{"id":11885,"date":"2012-06-15T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11885"},"modified":"2012-06-15T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T08:00:29","slug":"peek-a-boo-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11885","title":{"rendered":"Peek a Boo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2012\/06\/13\/how-well-can-the-government-spy-on-us-via-satellite\/\">How well can the government spy on us via satellite?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]f [the donated satellites] had actually been used as spy satellites, what would these super telescopes have been able to see on the ground?  It\u2019s a fascinating question, and leads into a nice basic discussion of the optical resolution of imaging systems.  In other words, what is the smallest detail that could be picked up by one of these telescopes in orbit?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How well can the government spy on us via satellite? [I]f [the donated satellites] had actually been used as spy satellites, what would these super telescopes have been able to see on the ground? It\u2019s a fascinating question, and leads &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11885\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}