Huh… I always just assumed everything is watched at all times from satellites. I didn’t realize that wasn’t the case. You never know because of the secrecy that surrounds everything in space.
I had a professor in college many many years ago who was a former navy intelligence officer and he once mentioned if people knew what the satellites from the 80s could do they’d probably revolt.
Reagan’s “Star Wars” program of weaponising satellites was abandoned because it wasn’t cost effective enough, not because the really far out sci-fi tech involved was impossible.
Huh… I always just assumed everything is watched at all times from satellites. I didn’t realize that wasn’t the case. You never know because of the secrecy that surrounds everything in space.
I had a professor in college many many years ago who was a former navy intelligence officer and he once mentioned if people knew what the satellites from the 80s could do they’d probably revolt.
Reagan’s “Star Wars” program of weaponising satellites was abandoned because it wasn’t cost effective enough, not because the really far out sci-fi tech involved was impossible.