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I think the parent meant that the visitors think that a photograph can't be manipulated and is thus a perfect record. Today of course editing photos is commonpl
by huntie 8y ago
I think the parent meant that the visitors think that a photograph can't be manipulated and is thus a perfect record. Today of course editing photos is commonplace.
- grkvlt 8y agoBut they are shown a painting which is pretty obviously just whatever the person creating it wanted it to be, nobody would ever accept it as a perfect record of reality. I don't understand how photography comes into things?
- sls 8y agoI'm not familiar with the story, but this is what I take from the comment above: * captain arrives in FTL ship looking for evidence of a thing * captain isn't satisfied with a painting offered as evidence, because it could be fake * aide says that photography is unknown to the natives, implying that the production of a photograph would be taken by the captain as having more evidentiary value => captain knows about FTL but is unfamiliar with the technology required to produce false but convincing photographic images
- handojin 8y agoOf course if it's a FTL ship photographs themselves can't really have any evidentiary value...
- coldtea 8y agoWell, even today that we know Photoshop, a photograph still has more evidentiary value than a painting (which has absolutely none), so there's that...
- grkvlt 8y agoAh, makes more sense. Of course, 'captain knows about FTL' is not necessarily a given, much like 'driver knows about internal combustion engine' for cars - he may just be pressing buttons randomly (cf. the Heechee series by Frederick Pohl[0]) for instance. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heechee