I kinda question the utility of this. The satellites that are close enough to get enough resolution for this essentially take snapshots of whatever the window is for a given satellite. so,
In real time, they'd need to know the location of the target, and have some available for targeting. Wouldn't it be simpler and cheaper to have meat intelligence on the ground watch the target?
For history, just the management of the information would be an expensive trick.
"Ok, here's an obvious nuclear reactor in Elizabeth, NJ."
Or, can I read the license plate on that car at 4:30 PM on December 21 in Anchorage.
How many analysts does it take to locate a terrorist lightbulb?
Reading this and TFA, I was reminded of my high school chemistry teacher's admonition, "Hold your equipment low, so that when it explodes, it burns your chest instead of your face."
They have, at least in Cambridge. The local computer superstore has USB sticks, Sd and Micro SD cards in bins at the checkouts,$5-15 depending on size. Granted, they're store brand, but I use these as the other poster used floppies, without breaking the bank.
". There exists nothing that could tap the entire cash reserve in a reasonably short enough time to justify bonds at this point unless they were buying Bolivia or something."
I remember reading somewhere that Bolivia has enormous reserves of lithium. Perhaps they will require large amounts of lithium to restrain some folks chair-throwing tendencies.
Here in Massachusetts municipal electric companies have been a fixture for years. At least two towns, Braintree, http://www.beld.com/ and Taunton,
http://www.tmlp.com/internet_services_res.html have expanded their operations to include cable TV and broadband. Others are planning the same. Comcast, National Grid, and the other utilities have not gone bankrupt, and consumers have benefited. Gummint monopoly, utility monopoly, ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice.
"However, if you call someone, they *should* get your real phone number (but not your address). If you don't want them to have your number, then don't call them. Or, get a pre-paid disposable cell phone.
--"
There are a number of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want to send your phone number to folks you call.
For one, car dealers harvest numbers when you call for service appointments and the like, and use them later to call you to solicit.
Once, in a "career interlude", I worked for a car dealer, and, in training was told that the most important thing in taking a call was to get the caller's phone number and save it for later.
I shouldn't have to buy a disposable in these cases.
"I don't think fusion is going to save us this time. It has been a long way off for a long time."
Yup. It's been about 93,000,000 miles away for a few billion years.
This rock here is one big desalinization plant, or still, whichever you want to call it. What we're talking about here is manipulating the engineering parameters of the system to handle our special needs. Even though I know intellectually that I'm probably wrong, I sometimes wonder if there's more human energy being spent on Chicken Little contests than there is in serious research and engineering efforts to deal with the process.
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So, what are we going to do tonight, brain? Same thing we do every night, Pinky...
Three words
College cafeteria trays
Solution 1:
Wear clothes
Wear cellphone
Solution 2, if you don't want to wear clothes.
Acquire velcro cable ties
Attach above to cell
Set cell to vibrate
Call friends, leave messages.
Use velcro to attach cell to proper body part
enjoy.
I kinda question the utility of this.
The satellites that are close enough to get enough resolution for this
essentially take snapshots of whatever the window is for
a given satellite. so,
In real time, they'd need to know the location of the target, and have some available for targeting.
Wouldn't it be simpler and cheaper to have meat intelligence on the ground watch the target?
For history, just the management of the information would be an expensive trick.
"Ok, here's an obvious nuclear reactor in Elizabeth, NJ."
Or, can I read the license plate on that car at 4:30 PM
on December 21 in Anchorage.
How many analysts does it take to locate a terrorist lightbulb?
Reading this and TFA, I was reminded of my high school chemistry teacher's admonition,
"Hold your equipment low, so that when it explodes, it burns your chest instead of your face."
I mentioned this post to my wife, suggesting that Ralph may be right on this one. Her response was, "like a broken clock."
Disclosure. We were owners of several Corvairs. Yeah, dating ourselves.
They have, at least in Cambridge. The local computer superstore has USB sticks, Sd and Micro SD cards in bins at the checkouts,$5-15 depending on size. Granted, they're store brand, but I use these as the other poster used floppies, without breaking the bank.
". There exists nothing that could tap the entire cash reserve in a reasonably short enough time to justify bonds at this point unless they were buying Bolivia or something." I remember reading somewhere that Bolivia has enormous reserves of lithium. Perhaps they will require large amounts of lithium to restrain some folks chair-throwing tendencies.
Here in Massachusetts municipal electric companies have been a fixture for years. At least two towns, Braintree, http://www.beld.com/ and Taunton, http://www.tmlp.com/internet_services_res.html have expanded their operations to include cable TV and broadband. Others are planning the same. Comcast, National Grid, and the other utilities have not gone bankrupt, and consumers have benefited. Gummint monopoly, utility monopoly, ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice.
"However, if you call someone, they *should* get your real phone number (but not your address). If you don't want them to have your number, then don't call them. Or, get a pre-paid disposable cell phone. --" There are a number of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want to send your phone number to folks you call. For one, car dealers harvest numbers when you call for service appointments and the like, and use them later to call you to solicit. Once, in a "career interlude", I worked for a car dealer, and, in training was told that the most important thing in taking a call was to get the caller's phone number and save it for later. I shouldn't have to buy a disposable in these cases.
He explored this further in Imperial Earth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Earth
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars are going out.
"I don't think fusion is going to save us this time. It has been a long way off for a long time."
Yup. It's been about 93,000,000 miles away for a few billion years.
This rock here is one big desalinization plant, or still, whichever you want to call it. What we're talking about here is manipulating the engineering parameters of the system to handle our special needs. Even though I know intellectually that I'm probably wrong, I sometimes wonder if there's more human energy being spent on Chicken Little contests than there is in serious research and engineering efforts to deal with the process.