Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above (2016)

Re:Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above (2016) by spy_sat on Sunday December 03, 2017 @10:10PM (#15841213)

I don't have any doubts. The BBC reported, in 2014, that spy satellites had a 10cm resolution. This is good enough to see if you are holding a cell phone or not.

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Re:Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above (2016) by paintchipluvr on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @02:18AM (#15859198)

Most definitely there was a very good video about lead engineer (I think) talking in front of a hexagon spy satellite from the 1970s a lot of the information on it is declassified now, but he did say that the resolution on them still was and all he could say was that in the 1970s "I could read a newspaper on a table" and that's all he'd say on the matter. imagine how far technology has come along since then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtmtYlcPYYA The video.

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Re:Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above (2016) by Houshalter on Monday December 04, 2017 @03:24PM (#15847110)

Sure, but you have to zoom in on one car at a time. You can't just mass collect the plates on every car in the city instantly.

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