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From: whisky-dave on 8 Mar 2010 07:45

"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet(a)cox.net> wrote in message
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> On 3/5/2010 2:56 PM, John McWilliams wrote:
>> J. Clarke wrote:
>>> On 3/5/2010 12:23 PM, John McWilliams wrote:
>>>> Photographers seeing _Human_Target_ may have noticed a very fine
>>>> technology that takes a completely pixillated image, in a reflection no
>>>> less- and fills in incredible detail that wasn't at all available in
>>>> the
>>>> first place.... At the same time, their computers whir as they did last
>>>> decade, but no reels....
>>>
>>> You see that all the time on CSI and its various spinoffs and clones.
>>
>> Yes, and I have seen the same phenom there, but this was as if you took
>> a 200 x 300 image and gave it the resolution of a 2000 x 3000 - oh,
>> hell, not even that, as there really was no detail to work with. Maybe
>> it's not a quantum leap beyond the CSI stuff.
>
> Yeah, they do that on CSI--blurred image of a street scene shot with a
> video surveillance camera and they enlarge and sharpen it to read a
> license number off a car six blocks away.
>
> That sad thing is that after seeing that people think that it's really
> possible.

We have a similar thing with google maps, you click on the satellite tab
and you get a picture of your house even your car, but that picture wasn't
taken by a
satellite it was taken by a relatively low flying air craft.
And that one of you sitting outside the pub was taken from a 'google' car
not a spy
satellite.

>> I particularly liked the juxtaposition of the whirring computers,
>> though.....

What about the flashing light and the "Working" announcement.



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