The blackout, from space

How it didn't look:
( a popular email forward )

How it did look:
( before and after )

Amusingly, in my googling for the fake image, I found one news page that quoted it in a story, caught in google's cache!

Cached story: A really long href.
Current page: http://www.american-partisan.com/cols/2003/king/qtr3/0822.htm

(The google-cached page relies on the news site's hosting of the image, which I imagine they'll take down eventually.)

Blackout addendum

snopes.com is, as usual, all over this one.

http://snopes.com/photos/blackout.asp