Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Why are there no live satellite views of earth from space available to the public online?

Don't say that it is for national security purposes because you can look at still satellite views online that are no more than a few months or weeks old. Meteorologists seem to have access to live satellite viewing. Why not the general public. If the image is loaded to a server that delays the images by a pre-programmed amount of time then any "sensitive" images can be blurred or deleted by whatever "watchdog" group is chosen to watch us watching. Maybe a department in the NSA. I think the people of earth should have the opportunity to view live (or nearly live) video/images of our planet. Then we could watch huge herds of wildebeasts roam across grassland... gigantic flocks of birds take flight... or the flow of clouds across the pacific. Shouldn't everyone be able to have such views since it is possible and can be available. But all of that seems to be held in the hands of a small few.

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