Space Shuttle Breaching the Clouds.

unfinite · 5 months

"This image is a composite of 2 pictures. the picture of the sky and clouds was taken by me from an airplaine, and the shuttle is a picture from NASA. Then the assembly was done in Photoshop & Ligthroom [sic]"

For something similar, but real: link.

Agnostoman · 5 months

Launching with the window covers still in place wasn't a good idea!

Crashmo · 5 months

You can't fool me, that's just a shuttle sitting in the middle of Siberia.

bk553 · 5 months

this is fake as shit. The scale of the clouds and shuttle are all fucked the shit up and this pisses me off.

weird-oh · 5 months

It seems like everyone has confirmed my suspicions that it is fake. My two cents would be that they would clear the airspace. And that this would be a hard as hell shot to pull off given the speed.

Also, at first I thought it was on the launch pad with an extremely thick fog, but the actual tower is missing so there ya go.

Cheegro · 5 months

just the tip

Jaraarph · 5 months

Fake and repost.

No shadow

nickvolp · 5 months

Very fake. You can see the yellow service bars on the payload bay doors of the orbiter. They don't fly with those on. Why not use a shuttle that at least was flight-ready? Alas, I do miss those birds.

murl56 · 5 months

Shopped, because;

No shadow
You would definitely see the glow from the super-hot plasma spewing out from the bottom nozzles through even the densest cloud cover
You'd never get that close during a real launch
Moving fast enough that a shock wave preceding the shuttle would displace the clouds ahead of it, creating a 'hole' in the clouds
I would expect at least some motion blur also - this still pic was probably taken on the launch pad and shopped into some clouds

Pretty picture though. Nice job

Tashre · 5 months

No way anyone could get that close for such a clear, high res shot while it's in flight. The airspace for miles and miles around more than likely has to be completely restricted during a launch.

didid_you_see · 5 months

I feel like NASA would throw a shit fit if there was anything capable of taking a picture like that anywhere near a shuttle on its way to space.

AllDizzle · 5 months

If you're going to fake something like this, at least make it look fucking awesome where it's basting the clouds out of the way as it blasts through.

Probablythefirst · 5 months

It boggles my mind that anyone could think this was real, and I haven't even seen it before.

ProjectileHerpes · 5 months

530 Upvotes for this super fake picture. -_-

ResoL101 · 5 months

I know for a fact that you would never get this close to the shuttle on a launch. Remember when John Glenn went up in 1998?...there was a 10-20 minute delay in the launch because (unofficially) the P3 I was on had accidentally crept into NASA's airspace around the launch area and they had to wait for us to clear the area...even though we were quite a ways away. Funny to hear the flight station get softly reamed by NASA's Airspace Security though.

dude_Im_hilarious · 5 months

I'm hoping an image like this will one day look like this.

yourphoneisringing · 5 months

Does anyone else thinks this looks like an ad for /r/spacedicks ?

willhaney · 5 months

fake

tunnelsnakesrule · 5 months

This is fake as shit.

chioce · 5 months

Lazy space shuttle: look at it just sitting on it's ass, not a care in the world. "I want to go to space, but I don't want to get off my cloud." What a lazy sack of crap!!!

[deleted] · 5 months

Breaking the surly bonds of gravity, to punch the face of god.

GrooveCombo · 5 months

Soon

IAmTheGodDamnDoctor · 5 months

It looks like earth has hard on

surprise-porno · 5 months

space- "is it, is it in yet?

chicagobob · 5 months

Relevant: Discovery's final launch as seen from an airplane: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_USPTmYXM

I was at the Visitor Center for this launch. It was amazing. Didn't get any good pics, but that was fine.

jojoko · 5 months

nobody seems to mention that the clouds wouldn't react like that. there would be a huge shockwave. hello!

stevenjtyler · 5 months

ARRRGH! THEY TRICKED ME! Downvoted, but begrudgingly.

steakbbq · 5 months

I am not saying that people think this is real, however I have watched several launches from my house in florida and I instantly knew this was fake. The shuttle will never launch into clouds like that.

Proof below taken from nasa website.

