Simviation Forum - Wanna be a spy??

Aug 21^st, 2005 at 6:07pm

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Wanna be a spy?

www.earth.google.com

I bet you've already seen it though.. Roll Eyes

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Reply #1 - Aug 21^st, 2005 at 6:35pm

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I have indeed already seen it, wonderful program for amazing your 8 year old I can tell you! Grin

it just makes you wonder, if Google earth is freely available for any joe from anywhere to have access to, just what do Govornment / Military establishments have to play with?

Scary thought!

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Reply #2 - Aug 21^st, 2005 at 6:48pm

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it just makes you wonder, if Google earth is freely available for any joe from anywhere to have access to, just what do Govornment / Military establishments have to play with?

Scary thought!

Big brother is watching...not really

Actually, the amount of spying power the US has is frightening. They have satilites that can read license plates on cars (google "big bird satelite") and that was in 1985. Luckily, they don't really care about common people. The big brother thing is kind of an overestismation of US inteligence. The US has neither the interest nor time to spy on the average joe. Those satilites are searching for bin laden and the like.

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Reply #3 - Aug 21^st, 2005 at 6:57pm

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Those satilites are searching for bin laden and the like.

Good point, like they found him ages ago, Not! Tongue

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Reply #4 - Aug 22^nd, 2005 at 4:55am

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Let the suits play with their toys, eh? Grin

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Reply #5 - Aug 22^nd, 2005 at 5:05am

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Big brother is watching...not really

The US has neither the interest nor time to spy on the average joe.

I'm not so sure about that. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html

Be careful as they probably log details of everyone visiting the website. Roll Eyes

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Reply #6 - Aug 22^nd, 2005 at 10:11am

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I have indeed already seen it, wonderful program for amazing your 8 year old I can tell you!

it just makes you wonder, if Google earth is freely available for any joe from anywhere to have access to, just what do Govornment / Military establishments have to play with?

Scary thought!

Very..

But i dont belive they can advance it that much..
Zoom and quality yes.. But some things arnt just possible..
so i doubt they have super toys to play with... Cheesy

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Reply #7 - Aug 24^th, 2005 at 1:17pm

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Reply #8 - Aug 24^th, 2005 at 2:52pm

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I'm still waiting for X-ray glasses... Grin

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Reply #9 - Aug 24^th, 2005 at 3:05pm

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I heard once that they can see a baby's foot from space Shocked

I would imagine they would be able to..

But its not that amazing.. since you can still make out people on the pavement in earth google..
And thats non military..

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Reply #10 - Aug 24^th, 2005 at 6:36pm

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I heard once that they can see a baby's foot from space Shocked

Commercial statelites have the ability to do that already.

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Reply #11 - Aug 24^th, 2005 at 6:39pm

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you can still make out people on the pavement in earth google..
And thats non military..

Are these live pictures or photos?

PS. OK. I found out. Quote:

2. Are Google Earth images captured in real time?

No, they aren't. Our images are photographs taken by satellites and aircraft sometime in the last three years.

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Reply #12 - Aug 24^th, 2005 at 6:44pm

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Yeah, thats one of the differences between military and google earth.

Military intellience is live meaning that information is up to date within the last 3 seconds or so (latency and other factors make up for the 3 seconds).

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Reply #13 - Aug 25^th, 2005 at 8:35am