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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Show me proof of a flat earth.
« on: January 17, 2014, 04:56:14 PM »JPEG compression ringing isn't in question here. What is questionable are the rectangular "auroras" around the earths, which are typically a sign of image editing.
Just once I'd love to see you actually provide a warrant for any of the claims you make. Once.
Can you provide ANY SOURCE AT ALL that can confirm this statement? Because it looks to me like you took a reduced version of a jpg of a scan of a photo taken in 1969 and found a bunch of artifacts.
Oh hey look at all the people posting fake photos of the Moon on Google images. I can't believe that so many people would forge their own photos of the Moon in the sky. It's unbelievable. Don't worry about getting bogged down in what I did to these photos or if it's a legitimate way to spot a fake photo. Just take my word for it.
Your photos show artifacting near the moon's edges, which are to be expected in jpeg compression. Tom Bishop's example clearly shows a complete rectangle containing the entire image of the earth, where the artifacting is notably different from that in the surrounding areas. The artifacts are not located only near the edges of the earth-disc, they're expanded to a rectangle around it, as if someone 'clipped' that image and pasted it onto the other one. This does occur in image editing.
How do you know that those things are true? How do you know that the artifacts are different? How do you know that this occurs in manipulated images and not in genuine photos? Do you yourself have any digital imaging expertise that you can bring to bear on the subject? Can you explain the process from start to finish? What causes the difference in the artifacts? Is there some other expert that could explain the difference?
The images I provided aren't reduced and compressed copies of scans of a photo snapped in 1969. There are bound to be differences.