No way these are real - if so amazing

[michaelsslave]

Originally posted by: GuideBot

Originally posted by: michaelsslave

Originally posted by: GuideBot

Originally posted by: michaelsslave
nasa fakes EVERYTHING

Done by NASA? check
Shown on the internet? check

This link fully qualifies as impossible-to-be-real!

lol, what i said was supposed to be a joke mocking the people who believe these arent real

I know, I was jumping onboard with you

uhh i suck at picking up intraweb sarcasm

 

[destrekor]

the photos are real. obviously, levels may be adjusted, but I see absolutely nothing wrong with them besides minor alterations and level adjustments. Light in space is 'hot' in terms of photographic illumination, and to adjust for that and for the strength of the light bouncing off of the Earth would easily make everything awash in bright light. Photos up there, when showing the Earth, are going to show the shuttle illuminated quite well, a pure black sky, and the Earth in full glory.
Same reason photos from the Moon have no stars and the ground is illuminated so brightly, light from the sun hitting any object in space in our sector of the solar system is going to be intensely 'hot' and will easily wash everything out in a photo if not exposed properly. it's the nature of having no atmosphere to dilute and dampen the incoming light. So when a photo is correctly exposed for the light bouncing off of the subjects (people on moon, moon itself, the shuttle and other objects orbiting the Earth, as well as the Earth itself), no stars will be able to be seen. Come to think of it, for example, if we were taking a tour in space, I don't even know if our eyes could see the stars if they are adjusted to the light around us. If we were looking at the Earth or at the Moon, I doubt we'd see stars. We'd have to be in the shadow of Earth, and even then the light bending around due to the atmosphere may prevent seeing stars (same light that washes the moon in red light during a Lunar Eclipse).

Originally posted by: michaelsslave

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Absolutely fake. Although they appear to have been carefully created in mspaint.

This is real though.

airplane sex?

hawt

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Absolutely fake. Although they appear to have been carefully created in mspaint.

This is real though.

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cool

 

[pnad]

What continent is shown in pic#2? I'm looking at google earth and I can't match that feature up.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: pnad
What continent is shown in pic#2? I'm looking at google earth and I can't match that feature up.

asia

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Absolutely fake. Although they appear to have been carefully created in mspaint.

This is real though.

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we really shouldent have to do that, if its gonna work it should just work

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Absolutely fake. Although they appear to have been carefully created in mspaint.

This is real though.

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we really shouldent have to do that, if its gonna work it should just work

I concur, sorry for the shat link, i couldn't find it elsewhere.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Beev
Well, in that second pic, the landscape looks WAY too close for how far away they are...

That's New Zealand in the background of that one.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: pnad
What continent is shown in pic#2? I'm looking at google earth and I can't match that feature up.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl...,5.141602&t=k&z=8&om=1

 

[RESmonkey]

Real pics.

/thread

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Vonkhan
NASA has cameras that cost more than your house

Not to mention the environment is completely different in terms of lighting and lack of atmosphere...

The pictures look fine to me.

 

[DarkThinker]

Oh noes, it's teh Mummy!

 

[AbAbber2k]

Another obvious fake... just like those ridiculous moon landings. :roll:

 

[Coldkilla]

Suppose thats why the GPS satellites must be fake, or the ISS, or the countless private shuttled missions sent out to space... whos to say someone never once brought a camera and took some pictures? The light from the earth reflects the light and you cannot see any stars. Its like standing in the middle of the city and looking up at night, you hardly see anything.

Ugh

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: OdiN

Originally posted by: Vonkhan
NASA has cameras that cost more than your house

Nah, I'm pretty sure they just pick up some disposables.

At Wal-Mart, no less.

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: us3rnotfound

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Absolutely fake. Although they appear to have been carefully created in mspaint.

This is real though.

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we really shouldent have to do that, if its gonna work it should just work

I concur, sorry for the shat link, i couldn't find it elsewhere.

f1xx0red....


....n00b

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Beev

Originally posted by: OdiN
Well since you apparently are an expert of how the earth looks from space....

Are you stupid? Pictures of the planet from space are readily available everywhere. And read my edit.

From further away than these were taken.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: jaedaliu
the lighting seems too even for it to be real. I'd imagine that they're real pictures that're digitally touched up so that the earth and the spaceship appear to be of similar brightness.

It's very even because there is no atmosphere affecting it.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: jtvang125
I say cg.

Incorrect.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider

Originally posted by: jtvang125
I say cg.

Incorrect.

MS Paint? And those pics are quite amazing. I'm still surprised that the Canadarm hasn't screwed up in any way of killing the whole ISS

 

[Pocatello]

Very nice pictures. Canada eh?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: jaedaliu
the lighting seems too even for it to be real. I'd imagine that they're real pictures that're digitally touched up so that the earth and the spaceship appear to be of similar brightness.

It's very even because there is no atmosphere affecting it.

It could also be even because it's reflecting off of a large, bright planet below.

Real pics. It looks unnatural, because the very definition of "natural" doesn't include sauntering around a few hundred miles above the ground.

 

[sash1]

no, they aren't but this one is

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: sash1
no, they aren't but this one is

CAN I HAZ LIFE SUPPORT?

 

[Hyperlite]

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: hiromizu
Absolutely fake. Although they appear to have been carefully created in mspaint.

This is real though.

i know nearly nothing about photography, but WOW @ shutter speed to freeze the props of that C-130!

edit: could someone explain that pic though? i thought the shuttle couldn't sustain level flight...why are they fueling it? and at such a low altitude?

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Shading looks strange in some photos.

There are no shadows in outer space--it's the open sun, which is why it looks so...unearthly and incredible.