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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: What's troubling Dave Sternlight now....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.161139.8718@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan8.013550.19195@shearson.com> <1993Jan8.060103.4032@qualcomm.com> <PCL.93Jan8095731@rhodium.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:11:39 GMT
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- In article <PCL.93Jan8095731@rhodium.ox.ac.uk> pcl@ox.ac.uk (Paul C Leyland) writes:
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- >For what it's worth, one of these photos made the back page of _The Times_
- >(of London). It was printed quite large -- about 7" by 4" -- and showed
- >lots of detail. I remember being somewhat surprised that pictures of
- >that quality were being published in a national newspaper.
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- This is a bit off the subject, but the reason pictures of that quality
- were published is that one of the "secrets" in this area is just how
- high the resolution of reconnaisance satellites is. Every so often
- we read an episodic speculation ("able to read a license plate in
- a parking lot") in Aviation Week or elsewhere. By publishing the
- pictures in as high quality as possible, The Times was answering
- the question by implication, and cleverly enough that the Official
- Secrets Act folks didn't twig that that's part of what they were doing.
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- David
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