Balck out, pic from space

[Sub-Vibe-R]

Photo took by satellite

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[ragingfish]

I read on the internet that picture is a hoax: http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives ... lquote:The picture in the message above is a fanciful creation of what someone felt the Northeast Blackout of August 14, 2003 might have looked like from space. However, the image shows some obvious signs of editing and is inconsistent with reports of the blackout and other known facts. Among the signs this is a hoax: -The blackout is represented as total, when it wasn't. There were many areas within the blackout area that maintained power. -The blackout area represented above is geographically innaccurate. The real affected area stretched farther west and not as far south. -The blackout area is shown as dark black - blacker than areas on the map that have no lights at all, such as northern Canada and the Pacific Ocean. -The picture above claims to have been taken nearly 7 hours after the blackout began. By this time, much of the northeast grid had begun to come back online. -Surely there was auxiliary lighting, powered by generators and batteries - perhaps even car headlights - that, taken together, would show on such a photograph, or at least prevent the area from appearing as a big black spot. -The picture shows the entire continent without cloud cover... highly unlikely. -There is no ISAT GeoStar 45 satellite. -The time is given as 23:15 EST, or Eastern Standard Time. However, on August 14, 2003, the U.S. would be under Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Besides, a true satellite photo would more likely be stamped in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Universal Time (UT) or Zulu time (ZT). -If it was 11:15pm on the East Coast, it would be only 8:15pm on the west coast. On August 14, there would still be some daylight on the west coast and into the Pacific Ocean, that should be visible on this image. The picture above appears to a crude photoshop hoax created from an image posted on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day web site, November 27, 2000. Even that picture is not totally genuine, as it is a composite of hundreds of satellite images. Fact is, it's very difficult to get a compelling photo of such a wide area with a single satellite camera.Too bad though...would've been cool if that were genuine...

[joatmon]

Either that or evil aliens filled that area with some sort of light and electricity absorbing plasma.

[Sub-Vibe-R]

I know it is photoshoped, but funny

[Lancer]

It was taken from this pic. This is real, but it's a bunch of pics put together. Not sure what satelite took it or if it was a shuttle or ISS.

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