Re: Scouts.....

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 15:53:25 -0800 (PST) John Atkinson
<johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>--- John Crimmins <johncrim@voicenet.com> wrote:
>
>> Isn't there a book by Stirling?  Drake, maybe? 
>> ...in which hi-tech insurgents kick off the fun by
>> knocking out the government's recon satellites?  _Go
>> Tell 
>> the Spartans_, I think.
>>
>> For more fun, electronic warfare: the enemy has
>> hacked into the system and is scrambling your
>> satellite view.  You're seeing things as they were 
>> yesterday, or seeing an entirely different area
>> altogether.
>> 
>> Knocking them out entirely is more efficient...but
>> less entertaining.
>
>Uh. . . your maps are hardcopy (even now that we're
>digital, we have hardcopy maps also).	You can blow up
>all the satellites you want, but the data ain't going
>anywhere.
>
>John
>

John,

Literally yesterday's news.  I was not there (at Metro Hispanic
Employment Program Council meeting) but NIMA does no maps after three to
5 years - no more Cartographers except as contractors.

Yeah, me too.  Even though I am no longer a Carto but a freaking
"Regional Analyst"...

Gracias,
Glenn/Triphibious@juno.com
This is my Science Fiction Alter Ego E-mail address.
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