Comments on: No way, baby. I promise no one's watching.

No way, baby. I promise no one's watching.

liketitanic — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:19:26 -0800

Geographer Trevor Paglen, who researches the so-called "black world" of the military (previously: secret military patches, setec astronomy, tracing unmarked military planes, Torture Taxi), is curating a collection of his photos of classified satellite activity, The Other Night Sky, now at the Berkeley Art Museum. He's identified 189 such satellites.

By: el_lupino

el_lupino — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:28:14 -0800

Perhaps the mods could correct the fifth link there ("Torture Taxi"). Minor typo in the URL.

By: mr.anthony337

mr.anthony337 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:29:39 -0800

The underlying secrets of how the US, and other governments function, have always been a curiosity of mine. Living in the DC area, you can find the subtle hints of things working behind the scenes, right in plain view sometimes. The amount of stuff they don't disclose is mind numbing.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:18:22 -0800

Relatedly

By: quin

quin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:49:39 -0800

That raises an interesting question; how long will it be before spy satellites are camouflaged? I imagine that simply using non-reflective surfaces on the body, and some kind of honeycomb on the solar panels would probably work pretty well. Which then leads the paranoid conspiracy theorist in me to wonder; how many more than 189 might be up there already using some kind of basic obsfucation techniques?

By: lukemeister

lukemeister — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:31:46 -0800

quin, I think making them smaller is an easier way to hide them than making them non-reflective.