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Mapping Ground Zero with Lasers
securitas writes: "Amazing how the WTC disaster has shone a light on technology (pun intended). LIDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging) is the optical equivalent of RADAR. It's being used to create hyper-detailed maps of the WTC disaster site from an altitude of 5000 feet to detect shifts in the rubble as well as areas in danger of collapse."
Why does this require a LIDAR to do
It probably doesn't - most likely it's just to note that the LIDAR is pretty accurate - enough to pick out debris on the roofs of buildings.
"Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley
I know Michael got reamed for this yesterday, but this once again is a story that uses an inappropriate introduction... with words like "nifty" and "(pun intended)" to refer to something regarding this tragedy...
I mean, I'm not one to be oversensitive, but come on people... I think that you disrespect the dead and the affected when you use cavalier words while referring to this situation. I only live 5 miles from Ground Zero and I saw the towers collapse with my own eyes. This makes me no more or less affected than any other American (save for those who lost a loved one in the disaster), but for a story poster to consistently make the same error in judgement like this obviously shows something about his regard for human life, for American pride, and for the people around him that are deeply affected by this terrible situation.
I ask not that we refrain from bringing it up, as I'm very proud of Slashdot in general for its coverage of this situation. But, to repeat the point from yesterday, there is nothing "nifty" about 6,700 innocent Americans dying in the most horrible way possible at the hands of a few highly irrational people... people whose peers live among us today waiting to give us our next big tragedy, our next week of continuous news coverage, our next spilling of innocent blood.
I mean, I don't want to be too dramatic, but our American flags don't just cheer us up and bring us together... they remind us of our freedom and the horrible things that happened because we insisted on having it. It may be 13 days later, but it's still a horrible thing. Please treat it accordingly.
He's a typical geek. In terms of personality we often are mildly sociopathic. We often don't connect with other people at all. And, unless we have been directly effected by an event, we are detached from it. We often live in our own little worlds, revolving around the latest cool tech. What we see is the coolness, the niftyness. We don't really see the people.
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Please! Come on! Terrorist attack was horrible but that's no excuse to ruin others' days and flame everybody who dares to say anything other than mourn and weep after lost lives or vow revenge.
Do not assume the role of moral police. Nobody likes those types. Now is the time to prove untrue the claim that avg. American citizens are selfcentric. Stop thinking that "they don't know how's it like because they were not here or didn't lose relatives or friends." Don't think that rest of the world don't care because many of us do, I do care, feel helpless and angry because our world is not so peaceful or innocent place anymore, if it ever was in the first place. We must yet again turn back and fight battles wich should have been settled centuries ago. Back into the dark middleages to fight over religious matters. This stinks!
mumble
(I don't know... let's just all move into closed areas, burn bridges behind us, raise missile shields and let the rest of the world sort it out with themselves. Maybe if we let'em be, they won't interfere with us? No prisons, we could just dump offenders over borders to the wastelands and forget'em there. Who cares.)
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