tpbaxter
10-29-2009, 06:29 PM
Ok, maybe I'm spoiling this by trying to be too realistic, but the whole mosaic thing seems pretty fake.
First of all, I don't understand why that website is costing them so much money that they need to blackmail the president to get enough funds. It's really not that expensive to run a basic website but for some reason I doubt a government agency would be the first people who would create a site for recording all this information. Private individuals would probably create hundreds as soon as it happened not to mention the other social networking sites that already exist. The government by contrast would have to go through all this bureaucratic red tape just to start discussing it.
But still, I don't get why they have to appear before a senate committee for approval. That would be government bureaucracy at it's most absurd. If it did go that far, compiling a list of eyewitness reports via the internet seems like a common sense idea so such fierce interrogation about it seems stupid. I know there's the power play aspect but still...
Also one of the character's said they "mosaiced" someone and said it was better than google stalking. But I cannot think of a single government run website that became an internet sensation. The only "popular" government sites I can think of off the top of my head are whitehouse.gov and the CIA's World Fact Book and neither of those is particularly compelling. Other than that I wouldn't exactly qualify the DMV's site as a "sensation"...
Last thing is that mosaic does not look like a website at all. It had all these fancy graphics rendering stuff that looked more like Google Earth. Again I doubt a single FBI office had the resources to create such an application in such a short period of time.
And how does their mosaic site know stuff about dying birds? WTF? I thought it was just a place for people to upload their experiences? Where did the in depth bird analysis software come from?
First of all, I don't understand why that website is costing them so much money that they need to blackmail the president to get enough funds. It's really not that expensive to run a basic website but for some reason I doubt a government agency would be the first people who would create a site for recording all this information. Private individuals would probably create hundreds as soon as it happened not to mention the other social networking sites that already exist. The government by contrast would have to go through all this bureaucratic red tape just to start discussing it.
But still, I don't get why they have to appear before a senate committee for approval. That would be government bureaucracy at it's most absurd. If it did go that far, compiling a list of eyewitness reports via the internet seems like a common sense idea so such fierce interrogation about it seems stupid. I know there's the power play aspect but still...
Also one of the character's said they "mosaiced" someone and said it was better than google stalking. But I cannot think of a single government run website that became an internet sensation. The only "popular" government sites I can think of off the top of my head are whitehouse.gov and the CIA's World Fact Book and neither of those is particularly compelling. Other than that I wouldn't exactly qualify the DMV's site as a "sensation"...
Last thing is that mosaic does not look like a website at all. It had all these fancy graphics rendering stuff that looked more like Google Earth. Again I doubt a single FBI office had the resources to create such an application in such a short period of time.
And how does their mosaic site know stuff about dying birds? WTF? I thought it was just a place for people to upload their experiences? Where did the in depth bird analysis software come from?