With internet connection.

Exactly

@@jeffbenton6183 and being tracked via Phone/cell masts....even with their phones turned off.

Funny you point that out, every had a conversation about something that you don't talk about every day, then you start getting adds trying to sell you something related to what you just talked about?

​@@frankmortensen7651Okay, but sometimes i get ads for stuff i was only thinking about and seemingly did not speak of or type anywhere.

Yea it's probably cheaper just hiring someone to follow me with a camera.

It's hard to avoid being tracked, most phone apps require GPS enabled for example, and 5g repeaters can detect biometric signatures even if you don'thave your phone on. Communist china has perfected social tracking and their model is the beta test for other governments

I guess people feel like their lives are too boring to draw attention to. I walk from my house to my workplace most days, and then back again, and occasionally to the shop to pick up some food. Big revelation. It's the same with the internet; google knows that I like gaming, camping and cat videos, and amazon knows that I like buying dishwasher tablets, toothpaste and shower gel. Big wow.

Most countries don't use their Spy satellites on them selves... That is often considered a waste of time, especially when you consider the logistics and time that goes into operating a satellite, they're also not designed to track small targets like individuals because of their limitations (like latency and bandwidth and observation time) its difficult regardless of the resolution (higher resolution also means higher latency and even slower return on images)

People find every reason to give the government more top-down control. Any apperent "catastophy" = clearly they need more power. Any problem maker or crime exists = clearly they need more power so they can punish him. Not to mention that the goal is to punish the person after the damage has already been done. Kinda illogical way to run a system. As compared to trying to prevent crime instead of punishing after it already happened... not even primary goal of reform... primary goal of punishment.

what's more? corrupt people being in control

The more terrifying thing that these illusions of a grand controller are masking is that there is no one in control.....its just little pockets of tyrants. There is no overarching control scheme. If there were, then why would you need to talk to 8 different people at the hall of records to get a copy of something of yours? Yeah. The terrible truth is no one knows whats going on, and most of us are just blustering our way through it all.....

It’s not about boring. It’s about information and control. They want to know what everyone is doing at all times. So sure chalk it up to “boredom” but you’re being hella ignorant.

​@@Badger1776I'm pretty sure their comment was in jest, calm down

@@Badger1776 aint noone spying on civilians lol the only use there is for that is traffic of certain areas.

@@R0B690 lol you must not believe Edward Snowden then.

@@R0B690 oh they definitely are, they likely don't even need to use people to track people at all times. they can use ai and algorithms to record it all. Then at one point in the future, you say something they don't like, or are of a group/ethnicity/whatever other factor that future person or organization in control of this technology dislikes, they can just put your name, identity, or picture into a database search and they have a full history of everything you've ever done and are currently doing, and can do with it as they please.

Not very far. Hubble is great but astronomy isn’t really holding us back.

enlighten me with how have 12 hubble taking picture of space would improve are life on earth ?

@patrickarsenault5201 let's see. Asteroids and meteors, solar flares, space debris, monitoring the ISS, looking for and determining life on other planets, all of which will and does have an effect on us.

I agree, but that's a "they", not a "we" Because "I" did not consent to this of my own free will, and "I" have no influence over industrial operations required to manufacture and launch a satellite, but "they" do

@@patrickarsenault5201 taking 12 hubbles instead of spy satellites as an example of spending these huge amounts of money into other than conflicts and wars, that is the point i guess

this takes stalking to a whole new level

Your right, and they're the "people" using this tech, to Conserve their privilege and power.

Who cares? If you saw someone pooping with the stall open would your feelings be hurt? Sounds like it

Taco Bell should be charged with crimes against humanity. And you really should be ashamed of Yourself.

There are no doors in institutions and we all survived.

​@@kimollivierbut it was _dehumanizing_

Bad analogy. We use privacy for the comfort of others as much as our own. Leaving the door open would be twisted exibitionism, and one should see a therapist if one was so inclined. If someone is going to SPY on me, then I'm not concerned with "offending" them. They're the one with the problem, not me. I have bigger fish to fry.

