Thursday, September 18, 2008

Eye in the Sky

A single satellite can visit one spot on Earth once or twice every day. BASIC's additional satellites will allow multiple passes over the same sites, alerting U.S. government users to potential trouble, humanitarian crises or natural disasters such as floods.
Aside from affecting its ability to conduct military operations, those are Pentagon concerns? And what else?

Mr. Parsons?
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I dont need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind
I worked for over 16 years in the satellite navigation and communications defense contracting industry, so I'm not disparaging their necessity in a comprehensive national defense strategy. They're amazing and we should be glad we've got 'em. I just want to make sure they're pointed at the right people for the right reasons.

I also think our reliance on high tech solutions cannot allow us to ignore the hard, dirty, dangerous and vital realities that only on-the-ground assets can discover--assuming they want to.

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

3 comments:

Mike Gallo said...

David, you are 100% correct. Without hum. int., we are in the same place we were seven years ago. The sterility of high-tech recon makes me wonder if our people have lost their fieldcraft.

Anonymous said...

Judas Priest
Screaming For Vengence

ELECTIRC EYE

Up here in space
Im looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do

You think youve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
Im watching all the time

Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye

Always in focus
You cant feel my stare
I zoom into you
You dont know Im there

I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove

Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye

Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
Theres nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows

Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye

Protected. detective. electric eye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ8mO5hY0b0&fmt=18

Michael Hawkins said...

I was just about to post electric eye too!
Great song and growing in realism.