Comments on: Israel’s Army goes Dick Tracy http://thetechblog.com/2005/03/israels-army-goes-dick-tracy.html Technology news and much more... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:05:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Tollie Williams http://thetechblog.com/2005/03/israels-army-goes-dick-tracy.html#comment-3 Tollie Williams Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:24:00 +0000 http://thetechblog.com/2005/03/israels-army-goes-dick-tracy.html#comment-3 Consider this - we measure the movement of the moon away from the earth in millimeters with a laser that we bounce off a mirror put there by the Apollo astronauts. That's a laser traveling 480,000 miles there and back, using 70's technology, that can pick up millimeters of movement.<br /><br />Now consider that lasers have been used in spy-tech to pick up in-room sounds by aiming them at windows and walls and converting the tiny movements caused by sound waves into the actual sounds.<br /><br />With these things in mind, I don't doubt at all we have the technical ability to eavesdrop on any location visible from space.<br /><br />But this would be Tom Clancy, I suppose, not Dick Tracy. Consider this - we measure the movement of the moon away from the earth in millimeters with a laser that we bounce off a mirror put there by the Apollo astronauts. That’s a laser traveling 480,000 miles there and back, using 70’s technology, that can pick up millimeters of movement.

Now consider that lasers have been used in spy-tech to pick up in-room sounds by aiming them at windows and walls and converting the tiny movements caused by sound waves into the actual sounds.

With these things in mind, I don’t doubt at all we have the technical ability to eavesdrop on any location visible from space.

But this would be Tom Clancy, I suppose, not Dick Tracy.

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