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Keith Cowing — 3/5/2003 3:56:46 PM (archived)

I am almost certain they got the photo from this website

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Specifically - have a look at this one

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?imgsize=320&opt=-z&lat=48&ns=North&lon=6&ew=West&alt=72&img=learth.evif

Adjust the time of day and you get somehting similar to the image in question.

The whole thread (37 posts)

Cool Columbia space photo posted on Rush Limbaugh's site - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2003 8:04:26 PM
- very much a hoax (n/t) - Nathan Koren - 3/5/2003 8:55:52 PM
- Looks fake....where's the clouds? (n/t) (n/t) - Lee - 3/5/2003 8:17:54 PM
- Just a damn minute Part 2... - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2003 8:08:23 PM
  - Ya, Tom... - MrPex - 3/6/2003 7:17:33 PM
- Just a damn minute... - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2003 8:06:46 PM
  - Should've posted one level up, sorry. (n/t) - MrPex - 3/5/2003 10:45:23 AM
  - Debunking... - MrPex - 3/5/2003 10:43:57 AM
- What a dittohead - Robert - 3/5/2003 5:22:44 PM
  - Re: What a dittohead - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2003 6:24:49 PM
    - Re: What a dittohead - Robert - 3/5/2003 6:39:23 PM
      - to Robert - Robert Shepherd, System Administrator and third-string Moderator - 3/5/2003 8:19:47 PM
        
        Yes sir, understood sir. Sorry, Tom. (n/t) (n/t) - Robert™ - 3/5/2003 8:20:48 PM
        
        No problem...I'm fairly durable ;) (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2003 8:23:07 PM
      - A lie implies a deliberate intent to deceive... - Larry J - 3/5/2003 7:23:10 PM
        
        How about deliberate stupidity? Ø (n/t) - et - 3/5/2003 7:28:52 PM
        
        Thats an excuse, you see, thats how bush gets away with it (n/t) - Davin L. - 3/5/2003 8:32:56 PM
        
        There you go again... - Larry J - 3/5/2003 9:01:34 AM
        
        Re: There you go again... - Davin L. - 3/7/2003 6:37:06 PM
        
        No, There you go again... - Davin L. - 3/7/2003 3:01:30 PM
      - Re: After seeing the HMX proposal illustrations... - Marcia - 3/5/2003 7:19:06 PM
        
        Mid Atlantic Ridge? - RobVG - 3/5/2003 8:05:23 PM
        
        Whoops! Tom noticed this 12 hours earlier.(n/t) (n/t) - RobVG - 3/5/2003 8:21:32 PM
  - Which says a lot about Dittoheads. - Lee - 3/5/2003 9:14:19 AM
- Image source - Keith Cowing - 3/5/2003 3:56:46 PM
  - Re: Image source link - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2003 5:14:10 PM
    - *sigh* - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2003 5:15:35 PM
      - *sigh*, What is a DittoHead? - €sunblok€ - 3/5/2003 8:12:43 PM
        
        *sigh*,*sigh*,*sigh*, What is a DittoHead? - €sunblok€ - 3/5/2003 8:16:02 PM
- Kind of a fake. Definitely not from Columbia. - Delbert - 3/5/2003 3:45:03 PM
- This is probably the source for that computer generated picture - Robert E. B. - 3/5/2003 2:48:15 PM
  - Re: This is probably the source for that computer generated picture - Robert E. B. - 3/5/2003 2:52:16 PM
    - Re: This is probably the source for that computer generated picture - Robert E. B. - 3/5/2003 3:05:50 PM
      - Re: This is probably the source - Tom Brosz - 3/5/2003 4:44:25 PM
- Cool picture but it was not taken by Columbia - REB - 3/5/2003 12:35:19 PM
  - Re: Cool picture but it was not taken by Columbia - Davin L. - 3/5/2003 3:29:02 PM
- STOP! Enough with the offtopic Limbaugh posts! Please! - Robert Shepherd, third-string moderator - 3/5/2003 9:53:26 AM

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