Google to acquire satellite eye-in-sky Skybox for $500m Google has entered into an agreement to acquire its Mountain View, California neighbor Skybox Imaging, a five-year-old satellite imagery and data-analysis startup. "We're thrilled to announce that Skybox Imaging has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google!" the company wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. The deal will …
Not to brag (oh, bullshit - I AM bragging), but Streetview can get no closer than 4.2 miles - there's a locked gate, two mesas, and a private dirt road intervening. If they make it past that, they're in serious danger of lead poisoning, there are no phone lines, and cellular signals are nonexistent.
We don't have 911, we use Smith & Wesson.
You know, I am *totally* against lasers being pointed at the sky, but if there is a way to do this without harming air traffic the temptation would be seriously high now.
This should not be approved unless one of them is brought into geo-stationarry orbit pointing at the homes of Google management. Personally, I think this should be a rule for all of them (yes, Zuck, for you too): anyone wanting my personal data will have to share theirs first.
With all these acquisitions, I am doubting that Google actually has one. What is their goal anyway? Are they a search engine, a car company, handset manufacturer, operating system vendor, advertising agency, or what?
From what I've seen, I think their business plan is "throw money at cool stuff, something is bound to make money"
Assimilating an eye in the sky biz means they can watch for interesting gatherings of people like thousands in a traffic jam, bored, stuck in their cars, sick of the radio. Given the company also designs satellites they could fit them with laser light show equipment to beam ads down on us, beats the hell out of a sky writing crop duster or a trailing banner.
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