[texhax] Re Unusual Document
Gordon Haverland
ghaverla at materialisations.com
Wed Aug 31 16:15:20 CEST 2016
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:28:08 +0000
"Hefferon, James S." <jhefferon at smcvt.edu> wrote:
>> I think I would really need to find someone who flies to get a
>> picture from the sky. Potentially the letters could be 60 feet tall
>> (I think I have about 80 feet available for a "line" of text).
>
> I should think that the local drone club (look on Meetup) would enjoy
> taking pictures. For that matter, at that size it would be easily
> visible on Google Earth.
No, I would not approach a drone club. There are enough incidents in
the news of drones flying where they shouldn't be. My location is
within about 2-2.5 miles of an airport. TheRegister is currently
running a thread on a drone at 7000 feet and another incident of a
drone within 10m of an aircraft cockpit. I think drones can be very
useful, we need more intelligence involved in their flying.
On GoogleEarth, the house and driveway can be seen. I think one pine
tree affected by mountain pine beetle can also be seen. So maybe it
could resolve the 6 foot wide "cuts". But, should a TUG article get
written, I should look to see if the image is present. Or figure out
how to send a message to ISS to see if they can see it.
But thanks for the ideas.
Gord
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