Comment

Comment by samstave

Resurrected a memory in me:

Back in ~2002 I lived in San Jose, and my neighbor across from me was a satellite designer at Loral Space Systems...

We often had the same "wash car in driveway" schedule - and I would ask him a bunch of questions about his work, which he couldnt talk about...

But we had a system - I would ask yes/no questions and he would just wash his car - btu if he "waxed left" it was a yes, and if he "waxed right" it was a no...

Now, I dont know how truthful he was, but I would ask about the resolution and size of the spy satts... and he indicated that, yes, they did in-fact have satellites that could read your license plate from space.

parent samstave 3 years ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton