Snowball
08-02-2019, 04:23 PM
"The balloons are traveling at altitudes as high as 65,000 feet and are equipped with a video capture system called Gorgon Stare, which was developed by the US military and described by the US Air Force as a “wide-area surveillance sensor system.”
"will be able to communicate with each other through networking technologies"
"Arthur Holland Michel, the co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in New York, said, “What this new technology proposes is to watch everything at once. Sometimes it’s referred to as ‘combat TiVo’ because when an event happens somewhere in the surveilled area, you can potentially rewind the tape to see exactly what occurred, and rewind even further to see who was involved and where they came from.”
"We do not think that American cities should be subject to wide-area surveillance in which every vehicle could be tracked wherever they go,” said Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union.
“Even in tests, they’re still collecting a lot of data on Americans: who’s driving to the union house, the church, the mosque, the Alzheimer’s clinic,” he said. “We should not go down the road of allowing this to be used in the United States and it’s disturbing to hear that these tests are being carried out, by the military no less.”
https://sputniknews.com/us/201908021076445651-its-disturbing-pentagon-launches-mass-surveillance-balloons-across-us/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare/dp/0544972007
The Gorgons were monstrous females with huge teeth like those of swine, brazen claws, and serpents on their heads instead of hair. There were three Gorgons, none of these beings make much figure in mythology except Medusa, the chief of the three, and the only one that was mortal. Medu'sa was so hideous that whoever set eyes on her face was instantly turned into stone.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/gorgon-stare.htm
https://i2.wp.com/theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Gorgon-Stare-II.jpg?resize=678%2C381&ssl=1
https://theaviationist.com/2015/04/05/gorgon-stare-increment-2-kaf/
the above picture is the system attached to a drone in Afghanistan, where it was tested for years.
"will be able to communicate with each other through networking technologies"
"Arthur Holland Michel, the co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in New York, said, “What this new technology proposes is to watch everything at once. Sometimes it’s referred to as ‘combat TiVo’ because when an event happens somewhere in the surveilled area, you can potentially rewind the tape to see exactly what occurred, and rewind even further to see who was involved and where they came from.”
"We do not think that American cities should be subject to wide-area surveillance in which every vehicle could be tracked wherever they go,” said Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the American Civil Liberties Union.
“Even in tests, they’re still collecting a lot of data on Americans: who’s driving to the union house, the church, the mosque, the Alzheimer’s clinic,” he said. “We should not go down the road of allowing this to be used in the United States and it’s disturbing to hear that these tests are being carried out, by the military no less.”
https://sputniknews.com/us/201908021076445651-its-disturbing-pentagon-launches-mass-surveillance-balloons-across-us/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All
https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare/dp/0544972007
The Gorgons were monstrous females with huge teeth like those of swine, brazen claws, and serpents on their heads instead of hair. There were three Gorgons, none of these beings make much figure in mythology except Medusa, the chief of the three, and the only one that was mortal. Medu'sa was so hideous that whoever set eyes on her face was instantly turned into stone.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/gorgon-stare.htm
https://i2.wp.com/theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Gorgon-Stare-II.jpg?resize=678%2C381&ssl=1
https://theaviationist.com/2015/04/05/gorgon-stare-increment-2-kaf/
the above picture is the system attached to a drone in Afghanistan, where it was tested for years.