yeah, the photos of the shuttle that james tone sent are fakes---when i first
saw them it was clear that they did not match either the shuttle flight
profile (it "flys" upside down ) or what we know about the breakup
sequence---it did not "explode" until the bad wing drag turned it backwards
after reentry and the main engines got ripped of, breaking the fuel lines.
after i pointed this out, i got the following back from the friend that sent
them to me in the first place.
lance
----- Original Message -----
From: Annemylove51@aol.com
To: jlance2@msn.com
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:30 PM
Subject: Fake Photos
Hi Joe, you were right, the photos are a complete fake. Here is a report from
the Cape. George
I forwarded the shuttle pictures to my friends in Florida near Cape Canaveral
and got the following reply.
Origins: These are not photographs of the destruction of the Space Shuttle
Columbia, which broke up over the western United Stated during re-entry on 1
February 2003, killing all seven astronauts aboard. This is another example of
still frames of movie effects being passed off as real photography.
These images are frames from the special effects-laden opening sequence of the
1998 whammy film Armageddon in which the Space Shuttle Atlantis is destroyed
by the leading edge of debris from an comet-enclosed asteroid, thereby
alerting NASA to the problem that an Earth-bound doomsday asteroid is a mere
18 days from smashing into our planet.
Even if these images were not recognizable as still frames from a theatrical
movie, they could still be dismissed as "actual photographs of the Columbia's
destruction" because:
The Columbia did not "explode" all at once as depicted here. It disintegrated
over hundreds of miles as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere and traveled across
the western United States on approach to its scheduled landing site in
Florida.
The images shown here depict a shuttle in orbit. The Columbia disaster
occurred as the ship broke up during re-entry, after it had left orbit.
The shuttle orbits the Earth in an inverted position, not the "rightside-up"
attitude shown here.
There was no photographic instrument in space (on in "Israeli satellite" or
elsewhere) -- trained on the shuttle at exactly the right moment -- to capture
the type of images shown here. Last updated: 16 February 2003
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