Doomsday Clock to be Moved Forward.

Alex

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientist [wiki], a global security and public policy watchdog magazine and keeper of the Doomsday Clock [wiki] has just moved it forward to 7 minutes to Midnight to reflect the worsening nuclear and climate threats to the world.

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These guys never, ever knew what they were talking about. They're atomic scientists making predictions about fields in which they are not experts - geopolitics and war. Their opinion carries no more weight than yours or mine. It would be like having an expert on insects write books on human overpopulation or an expert on linguistics lecture on economics. He or she may have a point, true, (I'm not saying that people can't work outside their fields) but greatness in one field does not necessarily equal greatness in all fields.
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This was taken off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa.
The guy in the canoe is actually a researcher.
The photograph was published in a local newspaper
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Hmmm... looks like a photoshop job to me. Maybe they're just jpeg artifacts, but there's some fishy (heh) stuff going on in the middle of the image, like some clone-brush activity.
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It's scary, but certainly photoshopped. The artifacts are a dead give away, but the other thing is that this shark would be over 20 feet long. That's not an unheard of size for a great white - but this shark isn't a great white, it's in tropical waters and looks too dark. My taxonomy is rusty... but it could a lemon or bull blown up in reference to the kayak?
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dunno about the photo, but in related orca-vs-kayak news, this is camcorder footage of definitely real orca-vs-kayak:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=n23_IsU4Uic
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It's obviously fake but a very clever montage. If you look at it for a while. The symmetry between the canoe and the shark is uncanny; including the proportions of the canoe vs the shark, the angle of the paddle compared to the pectoral fins, the dorsal fin vs the mans head. The bubbles from the shark imply speed but the shark does not appear to be chasing the canoe, just following it. The canoeist seems aware of the shark from the angle of his head but he is also calm. The distances also make it a very powerful image as the canoe is much further from land than the shark is from the canoe, so you know the canoeist is on his own. Once you get over the initial shock, to me it's actually quite a peaceful image as the power is all with the shark (nature). Man is enchroaching on his realm and calmly being driven back to land.
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