26 Feb
2001
26 Feb
'01
6:48 a.m.
Ray Dillinger wrote:
Here's an interesting thought, though. There are all kinds of number generators already hanging in the sky, and some of them are fairly random, so this thing might actually have a prayer of working.
that, of course, requires that you trust THOSE. now it is highly unlikely (though not impossible) that the NSA thought of this, say, 10 years ago, and it would be an extremely costly operation to secretly modify those birds, but that only gives confidence, not trust.
I was not talking about artificial satellites. I was talking about chaotic processes observable with telescopes.
I was talking about the satellites used to observe these processes. I didn't get that you were going for earth-bound telescopes.