[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.

[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.