Author Topic: Russia gets owned by a squeaker (Read 2591 times)

crockett · « **on:** August 11, 2007, 02:03:32 PM »

It seems the video or pictures they used to prove they put a flag on the bottom of the north pole ocean was juiced up a bit. Seems they stole video from the movie Titanic to do it. A 13 year old kid from Finland noticed it.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/11/wrussia111.xml

silly Russians..

Masherbrum · « **Reply #1 on:** August 11, 2007, 02:05:50 PM »

McFarland · « **Reply #2 on:** August 11, 2007, 02:29:06 PM »

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Russia faces embarrassment over its flag planting expedition to the North Pole after claims that state broadcasters borrowed scenes from the movie Titanic to "beef-up" footage.

Television company Rossiya sent images of mini submarines descending to the ocean floor around the world in its report about the mission.

But a 13-year-old boy from Finland spotted the scenes in the national daily newspaper Ilta-Sanomat, and realised that they resembled images on his Titanic DVD.

He told the newspaper: "I checked it with my DVD and there it was right there in the beginning of the movie: exactly the same image of the submer-sibles approaching the ship."

Titanic, made by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, opens with pictures of divers inspecting the 1912 shipwreck.

The news programme is accused of merging real footage with the movie shots under the caption "northern Arctic Ocean", according to the Guardian.

It reported that Rossiya had refused to comment on the footage but said its Vesti news programme had originally been filmed using scale models in a studio.

The company is one of two state-controlled channels that have been turned into propaganda tools under President Vladimir Putin.

Scale models didn't work, let's try stealing video from the movie Titanic.

FrodeMk3 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 11, 2007, 02:29:48 PM »

<----------------Waiting for Boroda's post. Oughta be good.(Get's beer ready.)

Masherbrum · « **Reply #4 on:** August 11, 2007, 02:47:11 PM »

<-------grabs a Guinness out of an old ductaped styrofoam cooler, and sits in the lawn chair.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #5 on:** August 11, 2007, 02:47:35 PM »

Let's see if we can get the kid to look at images from the Sea of Tranquility...

bj229r · « **Reply #6 on:** August 11, 2007, 03:02:03 PM »

"KEPtain, the movie 'Titanic' was actually written and produced in Russia, and was stolen by the Godless communists in Hollywood..."

Chairboy · « **Reply #7 on:** August 11, 2007, 03:17:05 PM »

Not godless communists, silly. They'd say it was stolen by the "capitalist running dogs of the bourgeoisie profit machine".

I predict that Boroda will come in with a counter-shot about "And you're saying your 'wag the dog' government never inserted footage for dramatic purposes?" or something.

USRanger · « **Reply #8 on:** August 11, 2007, 03:43:31 PM »

Boroda has been sent to Siberia for crimes against the State.

VOR · « **Reply #9 on:** August 11, 2007, 03:51:46 PM »

The USA actually thinks they made the movie Titanic, but the Soviets did it waaay before that.

tedrbr · « **Reply #10 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:24:31 PM »

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Originally posted by VOR
The USA actually thinks they made the movie Titanic, but the Soviets did it waaay before that.

And they've made a few sequels too:

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In total over the past 14 years three Russian nuclear submarines built by the Rubin design bureau have sunk. The K-219 underwater strategic cruiser (project 667AU) sank near the Bermuda Islands on October 6, 1986 because of a fire in a missile silo: four people perished. The K-278 nuclear submarine (the Komsomolets) sank in the Norwegian Sea on April 7, 1989 because of a fire in the stern compartment which spread to other compartments: 42 people perished. The Kursk tragedy in the Barents Sea happened on August 12, 2000 due to unknown reasons followed by a fire and an explosion in the torpedo room: all 118 servicemen perished. Isn't this too much for one design bureau? Three up-to-date submarines and 164 servicemen have perished over 14 years!

No one can send a boat to the bottom better than the Russian Navy.

Saxman · « **Reply #11 on:** August 11, 2007, 05:33:10 PM »

What a country! In America, the news is about movies. In Soviet Russia, the movie IS the news!

Viking · « **Reply #12 on:** August 11, 2007, 06:08:05 PM »

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Originally posted by tedrbr
And they've made a few sequels too:

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In total over the past 14 years three Russian nuclear submarines built by the Rubin design bureau have sunk. The K-219 underwater strategic cruiser (project 667AU) sank near the Bermuda Islands on October 6, 1986 because of a fire in a missile silo: four people perished. The K-278 nuclear submarine (the Komsomolets) sank in the Norwegian Sea on April 7, 1989 because of a fire in the stern compartment which spread to other compartments: 42 people perished. The Kursk tragedy in the Barents Sea happened on August 12, 2000 due to unknown reasons followed by a fire and an explosion in the torpedo room: all 118 servicemen perished. Isn't this too much for one design bureau? Three up-to-date submarines and 164 servicemen have perished over 14 years!

No one can send a boat to the bottom better than the Russian Navy. [/B]

Not to put a finer point on it: The Russians are not alone in being good at losing nuclear subs:

USS Thresher (SSN-593), 129 officers and crew lost.

USS Scorpion (SSN-589), 99 officers and crew lost.

Two subs and 228 servicemen.

Russian · « **Reply #13 on:** August 11, 2007, 06:13:30 PM »

It was 'spiced up' by news agency. It had nothing to do with officials from expedition.

mentalguy · « **Reply #14 on:** August 11, 2007, 06:34:09 PM »

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Not to put a finer point on it: The Russians are not alone in being good at losing nuclear subs:

USS Thresher (SSN-593), 129 officers and crew lost.

USS Scorpion (SSN-589), 99 officers and crew lost.

Two subs and 228 servicemen.

Ya, but the Russians do it better.