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I remember reading this excellent article on Bloomberg about a guy who started a company that uses Cessna's with high-quality cameras, and they fly over an area
by Simulacra 3mo ago
I remember reading this excellent article on Bloomberg about a guy who started a company that uses Cessna's with high-quality cameras, and they fly over an area for hours, and then use that footage to rollback crimes.
They filmed everything. There's a video if you can find it where the man shows footage they took of a city in Mexico, where a murder occurred, and how they were able to roll back time and see the murder go down in real time.
It was really fascinating… In 2016.
At the time I imagined one day we would have blimps, or long range aircraft circling all major cities 24/7 doing the same thing.
Instead of planes, they are using drones…
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-sur...
- pineapplepizza6 3mo agoAn unmanned plane is also called a drone.
- bell-cot 3mo agoDrones are cheap & reliable. Vs. blimps, balloons, and such have repeatedly proven themselves quite fragile.
- inigyou 3mo agoQuadcopters, you mean? They are cheap, and reliable enough given that they are cheap, but that's all.
- tencentshill 3mo agoCheap while China allows them to be cheap.
- inigyou 3mo agoTrue, but that's true of everything. Western countries willingly forgot how to manufacture stuff.
- iamtheworstdev 3mo agodomestically we use the RQ-4 and MQ-4 and lie about it
- rationalist 3mo agoSource?
- iamtheworstdev 3mo agolook up federal agencies borrowing MQ-9s (sorry, I had the wrong drones) from the CBP for domestic operations.
- adolph 3mo agoHere is a RadioLab podcast [0] about the system from company Persistent Surveillance Systems [1]. An interesting dimension to systems similar to the US military's Gorgon Stare [2] program is that they are generalized rather than specific, unlike a quad following a specific person(s). 0. https://radiolab.org/podcast/eye-sky https://radiolab.org/podcast/eye-sky 1. https://www.pss-1.com/ https://www.pss-1.com/ 2. https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night-the-way-the-gorgon-stare-did/ https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...