(((▪A Chinese company said it created a photo with such a high resolution that you can zoom from thousands of meters away to see people's facial expressions▪)))

Christian Edwards Dec 21, 2018, 3:12 AM

You might call this the pinnacle of high-resolution images.

The image, the brainchild of a company called Jingkun Technology, or BigPixel, was taken from atop the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China.

The company said the photo's resolution is a mind-blowing 195 gigapixels.

The resolution of digital cameras and smartphones is often measured in megapixels, or 1 million pixels - so a 12-megapixel camera, for example, can produce images with 12 million total pixels. But in this case we're talking about gigapixels, or 1 billion pixels.

It's the brainchild of a company called Jingkun Technology, or BigPixel, taken from atop the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China.

What it is not, contrary to chatter on social media this week, is some evil new Chinese satellite "quantum technology."

It's just a very, very big picture, and according to the company, more than 8 million people have explored it.

The company said the photo's resolution is a mind-blowing 195 gigapixels….

https://amp.businessinsider.com/high-resolution-photo-lets-you-zoom-in-on-peoples-faces-2018-12

~Your Navy~

▪US aircraft carrier enters Persian Gulf after long absence▪

By: Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press

ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER JOHN C. STENNIS IN THE PERSIAN GULF — A U.S. aircraft carrier sailed into the Persian Gulf on Friday, becoming the first since America’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal in May and breaking the longest carrier absence in the volatile region since at least the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The arrival of the John C. Stennis comes as Iranian officials have returned to repeatedly threatening to close off the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a third of all oil traded by sea passes.

(((Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels shadowed the Stennis and its strike group, at one point launching rockets away from it and flying a drone nearby.)))

The long absence of a carrier, however, could become a standard practice here as now-outgoing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis sought to shake up naval operations and American air bases spanning the region can scramble fighter jets and drones.

"We are trying to be more operationally unpredictable," said Lt. Chloe Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S.' Bahrain-based 5th Fleet. "Now we're switching it up because our adversaries are watching closely. We want to be operationally unpredictable to our enemies, but strategically predictable to our partners."….cont.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/12/21/us-aircraft-carrier-enters-persian-gulf-after-long-absence/