[HN Gopher] Spy satellites reveal undiscovered Roman forts
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       Spy satellites reveal undiscovered Roman forts
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 123 points
       Date   : 2023-10-30 00:51 UTC (22 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (phys.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
        
       | techietim wrote:
       | Discussed a few days ago:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38024665
        
         | ChrisArchitect wrote:
         | [dupe]
        
       | rogerkirkness wrote:
       | This is one way to intentionally leak your capabilities to the
       | enemy. Maybe I am cynical, but sharing that spy satellites are
       | 'weirdly good at finding underground structures' right now is
       | providential indeed.
        
         | Arainach wrote:
         | These were spy satellites in the 1960s and 1970s Modern
         | commercial satellites have imagery at least this resolution
         | (it's just not free to researchers). Any "enemy" who has not
         | discovered this is not a threat.
        
         | ortusdux wrote:
         | The first 10 words of the article:
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         | "Archaeologists have used declassified spy satellite imagery
         | from the 1960s..."
        
         | _a_a_a_ wrote:
         | Cynical indeed given your quoted phrase doesn't appear in the
         | article. Even the word Underground doesn't AFAICS.
        
           | danudey wrote:
           | Cynical indeed, given that the first sentence in their
           | comment is invalidated by the first sentence of the article.
           | Kind of depressing how matter-of-fact people are about
           | articles they clearly haven't bothered to even start reading.
        
         | SideburnsOfDoom wrote:
         | What makes you think that these images from the 1960s and 1970s
         | see anything "underground" or sub-surface?
        
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