Sunday, August 24, 2003

Blackout 2003

It turns out that this picture is a hoax. Snopes-Blackout shows the info. Thanks to my new friend and fellow TypePadder gemini for the heads up.


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Is this the coolest photo or what?!?! My housemate and colleague Sarah e-mailed this to me. A satellite photo of the USA taken during the evening of the "Great Blackout of 2003".

Absolutely amazing. Look at the pic closely and you can see some of the black holes just around the large black region where there are metropolitan areas that were affected.

Very Cool. Thanks Sarah!

06:07 PM in Current Affairs

Comments

what's up doc? (sorry, i couldn't resist)
i hate to tell ya, but that picture is
supposedly a hoax: check out this snopes post:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/blackout.asp
you're on my blogroll now too...
thanks for the comments...
i really appreciate them...like your blog too

Posted by: gemini at Aug 24, 2003 7:19:06 PM

Thanks for the note gemini! Updated to reflect the info.

Posted by: doc at Aug 24, 2003 8:59:11 PM

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