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In unrelated news, Google Maps site traffic from North Korea sees odd spike.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I can go on Google maps too Kim

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

It’s North Korea, we might be talking about Map Quest.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You are an elite spy now

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow! Nice.

BetterThanTheJokeIWasGoingToMake.gif

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's an oldie but a goodie. lol Couldn't help myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's there a /c/retiredgifs?

[–] burntbutterbiscuits 0 points 1 year ago

Yet another photo that proves the earth is flat

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

(Link to Google maps)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool, Google maps has that too, glad they’ve reached the year 1998!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gmap data is dated around sensitive sites and they have to request DoD clearance to update that type of sat imagery, and even then objects can be blurred or even photoshopped by the DoD before google is allowed to post the update, and by then any intel even unedited is OBE. It makes sense that a country would want their own, up-to-date system.

[–] ArbitraryValue 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've photographed the White House too, but my tour didn't include the Pentagon.

The satellite itself is not a threat but the rocket that launched it is concerning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It would be a real shame if some random "debris" knocked it out of orbit. A real shame.

A sattelite is only as good as your ability to maintain it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

We don't need anymore anti satellite missile demonstrations. It makes way too damn much space debris.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knocking things around in orbit is a terrible idea that only adds to the current near crisis we have with space junk. So yes, it would be a real shame if something messed with the orbit of any satellite, one that could cost hundreds of millions in damages or even loss of life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Was it China that destroyed a satellite in orbit and everyone got mad because it flung so much shit at other satellites

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, release a pic with better resolution than a commercial photo sat

Narrator: They didn't because they don't have it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if they did, they wouldn't. Analysts would jump right on analyzing the image to as high details as possible to figure out capabilities of their satellites and they don't want that. Kind of like how Russia faked their military capability number of times, especially with airplanes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kim Jong Il launches a lot of little rockets to make sure the word can see what his capabilities are, haha.

I kind of think he has put his county in the position where it must prove it before anybody considers it a threat. Or else he would not have felt the need to tell everybody he can take pictures now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh they can't do that, wouldn't want anyone else getting their top secret information they clearly got from the photos.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

In other news, the rest of the world has had the same photos for decades.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair Google maps is not real time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Neither is their satellite. They can download data only when their satellite flies over NK or one of their partners if they have partnerships at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I know absolutely nothing about this subject, but I saw the saveitforparts youtube channel guy try to listen for this sat and he didnt pick anything up. Does anyone know if its likely that if the sat was up and functioning, hobbyists would at least have a good chance of detecting it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

How does a photo of Biden having a tuggy help the DPRK?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

suuuuurrre it did.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago