[Strategerist]

a carrier makes a pretty big blip on a satellite map.

Of the many egregious myths about military matters, one of the biggest myths is a GREATLY exaggerated sense of the ability of satellites to find and track stuff, largely because of inaccurate portrayals of the use of recon satellites in a lot of bad spy movies.

[chilepepper]

depends on the satellite ;)

[Paul Ross]

...largely because of the inaccurate portrayals of the use of recon satellites in a lot of bad spy movies.

Not to mention television series...such as "24."