Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology

Re:Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology by villgax on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:14AM (#27038476)

I was just thinking if we can track who dumped those million barrels of toxic DDT off the coast of California with the recent Google Maps Time-lapse thing?

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Re:Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology by kristjansson on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:36AM (#27038727)

We know exactly who dumped them, and when, because the company doing the dumping kept records and shared them with investigators!

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-coast-ddt-dumping-ground...

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Re:Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:23PM (#27041769)

Its funny how newspapers keep touting evil china, but when Dow Chemical gassed 15,000 people in boupal to death they suffered no consequences in the west.

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Re:Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology by throwawayboise on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:31PM (#27043147)

The dumping happened decades ago.

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Re:Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology by villgax on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:25PM (#27044570)

And that is what the decade old satellite imagery is supposed to help with, they recently released a feature to view time-lapses of any area over a couple of decades

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