I saw that photo as part of a video this morning on ABC News, followed by retired military expert discussing tile situation. no one suggested that the video was "fake." I suppose there could be a difference of opinion as to what it purported to show. At 04:27 2/4/2003 -0600, you wrote: >I wrote: > >>FWIW, here's the alleged photo (mentioned on DSat) >>of a crack in the Shuttle's wing...: >> >>http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2003/02_Febbraio/03/crepe.shtml > >Here's a link to an English web site with the same >photo and English caption: > >http://www.maarivenglish.com/ > >It says the photo is from the Israeli TV new program >"Erev Hadash". I'm no photo analyst, but to me the >photo looks fake. It seems like the distance to the >Earth is too far. The question could be asked if >STS-107's orbit would ever let Columbia be in a >position such that the Earth might appear as it does >in the photo. (I have no idea on that.) The top >side of the shuttle is white, but this is an odd >yellow color. The tiles are dark, of course, and >are on the bottom of the orbiter. Also, I've read >that there really would not be a way to get such a >photo (of the top of the wing) from within the crew >compartment. I wonder how credible Erev Hadash and >Maariv are as news sources, as well as Corriere. I >never heard of any of them before yesterday (no >surprise). > >Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' >in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org >http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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