> The Regiment 58 Engineers had learned a lot since 1995 about how to avoid detection by U.S. spy satellites. A lot of work was done at night, and heavy equipment was always returned to the same parking spot at dawn so that image analysts would conclude that they had never moved. Piles of sand were shaped to mimic the wind-aligned and shaped dune forms in the area. When cables were laid they were carefully covered and native vegetation replaced to conceal the digging.
Probably not realistic but thought provoking still.
Such a system was in use during the Kenosha protests, by the FBI.
In my city people routinely notice planes appearing on ADS-B services circling an area for hours, the tail number traces back to some shell company, and airliners.net photos show a plane with a clear-as-day surveillance package attached to it.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s...
For now. Musk paving the way: https://www.sda.mil/sda-awards-contracts-for-the-first-gener...
If you've ever wondered why the guy has plot armor.
It's mainly:
- An anti-satellite weapon not unlike the rockets the Chinese launch at satellites, but more refined and capable of retrieving technology before disabling the craft.
- A testing platform for space technology like sensors. It can serve as a makeshift scrappy satellite if you need to quickly deploy a sensor for something.
Like you don't know what it's doing but you know what mostly everything else on space that was not launched on board of that thing is doing so there's not much left to imagination here. It's like saying you don't know what Delta Force is doing, yeah you do, they shoot at people. You don't know what people and for what reason but that's not spooky secret alien stuff or anything.