The researcher quoted for this news story was Karl Glazebrook, an astronomer from Johns Hopkins. If it's the same person as astronomer Karl Glazebrook of Australia, he's a Perl hacker (author of PDL).
Perhaps Perl was used to determine the color of the universe. -Jon ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes list-help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> list-post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8 Mar 2002 17:26:02 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Universe Beige, not Turquoise User-Agent: SlashdotNewsScooper/0.0.3 X-Spam-Prob-orwant: It's possible. (4) X-Spam-Flag: received Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/08/168228 Posted by: michael, on 2002-03-08 16:25:59 Topic: space, 108 comments from the housepainters-relieved dept. ChazeFroy writes: "The [1]universe is actually beige, not turquoise. Researchers at [2]John Hopkins University [3]initially reported it was turquoise, but the software they used contained a flaw that implemented a non-standard white index to arrive at the mint chocolate chip green color." The other color was much nicer than this [4]beige. Related Links [6]universe is actually beige [7]John Hopkins University [8]initially reported it was turquoise [9]beige [10]More on Space [11]Also by michael References 1. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/universe_color_020308.html 2. http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~kgb/cosspec/ 3. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/2215253&mode=nested 4. http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~kgb/cosspec/black.htm 5. file://localhost/users.pl?op=newuserform 6. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/universe_color_020308.html 7. http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~kgb/cosspec/ 8. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/2215253&mode=nested 9. http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~kgb/cosspec/black.htm 10. file://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=160 11. file://slashdot.org/search.pl?op=stories&author=4716 ----- End forwarded message -----
