Separated at birth?

[Brian Phillips]

I'm of the opinion that bicycle racer Floyd Landis and motorcycle racer
Kurtis Roberts are either the same person, or twins separated at birth. This
has been bugging me for some time, so I finally put up a few images to
compare them.... http://www.qsibusiness.com/separated.htm

 

[Richard]

"Brian Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I'm of the opinion that bicycle racer Floyd Landis and motorcycle racer
> Kurtis Roberts are either the same person, or twins separated at birth.
This
> has been bugging me for some time, so I finally put up a few images to
> compare them.... http://www.qsibusiness.com/separated.htm
>
>

Dude,
Good work, but I don't want to be in your shoes now that Kurtis'll be
looking for you.
I'm sure he's going to be catching hell from King Kenny for bicycle racing
in his off-time.
Richard

 

[Ken Prager]

In article <[email protected]>,
"Brian Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm of the opinion that bicycle racer Floyd Landis and motorcycle racer
> Kurtis Roberts are either the same person, or twins separated at birth. This
> has been bugging me for some time, so I finally put up a few images to
> compare them.... http://www.qsibusiness.com/separated.htm

Wow, a little to much compression on that first picture of Roberts. He
looks like a burn victim.

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[Brian Phillips]

"Ken Prager" <[email protected]> wrote >
> Wow, a little to much compression on that first picture of Roberts. He
> looks like a burn victim.

Yeah, he does, now that you mention it, but that's the way the photo looked
when I grabbed it off the web... now I'll probably get in trouble for using
copyrighted photos....

 

[K. J. Papai]

Ken Prager <[email protected]>...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Brian Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm of the opinion that bicycle racer Floyd Landis and motorcycle racer
> > Kurtis Roberts are either the same person, or twins separated at birth. This
> > has been bugging me for some time, so I finally put up a few images to
> > compare them.... http://www.qsibusiness.com/separated.htm
>
> Wow, a little [too] much compression on that first picture of Roberts. He
> looks like a burn victim.

Freddy Krueger and Kurtis Roberts -- separated at birth?

http://www.qsibusiness.com/images/ErionRobert_600.jpg

-Ken

 

[Richard Adams]

"Brian Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> "Ken Prager" <[email protected]> wrote >
> > Wow, a little to much compression on that first picture of Roberts. He
> > looks like a burn victim.
>
> Yeah, he does, now that you mention it, but that's the way the photo looked
> when I grabbed it off the web... now I'll probably get in trouble for using
> copyrighted photos....

Yeah, CN will probably dangle your lifeless carcass by a noose from
their blimp to serve as a warning to others.

 

[S Frank]

I don't think it was compression. I think it was just his skin tone,
the sweat, and the lighting just being right (or wrong actually).

--
Shane

"Ken Prager" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Brian Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm of the opinion that bicycle racer Floyd Landis and motorcycle racer
> > Kurtis Roberts are either the same person, or twins separated at birth.
This
> > has been bugging me for some time, so I finally put up a few images to
> > compare them.... http://www.qsibusiness.com/separated.htm
>
> Wow, a little to much compression on that first picture of Roberts. He
> looks like a burn victim.
>
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[Ken Prager]

"S Frank" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't think it was compression. I think it was just his skin tone,
> the sweat, and the lighting just being right (or wrong actually).

Maybe.

Some more observations... the file suffix is .jpg, implying compression
using the original JPEG compression technique. However, if you look
closely at the large blue "S" next to his right armpit you can see edge
artifacts that are typical of JPEG-2000 at very low bit rates. This
leads me to believe the the image was compressed and expanded using
JPEG-2000 somewhere along the line. That probably caused the waviness
on his face too.

<http://www.qsibusiness.com/images/ErionRobert_600.jpg>

Ken P.


> "Ken Prager" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > "Brian Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm of the opinion that bicycle racer Floyd Landis and motorcycle racer
> > > Kurtis Roberts are either the same person, or twins separated at birth.
> This
> > > has been bugging me for some time, so I finally put up a few images to
> > > compare them.... http://www.qsibusiness.com/separated.htm
> >
> > Wow, a little too much compression on that first picture of Roberts. He
> > looks like a burn victim.
> >
> > --
> > Remove _me_ for e-mail address

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