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Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by suvelx on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:51PM (#9701525)
http://i.imgur.com/avm58fO.png

Am I going crazy, or is there no red in that?

Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by kbrosnan on Thursday June 11, 2015 @06:31PM (#9702884)
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by simoncion on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:31AM (#9704828)
I'm almost positive that the linked PNG has no attached color profile. There are many browser color correction problems; this is an image authoring problem.
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by efng on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:56AM (#9704557)
I was really surprised that both of my browsers have bad color correction. What's nice is the pdf confirms this: this are wrong in the browser, but right in the external pdf.

Thank you!

Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by cmdrfred on Thursday June 11, 2015 @09:54PM (#9703575)
I never knew about this. Thanks.
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by MengerSponge on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:17PM (#9702100)
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by masklinn on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:41AM (#9704848)
I see no red in your screenshot, but the image on nautilus appears red, they may have fixed the error (either that or your browser is very weird and renders red to blue)
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by yes_or_gnome on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:42PM (#9702258)
Here's a direct link to what I see. http://static.nautil.us/6380_2f635a9fe4a4d8d1ec9e3a111cc02f4...

Maybe they updated the image afterward? If so, I like how they sent the correction to the art department and not to a copy editor to fix a few characters.

Edit: dalke explains elsewhere in this thread.

Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by mkehrt on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:25PM (#9703281)
It appears they changed it to red since you took this image.
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by Macacity on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:57PM (#9701563)
Should probably be blue not red
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by dalke on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:31PM (#9701783)
Red is the conventional color for how to depict oxygen. Blue is the conventional color for nitrogen.

The convention is called "CPK coloring" after Robert Corey, Linus Pauling, and Walter Koltun. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPK_coloring .

Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by genericuser on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:44PM (#9701854)
That is lovely but doesn't explain why the mismatch exists between the picture being blue and caption for the picture saying red.

"BIG ICE: Liquid water (left) is composed of hydrogen (white) and oxygen (red) atoms arranged in a nearly tetrahedral structure. Common ice, or Ice Ih (right), shows a three-dimensional network that is less dense, explaining why ice floats on water."

Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by nautilus on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:11PM (#9702041)
Your are right and it is being corrected.
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by crusso on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:06PM (#9702436)
Phew... I thought this was another case of that conflict like that "what color is this dress?" bruhaha a couple of months ago.
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by Kaylan on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:41AM (#9704522)
No red for me.
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by ekianjo on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:45AM (#9704535)
firefox mobile has no red either.
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by Puts on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:37PM (#9701813)
What do you see instead of red?
Re:Things We Still Don’t Know About Water by pluma on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:34AM (#9704500)
Black and gold.