That’s the most frustrating part 😂

Or the footage of the "plane" that hit pentagon on 9/11.

So are you worried you are being watched? I'm not, I'm not that important. Peace and Ahev

@@MilanTheMan69 There's plenty of high res images of the very round hole through multiple layers of the pentagon though.

@@FriedEgg101 Without even a single piece of airplane in sight

Then they can many diagnose skin conditions and head lice! Wooppee!! Satellites in LEO are moving so fast, I don't think they can track a looting event very long. No worries for street-level camera sales yet.

I think this really comes down to intel, limited resources and what they choose to spend that time on with the spying. Pretty sure they aren't looking in on your pathetic backyard BBQ family reunion or haystack in a field romp too closely unless you are a big enough threat to them in some way or you have a big enough pervert hacker in control who can get away with it. I am FAR more concerned with the devices used in everyday life listening in and tracking and recording all your moves and the A.I. being used to access the average timing of your shits, pisses, farts, orgasms, travel habits and sleep schedules plus every word you've ever said or typed since they ramped up the tech. Be thankful they can't read your thoughts...yet.

4 TB pics being taken by US spy satellites in the late 1960s.

as a non-veteran i agree with you. in the movie "enemy of the state" which stars gene hackman, jon voight and will smith, hackman says an interesting thing. he says any technology you see used in a movie or on tv is about 10 years behind the reality of the capability of that technology. for some odd reason i tend to believe that statement! the profit motive is the reason for these oppressive, intrusive, overpriced monstrosities. even the "scientific" ones. if rich people didn't make money from them they wouldn't be built. ever notice how NOTHING gets done in the world unless the rich get richer from it? its why pollution, wars and poverty exists. they own everything. they control everything. they make all decisions for the rest of humanity. and humanity is kept blind, apathetic and stupid enough to let them do it.

they are working in cm but definitely agree. far past what the “public knows”

Peter Jennings, some time before 2005. At the beginning of one of his nightly broadcasts. He threw out a hook to keep us watching by saying like, at exactly 6:58 and 30 sec. The Government has decided to let us see the capability of one of the latest spy satellite. Yeah, I got hooked. The last add block played. They came back from break silently with a satellite view of the Americas. Zoomed on to North America. Zoomed to Florida. Zoomed to Orlando area. Zoomed to Disney world. Zoomed to a couple sitting on a park bench. Zoomed to the Mans left arm as he was looking at his ticking analog watch, hands at 6:58. As the second hand jumped to 30 sec. Panned back out a bit They both looked up into the sky and smiled together. I remember the dramatic effect. Not a sound...News was over. We could see the minutes segmented on the dial and the brand of watch. Her eyes I even think were blue. If you knew them, you would have recognized them. Astrum , I enjoyed your presentation. But if you ever do a redo. That over 19 year old footage I'm sure is archived. I would enjoy seeing it again. Rest in Peace Peter Jennings. And condolences to his family. He passed in 2005 of lung cancer.

Its cute how A) you dont give an altitude so your claim is anecdotal at best, and B) you are apparently so unfamiliar with cigarette PACKS (not box, pack) that its amazing to you that they can be differentiated at great distance. Trust me, as a smoker, Its easy to look across a quad and see whos the edgy hipster with the lucky strikes.....

Wow

Don't just claim things like that if they're not true. iPhone prohibits TikTok to use the Camera and Microphone when the app is not in use. That doesn't mean that TikTok (or any other app) is not a safety threat, which in my opinion it is, but there are security measures by Apple that work very good as of now. I wouldn't make the same claim for Android because security and Android don't go well together but I didn't make any research on that.

@@denisdeari1 tik tok is not secure.

@denisdeari1 wtf r u bullshitting right now apple boy?? 😂 Android and privacy don't go well togerher? Do your research and then you can talk about that.

