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DEATH TO GAMESPOT

Vyyral

Is this an invasion?

perhaps he is just a scout.

^ GS

^ GT

We must settle this now. Forum Warfare.

taj7575

Now that is the perfect scene for this.

I wanna polka!

Come get a taste!

Satellites can only be put into geostationary orbits at the equator. thriteenthmonke

yes but at 22,000 miles, you can see from pole to pole pretty much. Weather satellites for example. I can see photos of the UK taken from a geostationary satellite from the met office.

The issue is that the quality of the images is nowhere near high enough to pick out surface details to half a meter, which is the sort of level the military use. Im sure you have heard in movies the idea of being able to tell what the headline on a newspaper is or whether you have a shoelace tied or not from a satellite. Now this is exaggerated (i hope) but seeing that from 20000 miles away, you can see the problem here.

a couple of reasons i can think of that are probably wrong:

A permanent satellite means geostationary orbit, which is around 22000 miles above the equator. And for a surveillance satellite to provide the sort of information needed on the surface (ie, troop and armour movements etc) in enough detail, it just would be too difficult. Not only that, if there is cloud cover (in Iraq, im not sure), then proper surveillance isnt possible.

It would also be very expensive to launch a satellite of its type, when there are others which are able to monitor the area every few days. UAVs can also be used to pick up vital information. Not only that, launching a permanent satellite would help international relations would it.

Sunshine, the ending was perfect. Most disaster movies involve 10 minutes of people celebrating or people being congratulated on a great mission at the end (and usually a funeral to respect those who died). But in Sunshine, there isnt any of that, and it just makes the ending much more appealing in my opinion.

EDIT: And the fact you see Capa enjoying his last milliseconds of life whilst touching the surface of the sun was just pure awe (he was travelling at almost the speed of light, so time slowed down enough so he could witness it)

Windows Vista Ultimate x64. Clean install (no junk like free trials you get with prebuilt PCs)

There is rarely a problem with Vista these days, as long as you have 2GB RAM+ then you should be fine (RAM is dirt cheap at the moment too), and i have no program/driver incompatibilities. Every program i need or want works with Vista.

Vista also allows me to use DirectX 10.1 which is always a bonus.

'Its Over 9000' is overused a lot, and im guilty of saying it in class once. But it was in a computer science class with other nerds and a good teacher, so it was considered funny.

'Your Mum' is also overused, and i accidentally said it to one of the strictest teachers in the school (also head of my year) after he asked 'What i was doing'. He was behind me and assumed it was a student being annoying but i was wrong. Good thing he was in a good mood and he just brushed it off.

Show this to her friends at school.needled24-7

This is from my recent trip with my school to Sicily. Its Mount Etna (10,000ft high)