Quick, send in the Goon Squad!
I shudder to think of what's going to happen when they manage to get their hands on Poser.
Originally Posted by Fugitive
That is fully loaded with win.
Just another in a long tradition, shared by many nations, in plumping up one's demonstrated capabilities. Remember the May Day parades in Moscow, with the battalions of vehicles circling back around with different numbers? Or our own Soviet Military Power publication from the 80s, with its often lurid but just as often questionable graphic displays of Evil Empire perfidy? How about wooden cannons along the trenches, in front of Richmond in the Civil War?
Nice PhotoShop job, though.
Man, Iranian LOLcats are gonna be the worst.
If I wasn't at work I'd be making those right now. Who is up to the challenge?
Awesome Mordrak, worthy of a fatwa.
Why would they only go from 3 to 4 missles? I can see from 1 to 8, or 2 to 10, but why add just one more?
I actually made this before I posted, then couldn't decide on a place to store it. Seeing Mordrak throw his hat into the ring spurred me, though!
To cover up what appears to be a misfire in the real image:
It's rather silly, and feels more like something North Korea would do. Since Iran quickly released the real image, someone over there must have realized that 3 good missiles out of 4 is more than enough for the intended threat to be credible.
The picture with three missiles is not the same as the one with four. It clearly occurs slightly before the picture with four missiles. I'm not sure I believe that the four-missile one isn't a legitimate picture that occurred half a second after the three-missile picture, but I haven't done a pixel by pixel comparison and am not going to.
Linked from that NYT page, here's a holy-shit photo of a tornado eating a storage tank.
And this from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...ran/index.html
Short and medium range, not long-range, missiles (which you can kinda tell from the TELARs in the photos).
It is the same picture, unless that missile launcher vanishes--and the terrain changes to include a new mound of dirt!--in the microsecond between the two pictures. The four-missile picture has also very clearly been Photoshopped (the ground smoke between the two missiles on the right is exactly identical). Why it's been Photoshopped, I can't tell you.
Can you tell from some of the pixels and having seen a few shoops in your time?
Well, this certainly sets the bar for the dumbest thing I'll hear all day.
Come on, Andrew, let's humor the man.
That fourth missile caught up like a motherfucker. The fire control guy for this launcher probably was all like "Wait, is this 'one-one thousand, two- one thousand,' or what OH FUCK!" *FWOOSH*
The most obvious clue, if you ignore the identical dust clouds, is the exhaust from the rocket. The orange line obscures it somewhat but look at where it goes from a thin, dark, tight trail suddenly to a wispy, light, wide trail. The contrails of the other rockets all widen fairly uniformly.
I'm not sure why I'm wasting time pointing out how obviously fake this is. Slow day.
Actually, everyone is right. Seeing them together like that, I'm going to agree that those are two different pictures. But the bottom one is still Photoshopped.
The bottom one is zoomed out more (compare the fence posts and the spread of the dust clouds), and clearly does take place a fraction of a second after the first. The dust cloud on the right-most rocket is slightly different between the two, and the missiles are all higher in the bottom pic (this is hard to see unless you look at both pics together because of the zoom change, but compare the leftmost missile in each image--it's pretty obvious there).
That said, the lower pic is still very clearly Photoshopped. My guess: the missile on that truck failed to launch, and they were embarrassed to show that.
Nice. I like how it totally obscures the cat in way that suggest religious radicalism overwhelms having a sense of humor and self-reflection. :)
These missiles don't shoot like bullets. Sure they're fast, but they're not SM-3 fast at launch, and take a bit to accelerate to top speed. Therefore it's inconceivable a second photo was taken where a 4th missile could suddenly "catch up".
I still think it's stupid for anyone to be worried about a missile attack from Iran. Sure they can get some people to kill themselves for their religion, but the whole country isn't going to risk being annhiliated by launching a first-strike missile attack against Israel. They know that would be the excuse many people want to blow their country to bits and it's just not going to happen. Their leaders enjoy the power just like our own moronic leader. Now if the country were destitute, broke, no natural resources, no hope for their future, a leader with no money, no Democracy and radical... then I'd be worried of a country like that.
They should have gone for broke. Found on the LJ image feed:
That image is far funnier than it has any right to be.
No, Iran, you distinguish yourself from the United States by NOT relying entirely on lies and threats to make the case for your goals. Bad Iran! BAD! Rolled-up newspaper time!
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