​@@denisdeari1Read the terms

The NRO has no intelligence exploitation mission. They simple procure, build, design, launch, and manage satelites. They are essentially a logistical agency within the Intelligence Community. Your thinking of the NGA. The CIA has very little satelitte based intelligence mission.

What is the NRO?

@@arnorobinwerkman National Reconnaissance Office. They are the ones who send up the spy sattalites and monitor video and other data. There is a lot of videos of previous missions they have conducted in the past. Some of the equipment is very advanced. From what I have read and heard from diffrent interviews I've watched they can now see and basically listen to phones and hack internet from space.

​@@arnorobinwerkmanNational Reconnaisance Office, I believe.

@@marianneb.7112 thanks

crazy

It is what it is. Live with it.

I don’t believe you. The expiration of your security clearance does not authorize you to share classified information now - it is illegal. And issuing parts probably did not give you the Need to Know to see the resulting imagery, regardless if the keel of your clearance.

its illegal to do drugs and i do it everyday. its also illegal to lie in a court and most politicians do. you should better believe that there are some good guys around not covering the government...@@vanguard9067

@@JimBoom92 does that makes it right? The vast majority of politicians don’t engage in courtroom activities, so that statement is wring from that perspective, and how do you know they lie? And then you say that good guys are NOT covering the government - isn’t that contradicting the point you are trying to make?

yeah, the government uses those companies to stay legal, wouldn't be legal if it was a government agency doing it

So?

@@djenkins555 get a life dude

Wow,like another person commented,if they are watching me,how bored are those watching?my day to day sure isn't worth watching in my opinion,and if it is,I want payment.

And you are spending years of your Life going to school to become One of the people.

I knew someone who knew someone one time.

I think they're into mind reading by now . I got a very dirty mind

@@johnringoo756 I bet that they can listen to conversations inside a building as well. If they can't read minds yet, you know they're working on it.

Classic 😂

You are therefore quite easy to track.

😂

Unfortunately I’m pretty sure poptart purchases are tracked ….

I wear a gown made of metallic fabric that morphs me into looking like a dairy cow as seen from space. Yes, it does look ridiculous for a dairy cow to go in and out of Macdonaldsand come out eating a BigMac. Working on it😢.

Hahaha 😅

lmao let em knooow wendy 👏🤣

When I'm outside at night and the copper choppa is out terrorising the neighbourhoods 'probs for weed grow locations;; I always give a complimentry FU MOON.

@@drusuffabadly4046 Had to laugh when I read that. Last month or so, I've heard a rather large chopper going overhead, same time every night. We have a little bird that visits our county hospital now and again, but this one sounds larger. Been wondering what he was up to, your comment might have given me some insight, LOL.

@@DoxymeisterLocal TV traffic bird.

Ikr criminals escape for years 😂

As a sex offender myself, they do a terrible job. Self snitching seems to be the only way.

You think the government cares about criminals who victimize regular citizens?

Catching predators doesn’t make money for the Corporations.

That's because the point of the technology is not to catch predators...

I had a related thought. When we landed on the moon, it was a military missions disguised as a scientific one. Today, if you wanted to do a scientific mission to the moon, you would likely have to disguise it as a military mission for it to be successful.

you might feel better if you consider that these "Hubbles" formed the national technical means of verification that were key to SALT denuclearization.

...do you know WHY you're able to sit safely at your desk and play "keyboard quarterback" in relative safety making silly comments like this? Because your government spent billions on this technology to prevent something horrible from happening. I worked in this industry. Let me reassure you, you are not safe, but are kept so because of the 24 hour a day work of thousands of people who develop and use this technology. Rest easy in your ignorance...

time to grow up

(10:54)

Not everything is about u. This is a major issue for passionate scientists, making it harder for them to do their jobs observing the cosmos from earth

@@EcoCentrist That's a valid concern, but bashing people who like to look at the sky isn't going to gain you any sympathy. Quite the opposite in fact. He gave no indication that he believes it's all about him.... you, on the other hand.....

@@theobserver9131 if someone takes reality as a bash, the problem isn't with the reality. facts do not care about feelings.

I saw a fresh release of starlink satellites a couple of weeks ago.... they were still pretty tight, in their "string of pearls" configuration. While I am concerned about "traffic congestion", and the plight of astronomers, it is quite an awesome sight!

​@@EcoCentrist😂

Bcs they dont care about crime also its prob still not as good as stated here and would be lots of effort todo. Also it would confirm it wich the gov woudnt like either. Why leak confidential info over someone getting killed? They would kill themselved to keep things a seecret

@@BabyKnxckz Doesn't make sense. Lots of taxpayer's money goes to investigating crimes that they would already know whodunnit, not to mention court costs, etc. Government could free up all that money for their own pet projects or for war and weapons, which they would far rather do.

@@l.5832 it is more effort to actually look at all that data and figure it out than to just say sorry but we didnt find the guy.

@@l.5832 also ur assuming the goverment is one thing there is many different interrestd involved.

Not enough manpower to enforce that much. Wait until AI does all the work for them

but i mean everyone is doxxed at least to an extent. your neighbors know where you live, the people who fix your toilet know where you live ect. shouldnt you be extremely worried that your neighbors all know where you live? best not to piss them off xd

​@@kitkat47chrysalis95 A few people can be dealt with. The government and it's resources can't.

Most of us are not important enough for any government to track.

Satellites are expensive, a much cheaper technology already exists that does the same thing, surveillance drones and phone tracking. Drones can hover around a city and collect the movement data of every person and car. It isn't spying on a specific person but all your historical data can be pulled if need be. And yes, phones can be tracked too but this requires people to physically have them so it's easily defeated.

They didn't sue meta because they are a government project. In-q-tel

Those aren’t all stars

You grew up with no planes in the air? Satellites don't really pollute our view of the sky as of yet.

that's not a luck star son, that's a surveillance satellite from china

@@jaredsilvers2782 The problem is actually neither of them when trying to see stars, but it's rather the light pollution reflected from the ground. The reason why I still haven't been able to ever see the Milky Way in my life. :(

I remember growing up in 90s finding the satellites because they moved slowly flickering. Now apparently they are smaller and hard to spot.

This comment hit me ! I’m a star gazer, and I can tell you that while I usually only see commercial jets, I often see one extremely tiny blink of a white light, much higher than the commercial jets. I’m guessing those are low orbit satellites? They’ll blink once and then not again for quite a while. So, you are correct!

We didnt have to vote it in. The "plain view" laws are what seem to allow all this unwarranted surveillance.

If I knew what a TOC was, I'd probably agree with you.

No.

i would want a refund on my tax dollars if the NSA wasn't collecting that data though, it's the sole mission of the NSA to data collect domestically, it's how we protect national security

@@GX-105D You are OK with EVERYTHING you've ever said and done on an electronic device being stored in a giant database THAT YOU CANT REVIEW OR USE and you pay for it? Every email, every search, every website, every download, every phone text and convo, everything youve ever done tracked and logged? GET THE FUCK OUT BOT

I don't care if they can see me. I care if the show up on my property. My property line is where their rights end.

@@sid2112 Typical american airheads convo. LMAO i wanna screenshot these two replies and post it somewhere for laughs.

@@a59x The sheep generally laugh at the bears until the wolves come to eat them. Good luck little lamb.

@@sid2112 Point proven.

​@@a59x I live in Eastern Europe. The American is quite right. There's a very large cemetery here full of people who found out the hard way what an overzealous police state is like, and they didn't have technology anywhere close to what's available now. Trust me, if there was a way to tax the carrots growing in your garden they would. And now they probably could. Who knows, maybe "airhead" will be moved up the naughty word list one day soon and you'll get a knock on the door.

Not when in all probability they are involved in some of the disappearances.

