That explains most of his antics, basic physics doesn't prevent things like endorsing anti-semetic conspiracy theories or telling business partners to fuck themselves. One imagines he might benefit from asking more than that 1 question before doing something.

I'm kidding, of course. I don't think anyone actually believes elmu thinks about physics. He pays people to do that while he shitposts on the internet.

The new V2 satellites have a large, 5m x 5m, antenna to be able to pickup the cell antennas.

Tracking cell phones is much easier than communicating with them. Don't need large constellation with big satellites to do that.

There was story on here recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38322966, about company that launched a constellation of small satellites. The US has lots of radio surveillance satellites that likely can track phones. Also, phone companies sell phone location data.

Also it's all about SNR, not absolute power. And you can infinitely decrease bandwidth to increase snr.