OFF: Re: Fwd: Michael Moore's Awful Truth

[Paul Mather]

Michael Moore's Awful Science, more like...

On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

=>>>If our satellite camera is always up there and
=>>>running, capturing the before and after of a
=>>>300 foot piece of dirt, where's the "during"
=>>>photo?  The satellite cameras were snapping
=>>>pictures the whole time, so where's the photos
=>>>of the massacre itself?
=>
=>     Ah! Someone reveals they know FA about spy
=>satelites! ;)

Indeed!  The satellite cameras don't hover up there over one spot,
continually snapping pictures until someone is satisfied and lets it
move on.  I understand the average time before the same spot is
revisited is 15 days (depending on the type of satellite).  (And,
since the orbits are largely known, or can be reverse-engineered, this
is how nations can keep little side projects like "nuclear testing/
development" 'hidden' from the eye in the sky.)

A friend of mine's fiance works as an Imagery Analyst for the 480th
Intel. at Langley AFB.  (Using satellite imagery to determine sites of
*possible* mass graves would be one of his jobs.)  I'm sure he could
explain better than I why that original article was full of beans re:
spy satellites.

=>     The glory of the Internet, people who know
=>nothing merrily telling nothing to people who know
=>nothing. At the risk of suggesting the list should
=>be topical (gasp! ;) can we leave discussion of yet
=>another war and yet another murder to the forums
=>provided for them?

I heartily second this!  Remember, this is *BOC-L*, folks.  If you
want to get detailed on Kosovo or Columbine, go to alt.misc.{kosovo,
columbine} or whatever, and thrash it all out there.  After all,
that's why we have separate forums.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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