In a previous post I pointed out that we had taken a step towards protecting Earth from errant asteroids with the use of the Pan-STARRS telescope.
Now it appears that, for security reasons, we are limitings it’s scans by 24%.
Does anyone else see the stupidity of that? It will take much longer for us to identify threats and for no real reason. Anyone who has some readily available equipment can set up a much smaller set up to detect these satellites already. You would think that they would simply restrict the information released from the project. I have no doubt they are already doing that. Wouldn’t want the plebs or johnny foreigner to know about an incoming asteroid before the politicians do. It would be simple to allow the system to see what it can and then exclude the *cough* secret satellites. Must be much simpler than all the coding involved to smudge them.
Idiots.
Shooting yourself in the foot
In a previous post I pointed out that we had taken a step towards protecting Earth from errant asteroids with the use of the Pan-STARRS telescope.
Now it appears that, for security reasons, we are limitings it’s scans by 24%.
Does anyone else see the stupidity of that? It will take much longer for us to identify threats and for no real reason. Anyone who has some readily available equipment can set up a much smaller set up to detect these satellites already. You would think that they would simply restrict the information released from the project. I have no doubt they are already doing that. Wouldn’t want the plebs or johnny foreigner to know about an incoming asteroid before the politicians do. It would be simple to allow the system to see what it can and then exclude the *cough* secret satellites. Must be much simpler than all the coding involved to smudge them.
Idiots.