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Wanna be a spy?

www.earth.google.com

I bet you've already seen it though..  ::)

I have indeed already seen it, wonderful program for amazing your 8 year old I can tell you!  ;D

it just makes you wonder, if Google earth is freely available for any joe from anywhere to have access to, just what do Govornment / Military establishments have to play with?

Scary thought!

it just makes you wonder, if Google earth is freely available for any joe from anywhere to have access to, just what do Govornment / Military establishments have to play with?

Scary thought!

Big brother is watching...not really

Actually, the amount of spying power the US has is frightening. They have satilites that can read license plates on cars (google "big bird satelite") and that was in 1985. Luckily, they don't really care about common people. The big brother thing is kind of an overestismation of US inteligence. The US has neither the interest nor time to spy on the average joe. Those satilites are searching for bin laden and the like.

Those satilites are searching for bin laden and the like.

Good point, like they found him ages ago, Not!  :P

Let the suits play with their toys, eh?

Big brother is watching...not really

The US has neither the interest nor time to spy on the average joe.

I'm not so sure about that. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uk.html

Be careful as they probably log details of everyone visiting the website.

I have indeed already seen it, wonderful program for amazing your 8 year old I can tell you!  

it just makes you wonder, if Google earth is freely available for any joe from anywhere to have access to, just what do Govornment / Military establishments have to play with?

Scary thought!

Very..

But i dont belive they can advance it that much..
Zoom and quality yes.. But some things arnt just possible..
so i doubt they have super toys to play with...  :D

I heard once that they can see a baby's foot from space  :o

I'm still waiting for X-ray glasses...  ;D

I heard once that they can see a baby's foot from space  

I would imagine they would be able to..

But its not that amazing.. since you can still make out people on the pavement in earth google..
And thats non military..  :)

I heard once that they can see a baby's foot from space  :o

Commercial statelites have the ability to do that already.

[quote]you can still make out people on the pavement in earth google..
And thats non military..

Yeah, thats one of the differences between military and google earth.

Military intellience is live meaning that information is up to date within the last 3 seconds or so (latency and other factors make up for the 3 seconds).

Live depending on the position of the satellite..

lol, yeah Ben pointed out this site awhile back..

Very cool site for AFCAD Design of an airport