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Not to alarm you, but I'm pretty sure that satellites can see you and your kids in your back yard - and they're taking pictures.
by 12ian34 5y ago
Not to alarm you, but I'm pretty sure that satellites can see you and your kids in your back yard - and they're taking pictures.
- ElFitz 5y agoFrom what I’ve read, the highest commercially available satellite imagery is ~0.3m Which would make one’s head take up a whole pixel. Now, I don’t know what the best military satellites are capable of, but I’d wager there’s a reason many companies, governments, and armies still find airplanes and drones (and even blimps sometimes) very relevant today for ground imagery.
- labster 5y agoMost “satellite” imagery is actually aerial photos taken from an airplane which can easily get to 10cm. At least on maps websites; local governments typically give away the imagery they pay for. Of course that’s not taken all the time, so it’s not exactly spying. We do have satellites that film the whole hemisphere constantly, but GOES only has 0.5km resolution or so — depending on latitude, of course.