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They can. Unfortunately, they can just as easily distort the truth by what they omit. For example, I recently learnt some of the story behind the other famous Nam photo:

 

I don't wanna bring this back up ... but what is interesting is that I came in contact with this mentioned photo today in a totally different context ... and I got very upset and sad about it...

But now that I know more about it, I feel a lot better.

This is a funny coincidence. Thanks, dear universe, for giving me that input :)

 

by the way, these dog photos are awesome

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When I clicked the link I got a pop-up for a Star Trek pizza cutter :wacko:

 

ha that's odd, I don't get any pizza cutter when I click... anyway if you want to read the article:

The dried flood of lava over the surface of Mars has created the spitting image of the eye and trunk of an elephant.

The curve of the animal's forehead and the dent of an ear also appear in a new photo taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA'sMars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

"This is a good example of the phenomena 'pareidolia,' where we see things (such as animals) that aren't really there," University of Arizona planetary geologist Alfred McEwen wrote in an update posted on the university's HiRISE website.

The Mars elephant illusion photo shows a region of the Red Planet called the Elysium Planitia, which is the youngest flood-lava province on Mars.

 

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This image was shot on Kodak’s satellite film Aerochrome, a discontinued Cold War-era infared color film initially designed for reconnaissance and camouflage detection. The film shows healthy foliage as magenta or red, highlighting camouflage as purple or blue. Aerochrome has had many uses; forestry, archeology, mining, irrigation studies and more. In his book,

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, shot on the battlefields of the Democratic Republic of Congo, art photographer Richard Mosse uses it to throw down a challenge to the traditions of photojournalism.

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