Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Reply #3605 –
The only way I can deal with being saturated with Trump's behaviour is to take the piss out of him, there are real world consequences that many people have to live with because of that blockheads loud mouth antics!
Weather permitting they do use high altitude drones around the candidates similar to our new MQ-4C Triton, the cost of protecting him shooting his mouth off without restraint is astronomical.
Years ago I did some work in Tuscon, part of it was with a company making optical parts, some of them turned out to be for the space spy telescopes, one of which would go on to become Hubble ST. I didn't know that at the time, I'm not sure anybody in the company knew what they were for, but the optical engineer did the math and told me the optics as designed if made to specification could resolve a person standing on a street corner reading a newspaper from geostationary orbit. They also had a fancy interferometer, that when pointed towards a brick or concrete wall could record conservations being held on the other side of the wall just from the vibrations in the masonry. We only found this out by accident, because we were making too much noise and f0rked up their calibration process. Not suggesting they use that stuff for Trump, but it's an idea of the capability they had 30 years ago!
There are several privately held US companies that sub-contract drone surveillance to regional law enforcement, maybe Florida is one of those regions. It was actually considered for Victoria a few years back, the authorities get a time lapse view of vehicle and foot traffic movements that can be rewound in real time. I think much of it is now displaced by voluntary schemes like the one here in Victoria that allows people to register web and security cameras for the free use by Vicpol.
In summary, we have no idea what they have and haven't got, it's far more than you think but not as much as Hollywood suggests.