tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886798502338849917.post4201146233529864260..comments2023-12-21T02:26:26.867-08:00Comments on Advice From A Fake Consultant: On Space Radar, Or, Real Life Ain’t Like “24”fake consultanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09254946474239731269noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886798502338849917.post-33441943624341328942007-08-27T19:33:00.000-07:002007-08-27T19:33:00.000-07:00as to "undiscovery":as i have said before, these a...as to "undiscovery":<BR/><BR/>as i have said before, these are the kind of decisions that keep perfectly nice political leaders up very, very late at night.<BR/><BR/>the deployment of earth based systems for the "tracking" mission has advantages in terms of cost, but space-based systems potentially offer faster response-if you want to pay for enough satellites.<BR/><BR/>but even then, the question becomes...if you had a target, could you get a weapons system to that target within the window of tracking time?fake consultanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09254946474239731269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886798502338849917.post-21883042559783058362007-08-27T19:26:00.000-07:002007-08-27T19:26:00.000-07:00in response to sir james:it seems reasonable to se...in response to sir james:<BR/><BR/>it seems reasonable to seek a cost sharing arrangement with nasa or other civil customers, and there are two ways that i can see that this could be easily achieved:<BR/><BR/>--create an upfront partnership with a cost sharing protocol, or<BR/><BR/>--"sell" the datasets you'll be creating anyway, and set up a customer driven way to task the system to create datasets customers might order for "special purpose" needs.fake consultanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09254946474239731269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886798502338849917.post-41324337722451104942007-08-27T11:21:00.000-07:002007-08-27T11:21:00.000-07:00Well, the technology is there and, as with so many...Well, the technology is there and, as with so many other things, it cannot be "undiscovered". So we must fond the most beneficial use for it. I don't know what the answer is but we cannot "do nothing".Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6886798502338849917.post-57079379393367974562007-08-27T11:02:00.000-07:002007-08-27T11:02:00.000-07:00As you quite rightly say - the system is not dedic...As you quite rightly say - the system is not dedicated for mobile surveillance of that kind - it's purpose seems more for the citizenry.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com