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Satellite Imagery

The NYT has a piece on the history and future of satellite imagery. Short but interesting.

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  1. Military Might by ringbarer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Billions of dollars of military spending, all to be able to look down a large breasted woman's cleavage.

    Our tax dollars at work!

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    1. Re:Military Might by CausticWindow · · Score: 5, Funny

      This reminds me of a story from Sweden.

      They had installed very expensive surveillance equipment along the whole Swedish coast, to monitor the baltic sea. The system was operated by drafted personell which were supposed to be looking for signs of Soviet submarine activity.

      When it was uncovered that most of the time spent monitoring with the very expensive surveillance system was used to monitor hot chicks on the Swedish beaches, there were heads rolling.

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  2. "Short but interesting" by A+Proud+American · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hate ta break it to ya guys, but that's never a good thing to hear ;-)

  3. Fabricated by isa-kuruption · · Score: 4, Funny

    Haven't you people learned anything? The New York Times is obviously an untrusted news source. I mean, please, satelite imagery? Next thing you know, they'll tell us the Earth is round and the moon isn't made of cheese!

  4. Damn it that green patch is not my dope! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ignore any vegetation at:

    Latitude: 45 53S. Longitude: 170 30E

    Thank you.

  5. Re:Short but interesting. by Timesprout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dont worry the article will have a much more interesting header in the dupe tomorrow.

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  6. Re:WMD by TwP · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you think I'm wrong them post a picture of the inside of NORAD taken from a satalite to prove me wrong.

    OK, here ya go!

  7. Privacy Violation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, keeps one on him at all times in case he is kidnapped or is the target of an assassination attempt.

    The growth of the technology-enabled police state is shocking. You can't even kidnap a guy anymore without worrying the victim might violate your privacy by hiding some beeper up his butt. We better think long and hard before letting this genie out of it's bottle.

  8. Re:wang by Xeth · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hey, take a satellite photo of my wang.

    It's only 1 px/mm. I don't think that's fine enough for an AC's...

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