"I never met a Reuters editor before."
Posted on 04/23/2008 12:59:57 PM PDT by YourAdHere
The story is about climate change, and when I saw the accompanying photo of a fish lying at the bottom of a dried lake, I immediately screamed fake. Take a look, there's no way the buzzards or other predators wouldn't have picked it clean in the time it took for the lake to evaporate.
Does he sing, “Take Me to the River”?
ad nauseam!!
Australia has terrible periodic droughts (for millenia, as shown in the geological record as well as the biology of Australian life forms), that hurt European agriculture that is not really made for the Australian environment.
Man's ingenuity makes it work, however. I trust the Aussies to make it back, once the rains start up again. And they will.
As an aside, Australia's continental drift is taking it North. Eventually, it will become more tropical and should become much wetter. Of course, Indonesia and North Australia will merge into a vast mountain range like the Himalayas, but the snowment should also keep it wet!
There was a big fish kill in my ex-girlfriend’s pond in Temecula last year. Hundreds of fish died and decomposed. Predatory birds (there were lots of them around) wouldn’t touch them. Fish and Game guy told me the birds went after live fish, for some reason the local large birds didn’t go in for the already dead variety.
There was a big fish kill in my ex-girlfriend’s pond in Temecula last year. Hundreds of fish died and decomposed. Predatory birds (there were lots of them around) wouldn’t touch them. Fish and Game guy told me the birds went after live fish, for some reason the local large birds didn’t go in for the already dead variety.
there is no way a dead fish would be on top of the dried up lake. It would be in the mud.
The first time you hear it, it is entertaining, you gotta admit.
I don’t know, it’s literally almost all rocks. I always thought those kinds of cracks occurred when stuff quickly dried up, though (like, if someone drained the lake during a particularly dry season). In any case, I don’t think it’s faked, but the fish could just have easily died before the lake dried up, or washed up on a part of the shore that was dried up, or whatever. I think it’s one of those things where the news service just saw a picture that looked relevant and made up an explanation that suited them.
“That was you just now!”
Yeah, and it freaks out little kids which is always an amusing bonus!
That’s funny because of the audacity alone.
Did a cop acutally fall for it?
AP photographers routinely put stuff in shot or pose stuff in shot.
Suffed animals, wedding dresses, it does not matter.
Looking at this picture, it looks as though it's the same woman. Anyone remember that other article? If I find it, I'll post it. I could be wrong.
Magic bullets. They are good for clearing up STDs.
I recall a Muslim Brotherhood protester in Egypt who resembled that remark. But it was a Getty Image and could not be posted to FR.
“What kind of fish is it? Anyone know?”
From the apparent stiffness, I believe that’s a quite dead, freshwater bonerfish.
http://www.fullspeedfishing.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=21579
Hmm, on second thought, maybe it's not the same woman. I'm not sure, though.
If interested, here's the link to the other story:
Airstrike, battles kill at least 11 in Iraq (Is that really a woman pictured?)
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