Spy Satellites Chasing Shadows: NASA's Contribution to the War on Terror


	Spy Satellites Chasing Shadows: NASA's Contribution to the War on Terror

tabsey

9-6-2008 10:53 AM

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A visit to the sitefor reasons why NASA could not be of any help.

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Are you having trouble with funding?  Is your research unable to attract major media attention?  Just add <EM>Terror</EM> (TM)!  That's what Dr Stoica of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory did, and it could work for you too.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/09/spy-satellites.html"><P>Dr Stoica's research is based on gait analysis - the idea that everyone has a distinctive walking pattern, and no matter how many fake beards or dark glasses you put on you can't disguise your stride unless you're wearing so many your knees break.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/09/spy-satellites.html"><P>So far so good.  Things only go off the rails with his proposal to use
this software to scan shadows to find terrorist suspects.  From space. 
Seriously.  Satellites have a hard time recognising individuals from
the tops of their heads (the lack of Superman in our world means people
rarely have reason to look straight up), which is why Stoica has
developed software which can reconstruct their profile from their
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