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[–]FindsTheBrightSide 11 points12 points ago

I've always wondered if this was a shot taken at the perfect moment or a 'shop.

[–]Kugar 9 points10 points ago*

it's a shop, I don't remember the reasoning. Something about colors of countries not matching up

Edit: I take that back, it might be real

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[–]Theonenerd 19 points20 points ago

Daily mail as evidence that it's not a shop?

ಠ_ಠ

[–]FlaveC 5 points6 points ago

We're well past the drop's focal point so the map should be upside down.

[–]saurebummer 6 points7 points ago

Look at the map in the background. It is upside down. That said, it may well be shopped.

[–]FlaveC -1 points0 points ago

Dude, your eyes are better than mine; all I see is a big blur. But if you make the (reasonable) assumption that the map on the wall is right side up, the map in the drop should be upside down.

[–]passiveatwork 4 points5 points ago

the map on the wall is upside down. You can see africa upside down on the wall pretty clearly.

[–]saurebummer 1 point2 points ago

The orange shape to the left of the column of water is clearly Algeria, while the little bit of green to the right is Western Sahara. You can see Italy in yellow in the bottom left corner.

[–]jvrdrckt -5 points-4 points ago

It's a shop, I can tell by the pixels

[–]Spruxy 33 points34 points ago

Yes a repost, but still an awesome snap.

[–]blink-me 10 points11 points ago

A repost from like 10 days ago. Come on now.

[–]T_L_D_R 9 points10 points ago

Which was a repost from a few months ago

[–]314R8 6 points7 points ago

Doesn't this prove that the world is flat but appears round because of the water vapor or something when taking pictures?

[–]mugsnj 5 points6 points ago

Racist drop of water presents a Euro-centric view of the world

[–]sawbutter 15 points16 points ago

[–]unholyravenger 4 points5 points ago

I have not seen this and have been a redditor for 2 years. Thank you op for the repost it's very cool.

[–]KyleMC 5 points6 points ago

Then apparently you missed it 20 days ago and 2 months ago

[–]wootmonster 5 points6 points ago

apparently!

[–]HireALLTheThings -4 points-3 points ago

To be fair, it's apparently only been posted once before (not likely, though. Karma decay misses a lot of stuff), and it was a couple months ago.

[–]HireALLTheThings 4 points5 points ago

I see 3 iterations of this picture on the first page of search (and another one that links to on of the images in /r/mapporn)

[–]NovAFloW 0 points1 point ago

Who browses /r/mapporn?!

[–]HireALLTheThings 1 point2 points ago

Enough people that the post I referred to had one upvote.

[–]Simple_Username 1 point2 points ago

[–]johnnnycash 0 points1 point ago

how many times am i going to see this drop of water

[–]castlehassle 0 points1 point ago

I know that everybody is curious about this, but there doesn't seem to be a definite and legitimate answer posted, so hopefully somebody can debunk whether or not this is photoshopped.

[–]KarnageSW 0 points1 point ago

is there a wallpaper of this?

[–]melinator 0 points1 point ago

For the love of all that is holy, OC please!!!!

[–]123diakos 0 points1 point ago

looks like the world is resting on top of a giant bullet

[–]Ryan1014 0 points1 point ago

If you had a camera with an extremely high framerate and a fast scrolling background, you could catch a couple rotations of the globe while the droplet is still in the right shape. It would be epic. Someone do the math and get on this.

[–]cheesefalcon 0 points1 point ago

I bet the photographers did that for so long it became a crude form of water torture

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

A map that's flipped upside down and backwards? Cause the drop would invert the whole thing.

[–]ahomieinneed 0 points1 point ago

Great title!

[–]smileshigh 0 points1 point ago

[–]Jouzu -1 points0 points ago

GOD DAMN REPOST

[–]HireALLTheThings 0 points1 point ago

I haven't seen it in a while, so it probably isn't intentional.

[–]Null-0 0 points1 point ago

Science Rules!

[–]The-Doom-Bringer 1 point2 points ago

I felt sorry for the downvote you got so... here is an upvote!

[–]RambleLZOn -3 points-2 points ago

I'm a little disappointed that this is a 'shop. It was really blowing my mind.

[–]amalbose -2 points-1 points ago

really awesome :)

[–][deleted] -5 points-4 points ago

REEEEEEEEEEPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST

DOWNVOTE

[–]btown_brony 1 point2 points ago

DOWNVOTE

There you go.

[–]dbroyles -1 points0 points ago

Not cool man. Couldn't it have been another country in the water drop instead of the one that needs fresh water the most?

[–]Izzy_Fenderson -2 points-1 points ago

MIND=BLOW!!!