From: hal@finney.org
Date: Wed Jun 14 2000 - 11:40:29 MDT
Mike writes:
> The problem is that you don't know exactly WHERE your buoy is going. The
> second problem is that spy satellites can pretty easily spot weapons
> sized lumps of radioactive materials unless kept in a hefty lead
> containment system.
Is that really true? Are they picking up gamma radiation, or some
localized effects of radiation? Spy satellites are ~100 miles up and
I would not have thought they could detect the radiation from such a
small object.
Hal
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