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Tashi delek DW members.

Once the world would be inhabited by Giants.

Do you think these photo's would be fake?
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Yes they are fakes. The last one is a well known fake.
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Yes, and the photoshop is rather mediocre.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/giantman.asp#photo2
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Yes they are true, because such large skeletons have been found earlier in the 1900's, when the photoshop was not yet invented.
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Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
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And it's not possible to photoshop an old photo?! :thinking:
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Some of the most famous photo hoaxes were perpetrated prior to digital photography. In the early days of photography it was actually easier to forge them, because.there was no understanding of photography and many people literally believed 'the camera does not lie'.
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Johnny Dangerous wrote:Some of the most famous photo hoaxes were perpetrated prior to digital photography. ...
e.g. the 'Cottingley Fairies' (1920) http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/ ... ey_fairies

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Kim O'Hara wrote:
Johnny Dangerous wrote:Some of the most famous photo hoaxes were perpetrated prior to digital photography. ...
e.g. the 'Cottingley Fairies' (1920) http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/ ... ey_fairies

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My favorite part is it took 61 years to actually admit they were fake. The Cardiff Giant took some major dedication too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant
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Square-cube law (http://web.archive.org/web/200704081551 ... tml#square):
So, if you double the size of an organism, you increase the surface area only four times and you increase the volume it holds 8 times. [...] What it means is that if we double the size of the animal, the mass of the animal is going to be eight times greater.
How does the square-cube law pertain to size? Well, where it comes into play is that with an increase in size of an animal, there has to be a relatively greater in crease in size of its supporting structures. If we look at the leg bones of a mouse, a human, and an elephant and scale them so the lengths are the same, they might look something like this. [See picture provided in link.] Note that the elephant leg bone is considerably thicker than the humans and the humans is thicker than the mouse. What this means is that a Liliputian could not exist. A human shrunk down to the size of a mouse would have limbs that the human could not move. They would be too heavy. Giants like Paul Bunyan that stand 20 ft. high would also be impossible because their form would have to be so drastically changed in order to accommodate the increase in size that the person would no longer look human.
The fotos would actually be more convincing if the giants' bones would be disproportionally thicker than human ones due to the square-cube law. But then again, the skeletons would not look very human anymore... .
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ClearblueSky wrote:
Kim O'Hara wrote:
Johnny Dangerous wrote:Some of the most famous photo hoaxes were perpetrated prior to digital photography. ...
e.g. the 'Cottingley Fairies' (1920) http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/ ... ey_fairies

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My favorite part is it took 61 years to actually admit they were fake. The Cardiff Giant took some major dedication too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant
Well, humanity is such an effective machinery. You obviously haven't as yet experienced anything exceptional Yourself and told it to others, have You? So you don't know yet what will happen to You afterwards, what will be done You, openly and behind your back, what kind of social pressures You will have to experience, etc... It is common place that there are some people who will go around telling everyone that you have "confessed" that it was a lie (what ever it was that You had experienced).
Or then You may give it up just because You are tired of the social pressures that have been put against You continuously through the years.
If You have actually held to the truth long enough, You have predictably become a hermit by now, but still they won't stop...
And after Your death they will say that You actually did confess it was a "fake" to You close friend (a person you have never met), etc.. There is no end to this.
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Sarvē mānavāḥ svatantrāḥ samutpannāḥ vartantē api ca, gauravadr̥śā adhikāradr̥śā ca samānāḥ ēva vartantē. Ētē sarvē cētanā-tarka-śaktibhyāṁ susampannāḥ santi. Api ca, sarvē’pi bandhutva-bhāvanayā parasparaṁ vyavaharantu."
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I believe in, and have experienced all kinds of stuff that skeptics deny.
However, being open-minded is very different from being credulous to a fault, or even just straight up gullible.
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I think the biggest problem with these photos is the obvious photo manipulation. When you've been taught how to manipulate photos, not just digitally, you are able to notice the obvious. Forced perspectives, colour manipulation, bad shadows, etc etc. So far, I haven't seen a single convincing photo of a so called giant.
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Spot the difference!

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Seishin wrote:I think the biggest problem with these photos is the obvious photo manipulation. When you've been taught how to manipulate photos, not just digitally, you are able to notice the obvious. Forced perspectives, colour manipulation, bad shadows, etc etc. So far, I haven't seen a single convincing photo of a so called giant.
Good job finding the originals! And yeah that was what I meant with my "mediocre photoshop" comment too... No offense to the OP (or the photoshopper actually), but since picture manipulation is part of my career too... people falling for insane photoshops is my hot-button haha
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And there's plenty more where that came from.
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