what is there is what was captured by the lens, with no possibility that the image has been edited? For the sake of the exercise, let's overlook the possibility of the UFO itself being faked, as happened regularly with film. What do you think? Paul BTW there is a system out there that provides verification for legal use of digital images. -- Joseph E. Meehan 26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math |
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Paul Bartram wrote:
A bit of a 'hypothetical' that a few friends and I were discussing recently... You go for a walk in the woods with your digital camera in your backpack. Suddenly a flying saucer appears overhead - you immediately grab your camera and fire off a dozen shots before the UFO disappears. When you get home you connect the card to your computer and find all the shots are perfect! At last - evidence that aliens are real. Now you are Agent Mulder. Your job is to prove beyond doubt that the pictures are genuine. In the days of film that would be relatively easy, but with digital, assuming the images are still on the card, is it possible to say definitely that what is there is what was captured by the lens, with no possibility that the image has been edited? For the sake of the exercise, let's overlook the possibility of the UFO itself being faked, as happened regularly with film. What do you think? Paul BTW there is a system out there that provides verification for legal use of digital images. -- Joseph E. Meehan 26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math |
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