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They should open up a rate-limited retail API that lets us verify for ourselves what is visible in our life and what is not. Otherwise we have to outsource our thinking to others who may have a conflict of interest.

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Many high value commercial applications of ultra high resolution SAR only involve small areas of land and irregular periods

Ultimately satellite providers don't have any more obligation to subsidise access to their services to people wishing to verify for themselves that the product doesn't contradict the laws of physics than 5G providers or microchip providers.

Complex systems produce behavior that cannot be derived from first principles, which is why it is important to study the actual behavior of those systems. I studied E&M for four semesters at college, and it is far from clear to me that "the laws of physics" foreclose the possibility of this system unearthing new personal information about my patterns of life.

You might want to question your own confidence once in a while. Unless you independently predicted rowhammer, spectre, and meltdown.

I like this idea. There's already sales channels for this, they would just be another imaging provider.

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