>"[If] you fly a drone above a pipeline, there's a pretty good chance someone is gonna see it up there," he said, but "a spy satellite just takes a picture from

>"[If] you fly a drone above a pipeline, there's a pretty good chance someone is gonna see it up there," he said, but "a spy satellite just takes a picture from 120 miles up or whatever. Then, of course, no one's going to know what happened." You have to be kidding, no one is going to notice a white drone 3km[0] above them, if there even is anyone around to notice. Sure, a spy sat is better, but it's also orders of magnitude more expensive, can't loiter[1], and might still have inferior imaging. This is just embarrassing. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJI_(company)#Phantom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJI_(company)#Phantom [1]: Spy satellites pretty much always orbit faster than the earth turns in order to have better coverage.