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From: jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: satellites
Summary: Mea Culpa
Keywords: resolution
Message-ID: <2621@calmasd.GE.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 88 18:14:30 GMT
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> > I'm not saying that people CAN be spotted by satellite, only that it's
> > not as easy to dismiss as one might think.
> 
> O.K. - I've finally reached saturation.  As a certifiable old-fart who was
> around during the Cuban missle crisis (1962) I can guarantee that an object
> as small as an automobile and/or truck was plainly visible by sattelite in
> '62.  I'm quite confident that you could have made out the make of the car
> or truck - even in the crummy newspaper photos they were showing at the time.

I must also be a certifiable old idiot - apparently those photos were from a
U-2 not a satellite.  Sorry to increase the background noise.

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John M. Pantone @ GE/Calma R&D, 9805 Scranton Rd., San Diego, CA 92121
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