Posted on 08/09/2007 4:21:03 AM PDT by dan_s
News agency Reuters used an image originating from the Hollywood blockbuster film Titanic as a photo of the Russian polar dive last week, Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat reported Thursday
Hannu Vanhanen, a photograph specialist at the University of Tampere, was quoted as saying that there was no doubt the image sent to Reuters subscribers was from the film.
Reuters says the image was captured from a Russian television broadcast.
Russian polar explorers took Finnish-made Mir-1 and Mir-2 deep-sea submersibles to a depth of 4,261 below the North Pole Thursday last week.
Mirs were actually used to shoot footage of the RMS Titanic wreck at a depth of some 3.8km for the 1997 film of the 1912 sinking of the British oceanliner.
That’s funny.
Puttie should be proud...
So, is Russia re-releasing film of their mini-subs?
Or is Rutgers re-using “gimme” photo’s rather than actually researching what is being provided to them? (The pro-Soviet nature of both films makes a pro-Soviet/socialist propaganda move by the pro-socialistic news agency possible/probable.)
Did Russia really plant the flag on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, or did they stage the event, using old Titanic footage? Inquiring minds want to know.
Russia could just say they planted a flag. How would you prove it?
ROTFLMAO!
So much for the ‘reemergence’ of Russia under Putty.
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