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entropielast Saturday at 1:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

Ive seen a video around 2005 about USA spy satellites/drones where they kind of disclosured what was possible at this time. Having a very wide area with realtime object/person tracking and multiple terrabytes of data every minute while beeing able to go back in time with all this features.

This all was like 20 years go. 20. 20!!

Than I see my upper consumer grade canon camera, a r6mkII with 70-200mm lens (mk1, 20 years old) that is able to make a photo of some dog in high speed motion, with a 1/800 shutter with 200mm while its dawn and you are still perfectly able to zoom into the photo and see and identify a midget [1]

1: https://i.imgur.com/9eE1zKe.png


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SEJefflast Saturday at 9:01 PM

They’ve done similar things with hundreds of cell phone cameras and digital techniques to piece it all together.

The prototype was called Gorgon Stare[1] and could surveil an entire city at once.

[1] https://www.sncorp.com/capabilities/wide-area-motion-imagery...