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by throwaway894345 85 days ago
Granted, but how does satellite radar actually see ships at all? How do the ships not blend into the ocean (the relative difference between the distances between ship<->satellite and ocean<->satellite is minescule)?

EDIT: the sibling comment already provided a high quality answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458766