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Yinpiao Zhou Charged with Drone Flying over Vandenberg

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Re: Yinpiao Zhou Charged with Drone Flying over Vandenberg

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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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Maybe we should preemptively put them in internment camps until the war is over, just in case

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Maybe we should preemptively put them in internment camps until the war is over, just in case

In this century, wars are unlikely to end once they are started, so camps might become permanent, gas chambers are more cost effective.

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Maybe we should preemptively put them in internment camps until the war is over, just in case

In a hypothetical conflict with China, how would you prevent sabotage?

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I wonder what a drone shot would give the CCP, that they wouldn't already have from satellites.

It's a potential goldmine. Spy satellites are on orbits and follow a very regular predictable path. I recall reading Patriot Games back in the day and terrorists had satellite timetables scrawled on a board so they knew when to cover their gear up with camouflage.

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I wonder what a drone shot would give the CCP, that they wouldn't already have from satellites.

It's a potential goldmine. Spy satellites are on orbits and follow a very regular predictable path. I recall reading Patriot Games back in the day and terrorists had satellite timetables scrawled on a board so they knew when to cover their gear up with camouflage.

I can not believe that modern ones stay perfectly static without any built-in maneuvering capability to periodically change their orbit. I also can not believe that there isn't effectively continuous coverage of important sites by multiple satellites. You really think the billions (trillions?) of dollars spent on such equipment is completely outsmarted by people just covering things up on a set timetable?

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It's a potential goldmine. Spy satellites are on orbits and follow a very regular predictable path. I recall reading Patriot Games back in the day and terrorists had satellite timetables scrawled on a board so they knew when to cover their gear up with camouflage.

I can not believe that modern ones stay perfectly static without any built-in maneuvering capability to periodically change their orbit. I also can not believe that there isn't effectively continuous coverage of important sites by multiple satellites. You really think the billions (trillions?) of dollars spent on such equipment is completely outsmarted by people just covering things up on a set timetable?

Has one ever had too much information?

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It's a potential goldmine. Spy satellites are on orbits and follow a very regular predictable path. I recall reading Patriot Games back in the day and terrorists had satellite timetables scrawled on a board so they knew when to cover their gear up with camouflage.

I can not believe that modern ones stay perfectly static without any built-in maneuvering capability to periodically change their orbit. I also can not believe that there isn't effectively continuous coverage of important sites by multiple satellites. You really think the billions (trillions?) of dollars spent on such equipment is completely outsmarted by people just covering things up on a set timetable?

Those period adjustments of orbit can be detected and accounted for and the fuel to make frequent and erratic changes is prohibitively expensive to carry.

Drones can also get better quality images than even many if not all spy satellites due to how close they can get to objects compared to the satellites.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a potential goldmine. Spy satellites are on orbits and follow a very regular predictable path. I recall reading Patriot Games back in the day and terrorists had satellite timetables scrawled on a board so they knew when to cover their gear up with camouflage.

I can not believe that modern ones stay perfectly static without any built-in maneuvering capability to periodically change their orbit. I also can not believe that there isn't effectively continuous coverage of important sites by multiple satellites. You really think the billions (trillions?) of dollars spent on such equipment is completely outsmarted by people just covering things up on a set timetable?

I speculate that there are US satellites up there watching the movements of Chinese satellites.

I suppose they also have signal monitoring, the commands to the Chinese satellites would be encrypted but the mere detection of a signal should cause the observers to warn whomever it may concern within the US military/government behemoth.

Now I'm imagining signals being hidden in Chinese satellite TV uplink, amongst the Chinese pop music videos...

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