It looks impressive. However there is no good satellite imagery coverage of the whole Earth surface yet. Even though the size of the computer hard disks and digital cameras productivity already allow to do this.
Perhaps. But the space junk is already very serious problem.
Maybe instead of many satellites it would be better to have one powerful robotized HD telescope on the moon. Nowadays the satellite imagery of Earth is not good at all. It is often outdated by years (two weeks is nothing in comparison), sometimes misaligned by hundreds of meters, or nonexistent at all for some areas..
In this case we will know the telescope-digital camera location precisely and the automatic alignment of images to the Earth surface coordinates should be possible.
The Moon is also drifting but it is negligible. Satellites however do require the fuel constantly to stay in more or less precise orbit. Satellites are and always will be temporal poor-man solution.
Satellites' orbits are unstable. They do not carry on board telescopes. I suggest to place on the Moon a large international telescope directed to the Earth.
It means that satellite imagery of more or less good quality exists only for areas where there are a lot of well-to-do users, but not for, say, small towns in remote parts.
Robots can be miniaturized even further. Humans can not.
It is clear by now that the space is extremely hostile environment for biological systems.
A robotized HD high-speed telescope-digital camera on the surface of the moon could provide nearly real time imagery of the whole Earth surface. It could be very useful for mapping Earth.
Satellite imagery is spotty. Satellites have unstable orbits. They contribute to the space junk issue.
Good maps of Earth can do a lot, a lot of good to our planet, - to reduce traffic pollution, to fight fires more effectively, and so on and so forth.
Robots are smaller than humans. They do not require tanks of oxygen. So the smaller more ecological rockets can be used.
The US government at least is trying to do something about it. Otherwise all we have got 250 mph cars and motorcycles on roads where speed limit is 3 times slower. And couple of underpaid tired cops, plus no automation of control.
It is easy to find the statistics of the WHO which show that the number of death per year is more than 1.5 million in the world and growing. Nowadays medicine can keep a person alive no matter what injury he/she has. Still the death toll is growing. It is the figures on the World War scale, but this time it is not Mussolini who started it.
Mostly to the quick medical response and hardware safety features. Even one traffic accident fatality or trauma is too many. It is absolutely avoidable.
Sociologists say that the 3rd World War is going on on the roads. More than 1.5 million people will be killed in 2013 in traffic accident. About 10 million wounded.
The theory is that primates are inherently aggressive and need a venue for this aggression. Pacifism ended the battlefields, so it is motorways and roads nowadays.
Some drivers want to violate traffic lights and speed limits no matter what. Cameras are an obstacle to this aggressive impulses.
Unfortunately, the ageism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism is very widespread nowadays. Only too often green inexperienced employees get the positions of authority without an experience, without a clue. It is one of the reasons of the current economy crisis.
Sometimes criminals start to talk, really talk in a candid way, after several years in prison. After reading "Crime and Punishment", "To kill the mockingbird", in other words after growing up.
If he is killed now via death penalty we will never know the truth. He is probably frightened for his relatives at the moment, indoctrinated, brainwashed. But after some time he may change his mind and tell us what really happened.
Deliberately false data should not be entered. It may be qualify as a vandalism. This map is used by government agencies in some counties. There were cases when some individuals had serious problems.
First we need the high quality GPS map of the planet.
It should be wiki-style map, because it is impossible to map the world from an office.
When there is the map, we could start thinking of using it for navigation, including automatic or semiautomatic navigation.
The wiki style map www.openstreetmap.org has got more than a million editors already. What is needed yet is the HD international telescope project on the surface of the moon, which provides GPL quality aerial images of Earth for mapping.
www.openstreetmap.org is using now images provided to the OSM community by "Bing" (thank you "Microsoft" for this) and numerous government aerial images for certain regions of the planet. But the more comprehensive aerial imaging system is required.
To learn more of the GPS mapping of the world join the conference "State of The Map US 2013" June 8 - 9 http://stateofthemap.us/ and http://osmplus.co/ June 10, 2013 in San Fransisco.
Earl Nightingale wrote: "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."
These are 42.36050 and -71.058878. So, somehow my smartphone has to know the last known position of a phone, where I want to send a text message. In order to select the shortest route.
