John Pike
John Pike
information online restrict satellite similar sources useful
Possibly, in a post-Sept. 11 environment, we do need to think about restricting the availability of information that would be useful to terrorists. But if we're going to do it for online satellite imagery, there are a lot of other sources of similar information that we're going to have to try to restrict as well.
farms hold illinois interest local move southern terminal
There's some interest here in retrofitting barns. Most farms in Southern Illinois don't have a lot of on-farm storage. And the local elevators and terminal elevators are not set up to hold grain. They have to move it out.
beginning damage disaster problem serious understand
Is the problem that they are only just now beginning to understand how serious the damage was? Did they not have a contingency for a disaster of this magnitude?
believe china continues despite fact fund known laws money quite strategy waste work
The strategy is to get China to waste money on things that we know are not feasible, while discouraging them from working on things that we believe to be quite promising, ... The U.S. continues to fund work in this field, despite the fact that it contravenes known laws of physics.
atrocities committing lying people tricks
The story most people around the world have is that the Americans are up to their old tricks - committing atrocities and lying about it. And that's completely incorrect.
business companies private
Private companies are in business to make money,
hard
The whole story is hard to put together,
answered changed images intelligence number questions recognize space time
Some would say it's time to recognize that the world has changed - that the number of intelligence questions that can be answered with images from space is very limited.
bottom decided government imagery line looked publicly
The bottom line is that the U.S. government looked at this imagery and decided that it was OK for it to be publicly released,
complete hardware people procedure radios
They had all the radios in the world. They had complete interoperability. That was not a hardware problem. That was a people and procedure problem.
order save
In order to save appearances, they didn't want it to be unanimous,
detect figured figuring motion process
I just don't think we've got this thing figured out yet. And I can't detect that we've set in motion a process for figuring it out.
air defined short
If you want to think about airplanes that have defined the air age, this would have to be on the short list.
base florida governor move
I don't think they're going to move a base to Florida because the governor is the president's brother.