EarthNow is a new company looking to provide satellite imagery and live video in virtually real-time. Its unsettling pitch describes a network of satellites that can see any corner of the globe and provide live video with a latency of about a second. And a look at the startup’s top investors gives a lot of confidence that this thing is happening.
For the record, the company lists a lot of potential uses for its network, including:
Catching illegal fishing in the act, watching hurricanes and typhoons as they evolve, detecting forest fires the moment they start, watching volcanoes the instant they start to erupt, assisting the media in telling stories from around the world, tracking large whales as they migrate, helping “smart cities” become more efficient, providing on-demand data about crop health, and observing conflict zones around the world.
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Tracking migrating whales??? I’m all in. Please surveil me from space… for the good of the migrating whales.
ht/ fdr in hell
Here is how they will use it:
Your Municipality will buy into the feed. Then they will generate income by discovering Primary Use (Someone living in an RV on your land) and setback violations and send the Code Enforcement Officer around to shake you down.
That and peering at College Sorority parties.
Can it pickup the gesture I’m making right now?
I wonder how powerful a laser at what dispersion you’d need to blind one of those satellites. Yes, I know that tracking would be quite a problem.
Dang. No more boinking in the back yard.
That shit water drinker Bill Gates is a part of this.
Yes, Mr. Bongopoofer.
Go to your front door. We left a package for you.
See you, get it?, later.
anybody ever read ‘The Circle’? … our own ‘Brave New
WorldHell’ is coming“Each satellite is equipped with an unprecedented amount of onboard processing power, including more CPU cores than all other commercial satellites combined,” the announcement says. The satellites will also do an onboard analysis of the live imagery using machine learning, but the company doesn’t go into detail about what it will analyze or why it would be necessary to dedicate that processing onboard”
What could possibly go wrong?
Does this mean I need to keep my masturbating indoors and under covers??
ahem…
There is at least one Spaceman driving up there with a hIphone recorder, that I know of.
Great, we can point these things at the middle east and as soon as a terrorist training camp starts up we can nuke them from orbit.
So, when do we (that’s a pretty open ended question) initiate an orbital Militia? And take care of some problems.
Tracking illegal aliens, rapists, drug smugglers, murderers? Noooooooooo!
Some poor soul assigned to watch me is going to die of boredom.
” Defense network computers. New… powerful… hooked into everything, trusted to run it all. They say it got smart, a new order of intelligence. Then it saw all people as a threat, not just the ones on the other side. Decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination.”
@ Tony 👍😉
I am available for daily viewings of my Lilly white ass on my lanai if you pay me sufficiently.
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the Country clean.
Tony R
SKYNET.
That’s why I”m always neked at home. Might as well make it painful for the assholes.
Can they see thru snow? Cause it is always SNOWING around here.
Oh, so that’s why all the Muslims are moving to London…to minimize their terrestrial exposure.
See if they can find Hillary’s emails.
MJA
Rumor has it they tried to get a shot of your ankles. Didn’t work out. Couldn’t get that fine of resolution. Hee Hee Hee. I know, I’m such an ass hole.