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20 meter resolution. Lol
All you have to do to hide from it is be smaller than 20 meters. Most military vehicles already do that.
I love a "this you"? >

If South Korea really wanted to troll, they’d casually announce new long-range precision missiles immediately. But North Korea would get angry, the ocean would be in danger >

Sadly this pic alone might get the ocean into some trouble ;-; >

What if this is just an elaborate hoax by the Kim regime to kill whales because they hate them >

But that's not some military satelite quality. That's not even Google Earth quality...
I bet on the actual images that they won't reveal you could tell people's faces apart if not more. >

The SR-71's onboard camera could read a car license plate from 85,000ft. That was in the 1960s. >

And the absolute lowest you can fly a satellite is about 6 times that far away, not to mention it having to be a lot smaller and lighter than an SR-71. It's easy to do the math on what mirror size you would need to distinguish faces from orbit, and it's 20+ meters. There is no rocket that can launch that currently. >


There is no rocket that can launch that currently.

James Webb says hi >

JWST mirror is 6.5 meters. You need 4x bigger at minimum. >

So you're telling me that if we turned the JWST towards us it wouldnt be detailed enough to distinguish faces? >

Not even close. Also: It's 1.6 million km away rather than the couple hundred you would fly a low Earth orbit satellite. It would also only see the dark side of Earth due to the position it's in. Plus it only sees in infrared not visible light. So that's 2 more reasons for no.
But even only looking at the angular resolution, it's far too small the see details at cm scale from orbit. >


The color photo, taken with "land satellite No. 1," clearly shows Kim Il-sung Square and its surrounding facilities, including a history museum, an art museum and a department store.
By contrast, the North Korean photo released Monday was in black and white, and barely showed the outlines of bridges across the Han River and a port in the western city of Incheon.
The North's Korean Central News Agency said the camera fitted on the "test-piece satellite" built for military reconnaissance purposes had a resolution of 20 meters.
Experts here said a reconnaissance satellite must have a resolution of at least 0.5m, making the North's equipment impossible to use for its stated purpose.

Bahahaha. I wonder who will be anti-aircraft gunned down for this.