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From: cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris Sylvain)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.crypt
Subject: Re: satellites
Keywords: resolution
Message-ID: <2215@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 88 15:58:34 GMT
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In article <2013@frog.UUCP> die@hydra.UUCP (David I. Emery) writes:
+ 
+ 	Not that it has much to do with resolution from orbit, but on
+ the original topic that started the discussion - NSA picking up pictures of
+ Waite from a satellite "over Lebanon" - This could very well have been
+ accomplished by satellite interception of the video signal from one of the
+ low altitude drones that the Israelis regularly fly over the area.  
+ 

I'll take back the NaCl now.. Ahh, an elegant solution, and could well be
'dangerously' close to what really happened! That is, this solution sounds
much closer to reality to me than imaging directly from orbit.
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