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Wednesday, 15 August 2007
quote [ The spy satellites are considered by military experts to be more penetrating than civilian ones: They not only take color, as well as black-and-white photos, but can also use different parts of the light spectrum to track human activities, including, for example, traces left by chemical weapons or heat generated by people in a building. ]
[politics] [by Context@9:17amGMT] [+1 Interesting] |
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HammerofOdin
said @ 9:33am GMT on 15th Aug
[Score:-5 Overrated]
First! |
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badgerbaiter
said @ 9:51am GMT on 15th Aug
[Score:1 Funny]
First! |
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follywaggle
said @ 10:05am GMT on 15th Aug
[Score:2]
FRIST!  |
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ring riot
said @ 10:02am GMT on 15th Aug
Oh, God, can we please not go the AICN route with the First! stuff... |
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revchoppy
said @ 3:49am GMT on 16th Aug
AICN? |
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follywaggle
said @ 7:01am GMT on 16th Aug
Atlanta Institute of Clinical Neuroscience , Duh! |
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kang
said @ 10:48am GMT on 15th Aug
I just heard about real-life spy satellites on NPR today. Some comparisons to movie-version vs real-life spy satellites were: 1. Movie-version satellites take color pictures. Real-life sats take black/white. 2. Movies - moving real-time video. Reality - single snapshots. 3. Movies - hover over one geographic area. Reality - they cannot stay in one area for more than 6 minutes. 4. Movies - clear pictures. Reality - often require many experts to clean up details and layers like clouds, graininess, etc. One of the other points was that real-life spy satellites cannot be used for border patrol like the Bush administration has suggested before. I guess Bush's team watches 24 too. |
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Context
said @ 12:07pm GMT on 15th Aug
It seems they are fans. Enough, at least, that they base their entire administrative policies around the show. |
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joeyjoejoe
said @ 12:08pm GMT on 15th Aug
There are geosynchronous sattelite orbits, but the altitude is such that I doubt they make good picture takers. |
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Crysallis
said @ 1:08pm GMT on 15th Aug
1. Bullshit. 2. Bullshit. 3. Bullshit. 4. Bullshit. Nothing you posted there is even remotely true. |
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zpac
said @ 1:13pm GMT on 15th Aug
go ahead and say it chicken little. |
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Komrade
said @ 11:10pm GMT on 15th Aug
Okay, the real question here is that if everyone knows about a spy satellite, does it still count as a "spy?" Or is it just a satellite? |
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