Some cover their cameras. Apple's original cam that mounted on a monitor had a mechanical iris to ensure it couldn't see. Hmm... Steve Jobs died younger than many.

@@psycotria I have a shutter case for the rear cam... and not because I want to protect the lense either. Front cameras tho... those are a different story. I've seen sticker blockers, but they can mess with the capacitive touch interface, adaptive brightness and potentially some other inane functions. Idk. For how many times I've used my phone on the toilet or any other embarrassing scenarios.... like... meh. It's more the tracking than monitoring that really bothers me.

Apple, google, facebook, your cell company….they know what you do and think yesterday, today, and tomorrow

I paint the camera that faces me on my older iPad with a super thick black nail polish that is totally opaque in one coat with two coats. It’s amazing nail polish. I have to replace it every couple of months when it peels off.

@@RacerRich1 Yarp! Literally this. Remember when friends or family would be the ones to recommend shows or products? Like: "have you not seen/tried *blank*" Now it's just a corporate algorithm jamming it into our feeds with recommendations better than anyone we know could offer. Don't even get me started on misinformation or general data collection.

I remember my father telling me in 1980 that we had satellites that were so clear you could read the newspaper over someone's shoulder sitting in Red Square

He was correct. My dad got a degree in computer science in 1970. He said the same thing almost to the word. What we see has been around 20 years and they have what we will see in 20 years. I never had much interest in computers so I didn't pick his brain much but I do remember around the time Reagan got shot, he was talking about windows and IBM. In 86 he promptly quit the office life and spent the rest of his life selling bait dressed in overalls and no shirt most of the time. People had no idea how smart he was but he would always say the morality of humans can't handle computers

@@jayh1734 The moralityi of humans can't handle computers. Makes perfect sense looking at the world today.

And it´s still not sufficient to find "people of interrest"? Remember how long it took to find Osama or other "friends" of your government 🤡

makes one wonder though why osama bin laden took them some time to snuff. if they had a general location on him + eyes and ears on his activities , how come he wasn't stopped immediately? i reckon directing satellite paths won't be much of a problem for all powerful entities in the us gov't.

Of grandma?

@@djenkins555 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

30 years , and you know this because ?

​@@stelamoHubble space telescope

@@stelamo The SR71/A12 and U2 could do it in the 60's. Do you think that the tech has gotten better or worse?

not a satelite@@youwillneverguess

he said hubble couldnt do that , the other 11 satelites like hubble cant do that @@VictorGarciaR

Yes, just imagine using the world's military budgets for benefit rather than aggression (or, allegedly, protection against aggression). 🤔

actually, war and conflict were the greatest forces to impact ingenuity and technology, not peace. just look at the rapid evolution of planes brought on by the pressures of war. conflict and competition are the impetuses for everything. like it or not.

@@billphilips8522 Imagine if aliens attacked us

Imagine how fucked we'd be if we just assumed everyone was good and had our best interests at heart.

@@johnd5398 amen.

Cryptid perhaps?

@@bunnyfan9960 Nope, just trees. My lizard brain freaked because it was so unnatural.

**( I · "AccidentaLLy" · Wandered Into A StrNge (&) · "SimiLar" · Wooded Area Not Far From My Home Before !

According to Slartibartfast from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that's just plain paranoia, and we all suffer from it from time to time

Lack of diversity in the plants will cause a lack of diversity in the wildlife. When you're alone in a normal forest, there are no sounds nearby but some sounds in the distance because the critters that make noise hear you stomping around and stay quiet. However, when a predator is in the vicinity, even those distant sounds will stop. _That_ is why you feel unsettled in a quiet forest - our distant ancestors who were put on edge by an unusually quiet forest were more likely to either avoid the roaming predator or be prepared to deal with it. That was an instinct that served them well, so they more often lived, and those without it more often died. Now just about everyone has it, though it seldom comes up anymore.