"What sort of weather is required for launch? Under what circumstances do you have to cancel, and why? Good question. I was out in Beverly Hills last week, where you always have good weather. There's an awful lot of things that can cause you not to launch. Today you may have seen, if you watched the launch, we did have a lot of cloudiness in the area, but it was high, thin clouds. Those are OK. If the clouds are maybe a little bit lower, or maybe if the clouds are a little bit thicker, I think somewhere around 4,500 feet -- there's a number that was being thrown around today -- if they're that thick, you can't fly through clouds that are that thick. You have to look at what temperature is freezing inside the clouds. And things like that. You have to look at winds, last week we had a big concern that the anvil clouds, if you've ever seen a thunderstorm, at the top of it you might see the very top of the thunderstorm shearing off in one direction, well those can actually cause hail and can trigger lightning, so even though the thunderstorm is 20 miles away, if the anvil is being blown over the launch pad, we can have adverse weather."

SOURCE: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/webcasts/shuttle/sts111/shuttle_qa.html

awkward2488 · 5 months

looks like your mom's dildo can fly.

biggietalls · 5 months

Out of the clouds, or area covered in spider webs?

Zisteau · 5 months

Soon...

FuzzeeLumpkins · 5 months

The clouds have been breached? GET AMERICA ON THE PHONE, NOW!

saf3 · 5 months

http://i.imgur.com/ubE2F.png

sethamphetamine · 5 months

A.k.a.-- "Space Shuttle Photoshopped on Clouds"

3danimator · 5 months

How can anyone think this is real???

weeps for humanity

FAPDegren · 5 months

Soon.

nk_sucks · 5 months

terrible photoshop

[deleted] · 5 months

Peekaboo

Wildfyre101 · 5 months

First thought: Wow, that's pretty co.. Wait, wat?

Second thought: Damn that's a transparent fake.

Third thought: I wonder if the comments are mostly about that it's fake or penises?

beardedoose · 5 months

KY intense

Morass · 5 months

Now that he has retired, these are some family photos taken while out polar bear watching in the arctic.

RedditingtonIV · 5 months

Moon

Dalmahr · 5 months

Houston, we have penetrated the nimbus, it was beautiful.

brakeson · 5 months

The shadows on the shuttle are at a different angle to the clouds

conluceo · 5 months

Not fake and magnitudes of order more awsome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE_USPTmYXM

Stratisphear · 5 months

And waiting for a penis photoshop...

tribal_feline2012 · 5 months

Ooh yeah baby, break that Troposphere. Mmmm

suavewalrus · 5 months

Relevant

colossus3200 · 5 months

FIXED

SarkastikAmbassador · 5 months

Is it wrong if this makes me want to masturbate?

IDlOT · 5 months

THEN WHO WAS PHONE?

Eprum4x4 · 5 months

Looks like a giant... Johnson!

boveah · 5 months

Never again will we be able to see things like this

thegregling · 5 months

Almost as epic as me breaching your mom, and that wasn't photoshopped.

nhupress · 5 months

It's photoshopped? Thanks, Buzz Killington.

up_shat_creek · 5 months

Don't see the intense light from the thrusters below the clouds. Photoshopped!

TheMediumPanda · 5 months

Just that fact that they clear airspace for hundreds of miles around a launch site should make the OP's alarm bells go off. Of course, some people are just born gullible.

CancerEffinSucks · 5 months

WOW! That really turned out great

ALL_in_A_days_WORK · 5 months

I'm looking for penis jokes.

Cubejam · 5 months

I'm sorry that's blatantly photoshopped.

vandilx · 5 months

The roll program is executed within 30 seconds of launch, well before it would even breach the cloud tops. The shuttle would be on the underside of the stack and flying at an angle. Also, an airspace perimeter is maintained by the Air Force. No civilian plane would ever be that close to take that shot at this point in the launch.

feddz · 5 months

Bullshit it's a pile a snow!

sitswhilepees · 5 months

i can only hear sex noises while looking at this

SirHotWad · 5 months

That's one small leap for man. One giant innuendo for mankind.

hobodrew · 5 months

I believe the technical term is penetration.

urnotoriginal · 5 months

So this is clearly shopped. So why does this have so many upvotes ?

fwbane · 5 months

*nsfw??

pfernando27 · 5 months

just the tip

kenvsryu · 5 months

MOOOONNN

Pit_of_Death · 5 months

You forgot to add "Photoshopped" to the beginning of your submission title.

Ghstfce · 5 months

So THAT'S where I parked it. NASA is going to be so happy you guys found it.

sporepod · 5 months

Kind of a funny picture. There's no drama to it, the space shuttle is just like 'oh, hey.'

no_springs · 5 months

So how exactly do you have a vantage point at that altitude and just happen to get that cloud bank as you capture something moving that fast? I mean I still believe it's real and all and pfffffft. Fake.

drice89 · 5 months

*insert generic penis joke here

corruptio · 5 months

Most phallic thing I've seen today... Need to spend more time on the internet.

lionelboydjohnson · 5 months

Yes fake, but how cool would the HD video be? If only...

