EdwinHoksberg

Not just Youtube, a lot of google services, search is also really slow for me and we also got some connection errors from pubsub/cloudsql/etc..

BC = backwards compatibility

Apparently the creater modeled it after Ruby on Rails, so I guess it's easier to use if you are used to that platform.

Interesting, thanks!

How did you access the data? Via a simple REST api?

Yes you would be correct if we were talking about imaging satellites, but communication spy satellites would be in geostationary orbit :)

The text at the last image doesn't seem right, I think the stripes are stars and the little dots are geostationary satellites. If the photographer took a fixed long exposure the earth would rotate and the stars would move against the sky, but because the satellites are in a geostationary orbit they move with the earth's rotation so it looks like they don't move at all.