Atomic Utopia wrote:Spirit of Hope wrote:AKA if you already have a satellite looking at a location, and a submarine happens to be at that location, you might be able to see them if they are close enough to the surface and/or moving fast enough. So extremely limited by the number of satellites, time over an area, the size of the area they can scan, etc.
Yes, and it would take some while to set up, and probably cost a load of money, however the question was if you could see it, not if it would be reasonable, even though it looks like it may be reasonable to do so.
Reasonable to scan the ocean for submarines? Yes, however it is of very limited utility. My question was posed to the statement:
Greater Soviet Ukraine wrote:*Uses futuristic satellite technology to scan the seas*
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW
Indicating that they had the capability to scan and find all (or at least most) submarines, which the technology isn't able to do.