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.
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.
But this arrest makes him a perfect candidate for this spying mission, so he could be dismissed as a space/drone nerd.
And then one would have to ask whether the arrest in Shanghai is real or a made-up story. Or an event they orchestrated, so if some foreign intelligence agency quietly checks, they'll find eyewitnesses and people who can confirm the event, not knowing it was made up to give this man a cover story...
I sound like a conspiracy nutter now, but a conspiracy nutter is convinced his idea is definitely what happened, I'm just throwing an idea.
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.
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...
The Pentagon doesn’t like much of anything to be known about its satellites. The Vera Rubin Observatory will likely make awkward eye contact with some of them. Many of them are telescopes in their own right, but instead of tilting up toward the sky, they point down at Earth. … Each time the telescope were to take one of its 30-second tile images of the sky, the file would be immediately encrypted, without anyone looking at it first, and then sent on to a secure facility in California. … Three days and eight hours later, the entire tile image would be released to astronomers, untouched by black marker or any other technology of redaction.
By then, the spy satellites would likely have gone somewhere else. They are elusive, after all. Their orbits are irregular, and they shift direction often. Not even the world’s most accomplished astronomers would be able to infer their present locations from a line of light streaking through a three-day-old image.
Also, 'they' let the drone operates for an hour despite been flagged?? What about data sent real-time. Shouldn't the drone been 'cancelled' as soon ad spotted?
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[ 6.8 ms ] story [ 66.2 ms ] threadI 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.
>ZHOU also recognized thatphotographing the SpaceX facility on VSFB was “probably not agood idea
...
>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.
...
>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.
And then one would have to ask whether the arrest in Shanghai is real or a made-up story. Or an event they orchestrated, so if some foreign intelligence agency quietly checks, they'll find eyewitnesses and people who can confirm the event, not knowing it was made up to give this man a cover story...
I sound like a conspiracy nutter now, but a conspiracy nutter is convinced his idea is definitely what happened, I'm just throwing an idea.
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.
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...
The Pentagon doesn’t like much of anything to be known about its satellites. The Vera Rubin Observatory will likely make awkward eye contact with some of them. Many of them are telescopes in their own right, but instead of tilting up toward the sky, they point down at Earth. … Each time the telescope were to take one of its 30-second tile images of the sky, the file would be immediately encrypted, without anyone looking at it first, and then sent on to a secure facility in California. … Three days and eight hours later, the entire tile image would be released to astronomers, untouched by black marker or any other technology of redaction. By then, the spy satellites would likely have gone somewhere else. They are elusive, after all. Their orbits are irregular, and they shift direction often. Not even the world’s most accomplished astronomers would be able to infer their present locations from a line of light streaking through a three-day-old image.
When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/vera-rub...