Is this pic real? I found it on 4chan. SFW

[SphinxnihpS]

Looks real to me. The motion blur of the bomb relative to the running people seems just right.

Also, see any jet? No. It's a bomb.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Wow heaps of retards on this forum. Why do people think that photo would be blurred? The camera is pointed directly at the sky - it's obviously a very quick exposure. Who says the people are running from that bomb specifically? They could just be running from the general area being bombed. Why says the photographer even intended to catch a bomb in the frame? That could be purely accidental. Also, it's not a missile, it's obviously a bomb.

 

[Jeeebus]

I can't believe people are actually debating whether this picture is real or not. It took me a couple minutes of searching on google, but there is no question that pic is photoshopped. I actually found the original pic, and there is clearly no bomb/missile/whatever in the picture.

The Palestinians are clearly running from a much greater, more serious threat:

 

[AndroidVageta]

I can't believe people are actually debating whether this picture is real or not. It took me a couple minutes of searching on google, but there is no question that pic is photoshopped. I actually found the original pic, and there is clearly no bomb/missile/whatever in the picture.

The Palestinians are clearly running from a much greater, more serious threat:

The Palestinians are running from Palpatine!!! LOL!!!

But yeah, I still think the photo is fake...if it were a UFO in the picture instead of a bomb would we even be having this discussion?

 

[brblx]

Wow heaps of retards on this forum. Why do people think that photo would be blurred? The camera is pointed directly at the sky - it's obviously a very quick exposure. Who says the people are running from that bomb specifically? They could just be running from the general area being bombed. Why says the photographer even intended to catch a bomb in the frame? That could be purely accidental. Also, it's not a missile, it's obviously a bomb.

bomb or not, 'shit is fake. go photoshop boobs onto sheep.

 

[LegendKiller]

Yeah, a bomb falling at hundreds of MPH is going to be clearly visible like that by a photographer running from it.

You guys are laughable.

 

[gaidensensei]

I can't believe people are actually debating whether this picture is real or not. It took me a couple minutes of searching on google, but there is no question that pic is photoshopped. I actually found the original pic, and there is clearly no bomb/missile/whatever in the picture.

The Palestinians are clearly running from a much greater, more serious threat:

Alternative approaches to fixing a problem are the best ways to determine specific evidence handling these days imo. Google satellite and your methods pretty much wraps it up, I think.

 

[Miramonti]

No doubt its real. Those things come in with audible sirens at a speed close to a falling parachute, plenty of time for kids to avoid while playing soccer.

 

[totalnoob]

So how do you doubters explain the shot from a split second later?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Pwned

 

[gaidensensei]

If it's a 500lb guided bomb as some stated, it should leave a significant impact on the blast radius, just guessing. I'm no tech in rocket science but that city (if it's Nuseirat camp) looks like it's a mile or so from where the kids are running.

Perhaps it was a smaller bomb or a different projectile.

 

[brblx]

both pics are 'shopped.

biggest thing that sticks out to me, aside from relatively impossible photography, is shouldn't there be fins deployed on the back of that bomb?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

that would have to be a high speed camera

 

[blinblue]

Yeah, a bomb falling at hundreds of MPH is going to be clearly visible like that by a photographer running from it.

You guys are laughable.

Actually, its entirely possible. Say the bomb is falling at 400 miles per hour. It looks like it is a bright day, so a 1/3000 shutter speed is entirely possible (and if this is taken by a professional photographer in a war zone, he probably keeps the shutter speed high for just this type of situation), 400 mph* 1/3000 *s = about 2.3 inches. So the bomb travels say 3 inches during the shutter release, that looks about right given the amount of blur.

Not saying its real, but its within the realm of possibility

 

[Cheesetogo]

LOL @ those of you who think this is fake.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1552716/Free-hand-for-Lebanon-army-to-hit-militants.html

 

[LegendKiller]

Actually, its entirely possible. Say the bomb is falling at 400 miles per hour. It looks like it is a bright day, so a 1/3000 shutter speed is entirely possible (and if this is taken by a professional photographer in a war zone, he probably keeps the shutter speed high for just this type of situation), 400 mph* 1/3000 *s = about 2.3 inches. So the bomb travels say 3 inches during the shutter release, that looks about right given the amount of blur.

