PaparazziSats

The paparazzi are a gang of busybodies who chase celebrities around, taking pictures and asking dumb and/or snoopy interview questions. The resulting revelations are then widely publicized in a specialized medium generally referred to as "tabloids".

There is not much that can be done about paparazzi and tabloids in a free society, but there IS an alternative for the photographers of the group. Let them put giant telescopes into orbit! Each about the size of a Keck, including appropriate adaptive optics to compensate for Earth's atmosphere, and equipped with full-spectrum cameras, including infrared. With enough such satellites, they can keep all the celebrities under constant surveillance, with enough resolution to see eyelashes. Only bad weather might encourage old-fashioned in-your-face photo-snapping (but how often celebrities are ever seen outside getting drenched, anyway?).

Other tabloids, not quite so celebrity oriented, could turn those telescopes to other views, and catch the license plate numbers of UFOs, or find surviving dinosaurs hiding in darkest Africa, or catch the Abominable Snowman out for a stroll....

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