> It’s like trying to find someone you see in a street view image from a maps provider.

Are we talking about Strava, or satellites? It's not obvious to me that exercise data is any more real time or easy to find than satellite tracking.

> It does make me wonder how a warplane stops a merchant vessel without blowing it up if the radio doesn’t work.

Shots across the bows are a pretty universal signal.

Oh. Duh, that’s a good point. The plane can shoot in Z-axes. Thanks.