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China gets a bum rap (and with good reason) for all kinds of humanitarian and environmental shortcomings and offenses, but there’s some good amidst all this bad. After all, a rapidly modernizing nation with inexhaustible financial and human resources can get just about anything it wants done (like, for instance, the 3 Gorges Dam project). [...]

By now we’ve all see the Obamaguration satellite pictures, which brought home once again the tremendous power of the space-bird’s eye view. Of course, there are also the various creepy government surveillance possibilities of satellite imagery, but we feel those have been adequately explored in several Hollywood blockbusters. No, for us satellite images are simply [...]