A friend forwarded this NASA pic to me of the blackout:

Blackout from space

looks neat, but are you sure it's authentic?
I mean the area is darker than any other non-populated area or even the sea.
Why is that?

Nope, it's a fake. [img]smile.gif[/img] I saw the actual zoomed in sat images, and they don't look THAT bad. [img]smile.gif[/img] I'll try to find them and post them for ya!

It's also not really accurate. Detroit, which was comfortably in the blackout area, shows up as illuminated...

I suspect some nicely thought out photo editing.

bah! off to yell at my co-worker [img]tongue.gif[/img]

second time I've seen that one today, not even a good photoshop job (I'd have at least made the blackout area the right color black. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Here's some real ones:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s2015.htm

Sure blame him! [img]tongue.gif[/img] Even though it's fake it's a cool picture. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Here are the REAL and official images from NOAA:


20 Hours BEFORE the blackout:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/nightli...efore-text.jpg


7 Hours AFTER blackout:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/nightli...after-text.jpg

[ 08-25-2003, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]