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N Korea's Kim died in 2003; replaced by lookalike, says Waseda professor

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2.5 cm give or take a certain error is nothing.

According to many sources*, people are taller in the morning than when they turn in at night - up to 1 inch more!

Keeping in mind that 2.5cm is not even an inch, this is indicative of absolutely nothing - nor does it even meet the burden of suspicion.

http://encarta.msn.com/column_questiontaller/why_are_people_...

http://www.eorthopod.com/public/patient_education/1441/is_it...

I can only find actual pictures of this on Free Republic (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409371/posts), but I've heard multiple times that Kim wears platform shoes. Perhaps North Korea has developed some more advanced sole-thickening methods during the last few years.

Could someone tell me how this is hacker news? Preferably one of the people who upvoted this.

In the spring of 2006, says Shigemura, American spy satellites succeeded in photographing Kim. An analysis of the photographs led to an astonishing conclusion: Kim had grown 2.5 cm!

Wow, these are some really good satellites, able to measure people to the half centimeter from hundreds of kilometers above.

Say they photographed him just before sundown, when there's a long shadow. Knowing the exact position and time of the photograph (and therefore the angle of the sun), you could probably get a pretty accurate measure of his height from the length of his shadow... even from a satellite photo.

only if he stood on very even ground

and even then it's difficult:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoid

I digg ;-)

Do I mod you up or the article down or do I just mutter something about kids and my lawn!

Mod me down, the only thing worse than these posts are meta-comments. It's just noise on top of noise. My only excuse--and it's flimsy--is that I was trying to give you a laugh.

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