DrTim wrote:I wonder if things like this earthquake are partly true, partly fake. Can't really make much sense of it all.
I see what you’re saying, it’s ponderous though that they can only show it to us sped up. You can’t even watch it, as it happened, in real time. And not only in that initial clip, but just about every clip in that video is shown at a non-normal speed. Not to mention as well that the times on the different clips are all different. This clip shows it’s from 2011:
You might say that the owners of these cameras don’t care about setting the correct times on their equipment, and that may be true, but then all we’re really left with is their word that all this is true and that it happened as they say it happened. Nothing needs to be verifiable.
For instance, look at the sequence in the backyard starting at 1:41. It starts with some wind, ostensibly movement caused by the earthquake, the trees shake, dogs are running around, and a few plants fall off the roof. The guy comes running into the scene to see what fell, then he just sort of idles off without any trouble walking or any fear for his life, seconds after the shaking. It’s all sped up of course to make it look more dangerous and eerie. All the while the neatly placed lawn chairs in the background barely move an inch. That’s not even touching on the possibility that the falling objects are CGI, considering the bigger one falls, shatters and vaporizes all in about a second of sped-up time.
These clips all could just be taken from the various junk videos uploaded by regular people over the years, and merely appropriated for any event needed. It’s not any different than how they reused that old crying Asian woman in the Taiwan airplane crash stuff, or the Noah Pozner photo in the Pakistan school shooting. Only the main imagery has to be ‘created.’ The rest of the stuff is there for affirmation of the event, taken from databanks of user uploads. After all, these are the Himalayan mountains, earthquakes are relatively common, so they can use any clip taken from any time, no matter how small the tremor. It all pretty much looks the same in a grainy video.
They aren't even restricted to using clips from Asia. For instance, look at this image taken from a clip (from 6:00) in this
other earthquake compilation video. It’s a building in a North American city somewhere:
The videos and imagery are such a mishmash of logic. In this picture you have the devastation of an entire World Heritage site while nothing else around it is touched.
Compare it to the first image above where the shelves will just shift around a bit and barely anything even falls off of them. There were millions of people who lost their homes, the
wikipedia page says “1.7 million children were driven out into the open.” How many adults would this make? All in a population of 27 million. Yet if you watch the videos you’d be hard pressed to find any actual destruction of entire sections of homes. There are certainly no photos of millions of refugees.
Look too at this World Heritage site:
In this picture (as the one above it) basically every heritage building is destroyed, but all the buildings around it are still standing without any damage. To me, it looks more like a systematic destruction of these buildings. This is pure supposition, but I’d say the destruction of the buildings and the money they can earn for rebuilding them could be the purpose of all this. Again, wikipedia says they want "$160 million to restore 1000 damaged and destroyed monasteries, temples, historic houses, and shrines across the country." Of course they’ll never rebuild them. It looks like a purposeful destruction of their history, while getting paid to do it.
After all, here’s another one of those imbecilic things they just can’t help themselves with. Look again at this World Heritage building that crumbled. This is the Darahara Tower:
This one gets bizarre if you look into it. This tower was the second such tower in this location (the previous one collapsed during a previous earthquake). The script writes itself here, but follow along: the first tower in this location had 11 stories and was destroyed by an earthquake. This second tower had 9 stories before being destroyed. Two towers. 9/11. And really, this tower was nothing but stairs and an observation deck. According to wikipedia, “about 180 victims” were found in the rubble. Same old reliable numbers.
Look too at this photo from the first post:
Look again at the old people I marked with a red line in the background. Compare them to the scene around them. The two old people are smaller than the hazard fence in the middle of the road. The people on the left side of the picture are likely from an entirely different photo than the truck on the right side. Notice the completely different line of shadows when comparing the people on the left to the truck on the right. But throw in too the leafy branch in the foreground for extra realism. To me, the crack down the middle is nothing more than the ‘realistic’ street art pictures you see all over the place online, probably which too are digital creations for the most part.
