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Popular Science has gotten their hands on some amazing satellite photography of yesterday’s inauguration on the National Mall. The amount of people and the crowds formed and grouped looks indistinguishable from a colony of ants coming though the cracks of a sidewalk. The sidewalk in this case also having a miniature sundial shaped like the Washington Monument and the White House.

If the imagery and resolution of the ground wasn’t amazing enough [at a 19.6inch ground resolution], one commenter points out:

If you look at the full size image, you can actually see another satellite in the top left corner.

That’s some depth of field!

Comment on this photo at Flickr

Happy to see that law enforcement can still be level headed on occasion. From The Register on the case of the 3 cell phone buying entrepreneurs¹ come terrorists:

The FBI said Monday that it had no information to indicate that the men in custody had any ties to terrorist organisations, the Associated Press reports. Nevertheless, the local police and prosecutors seem persuaded that they’ve foiled a dastardly plot, and appear prepared, for now, to go through with the prosecutions.

Wait, what?

¹ Oh come on, you know you’d be the first to set up an eBay store if you found out this scheme could be profitable!