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Totally. That is far beyond anything we previously believed possible if it was indeed one.
by kposehn 7y ago
Totally. That is far beyond anything we previously believed possible if it was indeed one.
- hartator 7y agoOr it was just a drone. The angle of the photo suggests so.
- cma 7y agoSatellites can take photos from many angles too, you could maybe figure it out from some very sensitive foreshortening analysis to try and work out how far away it was.
- kposehn 7y agoI actually wondered at first if it was a falsely liveried (or IFF’d) airliner at altitude that has optical/sigint equipment on it. From the angle it wouldn’t be feasible, but it was an interesting idea.
- bhouston 7y agoMay not be satellite. There are so many types of drones now.
- garmaine 7y agoDoesn't matter. It's not a drone flying low enough to violate airspace, which means it is so far into the upper atmosphere that it might as well be from space, and the same arguments about maximum resolution apply.
- autoexec 7y agoI was under the impression that they could identify faces and that was years ago. http://thescienceexplorer.com/technology/new-satellites-will-detect-your-face-and-phone-space http://thescienceexplorer.com/technology/new-satellites-will... Drones I suspect could find a dime dropped in the street and read the date off it.