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I count with one hand all the technologies that have blown my mind: discovering the electronic parts of my toys, playing a NES game in my friend's PC, my first
by elboru 8y ago
I count with one hand all the technologies that have blown my mind: discovering the electronic parts of my toys, playing a NES game in my friend's PC, my first contact with the internet, the first iPhone. But discovering Google Earth was a really special one, suddenly I was able to explore every street in the world, I was able to look at my house (in a small city in a developing country). Then I started imagining all the possibilities, also my conspiracy side kicked in, I mean, I as a teenager with a Celeron PC was able to look at any place I wanted in the world, then what kind of secret technologies could a big government have?? Good old days, I hope technology will keep blowing my mind in the near future.
- jjeaff 8y agoThere was a guy on a TV documentary once that had worked for the government in some capacity. He was explaining that the satellite maps provided to the public are extremely zoomed out compared to what the government is able to see. He said that the government had photography so detailed, that they could find a golf ball on a golf course, and even tell you what brand of golf ball it is.
- Nitramp 8y agoThere's always some dude on TV bragging, but I'd be skeptical. https://www.quora.com/How-powerful-are-the-cameras-on-modern-spy-satellites/answers/33871816 https://www.quora.com/How-powerful-are-the-cameras-on-modern... TL;DR is that satellites have a 9 cm resolution at best. That's not enough to see a golf ball (4 cm diameter), and far away from discovering a producer's imprint on it. With drones you can get an order of magnitude better, but that's still only barely enough to find said golf ball, and not enough to read fine print.
- mhh__ 8y agoWho said it has to a be a satellite?
- robotresearcher 8y agojjeaff did. > He was explaining that the satellite maps provided to the public
- genericid 8y ago> compared to what the government is able to see. That does not imply satellite maps.
- robotresearcher 8y agoI guess you can read it that way if you try. But neither I or the other commenter got that meaning.
- genericid 8y ago> if you try Please refrain from baseless accusations. Thank you.
- jjeaff 8y agoProbably right. But my guess is that the actual ability of current satellite photography is highly classified.
- rurban 8y agoThese pictures are from 3D flyovers, not satellite. They usually flyover every year, mostly municipial, not by country.
- dekhn 8y agothe government's spy satellites have very high resolution, but that claim was just bogus.