Shuttle Photos (from the "I can't believe they'd fall for this' department)

There's a new round of conspiracy theories springing from an unknown hoaxer -- and one so bad you wonder how anyone would fall for it. This one purports to show pictures of the Columbia exploding:

community-2.webtv.net...

(right. Click on that one. Anybody here NOT say "ah c'mon. That's movie SFX, ya dope!")

Snopes (and other sites) were quick to debunk, but apparently there are still some out there who just don't get it...
www.snopes.com...

Incredible. People really fell for this?

Even the position of the sun is ridiculously wrong.

I must be turning into a humorless old coot...

[Edited on 2003-2-18 by Gerald Bostock]

[Edited on 2003-2-18 by Gerald Bostock]

...hell...what do you expect...don't some people STILL think the movie 'Blair Witch' was actually real...despite the ACTORS from it appearing to collect Awards for it on National/International TV??