ErsatzVerkehr

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   by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago

   Not true. It's a proper noun, like "McDonald's". It just happens to also sound like a descriptive phrase. You'll find that, inside the agency, it is just "NSA" and not "the NSA". This is true
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   by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago

   Reminds me of this film: http://www.chasingice.com/
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   by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago

   Would it be possible to improve the resolution of optical imagery using a synthetic aperture?
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   by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago

   Not just "seeing" (atmospheric turbulence), but also diffraction.
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   by ErsatzVerkehr 13y ago

   > they had satellites that could read the print on a newspaper. This is physically impossible, for the reasons given by marssaxman below; specifically, the resolution of an imaging system is limited by diffraction. In order to read a ne