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Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:34 am to MorbidTheClown
don't mistake my fat finger as a spelling error 
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:34 am to stout
I tend to agree with you. Not only do the Chinese have better ways to collect data they want, but our own government would likely give them whatever they asked for anyway. This is more about optics and testing the response of the US government.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:35 am to stout
I wondered why the Szechuan takeout was taking so damn long.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:36 am to stout
Nothin to see here guys.. got it on good authority
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:37 am to Klark Kent
quote:Ive cast two ballots for Trump and will cast a third in 2024
are we to assume you were incarcerated during the Trump presidency then?
While you go and shill for DeRINO
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:38 am to Stealth Matrix
Woo
Thankfully this was an accident
Nothing more to see here
Thankfully this was an accident
Nothing more to see here
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:43 am to stout
can we work out a controlled landing and then really check it out.......
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:44 am to sicboy
quote:
I love the concept that a bunch of message board hacks are experts at the concept of shooting down a high altitude weather ballon
And you see absolutely nothing wrong with this thing staying afloat above nuclear sites lol
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:45 am to HeadSlash
quote:
Montana is 99% land and water with a population density of 7 people per square mile.
The balloon is (vaguely) over Billings, which is the biggest city in MT, about 120,000 people. Granted, there's not much of anything around Billings, so if it landed in the hinterland, no big deal, but there's a nonzero chance that it would come down in downtown Billings, and that would be a bad day.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:45 am to Demshoes
That’s why they aren’t shooting it down. They know its location and will land it where they want and take what they can from it. Shooting it down just blows it to pieces that can’t be used.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:45 am to stout
99 Decision treat
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by
99 knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a superhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scrambling the summer sky
99 red balloons go by
99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by
99 knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a superhero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scrambling the summer sky
99 red balloons go by
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:49 am to SouthEasternKaiju
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:52 am to SuperSaint
quote:
I was too young to remember Reagan
You don’t remember Trump bc you were either high under an overpass or in jail for it
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:57 am to auwaterfowler
quote:
Geosynchronous satellites are not low orbit satellites, so you will never get close to the same quality of pictures or sigint as you do with low orbit satellites. This is why spy planes, and apparently spy barroons, exist
One person in this thread knows what they're talking about.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:58 am to stout
Sure it is.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 9:59 am to auwaterfowler
quote:
spy barroons
just saw this
Posted on 2/3/23 at 10:00 am to stout
So if risk to civilians were an issue why not shoot it down before it crossed into continental land? I'm sure it was detectable before then or was it not?
Has this been answered already?
Has this been answered already?
This post was edited on 2/3/23 at 10:01 am
Posted on 2/3/23 at 10:02 am to Them
quote:
The balloon is (vaguely) over Billings, which is the biggest city in MT, about 120,000 people. Granted, there's not much of anything around Billings, so if it landed in the hinterland, no big deal, but there's a nonzero chance that it would come down in downtown Billings, and that would be a bad day.
Its over billings now....it was launched in China....and flew over Alaska. Its not like we just now found out, they should have shot it down over fricking Alaska.
Posted on 2/3/23 at 10:06 am to stout
I think we need to take it down but in a way that we can still analyze it in a secure environment.
No such thing as “civilian” stuff in China. Their government owns every corporation.
No such thing as “civilian” stuff in China. Their government owns every corporation.
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