Posted on 09/24/2007 6:07:32 PM PDT by xcamel
from Revelation 8:
10 The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters.
11 The name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
I noticed that, too.
The answer is that the photographer wanted to capture the entire diameter of the hole from close range, so that the camera revealed the muddy water at the bottom. To do that, he used a very wide-angle lens, which greatly distorts the size of things, make objects further away appear much smaller than normal.
Although it creates the distortion you noted, it nice to see the entire hole — just reading the description in the text didn’t really capture it.
If you look behind the crater, there’s yellow police tape. Also, the whole “death meteorite” thing.
Better drink your sterno!
Squeeeze!
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