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Yep. Reminds me of when I was working for a remote sensing startup and we had conversations about being featured in an episode of a popular BBC magazine show. I
by notahacker 4y ago
Yep. Reminds me of when I was working for a remote sensing startup and we had conversations about being featured in an episode of a popular BBC magazine show. I could understand why they were interested: "space detectives" fighting environmental crime with satellites sounds very cool on a TV listing. It's just their concept of a TV proposal had us zooming in on live action they staged for us like a spy film, and the reality was a guy in a home office tweaking scripts to batch process low resolution static images from previous months followed by enforcement officers possibly taking some action months later (I figured out that beyond the pretty images we could theoretically visit an actual location with historic prosecutions and get just-for-TV drone footage as well as interviews for background context, but we never got close to the relevant stakeholder permissions)
And I say this having also watched Time Team so I know you can make good TV from an archaeological dig with the right experts and permissions and pretty good background knowledge of what was built there when!