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re: Any chance we shot down the Chinese balloon over Montana?
Posted on 2/4/23 at 4:16 am to JudgeHolden
Posted on 2/4/23 at 4:16 am to JudgeHolden
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Dumb question: why not paint it blue to avoid visual detection?
Easily seen on cloudy days
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Posted on 2/4/23 at 4:26 am to SOLA
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Easily seen on cloudy days
It’s at 60,000 feet. Isn’t that above most cloud cover,
Posted on 2/4/23 at 4:34 am to JudgeHolden
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It’s at 60,000 feet. Isn’t that above most cloud cover,
Probably so. I’ve never been up that far. That was just my blurry, 4:00 am brain thinking.
This post was edited on 2/4/23 at 5:32 am
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:03 am to Mr Breeze
Mr Breeze
Name checks out.
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Winds aloft at 60,000 feet, reported to be the balloons altitude.
Name checks out.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:59 am to BayouENGR
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:12 am to Run up middle
Bwaaaaaaa
Nice
Nice
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:26 am to TBoy
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Off course weather balloon has the the mentally unstable flipping out like dark ages morons.
No one on any side of the political or intelligence spectrums should believe it’s a “weather balloon”
Posted on 2/4/23 at 8:01 am to Byrdybyrd05
Are normal thinking people really supposed to believe the US let a Chinese Spy balloon just drift into restricted airspace and they just let it blow around? Something isn't adding up. If they let a balloon sneak up on them then Chinese and Russian Jets might be a little bit of a problem.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 8:09 am to BeepNode
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I don't think so. Going that high is precarious at best
For tin Yankee machinery, maybe. I bet a MiG-31 could take that balloon right out. Shoot, a MiG-23 probably could.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 10:26 am to Nawlens Gator
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No Chance. Chy - na has already paid Biden for 4 more days to map our military bases.
It cracks me up how many morons think our leftist government is somehow beholden to China. Nixon, Carter, and Reagan started the bipartisan mass Chinese relationship to extract cheap manufacturing labor to ease inflation.
For years now, the US has been divesting from China. We are currently in the process of wholesale corporate divestiture that will see the vast majority of our manufacturing base move back on shore or to Mexico, whose labor is more skilled and much cheaper, with a demographic makeup built to support us for the next generation or two. Our government is building technological infrastructure to support our mass demand for microchips and ease Chinese reliance on any critical supply chains.
China is a dead man walking; they face a demographic time bomb that serves as an existential threat. The China we know today will not exist in 20 years, it will break up or become completely nationalist to survive.
This post was edited on 2/4/23 at 10:39 am
Posted on 2/4/23 at 11:03 am to TheGhostOfBigLee
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If Trump was in office yes.
There was one that flew over the states while he was in office and he didn’t shoot it down either.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 11:10 am to The Third Leg
Over my house in Columbia, South Carolina right now. Which means Fort Jackson, Mcintire Air Base, and Shaw airforce base.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 11:14 am to The Third Leg
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The China we know today will not exist in 20 years, it will break up or become completely nationalist to survive.
You seem to have an educated opinion so I won’t disagree, but I think you’re being extremely optimistic from our point of view. I do hope you are correct.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 11:28 am to TomJoadGhost
I'm not doubting but curious do you have a link? I googled for it but it's overrun with stuff about this balloon
Posted on 2/4/23 at 11:29 am to The Third Leg
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China is a dead man walking; they face a demographic time bomb that serves as an existential threat. The China we know today will not exist in 20 years, it will break up or become completely nationalist to survive.
An Asian power desperate for resources in order to continue their current way of life and demographics
Glad that's never gone badly before
Posted on 2/4/23 at 11:35 am to Byrdybyrd05
I'm so sick of china's bullshite. Let's just end them and if anyone else says anything, end them too.
Sure we may come off as heels to the world, but we already are anyways.
Sure we may come off as heels to the world, but we already are anyways.
This post was edited on 2/4/23 at 11:38 am
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:10 pm to Wishnitwas1998
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An Asian power desperate for resources in order to continue their current way of life and demographics Glad that's never gone badly before
It might end badly for someone in their sights, but it won’t be the US.
China is currently sitting on the oldest large scale human population the world has ever seen. They import huge portions of their energy; including shipping oil from Russia, through Europe, down around the southern tip of Africa, and over to China. They’re fricked with no real way to sustain. Maybe Africa will develop a consumer base that will take their junk. I doubt it.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:11 pm to SEClint
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I'm so sick of china's bullshite. Let's just end them and if anyone else says anything, end them too. Sure we may come off as heels to the world, but we already are anyways.
Nobody in the world likes China. It is a pretty well universally hated country.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 12:20 pm to The Third Leg
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They import huge portions of their energy; including shipping oil from Russia, through Europe, down around the southern tip of Africa, and over to China.
I'm sure there's a geographic reason but they really can't figure out a way to ship it over land? That's such a longer and more expensive route
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