/tech/ - Technology★

>>967156 (OP)

>Why in the fuck are glow in the darks not using these for total surveillance and mobile botnetting

What makes you think they're not?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/10/28/the-army-lost-control-of-a-giant-unmanned-surveillance-blimp/

Archive version: https://archive.is/g251n

>>967171

But that's a tethered Aerostat, not a powered Airship.

>>967156 (OP)

Because any random /tech/, /pol/, or /k/ user would just shoot it down.

anyone with half a brain could shoot it down also they are massive and are obvious. drones are in invisible and no one could shoot them down.

Op is basically confirming this will happen because of the detail. Thanks for the tip off

>>967409

That it is, it just puzzles me why it's taking (((them))) so long when the tech is already where it needs to be for the most part.

>>967208

>How big of a balloon would we need to make a real Final Fantasy style airship out of say, a 32-gun French frigate from the American revolution?

Assuming its hull displacement is 500 tons or less you could theoretically do it with an Aeroscraft ML86X which is 280 meters long, though I'm not sure why you'd want to have such a heavy gondola hanging off your airship.

>>967156 (OP)

Because they're gigantic, nigh-on static targets with a very limited potential height.

Only way to successfully use them as surveillance tools is if the population already knows it's being watched 24/7 and has accepted this, aka in a 100% completed openly oppressive police state.

They'll probably have them up over Londinistan before 2020.

>Why in the fuck are glow in the darks not using these for total surveillance and mobile botnetting in areas with poor phone receptions?

They are you uneducated fuck. Surveillance blimps have been a thing for years now although IIRC for many applications drones are starting to replace them but not for every situation

>>967164

Take your meds.

>>967156 (OP)

China are already looking at doing this. They say it will be used to keep track of forest fires and similar shit but It's obvious what it will be used for. Mass aerial surveillance using planes with a camera capable of capturing a massive area have already been used in America/Mexico: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/ The Balloon is a much better idea than a plane though, since it can stay up for much longer.

Even though they can't (currently) identify you with the camera, they don't need to. If your indistinct dot is seen interacting with a dissident dot, they just follow your dot back to your place of residence then kick your door down. This becoming widespread will absolutely devastate organized crime networks, the only chance you'd have of evading it is if you live somewhere like a favela and can move large distances constantly going in and out of buildings.

>>967493

>his becoming widespread will absolutely devastate organized crime networks, the only chance you'd have of evading it is if you live somewhere like a favela and can move large distances constantly going in and out of buildings.

All cartels did was evolve, they either send people through inside normal looking cargo pallets or through the desert where it takes at least 2-3 hours for CBP to show up and intercept them (and usually won't especially if it's only 4-5 people, who for all they know might be innocent hunters or trappers).

Mass surveillance doesn't stop crime, it just pushes it underground. Most gangs are culled but a few evolve into proper racketeering, setting up front businesses to disguise their operation.

>>967518

And this is what they're using to watch us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA

>>967164

If I might ask, where did you save this from? I see a lot of posts like this in dark theme and containing esoteric content, but I don't know where they could come from.

>>973955

It's on https://mewch.net/

all dark skinned threads are from there, that's where all the good posters are, this is just a loading dock for 4chan refugees. if you want good posts go there

>>974037

Its not from there, no board on Mewch has 9552303 posts. Its probably from some board on here or halfchan with a dark theme and those two anons were samefags setting up a segue to shill for their website

why bother when social media exist

>>974039

This poster is correct

(((Mewch))) constantly shill their shit website everywhere they can get it in.

If you have any doubt on the posting quality. It's a good reminder that they heavily advertise on Something Awful.

They also have an account on ED which is solely dedicated to randomly inserting (((mewch))) into articles via image replacement or otherwise

>>967156 (OP)

They are, and they're dev them right now, for the exact purpose you're pointing.

Look out thales aerospace and stratobus.

thalesgroup. com/en/worldwide/space/news/whats-stratobus

>>974122

someone post image of terry or RMS saying "SHOOT IT DOWN"

<tor users can't post images

>>967156 (OP)

>Why in the fuck are glow in the darks not using these for total surveillance and mobile botnetting in areas with poor phone receptions?

Google is actually doing this, check out Project Loon:

https://loon.co/

>Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, delivering connectivity to people in unserved and underserved communities around the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiEZfRh-h-s