If the military can tell a persons sex by shadows in a photo, how tough can it be to ID a ship several football fields in length when they are painted to make them easy to ID. Robert D. Scott Robert@ufl.edu Senior Network Engineer 352-273-0113 Phone CNS - Network Services 352-392-2061 CNS Receptionist University of Florida 352-392-9440 FAX Florida Lambda Rail 352-294-3571 FLR NOC Gainesville, FL 32611 -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:16 PM To: deepak@ai.net Cc: sean@donelan.com; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:

There is no reason to assume these are civilian satellites.

I'm glad you said it -- I was just about to utter the same. ;-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFH/Aq5q1pz9mNUZTMRAimlAJwJ6iNNiXMF7w+yR+GrNE2jW1B2NgCghbxv rwfmQtPdVP+1mQ34WyQ9B4Y= =LL9c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/