Russian drones full of DSLR cams and Chinese spy balloons filled with Ti-84's and Ring doorbells. This future feels like we all fell into the dollar store dimension.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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I don't buy that it didn't send data back to China. That's a little too much to believe.
Given the distance from China, and assuming it had no satellite communication hardware, are there any other ways data could have transmitted that sort of distance?
Sincerely wondering/asking
Connect to a cell phone tower on the ground and transmit encrypted file blocks over the Internet.
Good suggestion! Had not considered. Does the range go high enough though from cell towers?
Not on a standard handheld set, but with an amplifier and a large antenna I doubt it would be an insurmountable problem, especially since most of the data transfer only needs to go one way.
Yeah that's a good question. I can't imagine the plan was for the Chinese to actually physically retrieve the balloon to get the data...
And The US was worried about balance-of-trade.