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Yeah sounds like a dummy space nerd. As if PRC needs drone footages of Vandenberg. >ZHOU also recognized thatphotographing the SpaceX facility on VSFB was “pro

Yeah sounds like a dummy space nerd. As if PRC needs drone footages of Vandenberg. >ZHOU also recognized thatphotographing the SpaceX facility on VSFB was “probably not agood idea ... >ZHOU said he previously got into trouble in Chinafor flying a UAS in a restricted area. More specifically, ZHOUwas arrested for flying a UAS near a government building atPeople’s Square in Shanghai. He was subsequently fined for this.ZHOU did not register the UAS in China either. ... >ZHOU originally downloaded the bypasssoftware in 2019 to get around the no-fly zones in Shanghai.Referencing the bypass software and his UAS, ZHOU said,“Normally, if you didn’t have that software, it wouldn’t be ableto take off from here. OTOH >Notably, on that same day, November 30, 2024, a sensitive payload developed for the National Reconnaissance Office had been launched to orbit by a space contractor.

netsharc 2y ago
But this arrest makes him a perfect candidate for this spying mission, so he could be dismissed as a space/drone nerd. And then one would have to ask whether the arrest in Shanghai is real or a made-up story. Or an event they orchestrated, so if some foreign intelligence agency quietly checks, they'll find eyewitnesses and people who can confirm the event, not knowing it was made up to give this man a cover story... I sound like a conspiracy nutter now, but a conspiracy nutter is convinced his idea is definitely what happened, I'm just throwing an idea.