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#25306 - 03/15/04 11:18 AM
John Titor's Laser Picture Was FAKED - Proof
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Late Night Owl
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Registered: 01/29/04
Posts: 354
Loc: California
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
I had to revisit this "laser being bent by the time machine" picture. There are so many things wrong with it. For those who don't know what picture I'm talking about, here is the original:
John claimed this was a picture of his instructor who was shining a laser out the window of the car. The beam was being bent by the Time Machine's gravity and was made visible by the cigar smoke. We'll see about that!
The picture is really dark, and you can't see much detail. So I opened it in Photoshop and lightened it a bit:
That's better, isn't it? Now we can see additional features. Let's take a closer look:
The first thing that should strike you is that there doesn't really seem to be much smoke in the car. Certainly not enough to make that beam so continuous. Notice that it is NOT broken anywhere? I tried duplicating this image in a smoke filled room. My laser pointer has a 4 mW output and it was just barely visible. When smoke was puffed directly into the beam, it did become visible - as an irregularly dashed line.
Now -why- is that laser beam bending? It's supposed to be the field of that Time Machine affecting the light, right? Well, light is coming from the other visible surfaces of the car, yet their images don't seem to be affected by this field. Look at the almost vertical edge of the window frame just to the left of the beam - it's still straight.
The effect we're supposed to see is called gravitational lensing. It's like looking through a big magnifying glass. All nearby objects should look distorted, but they aren't. There's a reason why, but first, let's take a closer look at that "laser pointer" that John's "instructor" is holding in his left hand.
Interesting, eh? The body of that pointer doesn't seem to line up with the beam. And what's that curly-Q thing that seems to be coming from the door? There's nothing in a Corvette interior that matches that little anomaly. It seems to connect right up to the beam!
I've seen this before. It's a camera trick. The "beam" is NOT emanating from the laser pointer - it's attached to the door! The "instructor" has placed his hand so that the end of the "beam" lines up with the tip of his pointer. That's why the beam is not lined up with the pointer's body. It was "close enough" and with the picture so dark, no one would notice - well, almost no one! As for the beam itself, does it look a little "thick" to you? Maybe about as thick as a rope light? Those plastic tubes with a lot of little lights in it? Is that curly-Q anomaly the power cord? Or could it be a neon tube? Remember who owns a sign company? Or is it an optical fiber? Read this article and decide for yourself. Page 1 and Page 4 are the interesting ones:
Larry knows a lot of intersting people!
Here's a couple of clips from it:
quote:
"I was always into making money on my own," says Kingstone, the 36-year-old founder, chairman and CEO of the publicly held Super Vision International.
The Orlando company was formed in 1990 and went public in 1994. It makes fiber-optic lighting used in signs and other places that once were the sole domain of neon lights. Fiber optics are long, thin plastic or glass strands that conduct light.
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Much of Kingstone's success could be attributed to the fact that he "is driven beyond belief," says Larry Haber, director of business affairs at Walt Disney Attractions Television Productions. Haber has known Kingstone for seven years.
"I have dealt with a lot of small business owners, and I have never met anybody as singularly competitive as he is," says Haber, also an attorney. "Brett goes after what he wants and he gets what he needs.
"A lot of people get put off by his aggressiveness -- if you're too slow, he'll run right by you," says Haber. "He's a tough businessperson, but not unfair. He's by the book, but he pushes."
There's one more thing to look at - and it leaves absolutely no doubt that this is a faked picture. Do you see the triangular left-side window? Since we can see the entire bottom of the window, we can actually overlay the picture of the instructor and the laser into the actual car, a 1966 Corvette. I used 90% opacity on the intructor-with-laser picture so you can still see the image of the car it's being overlaid on. Here's the composite - LOOK WHERE THE INSTRUCTOR IS SITTING!
No matter how you look at that picture - how it could have been taken - what angle it was taken from (it had to be close to this angle for the angled windshield frame to match so closely), the guy is sitting in the passenger seat! And now a few more things makes sense. Look back at the lightened version of the original picture. You see that shadow under the instructor's right arm? Now you can see WHY it's there. It's being cast on the passenger door! And that blue thing? It's his pants leg - he's resting his foot on the raised section of the floorboard next to the door.