Historically every marathon finisher gets a medal. Marathoners know that every such a medal is well deserved. Time is not that important. Finishing is winning.
Running a marathon has got many risks. It requires training, discipline, thinking.
It is sad that the second great US marathon had to be canceled.
Often spam is sent from legitimate websites via a malicious script, which is planted there by hackers for spammers.
Humans in general and spammers in particular are very inventive. Automated filters alone are no match for spammers.
The same way, as any attempt to guard prisoners without human guards turned out to be a failure. Prisoners lure dogs, map mines, penetrate electric schemes of perimeter fences, etc.
It makes sense for website owners to participate with a human effort in paroling of the Internet. For example, reporting disguised spam messages to the Spam Black-hole: http://blackhole.mx/ or other reporting services.
By reducing financial attractiveness of spam, they would guard an integrity of their websites, and prevent turning the Internet from an effective global network into the garbage dump.
Seriously, Russian government abandoned a similar idea after this video - "Hitler and Skype" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxhs8jMnC7w , which was watched at Youtube millions of times.
Hitler speaks in Russian, which just made sound as German language. The funny part is that Hitler uses a lot of F-words regarding proposed ban on Skype, but the caption translates it into correct cultured Russian language.
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It looks impressive. However there is no good satellite imagery coverage of the whole Earth surface yet. Even though the size of the computer hard disks and digital cameras productivity already allow to do this.
Perhaps. But the space junk is already very serious problem.
Maybe instead of many satellites it would be better to have one powerful robotized HD telescope on the moon. Nowadays the satellite imagery of Earth is not good at all. It is often outdated by years (two weeks is nothing in comparison), sometimes misaligned by hundreds of meters, or nonexistent at all for some areas..
In this case we will know the telescope-digital camera location precisely and the automatic alignment of images to the Earth surface coordinates should be possible.
The Moon is also drifting but it is negligible. Satellites however do require the fuel constantly to stay in more or less precise orbit. Satellites are and always will be temporal poor-man solution.
Satellites' orbits are unstable. They do not carry on board telescopes. I suggest to place on the Moon a large international telescope directed to the Earth.
The distance is not the problem. There are telescopes already which make photos of planets around other stars.
The problem, however, is the clouds and fog. But the telescope-HD camera can make photos of Earth at the areas where the air is clear on that day.
To weeks... I work now on a map of the town with a satellite imagery from 2010. And besides it is offset by about 100 meters at some spots.
Two weeks is fine. Even two months is not that bad.
It means that satellite imagery of more or less good quality exists only for areas where there are a lot of well-to-do users, but not for, say, small towns in remote parts.
Robots can be miniaturized even further. Humans can not.
I mean we use daily maps which are built on satellite imagery 3 - 5 years old. And even this is only in large cities and in industrial countries.
Since the orbit of satellites are unstable the imagery is hard to connect with geographical coordinates precisely.
I do not think humanity can live in space. We on Earth are protected from deadly radiation by the massive iron-nickel rotating planet's kernel.
So let us place the HD telescope-digital camera on the surface of the Moon and direct it not to the remote stars, but the the Earth for a change.
It is clear by now that the space is extremely hostile environment for biological systems.
A robotized HD high-speed telescope-digital camera on the surface of the moon could provide nearly real time imagery of the whole Earth surface. It could be very useful for mapping Earth.
Satellite imagery is spotty. Satellites have unstable orbits. They contribute to the space junk issue.
Good maps of Earth can do a lot, a lot of good to our planet, - to reduce traffic pollution, to fight fires more effectively, and so on and so forth.
Robots are smaller than humans. They do not require tanks of oxygen. So the smaller more ecological rockets can be used.
The US government at least is trying to do something about it. Otherwise all we have got 250 mph cars and motorcycles on roads where speed limit is 3 times slower. And couple of underpaid tired cops, plus no automation of control.
It is easy to find the statistics of the WHO which show that the number of death per year is more than 1.5 million in the world and growing. Nowadays medicine can keep a person alive no matter what injury he/she has. Still the death toll is growing. It is the figures on the World War scale, but this time it is not Mussolini who started it.
Mostly to the quick medical response and hardware safety features. Even one traffic accident fatality or trauma is too many. It is absolutely avoidable.
