Chinese Ghost City - real or fake

[Easy Mac]

Dont think the video is embedding. Apparently, a whole city appeared after a rainstorm over a river. Is this an elaborate hoax? I have a hard time believing, if real, that it is simply a mirage.

Stunning Mirage Claimed In China (VIDEO, POLL) (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/china-mirage-video_n_880591.html)
http://youtu.be/WwLhXmnbtTM
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TN, a broadcast network in Britain, posted video last week of a stunning mirage in East China that features a city skyline, replete with what appear to be buildings and trees.

Video-curation site Devour.com writes the mirage appeared over the Xin'an River in East China.

ITN is the only news network to report on it, although MSN UK picked up the video.

This is not the first time mirages like this, which Devour calls superior mirages, have been reported in China. In 2006, China Daily, an English language newspaper, posted four images of what it said were mirages off the coast of Eastern China's Shandong province.

[wade moore]

I'm not really getting a clear understanding of a "before/after" type deal to really get a grasp on this.

[Rizon]

Amateurs.

Sincerely,

http://lh5.ggpht.com/__zoKJ77EvEc/SsXZE3oAzmI/AAAAAAAABP4/PKDcvRRfnXI/san-francisco-fog%20%286%29%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800

[JediKooter]

Fakity fake fake.

[Marc Vaughan]

I think its real and that the skin connecting our world to its mystical counter part has been split allowing magical forces into our world ....

(on the other hand perhaps its just a fake ;) :D )

[JeeberD]

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTDjkPKwYEzOOWtctanuHIOsZKrIDyKK9iMx5s5zNOO4c8wCdYj

A superior mirage occurs when the air below the line of sight is colder than that above. This is called a temperature inversion, since it does not represent the normal equilibrium temperature gradient of the atmosphere. Since in this case the light rays are bent down, the image appears above the true object, hence the name superior. They are in general less common than inferior mirages, but when they do occur they tend to be more stable, as cold air has no tendency to move up and warm air no tendency to move down.

Superior images can be straight up or upside down, depending on the distance of the true object and the temperature gradient. Often the image appears as a distorted mixture of up and down parts.

http://www.astronomycafe.net/weird/lights/mirage3.jpg

http://www.astronomycafe.net/weird/lights/mirage5.jpg

[Rizon]

That's one of those "I have to see it to believe it" things.

[JediKooter]

I say they should shoot some video without a bunch of fog hiding the bottom part of the city.

[panerd]

I thought you were talking about huge empty cities but then I watched the video and think it is something different. There are a bunch of empty cities in China which is kind of interesting in itself.