AAAAHAHHA AAAAHAHHAAAAA BROWSKI

Ikr? I thought that was weird...😂😂

@@C-Here ahahaaaaaaaa

Why do you say that? Have they become dumber? Or you imply their ethics are bad?

@@DayTripTookItTo10 Let me give you just one, of COUNTLESS examples: The FBI had in their possession, since October of 2019, the Hunter Biden laptop. Yet, in October of 2020, right before the election, a letter was signed by 21 TOP--TIPPY-TOP intelligence officials, who claimed the laptop had all the signs of Russian disinformation. Oh, here's one more, that was far more consequential: Remember the 'weapons of mass destruction' we started a war over, that were nowhere to be found? Yeah, NINETEEN "intelligence" agencies insisted they were there.

exactly this is just fearmongering

"could see inside of buildings?" So much for privacy during sex.

I agree. Today's satellites can modify DNA with microwaves to make your future children more obedient.

The first question for the friend of a stranger would be HOW? There are not even land based cameras, where size and weight are not a concern, that can see through a single layer of 30# roofing felt.

God, and you believe him? People really will Believe anything😂😂😂😂

​@@markdaniel8740he lying, him or his friend, you pick. No cameras are seeing through walls😂😂😂😂

Why is that a problem, according to you?

and what exactly are you doing about it? have you tried running for an office or are you just posting "oh noes" online and then crying when nothing happens.

@@CSArtWrks Actually I have been doing stuff about it. I make it a goal of mine to use as much free software (free as in freedom) as possible. I host pretty much everything myself that I can including email, I have only linux installed on my computers, and I'm using an open source front end for youtube as I type this right now. I also have written to my local and state representatives regarding privacy, and most importantly, I vote. If more people make steps like these we can make a change.

​@@rigelb9025 imagine every single thing you do beeing public to anyone interrested... we are heading there and that is a problem

@@BabyKnxckz Yes, I get that, and I don't like it either. The basic jist of my question was this : What do you think the common generic person (myself included) can *actually do* about 'it', if anything.

Nice sentiment but too late. Tech is soon going to unplug us. AGI > ASI > Paperclips

where did they claim that?

the highly detailed images are aerial photos taken from planes, not satellites in space

@@arfynessmakes sense then, no company is going to go image Antarctica just because it’s there. Would be astronomical in cost when no one would even need the results (well mostly no one).

For Google, there is only one truth, theirs............ Heaven forbid citizens get aware of the big 'scam'.

said like someone who dosnt understand how the average launch works and how much more expensive polar orbits are to put in place (so that google can provide map services to... penguines?)

Starlink isn't just about doing "what one did before" it's providing internet to those who never had it before or couldn't afford it before.

There is a hell of a lot more going on than that.

What 1 satellite did is not what Starlink does. 42.000 satellites should have at least 200.000 times more capacity for carrying data (42.000 * (100 times closer resulting in higher SNR) / less focused antennae as it uses beam-forming instead of parabola).

@@sendintheclowns7305 With the prices they have? I doubt that.

@@RamsesTheFourth I pay $50 LESS per month for MUCH FASTER internet since I've gotten Starlink. For those of us who's only choice is satellite internet Starlink is the cheapest option available. It's also a much better service than the more expensive options.

Tell that to the space lizards

@@MischeviousGP nah

Ahhh but you are

it has, but we never hear about it because it's a felony to reveal investigative techniques within a court setting

Spy satellites are for intelligence community operations not law enforcement.

Echelon system?

@@FireLightning-mi4vb, a system developed by Lockheed Sunnyvale to eaves drop and record every electronic communication in the world. Began as a Cold War system to eavesdrop on the soviets. There are well over 400 echelon satellites currently. Google to get more info. Privacy is a myth.

Lockheed & its connection to possession of USP material/ reverse engineering, sound familiar?

My father also worked for them and he told me they already had tech to retrieve rockets back to earth in 1960's. Where do you think Musk took his ideas and tech from?

