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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Ouch!!
Friday, August 10, 2007
145-MPH Ant
Fastest Moving Animal (mandibles) 145-MPH
Access Research Network - props
13-Year Old Slams Reuters
Reuters Busted… by 13-Year Old
Little Green Footballs - props
News agency Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic.
The images were reproduced around the world - including by the Guardian and Guardian Unlimited - alongside the story of
But it has now emerged that the footage actually showed two Finnish-made Mir submersibles that were employed on location filming at the scene of the wreck of the RMS Titanic ship in the north
This footage was used in sequences in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster about the 1912 disaster.
The deception was only revealed after a 13-year-old Finnish schoolboy contacted a local newspaper to tell them the images looked identical to those used in the movie.