Hey, that’s perfectly reasonable. No, the problem we have as a society is we live in this kind of reality which is governed by this thing called physics, and as our understanding of physics progresses, our ability to abuse the shit out of it also progresses. Some things aren’t a matter of if, but when.

That PDF is a gold mine by the way.

> as far as watching bunkers being dug, I'm pretty sure LIDAR already gives a much cleaner signal

The proposed applications are probably nothing more than something to get the ball rolling but can already be done very effectively today. I hesitate to be overly skeptical because an atmospheric panopticon would probably have more applications than they would imagine or dare to propose themselves.