Chapter 704: Billem's Prank

"Aliens, Earth welcomes you, we love you!" Since the UFOs that appeared in these places did not cause any harm to the local area, in the eyes of UFO enthusiasts, such UFOs naturally boiled down to the ranks of friendly aliens, so they organized countless people to prepare to welcome the aliens, and made countless extra-large slogans with a size of several hundred square meters in various well-known places on the earth in different kinds of languages and characters.

With so many traces of UFOs, and more importantly, these UFOs are almost identical to the UFOs discovered by Nick and Richard, which proves that aliens do exist with almost irrefutable evidence, and it seems that "he" is sightseeing all over the planet.

Although for those who are not UFO enthusiasts, UFOs' frequent attention to the earth is not necessarily a good thing, who can guarantee that these intelligent beings who suddenly appear must be peacemakers, like Santa Claus to give gifts to earthlings, if they are invaders as depicted in some films, with their ultra-high-tech level, earthlings may become their slaves without resistance or face a devastating catastrophe!

Many supporters of doomsday theory have even promoted the new apocalypse on the Internet, insisting that this time the messenger of terror is really coming, and the earth is about to face the end of the world, and they have found the far-fetched so-called prophecies left by countless predecessors to prove that everything we see today is the precursor of the end of the world!

For a while, people everywhere on Earth were panicking, whether it was enthusiasts welcoming aliens or supporters of doomsday theory, they began to gather in thousands to prepare to do something. This is a headache for local governments in countries and regions around the world.

What's even more troublesome is the military of several major countries in the world, because they know that there are no such things on these google satellite maps where UFOs are currently appearing, and you must know that before the google satellite map is launched, in order to block the sensitive areas and images of various major countries, they must be handed over to the military of these major countries for review and blurring of sensitive areas.

How could they have forgotten that such extremely symbolic places as the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower or London's Big Ben were not checked? Therefore, for the high-level leaders of these big countries, these UFOs that suddenly appeared are indeed very strange, these are not photographed by satellites at all, but by someone PS!

However, when the U.S. official sent this inquiry to Google for internal investigation, Google conducted a large-scale internal investigation and did not find any suspicious traces, that is, these things were not made by Google insiders, and the security logs of the relevant servers did not find any traces of intrusion by outsiders.

In other words, Google can't find out where there is a problem that causes such a huge flaw in the satellite images it provides.

Google has been unable to produce convincing evidence of the alterations, and the fact that the photoshopped UFO image is almost integrated with the real satellite imagery makes the government's efforts to debunk the rumors seem extremely weak and almost completely useless.

"Billem, did you do this?" Duke asked, finding Billem. As soon as he received this news, Duke was a little dizzy, obviously he had reached a tacit agreement with Billem, how could he do this kind of thing than Billem, this feeling of loss of control made Duke start to panic a little in his heart, because if Billem really did everything on his own in disregard of the agreement with himself, then in the next few years, Billem will definitely continue to do more things that he can't imagine.

So Duke got the news and found a time to contact Billem.

"Yes, I did it," Billem did not deny, "but I haven't been to these places on the map, I just found these satellite maps and embedded a picture on them, hehe, you see, people on the earth believe it, it seems that my technology for processing image synthesis is not completely unfamiliar." ”

"Synthesized into it?" Duke asked, a little confused, "Haven't you really been to these places?" ”

"Of course, I don't have the time to do these things, I just take the map data from the server of the company that provides maps on the earth, synthesize it and put it back." Billem said, and in his mind, Duke could feel that Billem looked a little smug when he said this.

"This ......," Duke almost knocked down by Billem's explanation. It turns out that the source of the current UFO craze and chaos on Earth is nothing more than a prank by Billem.

"But why don't people see that these photos are PS, oh, composited? After all, image synthesis always leaves some clues. After a moment of silence, Duke asked again.

"Of course, there are traces, but none of you have tried to find it, and if you look carefully, you will find that the angle of sunlight emitted by the aircraft I synthesized into is exactly the same, and the angle is the same as that of the first one. And the different places that I synthesized into were all taken at different times, but I processed this to be almost the same as the brightness of the lighting conditions at that time, so that there was no flaw, and when you carefully analyzed the image elements, you can still find that the angle at which these changing images emit sunlight has not changed. Billem said.

"This is a clear sign that I deliberately left for you to find out about the problem, and unfortunately no one seems to have paid attention to it at all. If someone finds this trace, proves that these photos are fake, and synthesizes them into satellite images, I don't think anyone will believe that I ever appeared anymore. Billem finally revealed the reason for his prank.

For Billem's explanation, Duke was a little crying and laughing, but I have to say that although Billem's idea is a little too mischievous, it is still a good idea, once he debunks the fact that Google satellite pictures are synthesized into other things, it will certainly be a huge blow to the reputation of Google satellite pictures, but at the same time, it will also make it difficult to distinguish between the truth and the falsehood of the fact that Billem has appeared, so this is indeed a muddy water, And then the way to solve the flaws left by Billem's unintentional exposure.

Therefore, Duke can't say anything more, and his next thing is to use technical means to debunk the fact that the UFO images in Google satellite images are completely artificially synthesized.

With Duke's authority on computers at this time, and the technical analysis he made was itself able to withstand the technical skepticism of any expert, it should be able to convince the vast majority of people that it was a hoax.

It's just that before doing this, Duke instructed its overseas funds to secretly short Google stocks, preparing to use the news to make a profit in Google's huge negative decline. Duke will never let go of this "insider" trading opportunity, and he can make this money with peace of mind.

The only regret is that Duke's time for these funds is very limited, and in two or three days, Duke's overseas funds only had time to short more than $7 billion.

With the release of a technical analysis article by Duke, "Not an April Fool's Farce", Duke conducted a technical analysis of all known UFO appearances found on Google satellite imagery and confirmed that they were all synthesized from the same photo. "Although this proved to be a fool's farce, I believe that there must be intelligent life in the vast starry sky, in trillions of star systems, although we do not yet know where they are. Therefore, SAL has not hesitated to spend billions of dollars to establish a space exploration center, in order to explore the mysteries of the universe through technical means and find the traces of the existence of new life as intelligent as we do as soon as possible. ”

At the end, Duke uses such an extremely lyrical passage to show that he is not an alien skeptic, but a supporter, which greatly enhances the persuasiveness of the article and convinces UFO enthusiasts that he was really fooled this time.

Then computer image processing experts around the world were inspired by Duke, and they not only repeated Duke's analysis experiments, but also found doubts in more aspects, such as some experts with great powers obtained the original satellite images, compared the satellite images of the synthetic UFO images, and found that there was indeed a fact that the two images were altered.

Therefore, with the advent of these analytical articles that uncover the "truth", a rumor of Google tampering with satellite images spread, so that Google was seriously questioned by the public for a while, and affected by this bad news, Google's stock price in the stock market once fell sharply by more than 20 percent, so that the Duke overseas short fund made more than a billion dollars at once.

If it weren't for the lack of time and the lack of time to expand the scale of shorting, Duke Overseas Fund would have made more than a little money in Google this time, but even so, after such a toss, the construction funds of the Duke Space Exploration Center have earned back a little bit, and it is so easy to make money by relying on "insiders".

Being tossed by Billem and Duke like this, the shocking incident that was originally exposed to the world by Billem has become a farce in the eyes of the vast majority of the world, and the UFO fever has finally cooled down with the end of this farce.

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