Largest GPS Drawing Exposed as a Fraud

Tuesday May 27th 2008
Filed Under GPS 

An art student claimed to have prepared a self-portrait using the world as his canvas.  Erik Nordenankar explained on his website that he used a briefcase outfitted with a GPS unit on a detailed journey.  The briefcase was allgedly sent by DHL to over 62 countries over a course of 55 days in a very specific order to create the drawing.  DHL recently confirmed that the project is a hoax and intends to contact Nordenankar  to have the site clarify the project as fake.  The strange flight patterns and claims that the GPS unit would not have been able to receive a satellite signal inside the airplanes lead to the eventual debunking of the project’s claims. 



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