By Gerd Schuster
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3 Comments
October 7, 2008 at 4:37 am
Just because an animal mimics people does don’t mean that they are capable of developing and using tools… Look at that “spear” and tell me it is not crafted by man and I’ll call you a liar.
Wow… actually if you look at the RGB color info in this pic you can see it’s totally a joke, compare the color to the color data surrounding the splash; I guess that monkey created a splash from a different color palate.
Oh wait! It’s even more obvious, there is no shadow for that “spear”
The angle at which the subject of the photo is holding the “spear” does not coincide biomechanically with the direction of the fake splash.
The splash exists only on the x axis visually in this photo and the point of entry where the “spear” exists in this photo is undisturbed.
Fluids dont move in a direction as shown in the photo, the Photoshop smudge tool does.
If you dont under stand those, maybe then you can explain why they call it spearing when the fake splash more closely resembles vertical surface penetration then it does the proposed 30 deg. angle of entry that would have been necessary to indicate a thrusting motion at a supposed object in this photo.
This is at best a mostly lies, at worst complete lies.
November 3, 2008 at 3:49 am
Jeremy convinced me. Fake photo.
December 31, 2009 at 9:56 am
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