The Tin Foil Hat Corner

The Observer

Junior Member
Registered Member
As the thread name suggests, this is the thread to bounce crazy, fringe ideas around. No racist post, please.

here's mine:
TL;DR: Starlink is actually an orbit occupying, money blackmail device.

So, hear me out. I've been skeptical about Starlink's economic calculation, until today. I was reading a random web novel that has a "roaming terminator" as a part of its plot.

The "roaming terminator" is a constellation of small, cheap satellites that enables network providers to serve their customers anywhere, anytime (sounds familiar?). Since you're still connected to the same operator no matter where you are, there's no more roaming involved, hence the name of the constellation.

In the web novel, people around the world were skeptical of the constellation's economics, until an important event happened. A certain country's space agency paid some hefty "consulting fees" to the company operating the "roaming terminator". It turns out the satellite of the "roaming terminator" is occupying the orbit spot which that space agencies also want to use.

That space agency has 2 options, shot down that annoying satellite, or pay "consulting fees" to "adjust" the satellite's in-orbit position. The problems with shooting down the satellite are obvious; it's hard to do, freaking expensive, and will also create diplomatic troubles. So, in the end, they chose to yield and pay the "consulting fees".

then, the constellation operator company launched another constellation at another orbit, this time also "coincidentally" occupying the orbit spots of many in-the-works satellites. The approach was simple; "Want us to move? pay some consulting fees."

it's obvious where the rest is going, so I'll spare you the boredom of reading my bad narration.

So there you have it, my tin foil hat theory.
 

horse

Major
Registered Member
Dude, this already happened.

Back in the day, the Chinese were collaborating with the European Space Agency on their Galileo navigational system.

China paid money to be part of the project, but the Europeans would not give technical know-how to the Chinese.

Faced with this situation, the Chinese decided to go do it alone, and built their Beidou global positioning system.

There was a catch, as there was some sort of international agreement about which radio frequencies from space were available for use.

The Europeans always assumed they would be using that frequency. But the Chinese beat them to it first, putting Beidou in the sky before Galileo, and the Chinese took that frequency away from them Europeans.

Eventually I forget how they sorted it out.


I thought this thread was going to be more about things like Godzilla, or space monkeys, or President Trump.

People would be really interested in those topics.

:p

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This guy has a very good tin foil hat, as it covers his whole face.

President Trump would definitely like to have on of those, as it turns the eyes orange, and American Superhero Orange Man would think bigly of that.

Get those designs to those Chinese factories and get production up and running. 2024, and more TDS, is not that far away!

:cool:
 

DarkStar

Junior Member
Registered Member
My favourite tin-foil hat theory is that China of the future has are passing on knowledge and know-how to China of the present or that China has something akin to that philip K dick machine where you can peer into the future, or that China has developed AI to the extent where it can reliably predict what the Anglos and China's enemies are up to.
When you consider Chinese advances in quantum computing, quantum satellites and AI, especially with what has only been reported, it does make me wonder.

Or perhaps, Chinese leaders are more effective Statesmen than their counterparts in other countries.
 

Larry420

New Member
Registered Member
My favourite tin-foil hat theory is that China of the future has are passing on knowledge and know-how to China of the present or that China has something akin to that philip K dick machine where you can peer into the future, or that China has developed AI to the extent where it can reliably predict what the Anglos and China's enemies are up to.
When you consider Chinese advances in quantum computing, quantum satellites and AI, especially with what has only been reported, it does make me wonder.

Or perhaps, Chinese leaders are more effective Statesmen than their counterparts in other countries.
I like this EVIL RED EMPIRE with cutting edge technology idea, imagine president XI hiding in a under-ground top-secret lab/bunker like Dexter's working on his EVIL plot, where can i watch this cartoon LOL
Even the sound of "president XI" (Not Xi in Chinese but as roman numerals) is evil/bad ass enough for a under-age cartoon show.
 

9dashline

Senior Member
Registered Member
My favourite tin-foil hat theory is that China of the future has are passing on knowledge and know-how to China of the present or that China has something akin to that philip K dick machine where you can peer into the future, or that China has developed AI to the extent where it can reliably predict what the Anglos and China's enemies are up to.
When you consider Chinese advances in quantum computing, quantum satellites and AI, especially with what has only been reported, it does make me wonder.

Or perhaps, Chinese leaders are more effective Statesmen than their counterparts in other countries.
Great minds think alike, I am writing a fictional short story about this theme just for kicks....

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Let me know if you have any pointers
 

AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
Well Lou Dobbs has been claiming China is stealing US technology that hasn't been developed yet. How can you steal something that doesn't exist? Because China has a time machine and China goes into the future to steal US technology it has the future and brings it back in time.
 
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