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Re: Just curious... [Re: Daydreamer] #1016909 - 10/02/07 11:41 AM Well over 40 yes...but this is should not be important. This is a way has been an embarrassing failure from an outsiders view, where however to improve it is important, as it might just be starting. My father routed furniture deliveries every night in the olden days before the digital revolution. Almost needless to say you don't put the first delivery stop on the truck on first, buried deep in the furniture in the truck, otherwise you'd have to unload the truck at every stop! I see this as a similar problem and part of the problem has been in the delivery of imagery. Micro-satellites might be launched someday or maybe what Stasi (the East German police) stated we use, "sub-orbital satellites" which caused the scramble and shoot-down of Korean Flight 007 from Alaska, resulting from the chase of fired "over the horizon data collectors" becoming an almost routine intercept mission by USSR pilots in that part of the world, picture provided (as reported by a historian of Swedish weather research rocketry which used the phased out Nike missiles, in an official magazine he found there when the wall came down, a Nike launch ring pintle holds up his cabin table in Sweden, which I find ironic having helped find the R.P. Parrott pintle and gun platform in the marsh contaminated by the batteries made for the Nike system in Cold Spring, NY during the archaeological assistance in the design of the EPA clean-up there. See "Swamp Angel" in the US Civil War) but in the meantime when we read of all the materiel used in Iraq to find IED (improvised explosive devices) one has to wonder if there could be a NSAR (office of National Search and Rescue, combining the US Coast Guard and the other services, i.e., National Guard doing that, etc.) More cooperation in resource sharing to protect "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" might be congressionally considered. For example in many places a helicopter may take quite a while to get to you, i.e., Chilkoot Trail in Alaska, for which you will be charged according to the NPS, (build a road to Skagway from Juneau) and Homeland Security also a cooperative protective service involved rather than spying "on our behalf". Looking at all the roads in this area is enough to give one a sense of the numbers of people that might need aid though mostly empty in the imagery. Of course the fact that the rescue "frequency" has not worked out, is also a tragedy. It seems like yesterday way back in the late 1960s us and the Russians were tracking polar bears from satellite (Scientific American) and the Russians worked out an emergency response to radio signals from people in trouble for rescue. Perhaps more international cooperation along those lines would help. Unfortunately, the first three Russian planes supplying aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina were all that were allowed by the US authorities, though more were offered with relief supplies. Sorry if this is "soap box" I mean no offense to anyone whose tried to help. I've read there's a radio you can talk to the International Space Station from an earth-bound helicopter, developed for people in HAZMAT suits which makes communication impossible. Google Earth Community: STEVE FOSSETT SEARCH-->POST HERE