Re: [GZG] Satellite imagery

["Eric Foley" <stiltman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, the exact PSB you decide to use isn't really that important.  At some 
point, one has to keep in mind that we're discussing a sci-fi future where 
the problem of how to travel faster than light -- which current physics 
holds to be either impossible outside of maybe the outlandish theory of 
dropping through a singularity of some sort and somehow managing to stay 
alive in the process.  I would tend to say that if we're going to play game 
where this is not only a problem that's been solved but is made a trivial 
element that we can abstract into a given, it's a little silly to say that 
we won't also have developed a way to build spy satellites that doesn't 
force us to still use giant physical glass lenses in the telescopes.

E

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Subject: Re: [GZG] Satellite imagery


> > So, if your target is at a fixed longitude, very low latitude, and your
> > optics are excellent, then geosynchronous orbits make sense for this 
> > role.
> >
> > For Earth's orbit at the extreme end of the visible spectrum (400 nm) you
> > would need a ~8.75 m diffraction limited telescope to get 2 m resolution
> > (which is pretty poor.)
> >
> > Maybe there is some way to PSB all these considerations (and any I've
> > missed) away.  I just don't see them ;-)
> >
> > Cheers, Tony C.
>
> Gravitic lenses for light focusing. I think that was the PSB Traveller 
> used
> to explain how a ship-mounted laser could cut through another ship at five
> light-seconds without an emitter 100 meters across ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> M.
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