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Cold War Satellite Pics Declassified

Posted by michael on from the magnifying-glass-required dept.

wwwssabbsdotcom writes "Looks like 25 years ago, we were taking pretty good B&W pics of the rest of the world, interesting story. How about those Cuban Missile Crisis pics, do they have that roll available?"

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  1. Re:Whose looking in your window? by phil+reed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, my comment was based on the laws of physics. You can throw as much technology as you want at the problem, but it's physically impossible for a Hubble-sized mirror, looking straight down from Hubble's altitude, to read a newspaper headline. You would have a hard time even telling that you were looking at a newspaper.

    We should avoid using spy movies as a basis for estimations on what our government is capable of.

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    ...phil
    "For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
  2. Re:Hello, this is the US, Israel's bitch. by neocon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Umm, hello?

    If you haven't noticed, we don't publish images of military facilities in any of our allies. Israel, being one of only two examples of a free, open democracy in it's part of the world, is very definitely one such ally.

    But since you don't see any difference between a nation (like Israel or the US) which has had nukes for decades and never used them, and a nation like Iraq which has used every WMD it has ever gotten it's hands on, including against hundreds of thousands of its own people, I guess expecting you to think logically about the matter is a little much.