Letter: Letters: Trick temperature

From JOHN ALLSOP

Impressed by your cover ‘photo’ of Einstein standing beside our Prime
Minister (16 October), I headed straight for the relevant article by Robert
Matthews which described digital manipulation of pictures (‘When seeing
is not believing’, same issue).

Having learned never again to trust a picture, I turned to the beginning
of the journal to resume study in a more logical sequence. On page ten (This
Week), I paused to read of new ready-to-eat humanitarian daily rations developed
by the Pentagon’s food experts.

However, now much wiser, I wasn’t fooled by the large instruction on
the picture’s food parcel which read: ‘DO NOT HANDLE WHEN FROZEN (0 degrees
fahrenheit or below)’

I knew at once that New Scientist’s computer art department had been
having a go just to test us. It was an excellent job – one really couldn’t
see the join.

John Allsop Rayleigh, Essex