Super Cool Shuttle Photo

rushlimbaugh.com ^ | 03/04/03 | Rush Limbaugh

[Pokey78]

This is the most incredible photo. It was taken from the shuttle Columbia on its last mission and relayed by satellite, which is why we have it. What you see is the sunset in western Europe. There are no clouds in this picture. You can see much of Africa, all of western Europe, half of it at nighttime because the sun has set, the other half in broad daylight. You can clearly see Great Britain, Scotland, the British Isles, Spain, the Sahara desert. It's an amazing photo, folks.

[Pokey78]

Just incredible.

[MEG33]

Great picture!

[1rudeboy]

bttt

[Slyfox]

The sunset looks like God's shoulder.

[Henk]

Obviously fake.

[MHGinTN]

Wow!

[trussell]

Thought you might find this interesting!!

[paul51]

wow

[TheOtherOne]

I love photos from Space.

This is a neat one.

[Hunble]

That is obviously a computer composite image.

Think about it...

hint: Look at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean.

[jlogajan]

That's a very pretty picture, but it couldn't possibly have been taken from ANY shuttle. It represents about a 5000 mile dimension and the shuttles are at best about 200 miles high. Therefore the field of view of the lens would be about 170 degrees and the "fish eye" distortion would be extreme, not to mention that much of the included surface detail would be over the shuttles visible horizon at that height.

This picture is obviously from a much greater height -- like a geo-synch satellite at 22,300 miles.

[JoJo Gunn]

Looks weird to me as well. How can the shadow line have such a sudden curve to the right???

[A CA Guy]

Beautiful picture.

How can anyone look at that and not believe in a creator, God?

[clamboat]

Looks weird to me as well. How can the shadow line have such a sudden curve to the right???

Wow, cool! You can see the continental shelf, hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean,... hey, you can even see the Marianas Trench which is over 10000 feet deep! Holy cow those shuttle cameras are good!

Actually that curve of shadow to the right is probably one of the few authentic things in the photo. Gee, ya mean Rush Limbaugh didn't do any fact checking - could it be??

[clamboat]

(and in case it is lost on anyone, it's a joke. This is a cool composite, but I don't think it is a real photo. Besides which the Marianas Trench is really on another ocea entirely.)

[Husker24]

It doesnt look real, you cant see the curvature of the earth, it looks like a map.

[Wacka]

IBesides being a composite, it looks like the summertime. The North pole would be in light and that doesn't happen on February 1.

[Starwind]

That double 'S' running down the center of the Atlantic looks like the mid-Atlantic plate subduction zone.

Amazing that what took oceanographers and geologists so long to map from ocean floor spreading studies is so visible in one shuttle photo.

[Centurion2000]

Looks like a fake hoss .... not a single cloud in the sky as well.

[jlogajan]

How can the shadow line have such a sudden curve to the right???

That would be consistent with a Lambert Conformal Conic projection - hence a map.