• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Someone in another thread did, and it doesn’t quite add up from the muzzle velocity of the average AR load and the shutter speed NYT quoted. But there are a lot of factors at play

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      5 months ago

      It would be a weird thing to photoshop and lie about given the inevitable scrutiny.

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        5 months ago

        Not necessarily a photoshop. It could be a bug or bird at a different distance causing a forced perspective type thing.

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        I’ve seen careers ended over weirder, dumber shit, but if this was the unaltered version of what they posted I’d assume it was more likely than not real.

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        I suspect their math was actually off when they used the head size as the frame of measurement. I think the angle makes the head longer in the picture, but I am far from qualified to understand the intricacies of this kind of math.