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Completely random fact but I always loved this.

So during WW2 they are using aircraft more and more and they started experimenting with camouflage. Whites and blues ended up being pretty useless because they still stood out enormously against the sky. The color that ended up working? Pink.

So if they don’t buy the nebulae excuse, say that human tradition.

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StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Can’t let an opportunity go past to remind everyone that Larry Niven doesn’t seem to have complained that the Kzinti ship in TAS ‘The Slaver Weapon’ was mauvish-pink.

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- SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  THIS SHIP BLEEDS HONOR
  
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- Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The color of true warriors
  
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- aeronmelon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Fun fact: the ship was pink for the same reason the Klingon’s wore pink vests. The show’s director was colorblind and thought it was light gray.
  
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  - StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The ‘colour-blind’ director thing turns out to have been somewhat of a fan myth that took on a life of its own. Or at least a major exaggeration. It’s not a fact and shouldn’t be repeated as such.
    
    Sutherland, the director, was colourblind, however the person making the colour choice was Irv Kaplan.
    
    According to The Official Guide to TAS (by Harvey and Schepis), based on reports of colleagues, Kaplan was “in charge of ink and paint, colouring the various props and characters, and he would do it by himself in his office……It was all Irv Kaplan’s call. He wasn’t listening to anyone else when he picked colors, or anything.”
    
    Irv liked the hot pinks, purples, lime greens etc that were very much in vogue at the time. Other Saturday contemporary morning cartoons (such as Josie and the Pussycats) were using similar palettes.
    
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tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That sounds odd at first but thinking about it mixed with clouds it makes perfect sense, I’d like to see it in action, the video at the link is unavailable. I didn’t find any video of it but there is more info and an image here of one parked if anyone is interested

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