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China is planning to install an all-seeing surveillance system on the moon to protect a planned lunar base bigger than Disneyland using the technology it uses to spy on its citizens.
The nation wants to use the 'successful experience' of its authoritarian Skynet surveillance system to protect the planned base against 'suspicious targets', according to a research paper written by scientists at the nation's space agency that was published in an academic journal.
Skynet is the world's largest surveillance network, and is used to monitor every nook and cranny of China. With more than 600 million cameras, there is on average one camera for every two adults in the nation.
The lunar version of the programme would see cameras equipped with AI chips 'capable of identifying, locating, tracking and aiming at suspicious targets independently' scan the proposed International Lunar Research Station.
China wants to use the 'successful experience' of China's authoritarian Skynet surveillance system to protect the planned base against 'suspicious targets' (File image)
'China, along with Russia, is planning on opening a lunar research station on the moon with a radius of nearly four miles (File image)
The cameras would be able to operate using