GOU_NoMoreMrNiceGuy · 5 months

fake. that's clearly the burj dubai.

gameshowghost · 5 months

Ha! This photo remind me of crazy sex time.

minimuzza · 5 months

This is so obviously fake, it's laughable.

ForeverMarried · 5 months

You think they have aircraft up there to take pics of the flying shuttle? You see no risk in this? You think NASA would allow for that? Hahahaha. Of course it gets 6,000+ upvotes.

[deleted] · 5 months

This picture is so erotic.

Declanjs · 5 months

Breaching. Hah.

jishi · 5 months

That looks like a penis.

wildmanweece · 5 months

The next Michael Bay movie. "Sky Erection"

roflator · 5 months

repost. gg

falsepanic · 5 months

The wild space shuttle waits eagerly, stalking its prey in the natural camouflage of the clouds.

drunk_otter · 5 months

Just the tip

JCongo · 5 months

As if they would even let a plane fly that close to a launching space shuttle...

You_Should_Eat_It · 5 months

Will just leave this here...

Th3m4ni4c · 5 months

No thats just your moms dildo.

schnitzi · 5 months

Though it's fake, it reminds me of one of the coolest things I've ever seen; something you geeks might appreciate --

I worked at Kennedy Space Center for four years or so in the early 90s, and got to see a lot of cool happenings and hardware. Our software monitored the loading of the liquid oxygen into the main tank, so I typically worked the ten hours or so before a launch, and got to see a number of launches.

So one time I was out for a night launch. There was some question as to whether it would launch or not, because of the cloud cover (one way you can tell that photo is a fake -- they'd never launch when it was that cloudy). Fortunately the cloud cover that night was just a thin wispy layer so they decided to go for it.

And the wispy cloud layer was what made it so awesome. Since the engines point down, the flames didn't really illuminate the cloud layer -- until the moment that the shuttle broke through them, when suddenly the whole sky lit up. Everyone who saw it just gasped in amazement.

Working at KSC was often just another crappy government job, but there were a dozen or so times like that that made it all worthwhile...

paulotis · 5 months

I just tought they were like " Ah man stop. We forgot to buy some snacks lets drop by at cloud city before we go to the moon k?"

juggaspartan · 5 months

america is pitching a tent.

[deleted] · 5 months

You would definitely see the glow from the engines through those clouds, which are not in this picture.

BrownNote · 5 months

"Hey guys, what's goin' on up he- OH LAWD"

OneCello · 5 months

too bad this will never happen again. THANKS US GOVERNMENT

Kofebeats · 5 months

This would be awesome as a gif.

Badger2qrd · 5 months

So Saddam isn't running a nuclear weapons factory in heaven, he's running a space program!

steppek · 5 months

I figured that the title should read, "Shuttle Heaven"

DShadow · 5 months

Are you sure it's not spiderweb?

Ninjahmoose · 5 months

All I can think of is "Thunderbirds are go!"

Kendown · 5 months

wow, it's so fast that it doesn't even disturb the clouds as it passes through them! Damn.

superanth · 5 months

"Okay, we're clearing the clouds. We are go for...wait, no, we're falling backwards <gears grinding> c'mon...<gears grinding>...<rumble> there we go. Okay, we're clearing the clouds...again..."

michwest9 · 5 months

This is one of those times that I wish someone didn't ruin it by saying it's photoshopped.

CookieJarvis · 5 months

My mind immediately combined that picture with this one to complete the tale. Since they're both totally real and non-photoshopped, we can only assume they're both from the same documentary.

Snow shall henceforth be known as "God's Santorum."

ojolejano · 5 months

I am getting aroused by this picture

ButtCancer · 5 months

Just the tip?

bagofpeanuts · 5 months

There's a "that's what she said" joke inside there somewhere.

ahepler72 · 5 months

MOOOOOOOOOO

9sp7ky3 · 5 months

And that's when I finished, she made me a sandwich, and went home.

garretyo7 · 5 months

That's so cool how did you take the picture

ogin · 5 months

Looks so calm and serene. From this angle, you'd never know there was a raging inferno spewing out from underneath it.

EnclaveAmerica · 5 months

ITS JUST MY DICK GUYS, GET OVER IT

Relient-J · 5 months

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NNYPhillipJFry · 5 months

Really? How is it that this was front page yesterday and gets reposted again today...I mean I am all for repost but give it a month people...fuck

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