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Why bother when, aside from the Posse Comitatus Act[0], there are already extremely advanced optical and synthetic aperture satellites that can discern a licens
by cartoonworld 5y ago
Why bother when, aside from the Posse Comitatus Act[0], there are already extremely advanced optical and synthetic aperture satellites that can discern a license plate on the Earth's surface flying around the globe?
Or solar powered, regular-assed Ring doorbells (once they get that heat problem fixed). As a side effect, then CBP will be subsequently able to find their lost car keys out there.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act
- jodrellblank 5y agoI imagine this system wouldn't be defeated by waiting until a cloudy day?
- cartoonworld 5y agoI believe that the synthetic aperture satellites can pierce cloudcover, probably with reduced minimum features. I'm not privy to any special information about this though, so don't really know wtf I'm on about. But also consider its the desert, you know?
- mkr-hn 5y agoThose deserts still have a lot of clouds: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_for_our_climate/Highlights/Cloud_cover https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_f... They just don't come together enough for much rain.
- cartoonworld 5y agoI did not know these ranges. Thank you, that is very interesting. It looks like some do and some don't, proving my assumptions rather uninformed. The southern US border area looks to range from about 60-25%, distributed more towards the high end of the range. I'm aware of coastal deserts like the Atacama which have exceptionally low precipitation but lots of foggy conditions, but I don't know of any like that in the US areas described. Regardless, I still imagine that satellite, drone, and observation posts are the smart way to create the absurd Iron Curtain down there. Not that we should...