Sociologists say that the 3rd World War is going on on the roads. More than 1.5 million people will be killed in 2013 in traffic accident. About 10 million wounded.
The theory is that primates are inherently aggressive and need a venue for this aggression. Pacifism ended the battlefields, so it is motorways and roads nowadays.
Some drivers want to violate traffic lights and speed limits no matter what. Cameras are an obstacle to this aggressive impulses.
I do not like to use radio-transmitters around me if I can help it. Electromagnetic radiation is not safe.
And I do not like to connect wires all the time. I would like to keep a computer with keyboard and mouse.
Vicente del Bosque, the manager of the Spanish national football team, is 62:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_del_Bosque
Unfortunately, the ageism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism is very widespread nowadays. Only too often green inexperienced employees get the positions of authority without an experience, without a clue. It is one of the reasons of the current economy crisis.
Sometimes criminals start to talk, really talk in a candid way, after several years in prison. After reading "Crime and Punishment", "To kill the mockingbird", in other words after growing up.
If he is killed now via death penalty we will never know the truth. He is probably frightened for his relatives at the moment, indoctrinated, brainwashed. But after some time he may change his mind and tell us what really happened.
Deliberately false data should not be entered. It may be qualify as a vandalism. This map is used by government agencies in some counties. There were cases when some individuals had serious problems.
First we need the high quality GPS map of the planet.
It should be wiki-style map, because it is impossible to map the world from an office.
When there is the map, we could start thinking of using it for navigation, including automatic or semiautomatic navigation.
The wiki style map www.openstreetmap.org has got more than a million editors already. What is needed yet is the HD international telescope project on the surface of the moon, which provides GPL quality aerial images of Earth for mapping.
www.openstreetmap.org is using now images provided to the OSM community by "Bing" (thank you "Microsoft" for this) and numerous government aerial images for certain regions of the planet. But the more comprehensive aerial imaging system is required.
To learn more of the GPS mapping of the world join the conference "State of The Map US 2013" June 8 - 9 http://stateofthemap.us/ and http://osmplus.co/ June 10, 2013 in San Fransisco.
Earl Nightingale wrote: "All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."
Position of the phone on the planet is defined by 2 numbers. Here is, for example, Boston:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.360506&lon=-71.058878&zoom=18&layers=M
These are 42.36050 and -71.058878. So, somehow my smartphone has to know the last known position of a phone, where I want to send a text message. In order to select the shortest route.
Historically every marathon finisher gets a medal. Marathoners know that every such a medal is well deserved. Time is not that important. Finishing is winning.
Running a marathon has got many risks. It requires training, discipline, thinking.
It is sad that the second great US marathon had to be canceled.
No data-center would ever substitute the legwork.
Too many chiefs in data-centers and too few Indians patrolling. This is the problem.
The web-servers are being hacked mostly to send spam. I do not see why would one want to hack remotely into a charger.
+1 (Where are the moderator points, when you need them?)
Often spam is sent from legitimate websites via a malicious script, which is planted there by hackers for spammers.
Humans in general and spammers in particular are very inventive. Automated filters alone are no match for spammers.
The same way, as any attempt to guard prisoners without human guards turned out to be a failure. Prisoners lure dogs, map mines, penetrate electric schemes of perimeter fences, etc.
It makes sense for website owners to participate with a human effort in paroling of the Internet. For example, reporting disguised spam messages to the Spam Black-hole: http://blackhole.mx/ or other reporting services.
By reducing financial attractiveness of spam, they would guard an integrity of their websites, and prevent turning the Internet from an effective global network into the garbage dump.
France Register As a Country.
Seriously, Russian government abandoned a similar idea after this video - "Hitler and Skype" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxhs8jMnC7w , which was watched at Youtube millions of times.
Hitler speaks in Russian, which just made sound as German language. The funny part is that Hitler uses a lot of F-words regarding proposed ban on Skype, but the caption translates it into correct cultured Russian language.
If paired with GPS it could create the 3D map of the world.
No need to use a "street view" car anymore.
It could be a lifesaving device for cyclists, for working women, for children, etc.
If photos are recorded and uploaded to the server every 2-3 seconds, an attacker would think twice before approaching his victim.