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Posted on 01/09/2005 1:07:26 PM PST by CHARLITE
This picture is not a fake as Pete Birrow inadvertently found it on the Lions Clubs of Australia website while looking for a Lions Club source to donate to.
It appears to have been taken from a hi-rise building window in downtown Phuket Thailand.
The power of nature is hard to comprehend, especially the destructiveness of water.
Peter J. Birrow
Executive VP, 35th Inf Reg
Cacti Forever
A bad photoshop hoax. You've been 'ad.
It looks fake. If it's real, it just looks unreal.
Is this photo for real?
I wish I had the time to photoshop this photoshop....have Homer Simpson surfing the wave.....
Its totaly fake.. Looks right out of the movie Day after tomorrow... They said waves has high as 30 feet. If you look at this picture, that monster wave is atleast 170 feet high.
Why's the traffic using the roads like they're in America?
not even a very good fake.
It looks as high as the high rises. I thought I read it was 20 feet somewhere.
fake, fake, fake
It's not even a good fake, and that's not the shoreline at Phuket.
Sure doesn't look like a tropical beach resort to me.
How many hundred feet was that wave that hit??? Look at the wave to the upper left in relation the the tower in the center. Every thing would be gone!!
Hahaha! Bad Photoshop. The real photos disprove this fake.
I was thinking "Deep Impact".
Breaking news: the word "gullible" is NOT in the dictionary!!
Did Baghdad Bob issue this photo?
While you're at it, you could throw in a couple twisters and lightning bolts for dramatic effect.
Even Elaine Benes faked better than that.
Nice 300ft wave. Lol
That most certainly is a faked photograph. A tsunami wave bears no resemblance to a wave that one would see while surfing off of Maui. If that photo were real, the area immediately in front of the wave near the shoreline would be devoid of water.
I thought the wave was 30-40 feet. In this picture it is at least as tall as the building in the top center. Anyone have an idea how many stories/feet that building might be?
That's how big the wave is - it moved all that scenery to the Phuket shoreline. I think I see Touristguy in that pic.
I spent a week on the beach in Phuket this April. This is most definitely NOT Phuket.
even Roger Corman would say "too fake looking"
A giant shark in the wave would be a nice touch....
Photo has to be a fake.....earthquake generated tsunami waves are only as high as the displacement of the earth along the fault line. Maximum displacement for this event was approximately 30 feet....the waves can be no higher than appx. 30-45 feet - which is high enough !!!! - ( some variability due to coastal conditions....the shallow coast lines will generate a bigger wave by a few feet ). This wave is way higher than that ...not a real picture....sorry.....
This photo is real! But then again I believe smoking is good for you and doesn't cause cancer.
I've surfed bigger, so what?
You should note that this photo was rejected by Dan Rather as being, "too obviously fraudulent."
It's about as real as that one with the guy on the WTC with the plane coming up from behind it....
silicone wave no natural hang to it
FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE.
Not convincing in the slightest.
On the other hand, this wave could have resulted from Michael Moore and Jerry Nadler doing cannonball dives.
Seconded! - but not to say that some unique undersea conditions may have caused a wave of that height in some rare instances. Still, I highly doubt that this is an actual photograph and not a fake.
Well, OK, maybe the mermaids on boogie-boards was stretching it a little...
This thread should be deleted IMO, since that pic is being claimed as real.
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