​@@llamerryeah, that's why no one thought of using it until Musk, I love a good conspiracy theory. Please, tell another one

maybe in china, not in the rest of the world, but we are getting there fast, what's concerning is how we're using chinese technology at a a time that china views the west as a combatant enemy

😂❤

They are using aerial photography, not satellite, for high density places. Hence huge difference in resolution on these maps. Plus they update it only once a few years.

That poor shark did not want its picture posted on the internet!

​@kf62w6 you have ZERO expectation of privacy in public.... they probably blurred the sharks face anyway. 😂

@@fishrowe420surprisingly, google does do this! lmfao. Not for sharks obviously but they do it for faces and license tags

In the early 2000s a friend and I went on a "different"Google maps,it was a live satellite feed and I know it was live,we mucked around in it for half an hour or so,should have see the phone/internet bill that arrived the next month!!!!😮

Well said. Was thinking the same. It's sounds like a lot but compared to billions of people it's nothing. Also people need to understand that they're not worth the money to follow.

I've not run the numbers, but im quite sure that with those 11 "eyes" up there it would be impossible - and by a very large margin - to for example monitor Time Square 24/7/365. Would be quite interesting to run the numbers jsut to get a feeling for what it possible and what not... but for now I'm not too vorried for the near future.

@@AkantorJojo "Run the numbers" on an optical collection area the size of a football field in GEO. They would have 24/7 coverage.

Bandwidth is not a problem for government spy sats. They have far more than anyone would be able to obtain commercially, because they have a monopoly on their own networks.

@@stuartgray5877 except such an orbital telescope does not currently exist. There is not even any optical telescope that size today anywhere... not even close. and besides... GEO is not an ideal location for observation... you miss a lot of things that hide behind buildings and mountains on higher latitudes... like time square.

Except the debris from the crash eventually hits every other car on all the highways

that was long ago

You know the laser-guide-star trick works just as well in the other direction, right? Optimal conditions are no longer required.

you mean like optimal conditions like an eclipse today when everyone will stand still and show their faces to the sky?

​@@neurostreams illumination would be far fron optimal..

This is a myth. License plates are not oriented to be read from above the car. And at an oblique angle, near tangent to the curve of the earth the telescope would be not only at its maximal distance, but peering diagonally thru the greatest thickness of atmosphere.

only if they had a signal

Actually, 1 cm resolution can't be done from space. Scientists figured out that better than 5cm is impossible - because of atmospheric interference - back in the 60s. Also, the Key Hole series of satellites have been tremendously helpful to science. Al Gore was able to convince the NRO to declassify a treasure-trove of pictures from those early Corona satellites mentioned in the video for scientific purposes. Scientists were able to learn much about weather patterns and environmental impacts (including the shrinking of the Aral Sea) by pouring over this data. That's without even getting into how much KH-11 helped the Hubble Space Telescope, and the even bigger benefit a KH-11 follow-on program brought to the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman telescope. Also, the National Reconnaissance Office has less than half the budget of NASA. It's not an impediment to science - we can study the cosmos and monitor authoritarian regimes at the same time.

Not while we elect people who put profit above planet. Not while people can amass so much wealth, they can severely impact elections, if not completely buy them. Not with the current power structures. And not without solving the human condition. Who knows maybe they will be able to gene edit to prevent greed, lust for power, violence etc but the current world we built needs to be drastically changed if we are to live in peace. The Israelis war against a terror org thats been ongoing for 75 years creates generational hate. That hate spreads and infects. especially now with technology. Its one thing to hear 1200 Israelis dead in a terror attack and a completely different thing to watch videos of the massacre of those people. We just are not there yet, and I dont think we will with current civilization. Maybe God did have a flood once to reset us, seems we may have deserved it if they were like us.

No.

Shareholders wont be too happy about that

@@AngeloXification Maybe it would be better for all of us if shareholders went extinct, then.

