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Old 09-10-2015, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by tsofian View Post
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Given what you say how does Prime Base, before the ultra kaboom, gather all the electronic signals that it is designed to do? It is collecting radio (everything from CB to Ham to commercial and military) television, microwave and satellite downloads.
This was always one of the weak points in the PB concept, and it is somewhat related to the problem with connecting sensors to PB through free-space communications channels.

Yes, there is a big problem with having all the antenna arrays that PB would need to do the aforementioned monitoring. They would be all but impossible to conceal and would draw attention to the site - remember that PB has to survive Russian satellite scrutiny, and there is no way to keep massive and functioning dishes and antenna arrays from getting painted as a missile target. The only solution I could see for this would be to disguise them as a commercial satellite comms facility some substantial distance away and run some subterranean cables to the actual facility - a daunting task but they did it for the Chunnel! And then give PB a secondary, dormant facility that can be unpacked once the shooting stops if the primary is taken out.

And at least that would be a non-radiating facility. There is a risk to finding any cables, but even with burst communications, a fixed transmitter is going to be identified before too long. And that is why I would hardline the security/environmental sensors - you can conceal a cable a lot more effectively than you can conceal constantly operating transmitters. You're shouting at the universe, someone is going to hear.
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