>realtime recording of the full globe The scale of infrastructure needed for something like that would be staggering. Important question is, for what purpose?

>realtime recording of the full globe The scale of infrastructure needed for something like that would be staggering. Important question is, for what purpose? Assuming it's the aviation safety domain we're talking about, I think improving aircraft connectivity to ground stations and enhancing real-time monitoring [0] would be a superior solution than to invest in array of video-recording infrastructure to keep tabs on the planet--this without even factoring in the privacy concerns that may arise out of continual recording and access to the said data. [0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-avoid-another-malaysia-flight-370-1405100436 https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-avoid-another-malaysia-f...