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"Trans Rights Matter!" spotted on Google Earth.

Also painted on there:
Eat the fuckin' rich!!
No human being is illegal
Nothing short of revolution will save us

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[–] Repelle 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To be fair most of the map imagery we use from google/apple/etc is from planes and not satellites

[–] CptEnder 8 points 4 months ago

Ahhh ok yeah I was wondering the same thing. Still impressive.

[–] Redex68 4 points 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure spy satellites do have even greater resolution, only thing is that you're not gonna use something like that for a map view and it would be very inefficient, since those satellites certainly don't have the same field of view and would take a lot longer to scan the appropriate area, and are limited in number.