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FWIW, all comms of that balloon would be satellite. I don't think it is easy to jam, let alone intercept.

moomoo11 4y ago
I’m sure in 1970s nobody nobody thought GPS would become a reality within a decade. “They will never be able to pinpoint position that way!” My guy. It’s the United States military. All the shit we use is a by product of their first move. If it seems impossible today they’ve already figured it out. Not to mention they made a nuclear bomb and the Manhattan project was an insane achievement.
- gptgpp 4y ago
  Weird... Most groundbreaking research, and the consumer tech that eventually comes from it, seems to come out of post-secondary and tech/research companies. Crazy to think it's all a front and it's actually stemming from the US Military. Thank you for your service!
  - jakear 4y ago
    Not that crazy. Public knowledge, even. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory
    - gptgpp 4y ago
      Or... hear me out here... It's obviously a web of private R&D, public institutions like NASA, higher education, and yes, the military too. But acting like scientific innovation and technical progress is all, or even a majority due to the military is boot-licking weirdness. You have fun with that. I just don't know how you can look at the heaps of Nobel Prize winners, Turing Award, etc. or groundbreaking papers in almost and field and think "Oh yeah, must be the American Military is behind this."
      - jakear 4y ago
        > All the shit we use is a by product of their first move. This is an overstatement. > A large amount of the technology we find useful was investigated in some capacity by the single most well-funded R&D organization in the world to some extent before we knew about it. This is more reasonable. Worth noting the jump you made from G*P's "shit we use" to "Turing awards, Nobel prizes, and Papers" was quite questionable.
- guhidalg 4y ago
  Not sure why you’re being downvoted… it’s true. Any seemingly feasible idea has already been tried in secret by DARPA or one of its friends. We only know about the ones they’ve declassified.
News-Dog 4y ago
Tracking and over saturating the satellite/s receive is trivial, and considered to be very,very,very naughty!
- TheDudeMan 4y ago
  Assuming you know which satellite(s) to target.
  - News-Dog 4y ago
    Which means, watch and learn;
enkid 4y ago
But it would make the downlink easy to intercept.
baybal2 4y ago
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I’m sure in 1970s nobody nobody thought GPS would become a reality within a decade. “They will never be able to pinpoint position that way!” My guy. It’s the United States military. All the shit we use is a by product of their first move. If it seems impossible today they’ve already figured it out. Not to mention they made a nuclear bomb and the Manhattan project was an insane achievement.

gptgpp 4y ago
Weird... Most groundbreaking research, and the consumer tech that eventually comes from it, seems to come out of post-secondary and tech/research companies. Crazy to think it's all a front and it's actually stemming from the US Military. Thank you for your service!
- jakear 4y ago
  Not that crazy. Public knowledge, even. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory
  - gptgpp 4y ago
    Or... hear me out here... It's obviously a web of private R&D, public institutions like NASA, higher education, and yes, the military too. But acting like scientific innovation and technical progress is all, or even a majority due to the military is boot-licking weirdness. You have fun with that. I just don't know how you can look at the heaps of Nobel Prize winners, Turing Award, etc. or groundbreaking papers in almost and field and think "Oh yeah, must be the American Military is behind this."
    - jakear 4y ago
      > All the shit we use is a by product of their first move. This is an overstatement. > A large amount of the technology we find useful was investigated in some capacity by the single most well-funded R&D organization in the world to some extent before we knew about it. This is more reasonable. Worth noting the jump you made from G*P's "shit we use" to "Turing awards, Nobel prizes, and Papers" was quite questionable.
guhidalg 4y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted… it’s true. Any seemingly feasible idea has already been tried in secret by DARPA or one of its friends. We only know about the ones they’ve declassified.

News-Dog 4y ago

Tracking and over saturating the satellite/s receive is trivial, and considered to be very,very,very naughty!

TheDudeMan 4y ago
Assuming you know which satellite(s) to target.
- News-Dog 4y ago
  Which means, watch and learn;

enkid 4y ago

But it would make the downlink easy to intercept.

baybal2 4y ago

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