Project Angle Fire

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This is horrible frightening and amazingly interesting, all wrapped up into one. Project Angle Fire was a persistent surveillance system developed in Iraq that helped stem the tide of IED deaths. Then, of course, the developer is working to privatize it and bring it to the public sector. It's not new tech, but it's probably also gotten even better in the years since. It's worth a listen if you have time.


"In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the sky had been there all along, they could scroll back in time and see - literally see - who planted it."


https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/eye-sky
 
Which is kinda how the massive data collection system works as well. When you become a subject of interest, they can sift through all your past collected data. They'll see where you've been, who you've talked to and what you've said. :cool:

Your entire digital life history, waiting for someone to go through it. It makes me think of Minority Report. A brilliant, bold new idea, until they realize it's wrong. I just hope someone wakes up and realizes it's wrong. o_O
 
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Gee... What would deter crime in Baltimore???
“A 1985 Department of Justice survey of incarcerated felons reported that 57 percent of felons polled agreed that “criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police.” Did I read that correctly? The perps were more concerned about running into “an armed victim” than running into a cop?

Any other information in that area available? According to U.S. News & World Report, “Researcher Gary Kleck found that 92 percent of criminal attacks are deterred when a gun is merely shown (or, rarely, a warning shot fired). By inference, this means that open carry would have the effect of deterring crime in the same way that a thief might choose another restaurant when he sees police eating at his intended target.”

Would the knowledge that potential victims are armed prevent attacks in day-to-day living?

“In 1982, the Atlanta suburb Kennesaw required all households to have a gun. The residential burglary rate subsequently dropped 89% in Kennesaw, compared to the modest 10.4% drop in Georgia as a whole,” according to U.S. News & World Report. “Ten years later the residential burglary rate in Kennesaw was still 72% lower than when the ordinance was passed” (emphasis added).
And according to another report, Matt Gaetz said in a press conference in 2015, “It is important to note that in the states that allow open carry, violent crime was 23% lower, the murder rate was 5% lower, the aggravated assault rate was 23% lower and robbery rates were 36% lower.”
Source: https://mobile.wnd.com/2016/06/57-of-criminals-fear-armed-citizens-more-than-cops/

Even a survey of 15,000 police agree https://www.policeone.com/gun-legis...d-citizens-the-best-solution-to-gun-violence/
 
The balloons that are used are made here in NC.

I shared a booth at a international show where the owner was demoing his stuff.

Take a balloon, cameras and up they go. Better then a plane,.
 
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