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To: Jimer
Just what do you think we should do with those images if they exist and can be helpful? Get a life, buddy.

They don't exist, and nothing what you fantasize about existing, exists.

There's no continuous satellite-movie record with detail showing individual vehicles of the entire DC Metro area that some tech can go in and click and zoom on each shooting scene and watch a little movie of each shooting. That's from Hollywood, not reality.

In reality, there are a very limited number of satellites, and they're in low polar orbits, such that over any given point there's only one overhead for a few minutes a couple times a day. And there's a tradeoff between detail and area coverage; for EACH of those passes, the satellite techs, BEFOREHAND, have to decide what small area to image (not a movie, a still image.)

For what you want you'd need several million spy satellites.

364 posted on 10/11/2002 7:48:26 AM PDT by John H K
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To: John H K; El Gato; _Jim
Concerning the use of satellite images to help solve the sniper case:

_Jim wrote:...Do you have ANY idea how much DATA this would entail? Get real and quit spouting this nonsense ...


El Gato wrote:...Been watching "Enemy of the State" again.
John H K wrote:...They don't exist, and nothing what you fantasize about existing, exists. It's obvious your entire knowledge of spy satellites comes from bad movies. Why do people think they're "cool" when they spout complete garbage about military/espionage stuff on FR?

Well, well, well.... CNN repoprts that the investigators have requested satellite images to aid in finding the sniper. Well, what do you think, you so-called "experts"?

1,880 posted on 10/15/2002 4:40:13 PM PDT by Consort
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