24-08-2003 01:03

Tytus Gerrish

WOWH! thats cool

i had one of the whole world before

where did you get this pic?

24-08-2003 04:48

sevisehda

Unfortunately the picture is fake. I read about it on another forum. The most noticable fact is the black area is darker than parts of the ocean. Secondly the blacked out area doesn't entirely match the blacked out area. Also according to the timestamp its a little after 11PM, at that time parts of the grid were already on, additionally it would be around dusk on the west coast at that time.

I uploaded 2 'real' images to the gallery but I'm not sure why there not there.

24-08-2003 15:06

Ian W.

And at a quick glance, it looks like they missed LI, which, as far as I know, was still more than half out at 11 PM or so. I know I didn't get my power back till 1:30, whereas others got it back as soon as 7:30.

In any case, it still does look cool .

24-08-2003 15:10

Tom Schindler

LI is out, you may be looking at cape cod and thinking that is LI

24-08-2003 21:28

Ian W.

probably, as i said, it was a quick glance (i was running out the door to finish up my eagle project ). in that case then, it's still wrong, as parts of LI did have power very soon after everything else died...

24-08-2003 21:53

Jeff Waegelin

Regardless, it's still a fake. If you look at the real photos (I believe someone posted them in the gallery here) they look totally different.

25-08-2003 08:47

Anthony Towne

I, too, believe this photo is fake, although really cool-looking. The land would normally be darker than the ocean, however; water reflects light much better than land. At 11:15 PM, though, that area wouldn't have been COMPLETELY blacked out.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=12346

for before and after pics

26-08-2003 16:46

MisterX

Actually this same phot appeared in TIMES magazine minus the time so either u alll are wrong or yet another journalist well actually it would be like a photgrapher or lay out person that lied this time but anywho it is still a cool pic whether it is real or not. Oh yeah I got to run to cauz I to am working on my eagle project ( landscaping my church)

26-08-2003 18:32

Madison

Much of Pennsylvania still had power, with Philadelphia being most noticeable.

26-08-2003 19:11

Pin Man

Not only all that but it reached farther west and it did hit parts of Canada...

26-08-2003 19:42

J Flex 188

a whole province of canada.. basically all of ontario.. with a few very very very small pockets

26-08-2003 21:06

Aaron Knight

Parts of New York still had power....I happened to be in one at the time (Lake Placid).......

27-08-2003 03:26

Gadget470

The editor also missed southeast Michigan. The photo is obviously a fake. If not for the land vs sea comparison, try land vs land. It should have looked about the same as northern Canada.

12-09-2003 17:16

Lisa Rodriguez

its definetly fake, as one of my teachers told me
it's a picture national geographic put out a few months ago, and apparently it took them months to compile the picture from hundreds of satilite photos.......plus yea, the other stuff u guys mentioned

13-09-2003 07:20

Gadget470

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/New...lights_lrg.jpg

The original it was taken from.. then MSPaint altered. I say mspaint because of the brush used and the ISAT letters blur pattern.

The brush used is the "Spray Paint Can" from MSPaint, set to the smallest of the 3 options. Also, were it to be in photoshop, the "creator" would surely use "high quality jpeg" and not "4 / 10". MSPaint has trouble making quality jpeg's and uses an obscure anti-aliasing method to colors to mesh. When colors contrast, they heavily bleed outward, as can be seen around the "ISAT GeoStar 45" white text over the blue ocean.