Does Google actually even own satellites, or are they just buying imagery from someone?

Missing comma and the "because" definition of "for": With 5 children, my mother in law (a retired Catholic School Teacher) told us to Home School, for public and some Christian Schools were not good anymore.

Wow! Rosetta must be in a really peculiar part of space indeed if noise can be mis-interpreted as signal, flipping bits in such a way as to fool the the error correction coding, finding only those pieces of the data stream that are part of the image telemetry, working its way backwards through the compression algorithm (which has its own error detection protocols) so as to affect only the specific pixels required to blur the image.

Exactly! So all that stuff about antenna size and signal power is irrelevant nonsense. A weak or noisy signal is not going to give them a grainy or blurry picture. It's going to give them a "Signal Lost" error message, and if it's important, the team will request a retransmission at a better bit rate. The image quality is solely dependent on the camera and optics (which are quite good, judging from the images I've seen. They are neither grainy nor blurry, but are crisp and sharp).

What grainy/blurry images? All of the images I've seen have been crystal clear, apart from the one where the comet is outgassing. Your guess about bandwidth limitations and video is probably correct.

... and it's a digital signal from a digital camera, so none of that should affect image quality.

Since you have to ask, you can't afford them.

Some episodes are available online legit at CBS.com if you're in the US.

Pirate bay blocked for you?

Exactly! He's not crazy. His mother had him tested.

Can't. CNN has been removed from basic cable around here. We're down to less than a dozen real channels (about half of which are alternate language channels), and a dozen "infotainment" channels (Weather, Business, local news, and infomercial channels). There is literally almost nothing worth watching unless you get a digital set-top box.

It's not about finding out why 239 people drowned. It's about finding and fixing the hole in the supposedly foolproof safety surveillance net that is big enough to let a multi-million dollar plane vanish without a trace.

Or, at a minimum, real-time position telemetry.

Speaking of Outbreak, If it does break out of the CDC, it will be stopped at the border.

You don't assemble computers. You compile them. Actually, you don't even do that. You just click on the components you want, and the virtual machine manager takes care of the rest.