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dropdeadfred -- I probably overstated it; most likely, i.e. unless someone wants to do it just to damned well do it, it'll depend on just how far down that line they actually need to go -- this obviously isn't a pure needle-in-a-haystack situation, they do know where/when they most want to look and, as already seems the case, they may well find enough/what they need quite directly from just a relatively few videos/images (and analysis of/correlation with such) without having to go deeply into computer-generated reconstruction

if they do go all the way with that:

could be some outputs that cross over into revealing capabilities they might not want revealed (as this will draw on intel/mil's supercomputing/supercoding) -- but given that the inputs will be at least by far mostly from generally used and available sensors, and so accordingly not involve issues of classified sensors (satellites/spy gear/whatever), would expect generally yes -- at least if they aren't able to just grab the suspect(s) if/as soon as well-imaged/identified, then of course there'll be wanted posters, and perhaps at least some lower-resolution video(s) -- and if any full-blown computer reconstructions are actually needed at trial, to be used(?) as evidence, and of course also not sealed as classified (any attempt at that would no doubt be contested by the media), then they'll be front and center in the public record

and would think that, if anything, they just might want to get their best out there, as a warning -- you're gonna do something in a public place with numbers of people, we're gonna be able to reconstruct it down a very clear replay of exactly from where you came, just what you looked like/were wearing/etc. (sufficient with recognition and general database capabilities/resources to positively identify you [even if you've taken steps to hide your true appearance]), exactly what you did, and exactly where you went

heard a report that as of yesterday afternoon, over 3 terabytes of raw images and videos had already come in, with more continuing to come in -- now comes putting all that together into one reconstruction -- image by image, frame by frame, for each of the trillions of same: precisely resolve every camera location and angle/field of view, synchronize all exactly, correct for different lenses/distortions/shadings/other visual effects, enhancing first singly and then together wherever two or more overlap in any part (and from whichever angle) -- then (or, actually, probably in parallel) parse, sort, combine, assemble all or at least major subsets of those images, thus processed, into the whole look at what happened (at/around the two detonation sites respectively, or [this'll give some idea of just how good they are at this at this point] that whole area including both detonation sites) -- and run facial recognition and whatever other tricks -- and integrate ambiently-gathered sound, including voices -- add in other forensics as to e.g. where what device fragments and other whatevers were found -- layer in cell/text/internet/etc. records and (. . .) content, as available (this particular aspect of course going straight back into DHS/No Such Agency/et al)

some supercomputing required there (again, starting with trillions of images/frames of video and processing them through to combining them into one replay accurate to every datum of information contained in/derived from each one of those trillions of images/frames of video) -- requiring some nice front-end work adapting the various best-available types of code to work together to build this reconstruction -- though then again, they probably well enough already do have at least some readily-enough adaptable such model ready to go just needing/ready to take in and process the raw images/frames/other data for a given new instance

my surmise as to what would be involved, anyway; try to keep an eye on such things, but it's not like I actually, you know, know -- I think the sort of 3-D holographic reconstruction I'm imagining would be pretty much at the frontier, if not of what they can do, of the sort of exercise they might actually have otherwise done/pulled together to this point

my interest in such things has a somewhat broader focus -- the already yawning and exponentially widening gap that they -- the computers, the networked computers with access to all the historical and real-time data to which they have access, the intelligent machines -- have opened over and beyond us in sheer terms of things they can do, kinds of things they can do, that we simply cannot, and could not (without them) -- together with the paired reality that, on a similarly exponential path, we (well, we with their help) are giving them not only our sorts of physical capabilities and senses, and better, but also our self-organizing sort of mind, of brain structure and function (most recently/see generally [linked in] http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=86970989 and preceding and following)

and then, not long from now, there'll be fully-fledged quantum computing -- models/problems that take supercomputing, even supercomputing a few orders of magnitude beyond what we've already got, hours or even days to run once, done/iterated as many billions of times simultaneously and (from there if even needed further) resolved (in as many ways as wanted or needed) to as near infinity as you like, in a literal blink of an eye

as linked in the post linked above, a couple earlier thoughts:

we who imagined gods we wished we were, born of this living planet we now make barren, nearing our own last breath create an entirely new kind of life -- with which some may merge to survive, perchance even to become as gods, as we are left behind
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hopefully they'll like pets
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