Yinpiao Zhou Charged with Drone Flying over Vandenberg

There are a lot of chinese nationals in the US. This kind of thinking is like those who think deporting all illegal immigrants will not somehow significantly harm the US economy. I feel like a lot of americans truly don't believe in "innocent until proven guilty" these days.

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Post by riku_iki » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

noobermin wrote: post #6

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #3

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There are a lot of chinese nationals in the US. This kind of thinking is like those who think deporting all illegal immigrants will not somehow significantly harm the US economy. I feel like a lot of americans truly don't believe in "innocent until proven guilty" these days.

> This kind of thinking is like those who think deporting all illegal immigrants will not somehow significantly harm the US economy.

I do not support what prev commenter said, but also I don't think you can mix these things, it is not that obvious that unregulated illegal immigration is better for economy than legal/regulated.

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Post by blackeyeblitzar » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 10:25 PM UTC

noobermin wrote: post #6

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #3

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There are a lot of chinese nationals in the US. This kind of thinking is like those who think deporting all illegal immigrants will not somehow significantly harm the US economy. I feel like a lot of americans truly don't believe in "innocent until proven guilty" these days.

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Post by codezero » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 10:27 PM UTC

aaron695 wrote: post #5

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That document seems to indicate that the government believes he knowingly broke the law.

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Post by maxglute » Thu, Dec 12, 2024, 10:30 PM UTC

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Yeah sounds like a dummy space nerd. As if PRC needs drone footages of Vandenberg.

>ZHOU also recognized thatphotographing the SpaceX facility on VSFB was “probably not agood idea

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>ZHOU said he previously got into trouble in Chinafor flying a UAS in a restricted area. More specifically, ZHOUwas arrested for flying a UAS near a government building atPeople’s Square in Shanghai. He was subsequently fined for this.ZHOU did not register the UAS in China either.

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>ZHOU originally downloaded the bypasssoftware in 2019 to get around the no-fly zones in Shanghai.Referencing the bypass software and his UAS, ZHOU said,“Normally, if you didn’t have that software, it wouldn’t be ableto take off from here.

OTOH

>Notably, on that same day, November 30, 2024, a sensitive payload developed for the National Reconnaissance Office had been launched to orbit by a space contractor.