So if this picture is faked, can we trust anything else John said?
-LNO
P.S. - If Anomalies' admins or moderators wish to copy these pictures over to the Anomalies site and change the links, I do hereby grant them permission to do so. They were public domain, and they shall remain that way. I don't know how long my ISP will let me host the pictures if traffic becomes heavier.
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I am a time traveler. I'm traveling one second-per-second into the future.
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#25307 - 03/15/04 11:29 AM
Re: John Titor's Laser Picture Was FAKED - Proof
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Feadhel
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Registered: 01/17/04
Posts: 234
Loc: NOVA
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Bravo once again, LNO! Excellent work. 
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#25308 - 03/15/04 11:37 AM
Re: John Titor's Laser Picture Was FAKED - Proof
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mystic_kitten
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Registered: 02/12/04
Posts: 155
Loc: california
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quote:
There's one more thing to look at - and it leaves absolutely no doubt that this is a faked picture. Do you see the triangular left-side window? Since we can see the entire bottom of the window, we can actually overlay the picture of the instructor and the laser into the actual car, a 1966 Corvette. I used 90% opacity on the intructor-with-laser picture so you can still see the image of the car it's being overlaid on. Here's the composite - LOOK WHERE THE INSTRUCTOR IS SITTING!
No matter how you look at that picture - how it could have been taken - what angle it was taken from (it had to be close to this angle for the angled windshield frame to match so closely), the guy is sitting in the passenger seat! And now a few more things makes sense. Look back at the lightened version of the original picture. You see that shadow under the instructor's right arm? Now you can see WHY it's there. It's being cast on the passenger door! And that blue thing? It's his pants leg - he's resting his foot on the raised section of the floorboard next to the door.
So if this picture is faked, can we trust anything else John said?
I feel like a goon for asking this, as I'm probably missing something, but how does the fact that the 'professor' was in the passenger seat help prove the case that the picture was faked? That was my first impression when I saw the picture- that the subject of the photo was in the passenger seat and the picture was being taken by the driver.
Other than that, great work on your findings. One more piece of evidence towards the case that Mr. Larry might be the focal point of this whole mess.
kitten
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#25314 - 03/15/04 12:08 PM
Re: John Titor's Laser Picture Was FAKED - Proof
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DrainBamaged
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Registered: 01/22/04
Posts: 1526
Loc: D
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quote:
Originally posted by Late Night Owl:
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Here's the composite - LOOK WHERE THE INSTRUCTOR IS SITTING!
Hahaha. The 'Instructor' of Hoaxes, that is! 
The more I see all these variations of this one faked photograph of a bent laser-pen (yeah, right), the more I see a pudged TV Technical Video Editor who sports long sideburns, scraggly facial hair, wears thin-rimmed glasses... smokes his stogies and is in my mind... left-handed. The same hand he no doubt rolls that mouse connected to his computer graphics workstation every business day. 
DB
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#25315 - 03/15/04 12:08 PM
Re: John Titor's Laser Picture Was FAKED - Proof
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doctorchaos
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Registered: 01/23/04
Posts: 435
Loc: san diego
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Oh yes, now the "laser pointer" makes even more sense.
what I think:
It is actually a physical connector for the fiber optic lighting cable.
Why is it not pointing straight? Because JT/Buzz/Instructor is PULLING on it, to make some tension in the fiber optic cable and get it to look how he wanted. The connector is angled to the fiber because that's how he held it.
He wasn't quite pulling it completely straight parallel when the picture was snapped.
Again the idea of bending a laser in gravity is something that a scientifically aware layman would think of, having seen the PBS specials on general relatvity et cetera and imagining the picture of the light ray being bent by the Sun.
Forgetting about how it would make unusual optical distortions all over the place is a layman's error. He correlated with the "beam" picture from the science specials or maybe Hawkings' book in his head. Of course, gravitational lensing is far more obscure and the resulting picture would be much harder to compute---you'd need some real physicists and mathemeticians with GR lensing software codes to do that.
Don't think the IBM 5100 has those ready to run.
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