You would think that such advanced humans would have thought to paint thier SPACE ships black. You know, cause they're in space.

only if you are in a band called "Disaster Area"

or if you're from Krypton... http://images.wikia.com/smallville/images/4/4d/Vessel.jpg

Actually, space camo makes perfect sense. All of your targeting is done by radar/IR/whatever, so it doesn't matter one bit how you paint the ship. It's pretty reasonable to think that some manufacturers would use a camo pattern, whether it's because they just like the way it looks (like people now put camo patterns on all kinds of stuff that will never be used to hide something), or to honor a certain military unit that used the pattern, or whatever.

The problem with CCP's art choices is that they're using bad space camo that looks worse than the old skins it replaces.

...or to honor a certain military unit that used the pattern, or whatever.

I also loved the police lights and paint scheme of the old Navy comet, twas a lovely ship

But navies operating on the high sea don't use camouflage, because it's worthless to them, too. Especially now that most targetting is done via radar. The only time you really see camo on ships is when they're specialized for operating near the shores. Maybe when/if we get ships specialized for interactions with DUST (and thus planets), camo would be a nice touch, until then, it seems to me to be both pointless and an anachronism.