Super Cool Shuttle Photo

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

[JoJo Gunn]

That would be consistent with a bent shadow line, with what jlogajan said about the map type.

[P-Marlowe]

Its got to be a fake. There is not a single cloud over all of England and Scotland. When is the last time in January that there was not a single cloud over all of the British Isles. Never.

Plus the shuttle would have had to be at least 5000 miles out to take a picture at that angle. And the lights could only be taken like that with time exposed photography, something that would have resulted in smearing on a vehicle traveling 17000 miles per hour.

Finally it appears to be dusk over Africa for at least 1500 miles. Dusk lasts about 1/2 hour and thus the maximum that clouds over Africa could be visible in the dark would be about 500 miles.

Other than that, its a pretty cool picture.

[RussellStevens]

The photo I posted is a combination of satellite photos and a topo map (for ocean). Here is a "thumbnail" (1% of resolution) of one of the large NASA photos I have with the topo ocean removed:

[Starwind]

But ya know...now that I think about it...

What is misisng from both photo's is "surf". Real photo's almost always have a line of white surf at the ocean/land boundary...both of these lack that.

It might be fake.

[Redcloak]

Did I say Elvis? I meant... um... Bigfoot! Yeah.. Bigfoot. That's the ticket. Bigfoot and... Princess Diana. In a big UFO, during an eclipse.

[Cultural Jihad]

Well, if you look inside the shape of the city lights, it's clearly the same computer program generating both images. Anyone could then alter the raw export to increase its contrast and brightness, and email it to Rush. mikegi got it right on the money.

[illumini]

WOW, THE WORLD IS FLAT AFTER ALL....

[Erasmus]

NASA satellite image of the Korean peninsula taken at 1900Z 11.9.2003:

NASA satellite image of the Korean peninsula taken at 1903Z 11.9.2003:

[JoJo Gunn]

That Princess sure could pick 'em, couldn't she? :)

[Erasmus]

That's an entirely plausible terminator for winter in the northern hemisphere.

(Don't forget to tilt your globe axis 22 degrees away from the sun.)

[Starwind]

Well, if you look inside the shape of the city lights, it's clearly the same computer program generating both images.

Not sure I follow your reasoning here. If faked, it would be generated from satellite photo's, as was mikegi's and because the locations of cities, towns, etc haven't changed, the shape of the lit areas would be identical in both (assuming both were generated from sat photo's).

So, while it could be faked, I don't think identical shaped light patterns is the proof. I would expect the light patterns in a recent shuttle photo to match prior satellite photo's....they're photo's of the same infrastructure.

[capitan_refugio]

Fake, but informative.

[LibWhacker]

Highly doctored, imo. It's a false color image for one. Forrests just don't show up as vibrant green swatches in true color pictures taken from space.

[JoJo Gunn]

I still can't see it. To my eyes it's not to scale.

[Starwind]

Also, the mid-Atlantic Ridge would not be visible in any real photo...it's at too great a depth to be evident at the surface in a photo.

A very pretty fake. Had me fooled.

[widgysoft]

You've all got to check out XPlanet for the PC and Linux.

It generates an *almost* realtime pic of the earth with cloud data.

Heres a pic....

And heres the link....
http://xplanet.sourceforge.net

[JoJo Gunn]

This image shows the shadow "curve" very well.

http://hans.ecke.ws/xplanet/peters_moon.jpg

Yep, Rush has been taken.

[metalboy]

Look! They even got a picture of France! Look at the detail of the cheese!

[BillCompton]

I got up this morning and read Andrew Sullivan. He linked to the "great photo" posted by Rush. I looked. My initial reaction was "cool". 5 seconds later my brow furrowed. 3 seconds later I was typing in www.FreeRepublic.com, 2 seconds later I typed in the search term "cool" 8 seconds later found someone that suggested it was fake. 20 later, I had read damning proof. Imagine what Isaac Newton would have done with the Internet.

[quietolong]

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