NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping activity

Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act... by pjc50 on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:43AM (#18005832)

Maritime law enforcement is a rather traditional role of the Royal Navy and hardly Orwellian. The radar-based satellite is arguably less worrying than the traditional US military spy satellites.

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Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act... by mmjaa on Monday September 17, 2018 @09:58AM (#18005950)

I don't remember voting for the UK to police my countries sovereign waters.

Fact is, the UK has no real place in the world if it isn't policing things such as the worlds oceans, or its finances. This is a role it has granted itself, un-democratically - one may even say, Imperiously...

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Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act... by sgt101 on Monday September 17, 2018 @02:47PM (#18008788)

>Imperiously

We've even built a death star! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12169051/Massive-Dea...

No, really,

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Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act... by nkrisc on Monday September 17, 2018 @12:15PM (#18007253)

Natural resources and the environment don't respect borders. All countries should be watching what others do to shared natural resources.

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Re:NovaSAR: UK radar satellite to track illegal shipping act... by swarnie_ on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:13AM (#18006679)

What's your proposed alternative?

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