Comments on: Did giants once roam the earth?

Question: Did giants once roam the earth?

ruelle — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:39:15 -0800

Calling all mefi archaeologists or egyptologists! Could someone identify this picture? Is this photoshopped?

If not photoshopped, I beg to ask the obvious question: Did giants once roam the earth?

o_0

By: trinarian

trinarian — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:45:36 -0800

I think it's just the angles, ruelle. Look through the other pix in the directory, like this one. The camera is much closer to the skeletons, methinks, creating an unintended optical illusion. Neat pix though.

By: trinarian

trinarian — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:47:56 -0800

yup, i'm right

By: stoneegg21

stoneegg21 — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:49:17 -0800

I'd think so. It looks a lot like one that came from Worth1000. Snopes here.

By: PareidoliaticBoy

PareidoliaticBoy — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 01:26:32 -0800

Giants once roamed these very pixels.

By: Dagobert

Dagobert — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 01:30:58 -0800

No giants, just that current Egyptians are hobbit-like in stature.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 03:34:08 -0800

Wide angle lens + large depth of field = enormous-looking foreground objects.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 07:58:08 -0800

Civil_Disobedient is correct. The colour and brightness of the sand alslo helps to mask the fact that the two men are behind a ridge and a couple of metres away from the skeletons.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:25:04 -0800

In 10 years, when Worth1000 is a dim memory, all of these photoshopped images are going to pop up, like bloated mafia victims, and get emailed as fact by every rube in the world. Wait and see.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:22:19 -0800

A giant femur was found. Is it real?

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:33:12 -0800

A giant femur was found. Is it real?

Well, it's actually a sculpture based on what a fundementalist said was an actual human femur. Since fundamentalists believe in talking snakes and a guy more unkillable than Jason Voohees, I would say that the giants were 100% real, even though the actual fossil that the sculpture is based on was conveniently destroyed.

By: robbie01

robbie01 — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:45:19 -0800

Depending on your beliefs, you could always say that they were Nephilim, the "giant" offspring of men and angels spoken of in the Bible.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:05:40 -0800

The giant femur, sculpture or not, is an obvious fake since it is in the same proportions as a normally-sized human femur. Since weight increases as a power of height, a biped femur of that size would more closely resemble a dinosaur bone - it would have to be much thicker in proportion to its length in order to support the creature.

By: thomcatspike

thomcatspike — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:24:03 -0800

the actual fossil that the sculpture is based on was conveniently destroyed.
Thanks.

By: Tuwa

Tuwa — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:59:44 -0800

The New York Times once ran an apology for a photograph: it was of a person walking near an unexploded bomb in the Middle East; the apology was that the wide angle lens the photo was taken with caused the person (in the background) to appear much smaller than the bomb. The correction ran with a photo from a slightly different angle, taken with a different lens. I wish I could find that correction; it was quite interesting: a picture worth a thousand words? Maybe, but they might all be lies.