Posted on 05/04/2019 12:20:44 AM PDT by LibWhacker
We have lots of Asians in our area. I get a kick out of them when they wear the surgical masks around town. (Other than the few days/weeks in summer with the fires coming in from Canada - our air is always very clean.) They do NOTHING to keep from breathing in particulates.
They are for keeping one’s own germs from spreading.
But - whatever.
From what I understand, in London, UK, you cannot walk anywhere on the streets without being picked up on multiple CCTV cameras yet, the crime rate continues to grow.
Of course, under ECHELON, the ‘Five Eyes’,(NSA, GCHQ, CSE, ASD, and GCSB), monitor ALL communications, telephone, internet, etc. The depth of the gubmint to monitor their citizens in the West would make a former ‘Staatssicherheitsdienst’ general weep with jealously.
Jim Morrison of the Doors saw it coming”
“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you’ve seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
From the album “An American Prayer”
“The Movie”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul5HTPES-yU
This album is pretty cool. Poetry of Morrison on tape, and then after he died, put to music by the original members. Note - some rough language. Great song though imho.
Korean porn ping?
My darling wife is from China and I have been there with her visiting her family, you are always being watched.
And what are the odds nothing is in the way? Like a tree trunk or a crowd of people or a truck or an antifa mask etc. Can it see around large objects?
How do you know they didn’t have this?
You’re assuming that it will be deployed on the ground, rather than on a stabilized mount on an aircraft.
The US military has had stuff like this on aircraft for a long time.
That's just an average. It is that value plus or minus about 6 miles. That has consequences.
Not true. I lived — and jogged — in polluted Kabul air for over 5 years. After some days I noticed black stuff when clearing my throat. Not good. It was mostly from soot from the wood burned to cook naan (flat bread). But it likely contained airborne feces from the open “sewers” down the middle of the dirt streets.
On my next trip to the USA I got a large box of masks from Home Depot. I began to wear them when jogging. The masks got black and my sputum remained clear. So yeah, they do something.
Obviously they don’t do EVERYTHING as they are like furnace air filters and particles below a certain size still get through.
It already is. But not by/in 4th dimensional means and constraints.
I do have a bunch of N95 filters (I like the ones with the easy breathing thingy in the filter). Those DO help. I’m talking about the square cloth that go over the nose and mouth - but no seal.
Although I suppose even a loose surgeon’s mask is better than nothing?
Or they could of just not gone at all as Osama was already dead.
Obama needed his big distraction though
Photograph some UFOs now.
Thanks. That was my first question.
I live in Asia. We commonly wear masks to work when we have a cold so we don’t spread it. Nice gesture. Not sure if effective.
Another issue: at a resolution of 60cm, the resulting “image” of an individual is going to be 3 or 4 pixels - NOT a lot of information detail to be had.
A two story building has 10 or 15 pixels high if you can move beyond earth curvature type issues
The technical barriers prevent this from any potential usefulness - now and for a very long time...
There are no secrets.
You are a criminal. I am a criminal. EVERYONE is a criminal.
Everything you fear about government surveillance is true. Passive surveillance is everywhere. I have seen satellite photos that could tell what book someone is reading. Every device that could listen to you, does listen to you. Going off the grid? Believe it or not you are still tracked by your heat signature.
Paranoid? I wish. I first saw these technological wonders back in the 1970’s at the National Intelligence Academy in Fort Lauderdale. It has gotten much, much worse since.
Basically, if someone in the government wants “dirt” on you, they not only can get it, they already have it. And if you think you are some kind of saint, your loved ones probably aren’t and will be used against you.
I wish I had a solution...but any way around observation has already been thought of by someone smarter than you and addressed.
What is sad is that people have given up privacy willingly. Any mobile phone can be a tracker and listening device. Ditto smart watches. Voice control on your TV? Always listening. Voice commands in your car? Recording every conversation you have and storing it on NSA servers for future reference.
We are living in Orwell’s future, and most don’t know or care. Sad.
if the Seals had this available when they were after Osama Ben Laden...
A jet blast from the past, 1956 U-2 camera specs... compare and contrast...
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/camera-aerial-hycon-73b-lockheed-u-2c
.The B camera had a 36-inch focal length and resolved features as small as .75 meters (2.5 feet) from an altitude of 19.3 kilometers (65,000 feet). Designed by Dr. James Baker, the panoramic B camera had revolutionary image-movement compensation that allowed for the motion of the aircraft and the vibration of the engine, as well as the movement of the highly sensitive, fast, and ultra thin Kodak film also especially designed for the project. Shooting through seven glass encased windows in the belly of the U-2, the B camera recorded everything along a 3,500 km (2,700 mile) course, up to 200 km (125 miles) wide, and it could provide up to 4000 pairs of stereoscopic photographs.
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