Northeast Blackout Satellite Pic

#2 Postby **pojo** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 11:19 pm

Oh My Word!!! That's amazing!!!!

CajunMama · #3 Postby **CajunMama** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 11:20 pm

Cool pic SG

JetMaxx · #4 Postby **JetMaxx** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:48 am

That's an awesome image Kelly. An Alabame friend sent it to me the other night...and it was stunning to see.

chadtm80 · #5 Postby **chadtm80** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 6:31 am

Unfortunatly im pretty sure its a hoax... Definatly looks like a photoshop deal..

JCT777 · #6 Postby **JCT777** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 7:24 am

I saw this elsewhere and realized it was a hoax. The biggest clue? The sat pic claims there was not a cloud in the sky anywhere over USA. :roll:

Guest · #7 Postby **Guest** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:09 pm

This is a hoax - unfortunately Canada was in the blackout area too and by this picture they got lights.

:-)

southerngale · #8 Postby **southerngale** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 12:25 pm

Sorry guys....I should have checked it out before posting it. The REAL satellite pics are below.

Although the great blackout which struck the northeastern United States and Canada on the afternoon of 14 August 2003 and lasted well into the next day darkened many large North American cities (Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, Ottawa, New York), it didn't produce nearly as total a zone of blackness as depicted in the image shown above. Artificial light was still quite visible throughout many parts of the northeastern region, as shown in the photograph below:

Lindaloo · #9 Postby **Lindaloo** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 1:09 pm

Someone emailed me this already. Amazing.

David · #10 Postby **David** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 3:45 pm

That's amazing. Thanks for posting.

#11 Postby **coriolis** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:37 pm

That's weird. The one on the left shows light spots in Pa that don't show up on the right. We were not blacked out. Maybe due to clouds.
By the way, that one spot in eastern north central PA is me shining my 3-cell maglite straight up.

#12 Postby **coriolis** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 9:53 pm

It just goes to show you how easily digital photos can be falsified. I wonder how digital photos are treated in court. Anyone know? there's something to be said for old fashioned film and negatives. Of course they can be retouched too, but it's more difficult. Speaking of that, I'm seeing more and more documents (at work) in the form of PDF files, which are also more difficult to change.

mf_dolphin · #13 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 10:12 pm

If you take the original picture and zoom in with any photo software in the border areas of the "blackout" you have see the pixelation from the editing. It's not a very good job lol

Northeast Blackout Satellite Pic

Northeast Blackout Satellite Pic

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