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Old May 9, 2001 | 11:49 AM
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I digged up this pic from my web site (which is about 4 years old now). I saw this live on TV. I forget which car is it. I can assure you it is real, not photoshoped. BTW, I scanned it from a news paper, don't ask me why it looks so funny.

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Old May 9, 2001 | 11:51 AM
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whats wrong with it? well, lets see, there is no string attached, there doesn't look like a road to land upon, and even more, I think that guy's cohones are too big for that car!
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Old May 9, 2001 | 11:59 AM
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I think I know what this is... there's a racer car driver/dare devil from Taiwan that jumped the Yellow River in China. I think this is what it is.

-Shing
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Old May 9, 2001 | 12:17 PM
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Ya, and his wife lives in my family's condo compound in Singapore. My tennis coach told me that. Imagined my shock when I heard it. The stuntman is supposed to be very good and Shingles is right that the jump is over a river in China though I can't remember the exact name.
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Old May 9, 2001 | 12:30 PM
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All I remember was he jumped over Yellow River in China. He landed safely (in bunch of card board boxes). The TV Special on Star TV (satalite tv) was so long, when I turn the TV on, he was about to jump. So, I didn't waste too much of my time. Cool stunt. There is no way I am going to do there no matter what I get.
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Old May 9, 2001 | 01:30 PM
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Haha...great stunt.

It looks like the car is falling from the sky like it fell out of a cargo plane or something.
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Old May 9, 2001 | 02:27 PM
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UFO?
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Old May 9, 2001 | 02:38 PM
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It's gotta be a micro machine!
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Old May 9, 2001 | 03:18 PM
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Does that look like an Evolution V or IV? NICE PIC.
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Old May 9, 2001 | 03:20 PM
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What's wrong with the picture? Well apart from the flying car you've got a severe case of moire (pronounced like moray).

What happens is the printed dots on the page line up with the scan dots on your scanner in some places and not in others. The result is a regular pattern called moire.

You can eliminate this by using a descreening feature if your scanner has one, or better still scan at a higher res, then down scale down in PhotoShop (or whatever).

BTW, the Yellow river (Huang Ho) is the site of the worst flood in history. In 1930 over 3 million people drowned as a result. Bet they wished they all had flying cars.
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