permaculture

[paul wheaton <paul@richsoil.com>]

The altitude of the satellite is fixed.  So if the image came from the
same satellite, there is only one explanation that I'm aware of:
government regulation forbids higher resolution. Usually for some
perceived security concern.

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:01 AM, georg parlow<g.parlow@gmx.at> wrote:
> might be OT, bu t please tell us the story!
>
> best,
> georg
>
>
> Am 30.07.2009 um 21:01 schrieb paul wheaton:
>
>> You mean "low resolution"?  If so, that's a whole different story.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:31 AM, christopher
>> nesbitt<christopher.nesbitt@mmrfbz.org> wrote:
>>> Thank you for that explanation, Paul. I live in a rural area, and it
>>> is still vague where I am. Up on the border, at Dolores village, the
>>> detail is so crisp, I can see the building I installed photovoltaic
>>> panels on for a community phone. I wondered why our area (around San
>>> Pedro Columbia, Toledo, Belize) was so unformed.
>>> On Jul 30, 2009, at 11:59 AM, paul wheaton wrote:
>>>
>>>> So ... this is weird .... my geeky life crossing with my
>>>> permaculture life ...
>>>>
>>>> I worked on the ground systems for the spacecraft that takes those
>>>> pics.
>>>>
>>>>
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