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If this is garbled, cheers to Saleem’s for dollar PBR night. First, from reddit, chinese military base. The concept of building a scale model of an area 450 by 350 kilometers is just staggering. Unfortunately I don’t exactly follow how one would use this to train for helicopter navigation. Does one train in a scale sized helicopter? For that matter, by what factor is the area scaled?

Also interesting, is this article, entitled
find the black helicopters. Are amateur intelligence analysts the wave of the future? What happens when these photographs are updated more frequently? How soon before google maps style footage is featured in either a Tom Clancy novel or a cheesy hollywood spy movie? When will big brother be everyone? I for one welcome our new satellite overlords. So long as they avoid becoming too cliche.

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