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2007-01-21 Science & Technology

Constant Surveillance Of Everyone - For Our Safety

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-21 11:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Turns out Lockheed Martin -- the company that gave us the Trident intercontinental ballistic missile -- was renovating the site for an upcoming project when the fire started. It's being turned into a hangar for a prototype airship. If you're frightened of this administration's habit of spying on American citizens, you may want to stop reading.

Hell, just Google your address. Get sat photos on line right now. Don't think those are going to get better with HD? Wait till it's live broadcast too. It's just not the government.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-01-21 11:42|| 2007-01-21 11:42|| Front Page Top

#2 a 14-layer-thick roofing of foil for your car, abode, and head is the ONLY answer!

Posted by Reynolds Aluminum ">Reynolds Aluminum 2007-01-21 12:02|| 2007-01-21 12:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Um, works over Iran, too. Undetectable by ground based radar. At that size, they should be able to put a Keyhole quality camera 10 times closer to the subject for 10 times the resolution.

Hopefully Ms. Dunlap is looking for a new position after that; she's not doing Lockheed any good. The contract was from the Missle Defense Agency, which seems reasonable.

Posted by KBK 2007-01-21 12:08|| 2007-01-21 12:08|| Front Page Top

#4 I was born to be a Zep pilot. Ima too olde tho now. You bastards, couldn't you have done this 30 years ago?

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-21 12:37|| 2007-01-21 12:37|| Front Page Top

#5 It's designed to float 12 miles above the earth, far above planes and weather systems. It will be powered by solar energy, and will stay in a geocentric orbit for up to a year, undetectable by ground-based radar.

Yeah, sure. Where do they get these story writers. Something 17 times the size of a GY blimp is not going to be invisible to radar.

Posted by Chuck Darwin 2007-01-21 13:52|| 2007-01-21 13:52|| Front Page Top

#6 CD- Its possible, all you need is a hull covering that will reflect incoming radar so that internal structre will not give its location away.
We have several front line warbirds today that have special coatings on their canopies / windscreens to reflect radar so the various cockpit sructures don't provide a good return. Remember LM built the F-117 and I expect the next gen of faceting will be in play by then.

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-21 21:46|| 2007-01-21 21:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Must be good for Amerika + USSA - sexy Jessica Simpson = Daisy Duke says she's wants one!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-21 21:51|| 2007-01-21 21:51|| Front Page Top

#8 My elderly Mom wants to wave back all the time at Dubya, Condi, + FBI-CIA-NSA??? at the other end of our household boom tube ala MATRIX + SKYNET, etal.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-21 21:54|| 2007-01-21 21:54|| Front Page Top

#9 It's designed to float 12 miles above the earth...and will stay in a geocentric orbit for up to a year...

Ooooh! Geocentric orbit! As opposed to, say, an areocentric orbit (it's spyin' on us from Mars!), or selenecentric?

Also, I'm not quite sure something can be said to be "orbiting" at only 12 miles, especially if it doesn't actually circumnavigate the Earth.

Still, what do I know, eh? I thought that floating banana thing was all a gag.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-01-21 21:57|| 2007-01-21 21:57|| Front Page Top

#10 A composite frame with a nylon cover doesn't reflect radar. And 17 times larger means a 17 times heavier payload but less than 3 times bigger in any dimension. Since the central core with the surveillance gear is always oriented the same way, it would be relatively easy to apply stealth engineering techniques to it. There is always the issue of bistatic radar but most of the baddies don't have it.

Posted by KBK 2007-01-21 22:00|| 2007-01-21 22:00|| Front Page Top

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