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14:18 2001-07-11
JOHN FLEMING: THE SHOCKING MENACE OF SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE
Unknown to most of the world, satellites can perform astonishing and often
menacing feats. This should come as no surprise when one reflects on the
massive effort poured into satellite technology since the Soviet satellite
Sputnik, launched in 1957, caused panic in the U.S. A spy satellite can
monitor a person’s every movement, even when the “target” is indoors or deep
in the interior of a building or travelling rapidly down the highway in a
car, in any kind of weather (cloudy, rainy, stormy). There is no place to
hide on the face of the earth. It takes just three satellites to blanket the
world with detection capacity. Besides tracking a person’s every action and
relaying the data to a computer screen on earth, amazing powers of satellites
include reading a person’s mind, monitoring conversations, manipulating
electronic instruments and physically assaulting someone with a laser beam.
Remote reading of someone’s mind through satellite technology is quite
bizarre, yet it is being done; it is a reality at present, not a chimera from
a futuristic dystopia! To those who might disbelieve my description of
satellite surveillance, I’d simply cite a tried-and-true Roman proverb: Time
reveals all things (tempus omnia revelat).
Probably the most sinister aspect of satellite surveillance, certainly its
most stunning, is mind-reading. As early as 1981, G. Harry Stine (in his book
Confrontation in Space), could write that computers have “read” human minds
by means of deciphering the outputs of electroencephalographs (EEGs). Early
work in this area was reported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) in 1978. EEG’s are now known to be crude sensors of neural
activity in the human brain, depending as they do upon induced electrical
currents in the skin. Magnetoencephalographs (MEGs) have since been developed
using highly sensitive electromagnetic sensors that can directly map brain
neural activity even through even through the bones of the skull. The
responses of the visual areas of the brain have now been mapped by Kaufman
and others at Vanderbilt University. Work may already be under way in mapping
the neural activity of other portions of the human brain using the new MEG
techniques. It does not require a great deal of prognostication to forecast
that the neural electromagnetic activity of the human brain will be totally
mapped within a decade or so and that crystalline computers can be programmed
to decipher the electromagnetic neural signals.
In 1992, Newsweek reported that “with powerful new devices that peer through
the skull and see the brain at work, neuroscientists seek the wellsprings of
thoughts and emotions, the genesis of intelligence and language. They hope,
in short, to read your mind.” In 1994, a scientist noted that “current
imaging techniques can depict physiological events in the brain which
accompany sensory perception and motor activity, as well as cognition and
speech.” In order to give a satellite mind-reading capability, it only
remains to put some type of EEG-like-device on a satellite and link it with a
computer that has a data bank of brain-mapping research. I believe that
surveillance satellites began reading minds--or rather, began allowing the
minds of targets to be read--sometime in the early 1990s. Some satellites in
fact can read a person’s mind from space.
JOHN FLEMING
USA
