Rusty Hinge wrote:
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:41:06 +0100, Mike Lyle wrote:

I have terrible trouble with the bent bananas growing on my lawn:
every time I hear a helicopter I have to rush out and pick them
all
in case it's the police.
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Come on Mike! Who needs helicopters when we have the ever watchful
Global positioning Satellite??? The farmer next door wasonly
complaioning yesterday that if you have applied for "set aside"
they
watch what crops you are growing! I don't know whether they can
see
Liberty Caps but bright red amanita muscaria should be clearly
visible:-) http://www.agrilogic.com/
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If they can't find bin Laden, they won't find anything the size of
liberty caps - unless they fit them all with little transmitters
innit.

Or is that what the nipple on top is for?

And it's important not to fall for the brilliant Cold-War thing they
apparently got the Russians to believe. (Sorry: warning, I'm actually
being serious here.) You _can't_ read somebody's newspaper from a
satellite image. What a specialised sat can do is read the infra-red
signature of an area: if they can get the resolution, this can within
limits tell an expert what kind of vegetation there is. I don't know
how fine they can go, but I'll be astounded if it gets down to the
lawn at Number Thirty-Two in any detail. I doubt if anybody's
cherished psilocybes or skunk are in any danger of surveillance from
space.

If that farmer doesn't like people checking, he doesn't have to take
our money!

--
Mike.