😂

ahh the good old days

the opposite of the electron flow for me is akin to air getting into a water bottle when youre drinking it. you cant just suck down the water, the bottle collapses, so you let air in which helps the flow of water. the disconnected wire still having a flow is an electron vacuum effect of sorts from the source? i failed dismally at electronics theory in school but understand bits and pieces.

You can just not carry them. Nobody with half a brain who is trying to be covert will carry a phone, or any other radio capable device, as they move around.

Uhh, not if you take them out of your pocket and leave it somewhere. Has that really never occurred to you?

It's almost like the things that could empower bad AI are similar to the things that could empower good AI...

@@ltloxa1159 you never know where it will go but people that control such things usaly have alot of powers and self interests to

​@@ltloxa1159everything is like that

I don't know where you live but, given the Light pollution coming from many cities, you can already say goodbye to a clear view of the night sky. So maybe we should do something about that. Would you be prepared to support Regulations to govern THAT?

Those aren't the issue...the real issue is SAI. Stratospheric aerosol Injection. AKA...Kem trails

SL satellites are so small they're practically imperceptible to the naked eye unless you looking for them directly. You do know how large the surface area of the Earth is right? That surface area becomes much larger when you are in orbit. I can guarantee those SL satellites are going to zero difference in night time viewing.

​@@heathb4319SL don't have those capabilities, that's tinfoil hat talk. Yes, there are organisations out there that use chemicals to alter weather but these chemicals are not harmful to us on the ground, it's mostly silver nitrates/nitrites to help it rain in dry areas.

So far there is only "4500" starlink up there. They've also made them dark so as not to disturb observers. They are also small, so they don't really obstruct the view.

Nope. Looking out doesn't "further science" or humanity. It only cures curiosity. Knowing how big or how many galaxies there are has zero application.

Studying the interesting part of our planet (however one may define "interesting" here) seems to be more profitable.

​@@francus7227Science is not about application. Applications grow from science. Supplementary information is just as necessary as key information.

@@loon894 Duh..... There's already plenty of evidence that the speed of light is so slow in relation to the size of the known universe that any studies past our solar system are nothing more that a hobby. I'm am PRO HOBBY. But I am anti masking a hobby as a functional need for the sole purpose of getting money to support that hobby from others that don't enjoy the same hobby. It will be a cold day in the fictional place call Hell before you teach me something about the Heavens or anything else. But.... I'll always take a listen just in case because I always like to learn something new.

It's Us vs [Them], fueled by [Their] Hatred. It is [Their] desire to eliminate Most, and keep just enough Dumb ones; just smart enough to operate their machines. - paraphrased - George Carlin

Agreed except that a wanker like Canadian pm Trudeau froze the bank accounts of protesting truck drivers and THEN the bank account of folks who donated money to a GoFundMe for their benefit...that's when it gets dodgy...

Totally agree with you. There is no such thing as an organization that can monitor every single person. Satellites have small flyby windows so at best they can record stuff for review at a later date. They don't just hover or sit in space and track your every movement for the day. Most importantly, there are a lot of stupid and lazy folks that work in the government. Also, a room full of analysts have better things to do than watch the average Joe who stole a bagel from the gas station. People get paid to only watch high value targets. Most of the time, they can't even get that right.

When do you love realism?

Oh, so you worked for one of the three letter agencies, with beyond a TS clearance and you’re cool with violating the terms of your clearance and admit to breaking the law?

Some time later....... - She is picked up by a man. - She is visited by the same man frequently. - She is letting that man out the next morning. - She is no longer buying monthly feminine hygiene products. - She visits doctors/hostpitals more often. Google/amazon/which ever company: Let's send her some ads for, or a giftpack with, babyproducts. She: How did they know I am pregnant?

Lol

yes but that isn't real time... and that data is still available to buy... still expensive even just for a few sq mile of simple height dem

Yup, I know it was very pricey at the time..

nah, it's more legal today than ever before, google maps does exist