On Feb 2, 1:28 pm, David Spain wrote:
Pat Flannery writes:
The NSA already has those; huge parabolic dish SIGINT satellites that can pick
up pretty much all radio-based communications on the Earth's surface:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/magnum.htm

Eh? Where's the challenge in that? That's so 80's.

I'm talking real-time ground AUDIO.

Or better yet, point it at Mars and let's hear whats happening there...

When is somebody going to think to put a microphone on one of those
surface probes? Let's hear the wind blow... To think we might be missing
out on all those Martian mating calls even today! Horrible!
Dave

We design and build Exterior Audio Recievers (EARs),

http://www.trak4.com/earco/index.html

You can listen to recordings of the Loons (Earthlings) mating by
playing
the sound files at the bottom of the page.
We keep two under test, into a dedicated stereo system, I seriously
enjoy them. Let us know if you want one.
Ken