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Super Cool Shuttle Photo
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| 03/04/03
| Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 03/04/2003 9:52:26 PM PST by 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.
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To: mikegi
Oops, the link I gave defaults to "Sun" view which always gives an illuminated disk. Click on "Map" then "Update" and you'll see an amazingly similar image to the one in the original posting.
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posted on
03/04/2003 10:50:25 PM PST
by
mikegi
To: Paleo Conservative
I know it's the Sahara, but it's got white on it. The color balance in the rest of the pic don't jive with white for desert.
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posted on
03/04/2003 10:54:34 PM PST
by
spunkets
To: mikegi
Like this:
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posted on
03/04/2003 10:55:04 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: mikegi
Perhaps as proof, you could generate a similar image? I'm trying and I lose much detail, granularity, snow, etc, and the aspect ratio's are coming out all wrong - flat image.
Maybe you could generate a very similar shot?
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posted on
03/04/2003 10:56:19 PM PST
by
Starwind
To: JoJo Gunn
Um... It was taken during an eclipse? Yeah! That's it... That's the ticket. An eclipse... And a big UFO. Yeah... Really big... With Elvis on board.
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posted on
03/04/2003 10:56:33 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(All work and no FReep makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no FReep make s Jack a dul boy. Allwork an)
To: Pokey78
Yeppers. Pick a date in the summertime to get the darkness curve to bend to the right at the top. Something like 07/05/2003 and 18:00 or so. Click on Spain to zoom in.
Did Rush really fall for this???
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posted on
03/04/2003 10:58:17 PM PST
by
mikegi
To: Pokey78
They must've had a hell of a fight over there in the ME. Half the world's gone!
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:01:29 PM PST
by
spunkets
To: clamboat
How can that shadow bend be authentic? Try and make one with a flashlight and ball. What's that line following? A mountain range? Like it's a "dam" holding the shadow back? :)
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:03:32 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
To: mikegi
Yep...really sad; Rush is usually shrewder than that. Someone probably e-mailed it to him...don't know if it was a set-up or not.
Andrew Sullivan saw it on Rush's site and was fooled too.
Man, that thing is REALLY obviously fake. And I know Rush is a space enthusiast.
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:04:09 PM PST
by
John H K
To: Pokey78
I just noticed that this is from Rush's Web site.
He's not going to be too happy if he finds out he was duped.
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:04:19 PM PST
by
McGruff
(We are the americans, We don't need no stinking resolutions.)
To: Pokey78
Yikes!
The world really is flat!
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:06:53 PM PST
by
river rat
(War works.....It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
To: A CA Guy
How can anyone look at that and not believe in a creator, God?
Umm, well, that intelligent people can be fooled by an obviously fake "picture" (it's not even a real picture from something else attributed to the Shuttle, it's basically drawn) doens't strike me as proof of a creator.
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:06:53 PM PST
by
John H K
To: Hootch
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:06:55 PM PST
by
Starwind
To: Starwind
Here's a very close image:
Settings are: Map, 2003/09/05 18:50:00, Image size 500
By picking a different viewpoint (like a satellite) I'm sure you could generate the exact same image as the original.
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:07:25 PM PST
by
mikegi
To: mikegi
I thought, maybe with today's optics, that it could be authentic. I should have known better.
And since when has the North Atlantic been clearer than the Caribbean? hehe
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:08:22 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: Redcloak
Nah. Can't be Elvis. He's on the radio right now. :)
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:09:56 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
To: Pokey78
Looks like a combination of these two photos:
These were both made by combinging thousands of satellite pictures. I have both these photos in really high resolution (400MBs a peice) and could of easily made that photo.
To: RussellStevens
Wow, sorry about the formatting, it looked fine in the preview.
To: RussellStevens
The upper "photo" isn't a photo, it's a topo map of the world.
There's no "photographic" method of showing the ocean floor buried beneath thousands of feet of water.
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:14:08 PM PST
by
John H K
To: mikegi
Note the brightness and clarity...
Now look at the loss of granularity of your generated image.
If Rush's photo is faked, it was faked by a different process.
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posted on
03/04/2003 11:14:37 PM PST
by
Starwind
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