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Pro to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 days ago

A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week

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A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week

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Pro to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 days ago
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The NISAR satellite will be able to detect centimetre-sized changes on Earth’s surface, providing crucial data for agriculture and climate modelling.
  • console.log(bathing_in_bismuth)
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    This is absolutely fucked. Bring down the all seeing eye in the sky satelite

    • @PlantJam@lemmy.world
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      “All seeing” except it’s using radar to evaluate typography and biomass. What am I missing that makes this “absolutely fucked”?

      • SkaveRat
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        Impressive that it has the resolution to identify fonts

        • @PlantJam@lemmy.world
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          I was so confused when I saw your comment until I reread my own. It really is top notch technology I guess!

        • @Brickhead92@lemmy.world
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          This first iteration is only capable of identifying serif fonts, still impressive though.

      • @x00z@lemmy.world
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        Aren’t you a tiny blob of typography and biomass yourself?

        • @PlantJam@lemmy.world
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          How did you know? Really though I was looking at the picture in the article which is from similar technology about a decade ago.

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      they’ve had spy sats since the 1960s

      its not that bad

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