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The Eyes of the Space Shuttle
Roland Piquepaille writes "Now that Discovery astronaut Steve Robinson has successfully removed two pieces of fabric poking out of the shuttle's heat shield, a question remains: how did NASA discover these anomalies in the first place? In this article, Forbes.com writes that NASA can say thank you to a private Canadian company, Neptec, and its Laser Camera system (LCS). Neptec is working with NASA for ten years now, but it was the first time that its vision technology was used for external damage assessment of a shuttle. As NASA says it may cancel some future shuttle flights, Neptec plans to implement its 3-D imaging technology in military situations and on the battlefield. But read more for other details, references and pictures about this imaging technology."
Just load any image hosted on Roland's hosting a couple thousand (Million?) times. If his bandwidth charges skyrocket and ad revenue stays constant he'll quickly become unprofitable. A few hundred people do this every time he posts a story and we'll see the end of the Roland wars.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.