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“No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system.”

Book:Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World

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Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World

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Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen is an American artist known for his critical exploration of national security. His work spans photography, sculpture, installation art, and writing, often addressing issues of privacy, surveillance, and power in modern society. more

“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.”

Community Modern Television Competition Treasure Printing Press Giftedness Satellite Champions

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Satellite technology is a wonderful thing. From space, we can stare down and look at perimeter fences, huts, mine entrances and even sites of mass graves.”

Satellite Gulag

Book:North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State

Source: North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State

“I had a dream about you last night... if atomic clocks are synced up to a satellite to keep their time accurate, where does the satellite get its time? Is there a chain of atomic clocks setting time for other atomic clocks?”

Time Dreams Dreaming Satellite Clocks Atomic Clock

Book:Dreaming is for lovers

Source: Dreaming is for lovers

“With the geosynchronous orbit, the RAE Table maxes out. It has two answers for the orbital lifetime of a spacecraft in GSO: "greater than a million years" and "indefinite.”

Spacecraft Satellite Indefinite Echostar Xvi Geosynchronous Orbit Gso

Book:The Last Pictures

Source: The Last Pictures

“Our country use satellites to spy on its own people?' 'Well, the satellites go all around the world. They just don't bother to turn them off over the US.”

Spy Satellite Distopia

Book:Forever Peace

Source: Forever Peace

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