JD-EE,
Yes I know I promised to keep quiet, but I feel an obligation to answer this...
"Um, where did you find the raw uncompressed images to look at? All I saw were pictures taken of a video screen at a slightly oblique angle."
This seems to be an application of Occamīs Razor, but letīs confront the full consequences of this approach:
a) if youīre BEA or someone hired by them, you would need the raw images, and probably you would even use software to enhance the images _ you would never use compression algorithms that delivers loss of information. Thatīs my problem with the "compression artifact" thesys. Alas, the rest of the image is very crisp and detailed.
b) if you have the files of all raw images you dream of, why the hell you would use a picture from a monitor in the much awaited press release? Have you seen at least one other picture like that yet?
Again: maybe there is nothing in this issue after all, but some things seems illogical.
Now, back to the low profile...thank you for your attention.
PS: someone back the thread came with one good explanation: maybe the ROV took the picture after being closer to the chassis, probably looking for the CSMU. This seems to be a sensible explanation, better still that the "human remains" hipothesys, imho. I donīt know the amount of dislocation the ROV creates, but depending on the distance of the soil to the hovering ROV, this could indicate the nature of the soil below, that I believe is not very thick in mud.
Last edited by Centrosphere; 30th April 2011 at 12:55.
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