Russia claims North Pole, gets pwned

[Libertine]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...wrussia111.xml

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.

[Casa Nova]

are you serious lmfao If they really did use scenes from titanic that would be hilarious!

[polish_aristocrat]

Originally Posted by Libertine

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.

[Brother Bilo]

I can see where they were going with that. It's not like Titanic was the biggest movie in the world for a year or anything like that. I can understand how they thought they could get away with it.

Dumb ass Russians even thought planting a flag meant they own the land, like it's the 1300's or something. Jesus.

[Libertine]

Hmm. It seems Reuters got pwned instead.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2853861.ece

Reuters image of Russian sub claiming North Pole was scene from film 'Titanic'
By James Macintyre
Published: 11 August 2007

Footage purporting to show Russian explorers claiming the seafloor beneath the North Pole was in fact a scene from the 1997 film, Titanic.

The Russians symbolically planted their flag below the surface nine days ago. The Independent led its Friday edition with the story, but did not use the Reuters images, now known to be misleading. However a number of media outlets around the world accompanied their coverage with the pictures, from the film starring Kate Winslett and Leonardo DiCaprio.

In fact the footage showed two Finnish-made Mir submersibles, filmed for sequences showing the search for the wreckage of the Titanic in James Cameron's blockbuster about the 1912 disaster.

It took a 13-year-old Finnish boy to call a local newspaper pointing out that the footage looked identical to that in the film.

Reuters said the footage came from the Russian television channel RTR, which used the images as "archive pictures" hours before the expedition was complete. In a statement, Reuters said: "This location error was corrected as soon as it was brought to our attention ... The caption has been corrected."

[shaGuar]

Originally Posted by Brother Bilo

Dumb ass Russians even thought planting a flag meant they own the land, like it's the 1300's or something. Jesus.

your better shut up your fucking mouth... asshole

[GreyWolf]

Originally Posted by Libertine

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...wrussia111.xml

They really need to pull copies of Ice Station Zebra and a few other movies out of the 'news archives' and have "reality beefed-up footage"

[who]

Lol so in actual fact, Reuters got pwnt... Good.

[Libertine]

Originally Posted by who

Lol so in actual fact, Reuters got pwnt... Good.

Well, Russia still got pwned for believing that planting a flag gives them the right to the North Pole...

[Antonio]

Originally Posted by Libertine

Well, Russia still got pwned for believing that planting a flag gives them the right to the North Pole...

nope, they did because they could, nobody else can - its that simple

[Spunky]

Stupid ruskies

[woj]