Not saying its real, but its within the realm of possibility

The jet itself might have released the bomb at 400mph but it was likely going faster than that.

Not to mention the problem of the photo getting into the exact correct position, at the exact directional shooting position, while running away from the supposed bomb (since they knew where it was coming from), is very improbable. So improbable as to be impossible.

It is chopped. There is no explanation needed for the 2nd pic, either it was also chopped, or the ordinance was different. A 500lb bomb would have made a far larger impact than that.

 

[LegendKiller]

LOL @ those of you who think this is fake.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1552716/Free-hand-for-Lebanon-army-to-hit-militants.html

So fucking what?

You're telling me that a picture posted by a propaganda arm of the Palestinians can't be sent around the world and published by major publications?

They keep calling it a missile but it obviously isn't, they can't even get those facts straight. Air-to-ground missiles are not used much, if at all, and don't look like that aren't that size.

 

[gaidensensei]

LOL @ those of you who think this is fake.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1552716/Free-hand-for-Lebanon-army-to-hit-militants.html

So why does the article write it as a missile?

 

[zinfamous]

Probably fake. You don't run away from something like that, you lay on the ground to avoid the shrapnel (which is what does the damage).

those kids may not be trained soldiers. the first instinct is always to flee danger.

 

[gaidensensei]

May 23, 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6684619.stm
In pictures: Lebanon refugees flee

Thousands of Palestinians are taking advantage of a lull in fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants to flee a refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

I don't know man, but the city doesn't look like it's bombed in these photos.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2007_Lebanon_conflict

 

[Cheesetogo]

lol, found the product sheet for the bomb: http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/paveway/

 

[Train]

The problem is the fins arent deployed. The pic of the bomb is an unarmed one. In flight it should have much bigger fins sticking out of the back

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Looks real to me. The motion blur of the bomb relative to the running people seems just right.

Also, see any jet? No. It's a bomb.

Yeah, there's no way a jet could possibly be out of frame. No way. idiot

 

[gaidensensei]

Just to be certain, the US isn't involved in these conflicts.. it's Lebanon-Islam and that area. Do they even own bombs/missiles of this proportion?

According to the Lebanon conflict of 2007 timeline, nowhere does it list a major bombing..

 

[blinblue]

The jet itself might have released the bomb at 400mph but it was likely going faster than that.

Not to mention the problem of the photo getting into the exact correct position, at the exact directional shooting position, while running away from the supposed bomb (since they knew where it was coming from), is very improbable. So improbable as to be impossible.

It is chopped. There is no explanation needed for the 2nd pic, either it was also chopped, or the ordinance was different. A 500lb bomb would have made a far larger impact than that.

To really do a good analysis you need to know exactly what bomb that is. Could by anything from a couple feet to say 12 feet. Lets just pick 6 feet for the sake of argument. Upon some further research, it looks like 1000mph is a good speed for these guided bombs to go at (and that seems to be on the higher end). Looking at the motion blur on the front fins, it looks like it traveled about half the length of the front fin. Going with a 6 foot length, that makes the length of the fin about 8 inches (just eyeballing that, if we knew exactly what bomb it is, it would be worthwhile to figure out the exact length). So it traveled 4 inches during the shutter.

That means 4 in/ (1000 mph) = .0002273 s. 1/4000 s is .00025 s, so about 1/4000 of a second. Any decent DSLR can do that (hell, a bottom of the line nikon D60 can do that).


And of course, if this is a real shot, it was just a lucky shot. If it is real, the photographer likely noticed the panic (and perhaps the bomb), took out his camera, and held down the button. If he has a nice camera, that 7+ frames per second, that's about 150ms between shots. In 150ms, a 1000mph bomb travels about 200 feet. There's about room for 7 bomb-lengths in the frame. So going with that 6 foot bomb, that's 42 feet in which the bomb could be in the frame. So 42/200=~1/5 chance of getting the bomb in the frame.


So all you need is a decent DSLR, a 1/4000 (or greater) shutter speed, and being in the right place and you have a 20% chance of taking that photo.

But of course, all it takes is a shot without the bomb in it, and 10 minutes of photoshopping to get the same effect. So who knows if it is real or not.